Goals/shots stats

[webmaster]

How many shots our players have made on average for each goal scored in the league this season:

Joey 62 shots, 6 goals, 10.33 shots per goal
MdV 43 shots, 6 goals, 7.16 shots per goal
Hume 37 shots, 4 goals, 9.25 shots per goal
Elvis 35 shots, 3 goals, 11.66 shots per goal
Connolly 13 shots, 4 goals, 3.25 shots per goal


Others in this division:

Kitson 31 shots, 11 goals, 2.81 shots per goal
Akinbiyi 58 shots, 12 goals, 4.83 shots per goal
King 61 shots, 12 goals, 5.08 shots per goal
Jerome 76 shots, 12 goals, 6.33 shots per goal
Shipperley 32 shots, 9 goals, 3.55 shots per goal


It seems pretty obvious from this where our problem is, our strikers need to be converting around 1 in 5 attempts into goals. If they'd been doing that we'd expect to be in the top half and within striking distance of the play-offs.

 

[SilverFox]

Dammit webby you have too much time on your hands. :icon_wink

And to think, everyone shot down my suggestion at the beginning of the season that we try to re-unite the Connolly Shipperly combo. If we had, I think we would be higher up the table.

 

[webmaster]

And to think, everyone shot down my suggestion at the beginning of the season that we try to re-unite the Connolly Shipperly combo. If we had, I think we would be higher up the table.

Don't think I shot down your suggestion.


Selling Connolly looked like good business at the time, but if he'd continued his early form he could have been the difference between a challenge for the play-offs and a relegation battle.
This season could have been so different if we'd signed a decent replacement, I'm convinced the rest of the team is good enough.

 

[newtonfox]

Don't think I shot down your suggestion.


Selling Connolly looked like good business at the time, but if he'd continued his early form he could have been the difference between a challenge for the play-offs and a relegation battle.
This season could have been so different if we'd signed a decent replacement, I'm convinced the rest of the team is good enough.

but will cl get the right man . i agree with what you say the are good enogh i mean what if we do start hitting the net ,im sure the lads would pick right bk up but like i say is cl the right man to get us there ,im sorry i dont think so imo

 

[SilverFox]

Don't get me wrong I like Hume, he is quality, however, I have always had doubts over Hammond, DeVries and Dublin. They are not good enough for this league.

Hume I believe will get better, but probably needs an experienced foil who scores goals. I don't care if we get this person courtesy of help the aged, we need goals. As much as many would like to not admit, Shipperly would have done a job for us, and he and Connolly together would have been very good for this club.

Who do we bring in? I don't know, but it can't be a young inexperienced forward, with no record. We need some sort of pedigree, but where to look?!?

 

[step]

i have heard it said many times that a good striker will score one goal from three attempts.

I think you have managed to quantify the problem at city in one message.

Well done

 

[PFKAKTF FOX]

Great stuff webbo, certainly does highlight a big problem, but Levein is surely part of the problem, and yet people are advocating he is given further funds to strengthen, I will not slate him for signing Hume, as I think he is an excellent signing and will make an excellent foil as Silver has said to an out and out goalscorer, but CL has bought both Hammond and MDV, whilst giving Dublin an extension to his contract (which in the summer was to play upfront), and whilst Hammond can and maybe should the player to solve our wide right problem, none of the three are anywhere near the quality required.

I am not convinced Levein can identify the right striker for this club and I am fearful with the finances available will end up with similar to what we already have. I agree with the Webbo's comment about the squad being strong enough except for a specialist left back and a ball winning, hard tackling central midfielder.

 

[lazzer]

good post webbo it certainly highlights the problem area

 

[Yorkshire Vixen]

:icon_sad:

 

[Durham Fox]

Don't think I shot down your suggestion.


Selling Connolly looked like good business at the time, but if he'd continued his early form he could have been the difference between a challenge for the play-offs and a relegation battle.
This season could have been so different if we'd signed a decent replacement, I'm convinced the rest of the team is good enough.

 

[Joe_Fox]

Don't think I shot down your suggestion.


Selling Connolly looked like good business at the time, but if he'd continued his early form he could have been the difference between a challenge for the play-offs and a relegation battle.
This season could have been so different if we'd signed a decent replacement, I'm convinced the rest of the team is good enough.

Do you not think that selling Connolly was the end of our season as a competitive outfit? Surely that's not good business. Well done to the money men for selling our best player.

 

[PFKAKTF FOX]

The only thing it doesnt tell you is the actually quality of the chances, You could have 10 pot shots from 30 yards that trickle into the keepers arms or you could have tap ins from 6 yards, that is why I dont believe one striker will solve everything, I dont believe we create that many outstanding chances per game.

 

[SamuearlJackson]

has anyone got the stats for Connolly's shots per goal ratio from last season (including/not including penalties)? I imagine it was absolutely crap, and comparable or worse than what we have at the moment. IMO selling Connolly for £3 million was a fantastic piece of business in the current footballing climate.

 

[webmaster]

Do you not think that selling Connolly was the end of our season as a competitive outfit? Surely that's not good business. Well done to the money men for selling our best player.

I notice you didn't post anything disagreeing with his sale at the time. It's very easy to criticise something like that in hindsight, the vast majority of people here thought it was good business when it happened.

The news had got out that Wigan wanted him, and he wanted to go. If we'd kept him against his wishes we'd have had an unhappy (therefore probably less effective) player. There was no guarantee that he'd have kept up his early season record, his scoring record was poor for much of his time with us.

The mistake wasn't selling Connolly, it was not replacing him effectively.

 

[PFKAKTF FOX]

I notice you didn't post anything disagreeing with his sale at the time. It's very easy to criticise something like that in hindsight, the vast majority of people here thought it was good business when it happened.

The news had got out that Wigan wanted him, and he wanted to go. If we'd kept him against his wishes we'd have had an unhappy (therefore probably less effective) player. There was no guarantee that he'd have kept up his early season record, his scoring record was poor for much of his time with us.

The mistake wasn't selling Connolly, it was not replacing him effectively.

Spot on Webbo !

 

[Bobby Smith]

The mistake wasn't selling Connolly, it was not replacing him effectively.

And it's a sight more difficult now than it would have been then.

 

[webmaster]

has anyone got the stats for Connolly's shots per goal ratio from last season (including/not including penalties)? I imagine it was absolutely crap, and comparable or worse than what we have at the moment.

By this time last season he'd only scored four goals.

Last season he had 116 shots, 13 goals, 8.9 shots per goal.

Better than Hume and Elvis, worse than MdV.


His penalties make his record look better than it really was though, if we take them out his shots/goals ratio is about the same as Hammond's.

 

[Bobby Smith]

His penalties make his record look better than it really was though, if we take them out his shots/goals ratio is about the same as Hammond's.

Let's not forget that Connolly hit the woodwork 56 times last season. Your post just made me realise that our current strikers won't take the ball when a penalty has been given, they should be jumping at the chance really.

 

[webmaster]

Let's not forget that Connolly hit the woodwork 56 times last season.

It was 8 times actually

As a team we've hit the woodwork 16 times this season, joint top in the division. Joey has hit the woodwork seven times, more than anyone else in the league.

 

[MHS]

Joey has hit the woodwork seven times

If only they had gone in :icon_sad: