Garry Mills

Previously, Head of Long Income Analysis at Aviva Investors. Account to look at ITFC data and analysis as a hobby. Constructive views only (hopefully!).

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@LukePenningVGP @IpsRich Think this’ll be the first managerial appointment under Dreyfus and team, so will be interested to see what route they go with. Manager or Head Coach. If it’s the former, I’m sure Cook would have a decent chance.

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Very interesting background and career journey from the new #itfc assistant manager…

[Training Ground Guru @ground_guru]

“I saved the money, got in my Ford Fiesta and went for 16 weeks around Europe - to Brondby, Ajax, Heerenveen, Borussia Dortmund, Bayern Munich, AC Milan.
I was in a tent, going to the clubs in the day before coming back at night.”

Martyn Pert #ITFC

https://t.co/3c80vzYhuO

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@d3d4football Top scorers ITFC?

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Noticeable that ITFC aren’t on this list (ie we’re in the bottom half for number of chances created) despite being top scorers!

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@AndyhHolt Looking forward to visiting on the 2nd Oct 👍

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@ITFCAnalytics Absolutely. And if we did get promoted, those marginal gains will be even more valuable as the standard of opposition increases. Really hope it’s something we’re looking at properly.

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@ITFCAnalytics Yeah, hopefully our new Performance dept will look at this soon. Becoming specialists at set pieces is such an opportunity to gain an advantage over other teams.

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@ITFCAnalytics Hoping that with the 2wks to the next game, we can work on our defensive structure and transitions and tighten up as a group. Agree that individually he’s not the strongest defensively, but hoping we can make up for that as a unit rather than needing to buy yet another player.

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@ITFCAnalytics So whilst these numbers don’t look good so far, I would expect them to improve over a longer time period. We’ve only played 5 games so far!

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@ITFCAnalytics These are his numbers from last yr, compared to all L1 CM’s playing >900mins (for larger sample size). Active in trying to win ball back (75th percentile) with c50% win rate (15th percentile, but a very narrow distribution so not really an issue). Similar to Downes for comparison

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@Stuart_Watson @AndyWarren_ @twtduk Hi all, do you know if Scott Barron joined ITFC as Head of Recruitment in the end? It was suggested he was joining, but there was never any announcement. Seems to be being led by Ashton/Cook currently, so guessing he hasn’t.

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@Super__Frans @joefairs Yeah, think a settled central defensive partnership will bring a big improvement. That, with Evans and Harper in front should give a really solid base for the front 4 (and attacking fullbacks) to then play off.

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@joefairs @Super__Frans On top of the transfer turnover, we’ve also had 3 injury changes too (Burns, Chaplin & Nsiala) between our 2 league games. Hopefully we’ll get to a place soon where we can get a more settled side and the relationships and patterns of play can begin to settle.

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@AndyWarren_ Would add Joe Pigott to the list too. Been impressed with what I saw of him against Palace and Millwall. Bonne and Norwood in a battle to start alongside Pigott on Sat I think.

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@lazyboyblue 6 foot, rather than 6 inches!! Definitely would be bad in the air if that was true!!

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SCOTT FRASER DATA REVIEW: Looking forward to hopefully seeing Scott Fraser at #ITFC vs Crystal Palace on Saturday. Looking at his data from last year (comparing the 147 L1 Central Midfielders playing over 900mins) shows a very strong creative player...

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@StannisOTK Cheers!

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@LukeyCullum Cheers mate

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CONCLUSION: This looks a really exciting signing for #ITFC. A player who offers strong creativity & also a direct goal threat himself. He likes to dribble and pass the ball forward and play through the opposition's defensive lines. Looking forward to watching him play for #ITFC!

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POSSESSION STYLE: I've already highlighted Fraser as a high-frequency creative passer & dribbler. Other key things to note, his very strong success rate on completing Forward Passes & Progressive Passes. And he strongly favours shorter/medium-distance passes over longer passes.