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Yup, good post. Whatever the truth a move away may be the best option - if he is going through something, then maybe through no fault of ours and no fault of his, a fresh start, change of scenery is what is needed. Hence Fabrizio and Florian.

Bart would be good for them, but they won't spend that on a keeper. (if he goes) I'd love to see Mitoma there, but I'm guessing they have a pretty fine left-winger already

I would argue it was not an appointment to make a change or shake things up, but rather one to keep the Potter good-times rolling. It was not intended to be a long-term appointment because it didn't need to be. As you say, it worked for almost as long as it needed to, almost, those Wolves FA Cup...

Yeah, but thats only a valid complaint if we actually matched the results for the 'easier' or 'harder' games. Maybe its just Brighton that refuses to do that :lolol:

You could have probablistic 2.3 points, 0.5 points, etc., against every fixture, but yeah, not real. Or, you could generate those and then round to the nearest result. My biggest gripes are having no away wins, and when a club has a particularly bad or good season they fall in arguably the...

maybe, but you have missed some bits. The club announced pre Liverpool that he was missing for 'personal reasons' and it was confirmed to a few people on here off the record, like Bozza, that these were genuine 'personal reasons'. Also that prior to his recent aggressive behaviour he was an...

Fine, yes, it is a tracker against a hypothetical baseline, but we can acknowledge that this baseline is in turn based on predicting the hardest and easiest games, and thus a points 'expectation' from each. It *could* be made better though, as its kind of pointless to set a baseline which isn't...

I caught Jeff but missed Hinsh and Hyppia, so I think that puts me ahead....... :p

Not sure. My first game Sept 74, so Taylor would have been manager, but I was only 3 months old then and missed a few. I watched FA Cup final on the telly so that probably counts Melia, and next game I know I was at was a Blackburn game in 84 with Frank Worthington on the program cover, so that...

I'd like to see him as the holding midfielder allowing Baleba to get forward more. Balebais a beast wherever he plays but I think he's got a lot of goals in him.

Well exactly, it's a predictor. If it was a pure tracker it would have 1.6 points per game plugged in and it would track our progress against that, but instead it attempts to pick the easiest games and assume we win points in those, and the hardest games and predict we don't win points in...

Ummm, it literally is a points predictor and claims to be... :lolol:

Now I love the tracker and all, but out of 38 games we did what the staying-up tracker predicted in only 6 games (2 wins, 1 draw and 3 defeats) and what the Europe tracker predicted in just 10 of 38 (6 wins, 2 draws and 2 defeats). So, again, love the tracker, etc etc, but its not the best at...

I think City were the best team in the league but decided to announce in January that they were sacking Pellegrini and hiring Guardiola in the summer. And their form fell off a cliff.

I think we could challenge for the title in the sense that Villa did last season and Forest sort of did this season - i.e. be in the conversation in January. But as we see with the clubs that made the CL this season, those last ten games are where the massive clubs always come through.

And when he learns it? Wow he will be one of the top 50 players in the game. That wouldn't be very replaceable

Yeah, absolutely. That's why I subscribe to the 'something has happened off the pitch' theory, the nature of which I hope he can sort out.

'Who is this Tara?' I wondered after your opening post. Was about to post this emoji :needpics:

Pretty sure he'll stay

I'm sure having a pre-season is better. On the other hand taking over a settled team that is purring is probably easier than taking over a squad with lots of new players to fit together. Pros and cons