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Post by West Acton on Mar 3, 2022 21:20:47 GMT
Think it shows as well as we now look a very tired weary side. For as exciting as the cup competitions were they were pointless games in the legs and body which we never needed
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Post by spongeparr on Mar 5, 2022 7:33:46 GMT
Think it shows as well as we now look a very tired weary side. For as exciting as the cup competitions were they were pointless games in the legs and body which we never needed I imagine this is because 3 of our cbs never change, so that's 3 positions not being rotated. |
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Post by alanwycombe on Mar 5, 2022 7:56:23 GMT
Plus the fact it doesn’t have a depth of quality so no one challenging for a place - a reluctance to ever include a youngster - and, everyone’s favourite, we didn’t need another striker. That said, it always used to be a good thing to have a settled side. The squad thing has trickled down from the top clubs who play in several competitions. Our best ever season I think we only used 15 players and there weren’t multiple subs in those days.
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Post by West Acton on Mar 5, 2022 8:36:41 GMT
Realistically outside of the top 6 it’s highly unlikely anyone is going win league or Fa Cup you might get a Southampton or and Everton winning it every blue moon or another prem side but championship side it’s not going happen again so we and others are waisting our time.
We’re not in the cups to win it we’re in it for the chance of a pay day.
If we find ourselves in position again of being competitive in the league then I would sack off both cups and just concentrate on league.
Used to love the cup but pointless exercise now
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Post by alanwycombe on Mar 5, 2022 9:33:00 GMT
The only honest way to not cheat the fans is don’t enter and I think it’s compulsory. ‘82 was great apart from result and the buzz around the club was something I’d like to experience again. Very unlikely now I agree, but no reason a pro team can’t play half a dozen extra games at our level - adjust training schedule. The season is already two months longer than it used to be and a cup run was never a problem.
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Post by West Acton on Mar 5, 2022 10:16:21 GMT
No one is cheating fans Al no one is made to go hence why most early rounds were all sat in SA road. It’s a choice for the fans and plenty do vote with their feet in cup games.
Don’t think there is option not to enter so just stick the kids out people not getting game out.
Your are not seriously attending these cup games thinking you’re getting a day out at Wembley at the end of it?
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Post by alanwycombe on Mar 5, 2022 10:35:30 GMT
Agree play kids in League Cup but I’d always like an FA Cup run. No, don’t expect to get all the way with current team but a good day out somewhere and upset someone yes, why not? As for cheating fans we were cheated at Peterborough - no way were our lot giving it full beans.
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Post by West Acton on Mar 15, 2022 11:30:21 GMT
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Post by West Acton on Apr 6, 2022 18:22:05 GMT
I personally would stop clock when ball goes out and players go down. Would stop time wasting
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Post by Stanley75 on Apr 6, 2022 19:12:35 GMT
I personally would stop clock when ball goes out and players go down. Would stop time wasting Totally agree. More VFM for the punters too. |
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Post by acricketer on Apr 6, 2022 19:15:05 GMT
I personally would stop clock when ball goes out and players go down. Would stop time wasting That is shocking. Daylight robbery. |
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Post by Stanley75 on Apr 10, 2022 10:06:19 GMT
From the sublime to the ridiculous  |
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Post by James1979 on Apr 10, 2022 10:22:49 GMT
From the sublime to the ridiculous I think we were fortunate in those first results… Bristol - think point or a loss here was about right Birmingham - a point was fair West Brom - I didn’t make that one but sounds like a point was fair? Coventry - should have lost Swans - fair result Reading and Boro - both fair result My point is that we’ve been awful for a while now. |
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Post by acricketer on Apr 10, 2022 10:23:12 GMT
It looks like they've been asked to take a dive.
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Post by West Acton on Apr 10, 2022 10:48:21 GMT
Middlesbroughs form not as bad but similar since Feb, I took a look earlier
Was surprised as felt like they were on a good run the way they are bigged up in the media. Think they have won five league games since Feb
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Post by West Acton on Apr 18, 2022 20:32:07 GMT
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Post by sparks on Apr 24, 2022 11:07:14 GMT
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Post by acricketer on Apr 24, 2022 18:05:55 GMT
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Post by sparks on Apr 24, 2022 18:15:49 GMT
Very difficult to explain that kind of form without thinking about conspiracy theory’s |
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Post by West Acton on Jul 17, 2022 12:57:13 GMT
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Post by alanwycombe on Jul 17, 2022 14:23:37 GMT
America, Israel, Ghana etc. 😂 |
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Post by Corbray on Jul 17, 2022 14:41:04 GMT
America, Israel, Ghana etc. 😂 famed hotspots of QPR support lol |
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Post by West Acton on Aug 7, 2022 9:55:38 GMT
Does anyone know how they work out this expected goals stat?
