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They need to be cooped up in the office with the rest of the nerds apparently.

Yes. This kind of thinking is from a bygone era I’m afraid. I genuinely hope I’m not being too disrespectful in saying that.

Have they specifically ruined the playing side of things? As many people have pointed out, our results from Feb last season haven’t been great. The answer is no if we’re being specific. MR has spoken how the coaches need to develop and ‘grow into their roles’. They themselves are only human and...

You have a match day squad of 18-20? You may need a couple of physios/sports therapists to manage the warm-ups / ‘pre-hab’ and of course treatment. Have you ever been around a sports team on a matchday? My routine would be (as an amateur), get ready, have a bit of a jog/piss about and then the...

What do you mean specifically when you say this?

It’s not a literal 1% improvement, the concept is ‘continuous improvement’. Some of these changes don’t necessarily come into fruition overnight and not all ‘improvements’ have the desired effect and you need to go back to the drawing board. Is our setup abnormal compared to the rest of the...

Yes, you’re right that COH outperforms Rudoni on many of the attacking stats on a per 90 basis. This is true, however, COH played less games had a fantastic run of form that is and remains an outlier in his career which can skew the numbers. Particularly on a per 90m basis. Something you have...

Wright is the 5th top scorer in the league. You’re talking nonsense.

Physios/S&C coordinators are often the ones first taking the players out to warm them up. That’s normal even at amateur/semi-pro level sports. As for analysts, it’s part of the prep for match day and on match day it’s monitoring performance of ourselves and the opposition. There’s probably some...

I disagree with you on this one. The next 5-10 games will answer that. Past performance is no indicator of future success, but it’s worth noting that in 22/23 and the L1 title winning season serious questions were being asked of MR.

We actually don’t. A lot of the posters accusing people of ‘standing around’ are actually non-coaching staff I.e. medical staff, physios and analysts. There was a tweet doing the rounds where someone listed all the coaching staff and it’s normal staffing head counts for Championship teams.

Yes. It is worth it because the stats dispute your characterisation of COH. It was true in the seasons leading up to 22/23 but is no longer the case and is out of date. Compare the stats with Rudoni and COH this season and you should understand why Sheff U fans are frustrated with him.

As CMs? They have some good traits but we seen what happened with Euros when England put TAA in midfield despite his some of attributes being v suited to the position. Positioning wise, all over the place and think that would happen to JDS and Sakamoto. Sakamoto did play AM v QPR when he came on...

There’s a stronger case to tinker with the CM combinations than the strikers to be honest. We need someone in that area who carries the ball, puts more passes into the box and shoots more than Eccles and sheaf currently do. I was impressed with Torp’s cameo v QPR and if he did that consistently...

The underlying data metrics support this argument too. I have no problems with Eccles or Sheaf, but it has to be one or the other in this system. That is, if we’re actually serious about our aspiration to be a promotion calibre team. I’m pretty certain if you just added a player of Hamer or...

5th top scorer in the league, you’ve never liked him and never will. But, hey, 0 goals Bassette is the better signing right now! 👍🏻 I still cannot believe you tried to make that point the other day.

In most games, it has been an accumulation. Taking Tuesday as an example, QPR beat us on xG 0.77 v 0.72 (thereabouts) but they did that with double the shots (the source I checked did not include Simms chance that Wright put him through on). Undoubtedly, we created the better goal scoring...

I think we did against QPR, there was often moments where the midfield looked closer to a midfield 3 with Eccles and Rudoni supporting the respective WBs (as well as BTA and Wright) in wide channels. It’ll never quite be a flat 3 midfield as we know it because Eccles and Sheaf like to operate...

You have a look at Sheaf and Eccles passes into the final 1/3 and into the penalty area, it paints a picture. Both players are fantastic distributors pretty much everywhere in the pitch but the final third. It means our forwards are generally starved of the ball in areas we want them on it...

Generally like him but it’s borderline infuriating when he tries to hold onto the ball for two long in our own half and is dispossessed. Without boring everyone to death, 0 goal contributions from our midfielders in 14 games is why our strikers are firing blanks. We’re obsessing about how our...