Sousa vs Eriksson

[Babylon]

Yes. All I am saying is that its an interesting statistic.

I'm loving Sven as much as the next guy.

Unless the next guy is CC_Star... in which case you love him way more.

[Fmfox]

felt sorry for him, sven has had a lot more money to play with than paulo, as for the post about DJ. Sousa had no history with him and to be fair he did score when he played!

[Darkon84]

felt sorry for him, sven has had a lot more money to play with than paulo, as for the post about DJ. Sousa had no history with him and to be fair he did score when he played!

Sousa spent over £3million in transfers, before getting to wages. Sven has obviously brough more loan players in but that doesnt always mean more money. I doubt we are paying full whack for PVA, Bruma, Naughton, Mee or Vitor, as they are from bigger clubs and would be more fussed about their players getting experience than the money, and the Yaks wages are covered by the money raised from Fryatts transfer. So theyve probably had about the same

Maybe

[Alexikokopops]

Pardon?

It wasn't aimed at you in particular, and I hadn't really read the thread, but I was pre-empting anyone trying to use it to back up an argument that Sousa would have had a similar record to Sven because stats say so. It was more "stop getting statistics as a whole wrong" rather than what you put in your posts being wrong.

I'm a statistician, it's not my fault I'm a nerd

[Corky]

I saw very little under Sousa to suggest we'd do well long term.

I have seen enough with Sven.

[Stevosevic]

After 41 games last year we had 61 points.

After 41 games this year, we have 60 points.

Sven has done extremely well to get us pretty much on par with last season, just a shame it will take more points to get in the play-offs this year.

Sven is the future.

[Bettsj2]

I took 6 games from O'Neill's first season in the prem at random and compared them to Taylors first season in the prem against the same teams.

O'Neill came out with 4 points from the 6 games and Taylor came out with 16.

What does that tell you?

**** all. Two managers that are obviously poles apart but stats can be brought up to paint a different picture.

Sven vs Sousa?

Waste of a thread.

[FoxyPV]

Lies, damn lies and statistics

[Alexikokopops]

I took 6 games from O'Neill's first season in the prem at random and compared them to Taylors first season in the prem against the same teams.

O'Neill came out with 4 points from the 6 games and Taylor came out with 16.

What does that tell you?

**** all. Two managers that are obviously poles apart but stats can be brought up to paint a different picture.

Sven vs Sousa?

Waste of a thread.

That's the point I was attempting to make in my post before, but in Maybes defence I don't think he was seriously suggesting his original point proved Sousa would have done as well as Sven

[Heart-Shaped Fox]

After 41 games last year we had 61 points.

After 41 games this year, we have 60 points.

Sven has done extremely well to get us pretty much on par with last season, just a shame it will take more points to get in the play-offs this year.

Sven is the future.

Just a shame we wont win 5 in a row at this stage like we did last year though.

[accessory]

Rob Kelly managed 28 points in his first 15 games in 05-06 In that period of the season only Reading got more points than us.

It didn't mean Kelly was a promotion-winning manager though. Players left in the summer and weren't replaced because there was no money to spend, so we ended up with dross like Andy Johnson and Josh Low.

Until Sven proves his ability in the transfer market, which so far he has failed to do, only the blindest optimists would tip us for promotion next year.