Anon
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I don't really watch TV, so my gripes are all radio issues.
Adverts where the company name is repeated about 20 times in the space of 30 seconds.
Any advert where they think shouting will somehow induce me to buy their product.
Tool hire/van insurance etc ads that insist on using the exact same white van man caricature. Also, any of these type of adverts that are voiced by Ralph Ineson (which is about 90% of them).
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11 hours ago, Normanton Lad said:
"Clough tried to shake up the team and get them to play better".
Leeds were playing well enough without the need to shaking them up. Whenever I chat to Leeds fans they seem to think that Clough was determined to destroy Revie's team. I don't know what he was trying to do. He was still a young man in his 30s when he took over and I think the fact that the Leeds old guard weren't that much younger than him was part of the problem. When I started work age commanded far more respect than it does today. I don't think I would have taken seriously any bosses who were still in their 30s. In fact, I don't think I ever had a boss who wasn't at least in his 40s.
Yes, Leeds were playing well enough, but it was a completely different style of football. A style that Clough didn't like and wouldn't have been proud to play as a manager, even if it had continued to bring success. I think there's definitely some truth in Clough wanting to destroy Revie's team, as he could be incredibly petty at times. It only makes me like him more as it's exactly what I'd do to Leeds if given the opportunity. It was a bad match up in general though. The Leeds players were also a petty and small minded bunch who worshipped the ground Revie walked on. They would've undermined any new manager, even if that manager wasn't as abrasive and confrontational as Clough. Also, it's usually harder to win things when you are no longer paying your opponents to lose.
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“He only played a few minutes, and yet he didn't work hard and avoided tussle. If you run less than a footballer who has played 90 minutes, you're not even a footballer. Fame doesn't win football games. If it did, I would have brought in a famous retired player.” - Kim Gi-dong.
JLingz has impressed his new manager already.
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Northeast clean bowled by Tickner. Very promising first spell from Tickner.
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16 minutes ago, Jimbo Ram said:
Is there no live stream of the game?
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2 hours ago, RadioactiveWaste said:
What could possibly go wrong.....
I think that stadium in Darlington has been demolished for houses now.
Rebuild St Andrews with a bit more capacity and a bit less asbestos perhaps?
The stadium is still there. One of the Darlington Rugby clubs purchased it.
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Why on earth would Hughes come to Derby? He's 28 and playing regularly in the Premier League. If the best he can get if Palace don't renew is an offer from League 1/Championship he needs to sack his agent. Signing released Premier League is a bad idea in most instances. They demand high wages and don't usually justify them. Ideally teams should look to identify players on the way up in their career trajectory.
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25 minutes ago, admira said:
Correct. My daughter made a 'willie's shrinkle' of him when she was about 8 years old. Anyone remember them? Basically you drew a picture on a piece of plastic, stuck it in the oven and it shrank so you could turn it into a fridge magnet or keyring.
I do remember them. I had no idea they had such an odd name.
I mainly remember Mills because he's one of the players who sometimes becomes a world beater in the first iteration of the Championship Manager video game. I love this quote about Mills from his Telford United manager, "I don't want to put too much pressure on Lee but I am hopeful he might have the same kind of impact as Alan Shearer had when he moved from Blackburn to Newcastle".
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Luke Moore.
Not as good as Shefki Kuqi.
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40 minutes ago, BatRam said:
Would you have him back if we could? Id certainly have him back. i liked him when he was here and couldnt understand why we got rid
Yes. That's easy to say with hindsight though. It's also a very different proposition trying to break into a Championship playoff team with Mount/Huddlestone/Bryson in front of you in the pecking order than breaking into a league one team. It seemed an odd time to release him though. 2019 was the summer that Mel realised he was in trouble with the finances and Cocu was encouraged to use talents produced from our academy. Surely Elsnik could've competed for game time with Bird/Sibley/Knight.
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Some smart positioning and finishes from Brown. Francis' disguised, chipped through balls are beautiful.
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On 31/03/2024 at 21:10, Millenniumram said:
He’s 38. Whatever “it” is, I doubt it’s goalkeeping ability
He looked finished in 2018.
"it" is a British passport, or more precisely it's that he meets the home grown player requirements, is cheap, and play in a position where he is unlikely to be used.
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I hope we can kill the Amir deal. 6 T20 appearances is not an adequate contribution to a season. I'll happily accept an inferior quality player with more commitment.
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6 minutes ago, Comrade 86 said:
Yeah, you're just misunderstood, right!
My response was in defence of a friend whose character and creativity you've called into question purely for reasons of self-aggrandisement and nothing more and with literally zero basis in fact. You've been just as dismissive of literally millions of others on the basis of their choice in music and you're so jaundiced and narcissistic that you can't even see it's you that has the problem, not your unwitting targets.
@Archied sorry ofr derailing the thread mate. I'll leave it there.
I stand by those opinions. I don't consider it a problem to say that I don't like certain art or media. If it's an issue for you, well you'll just have to deal with it.
