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Lowe's Progress

Lowe's Progress

prestonmadhouse said:
Archer went to the North East for a reason. He came and had a look at us and decided he didn’t want another spell at a league 1 club that’s in the championship 😩
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Yeah, I don't think players like repeating themselves when sent out on loan - perhaps makes them feel they're in some sort of rut, like they're going to end up at that club permanently (although some may want that, of course).

I think the better players aren't afraid of having lots of different experiences on loan, each time proving themselves at a higher level. Career-wise, repetition would be a negative for ambitious players.
 
simo said:
How does this compare with when goals are scored in general across all games? My initial gut feeling is that more goals are scored in the second half of games but I may be wrong.
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Aye they are in general although I think we're above average for both percentage of goals scored and percentage of goals conceded in the second half. I'll try and see if I can find the specific numbers at some point today
 
Libertine said:
Think Parrott scored 10 (?) for MK Dons in League 1.

I suppose it's a hit and miss market, we've not done so bad in in the last two seasons. Archer, Cannon, Fernandez have been great. I believe the defensive side of Fernandez has improved a great deal with us. P
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Parrott scored 8 plus a pen in the league for MK Dons, but he didn't play as a striker - I think the problem with him here was, we persevered with him far too long as a striker when there were just no goals likely to come from him.

Some good finishes for MKD (2 of them were headers), but he did that head-down, run-at-the-defenders thing a few times, which for us, against Championship defences, just led him time and time again into crowded-out cul-de-sacs containing no goals.

I bet Lowe wants him back though.
 
Thracia said:
Parrott scored 8 plus a pen in the league for MK Dons, but he didn't play as a striker - I think the problem with him here was, we persevered with him far too long as a striker when there were just no goals likely to come from him.

Some good finishes for MKD (2 of them were headers), but he did that head-down, run-at-the-defenders thing a few times, which for us, against Championship defences, just led him time and time again into crowded-out cul-de-sacs containing no goals.

I bet Lowe wants him back though.
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I actually thought he played very well in the first half on Monday and was saying that he should've been playing as a 10 all season.
 
BPIG - GBNF said:
I actually thought he played very well in the first half on Monday and was saying that he should've been playing as a 10 all season.
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Not saying we should try to get him back, but was noticeable on Monday that when he came off Sunderland really ran through the centre as Onomah despite being able to hold players off doesn’t move. Parrott at least fights for it
 
Rodney Bewes said:
Aye they are in general although I think we're above average for both percentage of goals scored and percentage of goals conceded in the second half. I'll try and see if I can find the specific numbers at some point today
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I think our posts #19, 20 and 21 already largely cover this.

Naughton's moustache said:
Or maybe it's because he ends up being tactically outdone more often than not
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How can you say that (based on that stat)? You can equally say that his half time adjustment lead to us scoring towards twice as many goals in the second half as we do in the first (62/38%). So - based only on these stats) he has “tactically outdone” our opponents just as much as he has been outdone himself 🤷🏽‍♂️
 
BPIG - GBNF said:
I actually thought he played very well in the first half on Monday and was saying that he should've been playing as a 10 all season.
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At the start of the season I thought a lot of his play was superb right until it got up to that final pass in the box or the finishing.
Must say I'm not a fan of his attitude, I've seen him more than once arguing with DJ on the pitch and he seemed to strop off on Monday. Maybe I'm being harsh there, just as I've seen it a few times this season.

Worth noting on Monday and I'm sure it's been mentioned elsewhere we had no Cunningham, Whiteman, Browne, DJ, Ched, Riis, Bambo, Brady or Hughes. Take that lot out of any team and you're going to struggle unless you have a very deep squad. Sadly for us the injuries have been building up as the season has gone on. With no strength in depth even with the play offs in sight just two games ago had we managed to scrape in we'd have been goosed.
 
OK so after a long time of having selecting matches to go to I decided to buy a season ticket for myself and my sons at the start of the season. I bought into the hype of RL's get behind the team and his brand of attacking football. Firstly the attacking brand of football we were promised did not happen. I believe this is due to how we set ourselves up for games. We seem to sit back and allow teams to come at us...the opposition know how easy it is to press our midfield (in particular pressing whiteman) forcing the team to then keep playing the ball back to defence. There is no movement in midfield...the amount of times someone takes a throw in and there is no movement from any of the players...the defenders struggle to get the ball out...again because there is no movement from the midfield and so they either take an extra touch at the back putting ourselves under pressure or playing a long ball...there has also been many times where some of the players cant even make a simple pass and the longs balls we play up to potts (mostly by Ledson) when he is up the pitch are pointless as its easy to defend, he does this in every game and Im surprised the coaching staff have not yet told him to stop doing it. This is just some of things I have noticed and this comes down to training and game tactics which the manager and his staff are responsible for, we also never have a plan B...we only ever have 1 game plan and that it. I hope I am wrong but even with new signings unless we become tactically more astute and improve our coaching I don't see us progressing on the pitch. I would rather watch us lose playing attacking football than watching us lose to the rubbish we have been served up so far.
 
