| What’s been most surprising to you this season? 12:33 - Mar 17 with 12491 views | Illinoisblue |
On or off the pitch?
1. The fact that members of the press/media are counted in attendance figures. (This will never make any sense)
2. Finding out the head analyst at goalkeeper,com - who convinced us to buy Muric - has zero experience in professional football and only job since leaving university was at Tesco. This is all on LinkedIn if it sounds too far fetched to be true.
3. Just how much better the ground looks now. [Post edited 17 Mar 12:35]
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| What’s been most surprising to you this season? on 15:29 - Mar 17 with 2396 views | CrayonKing |
That we look further off the pace now than we did early in the season. I expected us to improve as we adapted to the level and new signings bedded in etc. |  | | |
| What’s been most surprising to you this season? on 15:43 - Mar 17 with 2361 views | Edmundo |
| What’s been most surprising to you this season? on 13:35 - Mar 17 by textbackup |
Hard work in the gym can get you so far, if you don’t have the genetics naturally tho, a bit stuck |
Or are you? This stuff has been going on "off season" since Alan Wells was running in the Olympics. There are always ways around. Just ask that tennis player, Sinner. |  |
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| What’s been most surprising to you this season? on 16:01 - Mar 17 with 2328 views | Blueschev |
| What’s been most surprising to you this season? on 15:29 - Mar 17 by CrayonKing |
That we look further off the pace now than we did early in the season. I expected us to improve as we adapted to the level and new signings bedded in etc. |
Most promoted teams tend to struggle in the second half of the season though. I expected it to happen to us last year to be honest. |  | | |
| What’s been most surprising to you this season? on 16:01 - Mar 17 with 2327 views | LankHenners |
| What’s been most surprising to you this season? on 14:48 - Mar 17 by SuffolkPunchFC |
People keep rolling out this potential meme that our recruitment of Muric was based on the expertise of a Tesco employee.
I checked it out at the time. The founder did indeed work at Tesco as a data analyst, but it appears to have been a 'fill-in' job as a result of COVID, in parallel to continuing to operate goalkeeper.com. Like many employments, it's not unreasonable to assume that recruitment of goalkeepers during COVID and 20/21 was in low demand, and it was necessary to find gainful employment elsewhere to pay the bills.
Added to that, the guy is an expert in data analysis methodologies, and may only be responsible for setting up the backend framework. CEOs rarely 'do the horse work', but employ people to run the technical side of any business. There may well be other people who have the practical professional playing experience who undertake the analysis and reporting/recommendations - just using the tools developed by him from is academic expertise.
Now I'm only speculating how goalkeeper.com might be set up, but there are far too many assumptions being made about how goalkeeper.com operates, and who does what. Only a fool would jump to these conclusions based on the limited information one can view on LinkedIn. |
The 'we signed Muric because a Tesco employee's website told us to' is up there with 'the ref let the Leicester snow game play out because he was scared of Roy Keane' in things that clearly aren't true but keep getting legs because they make a better story than the more humdrum reality. |  |
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| What’s been most surprising to you this season? on 16:03 - Mar 17 with 2303 views | FrimleyBlue |
| What’s been most surprising to you this season? on 16:01 - Mar 17 by LankHenners |
The 'we signed Muric because a Tesco employee's website told us to' is up there with 'the ref let the Leicester snow game play out because he was scared of Roy Keane' in things that clearly aren't true but keep getting legs because they make a better story than the more humdrum reality. |
That website was credited for the signing of Muric though |  |
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| What’s been most surprising to you this season? on 16:04 - Mar 17 with 2312 views | Reuser_is_God |
Our defending being likened to 9/11, no seriously……
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| What’s been most surprising to you this season? on 16:05 - Mar 17 with 2293 views | gringoblue |
| What’s been most surprising to you this season? on 16:01 - Mar 17 by Blueschev |
Most promoted teams tend to struggle in the second half of the season though. I expected it to happen to us last year to be honest. |
We did. We got 52 points in the first 23 games and 44 in the second 23 games :) |  | | |
| What’s been most surprising to you this season? on 16:10 - Mar 17 with 2265 views | textbackup |
| What’s been most surprising to you this season? on 14:48 - Mar 17 by SuffolkPunchFC |
People keep rolling out this potential meme that our recruitment of Muric was based on the expertise of a Tesco employee.
