glyn
Well-Known Member
Nothing particularly insightful here but was just mulling over how our form has tended to fluctuate from awful to great over the past five years. We've not had a spell of being bang average since probably the Sven/NP season.
From the middle of 2012-13 (to be precise a defeat against Peterboro that followed ten goals in two games when Chris Wood was at the peak of his powers) to the Watford play off games:
19 games - 0.95 pts per game
The Championship winning season in 2013-14 through to the Man U 5-3 match
51 games - 2.16 pts per game
From then until the Spurs 4-3 defeat in the 2014-15 season
25 games - 0.44 pts per game
From the win v West Ham that kicked off the great escape to the end of 2015-16 and PL champions
47 games - 2.19 pts per game
2016-17 to date
23 games 0.91 pts per game
Of course what is interesting is there has been consistency through the core of the team over that period and DD and JV in particular have followed exactly the same kind of trajectory in form.
I doubt many teams have ever seen such a volatile sequence of form in 5 consecutive seasons. When we're bad, we're really bad.
From the middle of 2012-13 (to be precise a defeat against Peterboro that followed ten goals in two games when Chris Wood was at the peak of his powers) to the Watford play off games:
19 games - 0.95 pts per game
The Championship winning season in 2013-14 through to the Man U 5-3 match
51 games - 2.16 pts per game
From then until the Spurs 4-3 defeat in the 2014-15 season
25 games - 0.44 pts per game
From the win v West Ham that kicked off the great escape to the end of 2015-16 and PL champions
47 games - 2.19 pts per game
2016-17 to date
23 games 0.91 pts per game
Of course what is interesting is there has been consistency through the core of the team over that period and DD and JV in particular have followed exactly the same kind of trajectory in form.
I doubt many teams have ever seen such a volatile sequence of form in 5 consecutive seasons. When we're bad, we're really bad.