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Post by alanwycombe on Aug 7, 2022 10:07:52 GMT
Does anyone know how they work out this expected goals stat? or why? |
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Post by Corbray on Aug 7, 2022 10:13:32 GMT
lots of factors, players, style of play, number of expected shots etc all lead to xG. (expected goals)
so for example, say you have a player that scores 1 in 9 of his shots on average and for convenience sake he always has 3 shots a game no matter who he's up against. he'd have an xG of 0.3xG a game as he should be scoring once every 3 games.
now lets say you have 3 of those players in the team. in theory the team has an xG of 1 every game.
its obviously not as simple as that but that is the gist of it, analysts will take an entire team into account to build xG for every player then they can calculate the xG of every team, they'll also take the other teams defensive efforts into account too to build up an xG.
so if you have a tall striker that thrives on crosses and scores most of his goals via headers and he's up against a team that concedes a large portion of their goals from crosses then that striker would have a higher xG than normal for that game etc.
over the course of a season xG can be very accurate in regards to a team or players performance.
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Post by acricketer on Aug 7, 2022 10:15:41 GMT
Luckily the stats were wrong otherwise we'd have lost 1.63 - 2
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Post by West Acton on Aug 7, 2022 11:53:31 GMT
lots of factors, players, style of play, number of expected shots etc all lead to xG. (expected goals) so for example, say you have a player that scores 1 in 9 of his shots on average and for convenience sake he always has 3 shots a game no matter who he's up against. he'd have an xG of 0.3xG a game as he should be scoring once every 3 games. now lets say you have 3 of those players in the team. in theory the team has an xG of 1 every game. its obviously not as simple as that but that is the gist of it, analysts will take an entire team into account to build xG for every player then they can calculate the xG of every team, they'll also take the other teams defensive efforts into account too to build up an xG. so if you have a tall striker that thrives on crosses and scores most of his goals via headers and he's up against a team that concedes a large portion of their goals from crosses then that striker would have a higher xG than normal for that game etc. over the course of a season xG can be very accurate in regards to a team or players performance. do they kind of expected us to lose 2-1? Or draw 2-2 if rounding up |
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Post by alanwycombe on Aug 7, 2022 11:54:32 GMT
lots of factors, players, style of play, number of expected shots etc all lead to xG. (expected goals) so for example, say you have a player that scores 1 in 9 of his shots on average and for convenience sake he always has 3 shots a game no matter who he's up against. he'd have an xG of 0.3xG a game as he should be scoring once every 3 games. now lets say you have 3 of those players in the team. in theory the team has an xG of 1 every game. its obviously not as simple as that but that is the gist of it, analysts will take an entire team into account to build xG for every player then they can calculate the xG of every team, they'll also take the other teams defensive efforts into account too to build up an xG. so if you have a tall striker that thrives on crosses and scores most of his goals via headers and he's up against a team that concedes a large portion of their goals from crosses then that striker would have a higher xG than normal for that game etc. over the course of a season xG can be very accurate in regards to a team or players performance. Jesus, they’ll be asking how many times a player takes a dump next so they can work out how many bogs to put in the dressing room. Stats for stats sake. |
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Post by Corbray on Aug 7, 2022 12:29:41 GMT
lots of factors, players, style of play, number of expected shots etc all lead to xG. (expected goals) so for example, say you have a player that scores 1 in 9 of his shots on average and for convenience sake he always has 3 shots a game no matter who he's up against. he'd have an xG of 0.3xG a game as he should be scoring once every 3 games. now lets say you have 3 of those players in the team. in theory the team has an xG of 1 every game. its obviously not as simple as that but that is the gist of it, analysts will take an entire team into account to build xG for every player then they can calculate the xG of every team, they'll also take the other teams defensive efforts into account too to build up an xG. so if you have a tall striker that thrives on crosses and scores most of his goals via headers and he's up against a team that concedes a large portion of their goals from crosses then that striker would have a higher xG than normal for that game etc. over the course of a season xG can be very accurate in regards to a team or players performance. do they kind of expected us to lose 2-1? Or draw 2-2 if rounding up idk tbh but i don't think so. our xG of 1.6 yesterday means they predict us to score 1 but there's a decent chance of us getting 2. i guess they thought it'd be a 2-1 win for middlesbrough. |
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Post by Corbray on Aug 7, 2022 12:31:36 GMT
lots of factors, players, style of play, number of expected shots etc all lead to xG. (expected goals) so for example, say you have a player that scores 1 in 9 of his shots on average and for convenience sake he always has 3 shots a game no matter who he's up against. he'd have an xG of 0.3xG a game as he should be scoring once every 3 games. now lets say you have 3 of those players in the team. in theory the team has an xG of 1 every game. its obviously not as simple as that but that is the gist of it, analysts will take an entire team into account to build xG for every player then they can calculate the xG of every team, they'll also take the other teams defensive efforts into account too to build up an xG. so if you have a tall striker that thrives on crosses and scores most of his goals via headers and he's up against a team that concedes a large portion of their goals from crosses then that striker would have a higher xG than normal for that game etc. over the course of a season xG can be very accurate in regards to a team or players performance. Jesus, they’ll be asking how many times a player takes a dump next so they can work out how many bogs to put in the dressing room. Stats for stats sake. its the nature of the game now, sadly. but its a very reliable indicator to how a player performs, were they struggle and what they could do more of. brentford use stats extensively when it comes to signing players which is why they've plucked out players from the blue who've gone on to do amazing like mbeumo, benrahma and watkins etc. |
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