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Reply | Frey
at 13:36 24 Sep 2024
Mikey Meeky Micky Mitchy Meetchy Meetshee Mitshee Mishy Meeshy Fray Fry Free |
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Reply | 6 games in
at 10:42 24 Sep 2024
I am also satisfied with the start and think this team will improve. |
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Reply | Frey
at 10:01 24 Sep 2024
Do we have a definitive take on how to pronounce his name yet? I'm all over the place.
Is it Mikey Fray
Or Meeshy Fry
Or Meeshy Fray
Or Mikey Fry
Or Mitchy Free
Or Micky Fry
Or [Post edited 24 Sep 10:01]
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Reply | The midfield hole
at 13:02 22 Sep 2024
You know who was actually very good at this? Dom Ball.
Now his pass didn't always arrive where it was meant to. But he was excellent at receiving from the centrebacks, and turning forward, often dummying or beating the press. It made me very nervous but I don't really remember him getting caught.
He was a relatively limited footballer. If Warbs could get him to do it, you'd hope Marti could get these better players to do it eventually. EDB and JV have all the physical characteristics to turn and accelerate past the press. So then we come down to bravery, as stated. |
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Reply | Transfer rumours 2024
at 12:39 6 Sep 2024
On the ongoing debate about whether we can afford all this...Key line from Nourry:
"Between the wage savings this season and next season and outgoing transfer fees and the money we spent to bring players in, those numbers are very close. It’s not like we’ve gone on some sort of spending spree, I think on the contrary."
https://londonnewsonline.co.uk/sport/qpr-chief-executive-christian-nourry-provid
Again, my expecations of impact on budget...
+ increase budget, - decrease, = same
- Begovic > Nardi
= Armstrong > Celar
= Dozzell > Hayden > Varane
= Kakay > Santos
= Dykes > Madsen
+ Gubbins > Morrison
- Willock > Dembele
= Hodge > Saito
- Cannon > Ashby
- Adomah > Bennie
= Richards > (expect we're still paying his wages)
- Larkeche >
- Archer >
- Kelman >
- SDM >
- Cooper > |
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Reply | When you realised there was no meaning to life and no God
at 10:57 6 Sep 2024
'Belief and unbelief are poses the mind adopts in the face of an unimaginable reality. A godless world is as mysterious as one suffused with divinity, and the difference between the two may be less than you think'
Gnōthi sauton. The kingdom of God is within you. You are the creator of your perception of your experience.
'We are lived by powers we pretend to understand'. |
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Reply | Nourry on The London Sport Show
at 23:07 4 Sep 2024
Listening now, thanks. Interesting to learn that last season we had:
Second oldest average starting 11 in championship
Best availability record in top 4 divisions |
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Reply | Hoarders.....
at 11:37 4 Sep 2024
Alongside a Matisse Sonata |
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Reply | Loftus Road renovation/revamp
at 10:39 30 Aug 2024
I know a civil engineer who has also pitched in the last month or two for a Loftus Rd project. I don't know more and wouldn't say if I did. |
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Reply | Retro chanting
at 13:42 29 Aug 2024
A young woman enjoyed starting it. Enthusiastically supported and extended by some older faces and I guess their kids in the back row. |
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Reply | Dykes sold apparently
at 19:00 28 Aug 2024
You can if you play only one up top. If you've got three it's hard to give them all minutes.
IMO you want 22 players and some youngsters knocking on the door, filling in gaps. The way we play, that means 8 defenders, 4 midfielders, 6 attackers, and 2 strikers. Which we've got, now. |
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Reply | Transfer rumours 2024
at 18:50 28 Aug 2024
If I was a manager I'd push for another defender, but I think with 8 defenders we have enough in the squad to cover without getting anyone new in. Even with two unavailable at the moment we were ok to rest some first teamers last night.
Centreback: JCS, Cook, Morrison, Fox, Dunne, Field in a pinch
LB: Paal, Fox, JCS, Field in a pinch
RB: Dunne, Santos, Cannon, Smyth in a pinch, Varane in a pinch. |
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Reply | Charlie Austin ADHD
at 15:19 28 Aug 2024
Thanks Robith, I appreciate it, especially the prevalence and screening data - I wonder if and how things have increased since 2018. I certainly agree that awareness and removal of stigma are positive, and certainly hope some people are benefiting from help they would otherwise never have thought to seek.
I have a couple points to make.