Regardless said:
I think our posts #19, 20 and 21 already largely cover this.
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Thought I'd work out how we compare to other teams and the league average
simo said:
How does this compare with when goals are scored in general across all games? My initial gut feeling is that more goals are scored in the second half of games but I may be wrong.
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For the Championship this season, the percentage of goals per half are:
- In the first half = 45.16%
- In the second half = 54.84%

For us it's this for first halves:
- Goals for = 17
- % of Goals for = 37.78%
- Goals against = 23
- % of Goals against = 38.98%

And this for second halves:
- Goals for = 28
- % of Goals for = 62.22%
- Goals against = 36
- % of Goals against = 61.02%

So we're below average for the number of goals scored and conceded in the first half and above average for the second half. Looking at it, we've actually seen the lowest number of goals in the first half (that's for both goals scored and conceded added together). Only 40 goals happened in the first halves of our games. Fans may as well have skipped the first half if they wanted to see goals. Also worth noting that only Wigan scored fewer goals in the first halves of their games. At least our defence kept it relatively tight.

For the second halves, it's pretty much the reverse in that the majority of goals that happen in our games, happen in the second half. Since 62% of our goals scored happen in the second half you'd think we're quite good at second halves. We're actually midtable for goals scored but only three teams have conceded more goals in the second half.

Basically our first halves are pretty tight but the second halves open up a bit. We're just a low scoring side so even when we open up, we're not that amazing
 
Rodney Bewes said:
Thought I'd work out how we compare to other teams and the league average

For the Championship this season, the percentage of goals per half are:
- In the first half = 45.16%
- In the second half = 54.84%

For us it's this for first halves:
- Goals for = 17
- % of Goals for = 37.78%
- Goals against = 23
- % of Goals against = 38.98%

And this for second halves:
- Goals for = 28
- % of Goals for = 62.22%
- Goals against = 36
- % of Goals against = 61.02%

So we're below average for the number of goals scored and conceded in the first half and above average for the second half. Looking at it, we've actually seen the lowest number of goals in the first half (that's for both goals scored and conceded added together). Only 40 goals happened in the first halves of our games. Fans may as well have skipped the first half if they wanted to see goals. Also worth noting that only Wigan scored fewer goals in the first halves of their games. At least our defence kept it relatively tight.

For the second halves, it's pretty much the reverse in that the majority of goals that happen in our games, happen in the second half. Since 62% of our goals scored happen in the second half you'd think we're quite good at second halves. We're actually midtable for goals scored but only three teams have conceded more goals in the second half.

Basically our first halves are pretty tight but the second halves open up a bit. We're just a low scoring side so even when we open up, we're not that amazing
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Maybe we need to move some more furniture round. Stopped our losing streak.
 
simo said:
Parrott and Delap, as it stands, have got a lot to prove.
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Parrott's movement and workrate are top drawer, but his control, passing and shooting are L1 level at best.

Can't see him ever making it at this level and wouldn't want him back.

I think Delap suffered because Lowe obviously didn't fancy him. Would have him back but doubt it would happen.
 
Staffordwhite said:
Parrott's movement and workrate are top drawer, but his control, passing and shooting are L1 level at best.

Can't see him ever making it at this level and wouldn't want him back.

I think Delap suffered because Lowe obviously didn't fancy him. Would have him back but doubt it would happen.
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Delap, you can tell has a bit of class, but that sometimes isn't enough on its own.

Woodburn suffers in a similar way, you wonder if they can learn to impose themselves on games. At least Delap has a bit of physical stature and you get the impression he could develop his game with the abilities he does have.

Woodburn I think has next to no chance of being a successful player at this level.
 
We finished the season 6 points from the playoffs, and looking back at the season, it’s easy to see what a missed opportunity this season has been. I don’t accept that we have overachieved because of our poor budget. We have thrown away precious points against poor teams. We lost 9 home games and drew another 7 home games, which means we dropped 41 points at home. That is the clear indication that this season has been the biggest missed opportunity for many a season, and I think there are Managers out there that would have got us at least into the playoffs.

Our away record was a positive this season, but even that deserted us just when we needed it the most. We lost our last 3 away games, conceding 10 goals in the process.

we started the season with several clean sheets, but we finished the season conceding 4 goals in 6 separate games. I wonder how many other teams conceded 4 goals in 6 or more games?

At no stage in the season did I think we were good enough to be a top 6 team, yet we came so close under a bang average Manager. We know the squad will more than likely be weaker next season, so it‘s frightening to think how many times we’ll concede 4 or more goals in games next season. We know RL is just another Manager that hasn’t had sufficient backing, but I do question his ability in recruiting the right type of player for our club.
 
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