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    SillyBilly got a reaction from S6 boy in Derby v Cheltenham Town - Match Day Thread   
    Pleased with the win and the 3 points... and that is where the positivity ends. The performance levels make me worried for top 2 aspirations, we are winning as we've got better players than the opposition man-for-man and that is the extent of it. Not because we're playing well, some great training moves are paying off on matchday or have strong tactical decisions being employed. We saw this can be unsustainable last season when we blew a gasket in the latter third of the season  and the poor performances ultimately translated into poor results, I really hope it doesn't repeat itself. 
    On the flipside this is perhaps a feature of Warneball (even when its successful) that we as a fanbase are just not much used to watching our Derby teams play like i.e. headless chickens, no central midfield even required, running around a lot, pitching it into the box at every opportunity and scrapping out wins. Does Warneball ever look convincing...I don't know? I never watched his Rotherham sides promotion seasons, but I suspect it wasn't pretty, no matter how effective. For that reason as long as we remain in the hunt, even if its the hard way via the playoffs, I am backing Warne as his record suggests he is more than qualified to do the job. I will admit though I wouldn't fancy him as a Championship manager for us even after a promotion (though I'd concede he'd deserve his chance in such case), I may be wrong but I haven't seen anything to suggest he/we could play another way and I'd rather us not play like this in a league that can at least attempt to have some decent football played in it (at times!). 
     
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    SillyBilly got a reaction from Jimbo Ram in Derby v Cheltenham Town - Match Day Thread   
    Pleased with the win and the 3 points... and that is where the positivity ends. The performance levels make me worried for top 2 aspirations, we are winning as we've got better players than the opposition man-for-man and that is the extent of it. Not because we're playing well, some great training moves are paying off on matchday or have strong tactical decisions being employed. We saw this can be unsustainable last season when we blew a gasket in the latter third of the season  and the poor performances ultimately translated into poor results, I really hope it doesn't repeat itself. 
    On the flipside this is perhaps a feature of Warneball (even when its successful) that we as a fanbase are just not much used to watching our Derby teams play like i.e. headless chickens, no central midfield even required, running around a lot, pitching it into the box at every opportunity and scrapping out wins. Does Warneball ever look convincing...I don't know? I never watched his Rotherham sides promotion seasons, but I suspect it wasn't pretty, no matter how effective. For that reason as long as we remain in the hunt, even if its the hard way via the playoffs, I am backing Warne as his record suggests he is more than qualified to do the job. I will admit though I wouldn't fancy him as a Championship manager for us even after a promotion (though I'd concede he'd deserve his chance in such case), I may be wrong but I haven't seen anything to suggest he/we could play another way and I'd rather us not play like this in a league that can at least attempt to have some decent football played in it (at times!). 
     
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    SillyBilly got a reaction from Kinder in Reading v Derby match day thread.   
    I live locally and go to a few games at Reading (I was in the Derby end last night though), I honestly thought we'd smash them last night, they are in the bottom 3 for a reason, from what I have seen it was not Reading being decent, we flattered them and it was us being absolutely miles off it that resulted in the game as we saw it, we made them look like a side they're not. The table doesn't lie, they're poor. I want them to stay up as my local team but I don't think many teams will give them as soft a performance as we gave them last night.
    I didn't post last night, more through confusion and having to process the performance internally when I'd had time to cool off, had we really barely mustered a shot on target against as limited a side as Reading? On reflection, this may do us good is my conclusion, clearly we're not quite what we thought we were and it may sharpen everybody's minds (fanbase and management) about what it is going to take to get out the league. A humbling every now and again provided we learn from it and go on another good run is not the end of the world. 
    It was really disappointing though. I won't lay into anything more than others have, my observations were pretty much the same as most on here. Namely we had zero control off the midfield (partly by design/tactics, partly by personnel) and that the Bird/Hourihane combination remains a constant question. Very predicatable play, we had a few half chances but never once felt like we'd score. Was a difficult watch with the one dimensional play, that hasn't changed in fairness but its the same case where a win by any means easily glosses over poor football (I just want out the league and will put up with anything providing we do), when we play like that and lose we obviously get more of a kickback. Warne's football has to deliver promotion otherwise you quesiton why we'd pay to watch it.
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    SillyBilly got a reaction from HorsforthRam in Reading v Derby match day thread.   
