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• 'Nicholas, I would point out that last season Simms was pretty much a disaster. 6 league goals in 43 games. A goal every 381 minutes. LOL! I would kill for a striker who could score six goals in the league this season. Simms 'failed to either score or assist in the last 13 games of the season'. LOL! Could you please substitute Barry for Simms in that sentence, because he has exactly that same record, no goal or assist in 13 games. It strikes me as odd that someone would use past experience to judge what has been for Ellis a productive present season so far. On this score, I prefer the present to the past, even though I'm a professional historian. Using Mr. Gaynes's formula, Barry and Beto have both been a 'disaster' in this season up to now. ...
  Paul Griffiths in Next Up: Bournemouth vs Everton
• Dave #7, according to Moyes day before yesterday, we can bring Armstrong back in January -- and he will consider it. Ian #10, just a reminder that we were fully in that market in the summer. We made multiple offers for Douglas Luiz and reportedly pursued Ndidi and Chukwuemeka before landing Rohl, whose recurrent injury record has unfortunately kicked in again. Armstrong might be the easiest solution to the problem right now. (And yes, they're the Cherries.)...
  Mike Gaynes in Newcastle defeat leaves David Moyes with a midfield dilemma
• Nicholas, I would point out that last season Simms was pretty much a disaster. 6 league goals in 43 games. A goal every 381 minutes. He failed to either score or assist in the last 13 games of the season. The season before he had a goal every 209, which is more creditable but hardly scorching form. He may be blooming into a top striker, or may just be having a momentary purple patch. (For the record, I was disappointed we sold him and would like to have seen him given more of a chance.) ...
  Mike Gaynes in Next Up: Bournemouth vs Everton
• On the subject of goal-scoring, a friend drew my attention to some recent stats from the Championship. The leading scorer has 10 goals, with one every 127 minutes and 0.71 goals per 90 minutes. Ellis Simms has 7 goals, with one every 74 minutes and 1.22 goals per 90 minutes. The list [of those who've scored 5 or more] contains 34 names. Simms is the only one of the 34, whose goals come at better than 1 every 100 minutes; and he's the only one [by some distance] whose goals come at more than 1 per 90 minutes. I'm not quite sure what this tells us, but it certainly makes for interesting reading!...
  Nicholas Ryan in Next Up: Bournemouth vs Everton
• Conor, I’m not drinking Moyes’s Kool-Aid but I’m wary about a constant churn of managers, we had that under Moshiri and look where that took us to. I’d rather Moyes did enough to see out his contract and that we continued to re-build with some stability and decent transfer business. No guarantee of that of course and the next two months will be pivotal for our season and Moyes’s tenure. ...
  Jimmy Carr in Next Up: Bournemouth vs Everton
• Lets sell one of our best players and buy a load of shite with the money. Fuck, do we ever learn. Jack C. Billy Bonds one of the greats. Loyal and a work horse. Rare qualities today....
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