The season 2020 - 2021.

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I don’t. I’m colour blind.
Well, colour blindness is a widely recognised (and well understood) phenomenon. Blindness to what really happens on a football pitch, in contrast, is far from widely recognised and more often than not denied! <laugh>
 
Well, colour blindness is a widely recognised (and well understood) phenomenon. Blindness to what really happens on a football pitch, in contrast, is far from widely recognised and more often than not denied! <laugh>

Very good!

But seriously, I am a fan of the stats too (I think, sorry stats haters, that they will become ever more sophisticated and important), but I do think they have to be used really cautiously because so much is going on in a football match that you simply cannot rely on stats alone
 
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But seriously, I am a fan of the stats too (I think, sorry stats haters, that they will become ever more sophisticated and important), but I do think they have to be used really cautiously because so much is going on in a football match that you simply cannot rely on stats alone
<ok> I agree. Stats don't lie but they are prone to misuse!
 
Looking at the present First Team squad I found the following situation;

Krul, McGovern and Oxborough all available
Aarons, Hanley, Mumba all available
Gibson (loan in) available Quintilla (loan in) injured, Zimmermann injured, Byram injured,
All of Famewo, Klose, Heise and McCullum are out on loan
Rupp, Vrancic, Placheta, Cantwell, Buendia, Stiepermann, Sorensen, Skipp (in loan), McLean, Martin, are available.
Dowell and Hernandez are injured
Tettey, Hugill, Pukki, Idah are available
All of Sanani, Sitti, Trybull, Thompson and Morris are out on loan
Leitner and Drmic are surplus to requirements
9 players are out on loan and 3 are in on loan. Five players are presently injured, 3 long term (Byram, Hernandez and Dowell) and two are hopefully short term (Quintilla and Zimmermann)
Out of 37 players, 21 are available with another two surplus to requirements, but also available if needed?
 
David Freezer after today's win:

"Five unbeaten has really taken some weight off the shoulders of Farke and his players as they overcome a particularly vicious Premier League relegation hangover - although they’ve got a long way to go to match the 14-game unbeaten run which sealed the title in 2019. In comparison, 17 points from nine games keeps them three points ahead of where that title-winning squad were at this stage, level with the title winners of 2003-04 and one ahead of Paul Lambert’s promotion winners of 2010-11."

It's a start, but there's a long way to go.
 
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Working our way through the top teams in the league now; Bournemouth (4th), Bristol (5th), Swansea (6th) Millwall (9th), plus Brentford (11th). Boro and Stoke to come (7th and 8th), then that leaves Watford and Reading as the only teams left to face in the top half.
 
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Interesting forecast from SmarterScout of "percentage chance of finishing in each position", based on xG and finishing data collected so far this season. They give us over a 50% chance of a top 2 finish.
 
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Interesting forecast from SmarterScout of "percentage chance of finishing in each position", based on xG and finishing data collected so far this season. They give us over a 50% chance of a top 2 finish.
You know stats are complete rubbish DH. I'm surprised at you posting this sort of nonsense. <steam> <laugh>