Rich

Delighted with this, hope he stays.

Is the standby list still a thing? Every chance Tino gets injured in the next few weeks and Hall takes his place.

@Andy seems the most likely fit, to me.

Salty all day. I’ve eaten a lot of popcorn in my time and it’s the only sane choice.

Libel if it’s written, marra. Card marked.

This is what we’re dealing with, folks.

Ah man, flawless posting track record until this. Obscene choice.

Aye, just trying to be helpful. Keen to see what they make of it.

Aye. Take bimpy’s post to your lawyers and see what they say, then get back to us. Happy to follow their lead.

You should get your legal team on it again, I reckon, they’ll sort it.

And the lad who grassed on Tonali

Was just coming to post this. Honking champions with the biggest cunt going leading them.

Just turned it on. Sorry lads.

The bairn is buzzing for it, having been non-plussed about the previous few. I’m sure that’s somewhat down to him getting older, but think it’ll be a hit with the young ‘uns due to it being a bit zany.

I’d hope so, aye, but I’ve been hurt before.

This interview and the Trippier article posted by Paully have done me, like . Two very different parts of my favourite ever squad of players. Hope they each get a massive send off tomorrow. ’Krafth and Dummett at the back!’

Christ, he’s here again after a win

We'll be in pink, aye.

I did post some league stats, as well, in fairness, and was predictably promptly informed that good defenders don’t need to make last man tackles, ever.

I know I shouldn’t be arguing with you on this subject, but just because the end result is a goal, doesn’t make the player’s mistake any worse. It just means they didn’t get away with it. If we’re evaluating how error prone someone is, we really want to know how many fuckups they make that could cost their team a goal. That first stat I posted is of very limited use, but it’s the fairest one available.

There are better statistical models that would penalise Thiaw for an earlier error that set away a move leading to a goal or, but only full on stats perverts, teams, and serious gamblers would have access to those.

No, not the way Opta count it, or at least used to count it. It’s an error that leads directly to a chance/shot in the next action, so basically a significant fuckup with immediate consequences. The reason xG is useful there, is that it would at least assign a weight to how good the chance/shot created by the fuckup is, so it takes the quality of the shot, action of the goalkeeper/other defenders out of it. It’s basically a rating of how bad the error is, not just a ‘1’, which is all I can find publicly.