Why Sturrock needs to be our manager next season: preparation time

[Yorkshire Blue]

Tuesday matches our record is
W 6 D 2 L 10

Saturday matches our record is
W 13 D 11 L 5

Wednesdays we've won one and drawn one, Fridays (which I might have lumped in with Saturdays) we've won one from one.

The significance of these stats is that the longer Sturrock has to prepare the team for a match the better he tends to do. For Tuesday matches he only has the Monday as a full-training day as they have Sunday off and a match Tuesday evening.

If this theory is correct, you'd expect us to do better in weekend games when we don't have the interruption of a midweek match and lo and behold

W 7 D 2 L 1.

So how does last year's stats look:

Weekend matches
W 21 D 8 L 10

Tuesday matches
W 7 D 3 L 6

Wednesday matches drawn 1

With a week to prepare in between (ie Sat to at least Fri)

W 16 D 3 L 5

It's the same pattern again.

Next season the season starts earlier and ends later. We are unlikely to repeat this year's cup successes. He's going to have more time to prepare the team.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

ps Stats might contain one or two errors as I've only done a quick tally, but it should be within a reasonable margin of error.

 

[Keep On Shrimping]

Tuesday matches our record is
W 6 D 2 L 10

Saturday matches our record is
W 13 D 11 L 5

Wednesdays we've won one and drawn one, Fridays (which I might have lumped in with Saturdays) we've won one from one.

The significance of these stats is that the longer Sturrock has to prepare the team for a match the better he tends to do. For Tuesday matches he only has the Monday as a full-training day as they have Sunday off and a match Tuesday evening.

If this theory is correct, you'd expect us to do better in weekend games when we don't have the interruption of a midweek match and lo and behold

W 7 D 2 L 1.

So how does last year's stats look:

Weekend matches
W 21 D 8 L 10

Tuesday matches
W 7 D 3 L 6

Wednesday matches drawn 1

With a week to prepare in between (ie Sat to at least Fri)

W 16 D 3 L 5

It's the same pattern again.

Next season the season starts earlier and ends later. We are unlikely to repeat this year's cup successes. He's going to have more time to prepare the team.

Whoever is our manager, if the league is our number one priority and cup success second by a long way, then we should play more fringe players in cup matches next season (always assuming we have enough fit players at any given time to do this).

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

**bump**

No-one finds these stats of any interest?

 

[Smiffy]

Nice stats Yorkie. But he wont be here!...

 

[united we stand]

just seen this

very interesting, you could b on to somethinng here

 

[yogi bear up the cagire]

Well, I've recently proposed a new thread with an alternative idea as to why our promotion push has faltered again this year.
I'm not sure whether my efforts will attract any more attention than your own. Perhaps people are just so p****d off at the moment that they can't be arsed to consider the reasons for our apparent failure.

 

[Clinton Baptiste]

Problem is we tend to sign a lot of injury prone players which doesnt help.

 

[Somerset Ex-TTB]

Nothing to do with Sturrock. Players not fit enough, simple.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Nothing to do with Sturrock. Players not fit enough, simple.

Wouldn't we be a better first half than second half team then?

 

[WESTY_SUFC]

Nothing to do with Sturrock. Players not fit enough, simple.

I would think thats something Sturrock is very much to do with?

 

[Gt Yarmouth Shrimper]

Whoever is our manager, if the league is our number one priority and cup success second by a long way, then we should play more fringe players in cup matches next season (always assuming we have enough fit players at any given time to do this).

The moaners will still moan.

 

[ms brush]

Think the answer is in the "HMRC v SUFC" fixture on Monday, which very sadly has far more to do with our League 2 status than anything that Mr S (ar any other Southend Manager) can influence in our current state! For the record, I think that PS has performed nothing short of a small miracle in what he has achieved for us.

Dare I say it, but with a secure set of finances behind the scenes, then suddenly we are a club going places. As things stand, that isnt the case, and isnt likely to be the case any time soon.

On this basis, a trip to wembley on 7th April and another season of league 2 dross is the best we can look forward to.