I checked it out at the time. The founder did indeed work at Tesco as a data analyst, but it appears to have been a 'fill-in' job as a result of COVID, in parallel to continuing to operate goalkeeper.com. Like many employments, it's not unreasonable to assume that recruitment of goalkeepers during COVID and 20/21 was in low demand, and it was necessary to find gainful employment elsewhere to pay the bills.
Added to that, the guy is an expert in data analysis methodologies, and may only be responsible for setting up the backend framework. CEOs rarely 'do the horse work', but employ people to run the technical side of any business. There may well be other people who have the practical professional playing experience who undertake the analysis and reporting/recommendations - just using the tools developed by him from is academic expertise.
Now I'm only speculating how goalkeeper.com might be set up, but there are far too many assumptions being made about how goalkeeper.com operates, and who does what. Only a fool would jump to these conclusions based on the limited information one can view on LinkedIn. |
That’s a long post.
Muric is still crap tho |  |
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| What’s been most surprising to you this season? on 16:16 - Mar 17 with 2246 views | Blueschev |
| What’s been most surprising to you this season? on 16:05 - Mar 17 by gringoblue |
We did. We got 52 points in the first 23 games and 44 in the second 23 games :) |
That's why I was McKenna out even back in May. | | | |
| What’s been most surprising to you this season? on 16:21 - Mar 17 with 2224 views | Illinoisblue |
| What’s been most surprising to you this season? on 16:04 - Mar 17 by Reuser_is_God |
Our defending being likened to 9/11, no seriously……
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Wow. Is that actually real? | |
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| What’s been most surprising to you this season? on 16:24 - Mar 17 with 2222 views | waveneyblue |
The patronising nature of the vast majority of pundits/reporters once the first week or so was over.
The fact that middle/lower table Premier League teams are really really good.
The size and physicality of the players in the Premier League.
The lack of perspective from a section of our fanbase who seem to get a huge kick out of being negative at every opportunity.
The fact I genuinely miss the Championship |  | | |
| What’s been most surprising to you this season? on 16:29 - Mar 17 with 2194 views | SuffolkPunchFC |
| What’s been most surprising to you this season? on 16:03 - Mar 17 by FrimleyBlue |
That website was credited for the signing of Muric though |
LOL, I don't think a website can be credited with signing Muric.
Maybe the company behind the website, and the data / analysis they provide, but that's somewhat different. |  | | |
| What’s been most surprising to you this season? on 18:04 - Mar 17 with 2108 views | LA_Tractor_Boy |
| What’s been most surprising to you this season? on 16:29 - Mar 17 by SuffolkPunchFC |
LOL, I don't think a website can be credited with signing Muric.
Maybe the company behind the website, and the data / analysis they provide, but that's somewhat different. |
I'm not sure what's worse tbh.
That we signed a player based on the data from a website, or one of the recruitment analysts watched Muric play and thought it would be a good idea to sign him, or that Ashton believed he was worth £8M. | | | |
| What’s been most surprising to you this season? on 18:51 - Mar 17 with 2046 views | lazyblue |
How damn good the so called poorer premier league teams are. | | | |
| What’s been most surprising to you this season? on 19:02 - Mar 17 with 2004 views | carlisleaway |
| What’s been most surprising to you this season? on 18:51 - Mar 17 by lazyblue |
How damn good the so called poorer premier league teams are. |
Villa mate, why did you sign Philogene……you have been done |  | | |
| What’s been most surprising to you this season? on 19:12 - Mar 17 with 1993 views | SitfcB |
How quick it’s gone!
How sh!t we’ve been once we go a goal down/concede since the turn of the year. |  |
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| What’s been most surprising to you this season? on 06:07 - Mar 18 with 1814 views | PioneerBlue |
Gap from Champ to PL , quality, power, pace is much bigger than expected
That £125m investment doesn’t even buy standstill competitiveness
That we’ve looked worse as the season has progressed, I really sold myself the dream that we would be a second half season team | |
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| What’s been most surprising to you this season? on 06:11 - Mar 18 with 1800 views | Millsey |
| What’s been most surprising to you this season? on 13:09 - Mar 17 by homer_123 |
Yup.
