ExiledAjax

Keep expressions of vague cultural unity out of football!

As I said last year. I cannot see it holding water. If a court, any court, upholds the use of xG to formally predict a player's performance and extrapolates that out to formally predict a team's finishing position, then honestly we may as well just get AI to generate the league table on 1 August every year and all save ourselves £1,000s. It cannot fly. Ps. Do remember this is in a French court. Different court system, different basis of law (civil v common).

Why are you laughing? We've gone from 14th to 12th with this little run! Storming. The. League.

Ms. Christodoulo seems to be a teacher who now runs a comparative marking company. What are her credentials regarding football governance, football financial distribution, football refereeing, jurisprudence, dispute resolution, post-modernist theory, politics in general, or future trend prediction? Not that she needs any of those to comment, but if we're to take her as a a serious thinker in this then she should surely have some sort of background in this? Otherwise it's just a brain fart isn't it?

Is Sam good at asking good questions? To my knowledge he's not a practised journalist, and I think the only time I've seen him asking questions is over a pint of wine...which went poorly for him. I think I just want to know whether Pearson thought we had a squad capable of competing at the top of the division. I'd also be interested to know whether he thinks there are any managers out there that play his style of football, but do it better than him.

Is the other most logical gagging date yes. In a sport where a player can go to prison, come out, and be re-employed, or where a man who stubbed a cigar out on an academy player can get a job, a little bit of truth telling hardly seems like career suicide.

Sacked on 29 October 2023 right? So 6 months is 29 April 2024. Does this podcast come out after that date? 6 months is a fairly common length of time in settlement agreements...it might be that he can say certain things from Monday onwards...? PS (I may be guilty of stirring the pot a bit here) PPS I thought I was quite up on the football podcasts but I'd never heard of this one. Is it big?

Interesting. I see Plymouth having a chance of a point or even 3 in both their games. Edit. Hmmmm. Actually do I? They were limp as against us and it's the win v Leicester keeping them safe atm. Maybe no. Wednesday I think are capable of getting something at Sunderland, but although WBA are in the playoffs with little threat of finishing outside of them, I think WBA come out on top there. Birmingham's last game will likely have nothing on it for Norwich, and they may even rest up ahead of the playoffs. Huddersfield have a horrid last two games. Fail to beat Birmingham and I think their in big trouble. So I think I'd cautiously predict Plymouth +1, Wednesday +1, Birmingham +4 (beating Huddersfield), and Huddersfield +0. So... Birmingham 50, Plymouth 49, and they survive. Relegation for Sheff Wed on 48, and Huddersfield on 46. But the massive variable is, as you say, that game between Huddersfield and Birmingham. If that goes the other way then the way I have it Huddersfield stay up on 49 and Birmingham go down on 47.

Use your money how you like. But that's a pretty specific set of results you need to get Blackburn into trouble. I reckon it's most likely to be two of Huddersfield, Birmingham and Sheff Weds.

I think Blackburn stay up. I don't see 3 teams getting to 49 and with better GD. Birmingham playing Huddersfield gives the teams already clear a big advantage. So even if Blackburn don't get a single point more, I think they'll be just about ok.

If QPR and Sheffield Wednesday stay up and Birmingham go down then we can conclude that changing manager sometimes works and sometimes doesn't.

As away fans we were right in line with it. I didn't think it was offside, didn't hear many grumbles from people around me either. So live, and with a decent view, I think the consensus was that it was good. Ps. Norwich have this big moveable, turnable flat screen for replays. The don't turn it to the away fans but it looked pretty good.

I thought it was better than Leicester. I agree with @joe jordans teeth that yesterday was a more even and consistent performance across the 90 minutes. We matched Norwich nicely and I think there were fewer "oh shit" moments. It was a nice performance yesterday, an away draw is always a good result. But I still think we'll need to be slightly better to properly challenge for a top 6 spot.

Cool. It's absolutely fine to disagree. I enjoyed the game and thought it was a fair result.

Yeh, I think high standards are needed if the ambition is to do what Norwich have done this season and get 70+ points. Whilst I thought we played fine today, fine being just that - totally acceptable and ok - I don't think that playing like we did today, over a season, would see us likely to get top 6, which is what I was responding to in your post. And yeh, I think Norwich were a bit off their game today. I watched it with a Norwich fan, he said the same. I'm not downplaying the result, it's a good result, it was a decent performance, but it doesn't make me think we're looking sharp enough for top 6 next season.