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Progress has been made in terms of results and can be supported by statistics easily
Performances is another question however. Even today, in a so called "comfortable" performance, 7 shots to the opponents 23. Still think we drop too deep but today is a win and you can't get anything more than that
And prior to Bowen it wasn't unheard of for us to get zero shots on target.
We don't need to fire in shot after shot if we've already scored 2 goals.
We've gone on a rather more extended poor run than we'd like, but really, there aren't actually many obvious poor results in that run.
Millwall - were on an excellent run at the time, but disappointing
Forest - good result
Bristol - right at the top
Cardiff - ok result
Hull - disappointing for sure, but one mistake stopped us winning
WBA - top team
Weds - comfortable win, even before the red we were on top
Leeds - top team and a slightly lucky goal
Wigan - one of the form sides
Barnsley - comfortable win
Really there's only two disappointing showings there and one was a draw. It's just been a very hard run and we've struggled a bit. I'd certainly take that poor run over any of the ones we had under Gomes, Clement or Stam. It's still 9 points from 10 games. We've had managers where that level of point return is basically their whole tenure.
But for this narrative to work, we need to kick on with our run in. It's easy; even Brentford are totally out of form. If 0.9ppg is acceptable from a tough run, I'd like to see 2 per game over the remainder of the season.
Yes, we do need to string a run together. 1.5+ would probably do me... it'd see us on 60 points and probably about 14th. Anything better than that is great.
I'd much rather we wobble at this point and pick up towards the end than tail off into a poor end in the same position.