I'm sure we've all had days where we're not exactly overjoyed at the prospect of work, but go and do our job well anyway, could just be that. His performance most certainly wasn't lacking.

We generated more than enough opportunities in attack and had a couple of shockers in defence.

This is the championship, it happens. And as far as losses go it wasn't that bad. All about PNE on Tuesday now, a win there and this match will be quickly forgotten.

They need to calm down. Panicking because we’re behind and taking ridiculous shots instead of working it into good positions.

Game is still here for the taking.

I think it’s fair to say that in the long run a team is unlikely to significantly outperform its xG. It can happen in cup competitions because you have to win relatively few games. Over the course of a league season you have to either have a great goalkeeper, very clinical forwards (which is much r...

How many of these games are behind the red button as opposed to the normal sky channels? https://twitter.com/ExclusivesFc/status/1321755876580040705 Bournemouth, Wednesday, Bristol, Forest now on tv. So, next 8 games: QPR is right after that run so that'll probably be on sky as well. Lets hope that...

On the xG model Liverpool would have finished last season with 26 points less. It doesn't account for how good goalkeepers are and Rafael is pulling off saves against shots with high xG. Almost like it is a stat that can inform discussion rather than be the settling factor... Then why do all these ...

https://twitter.com/ExclusivesFc/status/1321755876580040705 Bournemouth, Wednesday, Bristol, Forest now on tv. So, next 8 games: 30/10: Coventry (Sky) 04/11: PNE (iFollow) 07/11: Stoke (Sky) 21/11: Bournemouth (Sky) 25/11: Millwall (iFollow) 28/11: Bristol City (Sky) 02/12: Wednesday (Sky) 05/12: F...

Kitsondinho Or the EFL’s website

https://www.efl.com/clubs-and-competiti ... efl-games/

See the tweet at the top. One of the ITKs (who also broke news of Cov and Stoke being televised) is saying that those 4 have been selected.

https://twitter.com/ExclusivesFc/status ... 3790320640

https://twitter.com/ExclusivesFc/status/1321755876580040705 Bournemouth, Wednesday, Bristol, Forest now on tv. So, next 8 games: 30/10: Coventry (Sky) 04/11: PNE (iFollow) 07/11: Stoke (Sky) 21/11: Bournemouth (Sky) 25/11: Millwall (iFollow) 28/11: Bristol City (Sky) 02/12: Wednesday (Sky) 05/12: Fo...

How many oxf*rd points clear do we need to be before they'll show more than a 30 second snippet. Bunch of absolute dognonces on Quest.

I highly doubt it. Crazy as it may sound but he would be a great fit for somebody like dortmund Oyeh because Dai has a record of letting our most promising players go. Plus would be fairly stupid from Olise to leave at this stage when next year he could well be playing guaranteed Prem football as i...

xG can be good, but needs context. For example if a team often goes behind in a game they will take more shots than the average team trying to equal, and if a team sits back a lot after going ahead they won't take many shots, which will result in a lower xG (e.g. Us). It also more takes into account...

Joao had the vibe of a schoolteacher getting involved with the year 8's breaktime kick about. He just bullies defenders all day, while being clear minded enough to assist Meite and to not snap at shots but rather to time them. Excellent work rate as well. Made a few crucial interventions in our own ...

https://www.brfcs.com/mb/index.php?/for ... d/&page=29

For anyone that wants a peruse from just before Joao goal onwards.

Good attempt at a Churchill quote:

> Never has an away team done so little and score so many.

Wonder what Birmingham fans make of Morrison looking so good. I mean they practically gave him to us. They were gutted he left, rated him really highly. Yep, even at the time they were in despair at letting him go. Our recruitment post-Gournlay has been incredible. Joao, Ejaria, Laurent, Morrison, ...

Joao is incredible when fit. Semedo seems to not quite be match fit but seems to be very decent and had a great performance tonight. Esteves is the best 18 year old RM in this league, this country and very potentially Europe. He isn't bad at RB. Swift, Ejaria, Semedo fighting over that one CM positi...

Semedo not 100% match fit, but looks like a very tidy hard working player.

Blackburn forum is funny, some of them very reasonable, others supremely confident because they managed to beat up 3 of the 4 worst sides in this division. 1 goal v Watford (Lost) 0 goals v Forest (Lost) 0 goals v Cardiff (Drew) They will be a tough challenge but there's no reason why we shouldn't s...

That'll be a fun (and very short) negotiation. Even when we were shite with no immediate prospect of promotion the Dai's weren't exactly prone to flogging our best players.

Since Gourlay left our record at bringing people in, in the transfer market has been excellent. Winter 18/19 (all loans): Ovie, Miazga, Martinez, Baker, Oliveria Oliveira is the closest you could get to a 'failure' out of those five, and he scored 3 goals in 10 games. 19/20: Puscas (£6.75m), Joao (£...