Jubbs

Fast tracked into the first team...

Lindsay Hoyle apologised. Said he made a mistake. But clearly he didn't make a mistake. He's doubled down on it. 
The protection offered to Israel is disgusting. They can't even call out Islamophobia now when it's blatant but have been smearing everyone opposed to the mass murder as antisemtic. Still we send them weapons. 
We condemn Houthi attacks in shipping lanes. But we can't condemn Israel blocking aid trucks. The world is pretty much united in a ceasefire. The world has seen enough murdered Palestinians. But not America or Britain. They stand isolated in support of Israel. Calling Peace Protests "Hamas supporters". Crying about the chants of "From the River to the sea" while the Likud Party policy is the exact same. 
The Iraq war was shameful. This? This is complicity in ethnic cleansing and collective punishment. Perhaps genocide. That's what our politicians are about. 
Anybody who tries to muddy the waters with this "self defence" or "collateral damage" or any despicable gaslighting bs... You should be ashamed of yourselves. 
 

Nope, other than offering him a pro deal meaning we'd get more for him. I hope he's had an offer put forward. He's just turned 17, so is able to sign one now - whether he'll accept it or not is another story, but I really hope he does.

Nope, other than offering him a pro deal meaning we'd get more for him. I hope he's had an offer put forward. He's just turned 17, so is able to sign one now - whether he'll accept it or not is another story, but I really hope he does.

Hollyoaks, Triangle, Home to Roost, Eldorado, Manimal, Button Moon, Mrs Brown's Boys, The One Show (especially with Jermaine Jenas), anything with Greg Wallace

If Puma are next seasons shirt supllier, a remake of this would be epic

Ché Adams, Aaron Connolly, Kelechi Iheanacho, Kayden Jackson and Tyrese Campbell are all free agents in the summer.
Which ones would you choose to replace our old strike force in the summer, who are also free agents and the list includes Connor Washington and martyn waghorn. 
I'm assuming here we somehow make the championship next season, and also assume that the older players who seem to be injury prone are probably a waste of our wage budget in the Championship.
We will have 10+ free agents in the summer, but I thought its worth looking at younger strikers first.

Zak Gilsenan is a great player so not surprised to see he's scored 2 for them. Former Barcelona (he was very young) and Liverpool academy player.

Zak Gilsenan is a great player so not surprised to see he's scored 2 for them. Former Barcelona (he was very young) and Liverpool academy player.

Yes. Too many people wanting to watch Derby and Blackburn U21s instead of Everton and Palace.

2-1 FT. 5th, but level with Wolves on 21 points. Only Man Utd, Man City and Liverpool
Mintus came on for Richards at half time. Augustien and Green on for Hawkins and Osong around the 80 min mark.

https://x.com/BelperUnited/status/1758431500062667110?s=20
Farren Simons joined Belper United on loan

xG needs a rebrand. It doesn't mean "how many you should have scored" - it's a metric of how many shots were close to goal.
If you see a team with loads of shots and low xG, you can tell that it was a side struggling to break into the final third and taking fanciful shots at goal.
If you see a high xG and no goals scored, you know a team's been wasteful.
I don't see what's hipster or controversial about that.

45% wage bill to turnover apparently. 
I don't believe that for a second.

I could speak for ages on this and the importance of looking at underlying stats etc.
But as a basic view, xG in terms of individual games is good surface level but over the course of a season, gives a much better picture.

Taylor certainly won’t lose if they have the same judges as last time, Catterall was robbed last time out

At what point is the league a fair indicator? Do we have to wait until the last game has been played?
10 games in, Port Vale were 6th bit now they're 4th bottom. After 20 games, Reading were bottom 4, but would now be 14th without a points deduction. Leyton Orient have shot up from 16th to 9th in the same period of time.

