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football league world is absolute gutter shite

It is. Who’s the better finisher? A player who had 100 xg and scored 90 or a player who had 10 xg and scored 1? It’s obviously the first one, but since this stat is a simple subtraction it will rank the first guy “worse”.

Or Lampard wants the players champions league fit, not just premier league! suuuuper Frankie Lampard

McGoldrick is also on there. Also statistically flawed, this punishes poor finishers who are great at getting chances. % of xg converted would probably be a better stat.

I mean if the manager has to specifically state he'll train "with the first team" it's not a great sign is it.

From all accounts Raphael was nowhere near ready to play regularly in the Championship, injury or not. And Tavares has barely played in the league. Anyway.

Because he's played out of position a lot. It's not a double standard, me calling him a miss is less about his ability and more the decision to sign him - that £2.5m would have been better spent on an actual winger to compete with Sakamoto.

No, he's second choice. Which is fine, you need 2 players for every position. You don't need a 4th choice striker when we only play with 1.

BTA is looking like a miss because he doesn't have a place in the squad. Right now he might even be 4th choice in his favoured position.

He's gone in the summer surely

It's stupid to make a verdict on signings before we've even hit Jan. EMC made this thread look silly on Saturday. He, Rudoni & Bassette could go on to be good/great signings for us. BTA just hasn't played enough in his preferred position, I'm still not sure what the logic in signing him was...

That first line doesn't work at all and the third isn't much better

Well he’s binned 5 at the back for a start. And his 433 is very different to how robins was playing it. 1 holding mid rather than two gives us more fluidity going forward.

Probably won't be, but we're also not even converting those chances right now, which is something I expect to improve if we can get a few more results on the board.

Maybe, but Derby, QPR, Preston, Sheff Wed, Swansea happened where we didn't create many chances against poor teams you need to be beating to achieve our aims. In FLs 4 games we've averaged 2.5xg, think our average under Robins this season was about 1.5.

is that the players though? Team already looks like it has a clearer tactical direction under Lampard.

Martin should be sacked at half time ffs this is hilarious

Derby didn’t even try to play, to only have 11 shots/2 on target/1.23 xg is poor. You’ve also got the fact he was playing 5 at the back at home with our marquee attacking midfield signing at LWB and Saka out of position in the centre. Chance creation has been significantly better in all of...

So why are we singing Samba 🤣 Mason Clark has suffered the same fate as others in recent times in that an absolutey crap song has slightly caught on and is unlikely to be usurped. Ffs.

You would think groups on coaches would be able to get decent ones going.