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Sometimes you’re better off just holding your hands up and saying you’ve got it wrong.

There should be a full inquest into how Hirst and Vale have spent more time on the pitch than Bradley Dack. Totally beyond me. Back to basics, 352 and find a way to play Kaminski, Hyam, Brittain, Pickering, Hedges, Brereton and Morton. The other 4 can be whoever they want.

Vale has no future here.

Really really biting my tongue here - because what the feck do I know about football compared to JDT - but that team has me scratching my head.

Chaddy you’re on a deserted island, the sun is going down. You have no chance to get off the island, you have no food and no water and the sunset before you is a metaphor for your life over the coming days. Suddenly, a pixie appears and offers to play you the final piece of music you’ll ever hear. What do you pick?

BRFCS discovers people have different tastes in music.

The rumour is they're expecting it to be in Cov.

Can't see him dropping his captain, mate. Is Brittain back? If so I go... Kaminski Hyam Ayala Wharton Brittain Travis Szmodics Morton Pickering Gallagher Brereton I'd like to get Hedges into that team if possible but I like Pickering at the moment.

Enjoy the game Longers, may the best team win and most importantly everyone get home from the game safe.

I think @longsiders1882 and @sympatheticclaret should do the Dingles vs. Rovers match preview thread.

My big fear at this point is we try to defend our 4-nil half team lead for the entire second half.

Adam Wharton will still find the pass

What happens if you’ve already booked transport to Coventry?

We play three upfront and I’m not taking anyone serious that says Dack isn’t one of our three best forwards.

Question... would you rather go up, knowing what ultimately is always going to happen to clubs of our size in the top league unless we have a huge benefactor, or rather stay down but be one of the top clubs in the league every year?

Nice to have some sensible talk. A lot of people are going to be extremely surprised when we go to the Dingledome at the level of opposition, based on this thread.

We'll lose the game in midfield. We're better in attack and for me, in defence. But that midfield will have our three running like dogs after a ball.

Fuck me, buy through the website! Hell fire they’ll be lucky.

For context, what has Sam Gallagher got?

Huge. I suspect this time next year he’s ahead of Pickering.

I think I’m right in saying - although would need @JoeH to confirm - that xG doesn’t/can’t take into account the player, just the environment. So Brereton-Diaz being 18 yards out one on one with the keeper has the same xG as Hirst 18 yards out one on one with the keeper. Is that correct?

Surely xG can be calculated mid-game? They tell you what xG each specific chance has against it real time. Eg that was a 0.38 xG opportunity. So whilst the final xG can only be calculated at the end of the game, the current xG can be averaged out at any point up until that moment?

I’m a huge Ash Phillips fan, it wouldn’t surprise me if he captained England one day. But nobody can argue that as a centre back, Phillips has to win that header and the reason Hyam was off-guard was everybody expected him to win the header. Like Arbito says, he was naive and hopefully he will learn from that. We got away with it.

What do you think he’s especially good at? From what I’ve seen he: Isn’t especially quick Isn’t especially tall / good in the air Doesn’t have especially good movement Doesn't have the poachers ability of being in the right place at the right time Isn’t an especially good finisher Doesn’t seem to be able to hold the ball up He’s one of those modern day footballers that does everything OK, but has no standout features. Jason Lowe, but up top. If you where going to play to his strengths, what would you need to do?

It all comes down to money. With all of them. Dack loved being here, it can all turn sour very quickly.