BaaLocks
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40 minutes ago, Jram said:
This is the sort of dramatic post we were seeing a lot in October. These sorts of reactions blew my mind then and they blow my mind now. Sorry to pick on you, you’re clearly not the only one, but haven’t you learned anything from almost ousting Warne earlier in the season only for him to win ten of the next twelve?
We were always going to have poor performances. We weren’t great last night but let’s have a little perspective. We lost 1-0. They weren’t great. We weren’t great. Could have drawn, could have nicked it, the chips didn’t fall unfortunately.
If I were the players I would be understandably fuming after the season they’ve had so far reading posts like this
Don't worry, I can take it. It's just an online forum after all - you've not insulted my mother or anything like that.
You will note I haven't suggest 'Warne out' or that we need to go and buy Chris Martin. I'm saying that we have obvious failings in our team and they are the same issues we had last year. Our midfield lacks bite, the ability to out think other teams is not there.
And as for comments on the squad - of course Nyambe, Elder, Nelson and Wilson are good, you would expect them to be. We are one of the big draws in the lower leagues and we should have the ability to attract better players. But they are not better than Knight, Roberts, Davies, McGoldrick, Ebosele or Kazim-Richards. They just aren't.
And that is the point - our manager is here to turn us around, to improve us as a club and he isn't doing that at the moment. And the signings he has been allowed to bring in haven't done that. And he still doesn't see that our midfield is powder puff. And he still doesn't see that Hourihane is a scandal to be an automatic name on that team sheet.
Should he go? No, not now. But if we don't go up this season he should.
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I will quote @Gee SCREAMER !! from a few weeks back - Hourihane is stealing a living in this team. Absolutely stealing one.... For a player that was supposed to be our linchpin he has been woeful in all but two or three games. Sibley is still living off that Milwall hat-trick (if ever there was an example of lucking out that was it, I'd be surprised if he scores three more goals in the rest of his career) and Bird just seems to get muscled off the ball too easily. Some say Bird gets himself about but that is for naught if you can't control and distribute the ball when you win it back.
To not score against either Lincoln or Reading and to not even have a shot on goal when a win would have taken us top shows just how poor this side actually is. And while we can point blame at Hourihane, Bird and Sibley it is also true that time and again, it's the summer signings that have been the undoing of us, there is simply no quality in nearly all of what was brought in. Nothing to even suggest we can change a game when things aren't going our way. Ward, Bradley, Washington etc. have just been bang average. Nelson, Elder, Nyambe, Wilson have replaced what was there before (Davies, Roberts etc) but besides that this team is not better than the one of loans and favours we cobbled together last season.
As for Warne, I'm not sure you can blame him as much for the footballing ideas and general intent but if you don't have bite in the centre of the park you can shout and wail all you want to get it out wide. Not much point though if you can't keep the ball for more than ten seconds or find a man in space when you do.
What I will say is that tactically Warne doesn't seem to do his homework - mate of mine is a Reading fan, tells me before the game that Azeez is the main threat. So what happens, we let him run free for the first half before we work it out? Surely someone, somewhere watched a video and had a think about what they were going up against?
Depressingly poor performance against a team that we should have cantered to a win against.
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19 minutes ago, TimRam said:
It's the big houses they buy which I don't understand. Be a pain to walk from one room to another. I just want to walk a few steps!
And, all a bit of a hassle to run the hoover round - or pay someone else to do it. To quote Fight Club (which I know you're not supposed to do) "the things you own end up owning you"
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On 20/01/2024 at 23:04, TigerTedd said:
there should be a rule. A mil a year, that’s the most anyone could possibly need. After that you get taxed 100%.
France tried something like this, pretty much a tax that was at a rate of something like 80% over €1m of earnings. It never got through, to my recollection.
I've always wondered for film stars, entrepreneurs and the like there must just come a day where they wake up and think "this has all just gone mad". So few of them manage to remain grounded (Keanu being an example). I think they all just decide they need more 'stuff' - extra telly, then new watch, then new car, then extra house, then two houses, then five cars, then on and on it goes.
The problem for many of us as well is comparative wealth - I've heard it said that one of the better measures of contentedness is that you earn more than your friends. I also remember hearing a story that Roman Abramovich scrapped / sold a new yacht because he realised that one of the other oligarchs had gone and bought one bigger.
My point? It's not about wealth, relative wealth or desired wealth. It's about being contented with your own position in life - my Mum was anything but a millionaire (anything but!). But she was also always happy with her lot and I can assure you she lived a far happier life than many 'successful' businessmen. And her pot of ashes looks just the same as theirs.
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22 hours ago, Crewton said:
If he signs, he'll be the first tall, rangy pole we've had since Rasiak....
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I think Mikaela Mayer can consider herself hard done to there. Spent most of the fight on the front foot, clearly landed the bigger shots but came up short. Not going out on a limb and saying she was robbed, it was a close, close fight and you have to clearly win it when you are fighting the champ on their own turf. But she will fly home feeling she did enough - again!
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7 hours ago, Mucker1884 said:
maybe a steak dinner at Bernie Inns! 😁
Well done!
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7 hours ago, Crewton said:
This. The missus and I agreed a few years ago that we didn't need to keep feeding that particular commercial machine after so many years together, so now I cook her a nice meal on the day itself, which I genuinely enjoy planning and carrying out. It was her idea though, because she's useless at remembering birthdays and special occasions 😂
If she's useless at remembering special occassions just tell her Valentine's Day is October 8th, by the time you get there she may well have forgotten.
