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Thanks for clearing that up. 🙂

All part of the window fun. Speculation of interest in press. A club sends in low offer. We reject it. Speculation that we are unrealistic. We stand firm. Other club pursue other targets. We stand firm on further press speculation. Towards end of window, other club comes back in. We stand firm on second offer. Late negotiation with them hoping we're desperate to sell and hopefully us saying we'd be quite happy to keep our stars and get the amount we were after. With variations on contract length, better players we'd like to bring in ourselves and if we consider that player to be well down the pecking order, where we've been telling them to look elsewhere.

Since we just the same reheated tactic and outcome, last season, anything would be an improvement. 🙂

Shame you feel that way, as after your "now he's given her his washing, he's a merciless bastard" line the other day, you were top. No trophy for you now. 🙂

Is baking in the championship better than cooking in it? Is igniting the championship better than both or either or none? If someone is to rip up the championship, is that better than any kind of championship combustion? Does ripping it up, stop the available combustable material left to ignite/cook/bake, making it a bad thing? I finding it difficult to rate our players or links, without having a scale to work with. 🙂

I'd have given an extra like for that post. Was he at his best at the end of that season? No, he was not. Was anyone else in the team, regardless of their age? No, they were not. But apparently, his legs had gone, and it was all over. Plus returning from injury and contract issues in the background too. A big miss for us, and chuffed to bits for him.

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Second?! What a bunch of bottlers! Martin Out! 🙂

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At first, I really didn't think there was an awful lot he could have done for some of the goals. But I didn't appreciate that his positioning was off to the extent it was, until it was pointed out. With diagrams, as I recall. 🙂 Once I'd seen that a few times, you could see the same things happening over and over. SR used the same approach to that position as they tried to with others. I guess if you get a Lavia or a Tino type of return then great. Both of those would get injured and/or need rested, so McCarthy and Willy could step in. But we didn't get a goalkeeper at that level. Considering how rare it is to get a player there, at that level, at his age, that's not a massive surprise. I know McCarthy was injured, but when fit, as the season went on, was easily able to be better. Willy would have been too. But possibly due to trying to get McCarthy out the door to reduce the wage bill, or sheer bloody mindedness, they kept him in there far too long. Where SR also got caught out with their approach, was the number of ready made, experienced and capable goalkeepers that became availalbe during that window (as hypochondriac mentioned). But with Bazunu on his way in, and likely guaranteed a good run in the first team, SR had made their call. Like so many of them, it turned out to be the wrong one. I think they are going to stick with him again. He made a cracking save, but also that error in pre-season so far. If he is first choice, I hope that Martin has more sense than to stick with him, if it's more of the same. The window is gently closed, so as not to wake the neighbours, after a few games, so that should give SR plenty of time to either go with McCarthy, or get someone much like the options availalbe last summer in.

I think, even when it comes to bringing in experience, SR are looking to have some sort of sell on potential. Aribo, despite how that turned out, for example (a terrible example. Why didn't my brain cell come up with better there. 🙂 ). I think some of our departed figures like Redmond had more of a voice., if not leadership. Others who questioned the automatisms of Ralph's style left as well (which there are arguments for as well). I thought Romeu's absence was missed all round. Not leadership enough to prevent an abject run with him in the team though. In the end some of the squad we have, have to look to themselves to becoem leaders of the group. If we have absolutely none like that, then Martin's going to ahve to bring them in. That's not an easy fit, in an already bloated, cliquey squad. So, hopefully as amny of those who don't have the will for it, will be the ones moved on.

