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Just a reminder that Roberto Martinez became our manager over 18 years ago. To long for those days now would be like talking about 1989 when he was appointed. Leaving aside the merits of playing football that way again, I'm not even sure if it's possible these days for a club with our...

Fans don't necessarily do (although things like shots/possession/corners/action areas are stats that have been used for decades at half time as a measure of how the game has gone etc so xG etc is only really an extension of that) but clearly clubs can utilise them when assessing performances of...

The point I always make with this though is that sometimes the stats do match up with what the eyes are telling you. For instance, Joel Piroe's Goals v xG is very good and in fact I think quite often he has run ahead of his xG. Based on just watching him, you'd say he a) scores a lot of...

It is an abbreviation of expected goals. It shows how many goals a team would ordinarily be expected to score from the chances they created in that game/positions they got into, etc. Therefore, if we had beaten Plymouth 1-0 without getting near their goal but Key had smashed in that worldy, our...

It's a no-brainer to appoint Sheehan imo. If it doesn't work out then they just sack him at some stage next season with hardly any finger pointing because the vast majority of fans would have done the same thing. Appoint someone else, Sheehan goes elsewhere and does a great job and when the...

I think we'd be mad not to appoint him. That Derby result looks good given their results before and since. Winning that gave us the platform to then take 6 points from today and Wednesday

My worry is that a lot of people have already made up their minds that Sheehan isn't the right man for the job, irrespective of the evidence we are seeing unfolding in front of us.

My question would be why he's still here then. Because it's all very well and good not being fussed on him but there can't have been any realistic options available to us before now, surely? The only possibility would be that there'll be more options in the summer/someone is more likely to come...

I don't think a decent manager would think they'd lose pretty much every game between now and the end of the season. Even something terrible like 5 points from 8 games would suffice.

Imo no manager worth their salt is thinking we won't get the 6 or 7 points, maximum, to stay up. We absolutely aren't an attractive proposition. Hell of a lot of work to do in the summer, off field issues, etc

In reality why would a manager not touch us now but would in the summer? Us being unattractive has nothing to do with our league position, I'd wager.

Getting us playing well, keeping clean sheets and picking up results isn't making a good case for the job? He's probably put himself ahead of your run of the mill applicants we've undoubtedly got. My view is that a lot of our fans are holding out hope for someone who doesn't exist

He's making a very good case for him having the job. There's no need to rush though. I suspect come the end of the season, it'll be obvious one way or the other what the right decision will be

Pretty much identical both halves. First half didn't feel like it but most of their possession was at the back, going nowhere fast. I thought today was excellent again. Possession is irrelevant to me.

I can't remember the last time I enjoyed a game as much as that. Bit shaky to start with but grew into it and we looked the most likely to score even at 3-0 up. Lovely walking away feeling you haven't wasted your afternoon

The problem with the random inexperienced guys is that when they were being hired by us 10-15 years ago, they were stepping into a club in a good position, doing all the right things. Even if you go back to Cooper, at least we had parachute payments (and he left as soon as those ran out). Now...

"Join the Trust" Dim diolch

Thank god. Probably one of our worst ever managers

It's the futility of it all for me. Replace Williams by all means because he's shit... But with who? Someone just as shit, if not worse, no doubt. Maybe we'll stay up this season then we're into the summer and trying to buy players? Who? Probably shitter ones than we have right now.