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That's certainly my take on it.  We overcommitted financially, with Morris was happily covering the shortfall each month, up until he decided he couldn't afford it and stopped.  The EFL issues (on top of accumulating debt) basically prevented a sale, and then a combination of those 2 factors plus COVID pushed us over the edge.  There's no super secret conspiracy, or pots of missing money to find or anything.
Regarding Pearce, the only major issues you can have with him are the overcommitting and the amortization method stuff.  If Morris had committed to covering the shortfall, then I'm not sure what Pearce was supposed to do about it.  Almost every football club in the country is reliant on their owner putting money in to keep the lights on, we weren't unusual in that respect (and are still in that kind of position now, to some degree).  And for what it's worth, I suspect the NDAs are mostly around this stuff - what guarantees Morris gave to the club about putting money in, and whether he stuck to them or not.
And of course, the amortization method was signed off by at least 4 separate sets of accountants, including the EFL's own choice of independent forensic accountant, so it's hard to pin blame on Pearce for that.

I think that's kind of part of it.  He was supposed to be the big marquee signing, the hotshot in-form goal-scoring winger, the missing piece of the puzzle to kick us on a level (or it certainly felt like that was the intention from the outside).  Now, instead of that, he's suddenly not fit, then he's injured, then he's playing but not really fit.  Plus he doesn't really seem to fit the gas-out, aggressive pressing type of football that we want to play either.  So it kind of feels like, instead of blowing our budget on a difference-maker, we've wasted on it on someone who's struggling to even get in the side.

That's certainly my take on it.  We overcommitted financially, with Morris was happily covering the shortfall each month, up until he decided he couldn't afford it and stopped.  The EFL issues (on top of accumulating debt) basically prevented a sale, and then a combination of those 2 factors plus COVID pushed us over the edge.  There's no super secret conspiracy, or pots of missing money to find or anything.
Regarding Pearce, the only major issues you can have with him are the overcommitting and the amortization method stuff.  If Morris had committed to covering the shortfall, then I'm not sure what Pearce was supposed to do about it.  Almost every football club in the country is reliant on their owner putting money in to keep the lights on, we weren't unusual in that respect (and are still in that kind of position now, to some degree).  And for what it's worth, I suspect the NDAs are mostly around this stuff - what guarantees Morris gave to the club about putting money in, and whether he stuck to them or not.
And of course, the amortization method was signed off by at least 4 separate sets of accountants, including the EFL's own choice of independent forensic accountant, so it's hard to pin blame on Pearce for that.

That's certainly my take on it.  We overcommitted financially, with Morris was happily covering the shortfall each month, up until he decided he couldn't afford it and stopped.  The EFL issues (on top of accumulating debt) basically prevented a sale, and then a combination of those 2 factors plus COVID pushed us over the edge.  There's no super secret conspiracy, or pots of missing money to find or anything.
Regarding Pearce, the only major issues you can have with him are the overcommitting and the amortization method stuff.  If Morris had committed to covering the shortfall, then I'm not sure what Pearce was supposed to do about it.  Almost every football club in the country is reliant on their owner putting money in to keep the lights on, we weren't unusual in that respect (and are still in that kind of position now, to some degree).  And for what it's worth, I suspect the NDAs are mostly around this stuff - what guarantees Morris gave to the club about putting money in, and whether he stuck to them or not.
And of course, the amortization method was signed off by at least 4 separate sets of accountants, including the EFL's own choice of independent forensic accountant, so it's hard to pin blame on Pearce for that.

That's certainly my take on it.  We overcommitted financially, with Morris was happily covering the shortfall each month, up until he decided he couldn't afford it and stopped.  The EFL issues (on top of accumulating debt) basically prevented a sale, and then a combination of those 2 factors plus COVID pushed us over the edge.  There's no super secret conspiracy, or pots of missing money to find or anything.
Regarding Pearce, the only major issues you can have with him are the overcommitting and the amortization method stuff.  If Morris had committed to covering the shortfall, then I'm not sure what Pearce was supposed to do about it.  Almost every football club in the country is reliant on their owner putting money in to keep the lights on, we weren't unusual in that respect (and are still in that kind of position now, to some degree).  And for what it's worth, I suspect the NDAs are mostly around this stuff - what guarantees Morris gave to the club about putting money in, and whether he stuck to them or not.
And of course, the amortization method was signed off by at least 4 separate sets of accountants, including the EFL's own choice of independent forensic accountant, so it's hard to pin blame on Pearce for that.

