| Damning statistics - what stands out for you? 07:23 - Apr 22 with 6262 views | STYG |
From the EADT.
This is what Cook inherited and now has this lot knowing they won’t even be here next year. This is over the season, most of which was when they were presumably trying ...
Ipswich Town’s tally of 41 goals is better than only Bristol Rovers (40) and Northampton (38). Those sides are bottom and 21st respectively.
The Blues average less than a goal a game
They have now played more than nine hours of football without a goal
Ipswich have failed to score in 16 of their 42 League One games to date. Again, Northampton and Bristol Rovers are the only clubs with worse records in this metric
Town have managed to score more than one goal in only 13 of their matches
Town have scored three or more goals in a game just once this season, at Blackpool in September when they managed four. They have by far the worst record in the league in this regard
Their goal difference is currently —3. No club in the top half of any of the EFL divisions has a worse goal difference.
Town’s top scorer, James Norwood, is 56th in the League One scoring charts with six goals to his name. No other club’s leading scoring has fewer goals.
19 of the 24 League One clubs have at least two players who have scored more than Norwood. Gillingham, Lincoln and Rochdale have four players on more than Norwood’s six goals.
Town’s other central strikers, Kayden Jackson, Oli Hawkins, Troy Parrott, Freddie Sears and Aaron Drinan, have scored just one league goal each in a combined 4,671 minutes of action. Many of those appearances are from the bench, but combine for nearly 52 full games of football.
Four of Ipswich’s goals have been ‘own goals’. No team has benefited from more of them this season than Ipswich.
That puts ‘own goal’ joint third in the Ipswich scoring charts, alongside Jon Nolan and Alan Judge and behind Gwion Edwards (5) and James Norwood (6).
Town have only scored 27 league goals from open play this season.
Not one of those has been chalked up as being a ‘counter-attack’ goal.
Ipswich have scored 10 goals from set-pieces this season, with only five teams managing fewer
Town are the only team in League One not to have been awarded a penalty this season. Lincoln have had 10.
Gwion Edwards is 50th in the League One assist charts, with four. No team’s leading assister has fewer to his name than Edwards. 14 teams have multiple players above Edwards on the list. The next Ipswich name on this list are Alan Judge, Norwood, Luke Chambers, Stephen Ward and Teddy Bishop, who all have two.
Ipswich Town average 9.8 shots per game. That’s the fewest in the entire league.
The Blues average 3.2 shots on target per game. Only Wigan and Northampton average fewer.
Town’s 16.1 ‘unsuccessful touches’ per game is the highest in the league
Ipswich have worn their silver away kit five times and have scored two goals (Norwood at Hull and Chambers at Gillingham).
Town have yet to score since the American-backed takeover of the club was completed.
Ipswich have conceded three or more goals in games six times this season, with three of those occasions coming against teams in the bottom six (Swindon, Northampton, Wimbledon)
The Blues are as close to the relegation zone as they are to the automatic promotion places. The gap to both is 18 points.
In the 35 games since Town’s first loss of the season, away at Doncaster on October 20, ended a superb start, the Blues sit 16th in the League One form table
The form table since Paul Cook took charge of the Blues has Town 20th in League One
Only two players (Dion Charles of Accrington and Tyler Smith of Swindon) are caught offside more often per game than James Norwood
Only Hull are caught offside more often than Ipswich as a team
Only five players commit more fouls per game than Andre Dozzell
Town’s combined disciplinary record is fifth-worst in the division, with 72 yellow cards and six reds. Charlton and Accrington have been shown more red cards than Town
Ipswich have used 34 players in League One this season, fewer than only Swindon, Wigan and Burton Albion.
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| Damning statistics - what stands out for you? on 09:54 - Apr 22 with 1926 views | TrumptonBlue |
| Damning statistics - what stands out for you? on 09:21 - Apr 22 by LeBlue |
"Their goal difference is currently —3. No club in the top half of any of the EFL divisions has a worse goal difference."