I can understand Journo's being included as they are there but including ST holders who haven't attended is the odd bit. |
So did the none attending ST holder pay for his seat???? |  | | |
| What’s been most surprising to you this season? on 06:58 - Mar 18 with 1750 views | Swansea_Blue |
| What’s been most surprising to you this season? on 12:35 - Mar 17 by Illinoisblue |
Hasn’t that always been the case? |
Yes, but that doesn’t change how ridiculous it is. |  |
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| What’s been most surprising to you this season? on 07:01 - Mar 18 with 1748 views | Swansea_Blue |
| What’s been most surprising to you this season? on 13:37 - Mar 17 by homer_123 |
Def are a few empty around us. |
That’s a shame, annoying, selfish all in equal measure | |
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| What’s been most surprising to you this season? on 09:03 - Mar 18 with 1680 views | artsbossbeard |
Not necessarily surprising but the whole "progressive" football thing can die an ugly death.
1. Teams defending a corner in such a manner that the biggest opposition player isn't picked up by the biggest defender and going all zonal. Philogene getting buried by Maguire a particular favourite but see also, McCallister v Burn on Sunday.
2. Teams quite happy to get everyone back on corners, providing no out ball and simply waiting for the opposition to get back in shape before the goalie passed it 2yds to the right and ceasing any momentum and potential advantage.
3. Nobody marking the back post any more playing directly into the hands of times who can whip a decent corner near post for a flick across goal and providing no simple goal line cover in the event of a 6yd melee.
4. Nobody happy to whip the ball 1st time into the "mixer" once a decent angle has been worked and instead looking to work the ball back over from one side of the pitch to the other. For ever.
5. Half & Half Scarfs and the people who buy them.
Modern football is sh1t.
Yours
B Clough |  |
| Please note: prior to hitting the post button, I've double checked for anything that could be construed as "Anti Semitic" and to the best of my knowledge it isn't. Anything deemed to be of a Xenophobic nature is therefore purely accidental or down to your own misconstruing. | | Poll: | Raining in IP8 - shall I get the washing in? |
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| What’s been most surprising to you this season? on 09:14 - Mar 18 with 1634 views | Swansea_Blue |
| What’s been most surprising to you this season? on 09:03 - Mar 18 by artsbossbeard |
Not necessarily surprising but the whole "progressive" football thing can die an ugly death.
1. Teams defending a corner in such a manner that the biggest opposition player isn't picked up by the biggest defender and going all zonal. Philogene getting buried by Maguire a particular favourite but see also, McCallister v Burn on Sunday.
2. Teams quite happy to get everyone back on corners, providing no out ball and simply waiting for the opposition to get back in shape before the goalie passed it 2yds to the right and ceasing any momentum and potential advantage.
3. Nobody marking the back post any more playing directly into the hands of times who can whip a decent corner near post for a flick across goal and providing no simple goal line cover in the event of a 6yd melee.
4. Nobody happy to whip the ball 1st time into the "mixer" once a decent angle has been worked and instead looking to work the ball back over from one side of the pitch to the other. For ever.
5. Half & Half Scarfs and the people who buy them.
Modern football is sh1t.
Yours
B Clough |
See also pyrotechnic displays and ‘fan experience’ (forgetting that the experience we actually want is a good game of football).
Also, us fans now being called the fan base. Is that because it’s now openly acknowledged we’re at the bottom in terms of priorities? | |
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| What’s been most surprising to you this season? on 09:16 - Mar 18 with 1622 views | artsbossbeard |
| What’s been most surprising to you this season? on 09:14 - Mar 18 by Swansea_Blue |
See also pyrotechnic displays and ‘fan experience’ (forgetting that the experience we actually want is a good game of football).
Also, us fans now being called the fan base. Is that because it’s now openly acknowledged we’re at the bottom in terms of priorities? |
The squad being referred to as "The Group" by The Potter's & Rodger's of the footballing world. | |
| Please note: prior to hitting the post button, I've double checked for anything that could be construed as "Anti Semitic" and to the best of my knowledge it isn't. Anything deemed to be of a Xenophobic nature is therefore purely accidental or down to your own misconstruing. | | Poll: | Raining in IP8 - shall I get the washing in? |
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| What’s been most surprising to you this season? on 21:17 - Mar 18 with 1437 views | The_Major |
Agree with the dugout thing. Bit of a shock to the system seeing a huge retinue with iPads reclining on plush seating when John Duncan with a notepad sitting in a glorified bus shelter about to put David Gregory on for the last twenty minutes against Oxford on a Tuesday night seems like it was only yesterday. |  | | |
| What’s been most surprising to you this season? on 22:28 - Mar 18 with 1379 views | TheBlueGnu |
4. How senior members of the Coronation Street cast have all of a sudden become Town fans: Knox, Roach, Nicholls, Lipman. | |
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