Are we going to "shit" our way up!? (5 Viewers)

[Nuskyblue]

Without Haji, EMC you are going to struggle to get the same xG.

Interesting stat there tho is the below 1 XG against for quite a few teams. While having high XG is good, it does not favours if we have to score three to get three points like we did earlier in the season

Yep, for a while you could almost bank on us conceding 2.

Dovin has done well the 7 conceded in this run since Christmas really is rather good.

 

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[Bernie Rhodes Nose]

Score doesn’t even matter. I just tune in in May to see the league table.

Contrary to your xG outputs.

 

[shmmeee]

Contrary to your xG outputs.

 

[Gibbo]

Given that it is all about money, here is one way of looking at it

London: (7) Arsenal, Brentford, Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Fulham, Spurs, West Ham
Large Cities: (6) Aston Villa, Everton, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Newcastle
Small Cities: (7) Bournemouth, Brighton, Ipswich, Leicester, Nottingham Forest, Southampton, Wolves

The four relegation threatened clubs are all small cities. Given the domination of Liverpool, in many ways so too are Everton. That would include Coventry. Those bucking the trend have all had substantial inward investment.

The trick is substantial inward investment and a large, uncontested catchment area, preferably in London. Incidentally, have you noticed the rise of Leyton Orient in a part of London where there is only one other club + American owners

 

[shmmeee]

Given that it is all about money, here is one way of looking at it

London: (7) Arsenal, Brentford, Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Fulham, Spurs, West Ham
Large Cities: (6) Aston Villa, Everton, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Newcastle
Small Cities: (7) Bournemouth, Brighton, Ipswich, Leicester, Nottingham Forest, Southampton, Wolves

The four relegation threatened clubs are all small cities. Given the domination of Liverpool, in many ways so too are Everton. That would include Coventry. Those bucking the trend have all had substantial inward investment.

The trick is substantial inward investment and a large, uncontested catchment area, preferably in London. Incidentally, have you noticed the rise of Leyton Orient in a part of London where there is only one other club + American owners

Is Newcastle a big city?

 

[ovduk78]

Is Newcastle a big city?

 

[Grendel]

Brentford only spent around £30 million on 4 players the first year after promotion, so it can be done.

They already had Raya, Pinnock, Norgaard, Janelt, Mbuemo, and Toney in their squad though. Crazy good squad-building in the Championship

Brentfords owner is owed £104m and they lost £8m last season and have an overdraft of £30 million

 

[wingy]

Brentfords owner is owed £104m and they lost £8m last season and have an overdraft of £30 million

How many year's has that taken to accumulate?

 

[mmttww]

Brentfords owner is owed £104m and they lost £8m last season and have an overdraft of £30 million

tbf if that includes costs related to the new ground - assuming the club owns it and not him directly - that's not a terrible spot for a club with their income. Also have a wages:turnover ratio around 60% which is about middle of the pack for the EPL.

 

[mmttww]

...will we possibly be found out?

We're nowhere near as solid as we were in 22/23 based on several recent games so I'd rather us switch back to a more assertive, controlled way of playing before the luck runs out.

I don't see us getting 7-8 wins from thirteen playing like we did vs. Sheff Weds so if we want to push for the top six - and we should from here - I'd hope to see us set up differently for Preston.

 

[Sky Blue Goblin]

 

[Hincha]

Brentfords owner is owed £104m and they lost £8m last season and have an overdraft of £30 million

Think that just dispels the myth that getting to the Premier League makes you a profitable business.

Every team in the league is still losing money, even the more measured ones.

 

[blunted]

Have you ever met anyone from Newcastle who lives elsewhere and is not a Newcastle fan? Even at Art College in the 70s, when football was frowned upon in arty circles, all the lads from Newcastle were supporters. Same for Sunderland. It's in the blood up there.
Loads of Newcastle fans in Keresley village back in the day when they came down to work at the pit.

 

[steve cooper]

Probably quite similar in style/quality to what we're seeing at the moment, the difference being of course that we had Vik and Hamer to conjure up absolute quality out of nothing - which we don't really have currently (certainly not on their level anyway).

We didn't lose over the 120 minutes and only conceded 1 goal so there was lots of opportunity for either vik or Gus to conjure up some absolute quality out of nothing. I accept we were unlucky to Gus went off injured.

 

[HuckerbyDublinWhelan]

We didn't lose over the 120 minutes and only conceded 1 goal so there was lots of opportunity for either vik or Gus to conjure up some absolute quality out of nothing. I accept we were unlucky to Gus went off injured.

And I’ll die on the hill that if Gus didn’t go off the pitch we win in 90 mins. He was starting to become more influential as the game was going on