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Good luck correcting an ‘error’ that wasn’t stated as fact. I said it gives ammunition to those who decry “two tier justice” and in politics and public opinion, perceptions matter much more than reality. Most people aren’t familiar with guidelines and I’m sure if you went around and asked...

EMC is better than Sakamoto and it’s not close. I’m confident EMC will end up with more goals than Sakamoto this season barring injury.

Yep, everyone needs to enjoy the ride because this season could truly be a special one to part of!

You don't need to take my word for it when there's detailed analytic tools that gives you heat maps of the players positions. For example, Rudoni literally only ever in a central position in the box, otherwise he's on either wing (more right than left) creating overloads and that's why most of...

At this point, our form is so strong you look at the fixture list and can't see a game where you think we'll lose. The early warning signs are there though. In our last 2 home games we've lost on 'xG' and anyone at the Watford game will have seen Rushworth stop 2 massive chances for Watford and...

For sure, my views on immigration are reasonable and possibly influenced more by left leaning people than right. On students, the student visa route is being used as a trojan horse for permanent settlement and there's many students transitioning from this visa to the social care route and...

Based on polling, the public generally want 0-100k net migration. Ultimately, the public just want reassurance that migration is controlled and people who do come integrate and provide an economic benefit. Post-Brexit, EEA migration has been cut but unfortunately its been supplanted by non-EEA...

My hope is that we'll remain unbeaten going into the international break. Gut instinct is that we'll lose one between them, probably Sheff U or Stoke but I won't discount Wrexham. Come Jan, I expect us to be proactive in the transfer market because if now isn't the right time to 'go for it'...

A lot of the early comments were harsh, especially v Oxford where it's easy to criticise a wall being in the 'wrong' place after a team scores from it. As Wayne Bridge found out... 😂

For Walsall they lost a key loan player and stuff like this happens lower down the EFL pyramid. With us, the only thing that could hold us back is injuries. We're already managing Haji and EMC's minutes because they rarely finish games and come off the same time most games - recent results have...

Lampard's most successful team as a player was under Mourinho when they went around 1,000 minutes without conceding. When you got past Gallas, Terry, Carvalho and Ferreria - you had to beat Cech in goal. All top teams need good goalkeepers because the opposition will fashion chances no matter...

Starting to see why we bid £5.5m for him in the summer! We definitely should've conceded more goals this season and Rushworth has been a big reason for that.

EMC and Sakamoto positionally are similar, they both start wide and cut in to their stronger foot. See Sakamoto's assist yesterday, and for his goal was in a central position. Heat maps of both players confirms this (season)...

The formation when we play BTA and Haji is 4-4-2. When Rudoni plays, it is a distinctively different shape. It really isn’t ridiculous to suggest keeping our two top scorers centrally and BTA not only our top scorer now, but also 3 goals shy of Rudoni’s goal tally for last season. Add onto...

When I see comments like that, it smacks of rose tinted glasses. You see the same faces at most away days so struggle to believe the support has changed materially, imo.

I thought Pompey away was a more atmospheric support than I’ve been too for a while. Tense games can often lead to tense crowds and I can be quiet when it gets like that.

It’s true he’s scored a few goals playing RW/LW but as a player, he makes all his big plays in central positions. I could wrong here, most of his goals playing wide comes from the right rather than the left. If that is the case, the solution isn’t as straightforward as putting BTA at LW...

We over performed our xG and Watford underperformed theirs. Both teams created 3 ‘big chances’ and both teams scored 1 albeit one of those high xG chances was the penalty, which from my angle looked like a good save from Rushworth. The game defining moment was Watford missing that early 1v1 and...

Nah, BTA and Haji need to remain central if they keep up their form. BTA is getting most of goals playing centrally. If anything, there’s a more compelling case to play 5-3-2.

Thought the second half was garbage. All things considered, 3-0 up and a 11 v 10 men, the game was effectively over. Looking at Watford’s xG v ours paints the picture that we were v lucky. 3-1 was not a fair reflection of how the game actually went. Take the 3 points and learn from the game...