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I'll give Fish his due though. He is either the biggest bullshitter going or he has really researched this.

Any excuse to post this:

Fish watching the match

Ok Dave, I’ll be straight with you. You’re not telling me, and haven’t done for months on end, a single thing I don’t know, haven’t observed with my own eyes or can logically work out for myself. Now can you just accept that xG is utter fuckin bollocks so we can just get on with our lives? Thanks & best regards The posters of Toontastic 👍

Duelling banjo's at the ready

Botman must have a combined xG of 37 based on prediction posts on Toontastic.

Ive enjoyed this debate. It has proved to me there are two types of people in this world. 1) People that love stats 2) Sexy people

Truth be told mate, it doesn't particularly matter to me whether you did or not. Plenty of people I care about did too. What matters to me at this point is people burying their heads in the sand and refusing to see reality - which I've not seen from you yet, so don't take that comment the wrong way. In direct response, the biggest venn diagram overlap between those who voted for Brexit and any other political issue is immigration (closely followed by the reinstatement of the death penalty, interestingly). Given your views on immigration as expressed so far, it seems a logical inference. It's either that or you want to bring back hanging I'm afraid - I don't make the rules

5-0 away win with miggy scoring all the goals

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@wykikitoon have you considered deleting this thread?

Yes but when you've been sacked from your previous four roles I don't think that qualifies you for the Newcastle United job and fans would have been very pissed off about it. Mike Ashley knew that which is why he made the smart move of bestowing one of our own on us.

I've woken up on top of the roof at an old workplace and also in a doorway on old shields road, funnily enough this coincided with us all going through a phase of getting treble vodkas alongside a pint when we started off in Wilders and Dobson's etc. (I used to have a thing about climbing when morts). Also climbed up on a bus stop and was waving happily at the passengers on the top level of the buses one teatime on shields road, we'd been out all day as wor Jackie's had some deal where they were getting rid of bottles of 8% abv cider. I was fucking stotting.

Surely the best solution is to drain the seas. No more boat crossings - Brexiteers happy. UK now part of continental Europe - Remainers happy. Sorted

I've woke up in loads of bitches WUT WUUUUUUUUT!

Can you predict a player’s potential with subjective data of what a player has done previously? Or is the data literally a snapshot? One thing stats fail to take account of properly is the opposition. A players figures are skewed by the quality he’s playing against. Useful for a myriad of things undoubtedly, but they don’t tell the whole story. And never will…

Alphas read the book 👍🏻

Renton: the political essembee

I'd suck one off tbh

Okay, so according to Mordaunt, this means dismantling NATO: This country simply can't function with the incesant lies from the government. I thought Sunak and Mordaunt might be a bit more honest but no, they're lying cunts like Johnson.

I started to try to be reasonable but failed

xG is (sometimes) interesting but the belief that football can be predicted accurately by a selection of statistics is facile. It's benefit only lies in illustrating what has already happened to the weak of mind

Dave’s ignored this so I looked it up…now, am no expert obviously, but it would appear to me that Miggys xG * has gone up this season by nearly 300% Well colour me flabbergasted… I think we can now officially call xG “counting the number of goals scored “ https://understat.com/player/7420 * other stats are available which am sure are invaluable to football professionals. xG isn’t one of them though, it’s just fuckin counting

In addition to that now that we're garnering a lot more possession, and a lot of it further up the pitch, his pressing and pace can more frequently be put to use. Previously if he was pressing he was doing it on his own to little effect. I don't think anyone is expecting him to maintain this return of goals but he absolutely should continue to be a thorn in opposing sides as he suits our high tempo pressing perfectly. His fitness is next level, looking fresh and spritely deep into the second half of games. Long may he continue to work on his passing combinations and final ball (whether a shot or pass) and avoid going to ground softly.

0-2 Miggy and Botman

0 in a row! FTM!

Thanks for sharing. Not sure why one bloke reckons we’re going to be time wasting. We’ll be three up by half time, Bonny lad!

Then do I have the magazine for you:

When I think about democracy I sometimes think of Brave New World by Huxley. I never got round to reading the book but saw an adaptation of it on the telly once, probably early 80s. When you give the Deltas and Epsilons the vote, they're going to be impressed with Johnson bull dosing a Get Brexit Done wall. In the adaptation I saw, Deltas were always really happy, reminds me of someone on here. Personally though being an alpha is more a curse than a blessing.

Hey, it's one of those rare occasions where I've actually got work to do. (beginning of the month and I have to update some of the triggers on my automated scripts ) xG for Miggy was decent in his first 2 seasons, around 0.2 per 90, or a goal every 5 games. This season's small sample size has him doubling his xG, but you'd expect him to revert to the mean. At the minute, given the quality of chances he's had, he's scored 2 more goals than you'd expect. He's 4th in the league for outperforming expectations. Haaland, Maddison and Trossard ahead of him, however each of them have consistently out performed their xG, Miggy hasn't. So you'd expect him to fall back to his average a bit. This is a purple patch, not a sign that he's going to improve. End of the day, the eye test is great and all, but it's subjective. I've stood in the ground while people bitch and moan and call Saint Maximin worse than shit, when in fact he's fucking run the show. Heard people rave about Jacob Murphy, when the lads did nowt. Facts don't care about your feelings.

got sorted for tickets for this, woe betide my driver if he doesn't get me to a southampton ale house by 11am. should be erring on the side of caution as this run can't keep going indefinitely can it? but fuck it...... 0-3

Surprised they don’t just chuck a ball in the air and say “Let’s play”.

Does anyone else miss Essembee?

Every manager gets sacked at some point.

Stats support a narrative. They can only ever be used as supporting evidence rather than definitive evidence.

I was going to watch this, but I had the same thought- “ don’t fanny on with it, you don’t have to” Cheers for the heads up 👍

SAS rogue warriors. I've watched the first three episodes of this and I really want to like it having seen the documentary on the book its based on a few years ago which itself had interviews with some of the original men including Stirling from an earlier set of interviews from the 80s. The documentary and interviews were fascinating. I'm finding the dramatised series hard to persevere with as I'd imagine the original members interviewed would be scratching their heads at it, if there's one thing they don't need is to be is 'sexed up'. It would be hard to fuck up their story but although it isn't terrible it should be much better.

That's just from me!

Alex Winter’s* Zappa documentary is on bbc iplayer at the moment. Obviously I’m fairly biased as a fan of his, but it’s pretty good as music documentaries go. It’s not out to convert anyone- the pieces of his that are used tend to be some of his more “out there” stuff, and it doesn’t pretend that he was some blissed out love freak- if anything, he comes across as a very single-minded, not particularly likeable bloke… a bit of a cunt, really But it’s absolutely honest, and does a great job of showing the changes, and constants, in his career over his lifetime. Using “Watermelon in Easter Hay” for the end credits was a lovely touch by the director- it was written by Zappa for his son, Dweezil, and he considered it to be his best and favourite guitar piece. It’s also the last guitar solo that the protagonist of the albums it’s from, Joe’s Garage, gets to play, so was a particularly good choice to wrap up with. ( Zappa requested that no one play it live after he died until Dweezil had, which took him until 2013 to perfect it, and be able to play it without breaking down. The first time he did was in London and it was filmed here.) * yes, that Alex Winter, from Bill and Ted

That kid is going to be on the Sunderland talk-in scene in 15 years, isn’t he? “Tell is what you thought when you scored THAT goal?”

Wow. (Not the reaction to a goal I've never seen but my reaction to this tweet from a newspaper for an U21 game).

Are you having a collective brain haemorrhage? She’s minging