The Doctor

getting away with it, Ayew again forgetting that Robinson exists. he's ****ing useless

Ayew shoelace counter at 1.

now, if only we had a winger in front of him who's supposed skill set is in protecting his full back...

Ayew knows you need to go to the ball right? didn't track the runner for that cross either.

Castagne trying to stick it in his own net

Jake Evans, Leicester season 29/30

you don't fancy us whining about budgets and asking Shefi Kuqi if he fancies coming out of retirement?

so we'll replace the guy who runs down blind alleys with the guy who can't run or even do up his shoelaces. Daka obviously, he's a competent enough lower half striker given a run and a fanbase not getting on his back at every hint of an opportunity

"have you got any viable alternatives, we can't play the viable alternative" I get it's fashionable to hate Daka for no actual reason beyond "muh eye test" but he's a reasonable enough striker and is a viable alternative to Vardy, particularly on current form

he's woefully out of form, missing chances he usually wouldn't. He's 38 and playing three games in a week, rotate him

Ayew in for Buo is shit. Wouldn't want him playing at all but at least change Vardy for him given how badly out of form Vards is

oh boy, can't wait to see a bloke spend 60 minutes struggling to tie his laces and 30 minutes turning backwards at every opportunity

right? even worse when we saw their board take decisive action over Parker whining about not getting enough to spend, while ours just let Rodgers throw his toys out the pram about the same thing

yep, Enzo came into a side that had just seen Tielemans, Amartey, Soyuncu, Evans, Mendy, Bertrand and Perez all leave on expired contracts, and then sold Castagne, Maddison and Barnes. Theres a hell of a lot of transfer money and, more importantly, wage headroom, that Enzo gained. Ruud has seen us completely refill that with shit like Ayew, Reid and Skipp (and tbh Coady) which demands big money while being utterly turgid. The transfer strategy in summer 23 was good albeit it with some failures (Coady), in summer 24 it was shit with some successes (BEK looks good), and that ultimately comes from a weak DoF not doing his job. Managers can't be absolved of blame if their tactics are obviously wrong and there's no signs of improvement, but the issue with recruitment is deeper than just who is in the dugout

that's the king power way, and why we kept Rodgers long enough to make the damage terminal

get him in the starting line up, interest rates would be through the roof

"John, are they saying Rudkin out?" "no, they're saying Ruud can out"

yep, hence the non league comments. PL can enforce relegation, EFL can refuse admittance so they'd be kicked to the vanarama, like they threatened to do to QPR if they didn't pay their FFP fine back in 2014: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/29129536

couldn't be more blatantly corrupt. Hope we get an outraged forest tweet out of it if they crumble and man city look like catching them

1 game ban, because he bought a nice urn and apologised to the families.

managers tactics can't control whether players don't miss sitters or not. They can control whether you create said sitters in the first place. xG is not a misleading stat unless you use it incorrectly because you don't know what it's telling you. We are creating better chances under Ruud than we were under Cooper. Scoring less, but creating better chances, so offensively the tactics are sound and just needs a striker in form. Defensively we're giving up less but conceding more, suggesting the tactics are good enough to just scrape survival with a good keeper (something we're missing with mads out) and with less major errors undoing the tactics. There are issues to iron out, not major tactical failings that we're getting away with, as was the case under Cooper.

No manager is coaching his players to stop putting it in the right places though...

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nope, your failure to understand it doesn't make it misleading. It's a measure of ongoing performance, it is essentially a quantification of the old adage of "if you keep getting in the right places, the goals will come". Yes, you can stop getting in the right places and then the goals won't come but that's rather besides the point when assessing performances and tactics, no manager is ever saying "guys we need to start creating fewer chances and giving more up"

the problem is, much as football isn't played on paper, you're unable to account for variance. Under Cooper our xG was 19th in the division, xGA was 19th and our xPts was 20th, while actual goals was 14th, goals against 18th, points was 16th. Cooper was the beneficiary of good variance (not least driven by having a top class keeper available, which Ruud hasn't). Conversely, under RvN our xG is 14th in the division, xGA is 17th and xPts is 17th, however actual goals is 17th, goals against and the form table 19th. The underlying stats have improved, but Ruud has been hit by bad variance and while we out performed our underlying stats under Cooper, we're underperforming them under Ruud, however long term, underperforming gives better prospects than over performing, because you can't keep being the beneficiaries of or victims of variance long term.