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I will hear nothing bad against SR's new appointment! 🙂

Yes. It only has power for a single trip into the past. So, I'm using it to go back and get my younger self to support another club. 🙂

That'll teach him! 🙂

For all the clubs looking to fleece and ignore "legacy" fans, it's amazing how many other things are their to replace watching dross. Something they should all keep in mind when things aren't going well.

Your sentiment was perfectly clear. MLG confessed to being a "bit of a twat" last week, and is just living up to it.

Lovely day here. Local non league team at home. Could race back to watch us...saw 3 centre halves with Sule there to provide for Mr Rust...mind nearly made up then...saw that first had gone in, and decided to stay where I was.

Their goal was a long passing move. You could see the layers of triggers VA have trained for, activate, then get by-passed. One in midfield broke from that, but hard to say if that gave them a little more room or as everyone else couldn't stop it either. A more direct equaliser from a cross from the right, getting a touch in the centre. That took it to a VA player, unmarked as their defence had been drawn into the middle. VA had one ruled out. Paris had a sitter and looked the better side on a surface VA weren't the most comfortable on. VA once again showing that they are not a promotion pushing outfit in this league, and fully deserved their position. As a neutral, it was decent. I like grounds where you can watch the world go by outside it. In this case the traffic.

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Well, he directed their sport...globally. Like it says on the tin. 🙂 Let's see... Not an achievement, but ticks SR's up and coming box by not being old. Worked at a high level in a multi club model. The clubs involved all at a good level. One of the clubs he's worked at had RB in the title. So, that gets a tick from all the other multi club groups that want to follow what they do. Another club he worked with had strong links to Player Farm FC, or Chelsea as we call them. Worked a lot with Ralph Ragnick, who is highly thought of presumably in places that don't follow man utd. According to one site, reduces ages of squad, the wage bill for them, and hones multi club recruitment models. All of which SR are in love with. All sorted of at that fluff level. The sites don's say if he got the coffee changed in the vending machines, or concrete examples. I guess we could look at the position of the clubs while he was there. But that might not reflect youth and recruitment that takes time to come through. Definitely a SR vision he's aligned with. Rather than just paying the going rate to get where we need to be, to fill gaps in the side sort of appointment.

It's not a coincidence that Sargent is in there alongside Sainz. Norwich's lone attacker can be an isolated spectator without a really good creative players pulling the strings. They looked good back when Buendia was doing the same. That said, there's no doubt Sargent has improved season on season. So, not taking away credit from him. To have two in there, as their season has limped into midtable shows how good those two were.

Global Sporting Director with infamous multi club owners, 777. Bad example? 🙂

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I thought his days were numbered, at the time of the Villa loan. But, despite the outcome for the team, he's got on with doing what he can. For what we paid, we've had that back. He's also kept his place through all the other centre backs that have come and gone. He would be straight into the first team for next season too. I think he'd do okay elsewhere, and agree that it's hard to begrudge him a move.

Point taken. But if their finance was really as bad as their football, they'd be harvesting our organs to get a few quid in, after losing it all when their crypto got pinched. Something like that would be a parallel with how badly they run the football side. 🙂

I think it ended up being the same. Mr. Football's genius plan failed. But he's not short of a new plan. Every day, if needed. So, the "plans" are just reactions. As such, things get worse as the whole thing is shot to pieces as we've seen this season.

I think this is right. They used Tino's success as proof that a policy of signing youth players at top clubs, who were perhaps too good for their academy, but hadn't broke through, was the way to go. Proof of their low cost, high profit model. Also piggybacked onto our record with the likes of Bale, Walcott etc Then, following the takeover, promptly- Expanded that pool to players not at the same level Thought it applied to every position Thought they could buy in bulk Moved out experienced players, losing ability, knowledge and leaving developing kids to play a lot of minutes, where their form would fluctuate.

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I believe SOG shared a story about many people collapsing on the streets of Paris, being treated by Paramedics during a heatwave.

Can't wait for MLG's reaction when God's interview tape is leaked, and it turns out all the things he moans about in the universe are down to poor recruitment.

By Jove! By this logic, MLG is indeed lazy, pedantic and wrong. Unheard of...well ... probaby since his last post. lambtiss is correct.

Surely @trouserswould just use bicycle clips, and have nothing to do with lycra?

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He's probably got a yoghurt in his fridge that's of more interest to him than philosophy at all costs managers. 🙂

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