Game of Two Halves

With three quarters of the season over and given that the Rovers have been on a bit of a run of late I thought I’d take a wee look at some stats just to see if there was anything unusual about results. Fortunately the good people at Football365 (other stats sites are available!) are more than happy to supply all sorts of peculiar information to get your teeth into.

The first thing that jumps out about the run is that it is league winning form. But although we’ve taken masses of points more than teams like Ayr (13pts) and Forfar (13), the 10 and 6 points we’ve made up on Stirling and Brechin respectively, have only brought us back into contention for the playoff places. And as great a run as it is we’ve only pulled back three points on Morton which just shows the consistency required to hit the top end of the table and stay there.

It’s interesting to see that the club’s rise up the division started from game 16, the 2-1 victory at Alloa, a match best remembered for Thorarinsson’s out-of-the-blue screamer into the top corner but which also saw Fotheringham red carded and Fahey coming on to replace the injured Brown. Prior to that we were still languishing in 9th position so it’s been a great run which has put us back in with a playoff chance. In fact it only took 7 games to go from 9th to 4th and we’ve been there ever since.

The other clear peculiarity in the stats is that old commentators’ favourite – the game of two halves. Well for Rovers this season we’ve been a very different team in each half. We’d only be 8th if games were 45 minutes long (33pts) but make the first half a warm up and we’d be sitting in 2nd on our performances in the second 45 minutes (45pts). Even more staggering is that we’ve only scored 8 goals in the 1st half compared to 28 in the 2nd.

So the moral is, if you ever think you’ll miss kick off don’t worry too much – just get there before the 2nd half starts and you probably won’t have missed much!

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  1. Alan Russell says:

    I also use this site as a simple form guide – it makes for very happy reading at the moment, as we’re top of the league over the last 4, 6 and 8 games! Looks like Morton’s bottle is going again too…

    http://www.footballwebpages.co.uk/formGuide.jsp?comp=18

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