Yems was right after the match to make the point that at times on Saturday we played better than on Tuesday. I thought the two games were actually very similar but, as ever, fine margins decided the games. In both, we dominated, Nichols had stormers, we conceded equalisers after a mistake, Morris had barely anything to do except scoop out of the net. Crucially Nichols didn’t get that third goal on Saturday yet he took a way more difficult chance for the third goal on Tuesday.
Overall we are playing really well, perhaps our best run of form this season. Playoffs not out of the question given our deeper squad now (with the new additions and clearing injuries) but top 10 more realistic given we’ve not had that level of consistency for the best part of a decade.
Lots of talk on here about stats and data. Just a reminder that data scientists would laugh at 3 data points being any kind of trend. Just as we had 3 red cards in close succession earlier in the season, that really didn’t justify a narrative that our players had discipline issues. And very similarly three games where we’ve conceded very late doesn’t necessarily mean we have problems closing games out, a small number of data points are more likely to be chance rather than a meaningful trend
but in my view the sending's off were all of our own making and players should have been fined for letting colleagues down! No excuses
Definitely, Nadesan's 1st one and Lynch's were ridiculous and cost us 5 points
Yems was right after the match to make the point that at times on Saturday we played better than on Tuesday. I thought the two games were actually very similar but, as ever, fine margins decided the games. In both, we dominated, Nichols had stormers, we conceded equalisers after a mistake, Morris had barely anything to do except scoop out of the net. Crucially Nichols didn’t get that third goal on Saturday yet he took a way more difficult chance for the third goal on Tuesday.
Overall we are playing really well, perhaps our best run of form this season. Playoffs not out of the question given our deeper squad now (with the new additions and clearing injuries) but top 10 more realistic given we’ve not had that level of consistency for the best part of a decade.
Lots of talk on here about stats and data. Just a reminder that data scientists would laugh at 3 data points being any kind of trend. Just as we had 3 red cards in close succession earlier in the season, that really didn’t justify a narrative that our players had discipline issues. And very similarly three games where we’ve conceded very late doesn’t necessarily mean we have problems closing games out, a small number of data points are more likely to be chance rather than a meaningful trend
but in my view the sending's off were all of our own making and players should have been fined for letting colleagues down! No excuses
So you feel Nadesan’s sending off against Exeter was justified? I think it’s a shame fans don’t defend him from what was an obvious miscarriage of justice because he’s a player not quite in favour at the current time (bit like Craig a few months ago).
Regardless, my point was this cards didn’t represent an indiscipline trend. And the team have shown that. They were isolated one-off miscalculations and in the case of the Exeter game, one of the worst refereeing errors I’ve ever seen
So you feel Nadesan’s sending off against Exeter was justified? I think it’s a shame fans don’t defend him from what was an obvious miscarriage of justice because he’s a player not quite in favour at the current time (bit like Craig a few months ago).
Unfortunately it fell into that GREY area where you can retrospectively challenge a direct RED... but not two dubious YELLOWS...(?)