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Ghost of Clough

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    Ghost of Clough got a reaction from Mimester in Match Thread: vs Northampton Town (a)   
    Wildsmith
    Nelson   Forsyth   Cashin
    Ward   Smith   Thompson  Sibley
    Adams
    Mendez-Laing   Waghorn
     
    Subs: Evans, Bradley, Wilson, Elder, Fornah, Hourihane, Blackett-Taylor
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    Ghost of Clough got a reaction from Carnero in Match Thread: vs Northampton Town (a)   
    Wildsmith
    Nelson   Forsyth   Cashin
    Ward   Smith   Thompson  Sibley
    Adams
    Mendez-Laing   Waghorn
     
    Subs: Evans, Bradley, Wilson, Elder, Fornah, Hourihane, Blackett-Taylor
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    Ghost of Clough got a reaction from SKRam in Will the last three games sell out.   
    I think we need daily updates for all 3 games 
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    Ghost of Clough got a reaction from Comrade 86 in Match Thread: vs Bolton Wanderers (H)   
    Because you talk gobbledygook and that's how your post read 🤷‍♂️
    Net chances per game against the league's average opponent on neutral ground. By xG, demonstrably the best metric to evaluate past performance in the public domain once you haven't followed a team's games.
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    Ghost of Clough got a reaction from sage in Match Thread: vs Northampton Town (a)   
    Wildsmith
    Nelson   Forsyth   Cashin
    Ward   Smith   Thompson  Sibley
    Adams
    Mendez-Laing   Waghorn
     
    Subs: Evans, Bradley, Wilson, Elder, Fornah, Hourihane, Blackett-Taylor
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    Ghost of Clough got a reaction from DiggerB in Match Thread: vs Northampton Town (a)   
    Wildsmith
    Nelson   Forsyth   Cashin
    Ward   Smith   Thompson  Sibley
    Adams
    Mendez-Laing   Waghorn
     
    Subs: Evans, Bradley, Wilson, Elder, Fornah, Hourihane, Blackett-Taylor
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    Ghost of Clough got a reaction from SKRam in Match Thread: vs Bolton Wanderers (H)   
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    Ghost of Clough got a reaction from SKRam in Match Thread: vs Bolton Wanderers (H)   
    I think I see a change in pace and direction of the header as it gets close to the goal. Does this mean it'll be credited to Waggy? 😅
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    Ghost of Clough reacted to Chopper in The run-in: some analysis   
    Dunno, Wycombe could be up for it. If they sell out their carpark again, threaten the EFL with some litigation and spend the week training hard at their natural strengths like kicking puppies and stealing toys from orphans they may be a tough challenge. 
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    Ghost of Clough got a reaction from Caerphilly Ram in Match Thread: vs Northampton Town (a)   
    Wildsmith
    Nelson   Forsyth   Cashin
    Ward   Smith   Thompson  Sibley
    Adams
    Mendez-Laing   Waghorn
     
