Absolutely correct, 100%.

Half the time.........

When we are away, we often see some of the best of our players.

We don’t at home.

Roy’s wealth of experience has presided over a very poor home record this year, with players massively underperforming.

As sad as this is (nothing better to do this afternoon) , I’ve worked out the stats myself using the BBC match stats for the season. This is of course not entirely accurate on ‘missed chances’ as I have simply used the ‘shots’ statistics. This gives no indication towards how good the chances actually were. It’s the best I can do, but I feel it’s a fair representation to support my argument.

Home: 17 games, 269 shots, 14 goals.
= average of 15.8 shots per game, 0.82 goals per game. 5.2% of shots are goals.

Away: 18 games, 185 shots, 29 goals.
= average 10.27 shots per game, 1.61 goals per game, 15.67% of shots are goals.

The above includes the following highlights:
31 shots, 0 goals vs Cardiff (home)
29 shots, 2 goals vs Burnley (home)
5 shots, 3 goals vs Man City (away)
7 shots, 4 goals vs Leicester (away)

We’ve had 50% more shots per game at home than we do away, yet we have scored double the away goals. The conversion rate away is 3x better than it is at home.

My point is, we are creating chances at home which means Roy’s home tactics are working. Roy can’t be held responsible for sticking the ball in the net himself, the players have to do that.

Edited by Goal Machine (24 Apr 2019 4.31pm)

Eaglecoops, I do agree with your logic, except I think it is more down to the balance of our team, away from home we get more space because the way we play the breakaway, this suites us more as we do have fast forwards (Wilf & Andros), both of these players have good ball skills and they can score goals its our strikers that have let us down this season and when we are at home the game we play changes because teams drag us in to coming at them and whilst Wilf and Andross have less space to work with they still manage to put in a fair few good crosses each game but alas the so called strikers we have do not have the skills to attack the ball in the box or work defenders off the ball to create space and opportunities for others. I think Roy's tactics at home are limited because of the poor form of our sick note prone strikers in fairness to him. These strikers in the main are more SP choice than Roy's. Lets hope now that we are safe we can have a pro-active transfers market and get the teams balance right well in time for next season so that we can use the training period in the summer months to get the team to gel better, have a good summer!

Yes, all fair points and I agree, we do need a well thought out summer transfer window consisting of goal scorer, creative midfielder and left back.