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That's what it reminded me of as well. I was actually really pleased when it was called off at even with my coat I was absolutely drenched!

I quite like these slightly lower camera angles

G'wan City, shithouse them, get that last 10 minutes draw, you know you want to

Enjoying watching Luton. Really good.

Luton goal: https://streamff.co/v/SgwIM5Kzb2

Thought he was great today. Good runs, found space well in the box (one of the few players we have who knows when to stop moving to find space), and the goal to top it off.

Disappointing we didn't score, but it's encouraging that even though we're having to chop and change our team we're continuing to play and create chances. I'd be much more concerned if someone got injured and everything changed. I'm also cautious of Conway coming back. It'll be good, but there's no way he keeps up his early season form and he'll have been out for a fair while - he'll need time to get back up to speed. I'm not expecting him to be an answer to anything soon.

Loving the irony of this coming from someone with the name HoldenBall

With basically no backup on the bench their plan to just crock one of us might have worked, pretty sad

I just assumed they were using some crap software which reset them to the default font or something, but you're right - wow.

It's awful isn't it, that can't be intentional surely.

Easy answer: Going out and fighting in the streets is infinitely more pathetic than playing games.

What. There's stuff all over the place about drink driving. On TV, in pubs/clubs, in the driving test, it's absolutely everywhere. It's way more of a talking point that football violence (unless you're on a football forum, shock horror). Wasn't the opposition firm just protecting their fans from ours though?

It's not a parallel at all. Obviously people are more likely to discuss football violence on a football forum. And there is no relation... and it's not an internet phrase, it's a well known phrase from the cold war era with a clear meaning. Either way, one being true (drink driving takes up emergency service time) has no bearing on the fact that football violence does. One doesn't make the other OK or not, and you can call one thing out without having to call out every other example.

Holy whataboutism. If he was driving recklessly or drunk etc. resulting in people dying then loads of people would be calling it out. What are you on about? How is this even relevant? Is your point that people are accepting of reckless/drunk driving?? Bizarre. I think you'll find drink driving or poor driving are many more people's "hobby horses" than football violence, imo.

They have an outfield player in goal, we get a corner and take it short?! What?? Just get it in near him surely

Ok this could be interesting

Cardiff second: https://streamff.co/v/8eOxaUfG6i

Cardiff goal: https://streamff.com/v/zhUltYiz24

Do they adjust the result manually sometimes then, from what you're saying? Or adjust the input variables? I'm a big proponent of xG by the way so no criticism. It's just interesting when you see examples where it perhaps works well/poorly. Yeah - the 0.65 stood out as that's close to a penalty in many models I think!

That's interesting - and probably a good example of some issues with xG models. Looking how close the Cardiff players were (with odd body positions) I'm sure in reality it was a lot less than 0.65. Incredibly difficult to measure though and once you start getting body positions in there the sample size would drop massively. Really tough chance for me

Semenyo and the cup games presumably.

Not a fan of the mugs? I can source some of these for you if you want instead:

Could never play midfield with Williams mind, they're too slow

Yep, I think having a small set of trusted older players is a pretty essential part of a club... especially if you want to develop your youth. They need to see what "good" looks like from both a playing and attitude perspective.