The Doctor

lee Anderson crying into his reform pajamas right now, you love to see it

bottled the top four and got nothing to show for it? Pure 2019/20 behaviour

yea, Midlands v Lancashire, this is exactly the sort of game that should be at somewhere like Villa Park or Hillsborough.

any punishment is a symbolic points deduction or a transfer embargo if it looks like we won't comply. but, they won't know until much later in the season, this summer needs to be a rip it apart and start again job

what's a goal?

Ship out 90% of the squad for whatever anyone is willing to pay and do a complete rebuild, straight up ignore FFP. The "oh if you sell Skipp for 15 million, that's actually a 5m loss for this year" is absolute bollocks and trying to comply is just going to drag out years of pain.

Actually my assessment of the Dhejne report is accurate as it is literally quoting the lead author: https://www.transadvocate.com/fact-check-study-shows-transition-makes-trans-people-suicidal_n_15483.htm "The individual in the image who is making claims about trans criminality, specifically rape likelihood, is misrepresenting the study findings. The study as a whole covers the period between 1973 and 2003. If one divides the cohort into two groups, 1973 to 1988 and 1989 to 2003, one observes that for the latter group (1989 – 2003), differences in mortality, suicide attempts, and crime disappear. This means that for the 1989 to 2003 group, we did not find a male pattern of criminality" I've already touched on that sexual offences stat, but to reiterate, it is completely misleading. a sexual offence is anything under the sex offences act 2003, which yes includes rape and sexual assault, but also contains solicitation. trans women are drastically overrepresented in sex work and there's a perfectly reasonable conclusion to draw that that leads to overrepresentation in solicitation charges. There is no data I'm aware of that further breaks down those sexual offences convictions into the type of crime convicted for

there is, but it's a hard one to study because there's a lot of likely factors. We know that hormones influence ligament laxity (how loose and mobile it is), so there's good chance that it's related to their cycle, but that's an invasive thing to study. There's also biomechanical factors to consider (hip angles and running styles - this is why some male players are also quite prone to them, e.g. wes fofana). low quality pitches and training facilities are likely a major contributer as well, given how it's frequently a non contact injury but from the knee moving when landing while running. The worse surfaces are, the more likely your foot is to anchor in it and cause the ACL to tear.

except generally speaking, your results trend towards your performances, not the other way around. None of the underlying data has changed, we were absolutely crap in coopers final days. RvN took us down with a whimper, how we were playing under cooper and the results we were getting would have us doing the same

You mean aside from the performances being shit under Cooper and us barely deserving the points we did get? Let's look at the underlying stats for Coopers reign: understat for xpts, fbref for shooting stats The worst expected points tally at 9.14, so 0.76pts per game, marginally worse than his actual points per game record of 0.83pts per game. From that, we'd be looking at 24 - 27 points currently. Ok, marginally better than current but still cut massively adrift and nailed on to be relegated this weekend, is surviving for one week more actually significantly better? And that's without considering that Cooper had played both of the other two newly promoted sides, who are also cut adrift. Those games contributed 3.79 of the xpts and 4 of the actual points, so lets take them out of the tally for now since we've not played them again yet, and against the other 17, his xpts per game becomes 0.535, and his pts per game becomes 0.6, which would be 16 - 18 points from those other 30 games, so we'd be at 20 - 22 points currently, barely ahead of where we are currently and still relegated last weekend (for reference, RvNs expected points per game is 0.62, so marginally better than Coopers if the stat padding v Southampton and Ipswich is discounted) Lets consider chance creation. Under Cooper, discounting penalties we took 115 shots in 12 games (only managing more than the opposition vs Ipswich and Southampton), with 33 on target. For the full season we're on 289 with 91 on target, with the caretaker Brentford match adding 7 shots, 3 on target. So under RvN we've taken 167 shots in 20 games and gotten 55 on target. 1.2 less shots per game under RvN, same amount on target per game (2.75 each). We weren't really creating much under Cooper, there's no evidence that this tail off in goals wouldn't have happened under Cooper given our chance creation hasn't significantly changed since he left. Meanwhile chances against - 556 shots allowed, 185 on target in 33 games. 13 (6 on target) from the caretaker Brentford game, 210 (66 on target) under Cooper, 333 (113 on target) under RvN. comparatively then 16.7 shots per game faced under RvN to 17.5 per game faced under Cooper, 5.65 on target per game under RvN to 5.5 on target per game under Cooper. The defence has barely shifted under RvN versus Cooper, the difference is that Cooper had an inform Hermansen, while RvN has had a Hermansen who came back from injury and hasn't recovered form, a rushed back from injury Stolarcyk and the worlds worst goalkeeper impersonater Danny Ward. The underlying stats for both managers are very similar, the truth is both are crap and we'd have gone down with a whimper if we'd kept Cooper as much as we have having sacked him.

players are allowed to look where the opponent is, the ball was there to be challenged for and Daka does challenge for it

He's jumped for the ball, it's there to be won. If it's a foul then every single corner that the keeper tries to claim is a foul. I'm a keeper myself in Sunday league and if I conceded that I'd not even be asking for a foul, I'd be berating myself for being so weak in the air

time to wipe the decks completely, RvN and Rudkin gone, Faes, Soumare, Coady, BdCR, Ayew to the reserves until we can actually sell them for anything and plan around a squad who'll actually stick around next season and take accountability

probably for consistency. refs already ruled that challenging the keeper is an automatic foul

same as Allison on Daka then, but different rules for the greedy six