Anon
-
Posts
4,737 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Posts posted by Anon
-
-
32 minutes ago, kash_a_ram_a_ding_dong said:
Poor Plymouth,what were thinking in appointing Rooney for this season?
Dreadful for us,disastrous for Birmingham,it's hard to understand the logic behind this decision,I wouldn't trust him to boil an egg,never mind run a football club.
-
-
Word is that Plymouth have offered him all the Ginsters pasties he can eat. They shouldn't be writing cheques they can't cash.
I wanted him to fail at Birmingham because I didn't like the way he was parachuted in at the expense of a better manager. That isn't the case here, so I hope he does well. I'm really not sure about his job selection though. Plymouth have a relatively small budget. It's going to be tough. It would probably be better for Rooney if he took a league 1/2 job at a team with a more competitive squad and budget for that level.
-
I can see why Arthur went with two overseas bowlers. At the back end of last summer Came and Reece were established as openers, Guest had been good at 3, Madsen is Madsen, and there were lots of positive noises being made about Lloyd and Lamb. Who are you dropping for the specialist bat? Yes, I understand that this looks ludicrously optimistic with the benefit of hindsight considering our current season averages, but there weren't many who were predicting the batting would be this poor last September. Batting collapses are the most frustrating and most immediately visible sign of a struggling team, but they aren't why we've barely won any games for the last several years. We can't take 20 wickets in 4 days. Unfortunately it doesn't look like Tickner and Dupavillon are the remedy to this, but I understand why Arthur prioritised this area of the team.
- jimbo jones, Carnero and Crewton
-
3
-
I do adjust my expectations accordingly to following a team with such a small budget. I don't expect much. I would like to be competitive in some matches and try to push local talent when possible. This season has been abysmal. Either this is the worst squad we've ever had or they want Arthur gone and have downed tools.
-
41 minutes ago, BaaLocks said:
Errm I think I was just trying to use a nice word to say I liked the sentiment of the post and the way it was written. Apologies if I have fallen foul of the grammar police, been a few years since my O-Level English Language.
<Edit of edit>: Just checked online - nope, that wasn't what I intended to say at all. Very much the opposite.
I didn't know what prosaic meant before this exchange either. I thought it was an anti-depressant.
-
-
-
-
2 hours ago, Kernow said:
Ruben Zadkovich
We got rid of him too soon...
- Premier ram and admira
-
2
-
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.
-
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).
-
-
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.
- Rev and ariotofmyown
-
2
-
“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.
- Premier ram and admira
-
2
-
Northeast clean bowled by Tickner. Very promising first spell from Tickner.
-
-
16 minutes ago, Jimbo Ram said:
Is there no live stream of the game?
-
-
-
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.
-
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.
-
-
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".
Derbyshire CCC - Mickey Arthur Appointed
in Other Sport
Posted
I find the ECB's logic odd in that they want pitches to produce test batsmen, then fine Somerset for producing wickets conducive to spin. Leaving aside the sportsmanship aspect, that is precisely what any Indian groundsman will be doing whenever we tour. Surely learning to survive and prosper on such tracks is a valuable skill to learn?
Do you think it has anything to do with advances in technology and better resources? The ground staff are incredible in that they can produce a beautiful flat track in adverse conditions, when in decades past the weather leading up to certain games would've made such a feat impossible.