Max Bird is a new man now he knows he doesn’t have to play for Warne much longer!
WHAT 
A
GOAL

DRobinson and DBrown are closest to the first team and should have had more minutes this season to help them transition from youth football to men's.
JThompson is my man of the match most weeks now. He's an excellent shot stopper and calm when playing out from the back.
I really like Cox who is perfectly suited to Warne's LCB role. Versitile enough to play LB or LWB too. Eventually I'd like to see him at LCB with Cashin moved central.
Gill was a regular at LB for the U18s last season despite being an U16 player. He's now being introdcued to U21 football.
Hawkins is another who was fast tracked. 17 U18 games when still an U16 player, then 16 games at U21 when a first year scholar. Earlier in the season I stated he needed to start adding end product to his game, which he has started to do over the past coiple of months. He's a simialr type of player to Bird, is currently a DM but could be moved further forward eventually, just like Warne's done with Bird.
Allen is a special player. He was introduced to the U18s late last season and scored 2 goals in 4 apps. Since the summer he has really kicked on. He's scored 3 goals in 343 mins for Wales U17 and 7 goal contributions in 719 minuts for our U18s. He's recently stepped up to the U21s too (scoring on his only start) He's also an excellent freekick taker. Mainly an AM but can play anywhere in midfield or on the wings. He's still only 16.

Rubbish. 
 
Shots on target/shots assume each shot is just as likely to go in which leads to people assuming ‘more shots = better performance’. xG rightfully builds on that over simplified view and looks at the quality of chances rather than just quantity of chances. I can’t see how anyone can say it’s not a useful metric. 
 
Surely moved past smarmy pundits giving it the ‘the only stat that matters is the goals scored stat’ large. 
 
It was clear from xG that despite derby not having the results we’d like under Rosenior we were creating quality chances that we simply weren’t taking. (The eye sight test would tell you that Collins had a howler of a start to last season but xG took the emotion out of those claims that we were a boring team that didn’t attack. We did. We attacked very well. We just couldn’t hit a barn door). 
Whereas Rotherham were massively over performing against their xG at the start of last season and eventually started falling like a stone with only the over performance at the start of the season keeping them up ultimately. They regressed back to where their underlying stats said they should have been. 

Think I’ve said it before but if it was called something like “chance quality” instead of expected goals then you’d have a lot less people poo-pooing it for whatever reason they do.
It’s not the be all and end all but can add context if you want it to. Does make me laugh when people will say it’s meaningless and then happily sit there quoting shots or shots on target.

I quite like XG and as @Ghost of Clough says, if you understand it, it can tell you quite a bit about how a team is performing in terms of creating chances and how they (and individuals within the team) are performing in terms of taking them.
And........it keeps me reasonably balanced re Warne and the in/out and awful/brilliant debates.
My position re Warne is that I think the football is pretty grim to watch but he definitely knows what he is doing.
Our XG for is 1.46 per game and we're scoring 1.74 per game.........outperforming it with only one striker available
Our XG against is 1.07 per game and we're conceding 0.94 per game........again goalies and defenders must be doing a lot right
If you then take Peterborough....
Their XG for is 1.83.......clearly demonstrating they are playing more attacking football over the season so far.....and they are scoring 1.9....just outperforming XG
Their XG against is 1.16 but they are conceding 1.26
What does that add up to?
I'd currently rather be Derby than Peterborough in terms of league position (+ stadium, toilets, kit, chairman etc etc) but, if were a neutral, wanting to be entertained, I'd go to Peterborough without a shadow of doubt.
And you a kick-the-ball-into-a-skip halftime competition thrown in.
I think XG is more of an entertainment factor on any given match day but becomes more meaningful over time.

xG is a useful tool if used correctly. Give Chris Martin and Connor Sammon exactly the same chance and they'll have the same xG, but one of them will be more liekly to score as he's a better finisher. Unsurprisingly, the teams who create a high proportion of chances for their best finishers also outperform their xG as a team, whilst the team creating chances for poorer finishers underperform.
xG is a better metric than shots as it gives meaning to the shot - the chance of scoring from 1 yard out will be significantly greater than 40 yards out.

I could speak for ages on this and the importance of looking at underlying stats etc.
But as a basic view, xG in terms of individual games is good surface level but over the course of a season, gives a much better picture.

Completely forgot about the home game! @Jourdan we were battered by Plymouth at home and as Jubba says I have no idea how we went 2-0 up!