We've had 8 players start at least 75% of our league games - Wildsmith, Nelson, Cashin, Forsyth, Bird, Hourihane, Collins, NML.  I reckon that's a much better indicator than the number of unique XIs we've put out.  

The mad thing is, both sides are kind of right.  We've over-played our core players during the first half of the season, and they're starting to pick up little niggles and miss games, leading to the uncertainty over the line-up now.

We've had 8 players start at least 75% of our league games - Wildsmith, Nelson, Cashin, Forsyth, Bird, Hourihane, Collins, NML.  I reckon that's a much better indicator than the number of unique XIs we've put out.  

That only holds true if you think that all shots (or shots on target) are equally as likely to result in goals.  As soon as you accept that some shots are more likely to result in goals than other shots, then xG is potentially a better stat that just shots on its own.
There are absolutely some types of games where shots (on target) is going to be a very good predictor of the actual outcome, because in general the better team is more likely to have more shots and more likely to score some of them.  But there are also games where that is not going to be true.  For example, games where you've got one team dominating possession against a team sitting in a low block (which we've seen plenty of over the years!), the team on the ball is probably going to have a fair few shots, but many of them will be pot-shots from distance or snatched half chances under pressure, that are unlikely to result in goals.  The other team is going to have much fewer shots, but they are probably going to be much better chances, where they've won the ball back an counter-attacked or something. 
xG is just an attempt to factor all that stuff in.  You can see it in the scores/stats you've posted above.  Luton had nearly 3 times as many shots as Sheff Utd, but the xG is almost the same.  That's very clearly saying that Luton were creating a lot of poor chances, vs Sheff Utd creating a few very good ones.  The Fulham vs Bournemouth game is similar.  I haven't watched those games, but those xG stats are telling more about the game than just the shots ones on their own are.  xG is certainly not perfect, and there's definitely an element of opinion in it (someone is having to make a value judgment somewhere about what a 'good' chance is, even if that is just down to the choice of methodology for calculating it), but to me, it's telling me stuff I didn't already know, so its useful.

We spent the whole summer recruiting for a back 3 and wingbacks, only to abandon it after a few games.  So of course we spent the whole of January recruiting wingers, only to change to wingbacks after 2 games...

We spent the whole summer recruiting for a back 3 and wingbacks, only to abandon it after a few games.  So of course we spent the whole of January recruiting wingers, only to change to wingbacks after 2 games...

Radio Derby didn't go into specifics, but did say Cashin's injury wasn't too bad.  They implied Vickers was a worse one.

We spent the whole summer recruiting for a back 3 and wingbacks, only to abandon it after a few games.  So of course we spent the whole of January recruiting wingers, only to change to wingbacks after 2 games...

We spent the whole summer recruiting for a back 3 and wingbacks, only to abandon it after a few games.  So of course we spent the whole of January recruiting wingers, only to change to wingbacks after 2 games...

Could easily be a flat four too.  NML and Ward as wingers.

Spend the last 3 weeks in a panic because we don't have a right back, then as soon as we actually have one, switch to a formation that doesn't use one... #JustPaulWarneThings

Spend the last 3 weeks in a panic because we don't have a right back, then as soon as we actually have one, switch to a formation that doesn't use one... #JustPaulWarneThings

Spend the last 3 weeks in a panic because we don't have a right back, then as soon as we actually have one, switch to a formation that doesn't use one... #JustPaulWarneThings

Spend the last 3 weeks in a panic because we don't have a right back, then as soon as we actually have one, switch to a formation that doesn't use one... #JustPaulWarneThings

Spend the last 3 weeks in a panic because we don't have a right back, then as soon as we actually have one, switch to a formation that doesn't use one... #JustPaulWarneThings

Spend the last 3 weeks in a panic because we don't have a right back, then as soon as we actually have one, switch to a formation that doesn't use one... #JustPaulWarneThings

Spend the last 3 weeks in a panic because we don't have a right back, then as soon as we actually have one, switch to a formation that doesn't use one... #JustPaulWarneThings

Spend the last 3 weeks in a panic because we don't have a right back, then as soon as we actually have one, switch to a formation that doesn't use one... #JustPaulWarneThings

Spend the last 3 weeks in a panic because we don't have a right back, then as soon as we actually have one, switch to a formation that doesn't use one... #JustPaulWarneThings

Spend the last 3 weeks in a panic because we don't have a right back, then as soon as we actually have one, switch to a formation that doesn't use one... #JustPaulWarneThings