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Reply | Swans tv
at 20:24 21 Sep 2024
Ah, that's my problem right there. I paid to watch on Swans TV. |
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Reply | Swans tv
at 18:34 21 Sep 2024
If you're referring to Anthony O'C, I guess half the problem is that he's sitting in a room at The Liberty watching on a screen, so doesn't get the atmosphere from the stadium. If he's quiet it's because the sound he's being given from the stadium is too low. When he's at the Liberty he has to raise his voice to be heard over the crowd noise. Plus he doesn't have co-comms this season - not sure why that is.
Mind you - he's not the brightest. Last week he commented that there were 4 Norwich subs warming up when there should only be 3. Except that rule has changed - you can now have 5 subs warming up. |
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Reply | Swans tv
at 21:39 17 Sep 2024
Yes they are. Not the club as such but the company in charge of the stream. |
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Reply | Swans tv
at 19:30 17 Sep 2024
I watched the paid-for SwansTV on my laptop and the audio was ahead. Very annoying. |
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Reply | 🏴 Wales v Türkiye 🇹🇷 : Nations League 1/6
at 20:04 4 Sep 2024
Not sure what that has to do with anything. I was merely pointing out that the list in the OP isn't quite right. It mentions all the other players that are on loan but not Mepham. |
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Reply | Too good to go down
at 12:56 27 Jan 2024
Do you feel the same when you see the likes of Derby County and Bolton Wanderers in a league below us? |
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Reply | Copy the Luton way?
at 09:32 30 Sep 2023
It always amuses me when posters use phrases like "most of us" or "the vast majority of us". You can only know that by conducting a statistically significant poll of the fans. I presume you didn't do that.
Personally, I don't want to get promoted playing turgid football. |
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Reply | Copy the Luton way?
at 12:27 27 Sep 2023
No.
Imagine having to watch Luton style football every week. |
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Reply | xG against
at 09:45 21 Sep 2023
To be clear, I said that I didn't know whether he was correct that we were 5th in the xGA table. I was merely pointing out that being at the top end of the xGA table is good (because it's an upside down table) - which some people didn't seem to understand.
Also, different models calculate xGA (and xG for that matter) in different ways so it depends where he's getting his stats from.
Either way, I'd be quite happy to see the back of him. |
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Reply | xG against
at 23:55 20 Sep 2023
I'm no fan of Duff but he's right about xGA. I don't know why people are struggling with this.
xGA is a measure of how many goal chances you allow the opposition. A low number is good, the lower it is the higher you are in the table. So if we're fifth in the table, that's pretty good. We're currently the fifth best in the league at restricting good chances for the opposition.
I can't confirm that we're fifth but he has analysts that tell him this.
On the flip side, I bet our xG is really low. Which is bad. |
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Reply | Why is it managers cant see what we fans see
at 12:57 29 Aug 2023
I'm confused. Some people were complaining that Martin was playing 5 at the back when clearly we were playing 3. Some people were complaining that we were playing 3 and wanted to play 4.
So which is it with Duff? Darling, Cabango and Wood are clearly a back 3. Key and Ashby spending most of their time in advanced positions don't make it a back 5.
Many teams play 3 at the back now, and the reasons are obvious. Firstly, you can easily switch to 3 when in possession and 5 when not, if you feel like it. Secondly, many teams only play one up front, sometimes two, so having a back 5 against one striker makes absolutely no sense. You end up being overrun in midfield. Even 4 against one makes no sense.
And to suggest (not you) that that the manager doesn't know what's going on on the field is laughable, IMHO. |
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Reply | Goalkeepers playing out from the back
at 16:17 14 Aug 2023
They changed the rules specifically to encourage playing out from the back and the pitches are so good these days there's little excuse not to.
Long goal kicks are pretty low percentage and invariably give possession away. I was amazed when Rushworth kicked long on Saturday. I hope we're not going back to that.
The only problem I have with us doing it is (or at least last couple of seasons) when we beat the press we need to take full advantage and drive forward. Too many times we'd beat the press and faff around in midfield (Grimes especially) - and let the opposition get back behind the ball. |
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Reply | A back 4
at 13:31 26 Jul 2023
I've never quite understood the obsession with playing 4 at the back. Many teams play 3 these days, and we have done ourselves, going back to the Toshack days, when it was quite revolutionary. 3 at the back is more flexible because it allows you to play 3 when in possession and 5 when out of possession, for example.
We have a couple of problems to solve though. Cabango seems to struggle in a 3, because he doesn't have enough pace to play left or right, and he's not dominant enough in the air to play centre. Oh, and he's not very good in possession. I'm no fan of Cabango (that's no secret, nice bloke though) so I'd rather bench him and find someone who's comfortable in the formation.
The other problem is we don't really have wingbacks. But again, I'd rather fix that problem than just play a formation because that's all our players can play. |
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Reply | Absolutely Unbelievable Penalty
at 10:34 19 Jul 2023
There's a better video on saintsweb. Very similar to David Beckham against Turkey all those years ago. Standing foot gave way.
In other news: Saints fans complaining about the style of play. And they desperately want Piroe. |
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