After the Sheffield game we will virtually be a quarter of the way through this season. I thought as we go into October it might be worth taking a comparative look at where we were at this time last season (after 10 games played).
We were six places off of Brighton in 8th place, also six points off of the leaders who were on 21 points.(Brighton had lost one and drawn three of their games by this stage). By this time last season we had failed to win 60% of our games. Drawing 3 times and losing 3 times.
Brighton had scored 14 goals with a goal difference of +7 we had 12 goals with a rather ineffective goal difference of plus one!
Obviously as things stand this season we are top of the league currently. On 24 points, 9 more than we had yielded last season at this point. Still unbeaten, having only failed to win in three of our ten games played, having drawn against Sheffield Wednesday, Scunthorpe and Milton Keynes.
We've scored 21 goals, 50% more than Brighton had and nearly double than we'd managed previously. Our goal difference is +12 as opposed the eventual promotion winners +7.
Over the course of the entire 2010-2011 season the two automatically promoted teams both failed to win 39% of their games, Brighton averaging 2.06 points per game and Southampton 2. We are averaging 2.6 points per game.
Regardless of what happens up at Brammell Lane on Saturday I think this all makes encouraging and refreshing reading.
I appreciate there will be the odd wobble and shock along the way, but looking at the stats and consistency of play on the pitch I'm really beginning to believe this year it's all going to come good. Not like the 'blagged' great start we had in 2009-2010 (this season unlike then incidentally we are on more points and have also scored more goals) but through the merit of good management, disciplined and confident players, and a board willing to give the club decent backing.
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