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5 hours ago, TRO said:

respectfully Nick, I don't agree with you....its as good a measure as it gets.

The Thomas Frank study is inaccurate....if he turned out to be unsuccessful, that would be reflective in his ratio's, its only because he has been successful you question it.....I accept to a degree, what you are saying, but its still a popular benchmark to glean from.

There are teams that come up from the championship like a steam train as in Nuno's & Biesla's case and give themselves a better chance of securing good ratio's, but you can't be making cases for every one, when it suits.

Like all measurements, they can be challenged.....but they are usually conducted as a guideline, you can either use them or discard them....I don't think the industry would be interested in producing them, if they thought as you have proposed....there is no caveate to say across leagues or not counting abroad...that is not in the spirit of the representation.

I would hazard a guess if Dean was between 45-50% he would be looking for a  pay rise, and I wouldn't blame him either.

One season my Sunday league team won every game and romped the league. It was the first season our new manager was in charge, giving him a 100% win ratio. Given the importance of this and the apparent irrelevance of what division its attained in I'm shocked none of the elite clubs snapped him up that year.

We actually got 4 consecutive promotions so his win % was probably somewhere in the 70% mark after 4 years. Does that make him a better manager than Dean Smith? 

1 hour ago, jacketspuds said:

It’s concerning because it isn’t just this game in isolation. Watford did it to us in our first game, and it happened a lot last season. Martinez kept us in a lot of games last season with the amount of saves he made.

I mean to completely ignore the context because it suits your argument just stinks of bias. For that reason, I'm out 

9 minutes ago, jacketspuds said:

Ref shit. Buendia the main bright spark.

But the oppositions ability to dominate our midfield is concerning.

A midfield composed of a 17 year old debutant and a RB 20 years older than him playing pretty much his first ever game in CM?

Is it that concerning considering we will likely never ever play that midfield combination again? 

9 minutes ago, StefanAVFC said:

Because everyone knows you can't do it 

It's like saying you haven't seen someone pick the ball up and run into the opposition's net.

Clearly you don't remember Nyland against Sheff Utd, although that was technically ruled out I guess 

2 hours ago, Loxstock92 said:

 

Is that actually it? Looks like a training top. Shame as we've had some decent 3rd kits recently but that is a poor effort if true, I'll wait for the actual reveal tomorrow before judging as to me it looks like it's a training top of some kind 

4 hours ago, Rich192 said:

Also born in Basingstoke. Don’t think I’ve been back there since the day I was born, mind. Big up the B’stoke massive. 

I live in Fleet (10 mins from Basingstoke) and would like to point out that they prefer it to be called either B-Town or Amazingstoke.

The latter is not accurate 

1 hour ago, S-Platt said:

Could take 6k away fans though.

Only time I've been to Stamford Bridge was for a cup game and we filled that end, lost about 5-0 but had a great day out 

Easy

51 minutes ago, Lerner's Driver said:

Like Grealish wanting to leave you mean? I know, it's absurd. So much pointless, unending negativity when we could all be dreaming of a march on Europe led by our stellar midfield and injured, disjointed forward line.

I mean surely Grealish is an example that you shouldn't immediately believe every negative rumour, if you did he'd have left every year from the year we got relegated. 

You can't point at Grealish leaving as proof that the rumours are always true when he has been strongly rumoured to be joining every club that's ever set foot in the top 6 over the last 5 years 

36 minutes ago, IrishVilla10 said:

This will be tragic if it’s the case. I hope Bidace gets a start over El Ghazi

I'd imagine it'll be El Ghazi left, Buendia right with Ings up front and a midfield of McGinn, Luiz and Nakamba/Ramsey 

1 hour ago, useless said:

All summer long I've seen people suggesting that with the money we've spent we should be challenging for Europe, and now just because Watkins is going to miss a game we're suddenly going to struggle against Newcastle, something doesn't add up there, if we're expected to be a strong top half team then it should follow that we have a good chance against Newcastle with or without Watkins, especially when we have one of the division's better goalscorers in Ings to replace him.

Its not just Watkins though is it? It's Watkins injured, while Bailey isn't ready to start, Traore is out, Buendia not fully up to speed having been injured in pre season, Luiz barely back from the Olympics, Sanson injured/not fully fit. We are missing a fair few attacking and midfield options, and Ollie being out is a big blow as he does the work of 2 up there 

On 14/08/2021 at 16:02, nick76 said:

What’s the point? How some didn’t see the obvious I don’t know.  From @villalad21 saying he’s genetically not going to get injured and Ollie didn’t even make the first game to generally other posters saying another quality striker wouldn’t get minutes.  I’m just glad the management saw it.

Not helping today so far though as it’s the defending that’s killing us.

I mean the whole debate (ignoring a certain poster who trolls every single thread he's in saying he'd genetically never get injured) was the talk of signing Tammy for £40m.

Most relatively sensible people were simply saying that we won't spend £40m on a backup, not that we didn't need a backup, no one was ridiculing anyone for thinking we needed a backup striker, aside from the obvious troll, most people were simply expressing Tammy at £40m to be a poor use of resources and also unappealing to a player wanting first team football. 

