02 May 2026 11:19:21
Interesting stat of the day - PL form table for last 10 matches sees us come in at 4th place, 5 points of City at the top and joint second top goal scorers with Arsenal, one behind City.
Not bad for a team who, going by what I've read on here, have been in relegation form for months now
YNWA.
02 May 2026 11:35:47
We're Also 4th in the 34 game PL form table.
But I doubt we'll see an end of season open top bus parade to celebrate it.
02 May 2026 11:48:28
Don't you know, Faith, that's only because all the other teams have dropped off and allowed us to pick up the points. We're only 4th in the form table because everybody else has slipped up. Also, the teams we beat or drew to showed us too much respect; if they took the game to us, they would have smashed us, because we are the easiest team to score against in the league.
Next year we will be in the relegation places from the start because every team, including Tottenham and Chelsea, struggling with issues of their own, will resolve all of their issues over the summer, make incredible transfer and executive decisions, and we will be the only team that has any problems at all.
Slot will have an AI hologram in the dugout and in the press conferences while he plays pickleball with his kids in the yard in Zwolle, and Edwards and Hughes will be so busy looking at data that they won't notice that he hasn't been in the building in months.
Let me impersonate Oli here, 'I don't need a nothing stat to distort what I can see with my own eyes. Just my take.'
02 May 2026 11:58:45
A season isn't played over 10 games, but look, if it makes you feel better, that's up to you.
02 May 2026 11:58:40
You ok Pat??
You seem like strangers who you'll never ever meet comments on the internet are really getting to you.
For someone who claimed yesterday they're posting less and less because you're offended you ain't half writing some essay replies today mate.
{Ed001's Note - and all of them just arrogant dismissals of anything that doesn't agree with him.}
02 May 2026 12:24:21
Isolated statistics.
The only thing worse than statistics!
02 May 2026 12:43:23
Our Season was over last year. Roll on summer.
02 May 2026 12:34:16
I have a day off from work and too much time on my hands, JK, as always when I have free time a lot of it gets sucked into the sinkhole of this board.
I'm sorry if my replies come across as arrogant dismissals, ed, I happen to think a lot of posts here qualify for that description just as much as my own, but you happen to look favorably on those opinions, which is perfectly your right. I feel like I take the time to explain why I feel the way I feel and it's not my intention to demean anybody else. If they come across as something else entirely then I can only apologise.
{Ed001's Note - I delete a lot of anti-Slot posts because there are many, and yes it is because of that usually. Other editors have different thresholds. I let more go from pro-Slot because there are so few of you. It is not like you to just dismiss others, usually you are better at putting your side across.}
02 May 2026 13:51:00
Using stats without a license should come with a health warning.
Arne Slot's win % is 72% in his first 50 games and 47% in his last 50 games.
Is 50 games a good sample size or not? If it is, Slot is clearly having a shocker.
A reminder that we lost at bottom placed Wolves, didn't beat any of the promoted teams at Anfield this season, gave Igor Tudor a well-deserved point, let Sean Dyche's Forest smash us 3-0 at Anfield and lost to Ruben Amorim's Man Utd team.
All normal stuff.
02 May 2026 14:02:03
They only like stats that suit them, Fly Pelican, and that's fine. The question needs to be asked: when it all ends in tears around October, will these guys say they were wrong? I'll say I was wrong, he goes past that, but I know he won't go beyond October.
02 May 2026 14:43:07
So basically, we are no better over 10 games (5 points of top 4th spot) and 34 games (15 points of top 4th spot). In fact, if you want to be really picky, we are slightly worse over the last 10 games than the previous 24.
What was the post trying to prove?
02 May 2026 15:23:23
If my posts have come across that way, then it's fair for you to expect better of me, ed, because that is never my intention. I appreciate that you expect better from me as well.
{Ed001's Note - I normally really enjoy your posts and conversing with you, because you usually don't denigrate others, just explain your thinking. I might not agree with you, but I like to read your explanation why you think things, such as your judgement on players. Sometimes it has made me reconsider and go take another look.}
02 May 2026 16:08:39
I think it's only fair to extend it to a larger sample size, the last 20 league games seems a reasonable sample size, ironically the same amount Roy Hodgson managed.
Slot managed 6 wins, 6 draws and 8 defeats.
Hodgson managed 7 wins, 4 draws and 9 defeats in his 20 games.
For additional comparison, Rodgers last 20 were 7 wins, 7 draws and 6 defeats.
You could argue that Slot is worse than Rodgers and very comparable to Hodgson.
Either way, he deserves binning off like they both did, as he's taken less points in his last 20 games than even Hodgson managed to in his 20 games.
Take that flukey run of wins away from the start of the season and we'd be in the bottom half of the table. If somehow we do make the Champions League places it will be more luck than judgment and still a complete failure of a season.
02 May 2026 18:48:23
PB, not arsed about stats (for or against) or anything like that, esp. those with no context or lacking any form of fundamentals. The guy should have been gone months ago, and still needs to be binned. He has had a shocker of a disaster of a season.
Actually, there are dreadful stats to demonstrate how awful the team has been under Slot, if you bothered to check, but you're right on one thing. I don't need stats to demonstrate to me the absolute shambles my eyes are seeing.
02 May 2026 18:50:13
"A reminder that we lost at bottom placed Wolves, didn't beat any of the promoted teams at Anfield this season, gave Igor Tudor a well-deserved point, let Sean Dyche's Forest smash us 3-0 at Anfield and lost to Ruben Amorim's Man Utd team."
Pelican, these are actual stats as well, but depending on the rhetoric you are trying to push, these don't count. Funny, that, right?
02 May 2026 19:13:59
Oli, are you a literalist? Pelican was using those stats as a way of saying how stats can be pushed to suit any narrative. Or you just being funny? Right.
02 May 2026 22:11:42
Oli, you missed out the 4-1 defeat to the European powerhouse PSV.