Brace yourselves. The following might just blow your mind!!
Not sure how much of a mitigating factor it is for not sacking Walter ... but it is pretty staggering.
The so called 'Brains Team' want lining up and shooting, and then sacking just to make sure. This is truly shocking.
I thought I'd have a look at these stats, thinking it would maybe be another reason for sacking Walter for not getting the best out of what he's got. But it shows the dead opposite. But I'm still posting it out of my integrity and in fairness to Walter.
I looked into how many goals our players scored last season. Even if I've made the odd mistake (I don't think I have) it's absolutely mind blowing. No wonder we can't ****ing score!! How the **** exactly are we going to outscore the oppostion (one core tenant of Walterball)? How can our data analysis team, our 'brains trust', the coaching team have allowed this to happen? .....
Player / Played / Scored:
Coyle 42 / 1
Jones 45 / 1
Hughes 43 / 4
Drameh 30 / 0
Simons 18 / 1
Slater 41 / 2
Omur 33 / 0
Puerta 10 / 0
Kamara 55 / 10
Pedro 45 / 3 (note, Serie A Brazil 25 / 0 !! rest were in state, not national football).
So our starting 11 today had collectively a grand total of 22 goals in them last season!! Our starting CF had zero from 25 league games.
Subs today:
Bedia 36 / 17
Burstow 23 / 1
Giles 31 / 0
Jacob 15 /1
Longman 36 / 3
McLoughlin 26 / 0
Mehlem 21 / 3
Palmer 38 / 4
So take Bedia out of it, that's another 12. You can see why Bedia only gets 5 minutes here and there .... he's the only one who's proved he can find the net regularly (bar Pedro in his 2014 to 2022 vintage before his goals dried up post 30)
Out injured:
Belloumi 36 / 7
Millar 40 / 7
Alzate 20 / 1
A bit more respectable if taken in isolation.
Out of MD Squad:
Burns 37 / 0
Vaughan 21 / 0
Zambrano 48 / 1
Sinik 11 / 1
Jarvis 42 / 12 (you can maybe see why Jarvis isn't hitting it off with Walter?)
So, our senior squad of 26 outfield players amassed a massive 80 goals between them. Divide 80 goals by 26 outfield players, multiply by 10 (as the starting outfield players) = 30.7 !!! And we've now lost 14 of those 80 with Belloumi and Millar out for the season (which would take 30.7 down to just 27.5!!). And a fair few of them were at a standard below the Championship - all of Bedias, Kamaras, Jarvis's!!
Where the hell did the 'brains team' and Walter think our goals were going to come from?
How much mitigation it provides for Walter I'm not sure, as I still don't think he's getting the best out of the squad, plus he & his assistants are at least partly culpable for allowing it to happen. But seriously, WTF!!