Shots dont prove much, shots on target are a much better example, can you post them?
IIRC we have an awful record of % of shots on target.
Shots actually DO prove a lot, it means we're in or around their penalty box and not anywhere near ours. The whole point of what I was trying to say with the stats is that we're not winning ugly. We're winning...full stop. There'll always be a game like Yeovil where we won but deserved nothing, but most games we've had the ball more, been attacking more and but for having a 2nd striker who was **** hot like Remy we'd be running up better wins. Yes our on target stats are nothing special although we still generally have more on target per game than our opponents.
Stoke or maybe Wimbledon from the past are teams that won ugly because they played a huge hoof from keeper to forward.....it looked Ugly. I understand that we are really frustrating at times...2nd half V Doncaster, 1st half yesterday to name a couple. We also see the team sheet and think we should be running rings round every team we play but it doesn't work like that. There's examples of crap teams beating better teams practically every week. I'm convinced next week against Leicester we'll see a solid performance in a high tempo game and come through as victors.
Alan McAnally summed it up on Sky when he said 'these possession statistics don't mean anything - all they do is pass it sideways'.
Yes, it means we have possession and pass the ball about, often sidewards, backwards and forwards. But we still have the ball and the possession stats I posted was to show in the games we won we were not being dominated and had to resort to some flukey goal to win.....that's all.