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  1. Posted · Edited by kick it off

    He's dog****. That's coming from somebody who desperately wanted him to succeed as our first Polish player. Hopefully recalled just to sell him to an Ekstakalasa team as nobody else would be interested in buying him.

    The only time Placheta is the answer is when the qesution is "Which useless speed merchant who never actually outruns anybody is crossing another ball into Row Z or dribbling out of play again?"

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    You'd better win @king canary because even if 49ers lose, Dallas play us and they will stomp us. No doubt about that.

    I dont see where Wentz gets a job next, he's awful. He has been the epitome of professional in his locker room conduct, no complaints around the toxicity that he was rumoured to bring but guys aren't inspired by him, he's not a leader.

    I just hope the new ownership come in with some fresh ideas. Rivera has to be gone at this point but might end up with one more year just due to circumstances - kind of depends when the new ownership gets put in place I guess.

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    Washington really blew it. 87% chnace to make the playoffs 5 weeks ago and they didnt just screw that up, they did it in spectacular fashion.

    Wentz was downright embarrassing last night - so glad we'll be rid of him after next week. We're not that far away from being a decent team but we have to find something at QB and we need to retool the entire OL, they all suck.

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    9 minutes ago, Well b back said:

    I will stand to be corrected, but I thought the only thing they had in common was being German and Wagner plays the Klopp way, High press ?

    Wagner does employ a high press, but there's lots of similarities. 4-2-3-1, Keeper plays it to feet, build from the back, dominate possession, short passing game, attacking full backs, attackers given license to move around.

    https://terrierspirit.com/david-wagners-tactics/#:~:text=Another key part of Wagner's,and try to find space.  << more detail there.

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    I'm happy with this. His teams play decent football, he understands the philosophy and what we want to see. He can work with Webber and they trust each other, and far more tactical nous than Smith.

    Ok it's not the prototypical perfect imspirational appointment, but he ticks an awful lot of boxes. It's a sensible, relatively safe appointment and we get a return to the free flowing football that we demanded. Farke essentially was continuity from Wagner at Dortmund. Similar styles of play. We wanted Farke 2.0 and this is pretty close.

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    5 minutes ago, Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man said:

    Sara just strikes me as being very inconsistent, but not in the usual 'from one game to the next' sense, but from one moment to the next. 

    Stiepermann 2.0... Samba edition

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    8 minutes ago, hogesar said:

    Kenny was very good tonight, so wouldn't have done him any harm.

    I really don't like Mclean as a player and think he's a waste of a shirt most weeks, but I agree with you, he was very good today.

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    1 minute ago, Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man said:

    More energy, more direct and a higher tempo but an awful lot of aimless long balls into the channels. Elements of Pulis/McCarthy-ball, and we'd be moaning no end if we were to see this for five or ten games in a row. 

    It only seems like an improvement because Smith played poor football with no urgency or plan, and the higher tempo tonight at least makes it look better on the surface.

    Agree to a point, but we caused problems and looked threatening. We dominated possession for a lot of the game and not just by passing it between Gunn and the CBs. The early balls into the box had Reading worried several times and our passing was generally better and as you say tempo was improved. We looked like we had a purpose rather than having just turned up for a kick about. The aimless balls weren't a highlight, but seemed less frequent today. I would say it was markedly improved, not just because of the tempo. 

    I wouldn't want to watch that every week but seems harsh to say that wasn't a much improved performance (albeit the bar was very low).

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  17. Posted · Edited by kick it off

    On 29/12/2022 at 16:06, FenwayFrank said:

    Why are people fighting over energy drinks in Aldi ?

    Absolute ****ing madness. The whole "Youtuber/influencer" culture is one of the worst things that has ever happened to society. People are literally stupid enough to fight over a chemical and sugar laden monstrosity because whatever lab created it were smart enough to do a deal with the talentless ****wits who *** about doing **** all of any use to anyone. KSI didn't create it, he endorsed it because he was paid to do so. Wtf is wrong with people?

    Humanity is now at a point where survival of the fittest unfortunately means we're heading for mass extinction because the majority of the world are thick as ****.

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    11 minutes ago, horsefly said:

    And your evidence for this is what? You're falling for the utterly disingenuous right-wing distraction tactic of claiming that those who raise issues about race equality (etc) must de facto be ignoring the claims of the white working class. It is nothing more than far right wing recruiting propaganda to pretend that there has to be some kind of war between the needs of various under privileged groups, that there is only so much social justice to go round, and that white under privileged kids aren't getting their fair share because middle class lefty do-gooders are only interested in ethnic minorities. There are huge numbers of groups campaigning on issues that affect white working class kids. For example, the many groups acting on poverty do not distinguish between the needs of the poor on any kind of racial or ethnic ground. When Marcus Rashford began his campaign for free school meals I don't remember him saying that white kids were to be excluded. When education charities enter schools to help children with reading or learning difficulties they do not exclude white kids from that help. 

