How did you come to what points MB would have got? I guess it's just the results from earlier in the season, as it's not last seasons points (below is this season v last season at a glance). It is very hard to say what MB would have got compared to JM, are we talking how we performed in the first dozen or so matches or the last half dozen when our expected form took a massive dip from the poor form it was. Unsure if you can just take the games from the first half, as can be seen from last year often different H/A e.g. Villa we won away last season, but only drew this season, do for the home match where we lost last season you thing we would have drawn?Selby White wrote:Going back to the original question - Have the Club made the right decision ?
As said earlier I believe morally "NO"
So purely from a results point of view I will keep an open mind and judge in May by comparing remaining games against what points MB got against the same teams.
Only way I can think of doing it as justification by the Club was results.
Appreciate its not an exact science, lot may depend on players available, Jesse may actually have the advantage there if he gets Kalvin & Paddy back and keeps others fit.
So here we go (MB's points in brackets)
Leicester (1) - ?
Villa (1) - ?
Norwich (3) - ?
Wolves (1) - ?
Southampton (0) - ?
Watford (3) - ?
Chelsea (0) - ?
Crystal Palace (3) - ?
Man City (0) - ?
Arsenal (0) - ?
Brighton (1) - ?
Brentford (1) - ?
MB = 14pts which would have given us a total of 37ptwhich I believe would comfortably keep us up.
Over to you JM.
We improved in a few games from last season but mostly performed worse (obvious by the points difference, but it might not be obvious that we got a better result in 5 games )
So for the 12 games including Leicester, then maybe you expect 2 better, 4 the same and 6 worse. So last season we W5D2L5.
Lets say the 2 better are two losses into WD, 4 the same must incl L3, so also a W, the 6 worse are the D2 and W4 (lets assume all 4W are just Draws (best outcome)). So W2D4L5, gives us 10 points. Finishing the season on 33.
Might be enough, might not be, however the drawing games we've won overall does seem to be what happened in first 26 games