Saint_clark

You can deny it all you like but we did have that many shots on goal.

Was it on them or the guy being interviewed though? I never actually listened to it/read it but thought people on here said it seemed like the guy had an axe to grind.

Aribo will come in and do very well in CM I have no doubt.

What should he do instead then, flip the table and walk out?

If he's continually asked the same questions though he's going to have to give the same answers, surely.

Given the type of chances we've been missing already i'm not sure what type of chances you're expecting. 67 shots on goal in the last 3 games and 2 goals scored. How many chances do you want us to create!?

Greatest example of false economy. Just giving him the (reported) £7million a year he wanted would have cost us far, far less than the amount we spent on hiring and sacking managers in the few years after.

Not trusting Manning at left back instead of LWB, and both right backs injured maybe.

Rangers fans were NOT blaming summer recruitment. They were all absolutely clear that the manager was the issue.

Exactly why I still think we should be sticking with him.

Awoniyi is still frozen out at Forest, could be available for a loan to buy deal.

Based on your subjective opinion rather than the cold hard facts.

Looking at the league below for a potential goalscorer within out budget, there's a young 20 year old called D. Ballard who is joint 2nd top scorer in the league, could be a good one to come in and get on the end of some chances whilst having plenty of time ahead of him to develop.

Not Stephens FFS, surely the last game has reminded everyone why he shouldn't even be an option off the bench.

Maybe we should put him up front, he started as an outfield player after all. It's hilarious that he's never looked more confident in going for the ball than when he's in the opposition box. What's the lesson, "you aren't as good as Real Madrid"? I think they might have known that already.

Kevin Danso centreback for Spurs going third in the league tonight. Him and Van Der Ven were immense. Another player slated by Saints fans way too early due to poor performances with no consideration given to him being a young player playing out of position in a new country for the first time.

Right...because they are better at taking the chances they create than we are. You're making out that Saints are the only side engaging in the stats side of the game and that's why we're struggling - news flash, the majority of professional teams in the world use these stats to analyse their players and team performances now.

Similarly, Che Adams up front in this team would make all the difference.

Agreed, gone are the days when the manager is in charge of everything. If the sports science department says a player is fit and the player doesn't say otherwise, the manager will go by what they say. Football clubs don't invest heavily in those departments just for them to be ignored.

There's no faith being put in anything. It's just another way of tracking certain stats. Our XG tells us that we are creating a lot of chances and some of them very good, but our finishing is poor - something we have all said anyway.

I used 90% as an example because that's what you hear people saying, even though as you said it's nonsense. XG has shown us that.

What is the way you'd verbalise an historical 90% (or any other percentage) conversion rate of a specific type of chance then?

They must have genuinely thought Stewart would stay fit, which makes me wonder whether someone in the medical/sports science department who signed off on his fitness reliability will be given the boot.

You know when someone misses a chance and someone in the pub says "that gets scored 9 times out of 10"? That's just another way of saying an XG of 0.9.

I'm not far off it at the moment.