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General football musings
Started by Walter Sobchak




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11-30-2020, 02:03 PM -
(11-30-2020, 01:57 PM)Nicolas Sarkozy Wrote: Nobody would say that’s not the case Laugh Totting it up as some sort of stat to compare players with is on a level with XG for me though.

Did Paul Scholes not have a laughably low number of assists across his career? These days people would probably want him dropped for the stats not being good enough.

FWIW Rog I think those ones that come of your arse do count as assists in these stats because it used to be patter from dweebs on Twitter that Jordan Henderson’s only assist one season was him laying off a free kick for someone else to hit it.

Scholes had less assists than Peter Crouch Laugh

Think his record over a season was 7. Probably loads of pre pre assist passes though.
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11-30-2020, 02:41 PM -
He probably did have loads of 'pre-assist' passes tbf.

The term isn't great, but I'd kill for a player that can unlock a defence with a pass and setup an opportunity for an assist right now.

I don't think you can really compare it to Hearts players. Actual good teams have patterns of play and a 'pre-assist' pass is an important part of the build up leading to a goal. Hearts players just pass it around and hope something happens.

Hearts players are also closer to us in the football knowledge scale than they are to players like Messi and KDB - I'm not convinced any of them think more than a pass ahead.
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11-30-2020, 04:26 PM -
(11-30-2020, 01:41 PM)Morph Wrote: If Berra purposefully seen Boyce was open for a flick on and played that ball in


Morph that content man Rofl
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11-30-2020, 04:35 PM -
(11-30-2020, 01:57 PM)Nicolas Sarkozy Wrote: Nobody would say that’s not the case Laugh Totting it up as some sort of stat to compare players with is on a level with XG for me though.

Did Paul Scholes not have a laughably low number of assists across his career? These days people would probably want him dropped for the stats not being good enough.

FWIW Rog I think those ones that come of your arse do count as assists in these stats because it used to be patter from dweebs on Twitter that Jordan Henderson’s only assist one season was him laying off a free kick for someone else to hit it.

Laying it off is a bit different. Guess a deflection would count in some cases. FF counts shit like winning a penalty or a direct free kick that's scored. Things that don't really count in regular stats. An FF assist is essentially the last player on your team to touch the ball before the goal was scored.
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11-30-2020, 05:46 PM -
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11-30-2020, 05:53 PM -
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11-30-2020, 07:34 PM -
Name change for Pondy to “Pre Assist Spazz” please.
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12-01-2020, 08:42 AM -
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12-01-2020, 11:08 AM -
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12-01-2020, 06:28 PM -
I see slane has shat out the latest open goal, pretty poor in my opinion, was wanting to see him have a meltdown over the Celtic situ.

Kevin Kyle has absolutely plummeted in my estimations btw, referring to Celtic as 'we' and that, brutal stuff from him.
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12-01-2020, 08:16 PM -
He’s a Celtic fan so it’s not that much of a shocker
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12-01-2020, 08:40 PM -
Kevin Kyle is a Celtic fan?    Dismay
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12-01-2020, 08:56 PM -
Yeah he mentions it in his open goal interview
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12-01-2020, 09:08 PM -
(12-01-2020, 08:40 PM)Newman Wrote: Kevin Kyle is a Celtic fan?    Dismay

Dismay

Not sure I can watch open goal now
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12-01-2020, 10:02 PM -
Slightly losing interest in Open Goal tbh. How far in did they get before mentioning that Young Players Have It Too Easy Nowadays?
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12-02-2020, 01:38 AM -
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12-02-2020, 07:38 AM -
Actually quite interested in the data side of things, but xG trolls me to fuck. Such a shit metric that offers zero insight into anything useful. Cathro would've dropped xG into his post-match interviews if we had him a year or two later.
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12-02-2020, 11:18 AM -
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12-02-2020, 11:35 AM -
(12-02-2020, 11:18 AM)Lil Sebastian Wrote: https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/1891...mirren-fc/

Merry Christmas folks.

The money was just resting in their account jjay
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12-02-2020, 12:10 PM -
St.Mirren dying a slow painful death  Piggy



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