Hendo Interestingly enough, I think Miazga’s contract at Chelsea is also up at the end of the season.

https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/2018/ ... for-miazga

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Rafael seems to be ridiculously lowly ranked. Presumably he’s not doing well on assists, goals scored, tackles or passes completed ? How meaningful is a ranking of things that are utterly different ? Cricket has separate rankings for batsmen and bowlers, how can you rank a goal scoring centre forwa...

Is he? He still seems overly cautious to me. Doesnt seem like a coincidence that we play out left now yet when Yiadom was in the team we played out right? He often will play a cautious ball but when he does play it forward his passing is accurate. Agree Gunter is more cautious (my main complaint of...

And if he'd stayed off the chips, the fags, the booze and the grannies he would or could have been even better. No doubt he has had a lot of success, more than many players. However, there is a reason he is playing the anchor role in Midfield for Championship Derby and the likes of Ronaldo and Mess...

Old Man Andrews Sky have now invented stats just so they can mention Rooney

https://twitter.com/SkySportsStatto/sta ... 95366?s=20

That is so oxf*rd embarrassing.

I love whoscored, but I do think you need to be a little careful with how much you take from it. I'm not quite sure on some of their points formulas, but the one I noticed recently was Rino getting a 6.0 when he didn't even touch the ball in 20 mins on the pitch. Unless they score/assist, subs seem...

Yep well said. There is too much focus on Gunter’s weaknesses. I’m not too fussed who plays at right back as long as the selection is justified. Right now our back four are not only keeping clean sheets but in Blackett’s case picking up 3 assists in a matter of days. Why change something that is wo...

And we were utter shite for most of it. Defensively we were bobbins until Miazga and Martinez joined us. I'm not saying Yiadom is bad by any stretch but after a successful run of games and generally solid defensive displays with Gunter at right back, Yiadom's "assists" don't necessarily t...

And we were utter shite for most of it. Defensively we were bobbins until Miazga and Martinez joined us. I'm not saying Yiadom is bad by any stretch but after a successful run of games and generally solid defensive displays with Gunter at right back, Yiadom's "assists" don't necessarily t...

Yiadom played in a flat back four last season and was our best player.. And we were utter shite for most of it. Defensively we were bobbins until Miazga and Martinez joined us. I'm not saying Yiadom is bad by any stretch but after a successful run of games and generally solid defensive displays wit...

2 of Yiadom's 3 assists were 3 yard headers deep inside our own half for breakaway goals against Cardiff. He's got a lot going for him but it's not a stat that's useful when determining how effective he is. His weaknesses have been hammered to death on here over the years but one of Gunter's main a...

Not sure Blackett was rated that highly at United. He got prematurely promoted to the first team squad because of an injury crisis and didn't seem to adjust that well. He then spent 2 years on loan at Birmingham and Celtic where he made a total of 11 appearances. United are the sort of club where, ...

Should we keep a back four that has kept 4 clean sheets in a row? Yes. Yes is the answer However Yiadom isn’t back for a couple of weeks yet I don’t think so circumstances by then may change Dont think you will find many top teams that keep playing their back up player when their starter returns fr...

I love whoscored, but I do think you need to be a little careful with how much you take from it. I'm not quite sure on some of their points formulas, but the one I noticed recently was Rino getting a 6.0 when he didn't even touch the ball in 20 mins on the pitch. Unless they score/assist, subs seem...

Had a search and couldn't find any threads about chant lyrics. With the creation of Club 1871 we seem to have a lot of new chants and often see people asking for lyrics. New chant for me is something to the tune of "Endor - Pump It Up". What are the lyrics? I know it's something like &quo...

So Gomes best run was P8, W3, D4, L1. Thats 1.6 ppg, and he never won 3 games in a row. By contrast, Bowen's is: P8, W5, D2, L1. 2.1 ppg, winning 4 games in a row. So even if Bowen inevitably regresses and can't keep this up, he'll have to really fall apart for us to drift back into real trouble. I...

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Third time this festive period I have seen someone make that joke.

Its the FA Cup, you need to start caring! Lol. I'm good. The cups are meant for blooding youngsters and resting players or introducing new signings to an established XI. Let's focus on Forest. The FA Cup is massively important and probably the only real excitement we get this season. We could easil...

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Old Man Andrews You don't want us to go through?

Dont care one way or tother.

Its the FA Cup, you need to start caring!

Lol. I'm good. The cups are meant for blooding youngsters and resting players or introducing new signings to an established XI. Let's focus on Forest.

Are we only playing with 10 this weekend to give Blackpool a chance? What you on about m8 I have Aluko playing between McCleary and Barrett. I just suspect his performance will be anonymous thus have left him invisible on my team sheet. I was awaiting that sort of response but I wasn’t sure if you ...