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@sadoldgit “I know you get all MLG about these things, but I assume when talking about Israeli policies or Jewish policies that they are the same thing.” I was shaking my head after two sentences. It’s been pointed out on numerous posts about deflecting, personal digs at posters. As you’re someone who is very quick to label others for such behaviour, remember to play the post, not the poster. @badgerx16 covered the distinction between Jewish people and Israeli policies, in the post right above your response. Right above it. You couldn’t have missed it. Other posters, including @egg, further down, have also covered this as clearly as possible for you across multiple posts. I quote you, to make sure that I’m not misrepresenting your comments on a sensitive topic. It also allows others to make up their own minds on your views, as you share and reinforce them, across threads. Another recurring feature is the habit of nearly recognising some of the flaws in Abbott’s statements, but not being able to help yourself agreeing with them. Again, her long held comments (which she’s had to apologise for previously) set out a hierarchy of racism, automatically excluding many minorities from legitimacy, a voice, equality and justice. There is no “but” to be added to that, in any attempt to minimise the impact of her comments. She’s let them known before, so it’s not a case of misinterpretation. The latest example is:- “Racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, homophobia etc. are all just types of discrimination and are, as I see it.” And you support that with Abbott’s hierarchy of racism argument being wrong with, “Abbot’s mistake was… to try and differentiate between prejudice.” But then, it’s back on the minimisation of the concerns of those groups, reinforcing that hierarchy. “Jewish people have done a better job with the label “antisemitic” as that, arguably, now carries more of a pejorative punch than “racist”.” That just continues your “Interesting that it has now distilled down to just an issue about Jewish people when she grouped together various other types who also face bigotry, discrimination and prejudice” and “…but there doesn’t seem to be such a backlash from the Irish, travellers or redheads.” So, Jewish people are just getting better optics when it comes to persecution and discrimination, are they? They’re doing a “better job” to make it carry more of a punch than it should? It’s been pointed out on a number of posts just what an anti-semitic path that was. It’s very offensive. Once again, consider the impact and meaning of your words. Tring to hand wave that offensiveness away with “semantics” and me being “hung up on our use of language” on a text-based forum, is laughable. That you don’t seem to learn from it is disappointing at best, confirmation of your actual position on the subject at worst. Apologies to Mods and @whelk for another off-thread post on this one.

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Off they go... Escape...From Relegation Room! Escape...From The Championship Room! Thorougly demoralised, they return to training... 🙂

Thanks for linking that. It was interesting. Martin said, “I’m hoping to see more life and energy from the boys." I think Jones was seeing something similar in those clips when he joined. A lack of communication. A certain insularness, from results, and possibly RalphBall fatigue. It's nice seeing the clips too, but I just see groups of players wishing the cameras would sod off, going through the drills. Martin seems well aware of the problems in having such a large squad, and getting a winning mentality across it, even though there will be plenty of changes. There's a definite cheapshot about why the players didn't react to an excellent Baz save. 🙂

"Young Billy is doing well. He just needs to get his head up a little more. Bring others into the game. On the plus side, we have promoted him to corporal in the army to fight against the New World Order. He's showing real leadership in training his direct action cell."

Yeah, those were the days. He was so good, he could practically walk on water. If he'd asked its permission nicely, if course. 🙂

I thought, right at the end, our corners looked better. I remember thinking "oh, now we do it, when he'll be out the door." 🙂 I also thought JWP did look a bit better, given some license to be further forward. There, his passes could get to attackers, and create chances. He could also have efforts himself. All without it all having to go through another player first. Hard to tell, after a while of tepid, unsuccessful build up play, what was tactics driven, limitations in receivers or JWP natural preference. I'd not mind another season to find out though.

I was brought up to never be rude to a glass of water. 🙂 I wonder when they'll mention the water contained in the human body, and the "scientific" impact of similar experiments.

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I was also reminded of some articles concerning people who cited the Magna Carta (did she die in vain?) and interpretations of common law, to absolve themselves of debt and other responsibilities. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Freeman_on_the_land and related links, show this very much in Le Tiss territory. I'm sure I saw Icke mentioned somewhere. Needless to say, they didn't get far with it. They were all subject to the law, and dealt with accordingly. They then use that as fuel as a supposedly wronged party.

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