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2nd half of season form


We don’t score enough. Our wingers aren’t scoring or providing any ammo. Like I said elsewhere West Ham’s defence have struggled with crosses into the box all season, can’t believe our wingers didn’t provide any apart from the goal which by the way was a great goal.
I’m expecting a strong finish to the season tbh. Today was just one of those days. Burnley won’t be easy either but we have to get Xhaka fit and go again.
 
Hulkster said:
Statistically, our results have been better than our performances, generally you would expect that to average out, which would suggest a drop off is likely.
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Exactly this. Even if our performances stay the same, we'll drop down the league. But people will look for people to blame.
 
allmagsaretossas said:
Did someone post that this is a trend of all regis spells as a coach . Great 1st half underwhelming 2nd half of season .
Not going to criticise him but we really need to work out how to be more effective from the off in most games. Would like to see the stats of how many times we have have taken the lead in games this season especially 1st half. Our success has been based on a solid defence but thst now seems quite leaky so its going to give us more of a problem as the season progresses.
Just want that safety as soon as possible and strengthen better as a squad in the summer .
Would be nice to get some wingers who are actuslly capable next week but I can't see it
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Who cares. All we need to worry about is to get mathematically safe then take stock in Summer. That is the only thing that is important this year.
 
Boz33 said:
Same players most weeks, the squad hasn't the depth of quality to be banging away at games 100% for the full season that takes a few windows as we transition from a championship squad to a prem squad.
If we somehow wangled a conference league spot next season the squad even with additions will find it hard with all the extra travel to the arse end of Europe for matches too.

We'd all have taken 17th or higher at the beginning of the season, so regardless of anything, just surviving is a huge achievement and hopefully we get stronger season on season. We aren't gonna be at it every week in our first season, there are gonna be blips
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Wings and Centre mid. Need more there but I was encouraged by Diarra today.
 
I dont see any reason why we shouldn't have a fairly successful remainder of the season.

The squad we have got is not too shaby and window is still open should some bargains come available.

I dont think we will reach Europe but top half is perfectly achievable.
 
First half? Second half? Where exactly is this line? Half of 30 is 19. We got 29 points in the first half of the season. Won 7, drawn 8 and lost 4.

In our first 4 games of the first half we won 2, drew 1 and lost 1 (7pts). In the first 4 of the second half we got only 3 points with 1 win, 1 draw and 2 losses. Not a good start.
 
wrighty said:
Wings and Centre mid. Need more there but I was encouraged by Diarra today.
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Yep, but never gonna be able to do it all in the first season. We've built.up a solid defence and midfield when everyones fit, so may well be the wings and another centre midfielder in the xhaka mould come the summer and build up that squad depth.

I'm pretty ecstatic overall and even though we may drop a few places during the run in with injuries and the like, we won't be scrambling for points to survive as we've all seen previously so we don't need to panic buy in the Jan window. Been a solid 8/10 season so far
 
Shows just how difficult it is to sustain good form through a full season. Even Reid’s side that finished 7th for two seasons had poor runs second half of the season.
 
ShieldsBlackCat2015 said:
First half? Second half? Where exactly is this line? Half of 30 is 19. We got 29 points in the first half of the season. Won 7, drawn 8 and lost 4.

In our first 4 games of the first half we won 2, drew 1 and lost 1 (7pts). In the first 4 of the second half we got only 3 points with 1 win, 1 draw and 2 losses. Not a good start.
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Half of 30 isn't 19 mate
 
sksk3021 said:
It’s definitely been his record, maybe a fair few mitigating factors in that tbf.
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The biggest factor will have been squad depth and quality, bang the points in at the beginning of the season then as the season wears on the first team gets tired/ injured and then your into fitting square pegs into round holes to try and cobble teams together.

Happens most season in the prem for those mid/ bottom table teams, look great at the beginning, by the end of it the bigger clubs have the depth to handle injuries and tiredness better as the subs benches are invariably filled with players that would be starters at other clubs

This season has been remarkable for a lot of the big clubs underperforming and the lesser teams willing to go for them and not give up so there's barely a fag paper between 4th and 13th so a run of a few wins sees teams zoom up the table or a couple of losses drop like a stone but still in contention
 
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Jesus f***ing Christ, they’re all out tonight

Every time we lose we get these threads demanding inquests or questioning everything.

10th in the league with 33 points on the board after 23 games in the PL, yes today was shit but we’ll have days like this where things don’t go right. Doesn’t mean everyone and everything is wrong.
 
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allmagsaretossas said:
Did someone post that this is a trend of all regis spells as a coach . Great 1st half underwhelming 2nd half of season .
Not going to criticise him but we really need to work out how to be more effective from the off in most games. Would like to see the stats of how many times we have have taken the lead in games this season especially 1st half. Our success has been based on a solid defence but thst now seems quite leaky so its going to give us more of a problem as the season progresses.
Just want that safety as soon as possible and strengthen better as a squad in the summer .
Would be nice to get some wingers who are actuslly capable next week but I can't see it
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Interesting isn't it. Whether his methods last? Whole new team this year but signs that the second half of the season could be going the same way as last (playoffs aside).
 
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