    I live locally and go to a few games at Reading (I was in the Derby end last night though), I honestly thought we'd smash them last night, they are in the bottom 3 for a reason, from what I have seen it was not Reading being decent, we flattered them and it was us being absolutely miles off it that resulted in the game as we saw it, we made them look like a side they're not. The table doesn't lie, they're poor. I want them to stay up as my local team but I don't think many teams will give them as soft a performance as we gave them last night.
    I didn't post last night, more through confusion and having to process the performance internally when I'd had time to cool off, had we really barely mustered a shot on target against as limited a side as Reading? On reflection, this may do us good is my conclusion, clearly we're not quite what we thought we were and it may sharpen everybody's minds (fanbase and management) about what it is going to take to get out the league. A humbling every now and again provided we learn from it and go on another good run is not the end of the world. 
    It was really disappointing though. I won't lay into anything more than others have, my observations were pretty much the same as most on here. Namely we had zero control off the midfield (partly by design/tactics, partly by personnel) and that the Bird/Hourihane combination remains a constant question. Very predicatable play, we had a few half chances but never once felt like we'd score. Was a difficult watch with the one dimensional play, that hasn't changed in fairness but its the same case where a win by any means easily glosses over poor football (I just want out the league and will put up with anything providing we do), when we play like that and lose we obviously get more of a kickback. Warne's football has to deliver promotion otherwise you quesiton why we'd pay to watch it.
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    SillyBilly got a reaction from TINMANTED in Reading v Derby match day thread.   
    I live locally and go to a few games at Reading (I was in the Derby end last night though), I honestly thought we'd smash them last night, they are in the bottom 3 for a reason, from what I have seen it was not Reading being decent, we flattered them and it was us being absolutely miles off it that resulted in the game as we saw it, we made them look like a side they're not. The table doesn't lie, they're poor. I want them to stay up as my local team but I don't think many teams will give them as soft a performance as we gave them last night.
    I didn't post last night, more through confusion and having to process the performance internally when I'd had time to cool off, had we really barely mustered a shot on target against as limited a side as Reading? On reflection, this may do us good is my conclusion, clearly we're not quite what we thought we were and it may sharpen everybody's minds (fanbase and management) about what it is going to take to get out the league. A humbling every now and again provided we learn from it and go on another good run is not the end of the world. 
    It was really disappointing though. I won't lay into anything more than others have, my observations were pretty much the same as most on here. Namely we had zero control off the midfield (partly by design/tactics, partly by personnel) and that the Bird/Hourihane combination remains a constant question. Very predicatable play, we had a few half chances but never once felt like we'd score. Was a difficult watch with the one dimensional play, that hasn't changed in fairness but its the same case where a win by any means easily glosses over poor football (I just want out the league and will put up with anything providing we do), when we play like that and lose we obviously get more of a kickback. Warne's football has to deliver promotion otherwise you quesiton why we'd pay to watch it.
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    SillyBilly got a reaction from angieram in Reading v Derby match day thread.   
    I live locally and go to a few games at Reading (I was in the Derby end last night though), I honestly thought we'd smash them last night, they are in the bottom 3 for a reason, from what I have seen it was not Reading being decent, we flattered them and it was us being absolutely miles off it that resulted in the game as we saw it, we made them look like a side they're not. The table doesn't lie, they're poor. I want them to stay up as my local team but I don't think many teams will give them as soft a performance as we gave them last night.
    I didn't post last night, more through confusion and having to process the performance internally when I'd had time to cool off, had we really barely mustered a shot on target against as limited a side as Reading? On reflection, this may do us good is my conclusion, clearly we're not quite what we thought we were and it may sharpen everybody's minds (fanbase and management) about what it is going to take to get out the league. A humbling every now and again provided we learn from it and go on another good run is not the end of the world. 
    It was really disappointing though. I won't lay into anything more than others have, my observations were pretty much the same as most on here. Namely we had zero control off the midfield (partly by design/tactics, partly by personnel) and that the Bird/Hourihane combination remains a constant question. Very predicatable play, we had a few half chances but never once felt like we'd score. Was a difficult watch with the one dimensional play, that hasn't changed in fairness but its the same case where a win by any means easily glosses over poor football (I just want out the league and will put up with anything providing we do), when we play like that and lose we obviously get more of a kickback. Warne's football has to deliver promotion otherwise you quesiton why we'd pay to watch it.
