2nd half team & comeback kings

Currently we are leading the way for the most comebacks this season from the top 4 leagues in England.

We are out front alone with 6 comebacks.

Followed by with...
5 comebacks: No one

4 comebacks: Forest Green and Mansfield

3 comebacks: Arsenal, Bournemouth, Everton, Man City, Crystal Palace, Middlesbrough, Fulham, Ipswich, Scunthorpe, Accrington, Crawley, Luton and Wycombe.


It is no surprise really that we are currently leading the way with comebacks because the following stat.

82% of our goals this season has come in the 2nd half of games! That is a massive percentage.

What can we take from this? Does DC get it wrong too many time at the start and after some tweaking, we get it right? Or are we too slow off the mark, taking ages to step up the gears? Or do teams make it hard for us to break them down but with a lot of huffing and puffing, we eventually find a way? Maybe a bit of them all!


Then add to this, Ellis Harrison. Hows this for a stat about him. All 9 of his league 1 goals this season has come in the 2nd half! Certainly not someone who gives up in games and based on this, maybe not someone we should take off either when we are looking for a goal. And if he starts on then bench, based on the last few seasons and this season, he certainly knows how to come on and make an impact as he got the tag of being a super sub.

Fair shout to Harrison and the team who clearly don't give up in games. And whatever DC says at half time must be working too.

 

Fitness seems to be one thing that DC focuses on, so maybe that's why so many goals come later on in the game, and maybe our players are better at plugging away and working out how to beat these other teams as the game goes on. It's an interesting phenomenon!

 

I am really pleased that Ellis Harrison is getting some well deserved praise, I have always felt that he was the whipping boy on the team, if it was going wrong it was Harrison's fault if it was going well then someone else would get the praise. Well done Ellis and keep it up. I said last season that he could be a twenty goal man for us and I got told that he would never git more than 10 - 12 a season well maybe just maybe he will get that magic number this season and at his age and with a manager who believes in him and will make him work he can only get better

 

As well as the goals, his all round contribution has been great and he's created a lot of chances for other people too. Some of our fans are a bit weird in the way they single out some players for criticism. I only hope we can hang onto Ellis, because he could well be a target for a bigger club sometime soon.

 

I was 1 of those who thought he wouldn't be good enough at this level. High non league to mid League 2 is his level. But I thought this as he was only making impacts as a sub and wasn't offering anything else for us when he was starting games. The Ellis of this season certainly is not the Ellis of last season nor the season before that. As pointed out already, his work rate has been fantastic. Of course he still makes mistakes but right now, he is proving people wrong (including me) and proving he deserves to wear the shirt and deserves to be playing at this level. I just hope he keeps working hard and not fall backwards.

What must help him to keep on the straight and narrow and stay true to himself is Lockyer. Harrison has been called up to represent Wales u21's, like Lockyer. But Lockyer has now broken into to the Welsh 1st team and Ellis must be thinking he wants some of that!

 

Another comeback so make that 7 now

I think we should pretend we are 1-0 down before kick off!

 

Certainly doing it the hard way again !

 

Shame it didn't work with the Shrewsbury game

 

Nice comment on the ref in one of the reports I read " he didn't seem to be giving handball decisions"

I think the Ref and his assistant in front of the Druibild stand were the worst we have had this season, as someone commented last beating Rochdale the Ref and the linesman deserved more than just 3 points

 

Apparently I don't have the privileges to start a post on this site anymore (the whole site seems to have changed suddenly).

Anyway, it is unbelievable how we keep coming back. We have only opened the scoring in two games since the end of October, yet picked up 24 points in that time!

And Joe Partington is becoming a most unlikely goal machine at home! Supporting Rovers is never dull

 

Thats a good stat. But what the hell is going on with you not being allowed to start a thread??????????????

 

It seems to be OK now. When I logged in yesterday, the site had changed and was called 'www.bettingboard.com', and the layout was different. It said I didn't have the access rights to post a new thread.

It must have been an issue with the site's domain...

 

Glad you are back

I know seamge was trying to figure it out but going by Wiz's comment, you just logged on at the wrong time