| The squad need to read this as he is spot on ! 10:56 - Feb 25 with 415 views | andoverpedro |
"Another four goals conceded, another superbly damning xG scoreline: Southampton 0.13-4.01 Brighton. When the good news from your Saturday afternoon is that your team probably should have lost by six or seven goals at home and didn’t, it must be tempting to take the rest of the season off.
"I’m honestly getting sick of watching Southampton and writing about them. They are a joke because they play as if they are in mid-table comfort. I understand that heads have gone down because relegation has looked a certainty from October onwards and it must be hard to play in front of supporters who are going out of habit and grim loyalty rather than expectation.
"But my goodness: try to give them something to be proud of. Nobody is calling for prison-rule football, but my goodness it is frustrating to watch how easy opposition teams have it against Southampton, and I’m not even a supporter. There seems to be no plan for creating chances or stopping their opponents creating them, but worse than that there seems to be no ambition to make life harder for the other team.
"Nobody tracks runs. Nobody seems to want to sprint to put a tackle in. Nobody wants to defend for their lives other than as a tardy reaction to a mistake, either in technical prowess or concentration. Everybody seems to act as if ugly football is beneath them, rather than a typical ingredient of a promoted club battling to stay up (or, in this case, avoid points records).
"I can take my club losing most weeks. I cannot take my club looking like they accept defeat without putting up a fight nor having a logical strategy to avoid conceding three or four goals in every game." |  | | |  |
| The squad need to read this as he is spot on ! on 14:13 - Feb 25 with 260 views | kingslandstand1 |
Afraid that was posted earlier Pedro. But the consensus was generally the same |  | | |
| The squad need to read this as he is spot on ! on 14:42 - Feb 25 with 232 views | TripleNiemi |
Gave up reading it when I got to the ‘xG’ nonsense (whatever that is). |  |
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| The squad need to read this as he is spot on ! on 14:47 - Feb 25 with 218 views | PatfromPoole |
| The squad need to read this as he is spot on ! on 14:42 - Feb 25 by TripleNiemi |
Gave up reading it when I got to the ‘xG’ nonsense (whatever that is). |
My understanding is that xG is akin to classifications applied to films.
xG means that something is very, very bad, virtually unwatchable and with no thought given to it. |  |
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| The squad need to read this as he is spot on ! on 15:13 - Feb 25 with 192 views | InTimeAddedOn |
| The squad need to read this as he is spot on ! on 14:47 - Feb 25 by PatfromPoole |
My understanding is that xG is akin to classifications applied to films.
xG means that something is very, very bad, virtually unwatchable and with no thought given to it. |
If this season was a film it would never have been made as the script would have been rejected by every production company as totally unrealistic on the basis that no set of owners could have consistently made so many stupid decisions in such a relatively short space of time. |  |
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| The squad need to read this as he is spot on ! on 16:49 - Feb 25 with 98 views | PatfromPoole |
| The squad need to read this as he is spot on ! on 15:13 - Feb 25 by InTimeAddedOn |
If this season was a film it would never have been made as the script would have been rejected by every production company as totally unrealistic on the basis that no set of owners could have consistently made so many stupid decisions in such a relatively short space of time. |
I think Mike Bassett stole our thunder somewhat. | |
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