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Reply | Could this be the beginning
at 21:02 17 Dec 2024
Yes, Wales is ready for change, but Reform?
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Reply | Trump draining the swamp
at 20:48 17 Dec 2024
Trudeau is barely left at all let alone far left, but then compared to Trump, Maggie Thatcher was far left.
Waits for someone to take that literally... |
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Reply | Is Europe turning ?
at 19:05 17 Dec 2024
Ok, I'll accept the holidays thing but what about forigners living in the UK?
Put another way then, do you think I am xenophobic? Or racist?
I voted leave because I was fed up of EU interference in our country, political interference that saw a lot of industry leave this country. I also felt the EU was less democratic than the UK. |
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Reply | Is Europe turning ?
at 18:51 17 Dec 2024
But you'd be wrong. 61% of UK residents took a foreign holiday last year, hardly a thing for xenophobes to do.
Then consider how many non UK nationals live in the UK, if we were a largely xenophobic place then I'd say they weren't welcome here and there be a much bigger protest than anything we have seen.
There were a multitude of reasons and yes, some were racist and/or xenophobic but far from the majority. |
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Reply | Public sector pay
at 18:44 17 Dec 2024
We're paying more taxes anyway and for what?
What we really need is a government that sorts the public finances out and a good way to start would be to improve the economy, how about some job creation but not at management levels? How about cuts to the number of politicians so public money is spent were it's needed and not on expenses?
If higher taxes is the way then yes, I'd pay more. Put 2p in the pound on taxes. A lot wouldn't like it though. |
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Reply | Possession Based football.
at 18:35 17 Dec 2024
Kilky, I'll remind you, you said this.
2 things, first Barca, Spain, Citeh and Arsenal are/were good to watch, entertaining.
Second, football should be entertaining. Who wants to sit there and be bored for 2 hours?
If you do then there is something wrong. |
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Reply | Possession Based football.
at 18:26 17 Dec 2024
Seeing as we're going so slowly...we played against teams who didnt play possession above all else and lost, a lot. We played against teams who did play possession football and also lost. That's because the best team on the day usually wins regardless of style.
If two teams playing exactly the same style play each other there can stiil only be 3 outcomes. The thing you are ignoring is that merely playing possession football doesn't guarantee you anything.
Middlesborough, Cardiff, WYCOMBE, WBA, Bristol City, Sheff Utd, Blackburn, Millwall...how many of those teams play the possession style?
To clarify, you still have to play good football whatever your style.
Martin at Saints isn't relevant because he couldn't do it with us but he went there where they had a much stronger squad for our division. A decent manager would have gotten them automatically promoted, Martin managed the play offs.
That is not what I'm saying but that is your limited comprehension at work again. What I am saying is that possession alone doesn't win games. Not that I'd clasify Roberto's side as heavy on possession, we were great in attack but there were quite a few high scoring games as our defence was leaky, Tate, Monk, Lawrence and Austin, hardly great players for a possession style but they had bite, they worked hard but when under pressure the ball was sent long and we actually used proper wide players, Paul Anderson and Andy Robinson.
Brendan And Michael, first name terms eh, they were possesion base but even Brendan got some stick from pundits for "passing for the sake of it" Laudrup though, his team was a joy to watch but even his team wasn't as possession heavy as...yes, Martin. That was because we got the ball forward more quickly and had shots, you know, how you score gioals. Those things that win games.
When football is slow and prdictable it is boring, if you would rather be bored then hey, it takes all sorts. What I want is to be entertained but hopefully by a team that wins more than it loses. |
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Reply | Anyway .OHL Christmas message
at 20:56 16 Dec 2024
Lifeboy, isn't that a soap?
I have a Christmas messga etoo,
Do what makes you happy, look after those who will look after you. Don't take life too seriously or posts on here too literally, it'll only upset you.
And finally, uppa Swans. 9 points pver Crimbo and New year please.
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one....imagine that. |
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Reply | Is Europe turning ?
at 20:52 16 Dec 2024
If it had remained the EEC and not become the EU we probably would still be in it.
All politicians of the last 50 years have shafted us, lied to us, manipulated us.
It has always been every country for themselves, even where countries come together for the greater good there is in fighting, rule breaking and skullduggery.
Yvette Cooper, that's Mrs Balls, enough said. |
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Reply | Very bad start for Russ. Update sacked **
at 20:41 16 Dec 2024
Well it's a football forum and quite a harmless one by most standards, if it's a bit too rough for you, well I can't help that.
Slating former players and managers is par for the course. |
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Reply | Possession Based football.
at 19:41 16 Dec 2024
How many games in the last 3 years have we had by far the most possession and lost?
Plus, when the majority of teams are playing thatstyle, we can't all win so the second paragraph is rubbish.
Then you have to have good enough players and we can't afford them which was why Martin failed dismally here and even on taking the Saints up, couldn't compete financially and so, after only gaining 5 points in 16 games, he was sacked.
It's like you don't understand football, take the blinkers off mun, there's another 90% to see.
Edit, I will add AGAIN that we never ever played football like Martinball before he came and we haven't played so much of it since he left. Williams is at least learning and changing things, trying to adjust and improve. Martin stuck rigidly to his style saying he'd rather lose his way than win another way and he said it down here AND in Southampton. The bloke is a dick who puts himself ahead of the club. [Post edited 16 Dec 20:36]
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Reply | The Manc derby
at 18:18 16 Dec 2024
Well, the last thing Liverpool need anyway  |
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Reply | Williams out
at 18:16 16 Dec 2024
It was a change in style, shame he didn't make that change 10 games sooner. |
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Reply | Very bad start for Russ.
at 18:14 16 Dec 2024
I looked, 2 years but she has apparently taken to using MORE make up to cover the flaws, she used to be quite pretty. Ageing is a bitch eh.
So is losing your job but made much easier by the millions he'll get paid, a massive reward for a massive failure. |
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Reply | Possession Based football.
at 19:32 15 Dec 2024
Martin's possession style isn't doing very well for him tonight, 4 nil down and not 30 mins in.
Will he survive the night?
BTW, when we had Dyer and Routs we often used Dyer's pace for an "out ball" putting it up the line for him to chase, his searing pace getting him to the ball and relieving the pressure. We did not and never had played the kind of possession game that Martin had us suffering under. We didn't, for example, play suicidal passes in our own box, the ball was sent not shuffled around our own area.
You'd think you hadn't been watching us very long. |
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Reply | The Manc derby
at 18:01 15 Dec 2024
Walker should be embarrased, Keane is right.
I bet Walker doesn't even consider it cheating, he'll claim it's all part of the game these days...it happens!
Well it shouldn't and referees are useless. I never liked Taylor. |
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Reply | Is Europe turning ?
at 17:51 15 Dec 2024
What are you babbling on about? What do you think my post meant?
Yet again you display a complete lack of comprehension.
I have been to Russia, the USA, Turkey, Greece and other places and there is one thing I always find to be true, the ordinary people of those places are much like us in the UK. They want to get on with their lives in peace, they want fairness and hope for opportunity. We also share in common that we are lied to and manipulated by devious politicians. |
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Reply | Possession Based football.
at 17:40 15 Dec 2024
Well we had less than 15791 with 2000 away fans there. On other days, with the usual away following we'd be around 14000.
I don't agree it's horrific, the first half was decent yesterday but with no strength on the bench and players running out of steam, we had nothing left to give wghich is shocking. It's a combination of odeology over pragmatism and the running down of the squad by the previous owners.
I really do think LW camn get results if he is allowed to sign 2 or 3 decent players.
The sad thing right now is, we look like we need to be 3 up before we are safe. |
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