Fox in the North Posted 28 August 2020 Share Posted 28 August 2020 42 minutes ago, HighPeakFox said: Leaving out a fact like that slightly weakens (or helps I suppose) the author's argument...I take the point, but you just cannot leave a stat out because it doesn't suit. It is an anomaly, albeit a bloody fantastic one, against the bigger trend though isn’t it? Over the long term things really couldn’t much better apart from the recent cock up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacnah Posted 28 August 2020 Share Posted 28 August 2020 (edited) On 27/08/2020 at 09:16, Fox92 said: Hopefully it gets invested correctly. The issue Southampton have had is that they used to sell and bring in a cheaper, but better player, (ie Mane came into replace Lallana), but the quality of their new players dropped. I hope we get some good players in. Just thinking about this.................Not sure you can keep bringing high quality players in in the same way. There are a couple of factors not least of which is the availability of players, their willingness to come and, of course, if the club gains a reputation of turning a huge profit, then the selling club will by default increase the asking price as they can see a reasonable probability as to how the value may increase. The bargain bin empties pretty quickly. If you add to that, the fact we are no longer in a place where we are only shopping in the french second division (as an example) and even if we do bring somebody in how will they develop if they cant get game time in the same way they would have done 5 years ago. If we adapt from bargain basin unknowns and raise the whole thing a level, then we would most likely no longer be buying players who are unknown,but players who we know but who have not yet reached their potential for a variety of reasons. In other words they've been quite unimpressive in their career so far. Many fans will feel these players are 'nothing to get excited about' as the player isn't obviously going to significantly improve what we have on day one. Further, If they don't improve the current first team immediately, then how do they get consistent game time to develop and improve? Its a tough one.........wish I had the answer Edited 28 August 2020 by Jacnah 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HighPeakFox Posted 28 August 2020 Share Posted 28 August 2020 38 minutes ago, Fox in the North said: It is an anomaly, albeit a bloody fantastic one, against the bigger trend though isn’t it? Over the long term things really couldn’t much better apart from the recent cock up. Agreed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post urban.spaceman Posted 4 September 2020 Popular Post Share Posted 4 September 2020 Guardian season preview: https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2020/sep/04/premier-league-preview-2020-21-no-10-leicester-city 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nalis Posted 4 September 2020 Share Posted 4 September 2020 21 minutes ago, urban.spaceman said: Guardian season preview: https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2020/sep/04/premier-league-preview-2020-21-no-10-leicester-city On balance I think thats pretty fair. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saxondale Posted 4 September 2020 Share Posted 4 September 2020 33 minutes ago, urban.spaceman said: Guardian season preview: https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2020/sep/04/premier-league-preview-2020-21-no-10-leicester-city That's a more-or-less perfect analysis. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Grebfromgrebland Posted 4 September 2020 Popular Post Share Posted 4 September 2020 31 minutes ago, urban.spaceman said: Guardian season preview: https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2020/sep/04/premier-league-preview-2020-21-no-10-leicester-city That's a fair preview. We need to strengthen otherwise we'll regress far and quickly. Everton, Arsenal, Spurs, Man Utd, Wolves will all be stronger next season. 7-10 is realistic next season as it stands. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Raw Dykes Posted 4 September 2020 Popular Post Share Posted 4 September 2020 35 minutes ago, urban.spaceman said: Guardian season preview: https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2020/sep/04/premier-league-preview-2020-21-no-10-leicester-city Surprisingly accurate and well-informed. Can't fault it. 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goober Posted 4 September 2020 Share Posted 4 September 2020 2 minutes ago, Grebfromgrebland said: That's a fair preview. We need to strengthen otherwise we'll regress far and quickly. Everton, Arsenal, Spurs, Man Utd, Wolves will all be stronger next season. 7-10 is realistic next season as it stands. Only business Wolves have done is sell their right back 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grebfromgrebland Posted 4 September 2020 Share Posted 4 September 2020 19 minutes ago, Goober said: Only business Wolves have done is sell their right back I know but if they don't have European football next season they will be able to concentrate on the league. