Some Stats...

Quoted from 140348

Shame you didn't tell my father how to spell his name. Your right about Bills spelling errors.  Bit bored in Suffolk are you.

It is very boring in Suffolk now Paul Hurst lives and works down here.

Quoted from cannylad68

I always thought Bill Shankley was an imposter.

Don't think Shankly ever played for Lincoln and anyway I'd say he was nowhere near as attack-minded as Oster was  

Quoted from GollyGTFC

On the one hand 9 games does seem a bit early to sack a manager, but quite frankly given the results & (more importantly) performances I don't think MJ could have any complaints if Fenty & co handed him his P45 tomorrow morning.

I appreciate the stats are terrible, but there have been several games where the performance has been pretty decent - much better than anything last year under Slade. I'm really hoping that Thomas will start firing soon and I think this would be helped massively if Pringle can start playing regularly - as despite his poor first touch on Saturday which led directly to their goal, you could see in the rest of the game that his first thought is to get the ball in the box.

Quoted from GollyGTFC

Jolley tried playing 3-5-2 and it failed miserably and then he switched and played the current 4-1-4-1 at the end of the season...

Team was something like...

McKeown

Hall-Johnson
Clarke
Collins
Fox

Rose

Clifton
Summerfield
Woolford
Hooper

Cardwell

And we didn't score many goals under MJ last season either.

MJ has had 20 league games in charge & we've only scored 17 goals in that time. And 5 of those have been penalties. So we've scored 12 goals from open play in 20 under MJ. Which is utter shite!

If it’s stats you’re concerned with why should it matter how a goal is scored? A goal’s a goal. A point’s a point.

Quoted from Roast Em Bobby

I appreciate the stats are terrible, but there have been several games where the performance has been pretty decent - much better than anything last year under Slade. I'm really hoping that Thomas will start firing soon and I think this would be helped massively if Pringle can start playing regularly - as despite his poor first touch on Saturday which led directly to their goal, you could see in the rest of the game that his first thought is to get the ball in the box.

I'm sure Pringle & Thomas are decent footballers but, like Woolford last season, they've come to us without a proper pre-season. How long will it take for them to be fully up to speed?

(Admittedly some that did pre-season don't look up to speed either)  

Another stat for you - in the last 12 months, we've played 45 league games & failed to score in 23.

Quoted from GollyGTFC

Jolley tried playing 3-5-2 and it failed miserably and then he switched and played the current 4-1-4-1 at the end of the season...

Team was something like...

McKeown

Hall-Johnson
Clarke
Collins
Fox

Rose

Clifton
Summerfield
Woolford
Hooper

Cardwell

And we didn't score many goals under MJ last season either.

MJ has had 20 league games in charge & we've only scored 17 goals in that time. And 5 of those have been penalties. So we've scored 12 goals from open play in 20 under MJ. Which is utter shite!

3 of those goals were in a dead end of season rubber. We have not scored any amount of goals for ages. We never get in the flipping box for a start.

Every home game we sit in the pontoon, hoping for some attacking action and... zilch. This season there has been ONE goal for us at the "home" end! Even that was a penalty.

No strikers, no creative midfielders, no wingers. It is not rocket science why we are not scoring is it? Add to that a far from convincing defence and it has got relegation written all over it.

With what we have got, players wise, Jolley will have to limp along to January hoping we pick up enough points to keep us in touch and then demand that Fenty releases enough funds to get the players he really wants or resign, or of course be sacked. The whole thing stinks; yet another season of struggle on the cards and I bet most of us are absolutely sick of it.

Quoted from Roast Em Bobby

I appreciate the stats are terrible, but there have been several games where the performance has been pretty decent.

So you seem happy that we are still losing, but playing better in some games

Quoted from Tangerine Chris

So you seem happy that we are still losing, but playing better in some games

I'm not at all happy, I just want to see MJ given at little bit more time as I believe he can turn this around. I might be wrong but I'd rather give him another month at least before the trigger is pulled.

Quoted from Roast Em Bobby

I'm not at all happy, I just want to see MJ given at little bit more time as I believe he can turn this around. I might be wrong but I'd rather give him another month at least before the trigger is pulled.

Well 4 weeks as now we're at home to Colchester which will be our 4th home game out of the next 6 fixtures. We need to get at least 2 wins out of these 6 - doesn't matter how - otherwise I think we're in for a long winter.