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Reply | Edwards just makes it look Eze
at 06:05 15 Apr 2025
And give it to our recruitment team and Director of Football?
I spent a few hours on Sunday cycling with a guy who is involved at a pretty senior level at a Premier League club. We were discussing our collection of midgets. He called them "technical players" and laughed. He said we would probably have a pretty good five a side team though. |
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Thread | Eze
at 15:29 23 Feb 2025
A client took me to Fulham v Palace yesterday. Eze was the stand out player on the pitch. Unplayable. So much time on the ball.
The Riverside stand is something else, with the terrace for a drink after the game. And they drop the price after the game. |
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Reply | Warne gone at Derby
at 06:10 8 Feb 2025
Warne is an interesting one. He is the League One equivalent of Scott Parker - he sets up in a particular way (in Warne's case, a team of giant industrial cloggers), gets promoted every time (think Rotherham with him as opposed to now) and then gets dismissed because it doesn't work higher up. Warne will go back to League 1 and repeat.
Derby are stuck in a doom loop. David Clowes has realised how much it costs to own a club and likes it as much as Mel Morris - he wants to be substantially out. They are not going to become world beaters with that League 1 squad overnight. Much as they would hate it because they think they are bigger than him, Neil Harris is perfect for Derby. |
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Reply | Dunne off?
at 10:58 3 Feb 2025
This.
It's a short career. He has to make his money. Good luck to him. |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread
at 05:59 17 Jan 2025
Good for him. Genuinely decent guy and a good manager. To get over bowel cancer and come back to managing is exceptional. [Post edited 17 Jan 5:59]
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Reply | Rob Edwards sacked by Luton
at 08:26 10 Jan 2025
It will be pretty clear what he is entitled to receive. He did a good job in getting them promoted, he then renegotiated his contract from a position of relative strength - https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c4nn33x303yo , which usually has implications as to whether he has an obligation to mitigate his loss. There may or may not be a liquidated damages clause in the new contract - if not, it is the unexpired value of the duration of the contract less any deduction for receiving it in a lump sum. He will likely have instructed the League Managers Association to act and one of their aims is to get a good press release. I suspect he will have done okay - not Conte or Potter okay, but okay nonetheless. [Post edited 10 Jan 8:32]
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Reply | QPR Wronguns
at 13:44 3 Jan 2025
High flying JET.
Swazzy. |
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Thread | Kalvin Phillips
at 21:28 27 Dec 2024
Currently watching Arsenal v Ipswich. What am I not seeing that Premier League coaches and England managers do? He is about a yard off the pace and seems to have the role of giving freekicks away in stupid place. [Post edited 27 Dec 2024 22:03]
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Reply | Joe Gelhardt linked
at 15:50 11 Dec 2024
What is the last striker with a questionable appearance history and abysmal scoring record that we got from Leeds doing now? |
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Reply | Nourry
at 05:41 8 Dec 2024
The improvement is down to the Head Coach, not the CEO. |
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Reply | Fan Mobilisation - Nourry Out
at 22:06 26 Nov 2024
This is fcuking terrible.
Allegedly walking around at the training ground, with a tracksuit on, with your intials on, when you are one of the executive officers of the club. WTAF?
Who is allowing this sh!tshow to continue?
Please put him/us out of the misery. |
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Thread | The game model
at 13:25 24 Nov 2024
Nourry set out in this interview with a local rag what his "game model" is - https://londonnewsonline.co.uk/sport/qpr-chief-executive-nourry-we-will-stick-wi
His words were tbat the game model is:
"some form of 4-3-3, possession-based, mid-block/high press football,”
adding:
"we did that by looking at the last 10 years of the Championship and what won you points and what allowed you sustainability to bring in 16 to 24-year-old players who could play well in the system, develop and be the best players they could possibly be."
In terms of enforcing this he said:
"We have a club game model of how we want to play football. That’s a document that is now under the per view of our head of methodology [Jon De Souza], who’s in charge of policing the game model."
And it was also indicated in relation to the longevity of his game model:
"Nourry is adamant that the club will not move away from the game model approach even if the team struggles to get results on the pitch, and it will guide the process of appointing head coaches in the future."
Any problems with that?
Just a few.
First, "some form of 433".. Please. What does that mean?
Second, why not broadcast to everyone how we are going to play so they can set up for it.
Third, the data set is historic and relates to players who are, in all likelihood, not in this team given the age profile referred to.
Fourth, this flawed, historic data set refers to Championship players. The players we signed are not Championship players. Nourry would doubtless say that there was room for them to progress as Championship players because you look at their data based attributes. That's possibly fine if you look at all of the attributes. However, how do you focus on a subjective quality like stomach for a fight in an objective data set? In short, he is comparing apples with oranges and saying they are the same thing.
Fifth, having now determined that the flawed basis for how the club will play is the game model, we then have a "Director of Methodology" to enforce it. So who is Methodology copper, Jon De Souza? Well looking at other sources rather than the puff and bullshit we get from Nourry, he is a solid, lower league academy coach - https://www.charltonafc.com/news/view/6262720a6c8e8/jon-de-souza-appointed-as-me Yet he is enforcing the flawed game model. In other words, in terms of policing the flawed methodology, he outranks what Marti wants to do. In other words, it all comes back to Nourry to decide what will happen because he will report to Nourry.
Finally, in terms of Nourry indicating that the gane model will endure even if results do not go our way, this is blatant stupidity. Quite apart from it saying that reality is wrong because it doesn’t fit the flawed methodology, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting to get a different result.
I am astonished that our owners think that this experiment is worth persevering with. Instead of data and artificial intelligence, why don't we actually apply some analogue, fact based intelligence to the problem and see if Marti can get a tune out of the rabble he has be given with any sort of system.
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Reply | Celar
at 07:31 24 Nov 2024
Presumably in the data only analysis that the club carried out, they should have looked at where the Swiss Super League stands in the UEFA coefficient rankings - https://www.uefa.com/nationalassociations/uefarankings/country/?year=2025. The answer is 16th, marginally better than the SPL. Relatively, from a data perspective, Celar is therefore considerably more expensive than Dykes and a very considerably worse player. |
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