Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink OUT!!!

[thebish]

Booooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

(I just wanted to be in there early!)

[EverSoYouri]

(Mods: does this mean we can close this thread now?

[Mar]

According to transfermarkt whilst managing Royal Antwerp:

40,6 % Wins
31,3 % Draw
28,1 % Losses

Which makes for good reading. Still its Royal Antwerp, not like they're well known for their drastic decline.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

According to transfermarkt whilst managing Royal Antwerp:

40,6 % Wins
31,3 % Draw
28,1 % Losses

Which makes for good reading. Still its Royal Antwerp, not like they're well known for their drastic decline.

Are they the ones that get/got first dibs on the cream of the Rags' academy?

[EverSoYouri]

According to transfermarkt whilst managing Royal Antwerp:

40,6 % Wins
31,3 % Draw
28,1 % Losses

Which makes for good reading. Still its Royal Antwerp, not like they're well known for their drastic decline.

Are they the ones that get/got first dibs on the cream of the Rags' academy?

Yep, they are. In any event, I do think such stats always require deeper analysis. Almost any manager of Celtic, for instance, is likely to have decent-looking stats. Also, a manager who does well enough to get an underfunded club promoted could end up with very moderate-looking stats, if they struggle but over-perform in the higher league (just by staying up).

[Worthy4England]

United did send them a six foot Dong, a few years back. How apt.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

In any event, I do think such stats always require deeper analysis. Almost any manager of Celtic, for instance, is likely to have decent-looking stats. Also, a manager who does well enough to get an underfunded club promoted could end up with very moderate-looking stats, if they struggle but over-perform in the higher league (just by staying up).

is that you, Keith Hill?

Agree though - win stats in isolation rarely tell even half the story. Had an example of that yesterday with a Spurs-supporting workmate who insisted Jol's win %age was low. It wasn't, at 45%, but Spurs would expect to win more games than they lose. At Ajax he won 65% and was run out of town on a rail mid-season.

[Bruce Rioja]

Keith Hill lives on Bradshaw Meadows. Me, Will and Youri can scab a lift off of him. Hill IN.

[EverSoYouri]

Keith Hill lives on Bradshaw Meadows. Me, Will and Youri can scab a lift off of him. Hill IN.

The club could even save money by giving the three of us a place on the bench alongside him! (Given our collective ability to put the football world to rights every other Saturday from 5pm).