The Doctor

So, the Cass review into transition care in the NHS is out and it is an absolute doozy in terms of manipulating data to give the results you want, a standard of scholarship that would be laughed out of an undergrad assignment. They categorised all the evidence basis for the treatment as being of "Low quality" and this is an important distinction between layman understanding and research understanding - quality in this sense refers to the style of study and how it fits into the GRADE system or the Newcastle Ottawa scoring, which is the classic hierarchy of evidence that any student will be familiar with: double blind RCTs at the top, cohort and observational studies further down. As such, low quality here means "no double blind RCTs", however it's important to state that a majority of modern medicine doesn't have high quality evidence behind it based on that, because double blinded RCTs are a very specific criteria: you need to be able to blind the participants and researchers so they don't know what treatment they're receiving and whether they're in the treatment or control group. This is very obviously not always practical or ethical: for instance you do not have double blinded RCTs on surgery for very obvious reasons ("sorry sir, you got the placebo heart transplant..."), and similarly transition care will be very obvious very quickly which group is receiving care (so it can't be blinded). In these circumstances, cohort studies and observational studies are appropriate and conducted, and can form an evidence basis for a treatment if the data consistently points in one direction. If it wasn't going to result in people losing internationally recognized standards of care, it would be a truly fascinating example of psuedoscience.

Classic Brendan bottle job

It was every single time a player wriggled away second half, both arms round him and dragging him back. Genuinely like watching the tigers. The Justin penalty was the most obvious one but there was another one where Fatawu got room to cross and immediately the defender had daka in a bear hug to stop a front post run, and then the one to stop vardy getting in behind. He was genuinely pathetic in terms of the control he had over the game

I mean, not giving a penalty after Justin was denied a tap-in due to being suplexed by the defender was a new low...

Yep. The calm down stuff isn't "don't attack, we don't need a goal", it's "keep composed and make sure we don't lose it on the transition because we've overcommitted"

Wilf is not on it today, get yunus on

Judo throw on Abdul, what is this ref doing?

Clear pen that ref

Not sure on that sub, surely faes off and Doyle into the middle would have been better

Yea. When Allison or Ederson leave Liverpool/man city, hermansen will be the profile of keeper they'll be after

No, but he did on multiple occasions catch a cross and carry it into his own goal. Mads has got a lot of talent, his PSxG is one of the best in the division, but he's still young and raw. We'll lose him for 50+m to a big six side in 3/4 years

Wellied it into the oncoming striker from the goal kick pass

Like this style of goal kick is awful

Absolutely stupid

needed more tumeric power lads

Ngl, if we're not in the same division I straight up forget they exist, they're a non entity to me

No he doesn't, this is the thing with zonal marking systems, the lad leaves his zone and goes into mavididi and KDHs zones, at which point it is their responsibility to pick up. You can criticise zonal marking systems for that, they can allow too much momentum by having runners from the attack without corresponding runs from defenders to allow similar jumps, but goals conceded from choosing zonal over man marking (or vice versa) fall on the coaching and set piece tactics, not the players executing it

You're better than this stan, he didn't seem confused what to do, he literally just got to a back pass before the keeper and had to take a bouncing ball first time. You'd want to see him hit the target but it's not the easiest of chances

Up the Tigers! God I felt dirty typing that

once they took the lead?

probably on account of them getting the win from a red card that wasn't, while Sam Morsy somehow escapes punishment for committing 3 UFC moves every single game.

oh **** off you jammy bastards

That a threat from Ipswich then? Can't imagine anyone wanting those

There's clearly a covering cb, that's not DOCGS or a red

Should be saving that Bazunu really