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I would certainly bring in the above arrangement before sacking VK if it came to that. It feels it could strengthen us significantly. Even the greatest business minds often welcome challenge and an assurance process because they know it makes them better.

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We are seeing in the Liverpool United game examples of what I wrote above, that many teams get punished playing it out and it isn’t the reason why we are 2nd bottom. Looks like it may cost Liverpool the title.

I’m sure these managers all still believe in their approaches though.

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Nobody has said that stats are annoying. They have their place. They’ve said they don’t like the way in which they are used inappropriately to support a poor judgement. You are the biggest example of this on the message board . Nonsense (my last post to this). Some stats are obscure, others are dir...

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One of the few well balanced posts on here, what I really like about this post is that it doesn’t mention any GKs, no narrative. Too many posters can’t see the wood from the trees when it comes to the GK position this season. There are bigger problems with this squad of players and management than ...

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Defending set pieces is an important part of defending and will be taken into account by those who believe our defending has been a part of our problems Indeed. And it is shocking. The poster who I replied to though was being insulting (due to not having a proper argument) in reply to a stat about ...

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We don’t know who would have Wout clauses but that seems less likely with younger players. The big danger is Leeds style relegation loans which leaves us in the doo doo. I would expect though that Amdouni, Tresor if signed, Berge and Odobert would go for £50m between them. Probably a small loss on t...

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Only someone who hasn’t seen us play and has just looked up the stats after each game could come to the conclusion that our defending isn’t an issue. Stats can show when someone is right and someone else is wrong. Like with you in this case. We have conceded 42 from non set pieces. Chelsea have con...

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Anyone know how many points we have given away by playing out at all costs. It feels like 20! I don’t remember us getting many goals to win points from doing it either. It feels we have become an embarrassment for being so inept at it. We have conceded 42 from open play, City have 23. So if the fig...

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Interesting debate about Kompany and Dyche above, but it is harsh to call Everton a terrible team. They are TOP on expected goals scored from set pieces, near bottom on expected goals conceded. These stats show they do what is needed. Ugly but effective, as ever from Dyche. They would never go down....

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He has improved, and credit for that, but the difference between who we tried to sign across the team and who we actually signed is a huge gulf. O’Shea epitomises that (it was only a yellow card for me today but he also got turned earlier by DCL badly). I’d say only Berge, Amdouni and Tresor fit the...

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Won’t score it because I only saw about 60 of the minutes. From what I saw I would give 6s on the whole. But the error was outrageously negligent, killed the whole feel of the team and the game, we were the better team until then and the crowd were getting restless. The main problem though remains c...

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Disagree with the red, thought Muric would have easily got the ball first. But that would be borderline and I thought Oliver had a good game. Made me wish other refs had taken his view on minimal contact not being a pen.

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spt_claret wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 06, 2024 3:51 pm
Gobsmacked by that from Muric. Been a fan but that's worse than any mistake Trafford's had. In disbelief.

Exactly my thoughts.

Far worse than any Trafford error because he wasn’t under any pressure, but just dallied for no reason and let DCL get the block in.

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We have just seen why Muric doesn’t play for a top club. Got all the ability but concentration can disappear. That’s no doubt why he has missed most of the season.

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I agree but he clearly has some exceptional technical qualities. I'm surprised we've not tried to use them when we are behind in games more often. More from the Number 10 role which is the one position where you can sort of get away without defending very well Agree with your general view here but ...

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Foster beat more men with “take ons” than all our team put together.

I too thought he was a bit off it, but he did do some things well,

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I’m saying they are both “bad guys” !! I also agree that the ownership now puts us in a worse and far more precarious position than previously. I think a few people have mentioned and been critical of the current owners and taking money out of the club. It was pretty inevitable they would do that. ...

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Everton 1 Burnley 0 - Tarkowski 35 mins (typical Dyche)

NL2

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Bit of a shame if we need to stay up and are picking players based on non football attributes like appearances. I get that his style isn’t suited to holding a lead but in a scenario where we are chasing a game, and him being the “king of assists”, and us struggling to create clear chances (only Shef...

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IanMcL wrote: ↑
Wed Apr 03, 2024 10:37 pm
Sheffield 3 points Nottm 3 points.
Everton are not going to get relegated.

Is that going to be for us? Could be level after a points deduction.

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Look how many headers Wolves won tonight, sadly I'll be amazed if we get anything at Goodison. Tonight killed us off unless the rest get another load of points taken off them. Like it or not, we don't deserve to stay up given our season. Won 14 lost 12 aerial duels. Source fbref.com. Doesn’t look b...

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Watching the Villa City game in Portugal. England is his normal self, giving fouls for non existent challnges.

I see he gets the City game after our game as a reward - to paraphrase Dominic Cummings' level of cynicism - "the system is working exactly as intended".

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Muric 8 - passing sublime and got us out of jail half a dozen times, no chance with the goal I felt. Vitinho 7 - only weakness that final ball O’Shea 7 - a mix but a vital assist and turning into a leader Esteve 8 - numerous match saving moments, just a couple of minor errors Taylor 6 - final ball d...

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We lack the final ball but look good between both boxes. It really is that simple.

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No. Must not lose. They will only drop with another points deduction and if that was 3-4 points we are close.

The main thing is we are playing well, have some resilience, and have a chance, even if the odds are against us.

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So unlucky, the Wolves guy tried to do a Cruyff turn and tripped himself up and lost balance. Very poor reffing yet again, but our switching off on the stroke of half time has cost us many times.

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Nottingham’s Coote on VAR predictably, given it is Forest we are trying to catch. Already shafted us this season. I know that there is some suggestion he is a County fan, but they shouldn’t be constantly giving us officials from our rivals cities. There are 20+ of them, why the heck do we get the sa...

