I WOULD like to start this column with an apology to Graham Westley.

On being appointed Peterborough manager earlier this season, he immediately fired off an e-mail to season-ticket holders promising exciting football and telling them to take no notice of the nay-sayers.

He predicted fun, fun, fun – 25 shots and 600 passes a game.

It sounded like fantasy football and we all sniggered. But he had a point.

The Westley regime started for Posh at Valley Parade, where they rattled off 15 shots and won 2-0.

Their average efforts per game currently hovers around 16, down on his ambitious first-day forecast but still the best in League One.

Peterborough's tally of 456 shots at goal contrasts sharply with the Bantams, who have managed only 249.

Just Crewe and Shrewsbury have attempted less – and City's 26 goals, a ratio of exactly one per game, is League One's lowest.

Only once have they managed to net more than twice in a game; of the teams above them, Wigan, Coventry and Gillingham have topped two eight times, Peterborough seven. Fast-improving Barnsley, Valley Parade victors on Tuesday, are another with seven three-plus tallies on their record.

But the most concerning figure for Phil Parkinson will be the ratio of shots to goals.

City need ten on target to score one – a percentage backed up exactly by the numbers in the leanest of Januarys.

Before today, they had bagged just two goals in six games this month in league and FA Cup from 20 on-target attempts.

Compare that with Westley's Posh, who boast a healthy scoring percentage of 11.66.

You don't need an e-mail from the manager to spot the difference.