De Silva versus Togwell

Games started by Anderson De Silva in 2007/2008
25-08-2007 Football League Championship Barnsley 3-2 Plymouth
01-09-2007 Football League Championship West Brom 2-0 Barnsley
15-09-2007 Football League Championship Barnsley 2-0 Scnuthorpe
18-09-2007 Football League Championship Stoke 0-0 Barnsley
22-09-2007 Football League Championship Southampton 2-3 Barnsley
29-09-2007 Football League Championship Barnsley 1-1 Cardiff
02-10-2007 Football League Championship Barnsley 3-0 Bristol C
06-10-2007 Football League Championship Charlton 1-1 Barnsley
22-10-2007 Football League Championship Hull City 3-0 Barnsley
24-11-2007 Football League Championship Barnsley 3-2 Watford
27-11-2007 Football League Championship Sheff Wed 1-0 Barnsley
01-12-2007 Football League Championship Ipswich 0-0 Barnsley
04-12-2007 Football League Championship Barnsley 1-0 Wolves
08-12-2007 Football League Championship Barnsley 0-0 C Palace
15-12-2007 Football League Championship Sheff Utd 1-0 Barnsley
22-12-2007 Football League Championship Bristol C 3-2 Barnsley


Games started by Sam Togwell in 2007/2008
27-10-2007 Football League Championship Leicester 2-0 Barnsley
03-11-2007 Football League Championship Barnsley 1-0 Preston
05-11-2007 Football League Championship Barnsley 2-1 Blackpool
10-11-2007 Football League Championship Wolves 1-0 Barnsley
01-12-2007 Football League Championship Ipswich 0-0 Barnsley
29-12-2007 Football League Championship Barnsley 2-2 Southampton
01-01-2008 Football League Championship Scnuthorpe 2-2 Barnsley</p>

Does it tell us anything?</p>

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It tells me

that we had a player in on loan so played him!

 

a .................

more than adequate replacement</p>

</p><table width="304" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; height: 68px"> <tbody><tr style="height: 20px"> <td style="height: 20px; width: 64px">Andersen</td> <td style="width: 76px">W 6 D 5 L 5</td> <td style="width: 64px">pts 23</td> <td style="width: 64px">ppg 1.43</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 20px"> <td style="height: 20px">Togwell</td> <td>W 2 D 3 L 2 </td> <td>pts 9</td> <td>ppg 1.29</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 20px"> <td style="height: 20px">
</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> </tbody></table>

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Ha!

Look beyond the stats Paul ....... look at when we played really well, and looked a very good team, and then when we didn't.....

.... and purely looking at the stats, it's would give us 7 points extra over a season with Anderson .... we just might need them!

 

On paper..

sadly for Sam, we do not play football on paper. Not good enough I'm afraid

 

I've got it

It's solely down to one player in midfield!

We might need to look at the form of teams played when we played them, the points they'd gained etc.

 

I admit Andersen is preferable to Togwell as..........

a creative midfielder-however he does have some faults which can be a problem-he often seems to be unaware of an opposing playerdwells too long on the ball so being dispossessed-remember he played in the debacle at Hull</p>

I could live with him and Togwell in the centre of midfield</p>

 

Nope.

 

Most of Sam's games have been against ***** teams

Most of Anderson's against the better teams.

Makes the comparison even more valid.

Anyway, I heard you were a part-timer these days and got all your gen from Jeff Stelling on a satdy aft!

 

Its simple...

...Da Silva is a much better player than Togwell and influnces the rest of the team to play football rather than kick and rush. Nothing aginst Toggers but he is lower 2nd tier not upper 2nd tier/ lower prem like Da Silva.

 

RE: Most of Sam's games have been against ***** teams

Part timer in as much as I go to home games but not away games!

 

At last, a voice of sanity

it's like you said in Fawlty Towers mate .... specialist subject ... The Bleeding Obvious!

I haven't got anything against Toggers really, just that his passing is shat and we are conceding possession time after time afer ....

 

Like I said, part-timer

Wouldn't catch me, feet up, roaring fire, Stelling waxing lyrical on the Sky HD set, when there's a long horrible away journey to be done and to collect another nil points. Oh no siree, never miss an away game me. Apart from the ones I don't fancy ie. outside the county of Yorkshire.