FWIW this thread has my attempt to show the starting line up’s, used subs and unavailable players for every spurs game so far this season. It’s an eye test and a Rorschach test, no doubt, but so many pundits and pods I’m hearing seem to have forgotten what actually happened when. - ThreadSky

smithfieldhotspur.bsky.social • 18 days ago

FWIW this thread has my attempt to show the starting line up’s, used subs and unavailable players for every spurs game so far this season. It’s an eye test and a Rorschach test, no doubt, but so many pundits and pods I’m hearing seem to have forgotten what actually happened when.

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evilrobot153.bsky.social•18 days ago

Facts, can't be posting those.

smithfieldhotspur.bsky.social•18 days ago

I heard discussion on one channel this week about Ange’s ability to develop young’s players. Looking at the early games of the season you get a picture of what the plan was. Gray subbed in first two games for Bentancur/Biss but moves to back line as soon as defensive injuries occur, just as an eg.

smithfieldhotspur.bsky.social•18 days ago

The panel chat was full of half recollected ‘impressions’ and had no actual facts, just emotions, which prompted me to pull this together. Like I said, people will still see what they want in this but up until when the injuries hit we had won 10, lost 4 drawn 1, conceding 12 and scoring 29.

smithfieldhotspur.bsky.social•18 days ago

Some bad losses in there and this doesn’t capture the intangibles of ‘performance’ but hopefully helps asa reference point for those who know that football results are inextricably linked with context and dismissing factual context is just conjecture, which many r happy to present as fact it seems

smithfieldhotspur.bsky.social•18 days ago

For comps, PL- premier league, EL - Europe League, CC - Caraboa Cup, FAC - FA Cup. In the starting lines up, a player in blue indicates they were not in the starting line up for the previous Premier League match. Grey means they were in the last starting 11 in a different position.

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pnxnotded.bsky.social•18 days ago

Omg, thank you! I did something like this last season and began to do it again this year. But I lost access to the file when I was laid off, and didn’t have it in me to recreate.

This is great.

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