Apart from AccrIngton Stanley (-6) and Luton (-12). I'm assuming that some of the other stats are equally made up. |
The one about us not being awarded a penalty is wrong. |  | | |
| Damning statistics - what stands out for you? on 09:55 - Apr 22 with 1921 views | wkj |
If it isn't a case of caring, I think it is fairly obvious most of our players lost their fitness over the winter. Whether that is a case of individual errors, or a shoddy set up at town - we shall never really know.
However, the comparison to Rovers and Northampton has to be countered with a mostly reliable defence.
We were never going to look close to relegation candidates this season as the early season fitness was there, and we did enough to stave of our late season relegation form.
Heart breaking really, if our players were given access to better fitness professionals AND/ OR they took more agency in their own fitness, we might well be booking our open mini bus tour about this time. [Post edited 22 Apr 2021 9:57]
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| Damning statistics - what stands out for you? on 09:56 - Apr 22 with 1917 views | TractorCam |
| Damning statistics - what stands out for you? on 09:54 - Apr 22 by TrumptonBlue |
The one about us not being awarded a penalty is wrong. |
Indeed, Accrington away with the red card. |  |
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| Damning statistics - what stands out for you? on 10:08 - Apr 22 with 1908 views | Churchman |
| Damning statistics - what stands out for you? on 08:01 - Apr 22 by STYG |
I'm struggling to see how we are good on paper. Take the last side.
Holy - an average League One keeper who conceded 76 goals in the season before we signed him
Ward - Great player in his day but now past it
Wolf - Few good games in the Championship and has now gone backwards spectacularly
McGuinness - Kid that played well in a Trophy game against us
KVY - Looked superb for a dozen games in League One
Dozzell - Had done pretty much nothing in 5 years interrupted by injury
Downes - Some good games in the Championship
Edwards - Handful of good games in Championship, largely inconsistent League One player, amazing on his day which is once every 5 games.
Sears - Absolutely woeful for almost three seasons after being a good Championship player.
Jackson - Scored one goal in about a year at League One level
Bennetts - Kid on loan who has done nothing in senior football.
Who is missing?
Chambers - Great in his day. Now nowhere near good enough for a League One top side
Norwood - Constantly injured - Loads of goals below this level. Did okay last season.
Dobra - Delivered nothing yet
Bishop - Brilliant at times 5 years ago. Glimpses this year.
Skuse - See Chambers
WIlson - Done well at times in League One
Nsiala - Great at this level three years ago. Error prone since. Couple of brilliant games this season. Just as many horror shows.
Kenlock - His best spell for Town has probably come this season in League 1, where he has been average but looked much better than some of the others.
We really aren't great at all on paper. [Post edited 22 Apr 2021 8:03]
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Good summary of League One’s finest squad.
You forgot Nolan. 61 appearances in three seasons, 8 league goals. Prior to that, 43 appearances 9 goals in one season for Shrewsbury. Before that, a season at Chesterfield and the rest in the national league etc.
Injury prone and inconsistent just about covers it and that’s being kind. 13 appearances this season. £2m for him and Nsiala? Jeez, thanks Hurst. |  | | |
| Damning statistics - what stands out for you? on 10:24 - Apr 22 with 1876 views | C_HealyIsAPleasure |
| Damning statistics - what stands out for you? on 09:31 - Apr 22 by The_Flashing_Smile |
Look at those stats. They aren't over 12 games fella.
