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Cabella needs a goal and I think he'll start flying.

Suggesting Vuckic for Anita is as dumb as anything Pardew ever did.

What did he say about the Palace pitch?

Harsh on Fleetwood mac like.

Pardew will be genuinely pissed if he reads that quote.

This guy back with a proper manager.

I feel violated.

That was Galtier Oh, ok. Cool. So are we happy? Pants should be at ankles.

s*** would be unbearable for a while but as long as we don't sack the bloke we should be ok. Like with Spurs when everytime they lose Redknapp gets brought up Redknapp is their most successful manager in PL history tbf What a load of s*** that is. Do you just make things up? Edit: Sorry, missed the PL part. And I'm still annoyed you're trying to mellow the Garde high.

Anita is going to feel like he won the lottery if this guy is hired. Sounds like he'd be the first name on the team sheet.

Found this too: https://jakescoleman.wordpress.com/2014/02/24/lyon-vs-lille-tactical-analysis/

http://www.zonalmarking.net/2012/03/08/apoel-v-lyon-a-good-example-of-when-the-away-goals-rule-creates-a-defensive-game/ http://www.zonalmarking.net/2013/03/11/lyon-0-0-marseille-a-bad-reflection-of-ligue-1-and-a-bad-result-for-ligue-1/

Wish he'd sit out one more just to give Carver a real pasting but so glad to have him back.

If it's genuinely up to Carr and Charnley I have a hard time believing Sherwood (and certainly the inferior British managers) is a legitimate candidate.

Not saying he'd be the reason we lose, but could easily be the difference between a 3-0 and a 6 or 7. He's that bad. At 1/5 you would have to put huge sums on to win much(£500 wins you £100), we could play Krul & Alnwick tbh and still lose. That's straight up. I'm confident we're going to lose by multiple goals (if Alnwick is in) and will bet accordingly.

The most impressive accomplishment on his CV when all is said and done will be "Made #1 save in 2015 FA Cup 3rd Round in defeat to Leicester." I've never bet against us but I'm tempted to put a large sum of money on Chelsea this weekend due in large part to his incompetence.

Very good find Yeah, he'll fucking do thank you very much.

Sign me up for that gamble.

That and a small part of Alan Shearer (his pinky?) after admitting the line before that Ashely doesn't tell anyone anything and he doesn't know what his intentions are.

If the report that he's expected to join Stuttgart is true then they may well be happy to release him to another league.

Football is a simple game made complicated by f***ers like this relying on stats etc while as you say ignoring the passing etc. Watch a few of our games and the cause of our problems are evident, we have very little width, s*** concentration, very little movement / disrupting shape of opposition, certain players with a lack of technical ability such as Williamson, Dummett, Tiote, Gouffran, Riviere. From a tactical point of view we don't have support for the front man / closer support when players on the ball and don't compact when the opposition have the ball, in addition our high pressing is garbage. We did in the past press high up and forced mistakes - not all the time but quite a few times it was effective, now we run around like headless chickens. The cliche "football is a simple game" is simply not true. If anything it's too complex for analytics. Twenty-two players on a wide pitch in a contstant state of movement, instantaneous transition between defense and attack, an incredibly diversity of inteterdependent actions that are near-impossible to turn into discrete datapoints... One of the reasons advanced statistics haven't made much headway in the game yet is because it's so hard to develop powerful model. In reality the sort of statistics that are in widespread use by todays clubs are remarkably simple. (e.g. Passing percentages, distance covered, heat maps) there is no reason whatsoever for traditionalist fans to fear these things like they're some sort of inscrutable black magic that is ruining the purity of the game. None of this has anything to do with Carver of course. He's just stupid.

Based on..? Just a hunch. I know nothing.

Pretty sure he won't be getting the job unless it's just to see how the season while we wait on someone not currently available. Not sure where this optimism is from.

Why he left Lyon... "The reasons are personal and family. I feel the need to take a break," said the Frenchman.

I'm pretty sure I say this every year but the fact that you can't watch every FA Cup match live in 2015 is shocking.