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Jezzard

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  1. There goes that dream European Formula 1 position at Stoke City
  2. I’ll have five and no one will agree with number 5. 1) Wynton Rufer’s non work permit costing us more trophies in the 80s and 90s. 2) Blackburn gazumping us for Patrik Andersson in 1993 costing us the title 3) The ITV digital ‘money’ and Worthy taking the club to a permanent higher level. From that season we gained another 10k fans who have stayed with us and seemingly means better good times and in the bad times we can only fall so far. 4) Alex Neil constantly playing Jerome over Mbokani costing us prem survival in 2016 5) that Chris Hughton keeping us up in 2013 starting with no momentum and with refereeing that cost us 10 or so points, through making solid premier league signings was a bigger achievement than Paul Lambert’s and the best managerial achievement this century.
  3. The most positive thing from the match, loved this brave refereeing. Chiellini should have been off in the Euro final for the assault on Saka but sadly the referee wasn’t brave enough. Really any clear delberate foul anywhere on the pitch should be a red as a) it’s deliberate so a player can decide against it b) there should be no incentive to make a foul and take a yellow and c) these are amongst the most dangerous in terms of muscular injuries as are unseen and unexpected by the opponent who may not be able to take avoiding action
  4. Yes one midweek was tough; fast and slightly behind him though a top striker would have cushioned it in. Yesterday’s was woeful. It wasn’t in front of him. Just a lack of ability
  5. Possibly, had the same thought. Once the three foreign player rule was removed in the late 90s, it decreased competive balance between European leagues and within them. At the same time more and more money came in, to the greatest extent in the PL, allowing clubs access to unlimited talent pool with high spending power. This really affected clubs like NCFC. If the Saudi spending lasts (or if other leagues catch up with PL spending power) it will decrease the talent pool whilst inflating prices of all including average players. You’d expect this will increase competitive balance, so decrease the gap within the PL and between the PL and championship. Maybe significantly, maybe not but could help NCFC. Ignoring the unpleasantness of Saudi sports washing, I’d be more than happy for NCFC to be a mid table club in poorer quality PL.
  6. Yes my memories as a kid of mid/ late 80s to pre Mike Walker was matches where we created loads of chances, Fleck netting one in four and the opposition getting a lucky point. We’d have maybe gone even further with Rufer?
  7. And we were possibly close to signing Patrik Anderson in January but outbid by Blackburn…another if only had we strengthened the defence
  8. I would have been excited if it was or before 1998, after which we realised that there were also crap Brazilian footballers.
  9. Not that I particularly want to watch the last match, but it looks like the club aren’t hosting the full stream of matches a few hours after the final whistle - anyone found/ know anything different?. They did it for all games in 20/21 for free but I guess this was due to covid. Last season there was full 90 for EFL cup matches. But behind a paywall this year?
  10. Yep. Last two years in the championship we’ve been on the international 3pm match 10 times plus about 10 on sky so you’ll only get half the games live.
  11. But Unlike Gilmour at least he played well a few times
  12. Yes and Southampton too. They’re playing Brentford this weekend so if there’s a positive result, whoever looses could be still on 40 points going in to the final weekend needing something. If that was Southampton, they’d only have two to play and the home match is v Liverpool.
  13. For a second I was sure Dean Smith was talking about Billy Gilmour.
  14. VAR can consider any potential red card, which this was; if it decides it is not a red card, does it then award the perceived correct decision - yellow and free kick in this case if no red card, or does it just stick with the referee's initial incorrect decision….? In practice this would never go to VAR as keepers are always annoyingly favoured for out of box handballs - it should nearly always be a red if an attacker is in the vicinity
  15. Yes but it is a potential red card for denying a clear chance - if he doesn’t handle the ball at all ( i.e. slides passed the ball as he knows he won’t be able to handle the ball without taking it outside the box) Pukki has a tap in. So it should be looked at, even if the outcome is a free kick and yellow card. But that’s probably too complicated for an offical or match of the day…
  16. Funny one the Alison one. Looked a clear handball outside the area so which counter-factual (i.e. he does not deliberately handball it outside the area) do we use say whether he stopped a clear opportunity or not? If he slides passed the ball and doesn’t touch it Pukki has a tap in (so red card). Or do we say he picks it up and releases it on the line and Pukki has no chance (yellow card). Or do we ignore the laws completely, not use VAR at all for a possible red card (as it is one scenario..), and move on.
  17. And had Rashica put that chance away in the first minute v Man City, would it have been allowed as yes he was in an offside postion , but the defender made the next and deliberate contact with the ball? Hate this interpretation and it has no logic but it has been applied this year - France winner in Nations League final, an own goal Watford scored v Liverpool, and I think an Everton goal v Leeds last weekend that wasn’t even mentioned as possible offside.
  18. Joe Royle came in in a background role month
  19. Weren’t West Ham linked with McLean in 2020 just before we went down? Guess they were relegation candidates at the time.
  20. Not necessarily being critical; I know that (defensive) midfielders’ work often goes unnoticed and keeping the shape is important…but after 80 minutes or so I really had to think whether he was on the pitch or if I’d read the line-up incorrectly. The commentary didn’t mention him. Was I just not concentrating enough, or did he have a match where he never had the ball for more than one second? On watching the highlights I notice he ‘assisted’ Normann’s assist for the penalty but didn’t note this at the time.
  21. And if so is he £10m better? Couldn’t that have gone on a £15-20 striker instead of Sargent or getting in Ajer pre season or any number of options to improve the squad….
  22. Not what I wrote. In the first scenario, the keeper making the save increased probability of scoring/ XG from 0.1 to 0.9 without the attacking team doing anything. In the penalty scenario, the XG at the point when a player is fouled is variable and usually much lower than the 0.85 or so XG for the penalty kick - see Lees-Melou v Leicester for example; when he was fouled, the XG was about 0.05. These are are but two examples where XG is biased (sh1t). Another more common one is when a team is in the lead tactically sits back and allows the opponent to have numerous half chances (0.1 XG) which accumulate and may then exceed that of the winning team after 90 minutes. XG can be useful as long as its limitations is acknowledged, but is interpreted by many pundits as forming a justice league, for which it is inadequate.
  23. Expected goals = bulls**t. Smash one into the net from 30 yards: 1 actual goal and 0.1 expected goals; smash one from 35 yards, keeper makes a great save but provides striker with an open goal from 10 yards out who nets: 1 actual goal and 0.8 expected goals….ditto penalties.
  24. Clearly. Unfortunately wasn’t he brought in as a DM and he’s seemingly our most creative player so we’re still a DM short…
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