Neverbefore

Dying for forest to get relegated so we finally see the last of the old school anti football manager finally out of the top flight. No right to be there anymore. Will be throughly satisfying if dyche, parker and edwards all get relegated together.

Well, hes not hitting whittaker numbers, but of our starting 11 he gets dispossed the 3rd most and has the 3rd most unsuccessful touches. Can't say ive ever noticed him having a particular good first touch and the data doesnt seem to suggest it either.

I too think whittakers first touch is a big weakness of his game, but also think that with Morris, Hackney and mcgree all excelling at that particular area, it doesnt matter as much. I think conway has the same weakness btw.

Think it wss a lot of people's concerns, but unfounded really. He had incredible defensive stats in Sweden too. The man has it all as a manager if he can continue this momentum. Pure gem.

Can probably argue that we have had the rub of the green going forward given our xg is quite poor compared to others in the top 6 (though that is explained by edwards id say), but our xg against is 2nd best in the league and you can see when watching our games we hardly ever give up great chances. I don't think weve been lucky at all, I think we let our opponents see so little of the ball in effective areas that we dont concede many.

Gone up in my estimation has our grant.

Shh you'll have people telling you off for and laughing about how they're doing like in the Rob edwards thread.

Were still facing hardly any shots on target, but because we dominate the ball and shut down counters much quicker on the whole.

Still regularly see people say that his work made us financial stable, ive never understood it at all. Flint and Saville were disastrous for their money and mcnair wasn't ever worth what we paid for him either.

15 is all that matters to me.

Yeah honest is one of the last words id use to describe that man.

Yeah Im taking a draw from this right now. They're the most in form team in the league over the last 15 games and at home. A draw and one of cov/ipswich to drop points and ill be a happy man.

Which im going to... you've probably just jinxed it!

Ffs, getting pulled on every typo these days

Esse has started 4 of the 5 games since joining, scoring in 2 of them. And the only one he didnt start was the one that Thomas asante wasn't available for - they definitely plan on esse being a starter. And I can almost guarantee that Neil, memheti and onyeka will start more than they dont, just dont have the data yet. Onyeka started 30 games for the team that finished 12th in the bundesliga, mehmeti is in excellent form at this level, better than most of their other options and Neil was an ever present in a promotion winning side last season. Happily revisit this at the end of the season, but those are 4 very food signings at this level.