Just picking up on some comments over recent weeks about Dan Jones not getting a look in over recent weeks, certainly since HK signed Evina.
I personally thought Evina was an upgrade on DJ when he first joined us but he now seems to be going off the boil a bit. So with this in mind should DJ get another run in the team?
Looking back on last season I worked out some DJ related stats because I always got the impression he was great going forward but a dreadful defender.
Including the two play off games versus Coventry DJ featured in 28 league games last season, team stats during those games as follows;
Played: 28
Won: 14
Drawn: 7
Lost: 7
Goals for: 45
Goals against: 28
Goals scored by DJ: 4
Points per game: 1.75
Win ratio: 50%
obviously this is only one player and there are hundreds of other factors that impact on a game but based on those figures if he had played all 46 league games last season we would have finished with approx 80 points, possibly finishing a place higher than we did on GD.
The games he didn't feature in fell to Carl Dickinson. Now I know he gave us some very funny moments, especially when he skilfully dribbled passed 3 players before striking a venomous shot at the opposite corner flag, or maybe marauding up that left wing only to put his cross closer to the tea bar in the Kop than the six yard box, but I really liked Dicko, a player a bit like Turley, left nothing on the pitch.
Dicko featured in 24 games last season. I must add games 'featured in' include sub appearances where both players replaced each other and I have taken the goals scored and points gained based on their time on the pitch.
Dicko:
Played: 24
Won: 9
Drawn: 9
Lost: 6
Goals for: 30
Goals against: 24
Goals scored by Dicko: 1
Points per game: 1.5
Win ratio: 37.5%
Based on these figures if Dicko had played in all 46 league games we would have finished on 69 points.
Like I said, you cannot make one player accountable for a seasons results but the stats do show that maybe DJ is a perfectly acceptable LB in this league . . . I've not done stats for Evina yet, don't think he's played enough games for a comparison. I've also struggled to easily collate stats relating to assists which I think might actually favour DJ as well.
Maybe I owe him an apology.
Sorry, slow day at work