This is just a terrible terrible team. Nothing to do with Cook. |
The season stats are heavily influenced by the last 12 games though. Looking at it based on the first 30 games of the season before Cook took charge:
- several teams had scored less goals than us
- we were averaging more than a goal a game
- we had a positive GD
- we had blanked in 9 games out of 30, which is cr*p but a lot less cr*p than 7 of 12
- scored 2+ goals in 12 of 30, compared to 1 in 12
- we had conceded 3+ in 3 out of 30 games, 3 of 12 since including 2 of the bottom 3 highlighted
- our post Doncaster form saw us 14th after the Accrington game, which is rubbish but mitigated partially playing less games than most teams (Hull lie 2nd in that table but only 7 points more and having played 3 more games, for example). By contrast we are 20th since Cook came in with some teams below us having played less. No one has scored less in that time
Obviously we weren’t anywhere near good enough before, and you hardly need a load of selective stats to highlight that we didn’t score enough goals or win enough games. But those stats only look so bad now as we’ve moved onto a completely new level of ineptitude in the past month and half |  |
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| Damning statistics - what stands out for you? on 10:27 - Apr 22 with 1870 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| Damning statistics - what stands out for you? on 10:24 - Apr 22 by C_HealyIsAPleasure |
The season stats are heavily influenced by the last 12 games though. Looking at it based on the first 30 games of the season before Cook took charge:
- several teams had scored less goals than us
- we were averaging more than a goal a game
- we had a positive GD
- we had blanked in 9 games out of 30, which is cr*p but a lot less cr*p than 7 of 12
- scored 2+ goals in 12 of 30, compared to 1 in 12
- we had conceded 3+ in 3 out of 30 games, 3 of 12 since including 2 of the bottom 3 highlighted
- our post Doncaster form saw us 14th after the Accrington game, which is rubbish but mitigated partially playing less games than most teams (Hull lie 2nd in that table but only 7 points more and having played 3 more games, for example). By contrast we are 20th since Cook came in with some teams below us having played less. No one has scored less in that time
Obviously we weren’t anywhere near good enough before, and you hardly need a load of selective stats to highlight that we didn’t score enough goals or win enough games. But those stats only look so bad now as we’ve moved onto a completely new level of ineptitude in the past month and half |
You've got too much time on your hands fella. |  |
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| Damning statistics - what stands out for you? on 10:35 - Apr 22 with 1854 views | Scuzzer |
| Damning statistics - what stands out for you? on 09:34 - Apr 22 by The_Flashing_Smile |
Those little tug backs Dozzell does when a player goes past him do my nut in. |
It's because he has the pace of a snail with a limp. |  |
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| Damning statistics - what stands out for you? on 10:42 - Apr 22 with 1850 views | BlueBlood90 |
Wow.
That is absolutely damning evidence of how bad we really are.
What makes it quite funny is how terrible this league is that we've been in with a shout of play-offs and in the top 10 pretty much all season despite having relegation fodder statistics. |  |
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| Damning statistics - what stands out for you? on 10:45 - Apr 22 with 1847 views | Mach_foreignBlue |
| Damning statistics - what stands out for you? on 09:21 - Apr 22 by LeBlue |
"Their goal difference is currently —3. No club in the top half of any of the EFL divisions has a worse goal difference."
Apart from AccrIngton Stanley (-6) and Luton (-12). I'm assuming that some of the other stats are equally made up. |
Yep as this is an Evans and Lambert's legacy. We need a total earthquake in the summer as this group of wasters has been used to the different environment. Ipswich? Who cares? Nice and easy payday, win or lose everything will be fine, the owner in Evans that doesn't demand promotion, whats not to like for them?
Now everything is about to change and you wonder why they aren't bothered. |  | | |
| Damning statistics - what stands out for you? on 10:47 - Apr 22 with 1835 views | C_HealyIsAPleasure |
| Damning statistics - what stands out for you? on 10:27 - Apr 22 by The_Flashing_Smile |
You've got too much time on your hands fella. |
Coming from someone that spends all day every day arguing on the internet, I’ll take that as a compliment | |
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| Damning statistics - what stands out for you? on 10:48 - Apr 22 with 1830 views | pointofblue |
| Damning statistics - what stands out for you? on 10:27 - Apr 22 by The_Flashing_Smile |
You've got too much time on your hands fella. |
He’s right though. | |
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| Damning statistics - what stands out for you? on 11:27 - Apr 22 with 1776 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| Damning statistics - what stands out for you? on 10:47 - Apr 22 by C_HealyIsAPleasure |
Coming from someone that spends all day every day arguing on the internet, I’ll take that as a compliment |
No I don't. | |
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| Damning statistics - what stands out for you? on 11:30 - Apr 22 with 1773 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| Damning statistics - what stands out for you? on 10:48 - Apr 22 by pointofblue |
He’s right though. |
Not necessarily. He's suggesting we've got worse because of Cook. I'd suggest it could just as easily be that we've got worse since the takeover.
