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Obviously. If you’re a football manager and you set up your tactics, you need to use lots of data to establish if performance is where it needs to be. We were underperforming on xG earlier in the season which would’ve suggested our tactics didn’t require any root and branch changes. So MR could...

That’s down to what exactly? Using that logic, we’re a better team with Simms/Godden upfront than Gyokeres. Which I’m sure we can both agree is simply not true. We’ve changed formation and improved our team across the board. Had we kept Hamer, he’d be the first name on the team sheet and we’d...

Would this team be better if Hamer was in it, yes or no? For me, the answer is absolutely yes. We miss his goals, assists and defensive contributions - he was box office. Eccles and Sheaf have stepped up this season, credit to them. But, neither of them are performing close to Hamer last...

Ambitious target indeed. If his agent is offering him around like that after a bid was accepted, the player probably wasn’t interested.

It’s precisely because it’s internet speak why it gets personal on here at times. Imagine some of these exchanges in real life? 😂

It was gamesmanship, for sure… Had Sunderland won it would’ve been a different story but they didn’t and it was their own fault. Broadcast in the stadium or not, both teams would’ve found out the final score one way or another. As both teams needed a draw, it suited both Bristol and ourselves...

I regret getting an early 8:30 train. It’s been a shit week personally for me so 3 points would be nice!

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.