I'm not sure why it's bizarre other than it's something you don't agree with. As the post above shows you've not even got your numbers correct.
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We do win the occasional big game - they've just started dropping out of the stats being posted as they don't fit anymore. Definitely an area of further improvement though. Be great to win vs the OF and then not follow it with a pumping from Livi - that's the real goal rather than just winning occasionally vs them (think that's classed as being a "boy band").
So the thread turned onto a disagreement about stats, it's about now and this season, our performances at home have been poor.
Yes, absolutely.
But it is relevant to discuss in the context of the overall picture including big games and being 4th in win % ratio amongst all Hibs managers, which is undoubtedly enhanced with early season league cup group stage wins and wins against lower league opposition in cups for a start.
It will be interesting to keep an eye on Jack Ross overall win % and placing throughout this season.
The home record must improve!
I didn’t say it wasn’t. It’s only good enough when your away record is exceptionally good though.
As I said, I don’t think exceptional away records for Hibs are particularly sustainable although that’s maybe just because we’ve been conditioned to think that away games in football are more difficult.
Next five home league matches...
Celtic
Rangers
Motherwell
Dundee
Aberdeen
This is mental. His league form, home and away got us third - fairly comfortably.
It’s not good enough if you’re the third best team in the country though, even though it was good enough to be the third best team in the country because being good away from home over the season was too good to sustain?
I replied to a post that was talking about league games only. You then replied to me. That’s what started the whole conversation between us. So yes, I thought it was really quite clear we were just picking those. Maybe you should have avoided the discussion completely if you were going to take the hump about it.
Nobody is demanding that we win every game like Man City.
I think we'd like to be picking up more points against the aforementioned teams at home as we'd all be expecting to finish above them.
Surely it's also not unreasonable to want more than 2 wins (out of 20) from games against Rangers Celtic Hearts and at Hampden which can really provide momentum and a bounce for the rest of the season.
If we won every away game and won 2 or 3 home games we’d have finished 3rd.
That wouldn’t have been good enough in terms of our home record. Not every aspect of the football club has to have been good enough just because we finished 3rd. That’s a sure fire way to make sure you never get better.
Few times you’ve mentioned that now.
You’re clearly intelligent enough to know I wasn’t being serious about us winning every game under Mowbray, it was a light hearted throw away comment as my memory of mowbreys team was that we were excellent at home, but struggled away from home.
It was also when i was under the impression Matty was talking about most home wins rather than a %, which is why I thought mowbreys team would have won more at home (I don’t know if he did or not but i would have thought he did).