Have seen a few posters on here talking about teams catching up on us and how we seem to struggle in the big games, so decided I'd look into our record vs the other current Top 10 sides.
This Season:
(Green showing at least half points gained / Orange showing under half points gained, but potential to get over half /
Red showing failure to gain at least half the points)
Saints vs....
...West Ham United - 3/3
...Cardiff City - 1/6
...Blackpool - 1/3
...Birmingham - 4/6
...Middlesbrough - 3/3
...Hull City - 3/3
...Reading - 1/3
...Leeds United - 3/3
...Brighton - 3/6
As the above shows, we have only accrued less than half the available points over 2 games against one challenger around us, Cardiff City.
All the others we have gained at least half of the available points, except against Reading and Blackpool, who we could still get over half the points available to us, as we have to play them both again.
So it works out at:
22 points out of the available 36, which works out that we are taking 61% of the points available against those around us, with potential for that to change.
So although we are doing reasonably well against those around us, it is perhaps disappointing to only take 1 point against Cardiff this season.
I see no reason why we can't beat both Leeds and Hull, and potentially Boro and Blackpool, even if these are all away games!
I hope you followed that!
DTLW
This Season:
(Green showing at least half points gained / Orange showing under half points gained, but potential to get over half /
Red showing failure to gain at least half the points)
Saints vs....
...West Ham United - 3/3
...Cardiff City - 1/6
...Blackpool - 1/3
...Birmingham - 4/6
...Middlesbrough - 3/3
...Hull City - 3/3
...Reading - 1/3
...Leeds United - 3/3
...Brighton - 3/6
As the above shows, we have only accrued less than half the available points over 2 games against one challenger around us, Cardiff City.
All the others we have gained at least half of the available points, except against Reading and Blackpool, who we could still get over half the points available to us, as we have to play them both again.
So it works out at:
22 points out of the available 36, which works out that we are taking 61% of the points available against those around us, with potential for that to change.
So although we are doing reasonably well against those around us, it is perhaps disappointing to only take 1 point against Cardiff this season.
I see no reason why we can't beat both Leeds and Hull, and potentially Boro and Blackpool, even if these are all away games!
I hope you followed that!
DTLW
) & injuries. Last season we had a really strong finish to the season & I can see that happening to us this year!