Sandy - Yes, and fewer true words have ever been spoken.

NickD - Stats don't/can't take into account that sudden piece of brilliance that turns a defence inside out, a slip by a defender on a greasy pitch, a GK who fumbles and drops the ball at the oppo's feet, a shot that's going wide but hits someone's backside and goes in, wind that affects the flight of a shot, all manner of unpredictable stuff that we see match after match. Stats are ok in moderation, but to pore over them and talk of them as some sort of guiding light is, as Naz pointed out, complete and utter bollox. Stats log past data, but cannot predict the outcome of any match, no matter how you work them. Liverpool/the media/the so called experts all found that out in 88.

Equally, you miss 0% of the shots you never take.

Well from what I have heard in the first half Wycombe have been the better side so deserve to be leading but the good point we are only 1-0 down and still in it.

Was that a Wayne Gretsky quote, Pete?

Back to 0 shots on target

Stats can be useful but I think we're at the stage now of failing to spot the wood for the trees. As I said here the other day, the Orient win seemed a simple case of one team working harder, winning their battles, and being more purposeful in possession. The data will back that up, but nobody needed the numbers to spot that.

Silk - Here's a stat for you then, just to be polite. You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.

Pete - TF asked me what it was so I was just being polite and answering. You remember polite don't you?

Tell us a joke, Silk, I dare you.

Naz - these are stats created by bookies to set their odds and we are talking about industries worth billions of dollars. You could use tangible figures such as chances created. Stats are just a way to show which players are better and to help eliminate bias. Seddon is our most creative player and that is backed up by stats. And player quality beats all of those you mentioned in the long run.

Silk - expected assists now as well as expected goals. What a load of complete and utter bo11ox. It's going backwards to Nil's Excel spreadsheets. Passion, commitment, teamwork, formations, tactics for me please.

Sensible move not to play Lewis who has struggled with injuries all season, limped off at Orient

Strange that Will Grigg was booked for excessive celebration after scoring against the club he played for in 3 different spells.

Lewis went off at orient on about 80 minutes. Bauer replaced him. - presumably injured

Lewis missing - injured? - today. Bauer starts, Stevens starts - Bugiel on the bench and Harbottle is on the bench.

TF - from yesterday: xA (Expected Assists) measures the probability that a completed pass will become a goal assist, using complex models that consider pass location, type (through ball, cross, etc.), and other factors to assign a value indicating the chance of it leading to a goal, helping assess a player's creativity beyond simple assist numbers. It's a key part of advanced football analytics, similar to Expected Goals (xG), to evaluate player and team performance.

90'+4 Will Grigg (Chesterfield) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration

Will Grigg is still on fire!!!!

Looks like 4 games off in L1 and every game in league 2 is off apart from the early kick offs

Changing-ironically Aitken nearly scuppered the whole cup run as he was about to play in one of the qualifying rounds at home after being signed but the paperwork hadn’t gone through but luckily our former secretary was in the crowd before the game, saw that Aitken was about to play and got a message to the dressing room to change the team after which we went on to cup glory

Thanks Hash and others - already in the area so looking forward to the game now 🥳

Rumours that Huddersfield want to send Owen Goodman back to Palace and that they’ll look to loan him straight back out to another club.

Nice one Meadow - you’re Mrs Informative today 😁

Port Vale v Barnsley off. It was meant to be their 150th anniversary celebration day.