The club has been dying for years. Pulling out a few stats since Cook came in doesn't look at the bigger picture. | |
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| Damning statistics - what stands out for you? on 11:33 - Apr 22 with 1762 views | chrismakin |
| Damning statistics - what stands out for you? on 10:24 - Apr 22 by C_HealyIsAPleasure |
The season stats are heavily influenced by the last 12 games though. Looking at it based on the first 30 games of the season before Cook took charge:
- several teams had scored less goals than us
- we were averaging more than a goal a game
- we had a positive GD
- we had blanked in 9 games out of 30, which is cr*p but a lot less cr*p than 7 of 12
- scored 2+ goals in 12 of 30, compared to 1 in 12
- we had conceded 3+ in 3 out of 30 games, 3 of 12 since including 2 of the bottom 3 highlighted
- our post Doncaster form saw us 14th after the Accrington game, which is rubbish but mitigated partially playing less games than most teams (Hull lie 2nd in that table but only 7 points more and having played 3 more games, for example). By contrast we are 20th since Cook came in with some teams below us having played less. No one has scored less in that time
Obviously we weren’t anywhere near good enough before, and you hardly need a load of selective stats to highlight that we didn’t score enough goals or win enough games. But those stats only look so bad now as we’ve moved onto a completely new level of ineptitude in the past month and half |
I wonder what may have started happening behind the scenes over the past month or so which may have affected things. If only we had some idea. |  |
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| Damning statistics - what stands out for you? on 11:36 - Apr 22 with 1761 views | Herbivore |
| Damning statistics - what stands out for you? on 11:30 - Apr 22 by The_Flashing_Smile |
Not necessarily. He's suggesting we've got worse because of Cook. I'd suggest it could just as easily be that we've got worse since the takeover.
The club has been dying for years. Pulling out a few stats since Cook came in doesn't look at the bigger picture. |
I don't think he has said Cook is the cause, just pointed out that we've got worse (remarkably) since could came in. That is undeniably the case and I imagine Cook himself is more disappointed about that than any of us. I have to admit that I was expecting more. Not a barnstorming run to promotion, but better than relegation form. Any blame on Cook is mitigated by several factors, but it's still fair comment to say we've done worse since he came in and that that's really disappointing. |  |
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| Damning statistics - what stands out for you? on 11:46 - Apr 22 with 1739 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| Damning statistics - what stands out for you? on 11:36 - Apr 22 by Herbivore |
I don't think he has said Cook is the cause, just pointed out that we've got worse (remarkably) since could came in. That is undeniably the case and I imagine Cook himself is more disappointed about that than any of us. I have to admit that I was expecting more. Not a barnstorming run to promotion, but better than relegation form. Any blame on Cook is mitigated by several factors, but it's still fair comment to say we've done worse since he came in and that that's really disappointing. |
I thought the insinuation was pretty clear that this is on Cook, otherwise why mention "since Cook came in"? It's certainly what pointofblue thinks.
I largely agree with the rest of your post, although I don't agree with these constant posts having a pop at Cook. It's far too early and they don't really serve any purpose IMO. | |
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| Damning statistics - what stands out for you? on 11:46 - Apr 22 with 1736 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Damning statistics - what stands out for you? on 11:30 - Apr 22 by The_Flashing_Smile |
Not necessarily. He's suggesting we've got worse because of Cook. I'd suggest it could just as easily be that we've got worse since the takeover.
The club has been dying for years. Pulling out a few stats since Cook came in doesn't look at the bigger picture. |
Yep. I'm as disappointed as anyone with the start Cook has made, but we've just going through the biggest change at the club in a nearly generation, after years of poor leadership and no real plan for the club.
It's going to take a little time for the consortium to stamp their identity on the club and, hopefully assuming they do things right, get us back into decent shape again. I'm assuming PC will be part of those plans; I hope so as he does have a decent record. |  |
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| Damning statistics - what stands out for you? on 12:07 - Apr 22 with 1719 views | Barneycurley |
| Damning statistics - what stands out for you? on 09:39 - Apr 22 by The_Flashing_Smile |
I don't think it is damning for Cook actually. The more I think about it, it's the disruption and uncertainty over the takeover that's made us worse, rather than anything Cook has or hasn't done.
Unfortunately he came in at the same time as that was happening, and people tend to blame managers for poor results. We've been blaming every manager who walks through the door for years. When are we going to realise there are other factors at play? |
Or the new manager blames the players...
