I just cant get behind a metric that is based on how many shots you take. We take a fierce amount of crap shots from distance. Thats should count against us not for us. Xg isn't based on how many shots a team takes! If it was that, it would be called 'shots at goal'. How many shots a team takes and...

XG isn't bollocks, it's just some people read too much into it. It is a big improvement on "shots on target" for judging a team's overall play. It isn't gospel but it is a good indicator of how good the chances you are creating are (and consequently, whether your strikers are any good at f...

With away games we should def take a more defensive approach... Back to 4-3-3/4-2-3-1 Pele DM, Rino high energy box to box, Swift/Ejaria AM Then maybe Boye (who looks more of a winger than striker) 1 side, Meite the other, Puscas up top The 4-2-3-1 is always best for pitch coverage, but you are rel...

Was starting to get optimistic after 4 years or so of pessimism and after 10 minutes yesterday I knew the optimism was unfounded and the Charlton game wasn't just a blip. A few comments:- Why was so much of the play down the right side in the first half where we were getting nowhere? Why was our fi...

Agree with both the above. Gallagher won about as much as you’d expect him to, whilst Joao somehow seemed to lose everything despite towering above his markers at times And yes should have switched to 4-3-3 a lot earlier. I’d even have considered bringing on Rino for McIntyre at h/t or even before ...

Individually, no one was good, but collectively, they were shocking. I think this sums it up. Aside from the period between Blackburn's second goal and our goal, we were completely and utterly tactically outplayed by Blackburn. We very rarely managed to get our attacking players on the ball in dece...

Ok sorry on that, it must have been Ian Royal or Spacey?. Well seeing as I'm IR and Spacey hasn't been a regular for about 10 years, you're talking nonsense. As I'm sure which ever regular you are behind the new username knows. Ok dug out one of your many love in posts on Rakels = Re: Deniss Rakels...

krapmle Something needs to change and quick or its 2nd division next season

We're already in the 2nd Division.

There's no shortage of credible Welsh right backs - Adam Matthews, Jazz Richards, Adam Henley, Neal Eardley, Connor Roberts, and depending on if he's needed elsewhere, Neil Taylor. Matthews is currently without a club and Richards is injured so it's a little bleak for them right now, but they're a ...

Novakovich was done here the moment he went on loan last summer - my only surprise is that a top flight Dutch club weren't prepared to fork out the cash for him - as if a 2nd division Italian side can afford him it us unlikely to have been more than a million or so. I have literally no idea how goo...

Anton did very little positive for the club though, Tbf he did finance our second promotion to the PL... in a manner of speaking. In hindsight that wasn't really positive. Stay down, lose Kebe, but Antonio doesn't leave and comes through. No Roberts, Pog, Drenthe Guthrie stealing a living. And of c...

If he was as good as we all reckon he is why is it that he’s going to a languishing Serie B club? I don’t disagree that he’s not been given a proper chance but I have an inkling this one might not bite us in the butt. People think he's probably good enough for our level. He's joining a team at our ...

Nameless Anton did very little positive for the club though,

Tbf he did finance our second promotion to the PL... in a manner of speaking.

Not sure what more I have to add. Really good first half just spoiled by our lack of goals, really poor second half. Think the front two should be Puscas-Meite with Joao on the bench. Might bring Miazga in for Moore. Other than that I wouldn't make any changes, though I really miss having wingers. ...

Not sure what more I have to add. Really good first half just spoiled by our lack of goals, really poor second half. Think the front two should be Puscas-Meite with Joao on the bench. Might bring Miazga in for Moore. Other than that I wouldn't make any changes, though I really miss having wingers. C...

If he really was forced upon Gomes (Nameless confirming what I've said reassures me that Gomes did genuinely say that) then it goes to show that forcing players on managers isn't always a bad thing. He's been excellent for us. Birmingham fans said he was reliable but no good on the ball, but I think...

There's no shortage of credible Welsh right backs - Adam Matthews, Jazz Richards, Adam Henley, Neal Eardley, Connor Roberts, and depending on if he's needed elsewhere, Neil Taylor. Matthews is currently without a club and Richards is injured so it's a little bleak for them right now, but they're a n...

This will get shot down in flames but with this system I would be considering Gunts on the bench. Would fit in a 3 at the back and more than competent in filling the wing back positions. I'd consider him, but we have strength in depth at the back. I'm sure Gunter would do a good job because he was ...

From the photos I saw there were plenty of spare seats elsewhere - why didn't you move? Because he shouldn't have to and his 7 year old daughter was scared. She'd have wanted to get away from the rude big man, and all that she now associates football with, a game her dad has built her up to going t...

Well that either shows one of two things: 1. The club rated Smith as the better prospect and that he would be a better fit to the first team at the time Novakovich went on loan for the 2nd season 2. Novakovich himself didn't want to fight for a spot (I would hope not) . It shows neither of those th...