07-05-2021, 05:07 PM
(07-05-2021, 08:33 AM)Salvatore Matrecano Wrote:(06-05-2021, 11:40 PM)Sabricadabra Wrote: Win rate isn’t the most important stat. It’s a cherry picked unbalanced stat without also quoting loss rate.
The most important stat is the number of points accrued and position in the table. Everything else is secondary.
We over achieved last season and were in free fall at the beginning of this. Hughton has stabilised the slide towards relegation, brought some much needed defensive resilience, and built a platform to build on for next season.
We are a work in progress, 7 months into his tenure, but it’s been a solid and encouraging start.
Agree with all of that Sabri apart from the we over achieved last season bit. Ive seen that said by a number of people and I think it’s rubbish, we finished 7th and thats where we deserved to be. Sure we sh*thoused our way to a few wins but were unlucky other games too. But importantly there were some wins against the top teams Fulham, Leeds etc where we were utterly dominant and reached a level far higher than we ever achieved this season. For that reason I get annoyed when people slag off your namesake, he did remarkably well. Hughton is a slow work in progress and I hope next season will be much better.
Where you deserve to finish and where you expect to finish are completely different thing. The fact you suggest he did a "remarkable job", would in fact suggest you also think he did better than expected, ie overachieved from the base he started with.
I think we deserved to finish 7th sure however I don't believe we had a great team either. I think we won a lot of close games that could've gone either way, this season a lot of those games where they were close went the other way. I think with the players we had Sabri did a great job getting us so close to the playoffs, including those great performances vs Fulham, Leeds, Swansea. This is what is meant by overachieved.