Coffee_Johnny

Gameweek 7 Palace 1-2 Liverpool Arsenal 2-0 Southampton Brentford 1-1 Wolves Leicester 1-2 Bournemouth Man City 3-1 Fulham West Ham 1-2 Ipswich Everton 0-2 Newcastle Villa 1-1 Man United Chelsea 1-1 Forest Brighton 2-3 Spurs

Gameweek 6 Newcastle 1-2 Man City Arsenal 3-0 Leicester Brentford 1-1 West Ham Chelsea 2-1 Brighton Everton 1-1 Palace Forest 1-1 Fulham Wolves 1-2 Liverpool Ipswich 1-2 Villa Man United 2-2 Spurs Bournemouth 2-1 Southampton

Bournemouth vs Southampton, this weekend. About 30 miles away from each other, is it a ‘passionate affair’?

No doubt he’ll do his thing in terms of scooping up ‘assets’. I’d be delighted if he proved not to be an egocentric twat. (Not that I am convinced he is).

Plus side (for some…) has been playing for Italy (u19s through to u21s); minus side, position? Of course he is a right footed left winger.

I mean, wtf … how is that (even then) just glossed over?

What about probability? Probability of good players finding form. We’ve got too many just a bit lacking at the moment. They’ve not become less good players (at least it’s unlikely) so in all probability they’ll pick-up. Hopefully all at the same time next Saturday!

No KdB and Rodri and we/others might just give them a game .

All of them, Mike. Welcomed and appropriate 👍

Football table tennis? We seem canny at that.

… and discloses that he hasn’t talked to Mitchell about this issue.

Me too… slow news day. Oh! A cancelled match to distract!

Just a thought, if we can put out a strong enough team and doubt it is going to affect their selection.

In theory, could we play in international break?

Nowt wrong with a nod towards an alliterative name 😉

The Burn own goal was a scoop to the right, I think?

Celebrated like he had just demolished a big steak! Oh… .

I was on the pitch briefly for a Newcastle Wimbledon cup game. Not the same Wimbledon though 🤷‍♂️

This is a good book: ” How We Know What Isn't So Summary Thomas Gilovich offers a wise and readable guide to the fallacy of the obvious in everyday life. When can we trust what we believe—that "teams and players have winning streaks," that "flattery works," or that "the more people who agree, the more likely they are to be right"—and when are such beliefs suspect? Thomas Gilovich offers a guide to the fallacy of the obvious in everyday life. Illustrating his points with examples, and supporting them with the latest research findings, he documents the cognitive, social, and motivational processes that distort our thoughts, beliefs, judgments and decisions. In a rapidly changing world, the biases and stereotypes that help us process an overload of complex information inevitably distort what we would like to believe is reality. Awareness of our propensity to make these systematic errors, Gilovich argues, is the first step to more effective analysis and action.”

Possibly because most of it is usually in our own minds.

Joelinton has regularly had ‘off’ periods. Bruno hasn’t looked at his best this season, for Brazil also. Chance for Eddie to practice what he preaches re everyone having a chance. Imagine the meltdown if he starts Tonali and Longstaff… imagine if they forge a magnificent partnership!

So much subjectivity with a 'quality' comparison. I wonder if any one has done it on cost though? 20 players/usual first team squad. Doubt we'd be bottom half, but certainly wouldn't be anywhere near the top.

Amidst all the noise, dissatisfaction and speculation, I thought it might be timely to look at Eddie's record with us split in different ways. In terms of calendar years, that remarkable end to 2021-22 season and first half of 2022-23 is most impressive with an average points per game (PPG) of 2.00. Which has only been (slightly) bettered once in an actual season (you guessed it, that one, 1995-96) which was 2.05 PPG. As you can see, despite the team clearly not playing as well as we know they can, we are matching that 2.00 PPG at the moment. His best season to date is 2022-23 with 1.87 PPG; which is our joint second best return ever (alongside Robson's 4th place in 2001-02). Even his worst season to date (1.58 PPG) is our 8th best in 31 seasons in PL. For comparison, Keegan bettered this four times (out of five), Robson twice (out of 4), and Pardew once (out of five). And Howe, twice (out of three... obvs!).

Sandro and Longstaff on yesterday’s showing.

Saves me watching 👍