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    SillyBilly got a reaction from GB SPORTS in Millions and billions   
    I know a few people in/around the wealth bracket of our owner (DCFC). One, a good friend of mine still, collects money off vouchers, clothes are all from Asda George, drives a nice car (BMW 4x4) but its not new or that flashy (updates once every 5-10 years) and lives in a nice house (5-6 bedrooms) but its certainly not a mansion, about as non-flash as they come in summary. Up until a few years ago he worked for me (long retired) as a consultant doing advisory work, reprimanded me once for suggesting a taxi when we could get the bus, and made sure he could claim the bus ticket back on expenses! You may think mean-fisted but just a normal down-to-earth bloke who happened to have made millions (and I am talking millions). I don't think he'd buy anything else he doesn't already have yet he could buy almost anything if he wanted to. What drove him? Love of business I'd guess, less of money. Like a pinball machine, take away the score its not that fun, you always want to chase a bigger number. Even if you don't want or need it. So in a business setting, the score is just cash generated. But you need to keep score otherwise it becomes none challenging/non-stimulating.
    I know another very well on the opposite end, richer still, who has his own island, yacht, farmland, properties galore, more supercars than you can shake a stick at, luxury watches etc. I suspect there is no end to the stuff he could want to acquire. What was his motivation? Cash. Cash. Cash. He'd have sold his grandma for a fiver. I learned an awful lot from this bloke as a mentor but learned an awful lot as well about what I wouldn't want to become. Its not actually a life that appeals to me either so I understand where you're coming from. So I think the answer, like anything in life, is there is a spectrum of people even within the wealthy bracket, whereby acquistion of "more" is for varying reasons. Sometimes its as simple as just because they can with relative ease, as you say once you've made a few quid, the others follow more easily.
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    SillyBilly got a reaction from TigerTedd in Millions and billions   
    I know a few people in/around the wealth bracket of our owner (DCFC). One, a good friend of mine still, collects money off vouchers, clothes are all from Asda George, drives a nice car (BMW 4x4) but its not new or that flashy (updates once every 5-10 years) and lives in a nice house (5-6 bedrooms) but its certainly not a mansion, about as non-flash as they come in summary. Up until a few years ago he worked for me (long retired) as a consultant doing advisory work, reprimanded me once for suggesting a taxi when we could get the bus, and made sure he could claim the bus ticket back on expenses! You may think mean-fisted but just a normal down-to-earth bloke who happened to have made millions (and I am talking millions). I don't think he'd buy anything else he doesn't already have yet he could buy almost anything if he wanted to. What drove him? Love of business I'd guess, less of money. Like a pinball machine, take away the score its not that fun, you always want to chase a bigger number. Even if you don't want or need it. So in a business setting, the score is just cash generated. But you need to keep score otherwise it becomes none challenging/non-stimulating.
    I know another very well on the opposite end, richer still, who has his own island, yacht, farmland, properties galore, more supercars than you can shake a stick at, luxury watches etc. I suspect there is no end to the stuff he could want to acquire. What was his motivation? Cash. Cash. Cash. He'd have sold his grandma for a fiver. I learned an awful lot from this bloke as a mentor but learned an awful lot as well about what I wouldn't want to become. Its not actually a life that appeals to me either so I understand where you're coming from. So I think the answer, like anything in life, is there is a spectrum of people even within the wealthy bracket, whereby acquistion of "more" is for varying reasons. Sometimes its as simple as just because they can with relative ease, as you say once you've made a few quid, the others follow more easily.
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    SillyBilly got a reaction from TigerTedd in Millions and billions   
    Like anyone I can only speak from my own experience, starting businesses is incredibly easy as you'll know, £12 easy to be specific, making any money from them is somewhat tougher, as you actually fairly allude to. But you're set apart from most in any case, as you're having a go of it, most don't, so there is that, and I commend anyone having a shot! 
    And yes the first £M is the hardest but the point remains I wouldn't even concern myself for a moment about the ease of the second, or third, or even what you'd do with it all or rather not do with it, before you've joined the first £1M club that very few sit in. And membership of course needs to be earned as talk is really quite cheap in life, so make the million first. I'm admittedly cyncial to the point I can probably be ignored but only because enthusiasm for one's business isn't all that unique and after hearing it a thousand times before about how "this time next year Rodney" your eyes do glaze over. Particularly when you see how few times it actually gets executed. There this is oddity too, where when family, friends or just general associates get a whiff of you being in business this means by default you invite them to give you elevator pitches of their great ideas that noone else has thought of...this can make one even grumpier as its all so easy apparently 😅
    I hope it all works out for you and best of luck. I really admire anyone who has the cajones to take a challenge on like running a business, and if you take on staff, you'll be doing your bit for the collective good to...
