Uptherams
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Uptherams reacted to angieram in Louie Sibley
I think it is a combination of two things - physical strength and temperament.
His upper body strength allows him to be pushed off the ball too easily. I think he's busy working on that from bits I have seen on his social media.
His temperament is different, I think he's got to curb that if he wants to progress. Picked up another booking last night despite only being on the pitch a few minutes.
I think this aggression is partly a response to coming out on the wrong side of physical battles and then retaliating, so is actually linked to his physical strength. Let's hope as the first improves, the other does too.
Louie for me is the most exciting of our younger players in terms of what he could bring to the team creativity wise. Just needs to keep working at it and he will get there.
As others have mentioned, he'd get more game time if we weren't in such a precarious position in the table.
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Uptherams reacted to Carl Sagan in Starship and a Human city on Mars
Though that's not for Starship, this smaller upper stage. It's the choice for the much larger lower section, the Super Heavy booster, that they'll catch with the launch tower and titanium grid fins, leaving it hanging. An amazing idea!
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Uptherams got a reaction from Carl Sagan in Starship and a Human city on Mars
The long term plan isn't landing on legs. They want to remove that additional weight so the payload can be larger. Catching them with the launch tower arm.
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Uptherams got a reaction from Carl Sagan in Starship and a Human city on Mars
This decade is going to be so amazing.
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Uptherams reacted to Carl Sagan in Starship and a Human city on Mars
Launch attempt right now. Tune in if you want to see history being made!
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Uptherams reacted to Carl Sagan in Starship and a Human city on Mars
Today, it was confirmed the FAA finally gave approval, though there's lots more to come out about what's been going on. Elon Musk announced he's going off Twitter for a while, probably so he doesn't publicly lambast the FAA and get into trouble. The FAA claim that SpaceX launched SN8 (the first high-altitude prototype flight) without full permission, but the space launch community is highly sceptical of that claim given SpaceX launches more rockets than anyone else in the world by miles, and then some, so it doesn't seem credible that a launch happened without permission.
Anyway, the first attempt at a launch of SN9 is today, probably in around an hour or so. Well worth watching, with a supercool beginning given there are currently two Starships on neighbouring pads right now. What a sight. Lots of other Starships, each better than the last, being built in the spaceship-yard up the road.
There are lots of different live streams, but currently I'm watching this one:
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Uptherams got a reaction from Hathersage Ram in 3x U15s
It's how it works, however other clubs are doing a far better job at protecting their young players and then getting a bigger fee. If all of our current academy players were at another club, that club would probably pocket £20m+ were is we are lucky if we get 20% of that. It's not good enough.
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Uptherams reacted to BramcoteRam84 in Morgan Whittaker - joined Swansea permanent deal
Not happy about this at all. Of all our starlets coming through I think this guy has the most potential. He has all the attributes, pace, power (when he wants to use it), great touch and balance, he can get a shot off and he can finish. His issue is he at the moment he doesn’t believe he belongs at this level, at times he plays without conviction. If he doesn’t sort that out then he won’t do anything in the game. If he does - he could have a huge future in the game because he has everything in terms of ability and physical attributes.
But in our position how long can we wait, he might need a move to kick him into action.
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Uptherams reacted to Abu Derby in Morgan Whittaker - joined Swansea permanent deal
We’ve dropped a massive baalock here. This guy will turn into a very good player indeed. Selling off the Crown Jewels just to keep afloat (and pay for some new grass). Hard times down at DCFC.
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Uptherams reacted to Will Hughes Hair in Morgan Whittaker - joined Swansea permanent deal
So for context, Morgan has eclipsed anything Bobby Duncan has ever done at youth level. Liverpool sold him to Fiorentina for 1.8 million.
And for me @Carl Sagan, has it right. He has similar characteristics to Thierry Henry and for those old enough to remember; Wenger played Henry wide left for a good couple of years until he’d matured.
Not every player is ready to make the jump from youth team to first XI at the same age. And those that breakthrough earlier do not necessarily go on to have better careers.
