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    The 'If You Still Need to Purge Yourself Of Ange' Thread

    Exactly. There is a downwards trend in PPG clearly evident after the Chelsea game and that trend was never arrested. Thats a clear sign of us being worked out and then that blue-print being refined over time to the point where there was a very well refined blueprint to beat us in place across...
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    The 'If You Still Need to Purge Yourself Of Ange' Thread

    Not necessarily. As I've said its the start of a blue print that was at first only intermittently successful but it was refined over time to the point that, yes, we routinely got destroyed by literally every kind of team.....even to the point where we conceded quite a few decent chances against...
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    The 'If You Still Need to Purge Yourself Of Ange' Thread

    Its the bielsa effect. Very unique (but flawed) style of play hits teams like a steamroller. Then we get picked apart by Chelsea and suddenly thats the blue print right there and that blueprint has been honed by opposition managers over time to the point where we are very easy to beat. It's...
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    The 'If You Still Need to Purge Yourself Of Ange' Thread

    It should be connected. I've posted factual analysis in a previous post of a clear trend over his two seasons: - the ppg in the 2nd half of his first season was lower than the 1st half of his first season. - the ppg in the first half of his 2nd season was lower than the 2nd half of his first...
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    The 'If You Still Need to Purge Yourself Of Ange' Thread

    This is it for me. The second half of 2023/24 was poor and although 5th place was a good achievement we'd all have taken at the beginning of the season, given where he'd got us with the fast start, 4th by Christmas and a come back from the injury crisis to beat Villa and get into the top 4...
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    The 'If You Still Need to Purge Yourself Of Ange' Thread

    This isn't actually so difficult to understand: - you set someone objectives at the beginning of the year: A B C D A is the most important. - 3/4 through the year its clear A is unachievable. C & D are done. Your report says "i think i can overachieve in B, but it'll lead to even worse...
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    The 'If You Still Need to Purge Yourself Of Ange' Thread

    As I've said i'm sure for those that wobbled to Ange in after the final to Ange out after the Brighton game, it wasnt about that one game, it was about that game reminding them of all the games prior to the final....
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    The 'If You Still Need to Purge Yourself Of Ange' Thread

    Humans are fickle. While it is pretty futile and unfair to analyse the Brighton game what it did was bring a lot of people that had changed their minds in wake of joy of the cup win back to reality and remind them why they wanted him gone by that point. Its not that people were seriously using...
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    The 'If You Still Need to Purge Yourself Of Ange' Thread

    Yeah, thats the thing, Ange's system only looked vaguely workable for me for example when VDV was playing as that "ball over the top" wasnt such an obvious weapon when you have that recovery pace, saying that, just how common is it to get a 6ft plus CB with that sort of acceleration and sprint...
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    The 'If You Still Need to Purge Yourself Of Ange' Thread

    Bielsa is a very good comparison actually. Leeds fans loved Bielsa, he got them promoted and they surprised a lot of teams by overwhelming them in an attacking sense and they finished top half, but by season two he'd been worked out in that if you can get pass the high intensity they're wide...
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    Fasting is really good for you. Scientifically, it is proven to force the body to cleanse itself by burning excess sugar and fat in the blood stream and brain stimulation and growth occurs. It is though this to be a natural response to increase the chances of finding food (i.e. from back in...
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    Well right now they're saying they won't get a majority outright as it stands and in fact will only have a c. 9% probability to be in a coalition government. Despite obtaining the most seats. A lot can change between now and next election but the political momentum is very much with Reform and...
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    Yeah their MRP modelling is regarded as pretty accurate. Will 100% identify the overall trend even if they're off by a few % votes or seats wise. What this analysis shows is that Reform are likely to win a huge number of seats at the next GE unless something drastic changes in terms of...
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    They're one of the major political polling companies in the UK. The MRP polls are the most reliable and most complex of the polls they do, normally accurate to few % swing. They use a large sample (in this case 11,500) and the sample is distributed across constituency level and demographics to...
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    First YouGov MRP poll since the GE. If a GE was to be held this year: - Reform 271 seats - Labour 178 seats - Lib Dems 81 seats - Tories 46 seats - SNP 38 seats - Greens 3 seats - Plaid Cymru 3 seats Headline simulation results: 99% of simulations =Reform with most seats 97% = hung parliament...
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    That doesn't change the fact that it is the long-term solution to ending conflict in the region...
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    Thomas Frank - Head Coach

    This is quite hard as theres always players you think will be toast under a new manager and those you think will thrive and it invariably doesn't work out that way. Given Frank is quite flexible it makes it even harder. Eze would be a great signing, would give the whole place a lift and a buzz...
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    ENIC

    They actually do put money into the club. Do they put Sheikh Mansour levels of money into the club? No, but they have put money in via rights issues and I believe the last major investment was a £150 million facility offered by ENIC to the club in 2022. I dont think all of it was drawn down but...
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    9/11 was probably a factor in the maintenance of the US position and backing of the GFA as there was definitely intelligence of the IRA working with Al Qaeda
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    Yeah so will be up to west to force the issue. Particularly the US. The US were really crucial in bringing the IRA to the table in NI peace negotiations as they made continued US support for the case for a united Ireland conditional on the IRA getting round a table and similarly that allowed us...
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