You're a decent sideImagine the hammerings we'll get when we play decent sides.
Think we were lucky to have the team we had last season and how good they were. Was always going to be difficult to replace the big 2 departures and while we were never going to get like for like replacements, the big money signings so far have been very underwhelming.
I for one am certainly feeling very deflated about things at the moment and certainly don’t get the excitement of going to games like last season.
no disrespect to the guy, but it says everything about our transfer business/ state of play , when I’m looking forward to having Jamie Allen back in the team
Lose on Monday with the Invincibles/Rotherham winning and that ceases to be the case. People including me do need to chill, but playing worse each week with bad results against bad teams is concerning.
Wish people would stop with the fucking " XG" bollocks.
Pointless shite.
You never replied to @stupot07 when he gave Bidwells stats - was he correct?
It is bollocks to be fair. To all intents and purposes, Simms headed chance in our second halfwas our best chance of the game. But XG was only 0.04 according for footystats, and Goddens chance (from a replay I didn't even think he touched it) in the 3rd minute was 0.40 XG.Wish people would stop with the fucking " XG" bollocks.
Pointless shite.
Wheels off at Middlesbrough?I don’t really know what’s best except it probably isn’t the current setup.
Not at Middlesbrough.
True story: I rang the Samaritans once. First time no one picked up. Second time was the worst emotional support I’ve ever had and I come from a family of autists.
The one good thing was I was so annoyed at how crap they were it cheered me up a bit.
Vik and Gus gone. Cal off, new signings got the heart of someone off to see the wizard. Old players looking past it.
Reckon Robins will go before the start of next season and we’ll be another bang average over paying Championship club with no identity and no hope. End of an era. Play off final was a season finale.
How did it manage to keep 20+ clean sheets then?To be honest I don’t think our actual ‘team’ was even that good. Yes Hamer and Gyokeres were class and basically carried us.
O’Hare was injured most of the season
McNally only joined end of Jan
Godden, Dabo & Kelly were injured for a lot of it
We had Walker and Waghorn
We couldn’t believe our luck that Wilson kept that many clean sheets but a lot of those games he didn’t actually have anything to do, yes he did pull off some superb saves at times and scored the goal that to be honest put us in the playoffs
Let’s not just think of it as a total success… We had A LOT of dead wood in that team.
Like Robins says, building a whole new team takes time to get them to gel and work out how they all compliment eachother. Keep the faith
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Yep, end of an era, its over for them, manager will be gone and they'll soon be a bang average, no hope championship club.Wheels off at Middlesbrough?
Vik and Gus gone. Cal off, new signings got the heart of someone off to see the wizard. Old players looking past it.
Reckon Robins will go before the start of next season and we’ll be another bang average over paying Championship club with no identity and no hope. End of an era. Play off final was a season finale.
True story: I rang the Samaritans once. First time no one picked up. Second time was the worst emotional support I’ve ever had and I come from a family of autists.
The one good thing was I was so annoyed at how crap they were it cheered me up a bit.
We’ll be in an HITC video with Dabo as the thumbnail by the end of the season
My IAPT assessment went so well I was on the phone for three times the length of the scheduled appointment and at the end the guy asked me if I needed a crisis contact number to phone in an emergencyHad a similar experience with IAPT (NHS Mental Health Support) six years ago.
Very good, except you missed:If you’ve never watched one of those HITC videos then please do, the geezer’s voice that does the videos is so dull and monotone, almost quite funny at times, and I know I’m found of a comma but there’s wayyyy too many in his monologues.
“So what has happened at Coventry City? As you all know, or I hope you do, Coventry, a city of around 300,000, is located in the West Midlands, just east of Birmingham. But why have they performed so poorly? Well, to say the least, or to not put too fine a point on it, they have, some would say, had a strange purchasing strategy. The club wanted to generate revenue, as well as points of course, but their strikers, or forwards, as well as many others, didn’t live up to, or come anywhere near to, the expectations many fans, or even the manager, hoped would be achieved from the highlight reels they watched.”
I know I write a fair chunk when I’m arguing the toss but that guy just waffles on and on and on. Could literally sum up a 30 min HITC video in 5 mins
I think we bottled lightning for 3/4 years with a special group of players and they’ve gone.
Yes agree - now that Hutch and Stein have gone, we'll never recover.
Had a similar experience with IAPT (NHS Mental Health Support) six years ago. Was sent an emotion-based questionnaire and got a followup call. Call was late, interviewer was terse and never allowed me to give context to my answers. End of the call, she sounded either bored or couldn't be arsed. I ended the call in tears, much worse than when I'd answered the call.
As it happens, I was calling about support for my social anxiety (at my GPs request). I can only say that it was a good job that I wasn't phoning about having suicidal thoughts.
Can you do the Brian Clough voice as well, young man ?We have a good team on paper, unfortunately the game is played on grass.
If we beat west brom it's 3 wins and a draw in 6, and 10 points which is mid table stuff. Anything less and it's much less healthy. An important fixture, this one.
It's complete tokenism, they talk about parity of esteem for mental and physical health but I'm not sure you'd find many physical health services provided by the voluntary sector for an absolute pittance with unqualified staff.Had the exact same experience with IAPT, took another two years to go and try therapy again after. It’s ridiculous isn’t it?
I’ve had time to reflect on Wednesday’s performance and it probably wasn’t as bad as people are making out. Ok, we have some very very(!) flat spells, but we did create chances. There’s more to be done, absolutely, but I don’t think we’re miles off where we need to be performance-wise.
As ever, I’ve dived into a stats-hole and looked at our xG at both ends, amongst other things. In terms of Attacking xG (i.e. goals we ‘should’ have scored) we’re 9th on 18.6 (vs actual goals of 17). We’re joint-2nd on ‘Big Chances Missed’ with 22 of them already. This suggests finishing is the issue which I don’t think is unreasonable. We’re seemingly missing the easier chances and scoring from more difficult opportunities.
On the defensive side of things, our Defensive xG is the 2nd best in the league on 12.7, only behind Leicester. However, we’ve conceded 16 which suggests either our opponents are finishing chances brilliantly, or there are question marks over the keeper. To the eye, Wilson seems to be having a reasonable season but his ‘Goals Prevented’ is -1.8, meaning he’s letting in perceived easier chances than an average keeper. He massively overperformed on this metric last season, but is languishing at 16th in the league this year.
In short, both ends of the pitch are underperforming but fundamentally we don’t seem to be set up that poorly. Few minor tweaks (I still favour going to the box) and we should be looking better.
Edit: interesting addition to the above - the only games where the opposition have outperformed us on xG are Middlesbrough (won 3-0) and Hull (drew 1-1).
Did someone mention xG?
Think about it a little...
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