Whitey Grandad

Some of them should be put out to grass.

That presupposed that the OBR figures were accurate. They should have been, but…

The fact that you take so much delight in a 2% theft from pensioners is very revealing. Shouldn’t you go back to your cupboard under the stairs cuddling your Brexit Bonus whilst muttering “My Precious, My Precious”?

Exactly. That he did pass it goalwards just shows how indoctrinated this system is in their heads. Most footballers are simple folk. They can only do one thing at a time. That’s why the training is so important.

Aren’t they all?

Agreed. “Don’t just do something. Stand there” (The White Rabbit)

But Bazunu wasn’t available yesterday and won’t be for a long time so why bring his name up? What am I missing?

Why? He blew the whistle for a foul.

“His driver”? Why am I reminded of this?

And you still don’t. In the words of the song “Let it go…”

Correct.

Of course it did. But how and why it happened is open to debate. So is our poor defensive record.

But the opposition doesn’t have to play along. They can leave a player or two up top to chase and press but the rest of them can relax and get organised. We would have been fine if Stephens had simply turned outside and looked forward instead of towards our goal. What he did was an unnecessary risk.

It doesn’t have to be one extreme or the other. It needs to be mixed up a bit, or a lot. Otherwise we’re predictable.

Thank you for this. As far as I can see it is an unproven theory. It depends on the opposition being enticed towards your own goal in order to create spaces amongst them but thus giving this theoretical 11:10 advantage but if the opposition hasn’t read the theory and doesn’t play along it’s like tossing an expensive Ming vase around and inviting the other team to come and get it.

Too may ifs and mights.

Or rather Not Good Enough

Ta. I didn’t see the incident. I think I was watching a recording but I fell asleep somewhere along the line.

Please remind me of the arguments ’for’

But we weren’t ‘successful’ all season. There were periods where we were going wrong. Let’s see how we get on this season.

No different from any other opinion.

DOGSO?

As Wellington said, “a damned close-run thing” (paraphrased). Were it not for the possession obsession I believe that we would have finished higher and more probably than not in an automatic spot. Yours is a classic case of Outcome Bias.

Successful? You might want to think again.

Me too. Is there any answer to this question?