That’s the thing: good managers (and some okay ones like Maresca) won’t take it and bad ones aren’t going to be able to get you where you need to be, when your costs and your need to showcase players mean you need CL qualification.
I think a large part of the appeal of Rosenior is that he was going to be more accepting of instructions, including to give playing time to keep players in the shop window. Just don’t think it’s going to work for them though.
The irony was both were doing pretty well at the time. I didn’t think Amorim had the skills to change his approach and he did: he tweaked his 3-4-2-1 to attack more effectively and United were being fine to quite good around when he let himself on fire.
You can see why young players go to Chelsea but it’s v often not good for them. And to be fair to Chelsea, he seemed v good value on release clause with lots of sell on potential even if he didn’t do v well. But so far bad for both, yes.
Yeah, not convinced Maresca was great and James is v often injured but still think you’re absolutely right, they took a stupid risk with little upside.
Was v amusing bit of the season when Maresca and Amorim basically insisted their boards fire them by picking huge fights with them.
I know, right?
Was such a weird conversation. I didn’t even say Delap was bad, just a risk to replace Jackson (who people somehow felt was bad because he’d had a down year on finishing and got a red card). The guy ended up saying Delap was obviously better than Isak!
Trying to make a pun out of Liam but the best I can do is that they’ve both been Liamentable and frankly, now I’ve typed it out, I wish I hadn’t.
V impressive to be that bad with the money they’ve spent.
They’ve gone from doing _okay_ on the balance of play and chances but losing all the time anyway to being really terrible and losing tonight, which is quite funny.
Delap or Rossignor?
Did I tell you about the Ipswich fan (he said he was, I thought he was probably a Delap relative) who blocked me for saying I thought he was quite promising but not proven yet.
Wonder how he feels now his nephew has had such a poor season.
Problem for them is, you have to pay managers for their contract if you fire them and the get out for the club is that they lose the money if they take another job and his reputation could easily be so shot by the end of the season that he won’t get one, or at least not one worth taking.
As always, looks clever if it works …
I don’t actually blame coaches for trying clever stuff that ends up failing but tactical changes need to have a decent upside to balance the lack of familiarity the players have with a new system and yeah, you absolutely get slagged off if it goes wrong.
Always the risk that while you surprise your opponent, you are also surprising your own players. I’m sure they’ve trained it a bit but enough? Seems unlikely.
I, a white liberal, wouldn’t say the things she says because I am a liberal, and think the things she says are awful. It’s not because I am white!
Correct answer always no, thank you, I’ve had the chance to discuss the post already and had my questions answered.
Presume even if you did affect lifespan, you could just change the battery every 4-5 years and repurpose the old batteries for renewable storage or whatever but that would be quite a pain and have a significant cost.
At the moment EVs do seem to prioritise battery life span pretty highly.
Well that could be true for all xG and goals if he’s scored all his penalties (I think he has). But the stats up were non penalty, which tend to be a better way to assess players.
Was looking at the non penalty.
He’s … over his xG?
Not got much else, really.
“They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
“But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors.
This is one of the stupidest prizes ever.
Rather neatly reminds one of Sartre’s essay on antisemitism though.
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge.
Well this is … something, isn’t it?
Could pick about every angle of the compass to hate this from but Britain did, in fact, in many ways hesitate in the fight against fascism and one of the reasons it did was a sizeable far right political movement of our own, which Farage is a distant inheritor of
Quite a lot of Szoboslais.
Not obviously that this sort of position has to make sense, or even pretend to try but have they seen polling on the EU and Brexit in the young? Don’t think any brainwashing is required.
I admit, it’s not like we pay you to do this but still.
Watched the first two minutes of it. Could not recommend.
We support solar, just never an actual solar project and certainly not one in our back yards.
It doesn’t start well, does it? I could rhetorically ask why the right hates Sadiq Khan so much but err, we know.
Isn’t the deal that you keep an eye on this stuff so we don’t have to? I don’t want to watch some horror show far right conspiracist vid, I want you to do a pithy demolition of it!
Love the antizionism isn’t antisemitism while at the same time v clearly doing the latter rather than the former. It’s not at all transparent and tedious, guys. It’s v clever and sophisticated, just like err, Platner.
