Whitey Grandad

Yes, great fun but nothing to do with real football. Neither side was blameless.

His wife didn't want to leave the area. I believe he had an offer from West Ham.

Discipline? They were going down all over the pitch with fake injuries.

Forensic is a dirty little cheat though. He hardly got touched yet he managed to roll over a few times just so that he could end up on the pitch.

I never knew that we were at war?

If we did you can bet it would rain

I just wish he’d stick to a winning formula once he’s found it instead of tinkering just for the sake of it.

It also doesn't take into account that any individual chance might have been created by that particular striker. Someone 7ft tall is going to get more heading chances than someone who is 5ft 2"

In the olden days they always used to say that goals were scored from one in six chances typically. In Saints' case make that one in twenty. Does XG take into account the name of the team that's playing?

Russia wanted to keep Ukraine as a buffer against NATO and the west. Doesn’t the same apply the other way?

Yeah, obviously fake. I’m surprised anybody would fall for that.

Their sixth goal involved three shots in succession the first two of which were saved brilliantly by Forster before Mount slammed home the third. How does XG handle a situation like that since Mount was only able to latch onto the loose ball as a direct result of the previous two shots?

But then we’d have nothing to talk about

So what’s the problem with that?

He should never have been appointed. Dreadful anti-football. I’d rather watch my toenails grow.

No I’m not. No it wasn’t. Unless you count success as sending everybody off to sleep and driving all your customers away.

NATO didn’t have to do anything. Just by being in existence it was seen as a threat by Putin and enough for him to start a war.

He missed an open goal opportunity yesterday.

Maybe that’s why he got it so wrong. But I suppose that’s what you meant.

Only one of those was at home For me, the performance yesterday was on a differ level of awfulness to the Leicesters game. In that one there were a couple of mitigations, an unjust red card, everything they hit seemed to fly into the goal. Chelsea were just operating on a different planet. It was as though they were playing a side from two or three divisions below themselves.

Perhaps he improved Moi by loaning him out? 🥴

Possibly, and we can never know, but any promise can only have been to the player himself and not to any third party. As you say, the plan might be to give him as much playing time as possible both to improve him as a player and to showcase his talents but I don’t think it’s ever a good idea for any player to think that his place in the team is guaranteed.

No, it wouldn’t have been a fluke. XG can only consider the shots that were actually taken. It can never take account of the shots that might have been taken. Chelsea took their foot off the throttle (and we were being well and truly throttled) and had they wanted to or had they needed to they could take turned the screw even further. Fortunately for us, out of respect or out of desire to play within themselves, they chose to play out the last half hour without over exerting themselves. XG can only consider the probabilities of what actually took place and not what could have taken place and is consequently a meaningless concept.

Once he’s our player it’s up to us to decide when and if he plays.

How can that be? Chelsea had 24 shots 14 of which were on target and in these also hit the bar and the post.