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IMO Jaime is the most interesting character in books, and the actor and showrunners have done a good job in handling the character's transition. In the books his appearance changes more radically - a crewcut and a beard. I suspect the voice has changed because they've tried to knock the...

Roy Keane. Obviously not the flashiest, but I've never seen a player boss the game as he did. Box to box, touchline to touchline, with all the endurance of the Duracell bunny. TV cameras could never do justice to his value on the pitch.

Yep! You could sense the panic that drove Richardson's moves. He probably had no intention of giving Nilsson a shot, but had little choice after he put together five wins in six games during his caretaker period. It was that erratic form at the end of the year - 7 losses in 11 - that probably...

Problematic if the unemployment rate is higher than the number of available jobs. It is also inherently unfair: somebody who has contributed to the welfare pot for 30 years is left as limited as an 18 year old. Then there are the inevitable questions upon expiry of the benefits: do you leave...

Anecdotal evidence that sounds highly dubious. But even if we take that anecdotal evidence at face value, it raises some questions. For example, we don't know how much the mum and the partner have worked and contributed in the past; nor do we know how productive the kids could be to the...

Politicians and certain media outlets make these claims in their own interests, but it is baseless for the most part. Take a look at the findings of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/dec/14/worklessness-culture-myth-exposed Recent surveys suggest...

Perhaps he did - he would have found a warm recommendation.

The 10 point deduction.

Cook hasn't been impressive. There was a paucity of imagination in the field during the Ashes, he couldn't lead with the bat, he showed emotional insecurity (I may go, I won't go), and is incapable of handling mavericks. It is worth reading Mike Brearley's The Art of Captaincy to see how a pro...

Are you really this dense? To repeat (I have to do that a lot with you): I already posted on the prediction thread that CCFC wouldn't make the playoffs, i.e. no strong run of form would be forthcoming. My 'excuses' were published before I even took to this thread. Scientific analysis right...

Yes, the facts are there. For the millionth time: second top scorers in the Football League; fourth worst defence in L1. That is not a distortion of anything. No, it doesn't become negligible to my needs. I am just not interested in small sample sizes. Let me give you some examples why: 1...

No question that they are all Astute facts... I cannot repeat myself. I will say that you are extrapolating the story of the season from six games. And your take on those games is highly subjective. You ought to know that is ridiculous. This is desperate. First, I'm not sure what distinction...

A slimy bit of insinuation. A reasonable person would notice it was a long post and that maybe I was composing my response to you as you put up a new post. It is amusing, however, that you think either set of stats provide a gotcha. Another to file under the Astute Book of Facts. Manset...

A dodgy set of statistics - I would like to see a list of the games which you consider only had 1/0 strikers. You cannot write off facts just because they do not fit your narrative, e.g. Delfouneso is listed as a striker on Aston Villa's own website. And yes, it should come as no surprise that...

That would be true if they were all the same - but they are not.

You may wish to reconsider your political allegiance.

To repeat: we have scored in 25 out of 28 games. To put it another way: there is a 90% chance of Coventry scoring. Second best scoring record in the league. It doesn't matter whether we have a defender, midfielder, 16 year old, or leprechaun playing upfront - you take those statistics every...

No. McDonald was never a gamechanger for CCFC, so it seems daft to lament him now. Coventry have the the second best record for goals scored in the league, but are tied for nineteenth when it comes to goals conceded. Indeed, it is only in three of 28 games that CCFC have failed to score. It is...

Sounds about right. McDonald is a second-tier L1 striker - not a big loss and not somebody you can carry on the bench.

I'm trying to be fair rather than selective. 18 games remain, so I'm looking at 18 game streaks to see if there is any suggestion CCFC could hit the required form. It was a terrific start, but those two losses (to make it up to 18 games) take the average down to 1.72, which is closer to the...