    Subs: Evans, Bradley, Wilson, Elder, Fornah, Hourihane, Blackett-Taylor
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    Ghost of Clough got a reaction from FlyBritishMidland in Match Thread: vs Bolton Wanderers (H)   
    Because you talk gobbledygook and that's how your post read 🤷‍♂️
    Net chances per game against the league's average opponent on neutral ground. By xG, demonstrably the best metric to evaluate past performance in the public domain once you haven't followed a team's games.
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    Ghost of Clough got a reaction from Caerphilly Ram in Match Thread: vs Bolton Wanderers (H)   
    Because you talk gobbledygook and that's how your post read 🤷‍♂️
    Net chances per game against the league's average opponent on neutral ground. By xG, demonstrably the best metric to evaluate past performance in the public domain once you haven't followed a team's games.
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    Ghost of Clough got a reaction from hydraulic ram in International Break   
    It's difficult to put a player from League 1 into the international side when others are playing regularly at a higher level. I expect him to break into their national side next season.
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    Ghost of Clough got a reaction from hintonsboots in The run-in: some analysis   
    We play Wycombe on the back of games against Portsmouth, Blackpool, and Peterboroguh (Pizza Cup Final). You'd expect them to be a bit tired after than run, especially if the Peterborough game goes to extra time.
    We will then have Leyton Orient, Cambridge and Carlisle, you'd expect all of them to have nothing to play for by then.
    I think if we're top 2 after the Portsmouth game, we'll win automatic promotion.
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    Ghost of Clough reacted to angieram in Academy thread 23/24   
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    Ghost of Clough got a reaction from angieram in Notts Forest Playtime   
    I can't beleive "we only just got promoted" was part of their defence 😂
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    Ghost of Clough got a reaction from RadioactiveWaste in Notts Forest Playtime   
    I can't beleive "we only just got promoted" was part of their defence 😂
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    Ghost of Clough got a reaction from Dimmu in We can't finish lower than...   
    5 wins from our final 7 will guarentee top 2 in my opinion. That would put us on 93 points, and means the teams behind us could only get away with drawing 1 game and winning the rest.
    4 wins from our final 7 would be 90 points and would be touch and go. With each side only being able to lose 1 and draw 1.
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    Ghost of Clough got a reaction from angieram in We can't finish lower than...   
    5 wins from our final 7 will guarentee top 2 in my opinion. That would put us on 93 points, and means the teams behind us could only get away with drawing 1 game and winning the rest.
    4 wins from our final 7 would be 90 points and would be touch and go. With each side only being able to lose 1 and draw 1.
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    Ghost of Clough got a reaction from Crewton in 2024 loans out   
    Leave him out on loan.
    Waghorn will do the job for now, with Mendez-Laing and Barkhuizen chipping in. Washington will return to the squad soon. Collins only a couple of weeks off too, hopefully around the time Gayle is back too.
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    Ghost of Clough got a reaction from Crewton in Fozzy   
    Fozzy is the perfect partner to Cashin. He knows Cashin won't win 100% of his duels, and is always ready to cover for the few he loses. Nelson also did it well when we were playing a back 4.
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    Ghost of Clough reacted to Foreveram in Will the last three games sell out.   
    I can probably manage that between taxi trips for grandkids, my main job nowadays 😂
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    Ghost of Clough got a reaction from RoyMac5 in Fozzy   
    Fozzy is the perfect partner to Cashin. He knows Cashin won't win 100% of his duels, and is always ready to cover for the few he loses. Nelson also did it well when we were playing a back 4.
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    Ghost of Clough got a reaction from goodgollymickbrolly in Corey Blackett-Taylor - Signed on Loan/Permanent in Summer   
    Sign players who are used to playing in the sytem we're trying to implements and stick to that system. We'll then have a higher success rate with signings. Signing wingers, wing-backs, or full backs, then not playing with wingers, wing-backs, or full backs, is a recipe for failure. So too is signing slower defenders to play in a high line, orleavijg them exposed by pushing the other CBs high up the pitch.
    Flip flopping between formations and having a mish-mash of players who prefer different formations (including the ones signed by Warne) were probably bigger reasons. We're looking better now because this formation suits the majority of our fit squad members.
    We had Mendez-Laing and Barkhuizen contracted for the season, but Warne wanted to play a system which didn't use them so didn't sign anyone to play out wide. Except, a few weeks into the season we decided we now did want to play with wingers, but only had 2 players who were comfortable playing there. On to January, we finally sign a winger, only to change to a system which doesn't use wingers the very next day. With him back from injury and getting opportunities off the bench in a more settled system, he's starting to look better.
    We signed Elder to play a fairly unfamiliar LWB role and he struggled early on. He then picked up an injury which kept him out for a while. He returned when we were playing a back 4 and looked settled after a couple of games. Picked up another injury and we've gone back to wing backs. Where will he fit in long term?
    Wilson and Ward were signed for the RWB role but had niggles. Nyambe came in and we shifted away from a setup which used RWBs. Upon their return, we stuck with 4 at the back, which meant Ward/Wilson had to either play at RB where they have at times struggled defensively, or further forward where Ward doesn't have to pace to beat a man, and Wilson lacks consistent end product.
    Which brings us back to Nyambe. Where will he fit in? He's good 3rd choice cover at RWB (behind Ward and Wilson), but you don't want him playing there too often due to his poor end product. He doesn't get in at RCB over Nelson, so would we drop one of our highest earners (Bradley) to put him in? Or do we go back to a back 4, drop Bradley and waste Ward/Wilson?
     
    We're then onto the truly bad buys...
    Fornah was always a bad buy who will cost us a few hundred thousand eventually. When we already had Bird, Hourihane, Smith, Thompson, and Sibley, with DRobinson coming through, Fornah wasn't the right type of player to sign. We needed either an out and out DM (such as Adams), or an AM with end product.
    Embleton and John-Jules were high risk signings we should never have taken. With a number of other injury risks in the squad (Forsyth, Elder, Wilson, Waghorn, Washington) we couldn't afford to take on more. Embleton had only just returned to training after being out since December, and John-Jules was signed injured, having been out since the previous October.
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