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Reply | Grimes and Fulton
at 06:57 4 Oct 2024
People keep saying that the atmosphere was better. Not that I ever witnessed. Understandable nostalgia for the most part, but inaccurate. Certainly no match I ever saw at the Vetch came close to the Forest playoff game for example. Not even Hull. |
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Reply | The Crown Estates
at 22:49 3 Oct 2024
No they don't. However, most who don't are complete halfwits.
I mean, you've neatly illustrated that by demanding that Crown Estate income go towards transport, defence, education and healthcare when it's already been demonstrated that at least 75%, in reality more than 90% of it already does.
Communicating with Welsh Nationalists is like dog training. You hope that 15-20% of it sinks in, but you can't really have any expectation. |
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Reply | The Crown Estates
at 22:32 3 Oct 2024
Thanks for providing a perfect example of how moronic most people who post forth on subjects like this are. |
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Reply | Anyone going?
at 21:33 3 Oct 2024
This.
The Cardiff forums are an endless source of amusement. In much the same way as Victorian Londoners used to pay ha'penny to tour Colney Lunatic Asylum we can do the same, and it's free. |
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Reply | Grimes and Fulton
at 20:36 3 Oct 2024
Tosh was before my time, but I do occasionally indulge myself in wondering what the Hell Frankie Burrows would have thought about xG, or any of the other myriad examples of what passes for football thought these days.
Football should be a simple, entertaining game, and these Moneyball obsessed prats are stealing it from us. |
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Reply | Letting prisoners loose
at 20:22 3 Oct 2024
Yep.
There's plenty of support out there. There are many, many people in the exact same situation as a lot of these offenders and somehow they refrain from getting arrested and sent down. |
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Reply | Grimes and Fulton
at 20:17 3 Oct 2024
It is a bit.
We're better defensively. That's the major difference. Otherwise we obsess over possession for the sake of it, we do frequently end up moving from attacking positions to our own half and regularly put players in positions that don't suit them. |
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Reply | Kaba ‘killing’
at 20:14 3 Oct 2024
Unless something happened that hasn't made the press yet it's absolutely bonkers that this has ended up in court.
Justifiable shooting. End of story. |
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Reply | The Crown Estates
at 20:13 3 Oct 2024
So basically 75% of all "Crown Estate" income ends up with the Treasury where it is spent on stuff like the NHS and Defence. That's ignoring the reality that nothing like 25% actually ends up in the Monarchy's hands.
I'm a Republican. I think it's absurd in the 21st Century that anyone can be deemed "better" by accident of birth, but the lack of understanding of what this money is and where it goes is crazy. |
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Reply | Grimes and Fulton
at 20:08 3 Oct 2024
I don't really subscribe to the "Things were better at the Vetch!" nostalgia. The Lord only knows I witnessed some horrors there over the years. The move to White Rock has been a massive boost to the club overall. For nearly twenty years we haven't been out of the top two divisions. When I started supporting the club, that was a pipe dream.
I do agree that the expectation of instant success is an issue. I've seen many, many grumbles about how we should have done this, or that in the Summer, as if a team can be built in just one transfer window. The last time we got to the PL we had players that we'd signed nearly a decade before as part of the starting lineup. These things take time.
The coaches you know who have a healthy disregard for the endless, tedious stats analysis are a rare breed. I wish them well. |
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Reply | Grimes and Fulton
at 17:40 3 Oct 2024
*Cue "Old man yells at cloud" type rant*
If terraces still existed and I could stand next to my mates without worrying about keeping a seat I'd have probably ditched my ST at some point during the Martin era and started picking and choosing matches. Watching games these days is a chore more often than not, and the maddest part of it is that the younger fans, the ones who should be demanding entertainment, are lapping it up.
They're all over the place with their heat maps and their possession stats and their passing charts all trying to out nerd each other with their analysis. Hardly any of them know how to just watch games these days. Ask them why a manager is quality, why a performance was impressive or why a player is good and not many of them can point to passages of play, or tactical choices, or moments in a game. They sure as hell can throw the numbers at you though.
I'm not pining for the days of 4-4-2 and knocking it long, but there has to be a better way of playing the game than we have since 2019. |
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Reply | Grimes and Fulton
at 11:51 3 Oct 2024
The most pleasing aspect is that we have tightened up defensively since he took over, albeit with quite a few assists from LV at the moment. The team presses quite well, and there are finally some signs of a style beginning to appear.
On the downside, the nonsensical and completely unnecessary playing players in the wrong positions has to stop. As do the frequently absurd substitutions, and the continued emphasis on ball retention over chance creation that you can see in the sheer volume of times that we end up with the ball in a dangerous area and seconds later find ourselves back on the halfway line. That can be coached out of players. It isn't being. [Post edited 3 Oct 11:58]
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Reply | Grimes and Fulton
at 09:37 3 Oct 2024
There is certainly an element of that to it.
Overall I thought we battled quite well last night against strong opponents though. Certainly there are a few favourites who should be less certain of their places in the starting lineup than they are, the concept of giving youth a fair chance is nonexistent and the insistence of trying to hammer square pegs into round holes is just as baffling now as it was when Russy did it, but we have looked reasonably well organised as a team in recent matches. |
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Reply | Grimes and Fulton
at 08:09 3 Oct 2024
Eom "can't give us 90 minutes" in much the same way as Franco apparently can't give us 90 minutes, or Ntcham couldn't give us 90 minutes in that they almost certainly can, but for some reason our subs appear largely pre-determined before the game.
There was no real need to go with MPH upfront either. Vipotnik has hardly been taxed in recent matches. In any case, it would have been better to elevate Wilson from the u21's if we needed a natural striker on the bench to cover instead of shoehorning yet another player in out of position. |
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Reply | Grimes and Fulton
at 06:54 3 Oct 2024
It is, unfortunately, the modern management style, of which as a club we are all too enamoured. Keep the ball. Play the safe pass. Don't take risks. Makes for stultifyingly dull football in the main. |
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Reply | Starmer! Wow!
at 09:49 2 Oct 2024
Most definitely. Honey trapping has been a standard tactic for years. The KGB were masters of it, apart from the time when they tried it on President Sukarno of Indonesia and it backfired somewhat...
https://factrepublic.com/facts/28976/ |
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Reply | Been saying it for weeks
at 13:15 1 Oct 2024
Exactly. He's struggling about as much and for the same reasons that Latibeaudiere did, and being blamed for something that isn't his fault in precisely the same way. |
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Reply | Mobile phone use in Swansea.com
at 21:24 30 Sep 2024
I've never got much of a signal there during breaks in play, worse during the Prem era. I'm with EE and it's usually pretty good wherever else I am.
Do still think it's more to do with local tower capacity. |
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Reply | Mobile phone use in Swansea.com
at 21:00 30 Sep 2024
Wifi powerful enough to potentially manage 20,000 extra devices? Not sure if that's possible.
One of the reasons why it's hard to get a service down there is because the local towers can barely manage on a match day. It's easier to get online when the game is ongoing than at half time. |
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