To be fair, even Ings is a bit risky, even at £20m or whatever there's a lot of people who have the belief he's not here to be a backup, he'll be starting games. Watkins will also be starting games. We won't keep either of them happy if one is on the bench every week, luckily both Watkins and Ings are relatively flexible and can play multiple positions across the front line - something Tammy cannot offer. 

Honestly I'm not even sure if this happened pre social media but it seems to me that every debate on virtually every subject these days has to be taken completely out of context by some people in order to gloat when they're "right", even if the way they're right is to completely change the other sides argument (or pick the most extreme view and assign that view to everyone that disagrees with you). Hell, I'm sure I do it as well, it's apparently the only way to debate these days. 

4 minutes ago, It's Your Round said:

Is ‘Monster’ a DM? He sounds like he should be. 
 

Also, I understand the need to build commercial revenue, but it’s still hard to accept deals with shite products/brands like this.

I mean they're an official energy drink partner...I'm not sure there are that many companies out there it would be any better going for. Energy drinks are all terrible 

Just now, AVFCforever1991 said:

It would be **** hilarious if they failed to win a trophy this season

And we win the FA Cup, with Mings lifting the first trophy since 96

Just now, a m ole said:

Fair play to Leicester, as easily the most successful representatives of ‘everyone else’ in modern English football.

Its criminal that the media seem to think Arsenal and Spurs are more attractive clubs 

Another final Jack Grealish will lose...maybe he's been the problem all along and the playoff final was an anomaly? 

2 hours ago, Kiwivillan said:

And now I have to go and watch The Castle again, thanks a lot! 

Looks like he's sorted out his shit hair at least, that's a plus! Hopefully he can do well on this loan, be interesting to see how he does in a physical league 

1 minute ago, MotoMkali said:

He'll look better. He's practically guaranteed to have more time on the ball now. We are talking about going from a side with about 48% possession to a side that will average mid 60%. That's literally another 15 minutes to share around the team. He will have the ball almost as much if not more especially if he plays through the centre which he should. He'll be their 2nd best player next season and their best in a year's time. 

Again big IF here in that he actually goes. 

But he looks his best when he's driving forward at players, but against City most teams sit deep and make themselves hard to beat, leaving no space for that. He's not quick and jinking like Sterling or Mahrez, and his passing isn't on the level of De Bruyne. His best asset when not running at players is holding the ball, drawing defenders in and then perfectly weighting a pass away or moving away and drawing a free kick. 

I'm not convinced being in a team with 70% possession every game necessarily will suit his style of play. 

With that said, every attacking player looks the absolute dogs in that City team because they get so so many chances to do stuff each game, so what do I know? 

50 minutes ago, Kiwivillan said:

 

Release clause means the other club can talk to the player. He doesn't have to accept offer. Load of rubbish. Looks like @Fairy In Boots was spot on all along

I mean "all along" is a bit much when talking about a poster who was adamant that the deal was signed sealed and delivered to Man Utd a year ago. 

What is it they say about stopped clocks? 

3 minutes ago, Delphinho123 said:

Ings won’t come here to sit on the bench and Watkins will always play. 

Don’t get it. 

Am I the only one that thinks this is a panic signing and not all that excited? 

I rate Ings higher than Watkins. They have the same work rate, Ings is better technically and a far better finisher. Watkins will learn a lot from him and in 2/3 years Watkins will be basically prime Vardy 

1 minute ago, Rds1983 said:

Leon Bailey

Literally came here to say this! Our front 4 will be Bailey, Buendia and Traore with Watkins ahead. Need at least 1 good backup/rotation option, preferably 2 with El Ghazi moving on along with a backup striker 

Gonna be a busy window! 

26 minutes ago, AvfcRigo82 said:

 

Last summer you spent weeks claiming Grealish was signing for Man Utd based on some shite about his dad announcing it at the Cheltenham Festival in front of 1000's of people, Which unsurprisingly was aload of bollocks.

Now you're back claiming this about him going to Man City because his family are driven by money.

Seriously, have a word with yourself.

Its amazing how much detail his dad went into at this festival as well isn't it? Explained how they were using the Man Utd interest to leverage a better deal (even though he really wanted to go) because Man Utd wouldn't match the asking price in the next transfer window 

Also explained that they love money more than anything else and that when Man City come in for him in a years time he'll be desperate for a move and agree to the transfer weeks before the deal is agreed despite another Villa offer being on the table.

Given all that being obviously true and in no way made up I'd say the fact that he didn't mention if Villa would agree to the payment structure of the deal happening in 18 months time is probably the most surprising thing here 

4 minutes ago, Made In Aston said:

Yet when he is out injured we have a massive dip in form until he returns

That's becuase our entire style of play is built around him, our game plan is built to get Jack on the ball as often as possible. When he's not playing we have to change our entire gameplan

Let's also not forget that our dip in form last year started while he was in the team and just continued while he was out