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I didn't know that. I hope someone tells Russ.

I caught some of Harris's speech in front of the White House. Impressive setting, but you're right that Hi Viz Don is front of the news I've seen today. Harris's team wary of leaving openings in any interview, let alone one lasting 3 hours. Trump isn't worried about that and Vance would be fine there too. It just connects Trump to voters and adds to the remoteness of the politicians Trump complains about. Looking forward to them both on a zipwire tomorrow.

Every one of those touted as the next best thing by the same people I heard say the same about Martin and Jones.

Tea

Something...deep state...something... 🙂

Fooled Dragan too, to put up the money.

And in high Viz too! #manofthepeople Nice to see a bit of balance. Sadly, it's the nature of things that one side will leap on any slip from the other, and run with it as far as possible. The roast comedy point was worth hearing too. Always takes me by surprise, as it's not my kind of thing. Trump: Warm up act with a history of that, and who and libbed on the night. Biden: Stumbling through the sentences leading up to his comment.

I'd no memory of that either. "The decision was ratified by the FA Council in January 1981 and two of the last red cards, for the time being, were shown to David Hodgson and Nicky Reid in a game between Manchester City and Middlesbrough." I clearly have Panini memory, with the stickers of Reid and Hodgson I'm immediately appearing when I read that. 🙂

Some 80 odd million non voters out there. I've read a few things suggesting that Trump's name recognition and style has caused some worrying on the other side, as he can pick up voters more easily. A fair bit of that was for unregistered voters though. Like the Puerto Rica comments, all it takes is for someone having an emotive response close to the day from something really horrible.

I still think they got interested when RalphBall was going well, they heard about the playbook, and knew Gao wasn't investing and looking for a sale. They thought that they could come in, implement their ideas of getting on the cusp players from elite clubs, with some Brentford like signings and thrive in the PL. They hadn't paid enough attention to when RalphBall went wrong, and even with best of intentions, haven't done at all well in dealing with much since.

I doubt we'll see the best of either of them in RM's system. Not to mention the bit parts they've had as opportunities. Both decent purchases though. Nathan was out of his depth. Perhaps time away finding out the training and development plans of elite clubs, then applying those to his approach on a club our size would have worked. He said he was data driven, so then he could have seen the improvements across the squad. Even then, I remember Stu coming on, and having to turn and ask what was expected of him in a game that had already seen a few system changes.

It's hard to imagine SR actually being so invested in/aligned to RM's approach and a 10 year plan (possibly following it), that they wouldn't make the changes if we get well beaten in the next 2. They were supposedly invested in Ralph's system and had looked at Nathan over a long period before bringing him in. They could follow a Brighton data approach. Where they could see where they needed to improve, and work on that confident the results would come. Martin will no doubt have pointed out finishing (note: from not many chances) and individual errors (note:within his system). The large squad, recruitment and resources will have played their part on expectations too. Having gone through managers to get to here, are they wanting to follow another cycle of it? Do they really have confidence their hiring approach is going to keep us in the PL this time, when it's not worked at all so far

Edozie did actually score a few last season, the same number of league goals as Fraser I think. Fraser made an immediate impact when we got him. He's experienced and I had no issues with the deal bringing him here, even as that impact faded a bit as he fell into our system. Sule was frozen out. Showed some pace but no end product. Even less than Sam. BBD is wasted out there. Cornet is better than what we saw against Stoke. He's very match rusty, and his own reactions showed that. He wasn't happy how it went any more than we were. But Sam offered more. Presumably AA and Dibling are other options out there too. I thought Sam was improving this season, and was looking forward to seeing more of him. All of them, like our other attackers, suffer with the system. We try to move teams around from such deep positions that attackers have a lot of work to do as a unit to get any chances. Stoke played compact and narrow, allowing AA some freedom on the right. Others are less narrow, but compact and we struggle to get anything going from our passing across our back line. Before he left, Sam was trying a number of different things, often having to wait for support. With our bloated squad and struggling results, a season away will hopefully get him more game time. He can use the things he's developed under Martin with his own strengths. We should get a better player back.

Troll

Today's quick look has Trump saying "whether the women want it or not" in reference to protection from "migrants" and "missiles" The Beeb have a still of Biden at the worst possible point of him interacting with a child dressed up as a chicken. The still shows Biden taking a bite from the child's costumed leg. So one for those folk believing in the worst of activities on social media. The actual video of course shows something rather different.

He looked as though he was myopically trying to read from an autocue. Even then, he stumbled with the sentences leading up to it, resulting in his comment. Hard to know what he actually means, with his lack of coherency. I understand why getting there, he wanted to hang on for his second term. But he looks frailer every time I see him. Just think of the comments he'd have made had Harris not been selected and he was picking up on all those appearances.

Under

After the draw, they were interviewing Ruud van Nistelrooy. He was in a black pullover and had stubble. So 2 of the key SR requirements right there. If he's not part of the incoming coaching set up there, he must be on our radar now. Obviously, he'll have to ditch that high scoring nonsense he was doing tonight.

He absolutely is. If he goes on a run under RussBall, it creates too much space to pass to a team mate expecting a short, sideways pass. As our forwards will have dropped back to collect a pass, none of them will be forward to receive any of his crosses either. So Suga's natural instinct and expectations are going through some changes.

I hope Lallana goes into the right dressing room. 🙂 Home at least.

Yeah. It stopped the Democrats from getting the full news mileage on the Republican warm up act's comments. I heard that Biden had wanted to be supporting Harris more at events ahead of the election, only for her team to politely keep him as far away as possible. Probably reducing the chance of accidentally spiking oil prices by keeping him quieter too. I wonder what else they'll do to alienate voters before the election.

One of the million programmes breathlessly devoted to Man Utd's management change mentioned that they brought him in, expecting the same style of possession football as he was using at Ajax. The pragmatic Ten Haag tried instead to get some use out of the squad he inherited, and couldn't shift on their vast wages. So, they became more counter attacking. Which is where he's clearly gone wrong. Like Martin, he should have stuck to his guns, enforcing his style. If he somehow lasted until Wilcox got there, he would have found a like mind who would talk about "the project" rather than someone who was more pragmatic, and put of step with those above him. Martin's style at all costs means that clubs know exactly what they're getting. There is no Plan B. He's pinned his career path on it.

Dose

RussBall struggles to get past a compact team after all this time of practicing it. Doesn't appear that they've spent any time on anything else, such as getting the best out of TP. Stick with that plan A.

Doubleplusgood.