Shots Against Since February

[DonnyOsmond]

1. Blackpool - 9.05
2. Hull - 9.7
3. Peterborough - 9.76
4. MK Dons - 9.85
5. Sunderland - 10.19
6. Shrewsbury - 10.41
7. Northampton - 10.59
8. Fleetwood - 10.65
9. Ipswich - 11.38
10. Wigan - 11.45
11. Burton - 11.52
12. Portsmouth - 11.64
13. Charlton - 11.68
14. Wimbledon - 11.75
15. Bristol Rovers - 11.82
16. Rochdale - 11.85
17. Crewe - 12.42
18. Oxford - 12.48
19. Swindon - 13
20. Accrington - 13.25
21. Gillingham - 13.75
22. Lincoln - 13.85
23. Doncaster - 14.59
24. Plymouth - 16.15

These are averages per game. Our defence/midfield really letting the side down. 6th worst over the course of the season.

We'd be relegation material if it wasn't for our goalscoring.

[NickDRFC]

These stats are since February. We’ve been in relegation form since then anyway - since the start of Feb we’ve got 19 points from 22 games, which over 45 games would put us 23rd.

Our points in the bag up to that point is what’s kept us up, not any goals we’ve scored since February.

[Big Fey]

Lincoln would argue that stats are meaningless.. 

[DonnyOsmond]

Lincoln would argue that stats are meaningless.. 

They'd be naïve to. They've picked up only 25 points in 19 games, they've gone from challenging for the title, being 6 points clear of 3rd place at the beginning of Feb to nearly dropping out the play offs a couple week ago.

The more shots you have, the more likely some of them are to be on target, the more likely some of them go in. The same is true for against you, the more shots you have against, the more goals you'll concede.

The more goals you score and the less you concede, the more you win.

[BillyStubbsTears]

1. Blackpool - 9.05
2. Hull - 9.7
3. Peterborough - 9.76
4. MK Dons - 9.85
5. Sunderland - 10.19
6. Shrewsbury - 10.41
7. Northampton - 10.59
8. Fleetwood - 10.65
9. Ipswich - 11.38
10. Wigan - 11.45
11. Burton - 11.52
12. Portsmouth - 11.64
13. Charlton - 11.68
14. Wimbledon - 11.75
15. Bristol Rovers - 11.82
16. Rochdale - 11.85
17. Crewe - 12.42
18. Oxford - 12.48
19. Swindon - 13
20. Accrington - 13.25
21. Gillingham - 13.75
22. Lincoln - 13.85
23. Doncaster - 14.59
24. Plymouth - 16.15

These are averages per game. Our defence/midfield really letting the side down. 6th worst over the course of the season.

We'd be relegation material if it wasn't for our goalscoring.

I'd hazard a guess that the collapse in our ability to protect the goal from shots is even worse than the bare numbers suggest. The problem for the last three months hasn't just been the number of shots. If they are mostly speculative 25 yarders then it's not really a problem. But our weakness recently has been the number of good opportunities we've allowed inside the box. We allowed 5 clear shooting opportunities inside 12 yards in the first 20 minutes yesterday. We looked like a heroically defending pub side. All chucking bodies into desperate blocks but absolutely no idea how to prevent the chances in the first place.

[Alan Southstand]

I think if you break it down, I would say 10% blame lies with the attack not working hard enough; 50% with the midfield and the lack of a Ben Whiteman influence; 20% with the defence and, in particular the full backs (no Halliday didn’t help, but also swapping and changing the left back). The other 20% I would put down to the large turnover of players throughout the side. But, amongst all those percentages, there is an over-riding feeling in me that something (or, perhaps, several things) had an influence to change the attitude amongst the squad. Be that the manager leaving (and the captain), a suggested disruptive character or characters, contract talks delays, or something else that none of us have been privy to.

[Campsall rover]

I think if you break it down, I would say 10% blame lies with the attack not working hard enough; 50% with the midfield and the lack of a Ben Whiteman influence; 20% with the defence and, in particular the full backs (no Halliday didn’t help, but also swapping and changing the left back). The other 20% I would put down to the large turnover of players throughout the side. But, amongst all those percentages, there is an over-riding feeling in me that something (or, perhaps, several things) had an influence to change the attitude amongst the squad. Be that the manager leaving (and the captain), a suggested disruptive character or characters, contract talks delays, or something else that none of us have been privy to.

Agree with all those percentages AS think you may be about right from what we have seen since beginning of Feb.
As for what else has gone wrong we can only speculate. We are not privy to what goes on the training ground or in the changing room.
Personally i just think it has been huge disruption to the team with injuries and not having Anyone to adequately play the Whiteman role.
We have not had same team I don’t think in any 2 consequtive matches since ??? A long time.
Don’t think that’s any coincidence to our drop in form.

[idler]

When we were scoring freely and looking very quick and dangerous on the break we were obviously making teams keep more defenders back.
Once we got to a stage where we weren’t looking remotely like scoring the whole opposition line was further forward keeping us on the back foot.
Confidence drained away throughout the whole team.

[StocksArmy]

Im not really sure why we are still digging out areas where we have gone wrong? Each to their own i guess but for me we look ahead to the fresh start after these final 2 games and not back at what could and should have been because its just depressing.