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1 hour ago, Comrade 86 said:
Ah, the money. Well that's an unsurprising change of tack, isn't it and one that's consistently at the very root of your complaints. The sense that others of lower intellect and ability, have somehow unfairly got more than you. It's a theme that runs through almost every one of your acerbic little diatribes, which have become increasingly bitter and commonplace as the years have gone by. It's a shame, as whilst you're clearly not as clued up as you believe, you're obviously no fool either. Ah well, such is your life.
As to your question, what has he achieved, well since you ask, precisely what he set out to; that is to illustrate how vacuous a number of those who claim to understand modern art really are. Unwittingly, you've given an example yourself,(I didn't claim to understand modern art) though typically, your facts are rather muddled, perhaps because you rushed to make the point about the value of the painting, rather than addressing its purpose. For clarity, this painting (Love in the Bin) had already been sold when it self-shredded,(I didn't say it hadn't already been sold) but for £1 million, nowhere near the figure you cite.(I didn't cite a figure for the sale) It was the new 'owner' who then resold it three years later for over £16 million, but it doesn't take a genius to understand that Banksy has no sell-on fee.(I didn't claim he did) That's not how art ownership works. As an aside, and while we're discussing money and not art, the painting Game Changer (see below), also sold for that kind of sum, but in this instance, Banksy had gifted it to the NHS, with the agreement that it could be sold to help fund NHS initiatives, the clue being in the subject matter. In other words, he didn't make a penny from it's sale. And frankly, if he had, a less green-eyed observer might think fair play for relieving fools of far greater net worth of their often not so hard-earned cash. Not you though, obviously. Perhaps if the government you so fervently supported had done a better job with your taxes, he might not have needed to, but doubtless you'll just label that as 'wokeism', or some other such trite, catch-all label of the kind you evidently favour.
For the record, and as it's no longer a secret, so I betray no confidences in saying as much, Banksy, as many folk have know for decades, is Robert Del Naja of Massive Attack fame. He's also a pal of mine and I can assure you, he's not the person you assume him to be. I could bore you with other good works he's undertaken with the monies derived from the sale of his works, but I've learned now that doing so would only elicit another sneery evaluation of someone you've never met and clearly know nothing about (as well as yours truly, no doubt!), so I shan't bother. Instead, I'll simply wish you a pleasant evening and suggest you Google 'Merde d'Artiste', which may or may not inform your understanding of what the establishment refer to as avant garde, or anti-art and it's place in modern art history.
I don't think I explained myself very well. I don't have a problem with Banksy getting paid or what art collectors choose to spend their money on. I brought up the sharp increase in the value of the painting to show that the art establishment celebrate pretty much everything Banksy does. Are they really being made to look foolish with this stunt? Nobody was bidding on that piece because of it's beauty, they bid because it's a Banksy. It's still a Banksy after a trip through the shredder. In my opinion, I don't think it was any kind of great revelation to say that modern art collectors will buy any old rubbish as long as it has the right name attached to it in 2021. You referenced Artist's s*** which is decades old. Perhaps Love in the Bin did achieve a goal by bringing this more sharply into focus, I just think the point was already pretty well worn.
There's a quite astonishing amount of strawmanning going on in your reply. You can think whatever you want, but it would be easier if you based your reply on things I've written rather than things you've imagined.
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On 19/03/2024 at 14:22, bcnram said:
Maybe everyone else likes those artists for good reason! 🤷🏽
Why scoff at what others like because it doesn’t fit with your preferences?
Maybe. You make a fair point and it's not like those artists are without merit. On the other hand I don't think popularity is always the best metric when valuing a piece of art or media. Why would anyone bother even discussing them otherwise? We would just all agree that Avatar is the pinnacle of cinema and Mrs Brown's Boys is the greatest British comedy ever produced and have done with it. You don't have to agree with my examples, but surely you have certain works of art or pieces of media whose popularity baffles you?
The second point is far easier to respond to. I scoff because I'm a miserable Bamford.
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4 hours ago, Comrade 86 said:
Seems to me that a few have rather missed Banksy's point. He has an extremely successful career away from his graffiti exploits and if anything, he's thumbing his nose at the art establishment, not trying to join it.
The fact is, he's an activist, pure and simple and makes no claim whatsoever to being a serious artist. The irony is that those who 'tritely' assess his art using the usual hackneyed metrics, are his targets, not his audience.
It's worthwhile noting that shredding this painting caused it to massively increase in value to 15 times its original price. Is it really thumbing your nose at the art establishment if they celebrate and profit from your work regardless of your intentions? What would you say Banksy achieved here, other than making himself and an art collector extremely wealthy?
Dajaune Brown - loan to Gateshead until end of season
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The EFL are a shambles, but I'm not sure this is caused by them. Maybe it's debateable whether a 10 year security of tenure is really necessary for a promoted team, but this was quite clearly stipulated in the league rules and Gateshead were already informed of this potentially barring them from promotion well ahead of time. I'd be very interested to know why Gateshead council failed to work with the club to provide the security of tenure.