Farmer Saint

Well why don't we try to bring in Klopp then. Make him interested as you say.

Yeah, nothing to do with Stephens or Bednarek, two of the worst PL defenders of all time. RMs tactics are partially to blame, but these two weren't even in our team last time in the Prem, and we conceded nearly as many with better defenders and supposedly better tactics. Stephens and Bednarek are known for huge lapses in concentration. I don't think anyone can get them to play like PL players.

But he's not interested.

I'd give Danny Rohl a try tbh.

The issue is we've bought players to play in a certain style, RM's. As part of this we didn't replace Che who is very good at holding up the ball - which is why even when we clear it long now the ball comes straight back. As a club we've gone balls deep on this strategy. It doesn't help that our players are not good enough in general for the PL, and funnily enough I thought for the first half an hour until we lost Stephens (and even a few attacks after that) we looked very good going forward. This issue is, and has always been, defensively we are dog shite.

Yep, agree with that.

But that's not a benchmark. To benchmark you need to compare to other managers.

I'm trying to give you perspective - without perspective what you're saying is meaningless because you'd have no idea how to benchmark.

We all think he should be sacked, what's your point?

Sheffield United had 5 and are now top, not sure what your point is?

Last time we were in the PL we conceded 1.92 goals per game, now it's 2.14. Not really much of a difference, and we had a better defence player-wise in 2022/2023.

XG is not to do with what happened with the shot, it's the probability that an average player would score. Therefore you will tend to see better teams outscoring their XG, and teams like us with shit players underperforming their XG. For instance, a penalty has an XG of 0.79.

Where's your laughy face?

28 of 30 now for the Muslim rapist.

Agree with this. That defence wouldn't hold up in League 1, let alone the Championship, and then when you lose one of them to being a massive twat...

I think we're just predisposed to think that players have done well when in actual fact they haven't.

It's insights like this that we just couldn't get anywhere else.

I'd rather get a hotel room with Ched Evans.

Heavily into VEChain and Moonbeam. Just don't know when to sell...

And yet he's still better than McCarthy.

It's 3 Premier League wins since Ralph went isn't it?

Genuine loling at that one

Fuck me though, this Chelsea side are really quite impressive when they play.

We do look good going forwards though at least - I feel we've kinda fixed that 🤣

Great tackle by Wood.