cmonurz What the first stats most illustrate is that our starting strikers are needing at least four full games to notch a goal. Thank god we signed Roberts!
That's kind of a false statistic, I think, and coming from team set-up and team-orders.
We are set up NOT TO CONCEDE and for the most part haven't really gone for it in the first half.
Gone are the days when it was The Charge of the Light Brigade from minute zero.
And if the strikers (eg Church) are as accurate (% shots on target) and lethal (%goals from shots)
(which they are) it's more to do with team-orders/style of chances being made.
We have made 42 fewer chances this season. If those chances had been made and had all fallen to Church
at his hit-rate he'd be on 16-17 goals already! (If you merely extrapolate the stats.)
Other thing to remember is that Le Fondre (who equally I expected to have a better rate than Church) has suffered for the style of football we have played.
He is a penalty area goal poacher, and we at times we haven’t been creating many chances. That will have impacted on his ‘scoring rate’ more so imho than
Church or Hunt, who are more willing runners around the 30 yard line and on the wings.
I don't have much recollection of Le Fondre needing to shoot from 25 yards
and the fact is he has managed to get 34 shots/headers off in 1545 Minutes,
a chance every 45 minutes played, or 2 chances per game. If Alf was scoring
1 in 4 (as Church) he would be scoring a goal every 180 minutes.
It's possible (God knows how it could be measured) that the chances are not quite as good this season.
I can't say that's very obvious just watching games.