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    SillyBilly got a reaction from Ram-Alf in Millions and billions   
    Perhaps some would but I don't know any of them and I know a few personally. IME, they're ordinary people with perhaps extraordinary bank balances, to say otherwise would be giving too much credit in any case. So I doubt there would be much of an investment in time comprehending anyone elses' contentment vs their own, another families problems or concerns vs their own etc. So as ordinary as anyone else in every other way. Its the same problems for everyone IMO, money doesn't shelter anyone from relationship problems, deaths, internal struggles etc. 
    FWIW I don't think (rich) people are easily able to draw a line of before and after either. As if you morph into a different person and suddenly start seeing the world differently. Perhaps if an angle is to portray a "them and us" mentality then that may apply, for me, it doesn't. You earn £20-30k a year? Well, your lifestyle adjusts to the income, along with all its challenges. Earn £60k? Your lifestyle adjusts. Earn £120k, again it moderates, the transition almost seamless through the income levels. £250-500k...you'd be surprised how this then becomes a new "normal", just like the £20-30k once did. However, at no point do you wake up and feel any different, you're the same person. May not be worrying about the rent payment at month end on the latter end of the scale but life feels much the same apart from that. If I went back to square one I would adjust back to a new income...because I'd have to, its as simple as that. And still nowhere I feel more comfortable than my modest childhood home, never leaves you.
    Anyway, I'm at risk of trying to defend when I only want to offer my perspective, which could be different to others. I know I wouldn't have bothered without financial reward though, pay me a wage and I'd deliver in accordance to what I feel that wage deserves in terms of effort. I've always had pride in any work at any payscale, PAYE or own businesses, but with the former its wrapped in conditions, so I can understand a union mentality (as per Ram-Al). Albeit, uncap it in the latter and I will be incentivised to make things happen. One of my businesses is an appreciable exporter so I like to think these are jobs I have genuinely brought to the U.K., all of those jobs started as an idea in my head at some point in time, ideas which cost me money with no returns for quite a few years in some cases, a lot of sweat equity too...but in the end, genuine income in foreign currency coming into our country (not recirculating the same currency within domestic services) & a lot of tax money to pay for public services. If you capped at some point along the way, with a hypothetical 100% above an arbitrary number as postulated upthread, what is the incentive for people like me to do anything other than create my own job, hire a few employees to whatever the limit the then government decides is "reasonable" for me to live off? Fundamental misunderstanding of human nature, even if that nature is not liked. We live in an international world, if we don't fulfil the export need here, someone else would in another country.
     
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    SillyBilly got a reaction from TigerTedd in Millions and billions   
    Perhaps some would but I don't know any of them and I know a few personally. IME, they're ordinary people with perhaps extraordinary bank balances, to say otherwise would be giving too much credit in any case. So I doubt there would be much of an investment in time comprehending anyone elses' contentment vs their own, another families problems or concerns vs their own etc. So as ordinary as anyone else in every other way. Its the same problems for everyone IMO, money doesn't shelter anyone from relationship problems, deaths, internal struggles etc. 
    FWIW I don't think (rich) people are easily able to draw a line of before and after either. As if you morph into a different person and suddenly start seeing the world differently. Perhaps if an angle is to portray a "them and us" mentality then that may apply, for me, it doesn't. You earn £20-30k a year? Well, your lifestyle adjusts to the income, along with all its challenges. Earn £60k? Your lifestyle adjusts. Earn £120k, again it moderates, the transition almost seamless through the income levels. £250-500k...you'd be surprised how this then becomes a new "normal", just like the £20-30k once did. However, at no point do you wake up and feel any different, you're the same person. May not be worrying about the rent payment at month end on the latter end of the scale but life feels much the same apart from that. If I went back to square one I would adjust back to a new income...because I'd have to, its as simple as that. And still nowhere I feel more comfortable than my modest childhood home, never leaves you.
