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Leon Scarlett
at 15:59 24 Sep 2026

Easier to loan a player if they already have some experience of professional football, look at Bennie and Morgan who got pretty decent loans this season.

If they had 0 apps then the list of potentials clubs would be shorter
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Andy Andy, don't drink Shandy
at 12:55 24 Sep 2026

He should be more worried about the Kilos of cocaine knocking about at football matches around the country
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Former Coventry performance head on the 'pseudoscience' taking over football
at 12:44 24 Sep 2026

I think she'll probably be remembered for;

1). Selling off all the council houses without building numbers to backfill
2). Starting to privatise important public services, which led to increased prices and poorer services for the people
3). Starting a war with Argentina to improve her popularity
4). (most important) taking free milk out of schools.

Its not all bad though, I do remember that trade unions had got wildly out of control.
In my industry we still romanticise how the Panorama crew got weighed in with multipliers on multipliers during some programme about Gibraltar and ended up earning a years wage (or equivalent)
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Leon Scarlett
at 12:37 24 Sep 2026

I thought Vale was meant to start against PNE, so I'm not sure how planned it all was.
Felt bad for Leon getting pulled to adjust the shape, when any number of players could have been hooked based off that first half.

Its always tricky picking when to blood youngsters.

If you are fighting relegation, or going for promotion the league games are too important to mess up. If you change the whole team for a cup game, like at Plymouth, thats too many at once.

10 years of 15th would suggest we could have been a factory for debuting youngsters recently...

But, on the other hand, if they only ever come on as a sub when we are 2-0 up what are they going to learn?
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Former Coventry performance head on the 'pseudoscience' taking over football
at 13:34 23 Sep 2026

Thatcher used to brag she only needed four hours sleep a night, QED
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Former Coventry performance head on the 'pseudoscience' taking over football
at 17:22 22 Sep 2026

Usually data is collected with some purpose.

But, if you look at a recent QPR example.

BW created his 90% availability by discounting players injured before the season started and counting players who might have been fit enough to play 10'
Or, widening the scope to include kids and ladies teams, if the data suits the intended result

So, a report requester might go to a data analyst to say "draw me a graph that proves X"
And the research works backwards
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QPR Loan Watch 2026-27
at 17:16 22 Sep 2026

We'd need to ask 'Arry what mad loan deals he created.

I reckon some of his loans must have been akin to the parent club pay x% of the wages if the player is in the first team, otherwise Rangers pay the full wage, or a larger %

Otherwise, there is no explanation for players like Will Keane, Macheda, or the Brazilian fullback from Man Utd, or most of them in fact...
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Former Coventry performance head on the 'pseudoscience' taking over football
at 15:02 22 Sep 2026

I understand what a PhD is. The post I replied to mentioned they would be interested to know what a Doctor thought about the use of kinetic tape, she isn't an MD, if that makes a difference?

Being a Dr in Philosophy, she could probably help me understand why I'm thinking about this

*edit she did a BSc in Sports Psychology, which is the thing before the PhD

I'm not trying to belittle her, just think its interesting when you see someone, like Dr Gillian McKeith being presented on TV with the same gravitas as Dr Xand, talking about similar subjects when only one of them is a medical doctor
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Saints charged with spying
at 14:46 22 Sep 2026

I'm sure she was fully paid up after signing off a lot of NDA's when she left
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Our Broadcast Crew
at 13:54 22 Sep 2026

Theres only one person who looks like M'Bengue
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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Saints charged with spying
at 13:50 22 Sep 2026

100%
I think the biggest trick ever was Mourinho making everyone think he was a pr1ck, actually seemed like a nice guy in real life.


Also my Uncle put some stitches in for Wayne Routledge once, who as you can guess was massively brave about the whole ordeal! ;D
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Former Coventry performance head on the 'pseudoscience' taking over football
at 13:42 22 Sep 2026

She is a Dr of Philosophy, which may or may not make a difference to how you take her views on board
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Saints charged with spying
at 14:49 21 Sep 2026

My uncle was the club Dr for a lower league team that Mourinho's team played.
After the game Mourinho presented the other team with a comprehensive dossier they had compiled about them, showing which side they preferred, patterns of play etc..

I think the Chelsea team had all signed it as some kind of gift.

There is no way that it is just Bielsa and the Southampton manager who have ever done this.

I'm pretty sure there is a time constraint around the "viewing" of training sessions as well, but I think the EFL just want this to blow over, as it could be the tip of an iceberg that would be hugely complicated to legislate.

Remember when Sheff Utd wanted to sue West Ham?
Imagine if we found out Coventry cheated last season, in theory every other club could have a case to bring. Someone got relegated that shouldn't have, another team missed out on a promotion, the cases could go on for years!
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Saints charged with spying
at 11:59 21 Sep 2026

Aren't QPR still paying for their record fine when we got caught cheating?
I mean it was pretty obvious we broke all the financial rules, but even now our punishment was much more severe than Chelsea, Man City or even Leicester subsequently
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Our Broadcast Crew
at 11:55 21 Sep 2026

You can catch them coming up and down from the gantry. I got to have a long chat with Bradley Allen once, what a player he was, must have been tough coming from such a great footballing family like that
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Our Broadcast Crew
at 10:02 21 Sep 2026

I didn't think we could top Nick London;

But for someone so young Tyler is very very good at this job
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Atmosphere at the match
at 09:56 21 Sep 2026

I think it was on 60' something just clicked

With a braver ref who added more time on we get 3 points no doubt.

The last ten minutes of that game went by in a flash
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Atmosphere at the match
at 09:37 21 Sep 2026

I took my oldest (10) with my Dad and it was his first game, I think he's hooked now!

He was a bit gutted the game didn't go to penalties ;p

-- after watching a batch of our pk's earlier this year I'll take the draw thanks!
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Our Broadcast Crew
at 09:35 21 Sep 2026

I think he's operating the fixed camera up there, didn't realise that was an away clubs job, unless he's an "analyst" as well?
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Vale
at 09:25 21 Sep 2026

I'm not sure thats right.
The first half was so poor it was hard to tell, but I think the players were rotating who was playing "10" If Kamara pushed forward Varane and Madsen dropped, but I saw a few times Varane at the top of the midfield and also Madsen.

Varane maybe unlucky to be subbed to fix the formation, as Kamara was having a stinker in that first half, with Madsen not far behind him.

I'd love to know what they said at half time, as by 60' I didn't even notice we were a man short and PNE looked terrified of the ball, just aimlessly pumping it long, when they weren't time wasting
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