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Post by Mr_DaftBurger on Apr 4, 2023 5:35:29 GMT
I admire your optimism and balls! 😂 Team value conservative or what they've been touted at. Bonham errm Hoever 9 million paid 4-5 now? Sterling 2-3 Axel 5-8 maybe more if fit. Wilmot 2-3 Pearson 8 Laurent 2-3 Smallbone 3-4 Campbell 4-5 Gayle 1? Brown 3-4 We should be doing well! Problem is we're increasing their value! Feel free to disagree! 😅 Transfermarkt has some funny numbers in euros. Doesn't like Bonham (500k), does like Brown (6 mil). Reckons 2.5 mil for Pearson which I'd bite your arm off for.👍👍👍👍👍 I think they don't really know what they're doing! Where as I do! 😂😂😂😂
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Post by bayernoatcake on Apr 4, 2023 6:01:47 GMT
Having snaffled the 125-1 on us making the playoffs, I must add that I also had a little plonk on us to get promoted this season ... at 1000-1. For mine, ... in the form we are in, it does not seem a surmountable task. We have got a pretty good run-in, great talent and depth, ... but most of all, the players are happy, and it is reflected in their recent performances. Have I tempted anyone? I admire your optimism and balls! 😂 Team value conservative or what they've been touted at. Bonham errm Hoever 9 million paid 4-5 now? Sterling 2-3 Axel 5-8 maybe more if fit. Wilmot 2-3 Pearson 8 Laurent 2-3 Smallbone 3-4 Campbell 4-5 Gayle 1? Brown 3-4 We should be doing well! Problem is we're increasing their value! Feel free to disagree! 😅 If we can get 4m for Gayle and Brown, we should absolutely do it 😂
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Post by Gary Hackett on Apr 4, 2023 6:44:42 GMT
My worry is one that I’m sure is shared by a lot of people, that it’s the loan players who’ve been the main cause of our upturn in form and the likelihood is we’re probably not going to see even 50% of them return. I’m hopeful that as we’ve seen AN bring in the majority of these players, and he has a quite entrenched playing style now, that he can replicate it again in the summer. Why won't 50% of them return? It's a fair assumption to say Smallbone, Celina and Tuanzebe won't return.
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Post by lordb on Apr 4, 2023 7:13:49 GMT
Why won't 50% of them return? It's a fair assumption to say Smallbone, Celina and Tuanzebe won't return. Thats less than 50% I'd forgotten about Celina Don’t think you can rule out the other two just yet Sarkic, Sterling, Pearson and Hoevre I reckon 5 will sign with one being on loan again
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Post by walrus on Apr 4, 2023 7:46:46 GMT
I don’t agree with your position and I certainly don’t agree that I’m being disingenuous, especially as I acknowledged the importance of Pearson in my post. If you look at our games from the first half of the season some of our best performances and results came from the handful of occasions we played with a back four. Beating Sheffield United at home and Preston away in the space of a few days sprints to mind. As does comfortably beating a very good Luton side at home. Results like that show that the idea that we couldn’t play with a back four before Pearson signed just doesn’t wash. I think people are so keen to get swept along by the joy of how well we’re playing recently - and trust me I’m absolutely enjoying it too - that they conveniently forget just how badly the back five system worked for us in the first half of the season and just how much grief Neil was correctly getting for persevering with it. In terms of how effective we have been this season for me it goes: 1) Back four with Pearson 2) Back four with others 3) Back five I’m not saying we’d be looking anywhere near as good as we are currently if we’d played a back four all season. But I do think we’d have more points than we do currently. You're not enjoying. Not at all it seems. Of course I’m enjoying it, it’s been brilliant! But I don’t think that enjoying the way we’re playing currently means we have to rewrite the past and claim Neil’s overuse of a back five system earlier in the season was somehow a good tactical move as some posters seem to be doing.
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Post by Vadiation_Ribe on Apr 4, 2023 11:33:27 GMT
A friend created a metric for form, and he has Stoke as the most in form team in the top European leagues at the moment. It helps that we beat such an in form team in Coventry.
Most in form teams:
Stoke Fiorentina Huddersfield Gil Vicente Sassuolo Leverkusen
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Post by jokker on Apr 5, 2023 7:46:07 GMT
A friend created a metric for form, and he has Stoke as the most in form team in the top European leagues at the moment. It helps that we beat such an in form team in Coventry. Most in form teams: Stoke Fiorentina Huddersfield Gil Vicente Sassuolo Leverkusen That sounds like a "league" where teams typically are on form for a little spell but never - well hardly ever - win anything come end of season. I have to admit though I have never heard about Gil Vicente before, but the shoe fits for the other teams, ours included.
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Post by Vadiation_Ribe on Apr 5, 2023 9:00:40 GMT
A friend created a metric for form, and he has Stoke as the most in form team in the top European leagues at the moment. It helps that we beat such an in form team in Coventry. Most in form teams: Stoke Fiorentina Huddersfield Gil Vicente Sassuolo Leverkusen That sounds like a "league" where teams typically are on form for a little spell but never - well hardly ever - win anything come end of season. I have to admit though I have never heard about Gil Vicente before, but the shoe fits for the other teams, ours included. I think that's partly how he's designed it, with a weighting depending on league position. Teams at the top of the leagues are less likely to be at the top of this type of form table because they're expected to win almost every game, hence Arsenal aren't near the top despite their winning run. So I look at that (and although I'm not a betting person) think perhaps Leverkusen are a good bet for Champions League qualification (even though they're currently only 7th) and maybe Europa League success. It could also help predict who is going to get out of or into relegation trouble. Huddersfield - despite being in the bottom 3 and not winning in their last 3 - look a good bet to stay up compared to teams around them, but according to bookies will get relegated.
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Post by jokker on Apr 5, 2023 13:37:46 GMT
That sounds like a "league" where teams typically are on form for a little spell but never - well hardly ever - win anything come end of season. I have to admit though I have never heard about Gil Vicente before, but the shoe fits for the other teams, ours included. I think that's partly how he's designed it, with a weighting depending on league position. Teams at the top of the leagues are less likely to be at the top of this type of form table because they're expected to win almost every game, hence Arsenal aren't near the top despite their winning run. So I look at that (and although I'm not a betting person) think perhaps Leverkusen are a good bet for Champions League qualification (even though they're currently only 7th) and maybe Europa League success. It could also help predict who is going to get out of or into relegation trouble. Huddersfield - despite being in the bottom 3 and not winning in their last 3 - look a good bet to stay up compared to teams around them, but according to bookies will get relegated. Some of these teams have had some modicum of success in the past. Leverkusen and Fiorentina, especially...but success comes and goes for these teams with long phases of nothing. They do tend to rarely touch relegation worries, just stay on the straight and narrow, if you like.
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