[Albion] Teams that switch ends at kick off

[Springal]

Benetiz did it to us with Newcastle with the Diame fluke goal

I’m sure Eddie has done it as well

 

[edna krabappel]

Burnley, Everton, Newcastle (Brentford?): its almost as if its just the shithouse teams.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

I don’t understand why every away team who wins the toss doesn’t do it. If the home team want to kick towards their own fans in the second half and you have the opportunity to stop them doing it then why wouldn’t you?

Exactly my thinking. Didn’t do them much good yesterday, though.

 

[portlock seagull]

These days it’s a serious advantage. You get 55-60mins of play versus 45 in the 1st half!

 

[Bodian]

These days it’s a serious advantage. You get 55-60mins of play versus 45 in the 1st half!

For the first two weeks of the season anyway. Seems pretty much back to normal now.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

A very smug tactic.

May work more at a place like Newcastle considering the pitch is on the side of a hill with a huge slope.

Teams have every right to do it, if it's their preference!

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Teams have every right to do it, if it's their preference!

Of course.

Always surprised that more isn't made of Newcastle's slope though. It's around 6ft from end to end

 

[HeaviestTed]

I don’t mind the teams doing it but the the mental thing is where they take 3k away fans and swap for 30k home fans, it makes no sense.

 

[JOLovegrove]

For the first two weeks of the season anyway. Seems pretty much back to normal now.

Don't know where the 7 minutes came from yesterday?

 

[Swimboy64]

I think nowadays the players have grown out of any worries about any consequences whe it happens. Try anything you like type of attitude. It probably used to affect them but there is a completely different way of looking at it now.
UTA

 

[WASH]

So it's happened 24 times in the 287 games at the Amex so far and yes, weirdly, a couple of teams do seem to favour it (Burnley, Leeds and Newcastle 3 times. Only 1 of them winning in those 9 games). Our record is still very good when teams try it even though it just feels wrong when it happens. Of the 23 goals the oppo have scored, only 8 of them have come in the 1st half when kicking towards their own fans, so no big advantage seemingly gained. Curse of the commentator for the next time it happens I'm sure, but we've never lost on a Saturday when it's occurred.
Here is the record of the times it's happened.

 

[AnotherArch]

We have definitely done it away as well

 

[hans kraay fan club]

So it's happened 24 times in the 287 games at the Amex so far and yes, weirdly, a couple of teams do seem to favour it (Burnley, Leeds and Newcastle 3 times. Only 1 of them winning in those 9 games). Our record is still very good when teams try it even though it just feels wrong when it happens. Of the 23 goals the oppo have scored, only 8 of them have come in the 1st half when kicking towards their own fans, so no big advantage seemingly gained. Curse of the commentator for the next time it happens I'm sure, but we've never lost on a Saturday when it's occurred.
Here is the record of the times it's happened.


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Amazing stattage. Take a bow.

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

Think Bournemouth did it last season as well if I remember Karou's last minute winner in front of the away end correctly, so didn't work then.

That was funny, I was sat in the East stand that day, their fans looked like they had the last bit of wind squeezed out of them, quite funny some of the expressions on their faces, made me chuckle all the way home.

 

[worthingweird]

That went well...

 

[PHCgull]

is there something here about the pre match sprinklers as well? At wolves they definitely seemed to over-water the half they were playing into and not the one they were defending both before the game and at half time.

Not that it did them any good lol

 

[JOLovegrove]

So it's happened 24 times in the 287 games at the Amex so far and yes, weirdly, a couple of teams do seem to favour it (Burnley, Leeds and Newcastle 3 times. Only 1 of them winning in those 9 games). Our record is still very good when teams try it even though it just feels wrong when it happens. Of the 23 goals the oppo have scored, only 8 of them have come in the 1st half when kicking towards their own fans, so no big advantage seemingly gained. Curse of the commentator for the next time it happens I'm sure, but we've never lost on a Saturday when it's occurred.
Here is the record of the times it's happened.


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That's incredible. How did you know this??

 

[RandyWanger]

Didn't work, smug got egg on his face

 

[Bozza]

So it's happened 24 times in the 287 games at the Amex so far and yes, weirdly, a couple of teams do seem to favour it (Burnley, Leeds and Newcastle 3 times. Only 1 of them winning in those 9 games). Our record is still very good when teams try it even though it just feels wrong when it happens. Of the 23 goals the oppo have scored, only 8 of them have come in the 1st half when kicking towards their own fans, so no big advantage seemingly gained. Curse of the commentator for the next time it happens I'm sure, but we've never lost on a Saturday when it's occurred.
Here is the record of the times it's happened.


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There's a lot of shithousery on that list.

 

[Triggaaar]

A very smug tactic.

Didn't he also do it when plucky put 5 past us?