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Elon Musk is a comedy genius

Sadowitz cancelled by the staff at the Pleasance….. tough crowd then He was a visionary…some one I was at the tech with had this on tape…. https://fb.watch/eWiMy8USbz/?fs=e&s=cl

So NUFC Twitter are sizing up half of Chelsea’s squad and it was to do with hotels at the weekend??

Is he a bit of a sick note? 🤔

It was black for me an hour ago but working now

Fairly sure we started with 3 at the back yesterday but it was ditched quite quickly as Maxi wasn’t in the mood to track back . Bournemouth did it yesterday ie they played 5 defenders… 4 nil

Newcastle United came out in fuckin TRACKSUITS yesterday

Are you back on duty next week to allay the knicker wetting fears of certain posters or do we just get me to start and @Monkeys Fist to name it again? 🤔

Reckon you need some comedy anger management mate

I get it @The Fish but an average of all players doesn’t tell me much when a chance drops to a specific player because of different individual skill sets. Am not sure what xG tells us that we can find useful. The likelihood of any given player to score a goal given a set of variables at the point at which he takes a shot is always altered by the specific player the chance goes to. Strikers are likely to score more than defenders so the overall average is largely irrelevant. That’s just the way I think. Fab’s goal marks him out as having that in his skill set, which makes him look good versus the average, but we can tell that he’s a skilful attacking centre back capable of scoring goals just by watching him on the pitch…. the other thing about that is he’s scored similar before so that’s just counting…. Maybe I’ve got hold of the wrong end of the stick but I don’t see many applications for xG. It’s too general: Dave “x player missed a chance that had an xG of y “ Me “Well who was the player?”

I think there’s a bit of goalpost moving going on here The chances of Botman being in that position to execute that chance that Wilson scored from on Saturday are far less than Wilson being in there, let alone executing the finish. That being the case, am not sure having that 0.09 xG figure for all players in that scenario is if any use to man or bloody beast tbh . You’ve ignored the quality of the great football men who built their sides very largely without access to any technology. To me you seem to suggest stats are reinventing the wheel when it comes to recruitment. They’re an aid nothing more. For me the past proves it…am not sure what stats got Gary Birtles from Long Eaton Rovers to a league title in three years, and two European cup winners medals in the following two… If I’ve misrepresented what you’ve said sorry but am of the opinion science can help but it’s not the be all and end all..

Team bosses had to put the correct team around him to get him over the alps etc to exploit his undoubted & huge talent. Why did he fall out of favour before last years tour & obviously this one? 🤔

What are you going to do with that data scenario now apart from add to a discussion on the internet though? Are you going to unearth an underrated player through it? You’re not because xG appears to me to depend heavily on who is in the team with the player in question and the assessment of the difficulty of the chances is completely subjective. I understand there are a million and one other pieces of data to bring into the equation but a lot of punters going “yah his xG is graate guys” doesn’t bring a single thing to the party that I can’t see with my own eyes. Xg stats are initially visible observations. How do you think the great teams throughout football history were built? By knowledgeable men watching players play. Mistakes were and are often made. But Clough/Taylor, any member of the LFC boot room and SAF and the scouting team he built from scratch at Man Utd (the one he inherited was next to useless, and post Carr NUFC is fairly likely to be much the same @Christmas Tree ) made fewer of them than their contemporaries. That’s where the magic lies, in visible assessment and on the training pitch. not in a spreadsheet. They’re obviously a valuable aid, alone though I can’t see much of a use for them….trust your eyes…

That initial rush of testosterone when they first drop… bless… 😘

Miggy will still get lots of starts away from home, his pace makes defenders sit in & back off, and his work rate is great. His end product is frustrating but if we need to get a foothold away v the better sides he’s ideal.

If this lad is our alternative to Etikte(?) then it’s fairly likely that’s the case. Am thinking he takes Willock’s place in the starting XI?..

I”m comedy angry mate, I know stats are fundamental to the modern game. It’s just my opinion that some of them are fairly pointless….xG can be measured with a pair of eyes, no need to commit data to spread sheets to know that Haaland’s score will be higher than Toney’s.. I suppose what analysts are looking for is some data that goes against the grain, that unearths a hidden gem, something the stats tell you that general observation of the game can’t. That’s fair enough. I still think xG is bollocks though….

Very much like AP, am looking for a nice little late summer midweek belter, maybe Shrewsbury or Lincoln?… Also, at the risk of showing msssive football media ignorance, since when has Mark Chapman worked for Sky? 🤔

Not a chance. It’s shaping up to be a classic of its genre

Eye wateringly inane piss bollocks click bait for the sexually inadequate. You’re fuckin welcome

In a similar vein posters may have missed this particular fuckin doozie… https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/what-are-warm-banks-and-where-are-they_uk_62f20bc7e4b001e175d6eec0

We had the Father Christmas books when we were kids, he was obsessed with ketchup iirc

Ray Briggs, author of The Snowman, 88

Barca are white collar gangsters and no amount of PR bullshit “mes que un club” will change that. More than a club? Yeah, they’re like fuckin Tony Sopranos crew