Holmes_and_Watson

Nice one touch passing move gets a corner. Nothing from it and that's the break.

A bit of a stinging comment against the poor mascot.

Just tuning in before end of first half. 2-1 down.

We shouldn't rule out going for a Luton manager from the last few seasons, considering how well they...oh... 🙂

Dawson later arrested attacking the rest of the royal family with a sword ahead of a Punch magazine deadline.

Clever clubs assessing the risk of having an unproven manager enter his first PL job, could have negotiated clauses into his contract. For example, if 0 points are obtained after 10 league games, then either party can end the contract for an agreed amount. It protects the club, is negotiated to be a fair deliverable by both parties and will give the manager some recompense, while giving him every opportunity to avoid the trigger event. Martin can have a similar clause reducing the asking price if either Barcelona or Man City come calling for his possession based style.

Sponge

"Sometimes players let us down and players let us down [on] Tuesday, absolutely let us down. "I took responsibility for that but we bounced back today with a wonderful performance and I'm really proud of the football club." His taking responsibility, while blaming others hasn't gone anywhere.

Star

These. For all the safeguards that supporters want to put at the start of this, even with the best of intentions, we can look to other countries to see how that worked out. Do you trust social, economic, health, administrative and political practices and outcomes to always do the best thing for vulnerable people? If it's a "not always" then it's to be avoided.

I'm sure they are all fully funded, as they said so frequently. Just as I'm sure they are a party of trust, as that was something they said they stood for. No doubt their will be a news announcement putting our minds at rest. That, up until a couple of days ago, will be controlled by Sue Gray, a trusted (and very fully funded) person within they party.

There were proponents of it in Canada who also said that of course, it would follow the strictest of controls. That it was there only to show compassion to those clearly at end of life. Then that any expansion would follow the strictest of requirements. And here we are, with the real life examples given. It's naive to think we would somehow avoid all of the issues Canada, and other countries have. Plenty of headlines talking about care, physical and mental health crises. No shortage of scenarios where people mistakenly feel they are being a burden, or are beyond help or being cared for. No shortage of abuses and negligence.

That's the scariest thing I've read here in a while. I'm not as up on it as hypo, but it's widened even further since I last read about it. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/06/canada-legalized-medical-assisted-suicide-euthanasia-death-maid/673790/ Considering all the health and social errors and scandals, would you really trust them with a widened assisted dying programme? "Posing as a woman named Joann, she told the doctor that she wanted to die by Christmas. Reciting basic MAID criteria, the doctor told her that she needed to be over 18, have an insurance card, and be experiencing “suffering that cannot be remediated or treated in some way that’s acceptable to you.” I'll miss you when they widen it to Mods going through a rough patch.

It's odd that our highlight reel for a player isn't the one the club look at. Rasmus: Look at that pass back! Russ: If he does that a other dozen times in this move, we've got to get him!

It will be exactly that. The logic being that having him race forward, when the rest of the team is not set up for that sort of run, means there's greater risk when we concede possession. And that systemic approach is what RM is looking for. While we get excited seeing a player start an attack, or show some momentum, RM just sees the gaps and the risk. We've had at least one player comment that they have to relearn basic football instincts under RM.

We like to make sure incoming players reach the level of the rest. 🙂

Just watched highlights. Very nice Archer goal. Especially as he was looking for some support before realising it was very slow in getting there. First goal was a needless giveaway by Downes which caught us moving forward. Punished. The second was tactical. We often don't defend that kind of delivery, as it takes much more to get it in. Welcome to the PL where players are good enough to exploit that. Third was a howler from Suga.

Loom

From his quotes, his data is telling him we're creating enough chances, but just not converting them. That supports his possession based game, and is why he's rotating through his strikers. When he did that, and to try and focus on exploiting Bournemouth weaknesses, he came up with Monday's team. They worked on it for over a week. He felt that making changes early would look bad. I'm reading his intention as bad for the players, rather than his tactics with that quote. But, he says he's learned from that. Some worrying things in there, to say the least.

A speculative Ramsdale clearance is awkwardly cleared hitting a defender's arm. No Saints player within 20 yards of it. 🙂

Welcome to another episode of Wish Upon a Star... 🙂

I happen to know that Doris prefers a compact 4-2-3-1 with an inverted attacking role for KWP! No way does the blame lie there! Hopefully, any succession planning begins with a section looking at the criteria they've used to make previous poor decisions, why they thought they were right in the first place, and if they should be involved in further decision making.

Eve

Yeah. Very much a "don't change a thing, Russ. You be you." quote. Just to make it easier for them. 🙂

It could well be the timing of that break clause that determines how long he's here.