He started the first 5 matches he was available for and played the entirety of them apart from when he was sent sent off: transfermarkt.com/sam-hutchinson…
The game he was sent off in was also the last of head coach John Toshack. Toshack cited differences over "philosophy of football" as a main reason for his dismissal: walesonline.co.uk/sport/football…
The managerial history of @pafosfcofficial is "hold my beer"-stuff compared to even our record with 11 (!) head coaches in 6½ years!
It could well be, then, that the general instability of the club contributed to Hutchison's departure. The turnover in coaches is matched by player turnover, many of them expats from the UK, and a lack of congruence between Hutchinson's abilities and a new preferred style of play
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#swfc Derby's latest win over QPR leaves Wednesday six points adrift of 21st and safety with two matches in hand.
How have teams in those circumstances done in the previous 22 seasons?
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First off we have to equalise Derby's points tally to our number of matches.
If we use points won per game for everyone, and how many points that would give them after the same number of matches as us, 23, this is how the table would look:
A gap of 4, not 6, points.
After 23 matches, how often have teams been trailing 21st by 4 or more points?
24 times in the last 22 seasons.
Of those 24 teams just 4, 1 in 6, survived.
In their final 23 matches those 4 survivors won 27, 33, 35 and 40 points respectively:
#swfc I've done alright when researching things online in the past (it's also a not insignificant part of my job).
But just like in 2015, when Dejphon Chansiri bought our club, I am incapable of finding any evidence of his business experience as a CEO online.
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Chansiri's older brother by 3 years, Thiraphong, runs the family business formed by his father.
Thiraphong's education (MBA from the US), business experience as a CEO and involvement in a great many businesses also outside the Thai Union Food Group, is easily retrievable online.
I really hope we use a similar ploy to when Luongo played a Libero role, as three centre backs can leave us too depleted further up the pitch against Wycombe's 4-2-3-1. The reason 3-5-2 went out of vogue in the early 2000s was precisely because teams turned to lone front men.
Three defenders in a line against one striker means space elsewhere for the attacking team.
So unless we tep it up, we'll be heavily outnumbered when we're on the ball, if Wycombe pad central areas like they did in their successful game against Watford:
Some interesting discussion (if you're a footy data 🤓 like me at least!) Thursday on the use of Expected Goals (xG), which Reading's wild start to the season has brought a spotlight on.
That's the data I've used in the rest of the tweet thread.
A word of caution, of course, that xG and non-shot xG data aggregated at match level *can* be misleading:
In a probalistic sense, ie. "how likely is the win?", it's better to have one shot all game that is 0.5 xG, a 50% probability of a goal, than 20 shots that are 0.025 xG each