bowlingcrofty

Maybe more the massive delay in approvals put them off tbf.

Nobody is 'worried' about the xG battle though. It's just something that can put a statistical twist on what you saw with your eyes. Someone can look poorly, you can see they're not very well and feel hot, but if you took them to the doctor and the doctor took their temperature and said 'yep, they're too fucking hot, they have a temperature higher than the norm', you wouldn't call him a stats nonce, or whatever. They're backing up what you can see with the evidence to prove it. xG doesn't change anything or make the game any different. It's just another statistic that can help paint a picture of where a team is succeeding or failing. Score more than your xG? You probably have a striker who is fucking lethal. Score fewer than your xG? Your striker can't hit a barn door. People have always been able to see this with their eyes, now there's a statistic to show it. What's the issue?

It's a statistic that backs up what you saw with numbers. Does shots, shots on target or possession also piss you off?

Is 'Leazers' some sort of running forum joke that I've missed or do we have that many people on here who don't know what it's called?

Magnificent tonight. I fucking love this guy and always will.

Nor is it supposed to change it..it's supposed to explain it with statistics Why are you so angry against a statistic that just helps to paint a picture?

I'm actually not 100% certain on when this was signed, I think it may have been early in the 93/94 season...as it looks suspiciously like that P.Bxxxxx above the E is actually Peter Beardsley, looking at the way the P is written and comparing to his autographs online.

Tremendous - cheers. And ditto. Two more crossed off!

This is my kit from when I was a bairn, signed by the promotion squad. Few on there I still haven't identified. But it's worth a fortune I reckon. Up on the boy's wall in his bedroom currently. Bought an adult sized version of it about 10 years ago for £40 and it's still pristine. Couldn't ever part with it.

There's probably some mileage in that because it would incentivise them to actually play their academy players as well.

There’s no sponsors on the training gear so it won’t end up old with an old sponsor, it’s not tied to a particular season really - it’s just nice adidas x NUFC gear. I’ve no clue how it can be described as a money grab. Nobody buys it to have the ‘latest’ gear.

So what they do to make it fair, is they say - OK, we can all spend a percentage of what our own Scalextrics sets are worth to keep upgrading it. That's a fair system, isn't it? In reality the six rich kids get to spend a lot more on their already-expensive sets, and we get to spend far less on a set that wasn't worth as much to start with.

I believe the earlier batch of those asics kits came with the embroidered asics logo, and latter batches had the rubberised/flock version.

Really enjoyed yesterday lads and lasses, was a good few games, tight matches as well. Up the B&Ws

Looking forward to this!