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This is what the club does. Ironically, the signings that attract the most negative comments from fans; JDS, Collins, Palmer were brought in on AV’s recommendation. The most subjective analysis, he used to coach them and in some cases, knows the players exceptionally well. See Collins story...

Not enough players… players play more minutes and fatigue accumulates?

Interesting, don’t you think?

There’s that and we defended way better as a team last season. Collins has had a bad end to the season and that’s took the focus away from our defensive effort as a whole. Our defence hasn’t been good enough compared to last season, even when we played 3-4-1-2. We concede too chances as a team...

Definitely on the wind up here 😂 I’ve said many times that I rate him as a solid player who’s a 7/10 consistently. To say we’re weaker in CM with Eccles and Sheaf than Hamer and Sheaf is true on a subjective and objective level. We miss Hamer’s goals and if Eccles wants to step up and do it...

Saying Eccles isn’t as good as Hamer isn’t the same as criticising him. We’ve lost something since Hamer has left and it’s not even worth discussing whether or not that is the case. MR says we need more quality yet from your posts, getting rid of Collins will solve all our issues. Sorry to...

That’s a stat for shot difficulty which measures how easy/difficult the shots have been for the GK and Collins and Allsopp have faced the ‘easiest’ chances. It’s why you measure xG as well. The premise of this stat that of all the shots a GK has had to face, how goals should they have conceded...

How do you get that from those stats? 😂 That is textbook, reading whatever you want from a statistic. MR has mentioned it enough times that our defending hasn’t been good enough, giving up 9 shots in the box against Ipswich is not all Collins fault. Our defending last season was so much better...

How would you measure performance, if not statistics? Performance athletes need objective markers of good performance. What does physical presence even mean to you and specifically, how do you measure it?

That’s why save % is also covered as well as PSxG. His April stats l would almost definitely be a lot worse and the pertinent point here is that he really hasn’t been as bad as some have claimed this season. ‘Command of box’ gets mentioned a lot, the best keeper for this category will stop...

£2m in the kitty? Get in.

The club has a 5 year plan and in the next 5 seasons, the expectation is to make the playoffs 3 of those seasons. We were in the playoff race more or less till the end. Objectively, it was a success because we met expectations. There’s a worrying trend of how teams who lose the playoff final...

That’s not what the stats are saying at all and you know it. Shows how much you read because it’s out of 31 GKs, not 20 and Ramsdale is ranked 19/31 and Raya is ranked 21st. The GKs playing for mid table / lower table teams are always over represented partly because they face more shots than...

Well, what does the data analytics community know that Grendel doesn’t? It does show that Collins has had the ‘easiest’ difficulty of shots faced alongside Allsop so really Collins should be performing better. Equally, the argument he’s one of the worst GKs we’ve had for years just doesn’t make...

What’s your expectation on our budget? The phrase “I’d have bought a ‘quality’ Championship striker” as if these players are readily available at a good price. Generally, they’re not. We’ve signed players from around 7 or 8 different leagues this season and we’ve finished 9th in the...

Enjoy. Bradley Collins has the highest shot saved % on 76.5% and second highest shot stops per 90m (Fotmob). @clint van damme for good measure. https://fbref.com/en/comps/10/keepers/Championship-Stats https://fbref.com/en/comps/10/keepersadv/Championship-Stats...

Have a look at the stats from the link I posted, a lot of GKs have conceded more goals than they should have. There’s a glossary of what each field means. I’ll use Cov as an example: As a team, our xG ‘post-shot’ for goals conceded is 52.1 goals, and the goals we’ve conceded (non-FK and...

For what it’s worth, I agree. Especially if we want to progress and it probably isn’t the number 1 priority as this season shown we had too thin a squad. I just don’t like the toxic narrative a lot of people have towards Collins. It’s the same with Burge, apparently not good enough for L2 yet...

If you really believe that and have looked into the stats, you wouldn’t hold the opinions you do on Collins. He’s saved more goals than he’s let in and one of the highest match ratings in the league. What you’re saying doesn’t hold up against the numbers. Specifically, relating to him starting...

That’s completely the wrong way around… This season has ended on a whimper because we have a thin squad and it got too much for them. Again, if you can win the golden glove with Ben Wilson in goal, GK really isn’t as important as you think. The Mourinho and SAF maxims about GKs being worth...