General Football Thread

Why change it half way through the season? Too many games in a short time, surly it will slow the game down and disrupt the flow... good if you're 2-1 up at 86 mins you do one substitute per min to disrupt the flow.

 

Only allowed to substitute three times still, so more than one player has to be subbed on at least one of those.

 

So a team can now substitute half its outfield players as they tire towards the end of a game. Be interesting to see if our strategy of trying to run opponents into the ground and take advantage in the last ten minutes continues to reap dividends.

 

But a lot of teams 15th best outfield player would, I will suggest, not be as good as our 15th, and probably not as good as our 20th. This does not even consider players missing through injury or suspension.

 

Either way, the proof will be in the stats.

 

I think the proof may lay in the final table robbie.

 

There's a difference between description and explanation. The final table only gives you your end-of-term result; analysing the stats will help you understand why you got the result you did.

 

I don't think I will ever agree with you robbie. To me football is emotive, not dry as stats are. The fun of being a supporter is in the emotions aroused. I couldn't give two figs whether we are statistically the best team, it's what I see on the pitch to excite me that matters most.

 

I like playing football manager and that's essentially a stats game, but a 0-1 away win with a deflected goal and them peppering ours all game, priceless!

 

Daniel Farke and his analytics team spend hours poring over stats. They do it because they want to understand the game, how our opponents play it, what we need to do to beat them, and why they beat us when we lose. I haven't noticed any lack of emotion from DF!

 

Surely this proves that stats produce the performance, not the performance producing the stats. Anyway, nearly midnight here, 26°, so of to bed I go.

 

Just seen that Angus Gunn will miss ten weeks, their other first team goalie is out also. Should make our chances better for Tuesday night.

 

Not to like an injury to a player, but could be useful

 

Sounds good, sign him up

 

The Wally with the Brolly goes to Derby as Technical Director.

 

Agent Lambert!

 

While on that subject, how about this from the BBC's "EFL Live" last night:

"Mallik Wilks has also banged Hull ahead at Ipswich, the leaders hitting the front at one of those classic wonderful older stadiums in football - Portman Road." (my italics). Tongue-in-cheek, surely, or maybe not, it's the BBC after all.