Doctoroncall

Thanks, didn’t know the business was losing that level of money or players not have relegation clauses in contracts, makes you wonder why take on Aribo. Fatawu is the best winger in the Championship, 21 and would be worth more than Dibling. Mavididi is still decent and Monga has interest from many top European clubs. Don’t know the squad that well, there could be a couple of others to boost sales. Although the owner doesn’t go to many games, he watches live games and Doesn’t seem to be interested in selling up.

Does the owner have money troubles? They have some players that could easily sell to get about £150m. Wages are probably high, and like us are on the players more difficult to move.

Weren’t Blackburn doing well the first part of the season? Survival now depends on who they bring in to manage them, there was talk of Gary Rowett going there.

The other aspect is dealing with the pressure if the team do get into the playoffs. Can they remain there?

It’s the difficult part of finding a way he can play in the best team set up which contributes to the team rather than detracts. I’m no coach so wouldn’t have a clue how this issue is solved, only the usual ‘running into space’, ‘taking defenders out of position’ and ‘constantly running’ sort of stuff. 😜 #ThisIsWhereTondaEarnsHisMoney

I think Archer will play on Saturday, perhaps if he was a bit sharper from more match time the first minute chance would have been scored. With two CFs unable to last a game at the moment the third choice needs to be better than what Archer showed in the first half. Hoping with this current good feeling in the squad he does improve and can play in a way that helps the team go forward. Certainly Tonda is trying to make him feel he can do it with his comments post match.

Was he responsible for bringing in a couple of psychologists to help the team over their second half shortcomings? Maybe he’s the type of guy that doesn’t do much but can spot an issue and bring someone in to fix it?

If only his pay was linked to performance, I don’t think he would have been such an arse.

Unicycle in the end, happy he’s found balance.

The latter.

That’s a £55 beanie from Canadian company Arc’teryx!

All transfer will have data associated with the player. When Shields was around for example, he chose Man City players. When Sheffield United bought Ehije Ukaki this summer it was purely data driven

It just seems that SR are focused on clearing the decks as much as they can with many transfers out. Now (very much later than expected) the big man up front is confirmed to be the way to play, Still must be annoyed when it was clear Downs ability was not up to the standard and with Stewart in and out of medical care. Larin would be data driven choice, he seems to be motivated to enhance his chances to play In the World Cup this summer, hasn’t been able to deliver in Holland with his short cameos this season and wasn’t good in Spain, hence the loan. Question, is he ok at championship level playing to his supposed strengths? He does comes across as the cheap option and reinforces the season is over from SR. What is a worry is the summer recruitment, will it be Spors or the data taking the lead?

It certainly seems that SR decision makers have no clue how to turn things round as it stands, only to knock down what is there regardless of value and start from a clean state ie, break everything. The worrying part is the French club has shown how low things can go (has it bottomed out yet). What a complete shambles.

4th in the league. Money wise, no idea.

From the bit of reading around the Midtjylland FC, the scouting is for one club, it is integrated into the club and they follow it. The club has formal agreements with a network of over 100 ‘clubs’ (no idea of their status but in Denmark and N. Germany), partner clubs in Africa. The data analytics part has come from Benham, for use in the multi club model, so includes Brentford. Data Analytics applies to: player acquisition tactics - including set pieces, game strategy At Saints, it looks a bit different where scouts and analysts work together across the football teams. Ankersen’s spreadsheets, seem to be less integrated with Saints decisions makers - DoF favouring known markets (Man City academy, bundesliga, previous manager's clubs). All in all it seems a bit chaotic.

Are you trying to say the data analytics is using the force and Rasmus is a Sith Lord?

3-0. Bad unnecessary tackle to give a penalty away for the third.

I thought the Concussion protocol is 7-10 days.

What is annoying is that using data analysis can work. Saints have not even improved set pieces, where analytics can heavily help set up the play and influence a success outcome.

It reminds me of this quote “He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts — for support rather than illumination.” People think it’s easy doing some data analysis but don’t understand the biases, errors or the actual data.

I presume the relegation clause in players contracts would apply regardless of league demotion? Only thinking they would want out rather than being paid a lot less.

https://youtu.be/DbyrOBVDtR4?si=Rxm095RUDu2hbzpa

I think they are just shit at the data analysis part. Rasmus metrics are fools gold whereas at Brentford and Brighton they know what the data is worth and how it supports the football club.

It’s got to the stage of which three sides can save us from relegation as it seems the players can’t go out and not make fundamental mistakes which leads to losing the game.