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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

First they came for the pink…. https://apple.news/AJsQBRKpBTEO6PTkjDp_8lg 😪

Linda Carter as Wonder Woman is possibly the most breathtakingly beautiful woman ever to have drawn breath

He left Motown in 1969 and set up his own label… this was one of their first releases which he wrote himself, obvs 😆

He wrote and was first to record this….

He’s also on the fringes of the England squad, 3 months off a World Cup and wasn’t getting a game at Wolves…

Have you been stealing nickers from next doors washing line again? 🙄

Ask a real drummer about how good Ringo was and you a very different opinion

Well it’s a bit of a collaboration between me and Fist this week, maybe in the manner of Lennon and McCartney, where Lennon has been on the piss for three days, walked in on Macca who was noodling away at his gutair, scribbling down lyric ideas…he looks up and sees Lennon grab his bass from its stand and swing it in a wide arc above Maccas head, smashing it into his temple, breaking the neck of the Gibson semi-acoustic, blood and loose strings everywhere. Lennon then cackles like a deranged banshee, simultaneously taking his weapon out and pissing all over Maccas decade-old lyric note pad.

Well I suggested in the sub title that Wykiki can come up with something and a mod could edit it but it looks like Fist is taking over thread duties. He probably took his football home if he was losing when he was a kid too

This is what we usually do @thebrokendoll but another option is doing the same at Lewes, nice wee historic market town with poncey boozers selling over priced craft beer if that’s your bag