Whitey Grandad

I wouldn’t call them mistakes, unless you’re referring to the suicidal passes themselves. We invite pressure and pressure causes turnovers. In the two recent instances the only solution was for the recipient of the pass to hoof the ball upfield unceremoniously, in which case what was the point of the pass in the first place? See, this is what I don’t get. If it doesn’t go wrong we may have passed the ball around four or five times simply to end up back where we started. How is creating an extra man or more importantly, ever going to lead to a goal for us?

I take it that you don’t?

I was 13 at the time and living near Harwich. I remember it well. There were piles of snow and ice on the pavements for months. The winter term at school was supposed to be the football term but we never played one game. Even the sea froze along the river Stour and along my beach.

There you go again.

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There you go again. You cannot project last season’s performance onto this. We are playing in a drastically different environment. We keep giving the ball away on the edge of our box and even inside it not because of mistakes but because we invite the opposition to come and take it off us.

You’re right. A bigger sample gives a better indication. That shows that we finished fourth and conceded 63 goals. The fallacy is in assuming that we got promoted because of the style of football and not despite it.

Can you tell what it is yet?

He’s a one-scoop cornet.

It’s a direct consequence of playing “his way”.

Finding a freshly opened conker. That beautiful shiny chestnut colour doesn’t last for long.

Damn! You’ve reminded me about another place that I’ve always wanted to go to. I’ve got a pile of Virgin Atlantic Flying Miles and a couple of companion vouchers to use but unfortunately they don’t fly there and anyway I lost my lovely companion about this time last year. I must start investigating again.

Keep it quiet or they’ll all be at it.

Very low. If you asked him where the goal was he’d say “What’s a goal?”

You don’t actually have to tell anybody although they do say that confession is good for the soul. #saintsfansanonymous

That’s a single event. The key word here is ‘must’. Giving the ball away does not inevitably lead to a goal even though it makes it more likely.

Spot on. How is it that so many of us can see all this yet he’s still in a job? Maybe, but he’s not wrong.

Indeed. By avoiding our own penalty area our whole game was moved 25 yards further up the pitch and without the need to keep creating triangles our back line was more straight and solid.

A classic example of Outcome Bias. Similar to “Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc“. The fallacy that because B followed A then B must have been caused by A.

Four games ago we were playing at a lower level. As I have to keep reminding you. If he plays five at the back I shall scream. If he shoehorns in Stephens I shall scream even louder. He’s a waste of space. 433 is a much better option. We already play an open game. It’s just that we’re wide open at the back. Are you really making comparisons with the Cardiff game? They’d sold out of programmes so I didn’t have a clue who the players were on either side. I spent most of the game looking at the lineups on my phone.

I shall be in Vancouver for the weekend of 5th and 6th October and I see that they have a game around then. I might try and pop along.

As the saying goes, Turnover is Vanity, Profit is Sanity, Cash is Reality

But if you score a goal you lose possession. This must never be allowed.

I though their were five stages of grief?

Good for him. I hope he enjoys his time there.