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The kids a million miles away from the required level. Poor off the ball, and not much better with it.

What a fucking surprise.

Crap decision making again from Edozie. Never spots the runners.

I'm not sure if AMN is playing football or hide and seek.

It's a sort of back 4. Lyanco tucking in though.

If that's the plan, it's Jones best tactical decision yet.

... leaving Aribo alone in midfield 😨

Unless injured, I'd guess he's on the way out. Makes no sense to drop him and have Finnigan on the bench who played an hour last night. Weird.

Those nippers played an hour last night for the B team. Very odd that they're featuring today.

Ha!! We already have paramount, so just trying to get maximum value on it. Just need to find a VPN with free Oz access.

Indeed. Bowl a ball. Hit a ball. Chase a ball. Throw a ball. I guess you can figure out what balls a batter struggles to hit, but I can't see anything to analyse above that. Football, you can analyse lots more, but that only tells you part of the story - there is no substitute for watching the game and observing.

And good players. There is no doubting that being the lower league Man City had it's positives. Crazy times.

My contact was loose lipped and his position meant that he knew all that there was to know. What was said about Cortese was frightening, and had the bloke stayed we would have been properly in the shit. Changing plans on the training ground on a whim, and after footings had been dug was unreal. It was an ego trip with someone elses money. That all said, it was fun while it lasted!!

Does anyone know if watching Paramount+ behind a VPN (Australia) means we'd get Australia Paramount? It's only £35 a year and apparently show loads of English football on the Aussie version.

Yep. It shows me that he had info that wasn't in the public domain. Like you I got shot down for passing on info about Cortese. The bloke was out of control. That overspend on staplewood (from memory) was about £17m. I hadn't heard the £600 fish story though!

Water

Yep. Yep.

I fear it's non football people looking at stats without any clue about how styles will actually integrate on the pitch. Buying kids schooled in proper football, then hiring a coach like Jones, then hiring a dof with an ethos that doesn't match the managers, is utterly mental. We're a basket case at the moment.

A 6 year old shooting a teacher in a "non accidental" situation. What a fucked up country. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64194407

I'm intrigued by the relevance of analytics in baseball. It's a 1 on 1 sport with people hitting and chasing the ball and trying to catch it. In football, players do a hell of a lot more than just throw, hit or catch a ball. I'm no fan of stats and analysis, but I'd imagine they're a lot more relevant in football than baseball.

Otseh-Taiwo wasn't involved tonight. 19 year old right back.

Yep, feels very Tadic esque. The sort of player we've needed for ages. Nice to see some experience too.

Sure is. Looks a proper player, I'm just not sure where he fits into the Jones way of playing. I'd like a 433, which this lad would slot into nicely.

Self portrait?

Nothing persuades like a hammer, or money. I suspect the latter may have have been the persuader on this occasion.