Ineptitude or coincidence.....

[Reg Smeeton]

....I believe our failure to score in 6 consecutive away games to now be an unwanted club record for Mr BWB....something not achieved in the 50's when we had to apply for re-election....73/74...81/82 the Prem season and thereabouts or 99/00 and the following season.  Congrats to the manager.

[Ben Wah Balls]

I think the 8 goals at home in the last three games puts in in perspective, goalscoring is clearly not a problem. And the fact that it spans two seasons means it's irrelevant, those games at the end of last year were meaningless. So 3 away games without a goal this year, one of which was a 0-0 but 8 goals at home.

[Reg Smeeton]

In terms of stats, consecutive games span the seasons and have done since 1920

 So you think its a coincidence......Walsall have conceded more home goals than any other team...so we should be anticipating at least scoring a few on Saturday.

[Ben Wah Balls]

I'd just like to point out we haven't failed to score at home in nearly 5 months. :advercool:

[Reg Smeeton]

I'd just like to point out we haven't failed to score at home in nearly 5 months. :advercool:

 So the 0-0 draw with Shitty in April....a mere 6 home games ago never happened......shame because I fondly recall the pathetic turn out on the night , and how had Shitty won it would have put them in the PO's, yet somehow their fans couldn't be bothered.

[Ben Wah Balls]

Yeah and that was nearly 5 months ago.

[Reg Smeeton]

Even with my inadequate maths ability the difference between the 4 month of the year and the 8th month of the year is a maximum of 4 months..which although approximating to 5 months, is not sufficiently close to be acceptable.

 It's like saying we nearly scored an away goal at Barnsley, but Cureton missed the penalty.

[Ben Wah Balls]

Well it's september in a couple of days. So nearly 5 months.

[Reg Smeeton]

I prefer accuracy...and am content that our 7 points from six games if maintained consistently through the season will see us with 54 points when rounded up.....sufficient in most cases to stay up.

[Asher]

Im upset ive been to three northern grounds this year and we still havent scored...very pissed off

[McLovin]

The fact we score at home but not away suggests more of a tactical problem away from home, as we obviously have the personnel to score goals, but do not utilise them properly on our travels.

[janaage]

One up front is shit, means you're not playing in the spirit of the game, let's fucking go for it and see what happens.  Let's turn up at these far flung shit hole grounds through out the country and take it to them, not play one fucker up front, it's just not cricket.

We did play one up front at Trannie didn't we?  Apologies to all involved if we didn't.

[Asher]

Yeah we did play one up front and fallons game is more about keeping it up and laying it off.  Playing one up front lost us this game! King is a fool, he should have changed it at half time or the very least when the goal went in.  However as a tactical genious (been watching the top managers try the 20 mins left and we will change it routine) left it till dead on 70 mis and tried to get back into it, too little too late kingy again!

[RobertT]

I prefer accuracy...and am content that our 7 points from six games if maintained consistently through the season will see us with 54 points when rounded up.....sufficient in most cases to stay up.

Reg, when was our last Away win?  I'm faily sure it was some time ago now, in fact, isn't our away record pretty awful?

This one puzzles me, why are teams, generally, so much worse away from home?  Obviously the crowd will play some factor in the performance of players, but this to me shows just how much of the game is in the head of Managers and Players.  With the exception of artificial pitches, and grounds in strange climates (grimsby's), why do players let the whole issue of the game being away impact so greatly on the way they play?

[BrightonRed]

Reg, when was our last Away win?  I'm faily sure it was some time ago now, in fact, isn't our away record pretty awful?

5th Feb A - Oldham Athletic 2-1