Away form brainstorming and management speak type thing... : Tue Aug 19, 2014 4:02 pm
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Following on from this post ( viewtopic.php?f=71&t=573159&tsmp=1408463397&start=10#p17911817 ) in the Salford match thread, here is our brain storming of ideas for how to get Dragons to stop being so pants away from France...
There are a number of interesting points to make about our away form this season. I say interesting because they don't make particularly pleasant reading for the analysts that I am sure exist in an office somewhere under the Gilbert Brutus main stand. Here is our away record. http://slstats.rlfans.com/index.php?typ ... howteam=44 In all matches both home and away we have a -16 points difference. That clouds the issue of defence though as away matches only sees that deficit grow to -151. You can make allowances that most of that negative value came in only a few matches at Wakefield and Warrington, but even the most eternal optimist wouldn't look at the other results and say they were matches that could have gone either way. Discounting Magic Weekend (even though it is listed as an away match) the only two league wins away from home have come against the relegated clubs. Not good enough at all for a team looking to make an impact in the play offs. As a full time analyst in my day job, I am always looking for trends and one that strikes me particularly here is that we don't have the correct mental strength to recover between away matches. Let me explain. At the start of the season we were involved in that close encounter with Hull FC. A match that could have gone either way but that we lost by one score. We couldn't seem to put that behind us going to Castleford and Wakefield next on our travels and getting drubbed. We then ran Wigan close, really close. But again the effect of losing a one score match scarred us and after the Magic weekend was the Wire horror show. A game we should have won at Leeds has been followed by comprehensive defeats at Huddersfield and Salford and in my professional as well as sporting opinion, you would be a mug to heap much on us at the bookies for the final away match at Hull KR. So in summary, there are still positives to build on. At a number of the big clubs we have gone close before coming up short. Any of those go the other way and we might be talking a different season. Its how we react to losing close games, and by that I mean no toys out of the pram and carrying over that frustration onto the next referee, that will define how we do in this league in future. |
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Following on from this post ( viewtopic.php?f=71&t=573159&tsmp=1408463397&start=10#p17911817 ) in the Salford match thread, here is our brain storming of ideas for how to get Dragons to stop being so pants away from France...
There are a number of interesting points to make about our away form this season. I say interesting because they don't make particularly pleasant reading for the analysts that I am sure exist in an office somewhere under the Gilbert Brutus main stand. Here is our away record. http://slstats.rlfans.com/index.php?typ ... howteam=44 In all matches both home and away we have a -16 points difference. That clouds the issue of defence though as away matches only sees that deficit grow to -151. You can make allowances that most of that negative value came in only a few matches at Wakefield and Warrington, but even the most eternal optimist wouldn't look at the other results and say they were matches that could have gone either way. Discounting Magic Weekend (even though it is listed as an away match) the only two league wins away from home have come against the relegated clubs. Not good enough at all for a team looking to make an impact in the play offs. As a full time analyst in my day job, I am always looking for trends and one that strikes me particularly here is that we don't have the correct mental strength to recover between away matches. Let me explain. At the start of the season we were involved in that close encounter with Hull FC. A match that could have gone either way but that we lost by one score. We couldn't seem to put that behind us going to Castleford and Wakefield next on our travels and getting drubbed. We then ran Wigan close, really close. But again the effect of losing a one score match scarred us and after the Magic weekend was the Wire horror show. A game we should have won at Leeds has been followed by comprehensive defeats at Huddersfield and Salford and in my professional as well as sporting opinion, you would be a mug to heap much on us at the bookies for the final away match at Hull KR. So in summary, there are still positives to build on. At a number of the big clubs we have gone close before coming up short. Any of those go the other way and we might be talking a different season. Its how we react to losing close games, and by that I mean no toys out of the pram and carrying over that frustration onto the next referee, that will define how we do in this league in future. |
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