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The Knapper Effect.
Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man replied to Herman's topic in Main Discussion - Norwich City
Norwich aside, the fact that more than half of the division have been going at one point-per-game or less over a 20+ game period is remarkable. I guess that's what happens when you have the top seven on over 1.8, but it's still an incredible stat. -
I remember looking at the Chelsea side which played in this final not too long ago and thinking what an achievement it was for our boys to win this. The Chelsea side contained Nathan Ake, Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Andreas Christensen, all first team regulars for top European clubs, they had Jeremie Boga and Ola Aina, who both have around a couple of hundred appearances in Europe's 'big five' leagues plus plenty of international caps for Ivory Coast and Nigeria, as well as two good Championship players in John Swift and Lewis Baker. Chelsea were also very dominant in the FA Youth Cup around that time, winning it seven times between 2010 and 2020, so it was one hell of an achievement for a club of our size.
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Whilst Sargent is clearly incredibly important to us, there are two huge caveats. Every club in the division would be able to say 'if we hadn't lost [player] for [time period] then we would have [number] more points'. Every club has injuries to important players throughout the season, and who knows, maybe we won a few games where the opposition were missing a couple of key players, and we wouldn't have won them had those players been available? Also, the period Barnes missed also coincided with Sargent's injury. Our PPG with Barnes is 1.89 and without is 0.8. I do feel that Sargent is more important than Barnes, but Barnes' importance should be understated.