nick76
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I don’t believe this is anything bad at this stage. As business men they are leveraging the best financial instruments possible. The problem at other clubs is how they use them so until they misuse them I give them the benefit of the doubt and just assume they are just utilising best business tools to the benefit of the club.
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Problem is that he didn’t do anywhere the levels last season as he did the season before and mid season Ings pressures stats were higher than Watkins. I’m not saying either of them were good enough but the perception of this of Watkins last season is off.
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Not necessarily analytical choice though. Your definition of favouritism is the extreme end of the definition. It can be that he favours Watkins not just for personal liking but but traits, what he wants to see (not necessarily what he actually gets to see). It can be nothing to do with his personal like for him or Ings but a favouring perception of the traits which leads him to choosing him despite the analytical data maybe telling him otherwise. Favouritism can be a blinding of what he should be rather than what the data is telling him, that’s nothing to do with personal like but perception and can lead him to picking Watkins more than he should.
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Not sure I agree, his pressing and work rate wasn’t at the level as previous season. Somebody put stats just after mid season showing that and showing that Ings had better pressing stats per minute.
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Of course there is favouritism, it’s a natural part of the human psyche. He picks Watkins because he sees in him more than he sees in Ings, he favours Watkins positives more than Danny’s positives at the moment. Given he sees that he is more likely to give more chances than the mean. None of us are robots so we don’t purely go on stats and data, he picks the team he feels is right, which is based on traits in players he feels are right not necessarily backed up by the data but could be.
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Even for somebody that doesn’t care whose captain in this team because I don’t think we really have an on the field real captain figure, this is a bizarre decision. I have no issue with Ty or Ginny but this a big move by Gerrard with a fair bit of fallout with what seems very little benefit. Maybe he just wanted to shake things up a bit, but it all seems a little odd and gives us more to question Gerrard’s decisions.
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Don’t think sexual preference works that way mate
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Does it matter, they want everybody that’s available!
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Or playing Carlos as rush keeper and thus we can play 11 outfield players…I’m a solution person
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Straight swap for Barkley?
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I wished Southgate would keep off social media
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Mate, stop being so fowl
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I don’t think it’s all down to the players though. When you have the likes of Watkins, Ings, Coutinho, Buendia, Bailey, Traore and JJ you should look better as an attacking force but we lack cohesion so often, we lack ideas and a way of playing. That is largely a coaching issue because there is enough talent to look better than we are. As I’ve said I don’t care who the captain is as I don’t think we have a true leader on the pitch but the other problems on the pitch concern me. I think it’ll be a long frustrating season unfortunately, it’s the least excited I’ve been for a while.
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I don’t think him being made captain changes that. Gerrard loves him so would’ve played him whether he was captain or not.
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Team line ups, tactics, cohesion, comments made but not followed up like team changes…he’s brilliant at media and recruitment but I’m yet to see or be convinced of anything on the pitch and have questioned many decisions. The only thing I care about is on the pitch but that is the area I have only reservations about re Gerrard. I’m hopeful that changes this up coming season but I see many of the same issues in preseason as I did last season and our form in 2022 has been really poor, so I’m nervous.
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Why? He was playing every game anyway so no real change there so it’s just other things which if it’s not on the pitch what big problems could it cause?
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You’ll get used it, it’s far from the first decision I’ve seriously questioned of his. You just roll with it eventually, a few nice words at a media event and all is good
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Carney
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Not a close call…Ings
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Yep completely, that’s why I’m enjoying this sideshow for the evening because the reality is that we have bigger problems in the cold light of day as you mention.
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Better to do that than being on the end of his fowl temper
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I’m having a great time, I couldn’t care less whose captain as we don’t have a true captain imo anyway and it’s great that I’m not the negative one tonight. So I’m loving this!
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Especially if it was based on a poultry excuse.
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My faith was low anyway so this hasn’t moved the marker for me. It’s fairly amusing seeing pro-Gerrard people a bit stumped by this.
