KetsbaiaIsBald

I’m with ee and generally it is excellent but is terrible for any events exactly for this reason. For the f1 I got a smarty sim(uses the orange network). Three seems to do better. Maybe as there are less people on the network. I could stream the cricket whilst in a grandstand.

I really didnt expect today. I thought they had worked us out after the away game. Our press simply did not work and they played through us. Today we were way better and more pragmatic as to when to us it. We worked out their high line and destroyed them. The pre season game really helped us I think as we started exploiting it then too. I think Villa will still do well but their injuries and us demonstrating how to take them apart will may make things a bit harder. It will be interesting to see how good Emery is and whether he can tweak things if other teams do exploit if like we did.

100% I dont recall us ever downing tools under Eddie like they did.

His strength when mings tried the shoulder barge was exceptional. Mings just bounced off him.

He can do everything. That chip finish was world class. All we need to do is solve the issue where he can disappear for a while. Most of it is service but when he’s in that mode he does not hold the ball up well. If one current player is here in 10 years and is a geordie legend I hope its him.

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Only our players booked for imaginary yelllow?

So having the ball at you feet with no goal keeper in goal is not a goal scoring opportunity ? comical. I’d like to see a better replay of the hand ball too.

Nice t-shirt

I followed him for a bit when he was getting the info. He came across like a bit of a knob.

At some point they may well have done. I saw a similar traffic at around the half season point and it was very different. I’ve not given Xg much time in the past but I like this grafic for over a season. Like all stats as you step away and look overall it gets more accurate. Game by game you get cases where the xg does not match the reality of the game. I think ours is fair as, for the most part, when we won we deserved it. When we drew we were generally the better team. So actual is slightly below where we ended up. I would bet there is a correlation between entertainers/sexy football and good xg. I’d bet us under Keegan would have expected near the top and position maybe slightly below. Aladyce/Pulis could well be lower xg higher in actual table.

Agreed. I watched a couple villa games before and after ours and they looked ok before us and poor after. They went on a fantastic run but were not blowing teams away. I think we could struggle against them as our system suits them. I think Villa and Brighton look very good against a team that wants to press, so we tend to see the best of them. The XG expected vs actual highlights this to a degree that we were where we “should” have been. Villa ended up higher than expected. Edit - having said that I think they’ve done well in the transfer window and playing and combining that with them playing in the conference I think they will end up above us this year.

I’m away in Lanzarote so getting some different ads in twitter. This one keeps coming. I think we should make a chant out of it ? I’ve no clue what they’re saying but its catchy and I fancy a vodka and orange now.

wake up call to match of the days hi lights style.

Typo

I think he's been working out with Joelinton.

Isaks ability to get past a man is sublime, he does it whilst looking like he is doing so much less than what AGM did. AGM would drop his shoulders, fake left, fake right, do a pirouette and looked awesome doing it! Isak just draws a man close then his touch and turn of pace and he's 2-3m away from his man.

I'd love to see a friendly between todays and tomorrows team.

I hope we've been playing a pre season game of possum against the press. The games against Villa, Brighton and now today we've not been able to play through it. Last season we looked much better.

That's my point. When there was no membership Liverpool fans went in the home end in mass. Because the tickets were on general sale. Now as least hey have the additional step of buying a membership. Closing the sale of the memberships at the season start would make it more difficult.

Replace bloke and son with die hard away followers of one of the bigger clubs. 100% this happens. There was a game a few years back under Ashley where I think it was Liverpool fans and there were lots of issues.

You’ll never completely stop it but I think membership is a decent battier to entry.

I don’t have an answer for how to do fix it but I still don’t like the closed shop. For home games I’ve gone to 5-10 for the last 18 years. I moved away and I have kids. A season ticket would not work for me. Even now it would not. I don’t have one as I don’t want to go to every game. I am probably going to lose the ability to go to the games I used to. To a degree away games are the same. Just because someone has been in a position to go to every away game doesn’t make them some super fan to me. It maybe just means they don’t have kids, or a wife, or maybe have both but can afford it. Or maybe some one works shifts and can only do 1 every month. Not being able to go to any as you can’t go to all of them does not sit right to me.

Me too. My wife got me both my mistake. She thought the international was for international games. I sent an email to the box office to cancel it but they ignore it.

What happened to the man united take over, are they still negotiating? I didn’t really follow it after a while as it was hard to get past the speculation.