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  1. No mention of a Lamborghini so has to be questionable how reliable a source that is.
  2. Well done Totton. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68499793
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    Gary Monk

    Well he will now be at home at The Abbey (before sponsorship and naming rights). Perhaps he’s still on that path.
  4. Something for the Statto’s out there: Swansea 0 - Luton 2 ( Swansea had 75% possession) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/62517792 Luton 1 - Swansea 0 ( Swans 58% possession). https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64760949 Second match - Nathan had left Luton at this stage and was about to get the push from Saints. Martin sent off in this game.
  5. Perhaps this is the first recorded use of ‘Brian’ in football speak. Growing up in the 1979’s I thought ”Well Brian, the wife and kids come first ..” was due to Brian Moore, but seems to predate him by a couple of decades.
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    Joe Aribo

    Players making dummy or decoy runs whatever they are called now, seldom get the recognition for this. For one thing it might be difficult for the analysts to ‘measure’ or record it as opposed to factually who passed the last ball to the scorer. So from yesterday, Smallbone has his straightforward pass registered as an assist, but his subsequent play in making space for Brooks - probably more significant in the goal - goes unnoticed. Tends to support the question over the reliability of such stats, in my view. Or perhaps he deserves two ‘assists’.
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    Joe Aribo

    Fair point perhaps. But it was probably more to do with the calibre of player suiting the game at the time.
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    Joe Aribo

    Probably true that it coincides with ‘fantasy football’, but playing my MLG card on this one, doesn’t it still rely on goals scored ? Creating missed opportunities does not register as an assist.
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    Joe Aribo

    Shame Saints didn’t employ a Data Analyst in the 50’s and 60’s,interesting to know how many assists Paine and Sydenham were credited with. Would no doubt come as a shock to some of the ‘new age men’ who think they’ve reinvented football.
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    Joe Aribo

    I’m with you two on this, Xg complete headwank in my book, “assists” not far behind. But if the modern hipster social media generation want to get a ‘hard on’ over it then fine but don’t spout it as if it’s written on a tablet of stone. The difference in making a goal strikes me as a Paine or a Sydenham beating a player, or an individual bit of skill setting up the opportunity, not the last player to pass it (possibly sideways a few yards) for someone else to do the business, Brooks yesterday for example.
  11. Presumably this is in jest. Seems to me they’re cut from the same cloth, obsessed with possession based football. Would be like replacing Tweedledum with Tweedledee. Have said before, I don’t think Maresca would have done any better with our squad. Although that’s completely hypothetical, like how RM might do with their squad. On balance, I think RM was the better choice of the two for us (however he ended up here as first or second choice).
  12. Easier said than done. Once published it’s clearly ‘out there’ and in the public gaze. Don’t fully understand it as I’m not of the Social Media generation, but once published others repeat it, even to condemn it. Press pick up on it and it’s then news rather than just being laid to lie low on an obscure account no one would otherwise look at. Whether the target is going into school or a training ground the next day, seems every likelihood that colleagues would be aware of it.
  13. Going forward it can be, I agree. But not between Bazunu and the defence across our own penalty area it isn’t. Well not for me anyway.
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