Some won't care a jot what the stats say, i personally find them to be interesting, so here are our attacking stats(minus defenders) for the 2013-14 season in full.
............................TS.....SoT.....RTSG.....Goals
Sako....................110.....38.........9.2..........12
Dicko....................48.....30...........4...........12
Griffiths................61......26...........5...........12
Henry...................59......23.........5.9..........10
Edwards.................22......13.........2.4...........9
Jacobs...................67......28..........8.4..........8
McDonald...............31.......14..........6.2..........5
Doyle....................37.......14.........12.3.........3
Evans....................30........8..........15...........2
Siggy.....................15........7...........7.5.........2
Clarke....................14........7...........14............1
McAlinden...............4.........3..........4.............1
Price......................6.........1..........-.............-
TS-total shots, SoT-shots on target, RTSG-Ratio total shots to goals
Things that jump out........
Sako certainly seems he earns the ''greedy'' tag some have given him, not very efficient to be honest either, of all our players to have played a good amount of minutes, only Doyle is more wasteful(which is no surprise anyway).
Jacobs does not fair much better either, though i guess his stats could be broken down to being in the middle and out on the flanks, presumably shooting more in the middle, which again shows how deadly dave has been.
Deadly Dave, wow, outstanding on the stats front, looks like he certainly does know where the goal is given the opportunity in an attacking role.
Evans, ok, someone needs to just take the ball off him in front of goal, an incredible amount of shots given the little game time he has had.
Price, he just really doesn't shoot does he, the new Makelele
Honourable mentions to Dicko, pretty efficient, and Griffo, despite being a knób when he gets a shot on target he is pretty deadly, though of course, not as deadly as Dave.
Season stats from an attacking perspective.
posted on 8/5/14
Stale wasn't a buffoon, just not good enough at Championship level. I liked him as a guy, and have mentioned that numerous times. He followed on from the club's most successful period for 30 years, and McCarthy was always going to be a hard act to follow.
My use of the term "buffoon" was more geared to one or two of your compatriots. Well, not quite as many as two.
posted on 8/5/14
Good game on tv, Brighton v Derby. Standard is much higher than we have been coming up against this season. Next season will be a challenge for sure, and we will need some new faces to be competing at the right end of the league
posted on 9/5/14
comment by Cinciwolf (U11551)
... how many managers have you ever seen sacked because of five games? Just about none, which makes your point kind of ridiculous
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Steve Clarke was sacked after losing 4 games on the trot, and Albion fans weren't sorry he went. And now questions are being asked of Pepe Mel's motivational powers and authority.
I always thought Mick McCarthy was sacked not just for the season you were relegated from the PL, but for not heeding the warning bells sounded the previous season and he failed to rebuild the team sufficiently, given Wolves' financial resources. I think he was lucky to survive the sack after the 3-2 home defeat against Blackburn last game of that previous season. And of course, after he was sacked, he's bound to say he'd have kept Wolves up, isn't he? He's hardly likely to admit they'd have gone down.
posted on 9/5/14
Is there any Albion manager who achieved 40 points in a season that you would have wanted sacked at the end of that season Aries?
posted on 9/5/14
40 points and I actively wanted him sacked?
No, but in our Great Escape season of 2004-05 when we got less than 40 points under Bryan Robson, I really didn't want him at the Albion any more. We duly got relegated the next season, stuck with him till Oct/Nov of the next and then fired him, and Tony Mowbray came in and totally changed the way we played football.
posted on 9/5/14
As you will have noticed Aries this is a subject that still divides Wolves fans but to me the target for us in our first couple of seasons was survival, nothing more nothing less.
To achieve that and to not fall below the level of a-point-a-game meant that the manager succeeded and I’m not in favour of rewarding success with the sack.
Others, as you know, will disagree vehemently.
posted on 9/5/14
Mowbray took Albion from hoof and hope to:
Faff, fiddle, tip, tap, flick - in your own third - and THEN hoof and hope.
You kid yourselves.
posted on 9/5/14
was he Stale, was he Stale, was he Stale in disguise, was he Stale in disguise.
posted on 9/5/14
Wigan v QPR - Awful
Hope that Derby go up. They were miles ahead of Brighton. Nobody likes QPR. Can't get past Dave Whelan's leg and every Wigan fan in the world beating that fat Wolves fan up.
posted on 9/5/14
In a way I hope QPR go up. Shepherds Bush is a dump and the ground is terrible.
Derby is a local game. Brighton good for a weekend away. And Wigan is like MK, no home fans so we can take a massive following