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Not to be a buzzkill lads, more a friendly heads up, but go into the pre-season friendlies expecting a crap match where the players barely show up. I’ve been snared by that seeing Villa abroad a few times. Pre-season friendlies are exactly that. Plan on 3+ drinks before kick off. And go to Rasika in DC for dinner. Unreal food.

Wouldn’t want to be a Fulham player at half time. They’ll come out swinging in the second half.

Stop taking the piss

I think we will win and continue our good run of form, but a scoreless draw at 14/1 is a tempting flutter.

“I see no reason why we put two keepers on on the bench.” is the new “Can he play right back?”

To be fair to them, in recent years living in England is a good reason to be miserable.

Contract up in 2024, you’d imagine we will cash in this summer. Reckon we could get around £8m from a promoter team.

Great form. Hopefully they keep it going but I’d say they’ll be on the beach once mathematically safe.

Hope Newcastle get another couple to absolutely demoralise them. Often these matches get drab in the second-half and the losing side might even score one or both two themselves. An absolute demolition would do nicely please, Newcastle.

Poor bastard probably had diarrhea. A few pints of Guinness tonight and he’ll be bricking diamonds by Tuesday. Be grand.

OutbyEaster is spot on. If you want the club to give £100,000 a week to Oliver Watkins, you’re going to pay for that either through your Sky Sports subscription or your ticket price. It’s been going mental for 30 years. It will continue to get worse.

German invasion of the Rheinland? That’s not what I meant when we needed more right-wing threats.

I knew kiwis were small and round and hairy but I never knew they were miserable all the time.

We need a replacement for Olson. Someone like Tom Heaton (couple years ago) who doesn’t compete at the highest level anymore but can do a job. Where’s Karl Darlow these days? I’d like a new right back to compete with Matthew Cashew. I don’t think Ashley Young has another year in him. Wan-Bissaka fits the bill but might cost a lot. We’ll need at least one more midfielder with Nakamba and Samson likely leaving. I like the idea of Tim Iglooburnham having one more year on loan. Someone like Guendozie would be exciting. I would like one more “winger” in that not-Ollie number ten role. I’d really like us to go for James Maddison, especially if Leicester go down. Smith-Rowe or Harvey Barnes would be very exciting instead. I’d send John Duran Duran to the Championship for a year. Archer I think will be a player but he is still completely unproven in the Premier League (has he even scored?) I’d love a Kolo Munani style player to really give us options up there.

Dewsbury Hall. The first wedding venue to play in the Premier League.

Can you explain your reasoning for this, please? xG is based on history of other players. For example, a shot from the corner of the box might have an xG of 0.1 because one-in-ten of shots from that position have gone in. If Archer is knocking in them at a higher rate because he is clinical, his goals will exceed his xG. So can you explain why is this a concern for you? It seems like great news to me!

I still reckon we’ll drop off in form a bit and end up in 8th. And some here will be disappointed with that Has anyone seen an updated super computer analysis since the weekend?

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And a whipped in ball across the six yard box that nobody gets a touch to counts as zero xG.

That’s just how probability works, though? For example, the probability of a rolling 6 twice in a row from two rolls of a die is about 3%. But if your first one come up as a 6, that probability jumps to about 17%. Similarly if we get three points from Newcastle when most of us would take a draw, the probability of hitting Europe should jump up.

Forget “the kids would love that” bit I would love it and I’m going gray

Dublin. But I don’t fly to every game… I have to fly for every game I go to. Sorry for ambiguous phrasing!

No rotation.

If I were American I’d want the constitution changed. But I think the current reading of the 2A is correct: regular citizens are entitled to purchase guns at least similar to those routinely issued to soldiers. So the right to buy an AR-15 shall not be infringed. I think the reading of the 2A says regular citizens should probably be allowed bazookas too. So it’s madness and should changed, IMHO.

Another year in the Championship for Tim, or is he ready for our match day squad? At 19 it seems another year away would be good for him.