[Albion] So we spend £20M on a defence that was pretty sound to begin with?

DarrenFreemansPerm said:

7th worst defensive record.
4th worst attack.
Over the course of the season it was our defence that kept our head above water, not our thoroughly impotent attack.
I’m really happy with the Webster signing, but I do appreciate THPP’s slight concern regarding our attacking acquisitions, hopefully by Friday it’ll all be tied up and we’ll have ourselves a shiny new striker to prematurely judge.

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DarrenFreemansPerm said:

7th worst defensive record.

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GT49er said:

Hmmm. Depends how you measure it - it you use the formula of goals conceded against number of minutes spent defending against unrelenting wave after wave of unhindered attack, our defence would come out a lot higher up the rankings than that.
If VVD and co. had spent five times the amount of time warding off unrelenting attacks than they actually did, they'd have conceded a fair few more.

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GT49er said:

Hmmm. Depends how you measure it - it you use the formula of goals conceded against number of minutes spent defending against unrelenting wave after wave of unhindered attack, our defence would come out a lot higher up the rankings than that.
If VVD and co. had spent five times the amount of time warding off unrelenting attacks than they actually did, they'd have conceded a fair few more.

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Tom Hark said:

Then put me down as a moany bastid

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Weststander said:

We finally saw the weakness in many of those matches from Jan to May, e.g. Bmuff, Burnley. A lack of pace, a lack of composure on the ball when pressured, awful distribution.

The low goals against stat over the two seasons, was more a result of playing 9-0-1.

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The Wizard said:

Nothing to do with the negative system we played then? Jesus. We are trying to sign a striker as well.

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DarrenFreemansPerm said:

At least by Friday we won’t have to put up with chaileyjem pontificating over and over. Oh, wait...

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chaileyjem said:

Rumbled again !

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