kpturner

Naughty boy.

For how long do you think it would be "fun" before you found yourself wearing a brick ;-)

Yes I am sure.

In the post

Do you have any facts that cost money for us too?

IMHO Camara would not be a good bet in this league. When he played for us you needed an extra man to cover his complete lack of defensive responsibility. He seemed to flatly refuse to come back over the halfway line. Great going forward against Everton, great goal against Norwich and Brum, but a luxury that we cannot afford in L1. I remember Le Saux being exasperated with him when he tracked somebody back to the halfway line then just stopped and let him carry on, leaving Le Saux to deal with a 2 on 1....plus the way he has refused to play for teams he has helped relegate doesn't say much for his attitude.....sorry, rambling now.

I tee them up, and you put them away

From whom?

Which post?

Did he have the right address?

There was none of this negativity and abuse in Block 10 - just the usual stand-up ranting and bellowing of "cheat" at the referee by the grey-haired, grey bearded, spectacled gentleman in row U. He keeps us all amused - I wonder if he posts on here?

Are you sitting on the fence Nick, with UP being a combination of UM and KP

Dirk Diggler?

I think we are only going to end up embarrassing ourselves if we ping-pong this back and forth, so let's agree to differ and move on.

:confused: Errrmmm, yes. Why?

Maybe he was on the bench, jiggling around a lot. Obvious case of threadworm

I expect you are right. If we had won all those games because we already had a decent lead then the discussion about fitness/late goals would not be taking place (yet).

Did Corky give you a verbal kicking then? Bloody golfers :mad:

Fitness is obviously a key factor in keeping the opposition out late in games, but at what point in the game does fitness become a factor? 70 minutes or 80 or 85 etc? IMHO the fact that we have conceded 3 goals (out of 9) after the 77th minute does not necessarily mean the team lacks fitness. In some ways, no goals conceded after 82 minutes could be argued to be an indication of good fitness by some. Stats are there to be manipulated however you see fit (see what I did there :-) ). Personally I am more concerned that we have conceded 9 goals already - regardless of when they were scored.

Well you touched on it there. This is a sample of 8 goals (if you include the Swindon goal). You are not seriously suggesting it is possible to derive some sort of statistical analysis or pattern from a sample of that size surely? I admit I too always feel that we always seem to lose a lead late in a game, but I would prefer to base any theory on a pattern on a much larger sample - like last season as a whole for example. I expect that would be much more revealing, but it would not necessarily be relevant to the team that AP is assembling. Nick's stats seem to indicate that we are no different to the average premiership team in terms of when goals are conceded, and it may just be we are no different to any team in any league in the same regard.

There is no trend. You are seeing something that is not there IMHO. Football teams concede goals - that is part of the game. You have just revealed that Saints have conceded goals in the 50th minute, the 67th, the 68th, the 73rd and the 77th - oh, and a couple that could be considered late(ish) - (80th and 82nd). What is this trend to which you allude? How can fitness be an issue for goals conceded between the 50th and 77th minute? Crap defending maybe, fitness - no. Now if you are saying we need to buck the trend of conceding goals (regardless of the time they are scored) then of course I would agree - but that applies to every football team on the planet. What would you be expecting AP to do to prevent goals scored at the start or middle of the second half that would be in any way different to preventing goals scored at any other time in the match?

You're just not taking this golf thread seriously are you?

Most of whom were kids who paid a £1 I gather

Cutting NC, cutting

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