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He’ll be so far down the list of our two fit and available strikers at the club… I think it would be better for him to be with our team, perhaps learn a bit from Dwight Gayle in training and be an impact sub when needed for us.

Why didn't they let him get some dry clothes on first? 😂

It's hipster because it's been coined and stylised as 'xG' instead of 'Expected Goals' It's controversial because people think that by having this stat, that all the old stats are being discredited, which isn't the case. Give it a few more seasons and people will have moved on to moan about something else. Probably xSB (aka Expected Sin Bin minutes) where players are ranked on their their time off the pitch and how much stress it causes on their team during the season 🙂

You are Craig Forysth and I claim my £5

Petition to name thread "Paul Warne Hokey Cokey: In, out, in, out, shake it all about"

I'm not a massive fan of xG and certainly wouldn't rely on it as the main indicator of performance. However, you've picked 4 of the 10 EPL fixtures from the weekend. Do the other 6 correlate with these 4? Let's look... Crystal Palace 1.00 Chelsea 1.33. The result was 1-3 (xG predicted winner but was a little off with amount Chelsea scored. West Ham 1.58 Arsenal 1.92. The result was 0-6 (again xG got the winner correct but was off with the scale of the score) Liverpool 2.67 Burnley 0.67. The result was 3-1 (quite close this one) Spurs 2.25 Brighton 1.00. The result was 2-1 (spot on) Wolves 1.50 Brentford 0.91. The result was 0-2 (this one was off) Man City 2.45 Everton 1.42. The result was 2-0 (correct winner, but a bit out with Everton) I'm not sure which site you used for your xG results but the one I looked at also Fulham 1.83 Bournemouth 1.17, which was closer to the 3-1 result than your xG stats. All in all, I'm not a fan of xG and we can see that there's discrepancy between different sites listing their stats. However, it's not fair to cherry pick half of the weekends results to satisfy your argument and not include the rest of the results to at least add context or back up your findings.

He has the attributes to play anywhere in the middle I think, but I don't think he has the experience or tactical knowledge to be the main DM. He is much better carrying the ball forward where he can take a few more risks without it being as dangerous as if he's just in front of the defence. With Hourihane and Bird alongside him, then he was expected to play a bit deeper and do the dirty work, but his inexperience and tendency to overplay the ball backfired a couple of times in dangerous positions. With Adams being the main sheilder and maybe a Thompson/Fornah combo in front then I think there's a good mix of tackling, passing and ball carrying options to build on. Of course, if the opportunity arises to get in players to improve the midfield then we need to do that.

If Thompson can get back to his pre-season form before the end of the season then I think he will link up well with Adams and maybe bring in one more experienced midfielder to bring it all together. I still think Fornah is a decent player, just needs a run of games to let him settle.

If they decide to allow the transfer then it stinks of EFL corruption when we weren't allowed to sign Kieftenbeld after he signed the wrong box. How's that for a conspiracy? Amidoingitright?

Some of you fan boys need to calm down with these dirty thoughts...

He was born in Greenwich, not sure how much of worn torn Gambia he has ever seen 😉 Agree on leaving behind Cardiff though

Ogwuru (Norwich) and O'Mahony (Brighton)?

He said he thinks it's a new name. Fraser is just one that has come up, but not as often as others like Smith, Gregory, Clarke-Harris etc. Anyway, although he has a good goal involvement to minutes ratio at Wolves, I'm not sure an 18 year old rookie will be what we need right now.

Nathan Fraser?

I suggested he was possibly the player Warne had seen the other week that we were all trying to guess. Seems like a good option at the moment, tall and powerful for his age, knows where the goal is too.

So he'll be alright for 3 of the 4 months we have left this season? 😉

I would think the striker from a premier league club we’re waiting for might be Divin Mubama. West Ham are short on strikers, but he needs some proper game time that they can’t currently offer him.

Pollock rumour???

I can't seem to find the article where it named the designer that I read a few years back, but he was working for a local agency and was a Leeds fan... probably the reason he doesn't have a statue 😉

https://www.dcfc.co.uk/news/2024/01/blackett-taylor-joins-derby-as-first-january-signing

There you go. It’s because we’re also announcing a new sleeve sponsor. There’s your reason for delay

Can’t Be True

There's pictures leaked of him in a derby kit having his press photos taken. I'm pretty sure the fee and medical would've been sorted before that. This is just a PR delay for whatever reason, could be at the request of Charlton or our own timeline.

Looking at other fixtures I can't see anyone else fitting the bill. There had been a media link to us being interested in Olakigbe, so perhaps Warne was told he'd be involved, but due to how the match was going (Brentford defending a narrow lead for most of the match( he wasn't brought on until a little later when they needed a different attacking option. The forward was recommended, Warne didn't say it was someone we were actively interested in. Fraser is a 6'2 striker with 2 goals in 107 first team minutes for Wolves. Possibly the sort of player that an agent or scout would recommend to us.

Sounds like it could've been Wolves v Brentford. Olakigbe the wide player for Brentford and maybe Fraser the Wolves forward?