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miquel The Work Geordie Posted 4 September 2020 Share Posted 4 September 2020 Sort of blanked it out, I knew our form was dogshit the back end of last season but I didn't realise it was 4 wins in 17 bad. **** me. Like a bloody deck of cards except this particular deck is full of jokers right LADS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ric Flair Posted 4 September 2020 Popular Post Share Posted 4 September 2020 14 minutes ago, Miquel The Work Geordie said: Sort of blanked it out, I knew our form was dogshit the back end of last season but I didn't realise it was 4 wins in 17 bad. **** me. Like a bloody deck of cards except this particular deck is full of jokers right LADS Or them horrible porno cards your mates buy in the shop below the apartment in Faliraki, there's always a couple of the most heinous clouts in the deck and one person (me) always seems to get dealt them. About made me ill. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKCJ Posted 4 September 2020 Share Posted 4 September 2020 25 minutes ago, Miquel The Work Geordie said: Sort of blanked it out, I knew our form was dogshit the back end of last season but I didn't realise it was 4 wins in 17 bad. **** me. Like a bloody deck of cards except this particular deck is full of jokers right LADS King of Hearts in Soyuncu tbf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Footballwipe Posted 4 September 2020 Share Posted 4 September 2020 2 hours ago, urban.spaceman said: Guardian season preview: https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2020/sep/04/premier-league-preview-2020-21-no-10-leicester-city Paul Doyle is an excellent journalist. When he makes rare appearances on Football Weekly, he is not only well learned about the history of the game but also makes really good, insightful points, and loved his stats/accuracy. It's no surprise his preview is balanced and good tbh. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StriderHiryu Posted 4 September 2020 Share Posted 4 September 2020 2 hours ago, Raw Dykes said: Surprisingly accurate and well-informed. Can't fault it. This part made me chuckle! Leicester have a splendid team that can get even better. But, with others improving, they could go backwards if they do not adequately address shortcomings that led to last season’s weird anticlimax, when a better-than-predicted fifth-place finish was greeted like the output of a tawdry government’s algorithm. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les-TA-Jon Posted 4 September 2020 Share Posted 4 September 2020 4 hours ago, urban.spaceman said: Guardian season preview: https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2020/sep/04/premier-league-preview-2020-21-no-10-leicester-city 7th is incredibly generous prediction given how bad our form has been and for so long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AjcW Posted 4 September 2020 Share Posted 4 September 2020 That's an excellent read. It was as if one of us had written it (one of the better writers among us that is ) Particularly like 'Iheanacho was next to useless a year ago" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ealingfox Posted 4 September 2020 Share Posted 4 September 2020 If Rodgers guides us to 7th by the end of next season I pledge to hold my hands up and admit I was (to an extent) wrong about him and underestimated him. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Xen Posted 4 September 2020 Popular Post Share Posted 4 September 2020 4 hours ago, urban.spaceman said: Guardian season preview: https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2020/sep/04/premier-league-preview-2020-21-no-10-leicester-city One of the best write-ups on us in a long long while. Can't find much fault in that. On current form and with the transfer window so far in mind, 7th-8th is a pretty fair assessment. A couple key signings in the next few weeks and/or a strong start could see us surpass that (5th-6th again?), but equally starting slow could have us battling for top-half. Seems like a coin-flip at the moment. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Les-TA-Jon Posted 8 September 2020 Share Posted 8 September 2020 On 06/09/2020 at 21:53, brucey said: Another great write up - but with a weirdly optimistic final prediction. What are we seeing that they're not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolhandfox Posted 8 September 2020 Share Posted 8 September 2020 7 minutes ago, Les-TA-Jon said: Another great write up - but with a weirdly optimistic final prediction. What are we seeing that they're not? They are not emotional invested, so have less negative or positive bias and as a result are more objective. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les-TA-Jon Posted 8 September 2020 Share Posted 8 September 2020 33 minutes ago, coolhandfox said: They are not emotional invested, so have less negative or positive bias and as a result are more objective. Sure, but 7th from the Guardian and 5th/4th from Statsbomb. I just don't see that happening at all. Hope I'm wrong of course! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brucey Posted 8 September 2020 Share Posted 8 September 2020 1 hour ago, Les-TA-Jon said: Another great write up - but with a weirdly optimistic final prediction. What are we seeing that they're not? They haven’t seen (heard?) the ominous silence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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