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Concern regarding escalation, with the Russians bringing out their full tank reserves?

Welcome back to TalkSport, with moments to go before the window SLAMS shut. I'm Jim White and I...one moment, over to St Mary's...where the Saints have signed...um...a Mr Rabbit....Well paw printed, if not signed. Some will no doubt question Mr Rabbit's small stature, dazed expression and ears that may give an unfair advantage when defending corners. Some may see this as a desperate move, despite the fetching hat Che Adams brings Mr Rabbit out in. But when has Saints' decision to follow their own path, despite the risk, ever gone wrong....oh...

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Further into his speech is "Football forums create GMs." 🙂

Following Thiel's logic PayPal creates poverty, Facebook creates hate, tech companies destroy culture, and speaking engagements creates imbeciles. I don't know he faces each morning through the shame. 🙂

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Caught 30 seconds of 606 with Savage and Sutton while making tea. Something very much like... "Oh yes, Wright and Bright. They were a great partnership." "Have you had any great partnerships, Chris?" "One or two" "Do you think we're a great partnership, Chris?" "It's not for us to say, Robbie. If we were to say we were great, then we'd sound like Nathan Jones."

Even based on a potential impact from our new signings, JWP being more attacking, and NJ's tactics continuing to bed in, you're a bit more confident on that one than me. 🙂

It means your keyboard is broken. 🙂

The Price of Football podcast covers various things like this regularly, giving an accessible perspective on how clubs creatively get round various rules. Mine too for a couple of decades. One day I'll actually take it down and use it to....oh, what's the word... 🙂

That LGBTQ+ shirt looks nicer every time I see it. It has horizontal stripes, but not hoops, and yet isn't the traditional stripes. A unifying contender for our next kit? Certainly no trouble picking out direct passes in the Jones style to other players, which could be a tiny bit helpful to its effectiveness (whew, back nearer the thread subject) 🙂

"I'm being paid by/ I'm setting up a company that sends random gifts to your partner, because you're too stupid to know how the calendar works. How much would you be prepared to be fleeced for?" The dissertation threads continue to be disappointing.

perhaps a quick word switch will reveal more... Well-oiled people acting like we're now a unit, rather than huff and puff merchants who ground out a win against terrible opposition. Aha! 🙂

Sadly, I didn't think there was any shortage of them. Very few of them even have coaching badges.

Unless the lord, well known for being a smarty pants because he's seen all football matches ever, was speaking through Nathan about how pleased He was that His plan worked out.

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Thanks for the updates!

Christian Times, 13/01/22, Sports Supplement. Forum cheap shots on someone's beliefs will get double naughty points when judged at the pearly gates, whether they were predetermined by the structure of any deity's universe or not. 🙂

The good blocks and some good positions he took up, not all in the highlights bit above outweighed some rustiness, over strong passing and other bits and pieces. With our manager doing his usual biting his nails to the quick, no league win since he took over, their manager looking like a dead man walking in a brittle atmosphere of protest with both sets of fans desperate to get some points... he did okay. 🙂

It is a limited stat. The "very" varying over time as depth is added. The use of taggers and the gaps outlined in SaintlyAnd's posts show just how limited it is. And I'd agree it does have a place when used by those specialisng in coaching. Even using xG in isolation is to ignore all of the other stats being generated now. All of which, across a period of time (season/ seasons) add to the information available to the coaching staff specialising in it. But they do have a place. From simple things like determining that your forward keeps thumping it from a position unlikely to score, or that you concede from a lot of corners aimed at a certain area in the box, to using the data to develop styles of play to maximise your chances of using attributes that suit your team. Football hackers mentioned a German ex-player/journalist who trotted out “packing” as the new big thing. He went on about it so much, that it set the whole thing back. And we see that with xG and its numerous fellow figures. Trotted out to fill a graphic, and some air time by commentators and hacks. We point out their useless analysis on everything else, so it’s no surprise this wouldn’t be used well either. But there’s no doubt while the press were going on about Potter’s chances at Brighton, the analysis that they were doing was telling them just how much they were getting right/ to their plans. That helped, not all by itself, lead to long term consistency and a sustainable Premier League team (along with lots of other metrics they also work away at. Because they know it’s not just about one thing, even if some broadcasters/ bandwagon jumpers clearly don’t.)