Matthew Le God

Alex Crook is completely clueless as to the working of any professional club, he has shown now for years that he lacks contacts within clubs. I asked him to link to an article of his that wasn't predated by someone else and came true and he struggled badly. He is a 'copy and paste journalist'...

Playing Devil's advocate... Hull the day before Silva - 3 points from safety Hull at the end of season - 6 points from safety

How about judge a manager on his merits and ability rather than rule the majority of the world population out for not being British?

Of course it has potential flaws as it is hard to give statistics for how good the resulting flick on was. But I've seen Saints fans claim he wins 'nothing in the air'... which is clearly nonsense. I'm Tyler Durden!

Who?

What evidence do you have to support that? 18th for home record after 14 out of 19 home games is a pretty damning statistic!

What factor is that? Newcastle have the 18th worst home record in the Premier League in 2017/18. This "St. James' Park" factor has not helped them so far! If anything it is a hinderance!

Looks like you could well be right! If we had a competent manager who knows... we could beat this Arsenal rabble of players...!

If someone hasn't had a managerial role in the 5 years it is usually for a good reason. For example... they are happy with effective retirement, happy working in the media, considered a dinosaur for modern football and are out of touch with the modern game etc etc. How many examples of clubs picking such a manager out of work for 5+ years are there? An extremely rare event (if ever)

I'd guess he is trying to call you out on your ability to judge player quality.

If they lose today (still possible with 70 minutes to go), they'd be 3 points ahead. That isn't 'away into the distance'.

https://www.whoscored.com/

Why? (tbh I'm not sure why he choose not having a managerial job in the last five years as the criteria)

As post 219 in this thread shows, he is doing significantly better than any of our other current striker options (plus Lambert and Pelle) at winning aerial duels. Problem is Pellegrino sets up with him often isolated from supporting players to benefit from his hold up play and flicks ons/knockdowns.

Acceleration, pace, work rate/closing down... not many (if any) better at those in our squad.

The stats are averages per game, so it doesn't matter how long they were playing for. It is an average per 90 minutes.

None of these meet the criteria asked for in the opening thread. Can Saints fans not read!?

I refer you to post 8 in this thread.

For those in this thread that think Carrillo is rubbish in the air... - Guido Carrillo is averaging winning 6.4 aerial duels per Premier League game in 2017/18 - Shane Long is averaging winning 2.2 aerial duels per Premier League game in 2017/18 - Charlie Austin is averaging winning 1.6 aerial duels per Premier League game in 2017/18 - Manolo Gabbiadini is averaging winning 0.5 aerial duels per Premier League game in 2017/18 - Graziano Pelle averaged winning 3.7 aerial duels per Premier League game in his last season at Saints in 2015/16 - Rickie Lambert averaged winning 1.8 aerial duels per Premier League game in his last season at Saints in 2013/14

Really...? An inconvenient truth for you... - Guido Carrillo is averaging winning 6.4 aerial duels per Premier League game in 2017/18 - Shane Long is averaging winning 2.2 aerial duels per Premier League game in 2017/18 - Charlie Austin is averaging winning 1.6 aerial duels per Premier League game in 2017/18 - Manolo Gabbiadini is averaging winning 0.5 aerial duels per Premier League game in 2017/18 - Graziano Pelle averaged winning 3.7 aerial duels per Premier League game in his last season at Saints in 2015/16 - Rickie Lambert averaged winning 1.8 aerial duels per Premier League game in his last season at Saints in 2013/14

Unlike your avatar...

Not likely to be much of a training ground manager... as 73 years old with arthritis. He hasn't had a managerial job in 17 years!

If given the option of the two jobs, I struggle to see why he would. We can compete and win a wage battle with West Brom, so if given the choice why would he pick them?

Normally the previous captain needs to leave before an SOS goes out for a new one.

I'm guessing you didn't vote for him as player of the year last season... when he rightly deserved it. I know he hasn't been as good this season, but to call him an "awful midfielder" is ridiculous.