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Reply | Premier League spending cap
at 08:59 30 Apr 2024
That was basically what West Brom and Burnley did back in the day - go up, spend pennies, bank it, come back, go back and you're in a much better position to take a swing at it. Norwich did it more recently as well but then spectacularly missed with their spending swing.
It's pretty much what Luton have done this time I think. They'll come out of it with £50m in the bank and a new stadium. Bstards. |
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Reply | Andre Dozzell
at 00:42 30 Apr 2024
This thread is a rich seam...
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Reply | Andre Dozzell
at 00:21 30 Apr 2024
I for one am stunned that signing four of the biggest problem children from QPR's two-year meltdown has not produced positive outcomes at such a calm and well run club as Birmingham.
Shame we couldn't have sent them a couple more, we'd have been safe weeks ago. Maybe they'd like another swing with #TeeRichStarrrr? |
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Reply | Cifuentes on Leeds
at 15:27 29 Apr 2024
The three game week thing is a problem for the whole league, and will always be an issue if you're running a small squad (which the non parachute payment clubs have to do).
The stats the Sheff Wed analytics account came up with suggested when teams play away fatigued (playing away after a game within the last 3/4 days), the away win ratio over the season drops by 15% vs baseline. When it's a 'double away' - that means they are playing 2 away games within 4 days - the away win ratio on these games drops again below 'away fatigued'.
Norwich is the most stark example of these. They've lost 14 games overall this season, 13 of them were in a three game week and 10 of them were when they were playing 'away fatigued'.
So that'll take some fixing without a bigger squad. |
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Reply | The LFW Confession Box
at 15:08 29 Apr 2024
We were dead under Ainsworth. We'd have been lucky to match Rotherham's total.
The issue I had is every time I started to think we'd be fine we did something daft. I was feeling pretty good going to Sheff Wed, and I thought we'd win there. After that I was miserable about it all for another months or two, then had just started to feel pretty upbeat again and thought we'd win... at Stoke. Same thing happened at home to Sheff Wed. |
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Reply | Cifuentes on Leeds
at 14:56 29 Apr 2024
Look at the state we were in when he took over. We've stayed up with a game to spare, winning at Leicester, beating Leeds 4-0. If you'd told me he'd do that I'd have laughed at you, frankly. We'd just lost 6 games in a row, won 2 of 14, we were fcking awful.
He's done magnificently. It's never going to be all perfect all the way through, he's learning a new league, he's learning about the new squad of players he's inherited. There were always going to be things he tried (Kelman v Plymouth, taking off a midfielder to try and pack the defence while leading at Sheff Wed) that would go wrong and he wouldn't do them again.
Overall he's done brilliantly. Stayed up, game to spare, with no strikers, and a poor goalkeeper. It's incredible really.
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Reply | Ilias Chair
at 14:45 29 Apr 2024
They don't come much more consistent than Chair. One from the Cov preview...
Chair has a combined 14 G/A in the League in 21/22, 22/23 & now 23/24. |
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Reply | Cifuentes on Leeds
at 14:43 29 Apr 2024
But if you have a goalkeeper who can play out, the need for that outlet in the air there is reduced. |
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Reply | School. End Friday
at 11:29 29 Apr 2024
Well, if Leeds are right and that upper tier doesn't meet the minimum allocation percentage then that gives us a bit of a problem if we want to have the lower tier for us next season doesn't it. |
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Reply | Cifuentes on Leeds
at 11:27 29 Apr 2024
He's been super pragmatic too. All his philosophy and talk when he came in was about Cruyff-style football, and yet here we are with Dunne at right back and Colback and Field in midfield. I'm interested to know how much that's him working with what he's got (i.e. expect some major changes this summer) and how much this is his "I've had to learn about the Championship" comment the other week (i.e. if you don't like this philosophy I have others).
I think you have to have a philosophy and ideal that you're aiming for that underlines everything you do re-recruitment, tactics, style of play etc. But when you become so tightly bound to it you'd rather risk losing the game than abandon it (i.e. Russell Martin) it becomes more of a hinderance than a help. I've loved his mix of ideal and pragmatism so far. |
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Reply | Cifuentes on Leeds
at 10:58 29 Apr 2024
Win one of our first six next season and listen to the mood music then.  |
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Reply | Most Important Goal of the Season
at 08:20 28 Apr 2024
Most important is Paal v Huddersfield. We were fcking awful, they were about to go six points clear of us. Instead we kept them close and they sacked their manager.
We'd already been beneath the waves twice at that point. You don't go beneath them a third time and survive. |
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Reply | Who do we want to get relegated?
at 18:59 27 Apr 2024
If Hull win against Ipswich tonight then Norwich are going to have to go to Birmingham and get a result. |
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