Ambitious Posted May 18 Share Posted May 18 7 minutes ago, Ghost of Clough said: I doubt Ipswich have a top 6 wage bill this season too Yeah, I’d guess top 10 potentially. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ossieram Posted May 18 Share Posted May 18 (edited) Posting your opinion and putting "fact" at the end, makes you a cockwomble, imoh. Edited May 18 by ossieram RadioactiveWaste, NegativeCreep and sage 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaspode Posted May 18 Share Posted May 18 2 hours ago, ossieram said: Posting your opinion and putting "fact" at the end, makes you a cockwomble, imoh. kevinhectoring, Anag Ram, Animal is a Ram and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mucker1884 Posted May 19 Share Posted May 19 19 hours ago, ossieram said: Posting your opinion and putting "fact" at the end, makes you a cockwomble, imoh. What about if you end your opinion with: "... and that is my opinion on the matter. FACT" 👀 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadioactiveWaste Posted May 19 Share Posted May 19 XG is still much misused in arguments and it's whilst the reported xG is the reported xG, it's the output of the mystical XG model and how much you pay attention to it depends entirely on how much faith you have in the xG model. XG isn't a bad thing, but it is what it is, no more or less and it is certainly not a "was a team good or bad quantified in a single number" which is what it seems to be used as in discussions a lot. DarkFruitsRam7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foreveram Posted May 19 Share Posted May 19 48 minutes ago, RadioactiveWaste said: XG is still much misused in arguments and it's whilst the reported xG is the reported xG, it's the output of the mystical XG model and how much you pay attention to it depends entirely on how much faith you have in the xG model. XG isn't a bad thing, but it is what it is, no more or less and it is certainly not a "was a team good or bad quantified in a single number" which is what it seems to be used as in discussions a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkFruitsRam7 Posted May 19 Share Posted May 19 To add to @RadioactiveWaste's post, xG is the most misunderstood stat in football. It's incredibly valuable for assessing performances over a certain period of time, and discovering it early is partly why Brighton's owner is so rich. RadioactiveWaste 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bris Vegas Posted May 19 Share Posted May 19 Paul Warne is a League One Neil Warnock. Great at that level, gets found out at a level above. jimtastic56, GB SPORTS and G STAR RAM 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyinLiverpool Posted May 19 Share Posted May 19 Manchester City are just boring. The players are like machines. They function well but I don't want to watch them. Kooklaram, InstaRam, Alty_Ram and 5 others 5 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabby'sThighs Posted May 21 Share Posted May 21 The word 'elite' gets bandied about all the time in football, and I find it an annoying piece of marketing manager-speak. When you describe Pep Guardiola, or whoever, as 'elite', it implies he's some kind of wizardly demi-god with secret football ju-ju. It's normally just who the football writes like at any particular time. It also gets used so often that it has become meaningless. I'm sure Marcus Rashford was an 'elite player' not long ago but now he can't get to ten goals. The other weird phrase is 'in-and-around', as in, "We need to get the ball in-and-around James Collins." You want to get the ball in James Collins. Really? I don't think he'd like that. RadioactiveWaste 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkFruitsRam7 Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 Steve McLaren deserves more respect for how good of a job he did in 2013/14. He quickly turned a promising but inconsistent team into an absolute force. Denied promotion by a freak of a game. Crewton, angieram, Zag zig and 8 others 1 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimtastic56 Posted May 27 Share Posted May 27 “Size doesn’t matter”. Not with us Rams fans. It’s an obsession. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nottingram Posted Monday at 08:36 Share Posted Monday at 08:36 4 hours ago, DarkFruitsRam7 said: Steve McLaren deserves more respect for how good of a job he did in 2013/14. He quickly turned a promising but inconsistent team into an absolute force. Denied promotion by a freak of a game. Absurd decision to sack him both times. With Morris’ initial investment he’d have taken us up 15/16 easily SSD, JustOneBiblicalKazim and JJs dms 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littleover ram Posted Monday at 09:39 Share Posted Monday at 09:39 1 hour ago, nottingram said: Absurd decision to sack him both times. With Morris’ initial investment he’d have taken us up 15/16 easily Clement was sacked too early too. And Pearson should never have been appointed in the first place JustOneBiblicalKazim and SSD 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimbeard Posted Monday at 10:24 Share Posted Monday at 10:24 We should be grateful for Oldben's input. His well thoughtout and original precis on veried subjects are invaluable in stimulating discussion. Reggie Greenwood, DarkFruitsRam7, Kernow and 1 other 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VulcanRam Posted Tuesday at 09:43 Share Posted Tuesday at 09:43 Pearson was sacked too early. Clement was sacked too early. McLaren was sacked too early. Cocu was sacked too late. I like Gary Rowett and his style of football was ok. xG is a pile of w***. The South Stand is good but not as good as everyone makes out. I like @RoyMac5's input. Some people on here engage their fingers way earlier than they do their brains. It's not against the law to change your mind on things like the manager/players etc. The European Super League needs to happen, and now, if football in this country is to be competitive. Parachute payments need to be scrapped, and now, if the Championship is to remain competitive. SSD and RoyMac5 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Graham Brown Posted Tuesday at 12:41 Share Posted Tuesday at 12:41 On 16/05/2024 at 11:10, BaaLocks said: You do know that women don't have one? Please don’t go there!😳 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaaLocks Posted Tuesday at 12:50 Share Posted Tuesday at 12:50 8 minutes ago, David Graham Brown said: Please don’t go there!😳 Only on my birthday David Graham Brown 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anag Ram Posted Tuesday at 13:20 Share Posted Tuesday at 13:20 On 18/05/2024 at 14:30, Gaspode said: That’s a terrifying chimera. A c*** that picks up on Wimbledon Common. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicester Ram Posted Tuesday at 23:19 Share Posted Tuesday at 23:19 The transition from Steve McClaren to Gary Rowett is one of the most devastating pieces of mismanagement many of us will ever see at the club. We were under no restrictions, had more money than ever and were already one of the best sides in the division - still managed to monumentally f*** it. McClaren’s sacking the first time around is where it all went wrong. We haven’t had a set of players and manager that suited each other so well since. We had a clear identity and willingly threw it away. The link to the Newcastle was completely overblown by a section of media/fans around the club that are insistent on shooting themselves in the foot. If it wasn’t for an injury crisis we’d have gone up that season automatically and no one would have been bothered about Newcastle. McClaren’s poor media skills turned him into a pantomime villain - he said he wouldn’t go at one point but kept getting asked. He’s also said that, before he was sacked, he’d decided to stay. His resultant sacking was the beginning of the end, from then on we spent years and millions of pounds chasing what we already had with him and Simmo. You only have to look at who Mel hired in the following two seasons to see that he had absolutely no clue what direction to go in once we’d lost that identity. There was no theme to Clement to Pearson, back to McClaren and eventually Rowett. It turned us into an unrecognisable blob of several managers ideas that, outside of Lampard’s loans, have never looked like we could go up to the Premier League and stick since. When we ended up with Rowett we had a manager who was the polar opposite of McClaren (defensive and media savvy). That side was then dismantled after wasting two years where McClaren could have got them up. Not saying McClaren was perfect but sticking with him was our best bet. angieram, nick_d, JustOneBiblicalKazim and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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