Doing my best Dan Rice impression here obviously.
This is a cut down version of the full season stats that I’ve been putting on the other thread Shev created. Didn’t want to hijack it anymore.
This covers all his matches. I’ve treated the FA Cup match as a draw rather than loss (because penalties) and included the play off matches.
It doesn’t tell us anything new obviously, but looks pretty and may be of interest to you all.
Biggest stat, conceding more goals (0.80) than scoring them (0.75) per game.
I’ll keep it rolling for all competitive matches (pre season is definitely not a fair reflection on anyone) for as long as he’s at the club as coach.
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Amazing. Though someone will be along shortly to call it nonsense because xG.
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Don’t give me idea. I could easily (probably) do an xG vs reality comparison on my next ADHD hyperfocus. 
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Having seen the Bloomfield Purple Patch mentioned elsewhere I split up his stats. His great league run went from mid August (after Wrexham and Birmingham) through all September, October and November.
Have included the same stats for Grace and Dodds for comparison.
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Thanks for this, @atomic. I know you are trying to elucidate the purple patch particularly, but it seems unfair to exclude Bloomfield’s single goal defeats to Wrexham and Birmingham, but include Dodds’ like defeats.
Shouldn’t someone have said “No, they wee no different at all despite what you saw with your own eyes. What about xG?” by now?
As an aside I asked a Sunderland fan at work last week about Dodds’ record at Sunderland and this is what he said. Regarding the final sentence, needless to say we didn’t get a result against Charlton.
“He wasn’t very good and the football was dire tbh - we wondered at the time if it was arguments between him and Speakman (the Director of Football) - i.e. he was under his orders, but it doesn’t seem so as he’s continued in the same vein at Wycombe. I think he’s one of those people its better to keep just on the coaching staff (he’s meant to be good working with the young players) rather than as a Head Coach. You never know though, he could get a result tonight?”
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Sorry for the delay in replying!
The main comparison was excellent Blooms and what occurred immediately afterwards. Dodds and Grace are merely there as reference points, not the main focus on this occasion.
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