    Anyway, I'm at risk of trying to defend when I only want to offer my perspective, which could be different to others. I know I wouldn't have bothered without financial reward though, pay me a wage and I'd deliver in accordance to what I feel that wage deserves in terms of effort. I've always had pride in any work at any payscale, PAYE or own businesses, but with the former its wrapped in conditions, so I can understand a union mentality (as per Ram-Al). Albeit, uncap it in the latter and I will be incentivised to make things happen. One of my businesses is an appreciable exporter so I like to think these are jobs I have genuinely brought to the U.K., all of those jobs started as an idea in my head at some point in time, ideas which cost me money with no returns for quite a few years in some cases, a lot of sweat equity too...but in the end, genuine income in foreign currency coming into our country (not recirculating the same currency within domestic services) & a lot of tax money to pay for public services. If you capped at some point along the way, with a hypothetical 100% above an arbitrary number as postulated upthread, what is the incentive for people like me to do anything other than create my own job, hire a few employees to whatever the limit the then government decides is "reasonable" for me to live off? Fundamental misunderstanding of human nature, even if that nature is not liked. We live in an international world, if we don't fulfil the export need here, someone else would in another country.
     
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    SillyBilly got a reaction from Norman in Millions and billions   
    Why can't you get your hands on it? Easiest thing in the world to do is lose money, hardest thing to do is make it. Easy to work for someone else (and I have in the past) and let them roll the dice too. I've lost a lot, made a lot for what its worth.
    I personally think the phrase "walk a mile in someones' shoes" ought to apply before musing too long on how "ecstatic" wealthy people must be with their lot. And do that, you need to do that. I.e. Go and create the multi £M business from scratch, employ dozens of people (who when the going gets tough move from your biggest asset to your biggest liability), be responsible for huge loans/financial obligations that require personal guarantees far in excess of any financial assets you have (and the sleepless nights that come with it). Grass is always greener on the other side, employee and owner looking enviously at each other. Believe it or not, I've been envious of my staff in the past to not have the incessant worry that the contract you've just won will be your last, to get a regular pay cheque at month end, to have the next bank holiday off and 25 days leave (while I work 51 weeks a year, every bank holiday)...sack it all off and get a "normal" job where somebody else has to make all the taxing decisions and I just do what I'm told. Oh what a fantasy!
    There is a lot of delusion in the U.K. that wealthy people are "elites" and somehow out of touch. In my experience (half my phone book are fairly sizeable SME owners) 90% are the most industrious people you could meet (send them an email at 1am and you get a reply at 1.10am), not born with money and with massive risk appetites that would make ordinary people throw up with worry. And also entirely comfortable with the idea of being solely responsible for their own fate/income (vast majority want the security of the State or an employer). Their mindset is totally different. Yet we focus on politicians or landed gentry/inherited money as if they're wholly representative.
    So beyond arbtriary made up numbers on a page, I'd question not how difficult it is to imagine spending that sum of money but how difficult it is to get there, and once you are there with a target on your back, how difficult it is to stay there and whether you are the sort of person who (realistically, be honest with yourself) could do it. You NEVER switch off, never. 
    I think most people like the look of the boss's chair but I'm fairly confident 6 months in the hotseat for most would put a lot of people in hospital with stress/anxiety. And if you think anyone takes this on for a 100% tax rate, well...Karl Marx as an idol is unlikely to make a good businessperson IMO, probably more suited to setting up a charity. If you post under a business forum under the same name I think I know you who are, I post under the same name too, so if that is the case not doubting you have a small enterprise under your wing, but I don't think you have to worry about all that cash just yet 😛
     
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    SillyBilly got a reaction from Ram-Alf in Millions and billions   
    Why can't you get your hands on it? Easiest thing in the world to do is lose money, hardest thing to do is make it. Easy to work for someone else (and I have in the past) and let them roll the dice too. I've lost a lot, made a lot for what its worth.
    I personally think the phrase "walk a mile in someones' shoes" ought to apply before musing too long on how "ecstatic" wealthy people must be with their lot. And do that, you need to do that. I.e. Go and create the multi £M business from scratch, employ dozens of people (who when the going gets tough move from your biggest asset to your biggest liability), be responsible for huge loans/financial obligations that require personal guarantees far in excess of any financial assets you have (and the sleepless nights that come with it). Grass is always greener on the other side, employee and owner looking enviously at each other. Believe it or not, I've been envious of my staff in the past to not have the incessant worry that the contract you've just won will be your last, to get a regular pay cheque at month end, to have the next bank holiday off and 25 days leave (while I work 51 weeks a year, every bank holiday)...sack it all off and get a "normal" job where somebody else has to make all the taxing decisions and I just do what I'm told. Oh what a fantasy!
