Chalkboards - Team Stats

[Worthy4England]

Not vouching for the accuracy. Here's our team stats for the season from Chalkboards.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Christ. We're gonna need a bigger abacus.

[William the White]

I look at that and feel totally intimidated... how do you even start to make sense of it...

I'm going to LoveFilm to find a film in Arabic and Swahili without subtitles... Have an easier night...

[CAPSLOCK]

You don't make sense of it

I'm sure it says our highest passing success of the season was in the capitulation at home to Chelsea

[Worthy4England]

I look at that and feel totally intimidated... how do you even start to make sense of it...

I'm going to LoveFilm to find a film in Arabic and Swahili without subtitles... Have an easier night...

They're just numbers...

And derive via Arabic usage anyhow.

[HMX]

Another attempt to disprove the lazy media theory that we play 'fantastic football': http://www.zonalmarking.net/2011/05/24/ ... -football/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Lord Kangana]

Blackpool have played some fantastic stuff this season, and been relegated.

How the f*ck can you prove entertainement value with stats?

[thebish]

Another attempt to disprove the lazy media theory that we play 'fantastic football': http://www.zonalmarking.net/2011/05/24/ ... -football/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

looks like arsenal have a worse disciplinary record than us.... surely that can't be true!!!

[Lord Kangana]

Cloggers. The truth will out.

[HMX]

Blackpool have played some fantastic stuff this season, and been relegated.

How the f*ck can you prove entertainement value with stats?

Precisely. I'm pretty sure I don't have a chip on my shoulder.. *checks* ... but it's as though some websites/media love disproving Bolton's dreams of 'beautiful' football.

Just a long ball team

[thebish]

it's an interesting article - and (if the stats are correct) - certainly shows that we don't play football the way arsenal do.

and considering they are supposed to be the definition of "attractive" football - then we don't play "attractive" football.

but if that is the definition - then I doubt we WANT to play attractive football - do we?? I'd rather play the brand of football that gets us the most points possible from the resources we have.

it's quite telling that Arsenal "beat" ManU in most of these "attractive football" measurements - and yet - finished 4th - a full 12 points below them... not even close...

[Lord Kangana]

Arsenal have dissapeared up their own arse in pursuit of perfection.

The most telling point of their season came in the final 2 minutes of the game against Villa. Pressing for the equaliser, they started to lump it in to the box, and were taking long throw-ins etc.

Its all bollox really. We've scored some really good goals this season, more than I can remember for a few years, yet because each and every one of our goals hasn't matched that, we haven't progressed. Bollox.

[thebish]

Arsenal have dissapeared up their own arse in pursuit of perfection.

The most telling point of their season came in the final 2 minutes of the game against Villa. Pressing for the equaliser, they started to lump it in to the box, and were taking long throw-ins etc.

Its all bollox really. We've scored some really good goals this season, more than I can remember for a few years, yet because each and every one of our goals hasn't matched that, we haven't progressed. Bollox.

I think it is fair enough to dispel the media-bollox that we have become the Barca of the North - which is just as bollox as to suggest that under Big Sam we were merely the Visigoths of the UK.

the meeja like a narrative... for a long time (even when months went by without us scoring from one) - we were "dangerous from the dead-ball situation"... now we are a "classy passing side with pace and flair, transformed by the genius Own Coyle"...

[HMX]

Arsenal have dissapeared up their own arse in pursuit of perfection.

The most telling point of their season came in the final 2 minutes of the game against Villa. Pressing for the equaliser, they started to lump it in to the box, and were taking long throw-ins etc.

Its all bollox really. We've scored some really good goals this season, more than I can remember for a few years, yet because each and every one of our goals hasn't matched that, we haven't progressed. Bollox.

I think it is fair enough to dispel the media-bollox that we have become the Barca of the North - which is just as bollox as to suggest that under Big Sam we were merely the Visigoths of the UK.

the meeja like a narrative... for a long time (even when months went by without us scoring from one) - we were "dangerous from the dead-ball situation"... now we are a "classy passing side with pace and flair, transformed by the genius Own Coyle"...

Set us up to knock us down, I guess. The way of the meeja.

[Whookam]

Blackpool have played some fantastic stuff this season, and been relegated.

How the f*ck can you prove entertainement value with stats?

Precisely. I'm pretty sure I don't have a chip on my shoulder.. *checks* ... but it's as though some websites/media love disproving Bolton's dreams of 'beautiful' football.

Just a long ball team

LK said entertainment.

Good football does not necessarily mean entertaining football.

It's obvious that our style of play hasn't changed as much as some fans or those in the media believe, we are however more attacking and that is considered more entertaining (to English supporters at least)

[LiOC]

For all the talk of the attractive football that Blackpool in particular have played, people offering it up as a blueprint to the rest of the premier league new boys and lower teams, I wouldn't swap being "long-ball", "unattractive" Bolton with 11 successive premier league seasons or "long-ball", "unattractive" Stoke City finishing 13th and having an fa cup final with being "exciting", "passing", "attractive" relegated Blackpool for anything.

[jaffka]

you must really be into football to want to read and digest all that info

I will just stick to watching the game and deciding if it was good or sh*te