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Newcastle thread Oct and Nov 2020

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safctommie said:
Lucky.Unlucky.
The mugs weren’t lucky to beat Newport.Luck played no part in it.
Newport played well but they weren’t unlucky to lose.Bad luck played no part in it.
We’ve deserved to win games and haven’t.Thats’t not unlucky.
We’ve won games and haven’t deserved to.That‘s not lucky.
Hitting the woodwork isn’t unlucky.
Having little posession and winning isn’t lucky.
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Why is it still called woodwork?
 

gatopreto said:
Disagree. Takes a longer period of time than a season. Your XG stats last season were unbelievable. Games like Everton away, Chelsea at home were extreme examples but there was so many more games you got until deserved points. Sheff United away, palace at home, so many more. Remember that bizarre period when your strikers couldn't score but every week a different defender would come from nowhere to convert your only chance.

How many times do you think it went the other way? You enjoyed 'once a season' luck on many occasions. I think a lot of your fans recognise that to be fair.

Unless you improve performances you will be relegated because that kind of luck is not sustainable.
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No such thing as an undeserved point imo.
Score more goals than the opposition - you deserve to win
 
Nukehasslefan said:
They're stats bud.
I don't work on stats. I work on the actual game itself.
It's like commentators and pundits saying things like, " they've never won here in 36 years" or whatever, as if a team has little chance.

Each game deserves its own merit.
One game we might get hammered by having a go.
One game we may score 4 goals and play an enjoyable match.
Next game may produce a tired performance or a defensive cringeworthy performance.
I've seen them all and stats will not dictate anything that has not been played.

Forecasting is fine and stats are also fine for those who want to set up potential scenarios.
Weather forecasters often get it wrong, just as any forecaster/statistician can.


If the game was played by robots then stats and forecasting would be up there.
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Remember when you beat us on stats?
 
They're genuinely the worst team I've watched this season and that includes teams in the football league. No idea, no pattern, and Bruce throwing out excuses like its rice at a wedding. Having horrible flashbacks to 2011.
 
rentaghost said:
I don't think Bruce is very good. Just broadly the same as Rafa was but better in the cups. It's still amusing how Rafa is looked on as some sort of visionary, tactical genius when he was no better than that plank.
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Broadly the same? Nah, not for me, worse by almost every performance metric and with better squad to boot.
 
mad cyril said:
mate they’re a pain in the area. Twitter was full of so called fans who were gutted we won.


I am, quite a lot actually.

we’ve a team and manager who give 100% and don’t know when their beat.
We’ve had a good start to the season, 1 loss in 6 and 1/4 final of a cup.
Bruce has bought decent and we’ve good flair options in St Maximum.
I’m as happy currently as I have been in years.
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The players and manager knew they were beat at home to Brighton like....pretty much from the first minute.

Bruce deserves some credit but he also deserves criticism. We have been decent against West Ham and Burnley but woeful against Blackburn, Brighton, spurs and Newport. Not just below par. Woeful.
 
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