So, it appears as though the general consensus is that we have made a pretty strong start to the season after an initial wobble, although there are still inevitably some doubters and nay-sayers. Statistically, this is our best start to a campaign in the championship. Saturdays excellent and fully deserved win over Pompey was already our 4th of the campaign, so i thought id compare it to our other seasons at this level to gauge how we have started. Below is a breakdown of how many games it took us to reach 4 wins and the date it happened since the back to back promotions: 2005/06 - 15 games - Oct 22 - Final pos 18th 2006/07 - 17 games - Nov 4 - 21st 2007/08 - 12 games - Oct 22 - 3rd and promoted 2010/11 - 17 games - Nov 12 - 11th 2011/12 - 7 games - Sept 17 - ?? So quite encouraging really if we can keep picking up a win from every 2 or 3 games we will be there or therabouts. I was quite surprised that we only won 3 of our first 11 games in the promotion season, just further emphasises how impressive our form was in the second half of the year.
Very interesting mate, looks promising. By the way, just for the record, we are 8th at the moment or to make it sound better, joint 6th !!! Lol
Good thread but some will still deny the proof even when its in black and white. I just hope we can climb into those play-off slots and stay there or there-abouts all season. That would instill confidence into our young players, fear into our opponents, then hopefully we could time our big push with points already under our belt.
Not wishing to pick holes in this but if we lose on Saturday, I dont think we will ok, but we will have 12 points still. Last season after 8 games we had 11.
Chazz mate, what point you trying to make? Thats still one point more though, even if we do lose, which we wont, we'd still in a very favourable, healthy position.
Stats really dont mean anything at this early stage. Nice to have won all 7, disaster to have lost all 7, but apart form that.... The good thing is we are playing well as a team.
Not just playing well, we are improving all the time, thats the most promising part, that there's a lot more to come from the lads!
Our start in perspective: We have only played one top 7 team in this great start. And we got beat!! Its all over - we got no chance- NP out etc etc.
Hmm that rather puts a damper on things-just as the day was starting off well! Ah well as someone said (it must have been someone famous-perhaps Yogi Berra) "The world belongs to pessimists because they are always right".
And as Boo-Boo once said, 'a pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty'.
this is a valid point, and also the original post has its validity..i guess the truth is, you can twist different stats to suit whatever argument you want really..
And yet pessimists lead a happier life as they're never given negative surprises, only positive ones, whilst optimists can only ever be disappointed that things haven't reached the levels they expected. EDIT: At least that's the jist of an article that was on the BBC website a few weeks ago.
just look at the championship league table in february 2008 after we beat coventry city 1-0 with that late folan goal. city were mid table and looked to be going nowhere. the promotion season only took off the following week after the wba 2-1 away win. so yes this is by far the best start for years in the champtionship.
I see Erik, you're being thought provoking again, with your choice of picture of the backwards Hindu good luck symbol. As for our start i've just read that Fewey's article in the Daily Fail. First column was by a so called "fan" who said, Pearson should just leave before he drags us down, and that he was glad he didn't buy a season pass and everyone in the same boat should be as well. The bloke's retort was City played well on Saturday but that is it. He said only Barcelona play great football, not Hull City. Some dicks need to wake up. The championships a tough league and we're trying to turn around our form from being every premier league's wet dream. Before last season we'd just turn up to the match, either at home or away, and get spanked. There was no contest. And yet these people expect us to quickly turn it around like that and become an awesome side again. A win of any sort, here or there, consecutive, back to back etc, that we put together will help us build up confidence and build up stability.
It was more that I was bored and wanted to see how many of the usual crowd of thickos wanted to chastise me. After all, Strovolos mistook my Seychelles Flag Avatar for a gay pride banner. And you do realise you are allowed to call it a Swastika, Lloydy? You won't end up in jail my dear.
Erik, dont be surprised to see that I have not responded to any of your latest comments as promised but I'll make an exception on this one and only last time until I notice some change in your attitude towards people on here. Check the league table, we are 8th on 12 points, same as Cardiff who are also on 12 points, so even with my maths that tells me we are joint 6th with Cardiff and its not an obsession its a fact nor is it a lie. Check the table... http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/h/hull_city/tables/default.stm
