Matthew Le God

Well as you seem to think the number of people who support something is an indicator, the number of followers I have on twitter, including sports journalists, professional footballers at Saints, members of Saints staff and Saints fans... show perhaps I'm not the big 'twat' you claim!

I didn't say that at all. You are now reading things I haven't said. The phrase 'even if I was' is not a confession that you are currently doing something. It is providing an alternate scenario.

I'm now doubting you understand what I mean by a 'fallacious position of argumentum ad populum'!

You've fallen into the fallacious position of argumentum ad populum yet again!

Can you provide an example of how it meets a description of superficial? Plus even if it was, being superficial on one forum for random Saints chat doesn't mean you are when in another role.

I've been the researcher on FM for 14+ years, that runs into hundreds of thousands of data points I've entered that are publicly accessible. I don't see how anyone else has more publicly available opinions on Saints than that.

Why is it not valid or relevant?

So that's a no then. More of my opinions on Saints related things are publicly available than any other person in history, so you had a lot to choose from! 😇

He prefers to watch Ali Dia in training and then play him in a Premier League game.

Can you give an example?

Saying someone's 'knowledge of the game is superficial' by the way they post is disrespectful and condescending. Putting 'I'm not being disrespectful' in front of it doesn't remove the disrespect or condescending nature of what follows.

I vote pony! You also didn't answer the second question! Are you not aware data from the game is used and paid for by many clubs, including Premier League clubs?

Why is it a 'silly game'? Are you not aware data from the game is used and paid for by many clubs, including Premier League clubs? Bizarre you remain so dismissive of it.

Bizarre how some people think saying 'no disrespect' allows them to then say something disrespectful straight afterwards! 🙄

No, because of my work for the 'silly little game' I've been approached by independent scouting companies and professional clubs to do work for them.

This isn't the 1980s Turkish, statistics in combination with attending games is how recruitment works in 2021. The small amount of professional scouting work I've had has come from working for SI for 14 years, so for you to dismiss FM as an irrelevant computer game not based on reality is bollocks.

Sure if you rely solely on broad stats it can be flawed. But you can get stats that break that down further which then do make them relevant and useful. The 'key passes' stat for example.

Depends what you consider 'decent' and why is that relevant anyway? I've been paid to scout for professional teams... how about you?

You clearly haven't had access to modern scouting databases then.

What about it in particular have you enjoyed?

@Turkish Are you enjoying it?

Stats are based on real life actions! 🙄 Many football opinions are not based on reality of what happened in games.

Ward-Prowse out did Phillips last season for... - goals - assists - shots per game - aerial duels won per game - key passes per game - fewer bad controls - total passes per game - crosses per game - pass completion

Removing it doesn't alter your statement in a meaningful way. So the rebuttal is still valid.

That is a complete red herring of a statement, the same can be said of any team that gets to a European final!