    There is a lot of delusion in the U.K. that wealthy people are "elites" and somehow out of touch. In my experience (half my phone book are fairly sizeable SME owners) 90% are the most industrious people you could meet (send them an email at 1am and you get a reply at 1.10am), not born with money and with massive risk appetites that would make ordinary people throw up with worry. And also entirely comfortable with the idea of being solely responsible for their own fate/income (vast majority want the security of the State or an employer). Their mindset is totally different. Yet we focus on politicians or landed gentry/inherited money as if they're wholly representative.
    So beyond arbtriary made up numbers on a page, I'd question not how difficult it is to imagine spending that sum of money but how difficult it is to get there, and once you are there with a target on your back, how difficult it is to stay there and whether you are the sort of person who (realistically, be honest with yourself) could do it. You NEVER switch off, never. 
    I think most people like the look of the boss's chair but I'm fairly confident 6 months in the hotseat for most would put a lot of people in hospital with stress/anxiety. And if you think anyone takes this on for a 100% tax rate, well...Karl Marx as an idol is unlikely to make a good businessperson IMO, probably more suited to setting up a charity. If you post under a business forum under the same name I think I know you who are, I post under the same name too, so if that is the case not doubting you have a small enterprise under your wing, but I don't think you have to worry about all that cash just yet 😛
     
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    SillyBilly got a reaction from bcnram in Millions and billions   
    Why can't you get your hands on it? Easiest thing in the world to do is lose money, hardest thing to do is make it. Easy to work for someone else (and I have in the past) and let them roll the dice too. I've lost a lot, made a lot for what its worth.
    I personally think the phrase "walk a mile in someones' shoes" ought to apply before musing too long on how "ecstatic" wealthy people must be with their lot. And do that, you need to do that. I.e. Go and create the multi £M business from scratch, employ dozens of people (who when the going gets tough move from your biggest asset to your biggest liability), be responsible for huge loans/financial obligations that require personal guarantees far in excess of any financial assets you have (and the sleepless nights that come with it). Grass is always greener on the other side, employee and owner looking enviously at each other. Believe it or not, I've been envious of my staff in the past to not have the incessant worry that the contract you've just won will be your last, to get a regular pay cheque at month end, to have the next bank holiday off and 25 days leave (while I work 51 weeks a year, every bank holiday)...sack it all off and get a "normal" job where somebody else has to make all the taxing decisions and I just do what I'm told. Oh what a fantasy!
    There is a lot of delusion in the U.K. that wealthy people are "elites" and somehow out of touch. In my experience (half my phone book are fairly sizeable SME owners) 90% are the most industrious people you could meet (send them an email at 1am and you get a reply at 1.10am), not born with money and with massive risk appetites that would make ordinary people throw up with worry. And also entirely comfortable with the idea of being solely responsible for their own fate/income (vast majority want the security of the State or an employer). Their mindset is totally different. Yet we focus on politicians or landed gentry/inherited money as if they're wholly representative.
    So beyond arbtriary made up numbers on a page, I'd question not how difficult it is to imagine spending that sum of money but how difficult it is to get there, and once you are there with a target on your back, how difficult it is to stay there and whether you are the sort of person who (realistically, be honest with yourself) could do it. You NEVER switch off, never. 
    I think most people like the look of the boss's chair but I'm fairly confident 6 months in the hotseat for most would put a lot of people in hospital with stress/anxiety. And if you think anyone takes this on for a 100% tax rate, well...Karl Marx as an idol is unlikely to make a good businessperson IMO, probably more suited to setting up a charity. If you post under a business forum under the same name I think I know you who are, I post under the same name too, so if that is the case not doubting you have a small enterprise under your wing, but I don't think you have to worry about all that cash just yet 😛
     
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    SillyBilly got a reaction from Kinder in Away tickets 23/24   
    Just got my 2 tickets for Reading, I live in Reading and think we're pretty safe for 90 minutes of football, not heard of any Reading fans intending to do the same again.
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    SillyBilly got a reaction from Tomchope in Away tickets 23/24   
    Just got my 2 tickets for Reading, I live in Reading and think we're pretty safe for 90 minutes of football, not heard of any Reading fans intending to do the same again.
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    SillyBilly got a reaction from Steve How Hard? in Derby v Peterborough   
    Be surprised if there isn't more goals in this one, for both teams. I'd actually take a point now given how impressed I was with Posh, just don't lose to them. 
