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results business - winners and losers ... every week - no points for style
I have just seen an interesting stat on Twitter that I thought some people might find intriguing.
Wycombe are currently joint top of our league, yet their playing stats show that this hasn't been achieved by any "total football" approach.
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Obviously they seem to be succeeding with a very particular style of play. Now I remember the seasons after Tilly when Sturrock came under a lot of criticism for the way he played and there was a lot of general negativity around it on here, even in the year we came 4th on over 80 points.
I'm not suggesting that direct is the best way to go, but I wonder whether people would be more receptive to these sort of stats after the last few years? How would you feel now if our new manager tried to emulate what Wycombe are doing?
Edit: Here's the tweet, just to give the original poster credit
Even Dave Webb's philosophy was to get the ball forward quickly and play football in the oppositions half. As YB said, if the ball went forward and we had players to bring it down and play up top, whilst the defence were solid and no nonsense, I wouldn't be too disappointed at all.
And I’m sure we’d score at least 5 every match if we signed Rajeev Stirling.Watching England last night playing out from the back and I must admit at times it looked like us over the last few weeks
And I’m sure we’d score at least 5 every match if we signed Rajeev Stirling.
he would give some defenders curryIndian striker?
Indian striker?
he would give some defenders curryIndian striker?
Harry Redknapp has just said very clearly on talksport it's madness to try and play out from the back unless you've got players that are good enough to do it so clearly Bond wasn't taking advice from him !!!!
This whole Ainsworth rumour is a bit crazy to me and sounds like it has been started on a drunken night out in town, stuck a wayward chunk of money on it happening, and has somehow propagated into something people are taking seriously.
Take a moment here, folks.
Why on earth would he want to leave Wycombe who are at the top end of the table to come to Southend where he would be immediately drafted into a dog fight where failure would be far more risky to his career than missing out on play offs?
When was the last time Ron employed a manager from another club?
GA hasn't even been mentioned as a front-runner by CP, surely he would have seen or heard something from someone in the club by now?
Let's face it, the likelihood is Waddock or Milligan.