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Reply | Mark Warburton interview
at 15:29 16 Nov 2024
Whatever anybody thinks of him, he’s the only manager in the ten years we’ve had since the Prem who had us consistently midtable and performed up to and beyond his budget. 13th, 9th, 11th. I’d like a bit of 13th, 9th and 11th now let me tell you. |
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Reply | Ben Doak - Cifuentes Tactics & Team Set Up
at 11:44 16 Nov 2024
I mean I guess he would say injuries to all of this. But I agree sticking Santos who has struggled in his own position out there against Doak was suicide. Not being a smart arse but we said this in F Block before the game even kicked off.
What I would add is either because of the system or because Smyth is the only winger we’ve got who even pretends to defend, is our full backs have been exposed all season. Paal got a roasting even against Cambridge. |
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Reply | Marti leaves training in bad mood
at 12:16 15 Nov 2024
Twitter worked itself up into a bit of a "he's gone" state yesterday because a couple of Fabrizio Romano wannabees said Cifuentes had left the training ground early and in a bad mood. |
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Reply | Mark Warburton interview
at 23:30 14 Nov 2024
It's a pretty 'story of our times' right?
I've said repeatedly on here, if you keep changing your manager and things don't get any better then your manager isn't your problem. To look at your posts at the time, and I respect you for admitting you were going through stuff and took it out on this because I do that all the time, Warburton was Paul Hart levels of useless.
To read Stainrod on here, Lee Hoos is basically the devil. Worst CEO we've ever had.
Well, Warburton gone. We got worse. Hoos gone, the bloke that's replaced him is not doing well.
Maybe we're about to sack Cifuentes. The chicken children on Twitter will be delighted.
I'm telling you now, as I did then, you're focussing on the wrong person, it won't get better medium and long term for replacing them (short term, maybe), and you'll be back on here screaming blue murder about whoever else it is 18 months from now.
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Reply | News blackout
at 22:41 14 Nov 2024
THIS. THIS.
It is exactly the point I've been making on here, and in every meeting I've had with them.
You create a vacuum, stuff you don't want will fill that. |
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Reply | Bluesky
at 18:30 14 Nov 2024
Dulwich Hamlet 1/8
FC United of Manchester 4/5
Forest Green Rovers 6/4
AFC Wimbledon 5/1
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Reply | Bluesky
at 18:23 14 Nov 2024
Or another.
BlueSky, which I've been on for 24 hours, posted two moderately amusing jokes, and accumulated 200 followers.
Those two posts have garnered 14 replies and 64 likes from 200 followers.
This week's match report, which is always our most read thing of the week with several thousand opens, on Twitter this week has garnered 10 replies and 65 likes across the whole week from a following of 15,400 people. Because a great many of those followers are BOTS and don't exist. And because I refuse to pay for a blue tick. |
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Reply | Bluesky
at 18:18 14 Nov 2024
You do, it's obvious, you move and post somewhere else, which is what people are doing.
Let's do another one.
Probably the story that's most in my interest zone today is this David Coote business, which as I say at one point on Twitter you'd just watch scroll through and there'd be memes and jokes and whatever. That's not me passing comment on whether that's good or not, we'll probably hound the bloke to his death the way society is atm, but it is something you'd be able to follow.
Now, David Coote is not currently among my 'trends'. I can't believe that frankly. My current trends include "Bakole", who appears to be a boxer I have no interest in, "PMQs" which was a day ago and I have no interest in, and "Glastonbury" which I do not attend nor wish to.
So let's make it show me some stuff about David Coote...
First post on the search...
EnGee @_EnGee 18h
Henry Winter trying to write a supportive tweet about David Coote
This is 18 hours old.
Second post. A Johnny Sharples joke. I do follow him. But it's two hours old.
Third post, a Paddy Power spoof from five hours ago.
Reading down the next few posts are 5hours, 8hours, 21hours, 3 hours and 11 hours old.
I've seen them all today, multiple, multiple times. |
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Reply | News blackout
at 17:58 14 Nov 2024
The point about the selective coverage of the development teams is valid, though probably more due to staff resources than any great cover up of the fact our U21s and U18s are every bit as sht as the first team. Places like Indy R's and the kid who runs the development team social accounts are much better for that info.
I've been very critical of the coms strategy under CN obviously but, really, at this point, what do we want them to say? They'd wheel somebody they know we quite like, probably Jimmy Dunne, out to say they all appreciate it hasn't been good enough and they're all hurting as much as we are and it's been a good week in training and they're determined to put it right against *checks notes* Stoke.
I do think they should do player interviews post defeats though, not just post victories. They should own it. |
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Reply | Bluesky
at 17:29 14 Nov 2024
1 - Because it's dead, despite me following north of 1,800 accounts. Perhaps I just follow 1,800 redundant accounts, who knows?
2 - Because certain accounts I follow do not appear on there, despite me following them. My mate Sam from the Crown posts interesting travel threads, I follow him to see them, he appears in my 'for you' feed, but not my 'following' feed. Even though I follow him.
This is my live "following" thread now I've just been and looked...
1 - Glasgow Rangers podcast which I do follow advertising beanie hats which I do not want.
2 - BetFred talking about the Cheltenham Festival. I neither follow BetFred, nor give a toss about the Cheltenham Festival.
