Bailey's passing stats

thewolfboy

Our passing was poor on Tuesday and has been for, more or less, the last two years.
From time to time Bailey played some good passes that got an attack going but he too often gave the ball away or was caught in possession and then took terrible stick from the crowd. I think he is a good player but out of form and trying too hard. Does anyone have his passing stats? I reckon Bailey's would be very low, maybe 55% success rate. Parky should make him the hub of the team and get him to pass the ball around like Kinsella used to do and aim for a 90% success rate, playing the easy ball. Perhaps then the team will start to flow again!
Of course it doesn't help when we play the long ball up to Burton and the invisible McLeod. The ball just comes straight back again. Weaver should be given a throw out option but it didn't happen much on Tuesday.

Swisdom

when he's in midfield Semedo is awesome at this. Break things up and play a simple pass.
When they try the Hollywood ball is when it goes pear shaped

Back to basics is deffo the way forward

nigel

As discussed elsewhere, Bailey is a total enigma. When he arrived he seemed like the answer to all our problems in midfield. As a result, I expected we would be seeing very little of Matt Holland this season. But now I'd rather have Holland than two of Bailey. As someone said, he seems frightened of his own shadow.

So what went wrong? I think I can date his loss of form and confidence very specifically to 25 mins into the game v Bristol City back in Oct. He gave the ball away needlessly and they scored, after we'd spent all of the first half up until then bombarding their goal.

That was the turning point not just of Bailey's season but the whole team. We haven't won a game since then and we've played total shite without almost any respite.

Perhaps it seems odd to pinpoint a moment where the season turned with such precision but I think we can. Some five mins earlier, Gray hit the woodwork when we were totally dominant. Had he shot two inches to the right (or was it the left?) and had Bailey not given the ball away so needlessly 25 yards out from our goal minutes later, we would have won that game, confidence would not have been shattered and we would quite possibly now be sitting in the top half of the table. Instead, it was the start of the worst Charlton nightmare I can remember in 30 years.