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Rotherhams is 4th biggest in the division I know that. Burys is bigger than ours as well.
TRBWalsall was an aberation. Every team has a match like that every once in a while. Rochdale was lack of concentration. Shouldn't happen but it does. The key things for me are:1) We've rarely been outplayed. We've been slack in matches that we shouldn't have lost, but as you say, we're addressing that. 2) Redults are unquestionable improving as a result. I reckon we've found our feet. I hope and expect that we'll be OK from here on.
Why does something not add up? All you say about the budget, stadium, attendances etc don’t make any difference to individual performances.. you don’t always get the results the performances deserve, don’t always get the rub of the green..
TRBI agree. But teams often take a while to find their feet in a new division. Look at Penney's side in 03/04. Or O'Driscoll's in 08/09. That's why I'm more interested in the recent form (which is actually quite good - 14 points from the last 10 games including matches against 6 of the top 10 and being competitive in almost all of them) than the overall record. If we're still averaging only a point a game overall by the New Year then my arse will start to quiver abut. But I'm not expecting that to be the case.
Let me use a blunter proxy then. We have an average home gate of 8,300 which places us at #9 in League One. Unless our owners are picking the pockets of fans, we will all things just about equal have more or less a top ten budget. Perhaps SM could give some broad indication - do we have a top half of bottom half budget this season, as far as we know?
Quote from: Chris Black come back on November 20, 2017, 03:58:21 pmLet me use a blunter proxy then. We have an average home gate of 8,300 which places us at #9 in League One. Unless our owners are picking the pockets of fans, we will all things just about equal have more or less a top ten budget. Perhaps SM could give some broad indication - do we have a top half of bottom half budget this season, as far as we know?How can you use 8,300? Not half way through the season and played the two local derbies already, that figures not entirely accurate.
CBCBAfter a rocky start to the season (see my post yesterday about other successful seasons which started off badly after promotion) we have had top 10 form for the past 6, 8 and 10 games. This is what I don't understand. We're actually in decent form and have been for 2 months or so. Yet the complaints are getting louder.
The bad run last season happened after promotion was secured. The players thought the job was done