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Subs at 65 instead of 60! And who says we can't mix it up sometimes eh

Max vs the world today

You only need the VPN if you're trying to watch the official broadcast(s) on robinstv. If you just click one of the links posted above in the thread they should work normally.

Intrinsic, extrinsic, and germane. We do it at work too, and I work in tech. It's everywhere these days - It's important to understand and people who dismiss it and similar are foolish imo. City will get left behind if they don't pay attention to it. The concepts have been known for decades, centuries even. They're just put into more understandable language now so the players will be able to understand and help themselves as much as anything.

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It may well do - but being "well run" should mean you outperform your expectation, and poorly run means you underperform. That goes for both on and off the pitch. If we're exactly where we'd expect, we're just average. We do some things well, and some poorly, which sounds like a fair reflection on our club at the moment I think. I reckon our mid table finishes are broadly reflective of where we should be as a club. perhaps a little poor if you look at the total investment over the last 10 years or so, but I also think that can be seen as somewhat of a failure as we should be trying to outperform expectations, not be happy with matching them. I don't think that's being entitled, personally.

Isn't that going to primarily be due to O'Leary, Pring, and Vyner who are 27, 26, and 26 respectively playing almost every game? I think the meaning behind "the pathway" is a route into the first team, rather than just having lots of academy players play for the team in their mid/late twenties, right? Personally I'd look more at debut/breakthrough seasons.

Yeah I think we are mate. How boring for OTIB. You're a **** - Phew, that's better

Caveat - all the "xg is nonsense" / "stats can prove anything" luddites can just skip ahead You're right of course - however, as I know you like your stats and xG, take a look at the expected column. The post shot xG for Max shows he faces the 2nd lowest post shot xG (per shot on target) in the division. His xG against is actually slightly lower than you'd expect. Per 90m, he's mid table - 14th. In fact his (deep breath) Post shot xG minus goals allowed per 90m is 0.0. He's doing exactly as well as you'd expect. He's good in other areas and for the record I think he's doing a great job this year and wouldn't be looking to upgrade, but he's doing as expected this year imo for a Championship keeper, and nothing remarkable (when it comes to shot stopping). Obviously there's more to being a keeper than that, and he does well there too. If I've misread/understood anything please do correct me - as it gets kinda complex quite quickly!

City goal (Wells, but it looks like an OG to me): https://streamin.one/v/69fb9fb9

Sorry I'm genuinely confused here - your original complaint was that we were doing the same thing wasn't it - "stumble across something that worked and kept on until it no longer worked" But now you're complaining we have a new plan A every game. Which is it?

Impacting the majority? Hahaha. Snowflake / wouldn't want you in the trenches mate etc. etc.

Dare I say it, I think we're playing decently enough now? Balls are moving up the pitch much more directly/quickly than they have been recently (apart from the last game).

I suspect someone gives the person a quick once over to make sure they're actually, you know, dying, rather than just having a bit of a laugh before they then stop the game

Lovely run and touch from Twine, unlucky

Wasn't he linked with Lazio in Jan? Tough choice for him between us if so!

As opposed to finding something that works and then... not doing it again, presumably in favour of something that doesn't work? Isn't that what we've been accusing Manning of? So finding a plan that works and trying it more than once is a negative. Bizarre.

Hey, that's my ear on the left

Why though? Are we good at buying the best lower league players? Genuine question, and maybe there's an obvious answer I'm missing... But who was the last lower league player we bought, developed, and who then turned out to be premiership quality? Brownhill? Ayling? That's not a great hit rate if so, so why should that be the way for us to go? Honestly, I don't think the slowly slowly, gradually develop a manager and team approach is the way to go. I think you have to build a bit of a head of steam, then just decide to go for it one year, splash some serious money, and have a proper crack at it. I think the idea of signing a few kids, spending £1m-4m each summer and hoping you get there actually means you end up exactly where we are EVERY YEAR - mid table.

I'm not sure either suit what Manning wants, so it depends on how the rest of the team would be set up. If it's the monotonous one paced Manning ball we've seen most of the time since he came in, neither of them.

Oh absolutely mate. They're better than we were on I expect almost every measurable metric and deserving of their place. The top few are away from the pack. It's just there can't be that many newly promoted teams top of the championship at this point, and it's bizarre to think we were one of them in the not too distant past.

Amazing to think we were basically in that same positions 16 years ago (well, last time we were top was after game 38 I think but whatever). I wouldn't actually care if they go up - the Ashton thing, yeah annoying, whatever. Good luck to them, hard to say they don't deserve it after their wobble and resurgence this season. Oh, and to see Leicester potentially fail would be worth it for me.

Never thought he'd be our long term number 1, happy to admit I was wrong as things stand. Keeper was one of the first positions imo to strengthen for some years now but Max is doing a great job at the moment. He's surpassed my expectations and good luck to him. I'd like to see some backup to challenge him, but he's absolutely deserving of his place at the moment. Good for him (and us).

Probably couldn't understand Tinnion's email

Do you think James will get offered a contract extension then? And Twine obviously isn't ours. If they're instrumental to how he wants to play he has a funny way of showing it!