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What was our GD? Wolves are on -22. I find it hard to believe we were better than that.Wolves register the worst ever start to a Premier League season...
Level with Sheffield United in 2020/21 on two points picked up after 14 games
But five goals worst off
We lost 8-0 to Newcastle!
Different season. The season in question was the no fans season when we were on two points until beating Newcastle in January.
Of the 12 losses after 14 games, 9 were by a margin of 1 goal - whereas for Wolves the equivalent figure is 6.
The valuations for Osborn and McGoldrick in particular look very high, but I'd argue that Enda (at the start of that season) would have been undervalued at £4m.
Enda's age wasn't on his side, though was it? And perhaps the remaining duration on his contract?
Both fair points
I agree to an extent, but Basham, Baldock and Stevens' valuations were on the basis that they'd been part of a defensive unit that conceded 39 goals the previous season. Osborn cost £3.5m, was mid 20s and I didn't feel his value had dropped substantially. Mcgoldrick scored 8 that season, which was more than £71m Havertz!
The point is that age remaining contract duration as well as what someone else would pay for those players will always determine their value, rather than form
Wrong season? Brother-Leech
No, I know we were dreadful in the last premier league season too and broke the goals conceded record.
And had also been beaten 5-0 away at both Arsenal and Burnley.
The sheer scale of the incompetence which resulted in over 100 goals being conceded in 38 league matches will become more visible over time. Anything above 2 goals per game is bad*. We were at nearly three per game, including 9 over two matches against a shite Burnley team, 11 without reply against Arsenal and thirteen against Newcastle.
- and 2-2 against Wolves).
Yeah and the covid season what we're on about we weren't conceding goal after goal like Sheffsteel was saying
We were also absolutely useless at holding onto anything - a quick pass over the fixtures shows that on no less than 8 occasions entering, or at some point in the last 10 mins (and by that I mean 80 min +) we had points and managed to lose 1, 2 or even all 3 of them.The sheer scale of the incompetence which resulted in over 100 goals being conceded in 38 league matches will become more visible over time. Anything above 2 goals per game is bad*. We were at nearly three per game, including 9 over two matches against a shite Burnley team, 11 without reply against Arsenal and thirteen against Newcastle.
In fact, Brentford (2 goals), Wolves (2) and Everton (3) should all be ashamed of their efforts against us that season. Luton and Wolves also enter the hall of shame for not outscoring us (aggregate 5-4 against Luton - 7-2 if we're talking about the teams the scorers played for
*this also shadows Luton's shit defence in 2023/24: they conceded 85. Burnley were also on over 2 per game with 78 conceded.
You also forget how much stronger the Premier League has got now compared to 5 seasons ago mate. Teams like Brighton, Bournemouth, Palace, Aston Villa, Newcastle, were all shite back then. Wolves have a much harder task nowadays.
And Brentford were the only team we managed a clean sheet against.The sheer scale of the incompetence which resulted in over 100 goals being conceded in 38 league matches will become more visible over time. Anything above 2 goals per game is bad*. We were at nearly three per game, including 9 over two matches against a shite Burnley team, 11 without reply against Arsenal and thirteen against Newcastle.
In fact, Brentford (2 goals), Wolves (2) and Everton (3) should all be ashamed of their efforts against us that season. Luton and Wolves also enter the hall of shame for not outscoring us (aggregate 5-4 against Luton - 7-2 if we're talking about the teams the scorers played for
*this also shadows Luton's shit defence in 2023/24: they conceded 85. Burnley were also on over 2 per game with 78 conceded.
That’s the thing, we were absolutely dire that season but a desire to get to the end of games and hold on to points could easily have seen us close enough to 17th to take it to the last few games, despite all the drubbings
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