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Definitely teams are happy to let you play around at the back when they have a lead to protect. It’s why possession in isolation is a useless stat.

Pretty sure - live only.

Takes me back to my days working at Lloyds and trips to London to see IT colleagues.

City’s passing this season: Green - forward Light grey - lateral > 12metres Dark grey - lateral < 12 metres Red - backwards

It’s why the concept of the salary cap had legs. Basically a moratorium / cap on existing contracts to league average, new contracts to fall n line.

Came on for 20 min on Saturday..

Can only assume he’s fit / nearly fit.

Getting old….his old man was my young strike partner many moons ago.

Was debating this with @GrahamCyesterday. My gut feel is that Nige will pick the team, and then handover completely to Fleming. Nige doesn’t strike me as someone who’ll interfere tonight once the game is underway.

As 4-0 drubbings go:

Be interesting to know what the plan is. If it is as you say, then you have to accept what you’ve got. Let’s not forget that they only had 2 years of PPs, which are now over. Very low key summer window is the reality. They should be doing better though. Yes, good manager, experienced, good track record. Might have done really well here, as might’ve Chris Hughton. It’s really difficult to know how things would’ve worked out.

Massengo was at AG on Saturday.

Blige Nige. Rest up gaffer, get well soon.

I did that suggestion a while ago.

I think there is a lot of truth in that. How many times have we naively looked at our own team since we returned to the Champ with delusions of grandeur and bemoaned losing to a less talented (in our eyes) but better organised team. We are in that transition. Did you read my “Placebo” post from a few years back? LJ (the good and bad before I get flamed) never used a period of stable team selection / system choice to evaluate what was working, what wasn’t. Before I get jumped on, I’d say the stable teams of Autumn 2017, and again in 18/19 season that produced excellent results were not used to identify why, just like the runs of poor results weren’t used the other way. Basically LJ winged it (being very harsh) and he got boom and bust as a result. It’s a real shame, a wasted period in many respects. Great post. Its what I expected him to do last season….but without a transfer window or a fit squad he realised (imho) that with enough points on the board and a glut of OOC players, he could really focus on the root cause, and then execute the plan over the summer. The clues were there….He wanted 2 CBs and 2 CMs (and a striker), but most fans were talking full-backs and wingers (and a striker).

RIP Roger…..a great servant to club and country.

That is definitely much clearer….thanks. And also why HMRC is so high. So disingenuous to say wages down, when you’re not paying HMRC…..who would ever guess Melly Mel would try to dupe everyone with a hard luck story. He has certainly confirmed he isn’t an accountant, but someone who wants to try every little way to bend the rules. His Accountants and Auditors reputations must have taken a hit too?

I genuinely think that is “people” misinterpreting when MM says he has covered the losses / wages with £1.2-1.5m per month. I think they are forgetting there are some revenues also helping to cover the bills too.

No idea actually. I’m Ghana guess - nope.

Yep, it’s useful to understand team style…..there is no magic system / style…..no correlation to league position is attempted. I used a similar chart a lot last season in my “what can we expect” pre-match write-ups.

8 out of 10 statisticians prefer them.

tomorrow night might be two fairly similar teams in style! As @ExiledAjaxsaid above, here’s the table:- open play only.

Paternity leave…..just had a little boy. Gregory Gregor McGregor. Okay, it’s Reuben McGregor.

Only because I had good feedback / ideas ?

Yes, I’m sure on the basis that there was no fee we have a tidy percentage sell-on.