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Got a soft spot for Walsall cos a friend at uni was a fan. On a bad run at the mo and I'd hope we can take advantage. Any normal team playing the way we have against their form would have us down to give them an absolute hiding but with our shot conversion rate it'll end up being a close...

England's greatest ever keeper IMO and would definitely make my all-time world cup squad. RIP

I seem to remember there being rumours of SISU shutting the academy down because they thought it didn't add any value to the club as the youngsters kept on being released rather than sold and was a drain on resources (I remember seeing a figure of £100k being bandied about but that again wasn't...

Talking of Willis I remember reading a Teletext match preview quite a few years back that described him as a "full black". There was also one that listed our "staring XI" This could also be good for the club in the stadium battle - Wasps are half-black so the EDL will clearly be looking for...

As owners they can do what they want with it, just like anybody else, and our owners did with Highfield Rd. Don't think its right they were ever given a chance to own it, but our owners were given many years and multiple chances to do so before the atmosphere turned so sour no-one was going to...

Is this why we've got a load of right wingers and no-one on the left?

Have never signed up to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or any of the other stuff like that and have no intention of doing so. Friends have my phone number/e-mail if they want to get hold of me. Only look at twitter to get the line-up for City/U23/academy because they put it on that before the...

Put together these tables (sorry for the alignment - no idea how to do tables on here) Goals against (teams at top of list concede less than expected i.e. are doing better than expected defensively) Team aGA xGA Diff Sunderland 0.93 1.40 0.47 Blackpool 0.93 1.28 0.35 Charlton 1.03 1.38 0.35...

Probably, but that figure would almost certainly be an amount no remotely sane person would even consider paying.

I think there could be a rule that a clubs owners can't split ownership of a stadium and the club itself, so they can't sell the stadium to pay off debts. If a club can't pay its debts over time it has to be put up for sale INCLUDING the stadium, and the prospective owners HAS to take it on with...

As long as the team are under the understanding that a particular player is just in the team to score goals and the others will have to make up the slack. Then that striker (I don''t think you could put two on just to score goals - it'd leave too much for everyone else and the egos would make it...

I agree - 5 a side really does help with a few things technique wise - passing, shooting early and on-target even if you are much closer to the goal to begin with (although the goals are smaller as well). Only thing it doesn't really help with are stamina and spatial/tactical awareness on a...

Can't believe it's serious. I suppose some lawyer, cash-up-front would take it on knowing it'll be laughed out of court (if it got that far. If it is, I really hope his mum and dad countersue him for potential loss of earnings, upkeep costs stress and emotional damage. They didn't ask for HIM...

Some of those graphs do, because they use actual not expected data. The last one using expected goals for and expected goals against has us performing much better than we actually are. It only has any worth if you then compare it against actual goals for/against. 1.19 actual goals against per...

No idea why he brought it up at all. Does seem like quite an extreme reaction, especially for the length of time, to just go out looking for revenge on anyone and that shouldn't be tolerated. Anger I can understand. Revenge against the perpetrator I can understand. Revenge against anyone at all...

If they're scoring off every drive, yes. That Rams-Chiefs game was an exception though because both teams were doing it. You were expecting them to score but it was incredible to watch. I prefer a more even game where they'll score a TD, next drive have to punt, then get a FG, then get...

But it took quite a few things going 'wrong' in the way he wanted to play before he did actually change it. It didn't come across as a willingness to try something different it was more an absolute lack of choice with what was available. Start of this season when he'd done some recruitment and...

I sort of agree with you, but part of the problem is that the players know that the manager will get the heave rather than them (who will at a minimum get to run their contract down) and so can cause problems for a manager they don't like by causing unrest until he's fired. That for me is one...

I agree with Nick. I can understand how before a game xG could be useful in a bookies type situation but after a game it's irrelvant - the expected number of goals in that game after the match is how many you ended up scoring. For me, xG is only useful if you plot it against actual goals -...

Yeah. As much I enjoy a points fest (Rams-Chiefs etc) these games can be enthralling in their own right. You wonder how long can a team keep that level up for. And I'd prefer either of those to a one-sided blowout - often fall asleep during those because they're so boring and predicatable.