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Ledson

B(rad)P(otts)IG said:
No idea what show that is but they were filming something in the box behind us on the IP a few games ago. Presume it's one of them shite "housewives of x place" shows?


McCann apparently out for the season
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he was injured the day before Watford and unlikely to play and yet managed 2 lots of 90 as well as getting bad knocks on Gentry day.

Watmough ???
 
Warton PNE said:
Based on what?

I was there from 11-18 and it was rough as toast.

My first day in Year 7 someone got a trophy smashed on their head 🤣

Best days of my life though.
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We used to play 5 a side football there in the sports hall when I was based at Warton in the late 90's
 
Hunts said:


Statistically proven that the Ledson gets the ball and loses it at a rate no other midfielder in the league can compete with.

Should be no where near the starting 11 but I fully expect our glorious gaffer to start him on Friday night.
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That’s a staggering statistic.

You do wonder how he’s playing at this level.

If I was looking from the outside in, I would think he gets the balls, panics, and twats it to whoever he can as soon as possible.

Which funnily enough is the case more often than not.
 
As much as I like a dig on Ledson, that's a very understandable graph, given his job has largely been ball recovery and play long diagonals to try and counter.

I'd bet the percentage of his passes being long is at the very highest in the league (which naturally will be a lot lower accuracy than those who tap it sideways and backwards).
 
Ryan Ledson practised playing football with peak Gallagher, DJ, Pearson and Browne but got worse. He’s only got himself to blame on this one
 
I just can't go easy on a midfielder who makes passing look like the hardest thing in the world.

McCann isn't a good passer, at all, but at least he's got the composure to check back and roll it to someone 7 or 8 yards away.
 
The stats on Ledson there are pretty damning, but as others have pointed out it's how he's being coached to play.

Of course, any manager worth their salt would see that conversion rate in the data and immediately stop trying it. In fact, they'd have probably had their analysts keep tabs on execution success in training matches way before actually trying to use it as a tactic in a live championship match, let alone a season's worth of them.

What do I know though.

Like most things at the club, it's just not a well thought through approach.
 
cragtek said:
The stats on Ledson there are pretty damning, but as others have pointed out it's how he's being coached to play.

Of course, any manager worth their salt would see that conversion rate in the data and immediately stop trying it. In fact, they'd have probably had their analysts keep tabs on execution success in training matches way before actually trying to use it as a tactic in a live championship match, let alone a season's worth of them.

What do I know though.

Like most things at the club, it's just not a well thought through approach.
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Th year he was chosen as player of the season he must have played well, I honestly can’t remember too much of that time. However, I suspect that was the time a lot of our play was revolving around getting early balls to Riis and (to a lesser extent) Sinclair. He’s been a very limited player under this current ‘manager’ but he might, just might, show more under a competent manager with more idea on how to set a team up.

Note for future reference - I used the word might!
 
Doesn’t the graph mean he releases the ball quicker than any other midfielder - technically a strength.

It’s the accuracy which lets him down
 
PNEMAD said:
Doesn’t the graph mean he releases the ball quicker than any other midfielder - technically a strength.

It’s the accuracy which lets him down
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And the accuracy, as mentioned, is largely due to his proclivity to play the long passes more regularly than anyone else.

The other players with similarly low accuracy are the same type of player, they sit deep and play long passes. Ledson is just an outlier in how quickly he releases it, to play counter attacks.
 
HunterLionheart said:
As much as I like a dig on Ledson, that's a very understandable graph, given his job has largely been ball recovery and play long diagonals to try and counter.

I'd bet the percentage of his passes being long is at the very highest in the league (which naturally will be a lot lower accuracy than those who tap it sideways and backwards).
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On the stats I can find easily, he doesn't rank that highly but that's because they're all measured as totals or per game. It's all number of long passes or long passes per game, etc. Since he hasn't played as much as others, he won't rank highly among the totals. Interestingly, he also just doesn't seem to do much passing in general so he doesn't rank highly per game either. Woodman does more passes per game. The only players we have who do fewer passes per game are the strikers.

There's a way to measure it, I just haven't found the stats yet. Basically we'd be looking for the distance per pass.
 
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