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Tactics, Squad, Mistakes
at 13:21 25 Nov 2024

I wasn't really making a point about City. I was just my shorthand for RM's style.

I guess the point is that we're trying to play to a style that is a massive stretch for us, rather than actually playing to our strengths. And that makes mistakes far more likely.

Playing with the hand that you're dealt is a pretty good guide to most things in life.
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Tactics, Squad, Mistakes
at 11:21 25 Nov 2024

We've lost so many points this season because of avoidable mistakes - yesterday, big time.

And you hear people say that there is nothing RM can do about individual errors on the pitch.

But RM is trying to get a team of limited quality to play like Man City.

Amazingly, they do still seem to be trying to do this - some effort after getting so little reward so far this season. They'd be forgiven for being demoralised but I don't see that.

But I do see players trying so hard to be better than they are. They are all playing on their limits and trying to do things that perhaps naturally they wouldn't be doing.

And when do we make mistakes? When we're pushing it. When we're tired, or trying to do things to quickly, or when we're trying to do something that we're just not quite good enough to do.

These mistakes are the inevitable result of a squad that is overreaching. And that's on RM.

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Bluesky
at 11:17 19 Nov 2024

I think Musk is crackpot but I've been sticking with X simply out of inertia.

But this week I have tick 'not interested in this' about 10 times to the same ad (I'm not ready for a care home in Yeovil) so it looks like Bluesky is the place for me.
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Are we really waiting
at 14:07 15 Nov 2024

Like the rest of us, I'm sure she'll soon tire of the 80 minutes of aimless touches before getting anywhere near to the box.
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Lee Carsely
at 09:47 10 Nov 2024

Carsley has f*ck all managerial experience.

Do we want to be a PL club? Then we need someone who knows how to manage a PL team.

I hate the PL but I just don’t understand the business model of not aiming for that.

The Championship is chock full of ‘big’ teams no longer cutting it.
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Mark Robins looking for a job
at 21:54 7 Nov 2024

He’s been pretty consistent tbh taking them from L2 to one pen away from the PL and the worst ever VAR decision from the greatest ever FA Cup shock and a place in the final.

We could do a lot worse if Moyes not keen.
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Mark Robins looking for a job
at 14:00 7 Nov 2024

What do we think?

Should Saints have a look?

Pretty mind boggling from the Cov board to sack him.
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Var bias to big clubs
at 23:32 4 Nov 2024

This is a great idea and realistically the only way to fix VAR.

I worry though that VARDV might also make mistakes.

To be on the safe side, they should prob introduce VARDVDV at the same time.

I mean, on reflection, really it might be best to do away with the actual players and the ball completely and just bring in VARdecides-result (VARDR) and then you’d only need Garth Crooks to run it, the season could be sorted in late August and we’d all save ourselves a lot of money and stress.
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The Budget
at 10:32 31 Oct 2024

Jeremy Clarkson complaining today about his farm. Reminded me of this Partridge classic.

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Should James Bree be fined for shooting from outside the box?
at 10:28 31 Oct 2024

He should be fined. It was just luck that this one went in and won us the game. What if it had gone for a goal kick and Stoke scored from a long punt.

Playing the right way is more important that the odd cup win or a few point on the board in the PL.

It will reap rewards at the end of next season in The Championship. Mark my words.
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Southampton V Stoke City The Carabao Cup Verdict
at 12:20 30 Oct 2024

I was sitting in the Chapel looking straight down a line between the two penalty spots and the left-right-left-right-left-right was unbelievable.

None of the wingers making an effort to take on their defenders, absolutely no off the ball movement and no attempts at clever through balls.

In short absolutely zero attacking threat.

That changed a little when Tall Paull and Diaz came on, but only because they were fresh I think.

And I've got little time for Sullemana but at least his jockeying of the defenders and his feint that he might actually try to take them on, opened up the change of the ball to Bree.

I remember being in the same stand watching a late season Puel game against, I think, Man U - just the same sense of watching paint dry.
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Bad result today with Palace winning.
at 19:55 27 Oct 2024

When we start winning, we can worry about what other teams are doing.

At the moment, it's completely academic.

Currently, I see our season as defined by Archer's penalty miss and the two last minute goals from corners.

Three moments which have resulted in us still having just 1 point.
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PGMOL Apology
at 18:59 27 Oct 2024

Another bit of uselessness from VAR.

Ruins football every weekend.
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Why do people deny mass killings?
at 19:28 25 Oct 2024

I'm sorry Jelly but your emotional wobbling is too much for me.

You made your choice and it didn't work out. Them's the breaks my gelatin friend.
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Why do people deny mass killings?
at 21:46 24 Oct 2024

We don't believe in large scale conspiracies because, as franniesTache succinctly explained, we know that the world is too complicated, random and unfair for a conspiracy of any more than let's say a dozen people to survive contact with the world for more than a few days.

So it is pretty binary. You either believe in impossible things or you don't.
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Why do people deny mass killings?
at 21:39 24 Oct 2024

Why were they 'coercing' young people?

Were they intending to kill them, was that the plan?
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1984 and all that
at 16:46 24 Oct 2024

Should you take him on?

It's a definitely 'no' from me.

Steer clear of nutty clients is my advice. It's only a matter of time before they turn on you. I'm sure you're not that desperate for the work!
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Why do people deny mass killings?
at 16:40 24 Oct 2024

There's one interesting thing with conspiracy theorists...

They all think that we are gullible fools for believing what 'the man' tells us to believe.

And we all think that they are gullible fools for believing the conspiratorial nonsense.

In the words of Ralph Brown/Danny: "Why trust one drug and not the other? That's politics, innit?"
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Why do people deny mass killings?
at 13:29 24 Oct 2024

Every individual is different, so understanding motives is not easy but there is some interesting stuff here:

https://www.apa.org/news/podcasts/speaking-of-psychology/conspiracy-theories

A bit like those with fundamentalist religious believes, there is also an element of conspiracy theory thinking that always has an answer to any counter-evidence. Pure Popperian unfalsifiability. Jelly, for example, will dismiss those talking in the link as undoubtedly in the pay of the lizards.
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Southampton Board Said To Have Set Deadline Day For Russell Martin
at 12:14 22 Oct 2024

I still cannot believe that we conceded the same last minute goal two games running.

After Ipswich, that should never have happened for (at least) the rest of the season.

For it to happen again in the very next game is mind-boggling.

Everyone in the ground was thinking about what happened the last time, so how come the players weren't.

Downes was captain. He has to identify the threat.
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