First, let me back up a bit. Often we cluster a group of symptoms together and give them a label which you'll find described in the DSM. Often we don't understand the mechanisms which are causing these symptoms, or their genetics. Often we don't know that those groups of symptoms are even related, or caused by the same things in different people. We've only recognised that the symptoms sometimes coexist. Yet as soon as we have a label for it, individuals think they have an answer. They no longer try to understand symptoms abcdefg, they just say I've got ADHD. The *description* of a common set of co-existing symptoms (which in my understanding is all ADHD is) is used as an *explanation*, when it's no such thing. ADHD could be entirely man-made with no unifying biological underpinnings (a cognitive bias - apophenia - overfitting a pattern onto noisy data). Or there might be many different causes of the symptoms we describe as ADHD (many ADHDs). Or, of course, we may one day discover some root cause that explains all ADHD diagnoses. But we don't know this now.
Second, all this gets worse when we have some kind of drug which is approved for use with the man-made label we have defined (which may or may not correlate to some biological or environmental cause). It's wonderful that left-handed people can be left-handed now...but I don't think the example is that illustrative here, because nobody is giving left-handed people a life-long prescription. My concern is people who are within the normal range of human experience being medicalised. I'll confess to having used modafinil recreationally, which is sometimes prescribed for ADHD. It's really useful, but I've noticed some mood-altering negative effects. Again this is anecdotal...but I worry about huge swathes of the population relying on really quite strong drugs that maybe have longer term side effects. Drugs aren't always the answer. If there is an increase in ADHD diagnoses, that might be explained by more people coming forward, but it might also be explained by more people suffering those symptoms...and rather than just drugging those symptoms we might also benefit from investigating other contributing factors. For example, I am certain that having a smart phone and using social media has increased my ADHD score when I go through the symptom checklist. If I thought I had ADHD I'd try reducing smartphone use significantly before I went for a drug. I wouldn't be at all surprised if nutrition, and sugar, and glucose spikes didn't have a role to play. There are likely to be other contributing factors too. Always better to try and cure the disease instead of just treating the symptoms.
I recognise and cherish neurodiversity. I don't doubt that many people struggle with many of the symptoms described as part of ADHD. I'm delighted if their life can be improved by drugs or other approaches. But the increased noise about ADHD seems a bit trendy to me, for many a bit ill thought out, giving many (the long tail) a bit of convenient shorthand with which to describe and maybe excuse themselves from actually working on their own struggles. We want a pill because it seems like an easy answer. Sometimes it's a wonderful life-changing boon. Often it is no answer at all. |
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Reply | Liam Morrison
at 13:56 28 Aug 2024
I was also impressed last night with how he improved within the game and managed two athletic, physical forwards with good movement. |
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Reply | Gaffer on tonight's win
at 11:08 28 Aug 2024
Yes I thought Luton were stronger and faster, with a clearer plan that they were executing more effectively. So to get the win is very pleasing. We definitely improved second half too. |
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Reply | Charlie Austin ADHD
at 10:24 28 Aug 2024
Happy to be educated about how wrong I am, but I'm very suspicious of all this. Every fcker under the sun has suddenly got ADHD. It's an epidemic of diagnoses. And if everyone has ADHD then isn't it just part of being human? And do we need to medicalise just being a normal human? Obviously there are extreme cases who can really do with help...but do we really need to drug the long tail of people who just say yes to a few simple questions in a 12 minute GP appointment? |
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Reply | Finney.
at 10:32 22 Aug 2024
I don’t know Paul, I was introduced only once, but I feel like I know him from the podcast. I wish him the best of luck and support on this journey. |
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Reply | Transfer rumours 2024
at 16:41 20 Aug 2024
Revisiting this - for budget comparison purposes:
Begovic -> Nardi
Armstrong -> Zelar
Dozzell -> Hayden -> Varane
Kakay -> Hevverton
Willock -> Dembele
Richards -> Bennie
Adomah -> Saito
Gubbins -> Morrison
Larkeche -> Beck?
Hodge -> Madsen?
Archer ->
Cooper ->
Kelman ->
SDM -> |
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Reply | Transfer rumours 2024
at 12:19 20 Aug 2024
Under this management the rumours that get to this stage tend to come true.
If so, the squad is getting quite swollen. We’d need some outs otherwise there will be real players missing the match day squad.
Suspect Lloyd, kolli, Bennie being polished for good loans. EDB too.
And really wouldn’t be surprised (although I’d be saddened) if Ilias left us now…although the back injury might kaibosh that until Jan. |
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Reply | Marti's trousers
at 16:44 18 Aug 2024
I did sing that old classic 'tracksuit from Matalan' to myself |
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