Holmes_and_Watson

There's always space for cosmology puns.

It was a sad indictment of his planning/ coaching. But not just him. He was an up and coming managers going into a club with decent tenures in the PL. That there was noone else at the club who was involved in laying down/ insisting on basic requirements for Martin to build on made everyone involved look incompetent. Lots of people happy to go along with failure.

Very much this. Stats or not, you could see it whether Martin was in charge or not. I'd like to think the fitness, coaching and analytics team were about to mutiny behind the scenes, at how much it would impact performance against teams at Champ and PL levels. Instead, I think it just became the new culture, that other managers couldn't shift and the coaching, fitness and analytics were rubbish. Still will hopefully be benchmarking expectations on basics against the best teams promoted from this league and those that then stay up. Because, if he buys into what's been in place, he's on a hiding to nothing. Which is why... Very much this too.

Density jokes are tough. You think you're making a star post, but instead you come across as a hole. 🙂

And Stephens to add to the list, and to be on that list for a couple of extra seasons too.🙂

"Yes you were champions. But you weren't good champions. Not with below 70% possession." Edit: Champions hasn't applied to Rangers for a while outside their seasonal aspirations.

Michael Sheen begins to prepare his Russell Martin beard for The Damned United spinoff: Old Firm Damnation.

A decent percentage of people in the early days of football, would collapse from cholera, or from their lungs being unable to cope with anythng other than fetid pit air. It was just part of a normal match day. 🙂 I'd not say that people weren't bothered before. That would be callous and not remotely backed up by lots of occasions of fans helping each other. But there does seem to be a shift in people looking for a football match to continue while someone is in possibly a life threatening situation in the ground. I don't think there's been any rules changes, and no doubt there are other medical situations that are taken care of without stoppage. But when it's as serious as that, technology links up the various medical and safety teams, so that action can be quickly taken, with on site defibrillators there to save lives. It's surely easier for everyone to be aware of the situation and allow as swift and focused attention as possible to aid that individual. There's probably VAR checks that have had longer stoppages.

Probably a good thing to have moved on from "Sure, he'd have lived. But at least he died hearing the crowd chant 'Stephens! You !*#£', one last time."

In fact, you even pointed out that as long as it wouldn't impede treatment. My point was that it either always would, you couldn't afford the time to work that out, and getting to a person fraught with problems in the middle of a game.

So vanishingly unlikely to happen. That's just the attacking and scoring bit. The BBD bit is sheer fantasy. 🙂

I think that a crowd of people focused on a game, is always likely to impede getting someone in ground treatment, or evacuation. Someone dying because first responders couldn't get to them as the team were attacking and looking likely to score (Saints fans safer there), opens the club and FA up to legal action. I'd be more concerned with the safety of the first responders getting through match focused selfish bell ends than the collapsed person selfishly holding up a game. Points deductions and massive fines for any club who has people collapsing right on 70 minutes each game. 🙂

If you purr-use the above, you'll see I told you the mods wouldn't take the puns lion down.

A horse is a horse, of course, of course But is this horse a transfer source? Is it's reputation, one we can endorse? If so, we don't have to re-enforce And can watch without remorse.

I'd have thought losing 7 goals to an under 15 team isn't all down to comparative skill levels. Various sporting bodies have tests, even if just testosterone ones, to prevent unfair physical developments in women's sport. The U 15s will already be strong and fast simply down to biology. Deciding to play such matches is going to attract lots of derisive comments. The scoreline, the age of the opponents, the implication of the women's skill. But the coaches aren't playing the games for that. The womens team's tactics are put to a hard test against a well trained side that has power and pace to close down passes more than playing against other women's teams would provide. It's a test of their own strength, stamina and fitness too. Imagine having access to train against teams with increased physical attributes. Think of the sharpness you'd take back into your own game. A lot of women's teams at club level would benefit from doing something similar. If only there was a way this could be applied to our men's side. But our attackers get to run out against Cap'n Jack and Baz every day. 🙂

And there's the plot of a low budget UK sci-fi film, concerning the guy who transports alien foetuses from UFOs to secret government labs. Mix up happens followed by hilarity and terror.

While we can. I hear the mods are putting an end to puns, by inserting a claws into the forum terms of use.

. No reason to have a hissy fit about some puns

Did you not tell them it was raining cats and dogs out there. Mainly cats. 🙂

Rude

The halcyon days of our Aussie support... Disclaimer:Born in England, but an Aussie international.

Which of us doesn't go weak at the knees, at the thought of a possession based 'keeper? Sorry? "not that kind of shudder?" Ah, I feel awkward now...🙂

Sarlacc

Our number one, front and centre where he belongs. Mostly, as being anywhere except front and centre is a weak spot. 🙂

The worry is that this impacts SR's relentless drive to get all their clubs into the Champions League.