I would much prefer us to retain Morgan and let him grow with us. A run of starts towards the end of the season once relegation isn’t a worry, and you might just get a different player next season. Those writing him off should think where we’d be now if Max Bird had been sold off for 700k after the Villa game.
And finally, we have no idea on Wayne’s eye for a player and bar youth players and the last window under Cocu our recruitment team have been a little underwhelming to say the least. Where’s the guarantee we’ll spend the money wisely? The thought of selling Morgan just to fund Phil Jones lying in the treatment room for four months is criminal.
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Uptherams got a reaction from Will Hughes Hair in Morgan Whittaker - joined Swansea permanent deal
I disagree. He's got all of that. What he hasn't got yet is confidence and a consistent run of games.
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Uptherams got a reaction from Will Hughes Hair in Morgan Whittaker - joined Swansea permanent deal
I'd imagine we'll have a decent sell on clause and other clauses too. But I completely agree. In potentially just 4 games it's time to start allowing more opportunities to the likes of this guy.
In the same way I don't see any point in bringing on other young players for 3 minutes every so often. Absolutely shocking man management in my view. That's how you kill a players confidence, before they've even developed it.
Today was another 1-0 win. What kind of message does it send to younger attacking players when older players get opportunities even though they can't score or assist.
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Uptherams got a reaction from Will Hughes Hair in Morgan Whittaker - joined Swansea permanent deal
He's only 20 and he's being bought by another Championship team. Sorry but this is chump change. We can end up pissing away £10m on looking for what this guy will develop in to.
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Uptherams got a reaction from I know nothing in 3x U15s
If this turns out to be true then the club need to bring in some advisors. We are clearly developing an awful lot of talent and we need to put a stop to these players being poached for pennies. It's simply not good enough.
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Uptherams got a reaction from Abu Derby in Morgan Whittaker - joined Swansea permanent deal
He's only 20 and he's being bought by another Championship team. Sorry but this is chump change. We can end up pissing away £10m on looking for what this guy will develop in to.
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Uptherams got a reaction from derbydaz22 in Lee Buchanan
Yeah you can see he's still not quite comfortable. Which is funny because he's got all the other attributes.
I don't think he's quite realised yet that he's stronger than most opponent's, quicker and better in the air.
When the penny drop's he'll be a nightmare. If he had Bogle's confidence he'd be unbelievable.
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Uptherams got a reaction from Jourdan in Morgan Whittaker - joined Swansea permanent deal
I disagree. He's got all of that. What he hasn't got yet is confidence and a consistent run of games.
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Uptherams got a reaction from Millenniumram in Morgan Whittaker - joined Swansea permanent deal
He's only 20 and he's being bought by another Championship team. Sorry but this is chump change. We can end up pissing away £10m on looking for what this guy will develop in to.
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Uptherams got a reaction from Gee SCREAMER !! in 3x U15s
If this turns out to be true then the club need to bring in some advisors. We are clearly developing an awful lot of talent and we need to put a stop to these players being poached for pennies. It's simply not good enough.
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Uptherams got a reaction from Deej in Morgan Whittaker - joined Swansea permanent deal
I'd rather we finally got rid of Lawrence.
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Uptherams got a reaction from LeedsCityRam in Morgan Whittaker - joined Swansea permanent deal
He's only 20 and he's being bought by another Championship team. Sorry but this is chump change. We can end up pissing away £10m on looking for what this guy will develop in to.
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Uptherams got a reaction from Mostyn6 in Morgan Whittaker - joined Swansea permanent deal
He's only 20 and he's being bought by another Championship team. Sorry but this is chump change. We can end up pissing away £10m on looking for what this guy will develop in to.
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Uptherams got a reaction from angieram in Louie Sibley
I have. 10lbs more muscle on the lad and defenders will hate him. He can drive forward with the ball so well and has shown he's a tough tackler too. Likes a shot also.
He just needs a consistent run of games.