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Northernr

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For your next test – Preview on 08:49 - Oct 14 with 1547 views

colinallcars

Thanks Clive, even a mensh for Elton John !

For your next test – Preview on 10:04 - Oct 14 with 1251 views

BrianMcCarthy

Thanks Clive. Excellent report.

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For your next test – Preview on 10:07 - Oct 14 with 1240 views

gazza1

I know that you enjoy 'banging on' about pocession stats Norf but it just depends where on the pitch the pocession is that matters as far as I am concerned. I want us to have the ball in advanced places on the pitch.

Another 'should win' game.......pick your best team Mr JS, f off with all this 'resting' stuff and play your top team and keep them on the pitch until the game is won (or lost).

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For your next test – Preview on 10:11 - Oct 14 with 1215 views

Northernr

For your next test – Preview on 10:07 - Oct 14 by gazza1

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48 previews a year, they don't write themselves.

For your next test – Preview on 11:18 - Oct 14 with 972 views

BristolR

Elton John’s sad, sad situation

For your next test – Preview on 11:33 - Oct 14 with 926 views

gazza1

For your next test – Preview on 10:11 - Oct 14 by Northernr
48 previews a year, they don't write themselves.

With your talents Norf it's 'Water off a ducks back' for you .......... lot of thought though, I'm sure, but then it just flows

For your next test – Preview on 12:10 - Oct 14 with 813 views

colinallcars

For your next test – Preview on 11:18 - Oct 14 by BristolR
Elton John’s sad, sad situation

All quiet on the Western Avenue.

For your next test – Preview on 13:14 - Oct 14 with 617 views

GroveR

For your next test – Preview on 08:49 - Oct 14 by colinallcars
Thanks Clive, even a mensh for Elton John !

"Elton John felt forced to speak publicly about the sad, sad situation at his club" was as cunningly disguised as a Ray Wilkins reverse pass.

For your next test – Preview on 13:17 - Oct 14 with 603 views

thehat

Great preview Clive - Sooner or later the winning without more possession stat has to come to an end. Could tonight be that night. Mind you I thought we would break that stat against Bolton and Preston.

QPR 0 v 1 Derby it is then and will be so QPR.....

Anyway looking forward to heading to W12 tonight and it might just be one of those nights under the lights at Loftus Road.

See you all there - Come on you R'rrs.

For your next test – Preview on 14:50 - Oct 14 with 334 views

Stainrod

For your next test – Preview on 13:17 - Oct 14 by thehat

Something certainly has to give tonight. We are likely to have more than half the possession, so can we break this terrible 18 month record? It’s an important game as due to Derby’s terrible injury problems and league position we will rarely get a better chance. Must admit I’m nervous.

For your next test – Preview on 15:56 - Oct 14 with 173 views

W7Ranger

For your next test – Preview on 14:50 - Oct 14 by Stainrod
Something certainly has to give tonight. We are likely to have more than half the possession, so can we break this terrible 18 month record? It’s an important game as due to Derby’s terrible injury problems and league position we will rarely get a better chance. Must admit I’m nervous.

Why is it a terrible 18 month record?

You don't get extra points for winning with more possession.

I'm really baffled with fans obsession with possession (poet, didn't know it).

I actually like the fact we've got a great winning record with less possession. I wonder if we've got the longest winning record with less possession?

For your next test – Preview on 16:19 - Oct 14 with 82 views

Northernr

For your next test – Preview on 15:56 - Oct 14 by W7Ranger
Why is it a terrible 18 month record? You don't get extra points for winning with more possession. I'm really baffled with fans obsession with possession (poet, didn't know it). I actually like the fact we've got a great winning record with less possession. I wonder if we've got the longest winning record with less possession?

I think you, and Gaz, are perhaps confusing my point here - which is my fault for not making it more clearly.

If we never win with more possession than the opposition again, I don't care. I far prefer watching, fast, exciting, counter attacking football to Russell Martin's death by 1,000 passes.

But what has been our problem so far this year? Bolton at home, Preston at home, Charlton away... breaking down teams that just give us the ball and sit there. Winning when we're expected to win. West Ham on Friday actually suits us a lot better.

And it's been a problem for a while - one win in eight home games, and yet unbeaten away so far this season. For us to have gone 70+ games without a win with more possession is highly, highly unusual.

I'm not desperate to see us hold the ball for the sake of it, but we need to ice these Oxford type games (0-0 both times last year) where it's on us to have the ball and dictate the play. The possession stat is not a problem in an d of itself, but it's an indicator of an actual more serious issue.

For your next test – Preview on 16:25 - Oct 14 with 63 views

Stainrod

For your next test – Preview on 16:19 - Oct 14 by Northernr

Exactly.

You have answered W7's point more eloquently than I could.

Like you I don't care about possession for its own sake. It's the fact that we don't seem capable of winning these type of home games for the reason you explain.

So its about points, not possession.

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