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7 hours ago, Dimmu said:
No, you don’t have to.
In my experience that logic works 364 days a year
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Back on topic - I can't stand Valentine's Day when you are in a relationship. In years gone by you sent a secret card to someone you had a crush on, or to be a little more grown up wanted to show affection. It was anonymous and there was an aura to it. Now you have to not only buy your wife a card but also flowers, chocolates, out for a meal.
It's another example where "they" put pressure on us to spend money and act in a certain manner, which as an ageing punk rockers (without multicoloured Doc Martens) goes right against my core. Then we're asked to do it again on March 8th now (international women's day), anniversary, Christmas, birthday, Easter, Summer Solstice and about five more in the year.
Don't get me wrong, love my wife and happy to show it. Just get a little riled when someone in a marketing department tells me "you have to do it in this way, on this date or else you are a failure".
- SKRam, Bob Gnarly and David Graham Brown
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2 hours ago, i-Ram said:
In the USA caving is actually known as spelunking - fact of the day.
If I am spelunking with any current cast member of Silent Witness it definitely is Fox.
You know Fox hunting is banned in these parts? I think they do a thing called drag hunting now, where you get to chase the scent of the Fox across a few fields. I think,or it might be chasing someone like this?
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Ah, I thought you meant a different type of Coach - that would have been interesting
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40 minutes ago, Chesterfield_Ram said:
For me Wildsmith hadn’t done enough to get dropped. It’s tough for Warne because he probably has the best goalkeeping department in the league.
Having seen Vickers the in the last couple of games he looks short of confidence, which could be seen in him trying to punch away catchable balls and dropping a few crosses. Could he potentially be loaned out to another team in League 1, who aren’t promotion rivals, that way he could get game time to build up his confidence / match sharpness and maybe take a point or two off our promotion rivals. We then promote one of our young keepers to get experience being in and around the first team, with the option of recalling Vickers if Wildsmith gets injured or suspended.
Agree that Vickers doesn't command his box like Wildsmith does, couple of punches out last night were ones that Wildsmith would have easily caught. It's a hard one with keepers, you don't get to keep them in place till they c*** up, you have to work out before they make a mistake otherwise they end up shot for ever (Jim Leighton being prime example).
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4 hours ago, YorkshireRam said:
I was thinking this, but after chatting at the game last night apparently he wasn't his best v Oxford and admittedly I missed that game so couldn't state he shouldn't have been with any conviction.
In many ways I think Wildsmith has been one of the best signings we've made post-admin. Remarkably consistent which is rare for keeps below elite-level. On a free, he's been a cracking bit of business so far!
Fair point, I'd agree that Wildsmith did little wrong till the Oxford game. But the first against them and (debatably) the third against Posh were down to him. Keepers get it tough, nowhere to hide when they make a pigs ear of it - Elder made an equally big error for Burton's second last night but might well keep a start even though.
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2 minutes ago, YorkshireRam said:
His form hasn't been that bad, been steady all season to my eyes. Not sure Vickers has done enough to keep the starting spot, so I'd have Wildsmith back as #1 for the time being, from Lincoln onwards. Good to have competition.
Put another way, what has he done to deserve being dropped?
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1 hour ago, The Running Man said:
He's managed to bulk up again, so pleased for him.
Bit quick - you don't think he's juicing do you?
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On 20/07/2023 at 22:13, ivo_knoflicek said:
Bobby Davison
Seth Johnson
that’s about it…
I'm not sure Bobby ot Seth were a shadow of their prior selves when they came back. Seth played a good cameo role but his knees were paggered by that time, Bobby played only ten games (OK, he scored 8 but still) before going back out on loan. Steve Bloomer scored at the same ratio for the 100 games when he came back, besides that I'm not sure I can think of many. Which is why I never fail to be amazed at this romantic notion that players age like wine, sorry but they don't - to quote Vicent Vega they sadly turn to vinegar.
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Also, just because he was a fraudster doesn't mean he wasn't a potentially good footballer. The suggestion is somehow that Derby were duped but his contract was likely based on footballing ability.
I know that Graeme Sounness got scammed into playing Ali Dia (on reflection, off thread, just how amazing is it that a manager would put a player into a top flight fixture without having seen them kick a ball) but it seems here he was simply a good footballer who happened to be a crook as well.
A bit like the Tinder Swindler, I continue to be astounded at the ability of some people to allow themselves to be parted with their (or in the case of Claire Henry, her husband's) money. It's mad how daft some people can be.
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2 hours ago, Comrade 86 said:
God no, if it's anything like in footy anyway! It's kind of part and parcel anyway, I was just surprised to see Fury resort to that against a guy who'd never had a pro-fight in his life. Embarrassing more than anything, really.
Can you imagine the Dubois / Usyk fight getting referred to the monitors and someone in Stockley Park taking 15 minutes to decide whether or not it was a low blow.
Agree on the Fury bit, he's instinctively a brawler out of the bare knuckle world. He got taken that fight, and probably had realised it by that point so, as I said, the instincts kicked in. Still awful.
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Smith had a good couple of rounds but it always felt that it was merely Beterbiev setting him up and checking him out. No shame on Smith to have lost only two to Hall of Famers but not much left for him now other than some domestic fights against the likes of Yarde.
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On 08/01/2024 at 14:09, Comrade 86 said:
One thing I did note from the Fury-Ngannou was that Fury got pretty desperate. This shot was absolutely shocking, though Ngannou acted like he'd just been tickled.
TIme for VAR in boxing?
No midfield control again…
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