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Godden put in a good shift to be fair, he pressed Leicester City and alongside the midfield, made them uncomfortable at times. I fancy Palmer for a goal today, I think he’s looked good in recent games. Personally, I’d probably start Simms but as you say, he looked good out wide so perhaps keep...

Where do you think that team would end up in the table if they averaged 2.25 goals a game and expected to concede 0.04? They would probably be comfortably league leaders. Again, xG is a performance indicator in the longer term. Likewise, if you’re a manager, even if you win 1-0 away with an xG...

Co’mon now, they missed one big opportunity. We had a pretty big opportunity missed ourselves at 0-0.

Deeney just had the angst of someone out of their depth and lashed out at the people around him. How does a manager get a 4 match ban for verbal abuse? If you he said what he said about Dabo publicly, it makes you think how he spoke to his players behind closed doors. It doesn’t paint a pretty...

People like the guy in that video who slate xG just misunderstand what it is. In of its self, it isn’t important. However, it’s a key performance indicator. It is rarely the case that a team will be low on defensive xG and high on attacking xG and be lower down the table. At the start of the...

3rd or 4th. I imagine we’d mean us taking points off Ipswich, Southampton and Leeds in the given scenario. We play two of those teams at home too…

Bullet points are you friend here😂

It’s all about context. If he was a fan, it’s not a massively unfair thing to say. But, he’s not a fan, he’s a football manager - his boss. His job is to rally a struggling team and those in the malicious fashion that it was, undermined that. He had to go. Think about it this way: If your...

That quote about Dabo was something a football fan would say in the pub after a few too many beers. It was unprofessional, ugly and unacceptable. Who would want to play for a coach like that? Especially targeting a player for a moment in their career that would cause them pain is classless.

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With Shipley, he scored a goal in the playoff final and he got promoted twice with us. To be fair, he scored quite a decent amount of goals and goal scorers get more adulation. All that said, Shipley has criticised a lot in the Championship - ‘not fit to wear the shirt’ was said a lot about him...

It’s naive to expect a 1:1 spend on transfer revenue in and out. There’s the fees we’ve supposedly paid, the agent fees and player wages to take into account to. Which is going to increase as well. To make any player the highest paid player by a margin can be problematic and raise wage...

To be rebranded in Red Bull kits like Leipzig and Salzburg? Hard pass.

I like Eccles but if we want to progress to the next level, he’ll probably slip down the pecking order in my view. Sheaf and Eccles have stepped since Hamer has left, but is that area of the pitch better than last season? I’d say no. Even before COH got injured last season, we generally...

£15m is probably what I’d expect to get for Hamer with 2-3 years left on his contract rather than just the 1 year. We got lucky that Sheffield Utd appear to have got a bit desperate to make a signing.

Agreed, but I would imagine Torp has kept relatively fit as I’d imagine he was aware that a move was probably happening in January. Whilst there’s no rush to play him, MR will be keen to give game time as soon as he’s ready.

IIRC, on the Sporting side they sold themselves as a destination to develop and attract a massive move in the future. In hindsight, Sporting has gave him a better opportunity to put himself in the shop window than say, the host of Prem clubs supposedly interested; Wolves, Palace, West Ham and...

There was nothing for Doug to lose his nerve over. Fans get carried away with emotions which is why you had people on here questioning the ownership, signings, MR and his team. It’s often the case that we’re short term Even at our lowest, the xG table had us at 6th and whilst those kind of...

Our away results since PNE (since changing formation): - Millwall, 3-0 win - Ipswich, loss 2-1 - with a missed penalty and conceding a world class goal - Leeds 1-1 draw - Sunderland, 3-0 win - Middlesborough, 3-1 win Our away record is just as good as our home record atm. The reality is that...

Wright is out with an adductor tear and best case he’s out for the next ‘week or two’. With that in mind, I’d stick with the same team that started against Leicester. Potentially starting Simms over Godden. The reason being that I’d expect us to be in possession more against Wednesday so...