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Six f*cking polls at the top of the board, jeez people should get a life

People who know stats - is xG believed to be predictive of future performance? Is it a stat that will track to actual results over time? How many games will it take to settle down?

I think both played well. Unfortunately neither scored the one clear chance they had. Frustrating.

Be bottom with fans like you in the ground, you mean. Expect you'd be the first to boo. Quite something for you to pivot from criticising the players to criticising the fans for booing them

Saved Solly's blushes, that's for sure.

Balls would we, I'd be roaring and shouting the team on, that kind of consistent pressure on their goal would have made us LOUD

Outrageous that a team can play that well and not win. We're like the complete opposite of those ugly long ball teams of the late 80s and early 90s. They were all about results at the expense of any kind of attractive football, we seem to be taking an alternative view :lolol:

Yeah, it's pointless, the person who put the ball down took every corner, and none were short. As a tactic, whatever, but it leaves us short elsewhere. Once in the second half they broke straight off our corner and got a shot away, we missed a man in midfield. That concerned me.

Those last 15 - 20 minutes, with the pressure we had on them, the Amex would have been rocking, would have been so so loud. Times like these our crowd really is an extra man, I think they're missing us :(

Because balancing the books isn't TB's objective, instead it's getting the best team he can afford on the pitch. It's his money after all. Yes, he can sell a couple of players and have no losses, but that will be true next year, and the one after that, if push comes to shove. But I wouldn't...

I don't really know how to absorb all this, but my underlying feeling is that we are where we are because Tony Bloom is ambitious and is happy to invest his fortune in getting Brighton to the top echelons of English football. And there's not much more to it than that. I don't yet see evidence...

Unfortunately the law of narrative predicts the opposite. If we win the bottom three really are cut adrift, and narrative demands a relegation battle. It's like Cardiff at home a couple of seasons ago. If we'd won the relegation battle would have been over with many games to spare. So we...

Our retreat had often been fairly instant. But yes, getting better at scoring a second on the break would definitely help. Can't recall many goals on the break this season. Welbeck against Villa is one, but it's not something we've done well.

It's not the finishing, we usually score when dominant, it's holding on to those leads

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Mad to look at that. What it shows, completely backed up by what we've seen with our eyes, it's that we create chance after chance, but as soon as we score we drop deep and concede. Rinse and repeat. Our plan A is very good. But the plan B of a scoring on the break when defending a lead still...

I've retrospectively voted Leicester, because, you know :lolol: But it was also my choice beforehand because its much rather be knocked out by Leicester than by Brentford

I wouldn't rule out that having happened already

They do often leave their legs in the middle when diving.. Going high is tricky and rare so some kind of dive is better than none. Anyway if keepers stayed central all the time then penalty takers would clue up to it very quickly. I have heard it said that going down the middle is a more common...

You're right about those strikers wanting the ball in space. One thing that confuses me a bit about our tactics is that we seem to have established that we like to hold on to the ball and work chances, but at the same time I keep seeing our strikers sitting on defenders shoulders making little...