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Reply | Southampton v Swansea City : FA Cup Match day thread
at 07:09 13 Jan 2025
Apparently Vipotnik's missus gave birth yesterday morning. We took him all the way to Southampton same day and he didn't even get off the bench when we could have given Wilson some times with the first team squad and maybe even some minutes on the pitch instead.
That's pretty poor man management again. [Post edited 13 Jan 7:32]
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Reply | Teams today
at 19:58 12 Jan 2025
Yep.
We have nowhere near one of the worst squads in the division. Could do with beefing up in certain positions for sure, but most would probably say the same. Mid table is about where we should be.
That's the key for me. Even a squad of poor players can look like they're organised, drilled, working to some sort of plan or even vaguely resemble a team of people who haven't mostly all met on the bus on the way to the game.
Twelve months on after Williams arriving can anyone honestly say that's what we are? |
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Reply | Teams today
at 18:47 12 Jan 2025
Last paragraph is it for me.
It's just a limitation of a lot of coaches these days. If they don't have players of the right type or quality to play the way that they want to play, the concept of maybe playing a different way doesn't register with them. They're all so desperately one dimensional. All trying to Ape Guardiola. |
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Reply | Southampton v Swansea City : FA Cup Match day thread
at 18:16 12 Jan 2025
It is unfortunately the mindset these days. There are far too many people who build their opinions of players from what they glean on stats websites rather than actually watching games.
"Completed passes in the final third" is one that people often rave about him on. Of course, mostly that's just playing passes from flank to flank. Hurting nobody. Creating nothing. Killing tempo.
You can see that with your eyes on the pitch. You don't need Transfermarkt to tell you that it's pointless. Likewise the five or six touches when two or three will do, the immediate pass back where the ball came from even though he's in yards of space to turn, the runs made by forwards for a pass that if it comes at all comes too late, or behind them.
If I thought he was incapable he wouldn't annoy me half as much as he does. [Post edited 12 Jan 18:27]
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Reply | Southampton v Swansea City : FA Cup Match day thread
at 18:00 12 Jan 2025
No team built around Matt Grimes will ever consistently play fast paced football. He can do it, but he doesn't. Him being the undroppable ever present, the conduit through which everything passes, is a major part of our problem.
Hiring managers who continue to allow him to do it is another. |
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Reply | Teams today
at 16:00 12 Jan 2025
I don't think anyone is defending MPH by saying that he should be playing AM. I mostly do it by stating that he's not a winger, which he isn't.
Personally I'd see him as more of a Pratley type than a Paterson. |
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Reply | Teams today
at 15:44 12 Jan 2025
Because he has no interest in developing our youth. Indeed, given the damage he's doing to Abdulai's career, a decent case could be made for him deliberately doing the opposite. |
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Reply | Get the Blankets Out
at 10:38 12 Jan 2025
Quite possibly. Basic human nature in action.
It's a situation probably not helped by the people in charge of the projects on the Government side not being up to the job of managing schemes on that level. If you're a person with that level of ability then you're not going to be working for a Civil Service wage. You're going to be the one on the other side of it. |
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Reply | Get the Blankets Out
at 09:44 12 Jan 2025
We do it every time we build a nuclear submarine. Same basic principle, just scaled up. The skills and knowledge are most definitely there.
It's so costly because of the planning process. It's probably doubled the price of HS2. |
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Reply | Labour's New Tick Tock Video
at 20:44 11 Jan 2025
And to think that there were people trumpeting that "The Grownups were back in the room" after the election. Currently they're making the last couple of Tory administrations look competent.
This recent story is a cracker too...
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