by Snowflake Royal »
04 Feb 2022 14:44
Sanguine Snowflake Royal Sanguine This somewhat sums up that a group of fans are going to protest and specifically call the manager a clown because we've lost a few games. It's pathetic. The problems at this club are about much more than Paunovic.
You're rather understating the position.
We've lost more than half our games this season, had our worst ever FA Cup result and our worst home defeat since the war in the same week, are on a run of 2 wins in 16 having lost 5 league games in a row.
Few doesn't really cut it.
It's worse than Rodgers. It's worse than Stam, Gomes, Burns, Clarke, McDermott or Clement. It's not far off Bullivant.
Wins don't count now? This isn't the first time you've used selective stats recently to back up your views.
Paunovic has won 34% of his games in charge - this was 29% for Burns, 26% for Rodgers, 24% for Gomes and 23% for Clement. It is a similar success rate to Clarke and Adkins (both 36%) and Bowen (35%).
Tommy Burns oversaw 2 wins in 17 games from the start of his time in charge, Rodgers did 2 in 14, Gomes also had a run of 2 in 14, and so did Clement. Steve Clarke managed 2 wins in 19 games, split over his two seasons in charge. Adkins worst run was 3 in 16. You can check all these if you like.
Pretending Paunovic is in some way materially worse than all these managers is horseshit.
Paunovic 6 game form 0.17 ppg, 12 game form 0.67 ppg
Bowen 6 game 1.17, 12 game 1.17
Gomes 6 game 0.17, 11 game 0.73
Clement 6 game 1, 12 game 1.08
Stam 6 game 0.5, 12 game 0.67
Clarke 6 game 0.83, 12 game 1.5
Rodgers 6 game 1.33, 12 game 1.16
Burns 6 game 0.67 didn’t make 12 in that season
Adkins 6 game 1.17, 12 0.91
Pauno is worse than everyone except Gomes for 6 game ppg. And everyone except Stam for 12 game ppg. Both of whom he equals.
Ergo, he's worse than all of them over their last games for Reading in
a season.