@JoshuaAyeni9 @pythaginboots He's referring to the drives to the stadium. England matches were absolutely packed and they stunk the place out.
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@grantdesmidt
Masters student @MSD_MMU. Formerly: Brighton - consultant (2014-20), @StatsPerform (2012-18). UEFA B & CAF A License.
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@pythaginboots His argument wasn't the football, but the atmosphere. He claimed there were no fans in their first games
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It was a poor World Cup. Those that think it’s the best clearly haven’t lived long enough on this earth ie it was their first.
Shame as the location was brilliant but the footballers let us down. Barely any scintillating football that tournament.
The Touchline | 𝐓@TouchlineX
🚨🗣️ 𝗡𝗘𝗪: Wayne Rooney: "You are not getting a WORSE World Cup than South Africa in 2010. That tournament NEVER felt like a World Cup." — @WeAreTheOverlap
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@pythaginboots Cross your fingers that South Africans don't see this. Plenty of tweets with the quotes have absolutely blown up.
Incredible World Cup to be at. Unbelievable atmosphere between supporters.
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@HiThereImJustin @MG09123 Don't forget how much you loved Michael Scott in seasons 2-7.
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@MG09123 @grantdesmidt He doesn’t help himself. He just had to come in and be a normal guy but he tried to reinvent the wheel and has come across like Michael Scott - Season 1.
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People are paying £25 a year for this… £25. I expect this level from SportBible on a slow news day, not from something hiding behind a paywall.
Absolutely embarrassing.
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We lost the title but fans were proud of the team because they showed guts, pride, character.
Together, to the end, proud, elite.
This is what Chelsea can be. Even when we don’t win.
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@ChicagoDmitry @Statford_Bridge You'd have much better definitions to start with. And likely a much higher coding accuracy.
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@Statford_Bridge @grantdesmidt Agreed. I personally don't think there's any alpha in creating your own raw event data. The chances that you'd come up with something better than StatBomb raw tracking data is pretty low
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Moreover, many of us said these were bad signings at the time, got called "data nerds" and told to use our eyes by the dopamine addicts here and now the same crackheads are somehow blaming "data" for this
Statford Bridge Podcast@Statford_Bridge
You had to absolutely torture the second half season of his time at Villarreal to even get something to squint at liking for him. No amount of waterboarding of spreadsheets liked Sarr. I’m not having any blame on any data.
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@Statford_Bridge @ChicagoDmitry Well, yes. You hope your blend gives you an edge. And that's IF you trust the definitions and coding quality. But every club using the same means there is an edge to be had by self-coding. One club does 2-week blocks of one league, coding it all. Then find a handful of targets.
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@grantdesmidt @ChicagoDmitry Every top team is using all of Opta Statsbomb Skillcorner etc, rather than one alone, to do their thing.
I think the real secret sauce is in A) how you blend it into your process and B) league translation and transfer pricing
It’s very clearly the process is bad, data or not
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@ChicagoDmitry @Statford_Bridge I really think you need to produce (code) your own data to truly be able to follow a data-led recruitment model.
Or find data companies with interesting bespoke stuff, where you've scrutinised their data against the video.
Opta's coding practices are consistently bizarro.
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@ChicagoDmitry @Statford_Bridge I'm fairly certain they used data to sign Jorgensen. But the data was: minutes played, league, age.
They assumed he must be elite to be starting regularly in La Liga at 20 years old.
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@uonlylivetwceV2 Well, comments like that. He thinks it's simply too many minutes. Entering matches with unresolved fatigue (from overtraining especially) = muscle injuries in the match. Training is still responsible.
Minutes play a part. And that's totally on him too.
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@grantdesmidt What makes you think that Rosenior wont take any blame? He said the injury came late in the Newcastle match and not in the training sessions
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Hamstrings are breaking all over the place. Rosenior has said many times that he wants to 'run the players' in training. This is the Lampard & Poch nonsense all over again.
Grant@grantdesmidt
I can only assume that Rosenior smashed many of these players in a conditioning session on Sunday, seeing as most played no part vs Wrexham. The most leggy, lacking-freshness display all season. Rosenior has constantly spoken about wanting to "run the players".
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@uonlylivetwceV2 We disagree on how it works. And sadly, Rosenior will not accept any blame for this. Which means he won't improve. Much like Lampard.
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@grantdesmidt That’s not how it works, it obviously wont catch up to them and lead to big injuries like this but rather small niggles that dont make them 100% fit but can still play to a certain capacity, normally these big injuries come around this stage of the season
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@uonlylivetwceV2 And it didn't lead to these type of injuries for the first six months of the season?
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@grantdesmidt Or maybe they haven’t had a pre season and its catching up to them?
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@kanyane23 It's certainly not a failure. But a huge missed opportunity - Sundowns sold their best player (Ribeiro) whilst Pirates held onto theirs (Mofokeng). May not get a better chance to end a 14-year wait for a PSL title.
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I know it's still very early to ask this but let me do it anyway:
Would you consider it a failure if coach Abdeslam Ouaddou qualifies for the CL (position 2 finish) having won 2 trophies already in his first season at Pirates?
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Clearlake briefed Ornstein to say 2 years ago, "Judge us after four windows, by Sept 2024".
Do these clowns at Chelsea forget things they say, it's a year and a half past that date.
Recruitment has been terrible, will anyone be held to account, or will you just keep lying?
CFCDaily@CFCDaily
🚨@David_Ornstein on NBC: Reece James’ new contract at Chelsea means he joins the core of the likes of; Cole Palmer, Enzo Fernandez, Moises Caicedo being on deals at least until 2030 and some of them well into 2030’s. 🗣️“So what Chelsea feel they are building here is an elite, talented squad. Not only for the now but for the future as well. So some patience whether the fans like it or not will be required.”
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@SSFootball Why are the Liverpool-Spurs highlights still not on the website or Youtube? Game finished like 16 hours ago.
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