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Thread | Looking for a lift from London Saturday
at 11:35 7 Feb 2024
Curse of the bus replacement. Anyone driving to and from London area that has a spare seat (maybe 2)? Would be much appreciated! |
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Thread | Any spare Watford tickets going?
at 11:12 12 Dec 2023
A mate is keen on joining us down there today, so let me know if anyone has one going last minute! Cheers. |
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Thread | 2x Bristol tickets available
at 08:51 23 Oct 2023
Few mates have had to drop out and tickets were bought through someone so can’t refund them! Available at FV o.n.o.
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Thread | TATD.
at 18:58 29 Apr 2023
Soak it in lads, we’re f****** dynamite.
Next stop, budgie abattoir. |
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Thread | Morecambe keeper
at 13:16 25 Jan 2023
Quality performance and result last night. Lovely stuff. The morecambe keeper was subject to some chants from behind the goal in both halves re his weight and ended up having quite a long conversation with those behind him. I was in the cobbold so couldn’t ever hear exactly what he said back but it all looked to be in good humour. Anyone know what was said? |
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Thread | Penney
at 11:32 16 Jul 2022
Their right wing has got behind him and scored twice already. Enough said really.
Admittedly ball made a big error in the build up to the second but again Penney proving he doesn’t have the defensive credentials required. |
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Thread | Friendly live on Palace TV…
at 10:48 16 Jul 2022
Any idea if there’s a way to watch our side? Think it’s only available on the palace £20 preseason package. |
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Thread | Lost tickets
at 10:58 19 Mar 2022
Been an absolute airhead and lost my tickets. Anyone got any advice? Ticket office shut and the person I’m taking is already halfway to Oxford… dear oh dear. |
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Thread | Fantasy Football
at 22:20 10 Feb 2022
Any of you lot in the ITFC supporters league? Or is there another TWTD specific league?
Interested to know if it’s any of you ugly mugs that i’m in a title race with. |
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Thread | To those who say we need to be better
at 08:44 9 Feb 2022
While on gut feeling from the last 2 games I can absolutely appreciate where you are coming from. I certainly left the gills game with a similar outlook. However, looking at the teams who are in the top 6 this year, it doesn’t take much to realise that in fact to get top 6 you don’t even have to be that good… This league is such that you just need to consistently do what we have since McKenna has come in - it might not seem like a Manchester City style title winning display, but this isn’t the premier league and we can’t expect that.
When reflecting on McKenna’s style it became apparent to me that while it appears we often struggle to carve opponents apart, we still create quite a few big chances in *most* of our games. Take last night for example: Bonne had a couple, Wolf had some headers, Norwood should have taken/squared his one and even Donacien had a decent chance from a header. All while limiting (an admittedly poor) side to next to nothing in front of goal. Yet still people complained and were unhappy about the performance.
I agree that at times, especially when you feel we are not getting the result we want, passing it around the back can be infuriating - but this allows us to limit the opponents to so few chances that over the course of the game you create more chances than your opponent and thus have a good chance of winning or at least drawing.
This got me thinking, how many big chances do we create/concede per a game at the moment and how has this changed since McKenna has come in
The 8 games McKenna has been here:
Big chances created 2.125 per game
Big chances conceded 0.625 big chances per game
Difference of +1.5
The 8 league games prior to McKenna:
Big chances created 1.875
Big chances conceded 2.125
Difference of -0.5
So overall we seem to be actually creating a similar amount of big chances per game (despite the appearance that we are not) and our control of games means we are offering teams far less big opportunities. While it offers hope for this season it should certainly be a good recipe for a season long campaign - although of course you have to maintain it!
There are some caveats to add here - McKenna has arguably had a slightly easier run than our 8 before him, we had a few games under interim in the games prior, cook was clearly not getting the best tune out of the players during this sample or he wouldn’t have been sacked and finally that we need to do it against big teams which barring Wycombe we have not yet proven ourselves. Regardless I thought it an interesting set of statistics.
Another caveat: I am (like most of us) a hopeless blue tinted goggles kind of guy.
COYB. KMcs Blue and White Army. [Post edited 9 Feb 2022 8:45]
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Thread | North Lower tickets available
at 12:27 18 Dec 2021
Had a few last min drop outs from the game. 3x u23 north lower tickets available at face value of £5 a pop. They aren’t all next to each other though. Can send via email, and separate if needed.
Send me a direct message for more info.
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