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The way it's implemented on the pitch might change. But this does seem to still have a lot of standard SR in it. Rather than just handing it over to someone, with more of a track record.

There seems to be a bit of that here, with him having attributes they've been looking for when bringing in others. His already having been very much on SR's thinking before, allows them to pretend they are saving face, and keeping to their underlying goals. His sides have been more defensively solid, as they wanted when brining Selles in to help Ralph. He has that pound for pound, over achieving set of results as per a Nathan. That, as per all the others, fits in with the core SR ideas on how to maximise sales. And he's got a distinctive brand of play, that got him some attention, and a move to Roma. The upward trajectory of Russell, combined with the Nathan set back, Rasmus likes. Why bring in a Moyes to just get on with it, when you can have all of that going on, in the decision making? 🙂

This. I would have been interested to hear views, if people were interested in discussing, as per other threads. But seeing who started it, meant it was likely to end up in the usual way. Being ever vigilant to protect the canteen cutlery, can change a person. 🙂 Much the same for me, particularly with the folk I knew from school going into policing. I consider myself fortunate to only deal with certain areas tangentially. Even those, and the training, are really harrowing. From what I've seen on replies to SOG, it wasn't a distorted view of reality, so much as glibly trying to attach himself to real CPS investigative work, as opposed to the administration of it, that assisted in him getting into bother trivialising child abuse. I first thought CE was Church of England, as per recent news. But I see it's this again. And this is why people may choose not to interact. A serious subject used as an excuse for other things. All with the usual pretence a 4 year old could see through. Just in the OPs I see in replies, there's the usual stuff. They aren't posts inviting anything other than echo chambers/ validation replies. Just excuses to get out some whataboutery, old grudges that are still not over, insults to specific posters that then broadens to those not interacting. That's not even starting to take apart the comments themselves. Just a shame to see threads go this way.

If things go okay, probably best not to mention "onnus" as it sounds close to where @SNSUN is getting a tattoo. 🙂

Still not over Farke's passing it out from the back. To put people through that again, with no hope of it changing...

I got a stare when I suggested this to my Norwich supporting dad. 🙂

My brother has followed Italian football for decades, and gave me a breakdown of Juric's style. It wasn't a ringing endorsement (which is just fine, after our football revolutions under SR), but said that he was on a hiding to nothing at Roma. Fans were never behind it, and pounced on the first poor results and it went downhill from there. Before that, he had done well to get teams punching above their weight in a top division. Doing it across multiple teams is a plus, that makes him stand out as a go to person, just as we've done. He mentioned the tightened defence, I've seen mentioned elsewhere and preference for 3 at the back. Good timing that he's an available manager who was on SR's radar, and whose last departure had club specific circumstances around it.

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Thanks for that.

He's been getting praise for his work at Preston and could do to be a manager at a much higher level...hang on, I think I've just had a time slip to the last time we were really interested in him. 🙂

Ah, that's a shame. The tators in his first game coming in were mentioning the good saves he was making. I was pleased for him.

See bold above for your point. An extra word can make all the difference, and you shifting goalposts in your second post doesn't change that. A shame that your prolonged absence hasn't improved the thought process behind your posting.

Like putting a crease, in the wrong place. Forgetting to fill the water tank, before you start. Like putting a mark on your best white shirt And isn't it ironing, don't you think? Alanis Morissette - First Drafts Breathlessly waiting to find out if Director of Football Mascots would be just the same as Director of Football Operations and Director of Football, as it's just a word of a difference.

Well, he's got evidence of it going back to the '70s, when he bravely stood up against it by storing them as anecdotes for football forums of the future. Andrew Tate is the go to hand wringing name drop like Tommy Robinson or Katie Hopkins are for other subjects. In this case, it didn't need a self proclaimed mysoginist. It was men from all backgrounds, pasts and circumstances either perpetrating crimes or not highlighting concerns to authorities. It's the devastation of abuse impacting whole families and wider society.

You can have players who look fit OR are fit OR who have proportioned body parts. Might as well ask for the Moon on a stick to expect more than that. 🙂

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I think cab drivers put up with enough without people having a slash or stroking anything off in the back.

When's your next Mr Men book, Mr Football, coming out?

All year, we apprentices have been keeping the little shavings of coal left round the office hearth. We have a great Christmas tradition of burning them when we're working on Christmas morning. Obviously our superiors don't light a hearth on that day, as they graciously allow us Christmas afternoon off, and the heat would be wasted.

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All part of the plan. Martin might not be the manager for us now, but that's only because we weren't quite ready for it yet. A caretaker coming in, just to get us a few points before we go down, and then we'll be looking for an up and coming manager with a beard, a philosophy and a Rasmus mandated bad spell behind him. That, and continuing to build the squad to better suit next time... #trusttheprocess #tenyearplan

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We had one poster wanting Saints to become a global powerhouse. Others have criticised their belief they can abandon tradition and develop new footballing philosophy. SR have immediately come out to address both. Looking back to early days of Italian football dominance, we are to have The Year of 4 Managers, just like they had in AD69.