Mid-Season Statistics

[FGR Stroud]

At this time of the season every team would be playing their reverse fixtures.
So the set of stats below are a little uneven with some teams played 23 games while others only 20.

Leading Goalscorers

Average Home Attendances

Results

 

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[Dale4ever]

Our record against the top teams is very good, shame we can’t beat those below us!

 

[RLC]

We don't have a single player in the top 26 goalscorers, yet sit third in the table. Remarkable really.

 

[AdamStag]

A half of 2 for mansfield really, 2 opening wins saw us sitting pretty, before somehow losing 3-2 to bradford when we should have put them to bed long before. We then didn’t win in 13/14 games in all competitions due to a bit of bad luck luck, but then ridiculous injury problems which would cripple any side in this division.

Following on from that run were now 10 wins from 11.

Jekyll and hyde springs to mind!

 

[FGR Stroud]

Just come across this BBC half-term report:

League Two - half-term reports for each club

BBC commentators give their thoughts on how all 24 League Two clubs have fared at the halfway stage of the season.

www.bbc.co.uk

As usual with these reports there will almost certainly be plenty of disagreements.

 

[Bottega Don]

Interesting that we've lost to 8 of the top 11 and then only 1 of everyone else (we haven't played Bristol Rovers though).

The fight is clearly there we just can't compete with those who have significantly better squads, those with slightly better squads we can scrape draws out of.

 

[MadJohn]

Not hard to see where our problems lie. Our home record is automatic promotion material, even with the recent back-to-back defeats to Newport and FGR. Our away record is the worst in the division.

 

[The Jovial Forester]

Not hard to see where our problems lie. Our home record is automatic promotion material, even with the recent back-to-back defeats to Newport and FGR. Our away record is the worst in the division.

Swear I've read a load of articles claiming home advantage isn't what it used to be by the stats but then you get records like yours. Hard to know why it's so vastly different.

 

[BRFC_Gas]

Fair play to Newport they have had to adjust to having grass on their pitch this season..

 

[MadJohn]

Swear I've read a load of articles claiming home advantage isn't what it used to be by the stats but then you get records like yours. Hard to know why it's so vastly different.

I've seen no recent articles, but the claim would be spot on. Taking all seasons in which HUFC have participated (Football League and National League) over the last century, it used to be the case that ~60% of all fixtures resulted in a home win, with ~20% each ending in a draw or an away win. That was pretty constant. Between 1921/22 and 1938/39, the % of home wins in a season (Div Three North) only fluctuated between 56.7% and 62.6%. That figure dipped to around 50% immediately after the war (presumably no real home advantage in a league where nobody has played anywhere for seven years). It went back up, though never back to 60%+ and stayed in the low 50s for a few decades. The last season we played in where home wins accounted for over 50% of results was 1990/91 (50.4%). It's usually now around the 40% mark, with away wins consistently over 30%

Where that leaves us this season, I haven't a clue!

 

[Essex2Wessex]

I wonder about the home advantage thing - and would strongly make the case, at least since we've been in the EFL, that we've never or barely known it.

Mostly our performances away from home have been better than in Nailsworth, overall. Is that because, while our away fans (me included) are usually notably, and wonderfully, vociferous beyond our numbers (and also, while not being large in number overall by league standards, disproportionately large when compared with our regular home attendances) , a lot of the time, but thankfully not so much this season, the accusations coming from the west stand, that TNL is "a library" might have too much substance in fact?

Hartlepool strike me as maybe the prime example, at the moment, of a club, whose home support, in terms of energy and enthuisasm and in creating atmosphere (combined with respectable numbers) , as really among the very very best in League Two. (Bradford City and Tranmere can be impressive too, but they have substantially higher attendance, so overall I think Hartlepool wins on this count). So no doubt it does spur the team on at home.

How strong is the impact of the 12th man overall? I really don't know. Don't understand Swindon's relatively poor home record this season. They have a decent turn-out. but it's also true in terms of atmosphere their ground is not the most intense.

 

[MadJohn]

As Yul Brynner once said, it's a puzzlement. I'd agree that our home support has been excellent, but that's largely been the case away from home too. Our away support in terms of both numbers and noise is the best It's been in many years, certainly better than anything we've had for well over a decade. It's a peculiarly regimented type support (as is the home support), and is heavily reliant on a drum (as is the home support), but when it's in full flow it's very impressive. Fans from at least half a dozen clubs have commented that ours is the best away support they've seen in years.

And yet we keep losing. Oddly, the exception is the cups, in which we have beaten Wycombe, Lincoln, and Sheffield Wednesday away this season.

And then you have last season in the National League. Our 2021 NL home record was 10-1-1. Away was 4-6-4. That was almost entirely behind closed doors!!

 

[Soup Ladle]

There's been games where we haven't had the rub of the green that we have been getting at home. Lately mind it's just been taken over by some really bad performances where the heads have just dropped. Obvious our away followings aren't having any effect on it. We're shit away simply because we aren't good enough in either box.

 

[Bottega Don]

PL and FL league table for 2021. Makes terrible reading for us, Bristol Rovers and Oldham.

 

[AdamStag]

how the bloody hell are we 35th! we didn’t win a game for 70 odd days haha.

 

[valefan16]

Ours is bonkers in that 8 of those loses were before mid March! 2 were dead rubbers too, including playing McKirdy left back the last game of the season!

 

[MadJohn]

Can't complain at all with 19th. Our best ever year (1956) would have seen us 3rd this year, and our next best (2002) would've seen us 4th. No other calendar year from us would have been good enough to crack this year's top 10, with our third best being almost identical to what Tranmere have managed this year.

As a rule of thumb, I always think of playoff form as being slightly more than half the available points. Anything up around the 1.6 mark can be considered a good year.

 

[MadJohn]

By the way, if you were to build that table for all-time results, from 1888 to present, there is only one club who could boast(?) a goal difference in the minus four figures

 

[BarraMatt]

I'd take 77th every year.

 

[JaredSUFC]

PL and FL league table for 2021. Makes terrible reading for us, Bristol Rovers and Oldham.

But a great read for Sutton. Does this mean we qualify for Europe?

 

[BarraMatt]

But a great read for Sutton. Does this mean we qualify for Europe?

We're all already in Europe, we visit Dinamo Newport every season.

 

[BRFC_Gas]

Only 2 teams below us are Bartons ex clubs

 

[Indian Dan]

Everybody’s shit and we’re all going to hell in a handcart

 

[BarraMatt]

Scanned over this table a few times and there's strangely no mention of FC Halifax. Can anyone confirm?