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hariorh:
Players are available sir... How much is Wenger willing to part with? That's the question. Even Messi is willing to join Arsenal. Its all about the money sir.

Perhaps some actual evidence in the Giroud debate…

It has become fashionable for Giroud detractors to dismiss his impressive goals/min ratio by explaining it away as a function of playing for a team that creates lots of chances. See Winty (‘For all the talk of minutes-per-goal ratios’), Squirrel (‘playing in front of Ozil probably has something to do with this’), and Olly Cole (‘the fact he gets any goals at all is more down to Ozil and his other teammates relentlessly creating chances for him’). It’s a reasonable enough point. The kind that makes you think that maybe thoughtful appreciation of the nuances of statistical analysis isn’t beyond your favorite pundit/mailboxer.


And then you remember what they’re leading up to: the inevitable conclusion that Giroud is really bad at finishing his chances. For this, they’ll rely either on no evidence at all, a tiny sample set (usually shots taken during the last game, inevitably one the guy’s team just lost), or, worst of all, an intentionally misleading statistic (such as Ms. Winterburn’s unforgivably deceptive use of nominal chance-wasting stats instead of rate-based ones; of course the number of chances Giroud has missed should be high, after all, as she has been all-too-keen to point-out, he has Ozil presenting him with loads of chances every game. Wanna know who missed the most chances in the League last year, in nominal terms? The same guy who took the most shots, Sergio Aguero.).


I can make this generalisation about evidence because I know that when you look at a large enough sample, Giroud’s finishing reveals itself to be right in the mix with the rest of the best strikers in the League:


Among the top 15 goal-scorers in the League last year, his non-penalty conversion rate was bested only by Costa and Cisse, both of whom had careers years. It was 20%. For some perspective, that’s considerably better than Aguero (14%), Kane (17%), Bony (12%), Sanchez (13%), and Benteke (15%). And it was WAY better than the league average of 10%.


(In other words, when Squirrel writes that Giroud ‘needs about five decent chances per game in order to score one goal,’ he’s exactly right. It’s just that he draws exactly the wrong conclusion from that observation.)


We should note that last year was a better-than-average year for Giroud in this regard. Looking at the five seasons leading up this one, I have his average conversion rate at about 14%. That’s not off-the-charts, but it’s right in the mix of the ‘top BPL goal-scorers’ pack.


And remember that because strikers on good teams tend to take only about 100 non-penalty shots per League season, an upgrade from Giroud’s lifetime conversion average to someone of ‘deadliest-finisher-in-the-League’ levels would improve Arsenal by maybe 3-5 goals over the entire year, all else being equal.


Outside of signing a Lewandowski-level player, the evidence plainly shows that Giroud’s finishing is not holding Arsenal back much, if at all. Anyone who says otherwise is the kind of person beloved both by their editors and their fantasy football opponents – really good at hyperbolic rabble-rousing, really bad at prediction and analysis.

bufness:
hi house please i have an issue with my infinix hot note pro, i connected it to my wifi, it only writes saved and secure but it doesnt connect

gebhota:
simple server now works on ubuntu

Karmanaut:
cc 4llerbuntu, saibinc
They might be able to help.

just2endowed:
For those that have there phone hard brick. Please don't open ur phone with a screw driver to access ur battery. The method will or may not work but u might even damage ur phone power circuit that supply ur phone charge power.

To solve it is a simple and details step. Just flashing two times, it be back to life.

bikerboy1:
Good day guys. Please I have been having this particular problem for a along time now, particularly, it deals with nairnland.

I use Samsung galaxy s4, each time I download a picture from nairaland, I can only view the image immediately after downloading it. Once I leave the download page to my phone gallery, the picture will be no where to be found.

when I visit my download folder on file manager, the picture will be there but I can't view it.

how do I address this problem?


NB: not only on nairaland site, it happens on some other sites too. but mainly on nairaland site.

THANKS.

stephinnoyewole:
I'm having same issue, I flashed wrong ROM(it doesn't power on nor charge), it gives sound whenever connected to PC.
Sp flash tools now give error always "broom error" wen I tried flashing back my kk(a backup dat was made using mtkdroid tool)
Please how do I go abt this?
Will appreciates if u can drop ur number bro
Thanks.

Chyjoey:
its not abt the ram being cool...the apps do restart when minimized..forget that reading.. They just altered the build.prop

LeoFish92:
Guys I don't know what's wrong with my infinix hotnote, all attempts to tether it to my laptop have failed, it would only open facebook, once I connect my siphon and try to open other sites, it won't work, I've tried pdanet, the same thing, I've tried df tethering fix as well as tether unlocker, both didn't work, I'm confused, could it be because I'm on lollipop? Or because I rooted via recovery? I'm just perplexed

Jazzygrafix:
Please guys the RAM management of this Final Lolipop update for infinix H-NOTE is too poor .it can't handle more than 3apps at a time. I have a CWM backup of my former Kitkat Rom. please how to I downgrade it

Awesome01:
Wow ! Guy, I still find it had to believe. Worked like magic. You just took care of a problem that has been my worry for months just with an instruction. You are the best.

Thanks.

Awesome01:
Good day Engineers in the house. Nice job you're doing. keep it up.


My problem:
I use a Gionee P2S phone with two sims (airtel/etisalat). I prefer using airtel connection for data. But I observe that I can only browse sites, I can't download, can't update my apps, mails don't drop, some apps don't work etc. But if I switch to the etisalat for data everything starts working.


So I called airtel's CS, was told there is no restrictions from their end, that probably its the phone. To confirm, I remove the airtel sim and put in a friend's Android phone (Infinix hot note) and it was working perfectly, I am at a dilemma.


Please, help. what do I do?


Your assistance will be highly appreciated.