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Lies, damn lies and statistics
at 13:41 16 Feb 2025

Since our draw at Barrow back in early November we've played 17 league games, with seven victories, eight draws and just two defeats. That's an average points per game of just under 1.71 points. If we maintain this form over the remaining 16 games, we'll finish on about 68-69 points, and almost certainly not quite enough for the play-offs.

This time last season (i.e. Match #30 or thereabouts) the fourth team in the play-offs (Harrogate Town) were on 47 points. This season, it's Crewe Alexandra on 49 points, so two points better. At the end of last season, Crawley took the last play-off place on 70 points, so reasonable to assume this season the target is probably going to be 72-73 points.

So, we'd be 3-4 points short, unless of course we can turn at least two more draws into victories - certainly not impossible (but for a goalkeeping worldy yesterday we could have won that one for sure). We do, however, have some tricky games to come, but it's definitely doable. For context, the last sixteen games of last season included games against six of the top seven sides, albeit we only averaged a point per game in the run in.

Incidentally, we're only four points short of equally our entire points total for 2023/24.

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Tom Hopper…
at 11:56 13 Feb 2025

…gets off the mark with the second goal for that lot down the road in a 3-1 victory over Halifax. Ben Goodliffe got an assist for their first goal as well. Despite who it’s for, I’m genuinely pleased for them both, and particularly Tom, who was already starting to get flak from a few of their supporters.

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FA Cup
at 18:46 9 Feb 2025

I watched the Plymouth Liverpool game today. A few observations - Plymouth deserved it, and even though I have little time for them, I hope they get a decent draw next round. At one point I'm sure the commentators said it was a 13-14k sellout, but that couldn't be right, Home Park must be a much bigger stadium than that? However, the bit that made me really laugh is the pitch looked like a billiard table, and they described it as 'bobbly'. Heaven knows what they'd make of ours if that's the case.

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Merry Christmas!
at 11:49 25 Dec 2024

To all on the U'sual - hope you all have a fantastic day, and a healthy, happy and prosperous New Year!

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