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Reply | Varanne
at 09:59 1 Dec 2024
Fantastic in his defensive role since he came back from the suspension, has learned the pace and is much better at reading the game and putting himself in the right place to break things up. Still can be frustrating on the ball, he has plenty of ability but he quite often slows things down when it comes to him and has a bit of a tendency to play a loose pass or run himself into trouble. I think he'll get there, he clearly has the talent and he has played some decent balls through - now that he's learned how quick he has to be to impose himself on other players in this league he'll have to learn how to handle them doing the same to him. |
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Reply | Morrison, anyone notice?
at 09:53 1 Dec 2024
Marti tried that 5-4-1 a few times; both JCS and Morrison wre comfortable stepping into midfield (and actually Cook is decent on the ball too and has a good range of passing), so if all three CBs are fit he might try that. |
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Reply | QPR v Udinese B Match thread
at 13:54 30 Nov 2024
Once again looking at Morrison and thinking what a difference he's made since coming back - fills that JCS role better than anyone else. Though right as I say that he plays them in dangerously... |
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Reply | Liam Morrison
at 21:59 27 Nov 2024
Seemed to just be managing minutes/getting a fresh player on. |
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Reply | Celar
at 21:58 27 Nov 2024
It's Ashby who finds the pass, Madsen went off a few minutes before. It's a good ball too, he has a second to look up and see the space and gets the delivery right (helped on by the Cardiff defender!). |
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Reply | Liam Morrison
at 21:55 27 Nov 2024
Yep. Feel like he's made a big difference since he came back from injury fully. |
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Reply | Cifuentes gone?
at 12:04 26 Nov 2024
Got to be quite a rare circumstance for a team to be bottom of the table in the kind of form we're in and there's near-universal support for the manager staying in the job. Says something about Martà that the fans and players seem to still be with him. |
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Reply | Frey / Celar V Dykes / S Armstrong
at 13:01 5 Sep 2024
Everything about his approach to pre-season, how he fits into the team, and how he's been on the pitch this season suggest the bloke's really committed and desperate to show how good he is now he's fully fit. Looks like a positive story after a tough start in January.
Thought it was interesting that when he's talking about the unicorn celebration it's Jimmy who's kicked that off; he seems to be the heart of this team in a lot of ways. |
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Reply | Tyler and Sints cam comms at Luton
at 12:59 5 Sep 2024
I've really enjoyed Tyler's commentary since he joined, I think he does a great job and in particular his style strikes a good balance of working for the audio-only stream too. It's interesting to see him switch on and off on the comms cam - you can see him turn on professional mode for the immediate seconds post-goal, then relax and start celebrating once he stops talking. I think he's a Leicester fan outside of work but he's clearly having a great time here and enjoying being at our club. |
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Reply | Charlie Austin ADHD
at 18:16 28 Aug 2024
I think there's two separate trends. There's definitely a group for whom the point seems to be to define themselves by their diagnosis and then use it as a shield for accountability. They're very vocal online, though undoubtedly they also exist in the real world. I don't think they're really new, but the language of mental health and therapy is just the trendy way to make excuses for themselves. Some of them will grow up and some of them won't.
On the other hand there's a much broader trend of people getting diagnosed later in life because of better awareness. The thing with ADHD is that the understanding of what it is has changed over time (or put another way - been better understood). I was in school when it started becoming a more common diagnosis but it was strongly associated with kids (and almost exclusively boys) who acted out a lot, couldn't sit still, class clown types who needed calming down and generally were failing academically because of it. If you didn't fit that profile it wasn't thought about. Women got it even worse because girls are much more strongly socialised not to be disruptive. If you're now in your 30s and 40s (or even older) and seriously thinking about it for the first time, it's likely that you'll look back at your school years and think wow, how did nobody notice? And the answer is you weren't ADHD in a particular way.
The problem for me, and I suspect a lot of similar adults, is that succeeding at school and succeeding in real life aren't the same thing. I'm very good at exams; the pressure engages my brain. I'm rubbish at consistently delivering work over a period of time. If you're "bright but lazy," as I was often described, you can cruise through all the way to degree level as long as you pick subjects correctly. Work's a different question because most employers expect you to deliver day in, day out. Sometimes you're lucky and the job suits how your brain works, or the work isn't very hard and you can deliver what you need to with short bursts of maximum effort accompanied by a lot of non-committal looking busy, but if you want to go anywhere in a lot of careers you need to be able to manage consistent output, even though your brain is insistent that it wants to do anything but work on this boring thing that doesn't need to be done immediately. That's where the diagnosis - and the drugs - kick in, because what they basically give you is the same tools that non-ADHD people have in terms of executive function.
Covid accelerated the rates of people seeking diagnosis a lot for one obvious reason - a lot of people who were in office jobs were suddenly working from home. A big part of coping with ADHD, knowingly or not, is creating structure. If that structure gets upended, particularly in the way it was in covid where the outcome was you spending a lot more time at home where all the fun stuff is that your brain wants to focus on instead of work, then it becomes a lot more difficult.
Elsewhere in the thread someone talked about pathologising symptoms and the spectrum we're all on - at what point are we just taking collections of ordinary traits and turning them into diagnoses and medicating them? To an extent I agree with that and I do think we ought to be cautious. That said there is a clear distinction in my mind between regular behaviours - most people find work a bit tiring and boring and would prefer not to do their job if they didn't have to - and neurodivergence. I can't remember the exact definition of the latter but it's something like when the behaviour is so difficult to manage that it seriously impacts your ability to engage in ordinary tasks; in the case of ADHD, that's mostly around executive functioning and making choices about doing something. The other big point of difference is that it often impacts things you DO want to do as much as things you don't. Think about making decisions with ADHD as being like driving a car; we both know that we need to turn left, but you have power steering and I don't. That's the gap the medication (and/or therapy) is meant to bridge. |
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Reply | Celar
at 08:52 28 Aug 2024
While you're on the lookout for people shouting down the opinions of others, may I suggest investing in a mirror? |
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Reply | Celar
at 21:56 27 Aug 2024
Bloke was whinging about Celar 60 minutes into the first game of the season as well. Some people are just desperate to be unhappy. |
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Reply | QPR preseason training/games in Girona
at 12:34 1 Jul 2024
Somehow it hadn't previously occurred to me that Marti has done a Warnock and booked pre-season somewhere close to home. Do we think he'll give the lads a barbecue or will they get a chance to sample some paella? |
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Reply | Transfer rumours 2024
at 09:47 19 May 2024
Yeah, it's pretty standard social media strategy. You get much better results by posting something small every 24-36 hours or so. |
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Reply | Players we should have got rid - way before we did
at 12:58 16 May 2024
Didn't someone at the club tell Clive that directly at one point - every time a new manager joined they'd see this brilliant Niko kid in training and wonder why the idiot before them never played him and then they'd try it and find out for themselves that he was crap? |
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