2010/2011 -
Games played 27
Wins 21
Draws 2
Losses 4
Points 65
Goals scored 60
Goals conceded 24
10 clean sheets
This season 2019/2020
Games played 27
Wins 20
Draws 4
Losses 3
Points 65
Goals Scored 63
Goals conceded 18
Clean sheets 14
We are no any worse of Really, a bit of calm, patience, perseverance and perspective is required. It’s hard the watch that bigot have success however we must accept it’s going To take time
As someone who also loves stats and making these kinds of comparisons I have to say that Thursday and Sunday have changed my mind somewhat.
Looking over Walter's last season in charge there are some horrendously bad results.
3 defeats at home. (Tims, Hibs, Dundee Utd).
3-0 loss at Parkhead.
100% Follow Follow would have been grim reading back in those days.
However, you also have to look at performances.
Since we came back in January we seem to just waste the entire 1st half of matches.
Like we don't really get started until after half-time.
This is worrying.
In January to February in Smith's last season we dropped 9 points across 8 league games.
These 3 defeats were punctuated however by a 4-0 vs Hamilton (3-0 at HT).
2-0 vs Hibs (2-0 at HT)
6-0 vs Motherwell (3-0 at HT)
It also probably matters to some extent how and when points get dropped.
Smith started 2010-11 with 9 wins in a row and 31 points out of the first 33.
We ended the season with 1 draw and 9 wins in the last 10.
The last 4 games of the season we were coming out and burying teams. The last 3 games were basically over before half time.
We aren't seeing that here.
I would say take the focus away from where we have dropped points since the break and look at the nature of the performances when we have got the 3 points.
St Mirren was a dreadful performance, Ross County not much better, Hibs we did well to turn it around but first half was dreadful, Livingston was dreadful too with another lazy and uninspired first half.
The league is gone for this season. Sure, we can look at our points total, our performance in Europe and our improvement in the cups as positives. I also think our overall play in the early part of the season was much improved. However, if we carry these current performances into the next season then things are going to go horribly wrong very, very, quickly.
The last time we scored a goal in the first 30 minutes of a league match was away at Hibs. 11 league matches ago. We just are not coming into matches with any urgency or drive and the end result is that 1/3rd of every match is just wasted time.
Smith's team dropped points for sure but they also had 2 extended winning runs that season and they were killing matches off when we got in front.