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Thread | Analytics
at 15:39 14 Aug 2025
Can anyone explain how you get a competitive advantage out of this? I presume that everybody is using some form of analytics for recruitment? I imagine that a few (e.g. Brighton and Brentford through their betting company owners) have more / better data, but for all of the others, is it simply a case of having better analysts to interpret the data? In the old days, a scouting system presumably depended on trusted scouts with a track record of finding players - what drives the advantage today? |
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Reply | Le Shrugs thoughts post Plymouth stuffing.
at 14:42 13 Aug 2025
As I posted on another thread ‘ Special in French would mean Weird, so I don’t think there’s much need to take this literally. ‘Il est un peu special’ would translate as ‘he’s a bit strange’ |
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Reply | Who was this disaster down to tonight....
at 12:25 13 Aug 2025
I don’t know if this helps - but when the manager says ‘it’s a bit special’, this is probably one of those french expresssions that doesn’t translate. ‘C’était un peu special’ would mean ‘it was a bit strange’. And not in a good way |
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Reply | Average age today
at 10:26 10 Aug 2025
It’s OK Bazza, I think your view probably reflects that of a large number of supporters. It’s quite possible to feel that there’s something not quite right about the way CN acts, yet also feel very positive about some of the things being done, particularly youth. The 2 positions are not mutually exclusive.
I have to say that I thought there was a lot to enjoy about some of the football we played, with all the usual caveats |
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Reply | Eze
at 12:39 7 Aug 2025
with Maddison now our for the season, think Spurs might go for him. |
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Reply | Source (credibility) effect
at 13:06 3 Jul 2025
He’s a good example of how you monetize misogyny and racism. Straight out of the Tommy Robinson playbook. If you can find me an example of this so-called complexity that isn’t pseudo-intellectual bullshit, I’m all ears |
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Reply | How optimistic are you now?
at 15:12 30 Jun 2025
As with every pre-season, and I’m sure most club supporters feel this, looks optimistic on paper. As ever, we’ll have to see how it matches up with reality. I’ve always been in the ‘why are we getting rid of the manager so soon?’ Camp, but am cautiously optimistic/ foolishly optimistic on Julien Stephan. I do like what seems to lie behind our recruitment so far - if we keep Kelman we’ll have 2 players that made the L1 team of the year, which is what we should have been doing for a while now. Think the first 6-8 games are key - solid start and I think we could be a surprise package - slow start and I think we could really struggle.
So I don’t know really. |
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Reply | Source (credibility) effect
at 09:13 30 Jun 2025
I worked for Reuters for over 30 years - one of the challenges a news source of that type had was to be seen to be providing news independent of bias to a global audience (Terrorist / Freedom Fighter). Social media has obviously done a lot to disintermediate the usual information providers, for good and bad. On the good side, relying on newspapers owned by owners with an agenda as the only source of the truth is now less of an issue. On the minus side, anyone now has an opportunity to spew garbage. I think the adage of “trust but verify’ still holds true as credibility is an earned currency. Bias is interesting as it works in so many ways - reality is that people often believe what they want to believe despite all available evidence. Social Media doesn’t hold many admissions of mistakes
Incidentally, one of the things that we all had the opportunity to do, irrespective of job role was attend the journalists’ writing course. Concise use of language was seen as being key to communication. Catering to your audience and avoiding language posturing / grandstanding is a good way of establishing rapport. [Post edited 30 Jun 13:16]
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Reply | ‘Going Anywhere Nice This Year?’
at 11:05 9 Jun 2025
Interested to know how you get on. We’re planning2 weeks there in September, taking local trains from San Sebastián up to Santiago de Compostella. Avoiding the bigger towns and hoping to get more of a local flavour. Was inspired by a book called ‘Slow trains around Spain’ by Tom Chesshyre |
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Reply | Half decent tv
at 23:19 5 Jun 2025
Agreed.Just watched the first 6 episodes and gets better and better |
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Reply | Players that left the club and it hurt as a fan
at 09:57 18 Apr 2025
I think I always felt the losses most keenly when the player was moving ‘up’ when we are actually good, thereby hurting us the most. I never really begrudged a player moving if we were crap or on a downward spiral.
So, Phil Parkes, Clive Allen (2nd time), Terry Fenwick and Les |
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Reply | Most unpleasant book you’ve ever read?
at 08:41 2 Apr 2025
Loved all of the McCarthy trilogy, and the Wasp Factory. Have you read Power of the Dog by Don Winslow? In the same ‘Well written but brutal’ genre |
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Reply | Half decent tv
at 08:31 12 Mar 2025
Watched 4 episodes of Virdee. Really enjoying it - well made, some excellent performances. |
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Reply | Sam Kerr on trial
at 13:39 7 Feb 2025
Absolutely. I’d love to know though, how much does a trial like this cost the public? And to what end? |
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Reply | Sam Kerr on trial
at 10:09 7 Feb 2025
Always feels like a massive waste of money to me - Feels like getting an adult to get the PC and Kerr in a room and apologize / calm down would be a more sensible approach. Presumable neither of them want to back down, but perhaps they shouldn’t’t be given an option. Plenty of more deserving cases never see the light of day |
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Reply | Illy
at 12:23 7 Jan 2025
Not sure if it stands up to scrutiny, but my impression in last few games is that he’s been prepared to cross far earlier than he used to, and in particular to go to the byline and cross with his left. It makes us much harder to defend against as defences don’t have time to reset. |
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