Quote Originally Posted by Jampie View Post
Is anyone actually saying results don't matter?

I've heard people say statistics don't matter, which is also ridiculous. After all goals are a statistic, as are wins and points...

I think the closest anyone's come to saying "results don't matter" is the owners' recent post about results not reflecting performances due to bad luck, which IMO is an extremely high risk piece of analysis. If you're 100% right, great, if you're even a little bit wrong it can lead to going into next season with a fatally flawed team, a possibility I'm honestly very concerned about.
I think that message from the owners was rather worrying. They've always been so measured with their communications, but this showed a real inability to read the room. I think it was their way of saying "we're giving Maynard more time, and he'll be the coach next season" but it showed them to be a bit blinkered to say the least.

Possession alone is a completely worthless statistic. It's what you do with the ball that counts. And as we've seen countless times this season, most of our possession is in our own half and tends to be more damaging to us than the opposition.