Maynard out?

[legs77]

How many home games did we win during the Covid period with no spectators. Just done a search with no results.

No idea but I?d guess we did fairly well.

One thing around Covid was they did research on it and teams playing ?away? had a much higher win percentage than they normally did.

Liverpool lost 6 on spin at ?Anfield? that would never happen with fans not a single chance of that on the flip side Man Utd did well at Old Trafford but as soon as fans returned it changed again for them.

First and foremost you need a good and confident team if you are out of your depth ie Ipswich this season not much fans can do but that isn?t the fault of their fans, players or manager imo.

[i961pie]

I wasnt refering to the National league.. I was merely pointing out that sometimes no matter how much the crowd get behind the the team, the team doesn't always respond. And that has been very much the case at Meadow Lane this season..

But in most cases teams win far more home games than away ones.

[upthemaggies]

How many home games did we win during the Covid period with no spectators. Just done a search with no results.

Home League & Play Off Games Record 25/Jul/2020 - 17/Apr/2021
Pld:19 W:10 D:2 L:7 F:27 A:16 GD:+11 pts:32
Average PPG: 1.68

[nw6pie]

Home League & Play Off Games Record 25/Jul/2020 - 17/Apr/2021
Pld:19 W:10 D:2 L:7 F:27 A:16 GD:+11 pts:32
Average PPG: 1.68

I’d imagine that was by far the worst set of home results we had in the NL. Not having 8,000-10,000 fans in the ground definitely would have made Meadow Lane an easier place for opposition players to come, especially the likes of Maidenhead and some of the other dross we lost to that season.

[durhampie]

I’d imagine that was by far the worst set of home results we had in the NL. Not having 8,000-10,000 fans in the ground definitely would have made Meadow Lane an easier place for opposition players to come, especially the likes of Maidenhead and some of the other dross we lost to that season.

We have had 10k plus in the ground this season and still lost to a load of gross..

[upthemaggies]

I?d imagine that was by far the worst set of home results we had in the NL. Not having 8,000-10,000 fans in the ground definitely would have made Meadow Lane an easier place for opposition players to come, especially the likes of Maidenhead and some of the other dross we lost to that season.

The amount of losses in the behind-closed-doors season compared to the others in the NL is very striking.

2 home games lost in 2019/20 (NA)
7 home games lost in the Behind Closed Doors season (NA-IB )
2 home games lost in 2021/22 (IB )
1 home game lost in 2022/23 (LW)

[Old_pie]

There?s no absolute proof that positive atmosphere results in better results, but it?s a safe assumption that it does.

Sat 12 Mar 1955 YORK CITY L 0-1 47,310

I suppose 45,000 York fans must have travelled down.

If I went through it carefully I could list many games where we had large crowds against opposition we were not expected to lose against but did.

My impression is that we've lost a disproportionately high number of high attendance games against teams we were expected to beat.

[1955pie]

The amount of losses in the behind-closed-doors season compared to the others in the NL is very striking.

2 home games lost in 2019/20 (NA)
7 home games lost in the Behind Closed Doors season (NA-IB )
2 home games lost in 2021/22 (IB )
1 home game lost in 2022/23 (LW)

Given that we have been talking about the benefits of home support, I wonder if any figures are available for the whole of the EFL for that season, compared to the season before and after?

[1955pie]

We have had 10k plus in the ground this season and still lost to a load of gross..

This is the point. Too many sitting on their hands and not giving enough vocal support or not giving the oppoosition / ref a hard enough time.

[the_anticlough]

This is the point. Too many sitting on their hands and not giving enough vocal support or not giving the oppoosition / ref a hard enough time.

The atmosphere against MK was different gravy. It wasn't the Meadow Lane we know. Hating Crowley was fun.

How can we get that level of passion more often, cos it really adds to the match day experience.
Sad to say, we probably have to go up a league or two to build some proper rivalries

Another point is the media training and everyone playing it so safe all the time. Managers only praise other teams, nobody ever says anything controversial to avoid winding up the opposition.

Example, if Maynard says he hates Karl Robinson, Salford are a bunch of time-wasting cheats and Robinson hits back, the atmosphere in the play-off games would be turned up 10 notches on the dial. But they won't. I guess there's still the danger of fans kicking the sh** out of each other. So it's back to a society-thing, we deserve the library, morgue-type atmospheres we get because we're too dumb collectively to just enjoy sports without overstepping into actual violence.