    The problem is not that the needs of white working class kids are being ignored. The problem is that they are being preyed upon by disgusting right wing racists who tell them that their impoverished situation is being caused by the attention given to other ethnic minorities. It is a (racist) divide and rule tactic used by the unscrupulous as old as civilisation itself: "It's not those in power who are responsible for your plight, it's that group over there who are stealing what is rightly yours". So Hitler blamed the Jews for the poverty of the German working class, and right wingers blame lefty do-gooders for the impoverishment of white working class kids in modern day Britain. Strange, because I've yet to meet a lefty do-gooder who doesn't want social justice for white working class kids as much as they want it for any other under privileged child of whatever identity.

    All underprivileged kids deserve social justice. 

     

    You're bang on here, the problem is the poverty of so many of our communities, and their insular nature which comes from decades of abandonment. This is what is being exploited by the far right, and I totally agree about the obfuscation and subterfuge employed to turn it into a dividing mechanism for society. 

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  20. Posted · Edited by kick it off

    26 minutes ago, Herman said:

    They offer easy answers to complex questions. That's all they do and always will. 

    To be fair to LYB - I don't think he is arguing in favour of them, just saying that if the issues of this group are never addressed by political discourse then they are a fertile breeding ground for alternative viewpoints. He's not wrong in that regard.

    The problem here is conflating it with left and right wings of politics. These are communities (at least in my area - Nottinghamshire) that were largely left behind by Thatcher shutting the mines and everybody since then on both sides of the fence has totally ignored.

    That's why you get so much traction in these areas for UKIP, and idiots like Lee Anderson and his ilk. They aren't interested in Westminster, they're interested in people who look like them, and sound like them and tell them what they want to hear, because there is a fundamnetal distrust of all politicians who have done FA for these communities for more than a generation. Dennis Skinner is another example on the other side of the divide - demographics of his constituency were almost identical to Lee Anderson's and about 10/15 miles separated geographically - people in these communities aren't interested in political nuances and intricacies of policy,.... it's not about left and right, its about communities being left behind and looking for personalities rather than policies.

    Andrew Tate and his popularity in these communities is a symptom of a wider malaise, and LYB was righ in that respect. Blaming it on the left and identity politics, when the Tories have been in charge for the vast majority of the last 40 years is where his argument falls down.

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    11 minutes ago, hogesar said:

    Like Wagner, if this is genuinely our sort of interest level then it's an automatic admittance from Webber that he got it wrong and should have stuck with Farke or at least a Farke - like Character...

    I mean, the alternative is saying that sacking farke and replacing him with Smith instead of a farke like character was the right decision, which doesn't have any mileage in it.

    I think maybe it's more an admission of getting it wrong with Smith than anything else, but that's not a stretch, sacking Smith was an admission he got it wrong with Smith.

    When Webber walked through the door, we were told very clearly that having him as sporting director would ensure we had a consistent identity and style, and when coaches were replaced, the new one would pick up where the previous one had left off. Obviously somewhere in the 4 years of Farke, Webber evolved his view and felt continuity of tactics and style would mean continuity of the relegation cycle and opted to change tact... it didn't work, so appointing someone of this mould would indicate to me that he is going back to the original plan.

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    14 hours ago, Wings of a Sparrow said:

    I knew nothing about this 'character' until the Twitter exchange yesterday. What an absolute a.rsehole of a human being.

    Worryingly ALOT of the lads at my school think he is the second coming of christ and his views are perfectly fine, he's just misunderstood. School is in a deprived area, working class lads and this is what they are exposed to online and think is brilliant. He's massively popular with teenage boys. VERY worrying.

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    This is the first name that sounds really legitimate to me. Wagner sounds plausible but this seems like someone we'd go for. I dont know much about him but seems to have the right philosophy.

    Stuttgart seem a bit of a basket case, he was their 3rd permanent manager in 12 months and were 3rd having won 11, lost 5 of his 20 games in charge when he was sacked. After his sacking was covid interruption so hard to make direct comparison but they won 6, lost 5 of the remaining 14 games and finished 2nd.

    https://www.vfb.de/en/vfb/latest/news/professionals/2019/vorstellung-tim-walter/

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  25. Posted

    8 minutes ago, TeemuVanBasten said:

    Don't think he did. 

    Bellamy yes, it wasn't Muscat who crocked Eadie.

    He got a red card for a lunge on Eadie though, but Eadie didn't go off injured.

    He got sent off at FCR several years after he crocked Bellamy too. Can't remember why. Just remember the huge cheer when he finally walked against us.

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