3 - A Sunderland account I do follow advertising a former players night which I do not want to go to.
4 - TNT Sports asking me "Could we be seeing Sergio Ramos in a Corinthians shirt soon?" Again, I neither follow them, nor care.
5 - Hull Daily Mail report on last night's Hull FC fan forum (the manager was there, just imagine). This is the first post that is from an account I follow and I do want to read it.
6 - A classic football clip from one of the classic football accounts I follow. Again, good. Like that. Barry Davies. LOVELY.
7 - A suggestion for three other accounts I might like to follow, one of which hasn't been active for several years, none of which I'm interested in which is why I'm not following them.
8 - A link to an article from the Telegraph. I do not follow the Telegraph. This post is from 3:32 PM · Oct 3, 2024. It's now 5.46pm on November 14.
9 - Tide Watch from the Holderness and Hornsea Gazette. Fair enough, that's on me, I follow them for their local sport.
10, 11, 12 Posts I am interested in from accounts I follow.
13 - BoyleSports offering me an early pay out on my mental acca if Bruno Fernandes calls the referee a cnt in the first half. I do not bet, do not want to be encouraged to bet, and do not follow BoyleSports.
14 - Sunderland fanzine again.
15 and 16 - Two pieces on Trump I do not want to read from a journalist I do not follow, retweeted by somebody I do.
17 - "Boost network confidence while lightening the load for IT with Juniper's AI-Native Network."
I could carry on, but is this painting a picture of "an informative and often fascinating chronological feed" to you?
Small addition, I've just counted... it took me 117 posts to get to one about QPR.
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Reply | Mark Warburton interview
at 16:20 14 Nov 2024
We do need to be a bit careful about just how brilliant last January was. Lassel made this point as well...
Andersen was a great signing, but Marti had worked with him before. And he's fallen off a cliff.
Joe Hodge, one goal, couldn't fit him in the team, now plays League One.
Isaac Hayden - very good, but almost certainly our annual freebie from Newcastle by way of Jamie Reuben doing Amit a favour.
Michy Frey - 5 minute hot streak at the start of this season but mostly unfit and injured before and since.
Got rid of Dozzell - perfect, no notes. |
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Reply | Bluesky
at 15:53 14 Nov 2024
Twitter's main strengths, for me, at its height were...
1 - Everybody was on there. Celebs, sports people, sports organisations, authors, journalists, TV and film stars, writers. Whoever you want. Whatever you're into. You could put together a really good feed of people in whatever field you're interested in. You support Hull FC? Hull FC are on there, most of their players are on there, the local journo that covers them is on there, the coach might be on there, the fanzine, loads of fans.
2 - There was really nowhere better for a breaking story or a viral moment. Something going off in London, you could watch it scroll in real time. Videos, people on the ground, people you know. Anything from a bloody terrorist attack to the 6ft blond 18 year old at Norwich, it would play out live in real time. The 'trends' was stuff that was actually trending.
They've fcked both of those things, and with it smashed its USP.
Loads and loads of people have left, and even the ones that stay you don't get to see their Tweets unless you look for them if they haven't paid for a blue tick.
My 'for you' feed is not only 95% people and things I don't follow, it's about 85% people and things I don't want to follow, have no interest in, and mostly actively hate. My 'trends' are often stuff I've told them I'm not interested in and don't want to see, and when I do click on them it turns out there's been three posts in an hour so it's not even trending. They're just forcing it on me, for reasons I couldn't possibly speculate on.
It's not longer chronological. It's difficult to follow a live event, sports match or breaking/viral news thing on there in the way you used to because every time you refresh your feed it pushes posts to the top that you've already seen based on blue tick accounts and algorithm rather than when it was posted. This David Coote thing is a good example, that would once have been days and days of jokes and memes, I'm just getting the same video/pics piped at me from 100 different blue tick accounts for engagement farming.
It's very difficult to have a conversation or follow a debate on there, because if there are 200 replies to a post you can guarantee the first 50 will be blue ticked bot accounts just saying "NICE!" or "THAT'S GREAT", mixed in with adverts for an increasingly bizarre array of tat. You often have to scroll through 50-60 posts before you get to a real person.
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Reply | Bluesky
at 15:12 14 Nov 2024
Agree. They've fcked a big opportunity there. |
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Reply | Mark Warburton interview
at 14:11 14 Nov 2024
Absolutely right.
Dickie had done the same thing at Bournemouth just before that as well and basically cratered from there when he'd previously looked like the best defender in the league for a little hot streak. |
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Reply | Mark Warburton interview
at 12:53 14 Nov 2024
The frustration was in the first season the football could be terrific. And he was very forward focused, often at the expense of the defence.
By the end we'd gone into this very staid, backwards and sideways, boring nonsense. Blackburn away I remember being a real ordeal. He just seemed to go away from those ideals that he brought in the first place.
I'm sure he'd say he had Eze and Bright in that first season, and in the third one he ended up having to replace Chris Willock with George Thomas, but still. |
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Reply | Mark Warburton interview
at 12:19 14 Nov 2024
We actually finished 11th that year, he was mistaken on the pod we were 13th in his first year which given the attack we had was probably a bit under.
But he's still the only manager we've had who's performed to the budget. Outperformed in two of his seasons. |
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