First 1 we have had in years thats actually taken a club backwards results wise in his say first 12 games.
Pretty damming that for all of the poor players that had us 7th that they are now all showing relegation form. What a turnaround.
But I support his appointment I am just very disappointed in him so far, has shown me absolute nothing but some soundbites thus far. |  |
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| Damning statistics - what stands out for you? on 12:38 - Apr 22 with 1702 views | Herbivore |
| Damning statistics - what stands out for you? on 11:46 - Apr 22 by The_Flashing_Smile |
I thought the insinuation was pretty clear that this is on Cook, otherwise why mention "since Cook came in"? It's certainly what pointofblue thinks.
I largely agree with the rest of your post, although I don't agree with these constant posts having a pop at Cook. It's far too early and they don't really serve any purpose IMO. |
Is it not reasonable to look at how we've done under a new manager? Like I said, there's a lot of caveats as to why we've performed so poorly under Cook but it can't really be denied - and I doubt he'd deny it himself - that we've been anything other than really poor since he came in. Granted, we were poor beforehand too but we were less consistently awful than we have been since he came in. | |
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| Damning statistics - what stands out for you? on 12:53 - Apr 22 with 1670 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| Damning statistics - what stands out for you? on 12:38 - Apr 22 by Herbivore |
Is it not reasonable to look at how we've done under a new manager? Like I said, there's a lot of caveats as to why we've performed so poorly under Cook but it can't really be denied - and I doubt he'd deny it himself - that we've been anything other than really poor since he came in. Granted, we were poor beforehand too but we were less consistently awful than we have been since he came in. |
Of course it's reasonable to look at how he's done. I'd argue, though, that people are going a lot further than just "looking at how he's done." Some are pretty much saying he's not up to the job, which IMO is ludicrous at this early stage.
Everything else in your post I agree with and just seems to be repeating what I already agreed with above. | |
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| Damning statistics - what stands out for you? on 12:54 - Apr 22 with 1668 views | Illinoisblue |
Yeah, but, apart from all that we do have an easy run-in. |  |
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| Damning statistics - what stands out for you? on 12:57 - Apr 22 with 1664 views | Herbivore |
| Damning statistics - what stands out for you? on 12:54 - Apr 22 by Illinoisblue |
Yeah, but, apart from all that we do have an easy run-in. |
We do/did. That we've failed so spectacularly with such a kind run of fixtures makes our failure all the worse. | |
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| Damning statistics - what stands out for you? on 13:23 - Apr 22 with 1638 views | pointofblue |
| Damning statistics - what stands out for you? on 11:46 - Apr 22 by The_Flashing_Smile |
I thought the insinuation was pretty clear that this is on Cook, otherwise why mention "since Cook came in"? It's certainly what pointofblue thinks.
I largely agree with the rest of your post, although I don't agree with these constant posts having a pop at Cook. It's far too early and they don't really serve any purpose IMO. |
I think Cook deserves to be scrutinised for our regression since he took over as manager as it’s been worse that even the most pessimistic person would have imagined. At the same time he deserves the summer to revamp the club and see what he can do with a fresh start.
As has been said by others, however, what he has lost is any kind of honeymoon period and there will be an edge if we start sluggishly after what is expected to be a summer of change. | |
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| Damning statistics - what stands out for you? on 14:23 - Apr 22 with 1605 views | Illinoisblue |
| Damning statistics - what stands out for you? on 09:21 - Apr 22 by LeBlue |
"Their goal difference is currently —3. No club in the top half of any of the EFL divisions has a worse goal difference."
Apart from AccrIngton Stanley (-6) and Luton (-12). I'm assuming that some of the other stats are equally made up. |
The 9 shots a game had me falling off my chair | |
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| Damning statistics - what stands out for you? on 14:49 - Apr 22 with 1592 views | Stewart27 |
Town’s other central strikers, Kayden Jackson, Oli Hawkins, Troy Parrott, Freddie Sears and Aaron Drinan, have scored just one league goal each in a combined 4,671 minutes of action. Many of those appearances are from the bench, but combine for nearly 52 full games of football.
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