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Someone at the club should clip all the game chaining injustices that have cost us points this season, and send them to the Premier League and the PGMOL and ask them for their explanation as to how so many can happen to 1 club. You can only send a certain amount of megabytes on an email. Pretty sur...

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Good report. Interestingly, regarding the “almost impossible” rebound chance for Jay, Understat gave it 0.51 expected goals (51% likely to score) and his header they gave as 3% likely.

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Tuesday 2nd April Newcastle 2-1 Everton Forest 2-1 Fulham NAP Bournemouth 2-1 Palace Burnley 2-2 Wolves - Fofana 30th min West Ham 1-2 Spurs Wed 3rd April Arsenal 3-0 Luton Brentford 2-1 Brighton Man-City 2-1 Aston Villa Thursday 4th April Liverpool 4-0 Sheffield Utd Chelsea 1-1 Man-Utd Sat 6th Apri...

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Genuinely believe two things.

1. We win on Saturday, we stay up.
2. We would deserve to.

(don’t think we will win, but we have a good chance)

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Dwight is a 1-2 trick pony but he is super at those things and you can carve out a solid PL career doing that. Whether Wilson hits those heights with a different bag of talents remains to be seen. Great potential though and we were right to sign him, as with Koleosho.

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Didn’t escape me that all 4 subs have solid PL pedigree. Why we haven’t played Jay and JBG more surprises me.

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Cazaris wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 30, 2024 3:48 pm
I've never truly believed that there's any sort of agenda to get us out of the league, but my god this season I'm having a hard time truly believing that there isn't anymore...

Naivity can be a good thing. Trust me, I mean it as a compliment.

There clearly is, at minimum, a subconscious bias.

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Well, I’ve picked up my passport this morning and after 300 miles on the road am about to fly and land to a Clarets win. But what a farce, Home Office told me the only reason slots opened up in Durham was due to a “technical error”. The civil service are indeed a farce, whatever your left or right v...

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Apologies if already discussed, but I sit in between two pensioners in the BLS, and both when the subject of renewals has been discussed in the past say the same thing. “At £275 a season, we’d be daft to give up these seats, we can pick and choose our games”. They go to about half the matches. I’d ...

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You can't hang 52% of the population because you don't agree with their decision. That's not democracy. (Even hanging the 48% who voted the other way, albeit more democratic, wouldn't be appropriate for a modern western state.) Tempting though. Particularly with the likes of Casper above ;). Gosh, ...

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Back in August we signed a player who months before StatsBomb had described as the European Messi. Now a few on here pan him for workrate. OK, he hasn’t quite clicked as much as we would like, but his winger and striker partner have both been stuffed mid season, and we have lost confidence as a team...

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EU barstewards You are right. I’m still hunting furiously for a passport renewal appointment today so I can fly on Saturday, and there is a lot to slag off this government for. Such as, they have details of those of us with 10+ year old passports, so why not write to us, informing of this EU rule a...

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For those asking for a stat with more context. This shows that his shot placement is better than average (so it's not just a case of hitting shots right at the keeper) but that goalkeepers have overperformed against them. Could suggest that he's been unlucky not to score more. Thanks for adding mor...

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I booked a non refundable £2k holiday yesterday, to leave on Saturday for the EU. Today, after seeing the BBC website, never having heard the 10 year rule, I checked my passport and despite having plenty of time left it was 10 years and 3 months since issue. I then checked the Urgent 1 Day passport ...

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So if you bing all your shots straight at a keeper it'd be 100% accuracy. With such a small discrepancy in these I wouldn't read into it in anywhere near the way you are doing, and it's the wrong way to use statistics. If you are correct, and like very often with stats, I don’t feel you are, there ...

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4th highest in the Premier League at 52.5% on target, via The Other 14 account on Twitter X. Only bettered by Isak, Ferguson and Doucoure. Hasn’t scored enough of his 21 on target, but that will come. We’re lucky to have him. The names at the top of the list are all really good players. https://x.co...

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Newcastle 3-1 West Ham
Bournemouth 0-1 Everton
Chelsea 3-1 Burnley Palmer 31st min
Nottingham Forest 2-1 Crystal Palace NAP
Sheffield United 1-1 Fulham
Spurs 3-0 Luton
Aston Villa 2-1 Wolves
Brentford 1-2 Man-Utd

Liverpool 2-0 Brighton
Man-City 2-1 Arsenal

Goals 28

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Chelsea 3 Burnley 1

Palmer 25 mins

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Got to applaud the rise for the majority, working age adult tickets. Though I do sympathise with concession customers, the club clearly feel they don’t get enough for those seats and to be fair to them most other leisure activities don’t offer such levels of concessionary discounts, e.g. theatres. M...

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Wales hanging on a bit. Just cannot see it for them sadly. As for England, that mistake by Pickford was the equal of anything Trafford has done, and the mistake by Dunk the same in relation to our CBs (reminded me of Beyer vs Palace). You need real class to excel at this level including the EPL, som...

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Not sure this is clever. Best case, 1-2 points added back. Worse case, 3-4 more points taken away. As it stands they should finish above Luton. Take more points away, it starts to become less likely. We could be kingmakers in the final game even if we are down, we may have to decide who we want down...

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Good luck to him. Last summer I felt we were too ambitious in thinking that our manager would get some big hitters over the line, because that is what he did the year before, relative to the division. Trouble is, in the EPL that higher standard of player has many options. When we look at the ones wh...

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xG, xG differential and xG prevented/expected is good to look at for some trends - to try and use it as quantitive metric for deciding on goalkeepers ability with such small differences like that is a bit silly. The main football analytical advsiors such as DribLab tend to disagree. Also, when we l...

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