    Big call for Warne at HT, does he go conservative and pack out the midfield where they're cutting through at will, or try and impose us onto them and go for the win.
    Entertaining half of football though, higher quality than what we see most weeks.
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    SillyBilly got a reaction from SKRam in Derby v Peterborough   
    Be surprised if there isn't more goals in this one, for both teams. I'd actually take a point now given how impressed I was with Posh, just don't lose to them. 
    Big call for Warne at HT, does he go conservative and pack out the midfield where they're cutting through at will, or try and impose us onto them and go for the win.
    Entertaining half of football though, higher quality than what we see most weeks.
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    SillyBilly got a reaction from SKRam in Derby v Peterborough   
    Thankfully settled down, that pace Posh came out with (after our goal) was frightening for us. Disappointed in NML, was jogging back for their goal, no pressure whatsoever. I'd settle for getting into half time level and reassess for the second half. They're a dangerous opponent, clearly.
     
     
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    SillyBilly got a reaction from Kathcairns in Pro Warne   
    I was on record saying Warne had this full season to prove his promotion credentials after the signifcant drop off back end of last year. By promotional credentials I was inferring a top 2 push (given the quality of the rest of the league), it is suprising we are where we are, and quite frankly, embarrassing for a club of our stature. No disrespect for the opposition. I now say he has until Xmas to keep pace (lose no further ground) and preferably make up points on the top 6. That would convince me he warrants the second half of the season to try and improve further still, we've seen big turnarounds before. His record suggests a little more time on that basis. If we're still languishing around midtable at Xmas, or worse then he needs to go. It wouldn't be too late for someone else to come in at that point and with some good form make 6th. So not in favour of throwing the whole season away is my new position and Warne has a couple of months to prove he can get through this patch. I don't think he has responded amazingly well to the criticism, but then again I can allow anyone to to vent. It is becoming somewhat apparent he is isn't used to managing this level of expectation, we're essentially at our historic lowest at this point and he'd do well to acknowledge that, we're not used to being humbled by such opposition on an almost weekly basis, and then being told we're playing well against them. I felt Rosenior was very hard done by when he was replaced, not bashing DC too much as on paper I thought he played a blinder getting Warne in, why wouldn't he have? The guy is a serial winner at this level...or so we thought. Just concerned by the length of the deal.
     
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    SillyBilly got a reaction from David Graham Brown in Peterborough United vs Derby County   
    Switched off, run around like madmen first half, tire out, opponent changes tactics, collapse second half.
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    SillyBilly got a reaction from angieram in Fleetwood Home Sat 18th March 3.00pm   
    that was davies...?
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    SillyBilly reacted to Caerphilly Ram in Fleetwood Home Sat 18th March 3.00pm   
    I answered your point about the reality of our situation, I’ve said it in about 3 or 4 posts now, there’s only one of us who seems to be ignoring the point and looking for a different one. I’m not even sure what you’re original point was but I will reiterate my answers and hope it satisfies whatever it is you’ve taken issue with.
    This group of players have done well this season, I’m one of the optimists (and realists) that think we’ve done very well to be pushing for the play offs and although I’d be disappointed if we can’t win promotion this season it won’t be the end of the world for me. The unbeaten run earlier in the season was down to the combined hard work, skills and ability of the squad, they were excellent. BUT the squad has its limits which we seem to be experiencing currently and I think one way we would have avoided some losses and turned draws into wins this season was if we had been able to add some more athleticism and physicality to the squad, we couldn’t due to the situation we were in in the summer and January so we are currently where we are.
    However in the summer I would like to see some of that type of player recruited using our draw as a big club with great facilities and fans, along with our ability to compete to a point for wages, and with some planning and foresight in place that we weren’t able to have last season. By planning for the areas we can improve with our recruitment personnel now in place we should be able to sign players on frees and loans from the lower/non-leagues, championship, academy cast offs, Scottish and Irish leagues. That would hopefully leave us with a more balanced squad with physicality and athleticism alongside technical ability, filling in that age bracket between the current experienced pros and the younger lads and allow us to progress as a club. 
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    SillyBilly got a reaction from RedSox in Fleetwood Home Sat 18th March 3.00pm   
    thank god thats over. well deserved fleetwood.
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    SillyBilly got a reaction from Hector was the best in Fleetwood Home Sat 18th March 3.00pm   
    thank god thats over. well deserved fleetwood.
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