25/26 - Non Saints Games

[Gloucester Saint]

13 hours ago, skintsaint said:

Loves 3 centre backs, would have fit right in.

Another of the Pep/Martin wanker club.

[sydney_saint]

I think people get a little too obsessed with the whole hipster thing (do hipsters even still exist?). There are some god damn awful 'hipster' appointments - like we have done. There are some amazing ones who keep teams punching above their weight by relying extremely heavily on stats like xg - Brighton, Brentford, Bournemouth, possibly Fulham. Liverpool and Man City have invested heavily in stats over the last decade and they've done alright. I'm not a stats person really myself, but just get bored of the massive downplaying of it and writing it off as hipster. The issue we have is an incompetence one - we are using stats terribly and think we are smart. Some other clubs also use them bad, some use them good

[Willo of Whiteley]

Marinakis and Forest. Lol.

[JohnnyShearer2.0]

Looks Saints like signed the wrong US young striker. 

Edited yesterday at 21:35 by JohnnyShearer2.0

[Willo of Whiteley]

West Brom were half decent for the first few games and have plummeted ever since.

Even Stoke, they were right up there, now their form has dropped off a cliff.

I think there will be a late surge by the likes of Watford and Birmingham in this second half of the season for the play offs.

Ipswich 100% winning the league. Coventry will falter.

[SNSUN]

1 hour ago, JohnnyShearer2.0 said:

Looks Saints like signed the wrong US young striker. 

Saints signed the wrong striker out of all the strikers signed by teams last summer, not just from USA.

[JohnnyShearer2.0]

13 hours ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

West Brom were half decent for the first few games and have plummeted ever since.

Even Stoke, they were right up there, now their form has dropped off a cliff.

I think there will be a late surge by the likes of Watford and Birmingham in this second half of the season for the play offs.

Ipswich 100% winning the league. Coventry will falter.

After 20 games, Saints had beaten WBA and were 4 points behind Ipswich. Ipswich kicked on and Saints went shit.

[East Kent Saint]

WHU have transfer window revival 😄

[East Kent Saint]

Ipswich being thrashed by Sheffield Utd !

Edited 5 hours ago by East Kent Saint

[BotleySaint]

39 minutes ago, East Kent Saint said:

Ipswich being thrashed by Sheffield Utd !

Football makes no sense. How did that poor Sheff Utd side score 3 goals!

[Willo of Whiteley]

Wrexham double in stoppage time.

Ipswich not turning up.

Tactical genius Nathan Jones losing again.

Down and out Oxford beating Leicester.

The Championship!

[coalman]

Meanwhile Bournemouth are 2-0 up against Liverpool. A lesson in moving the ball forward with urgency when there's the chance.

[SNSUN]

Watching Bompey... Van Dijk is having a mare. 

[Turkish]

Just now, SNSUN said:

Watching Bompey... Van Dijk is having a mare. 

How are they able to buy players for £40m when we are forever shopping in bargain basement when we were up there?

[coalman]

1 minute ago, Turkish said:

How are they able to buy players for £40m when we are forever shopping in bargain basement when we were up there?

They don't have the benefit of Ankersen's statistics based no-watch scouting moneyball setup so they're forced to go watch players and spend cash on them. That's why they missed out on players like BBD and Archer.

[Turkish]

Just now, coalman said:

They don't have the benefit of Ankersen's statistics based no-watch scouting moneyball setup so they're forced to go watch players and spend cash on them. That's why they missed out on players like BBD and Archer.

😂😂😂 very true 

[SNSUN]

2 minutes ago, Turkish said:

How are they able to buy players for £40m when we are forever shopping in bargain basement when we were up there?

They're run well whereas we always seem scared to pay anyone over £15 million for a player because we think we're being clever. And by "we", I mean the owners. 

[coalman]

1 minute ago, coalman said:

They don't have the benefit of Ankersen's statistics based no-watch scouting moneyball setup so they're forced to go watch players and spend cash on them. That's why they missed out on players like BBD and Archer.

Sorry I meant to put "statistics" in air quotes. I in no way meant to imply that Ankersen's process represents any kind of rigorous mathematical approach.

[Turkish]

1 minute ago, coalman said:

Sorry I meant to put "statistics" in air quotes. I in no way meant to imply that Ankersen's process represents any kind of rigorous mathematical approach.

Why go and watch a player when you already know they are good? Your eyes can deceive you. 

[coalman]

3 minutes ago, SNSUN said:

They're run well whereas we always seem scared to pay anyone over £15 million for a player because we think we're being clever. And by "we", I mean the owners. 

To be fair the times we've spent more than £15m we've wound up with gems like Sulemana, Lemina and Onuachu. I can see why they'd be nervous.

[coalman]

1 minute ago, Turkish said:

Why go and watch a player when you already know they are good? Your eyes can deceive you. 

 

[SNSUN]

I think only Danny Ings was the hit. And even he was a punt because of his injury history.

[coalman]

2 minutes ago, SNSUN said:

I think only Danny Ings was the hit. And even he was a punt because of his injury history.

Just goes to show it's worth taking a punt on a striker with injury problems...... cough.... Stewart.

Sport Republic: turning dumb luck into bad decisions since January 2022. 

[SNSUN]

Just now, coalman said:

Just goes to show it's worth taking a punt on a striker with injury problems...... cough.... Stewart.

Sport Republic: turning dumb luck into bad decisions since January 2022. 

From Punts to C*nts. 😀

[LiberalCommunist]

Good set of results today. Now time to fuck it up. 

[Midfield_General]

24 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Why go and watch a player when you already know they are good? Your eyes can deceive you. 

Wouldn’t want to muddle your thinking by seeing them play

[coalman]

Last seconds of stoppage time. Fair play for Bournemouth for playing for the win and not sitting back.

Edited 2 hours ago by coalman

[sambosa75]

Fair play to Bournemouth.  Genuinely pleased for them but fuck me, it doesn’t half reinforce the fact that the running of this club over the past 7 or 8 years has been a complete and utter disgrace. Like us they’ve continually had their best players picked off by other clubs but rather than drinking their own koolaid thinking they could be clever and sign replacements for a fraction of the price they’ve sold for, they’ve replaced quickly and effectively  and spent the type of money their sales have afforded them.  Depressing to see as a Saints fan considering how good we had things about 10 years ago.

Edited 2 hours ago by sambosa75

[Maggie May]

Palace for the drop? 

[East Kent Saint]

8 minutes ago, Maggie May said:

Palace for the drop? 

Wouldn't be surprised,  another woefully managed club selling best players and pissing off the manager so he is leaving at the end of the season  !

[East Kent Saint]

Como 6 Torino 0 , Adams played 90 mins .

[Willo of Whiteley]

What was van Dijk and Slot complaining about at the final whistle?Just accept you were shit and move on. 😂

Saw James Ward-Prwose was an unused sub for West Ham today.

[Doctoroncall]

3 hours ago, coalman said:

 

Are you trying to say the data analytics is using the force and Rasmus is a Sith Lord?