All things equal the back four could have looked something like this had the investment come two or three years ago .
Holgate
Stones
Mawson
Yiadom
With Marc Roberts on the bench to boot .
Hopefully we can achieve something just as good in the season's to come .
There's irony flying all over here....
Billy Beane was not the creator of Moneyball Animal. He was general manager at Oakland Athletics and tried out some of the theories of Bill James. The film was very good but it is widely accepted that it hugely exaggerated Beane's role for dramatic effect. The closest thing to sabermetrics in UK football is Brentford.