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Mowgli said:
The league is dreadful this year. Comosre the promotion challengers with what we had to contend with last season.
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It's just heating up now, the bigger teams will all be there or there abouts at the end ... Fair play to Coventry for taking advantage of everyone else's poor start. We did similar last season but couldn't sustain it
 
ontap said:
Clearly you know nowt about game strategy. They had all the ball because we allowed them to. It was a masterclass on how to counter a team that has to play on the front foot. That’s how Frank sets his team up c that’s why they he will inevitably be relegated next season. RLB ( a much more adaptive coach ) on the other hand defeats opposition coaches by having different strategies to suit.
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Unless the strategy was to get their defender to put mayenda clean through, and to get their keeper to let it an easy shot, then it wasn't a masterclass.

If those two things hadn't happened we would have lost the tie and you'd be blaming RLB.
Luna17 said:
Lots of half chances...wtf. Define lots.Bet you believe SU had loads as well🤷.
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Adding up to an xg of 2 I would say is lots of half chances
Get Into Em said:
You don't understand how xG works if you use it to decide who deserved to win a two-legged tie.

Where it might be over a full season of football, it's not objective over a short-span of games (ie. one game, or a two legged fixture). The easiest example would be if a team goes 3-0 up inside 10 minutes, they might just not bother attacking anymore and instead hold on to a clean sheet. If the opposition attacks for 80+ minutes and still lose 3-0, they may have more xG without being the better team.

Against Coventry in the away game we had a gameplan to keep a clean sheet and catch them on the break. We conceded once and caught them twice. In the away leg we were leading the tie for 76 minutes - ofcourse they'll be attacking more, therefore resulting in a higher xG. xG doesn't work for what you're trying to make it work for.
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First people say it's nonsense that we conceded lots of half chances. Now you're saying it's natural that we conceded more chances because we were ahead in the tie!

Not sure why people hate to admit we got lucky. It's fine, it doesn't take away how good it was.
 
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LDNCCFC said:
A lot of comments get regularly churned out about who was the better side in the play offs but, as I said on here a few months ago, our outrageous form and goalscoring goes to show what an absolute masterclass is was by Sunderland and RLB in both legs.

We've scored 47 goals since we played in May. In just 17 games.

To further back the point, we've scored 25 goals in 9 away.

As both our seasons continue, it goes to show how much Sunderland deserved it.
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No debate as to who was the better team. Coventry are and were then a good attacking team. But similar to what RLB has done in the prem, we forced you to play a game Coventry didn’t want to play. RLB is a master at that.

It could have gone one of two ways for you lot. Give five what we did in 99 after getting beat in the play off final, retained the team and gone for in with confidence.

Be interesting to watch what strategy you adopt if you go up.
Safc98 said:
They’d have to spend £300m to stay up
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We don’t spend that so why would they.
 
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splorty said:
We don’t spend that so why would they.
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Because we already had a style of play suited to coming up that we added to. We also have a superb recruitment team that is unbelievable at securing bargains. We spent what £180m in all? They’d have to spend more than that.
 
Safc98 said:
Because we already had a style of play suited to coming up that we added to. We also have a superb recruitment team that is unbelievable at securing bargains. We spent what £180m in all? They’d have to spend more than that.
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You maybe right re the recruitment team. Think there’s a direct correlation between how many 20m plus players you buy and staying up. 6 or more and you’re almost guaranteed to stay up.
 
splorty said:
No debate as to who was the better team. Coventry are and were then a good attacking team. But similar to what RLB has done in the prem, we forced you to play a game Coventry didn’t want to play. RLB is a master at that.

It could have gone one of two ways for you lot. Give five what we did in 99 after getting beat in the play off final, retained the team and gone for in with confidence.

Be interesting to watch what strategy you adopt if you go up.

We don’t spend that so why would they.
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Spot on.
HellsBells said:
Honestly like, he's really not a good PL player. He's really inconsistent.

@LDNCCFC wat are your thoughts on Sakamoto. I think he's a good Championship winger, better than Patrick Roberts, but he flatters to deceive mainly. And he's too lightweight for the Prem.

In fact, (a question I've discussed with the other half recently) which of your current team do you think would do a job in the PL, and where do you need to strengthen? Personally, I love Grimes, but both of us think even he's not strong enough for the PL.
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Difficult one. He came in speaking no English having not step foot in the country. Had a solid first season but got had a near life-changing injury where he basically broke his back.

He's come back remarkable strong and sturdy despite the regular kicks and bad tackles. He's also learnt perfect English.

But, like mentioned on here, it's probably too big of a step up. Realistically, Van Ejwik and Rudoni are the two that would likely step up. Grimes is a phenomenal Championship player but I'm not sure if he'd get the time on the ball.
 
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superhans1 said:
Unless the strategy was to get their defender to put mayenda clean through, and to get their keeper to let it an easy shot, then it wasn't a masterclass.

If those two things hadn't happened we would have lost the tie and you'd be blaming RLB.

Adding up to an xg of 2 I would say is lots of half chances

First people say it's nonsense that we conceded lots of half chances. Now you're saying it's natural that we conceded more chances because we were ahead in the tie!

Not sure why people hate to admit we got lucky. It's fine, it doesn't take away how good it was.
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Yeah most games come down to fine margins and fans react too far one way or another based on the result. If Haji Wright had buried that header right at the end of the 90 like he should have done it would have went from fans saying it was a Le Bris masterclass to an awful strategy in the second leg that cost us the game.
 
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Is there no chance of the cheating ******** getting a massive points deduction and being relegated? Some of us are old enough to remember '77 especially but at least one or two occasions when they cheated the professional system under THAT MAN.
cluffy said:
Frank is doing a great job.
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Doesn't surprise me really. I hate Coventry but I've always quite like Frank (that 2001 Twin Towers incident, apart) so want him to do a decent job. He was a fantastic footballer. I don't think he's done such a terrible job at management either. Derby was probably a basket case and he got them well into the play offs, Chelsea is always a basket case of a club and he probably did enough to have been given other opportunities and Everton was another basket case of a club at the time and he got a tune out of them in the Premier League at times.

In other words, don't mind Frank, hate Coventry.
 
Week by week the yearly choke looks less likely doesn't it? Would be hilarious dropping to 3rd and then losing the playoffs again. Absolute knob gobblers
 
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