Whitey Grandad

The climate is always changing and always has. The question is how we cope with it and what we can do about it. I have mentioned this before but there is strong correlation between global temperatures and high-energy solar emissions (not total solar irradiation). Research continues...

The current rate of change is very sedate. There is evidence that ice ages can start very quickly, within a decade or two.

I know that I was trying to make a point that 'record global temperature' doesn't mean much if you're only going to look back a couple of hundred years.

And you youngsters think that baby boomers always had a good time. Free love, my arse. http://www.feministezine.com/feminist/historical/Good-Wifes-Guide.html "Clever wives are ever on the alert for new and better methods of denying and discouraging the amorous overtures of the husband. A good wife should expect to have reduced sexual contacts to once a week by the end of the first year of marriage and to once a month by the end of the fifth year of marriage. By their tenth anniversary many wives have managed to complete their child bearing and have achieved the ultimate goal of terminating all sexual contacts with the husband. By this time she can depend upon his love for the children and social pressures to hold the husband in the home."

I had to look up what it meant

That can't be true. I'ms sure it was much hotter when dinosaurs roamed the earth.

Absolutely this. No player is indispensable. They could get injured at any moment and be sidelined for most of a season.

Partly because 10% of the fee goes to Celtic. Does anybody know if that's 10% of the gross amount or 10% of the 'profit'?

Very good, but too subtle for most.

Strange logic there.

Why? Most of our shots are from distance and into a packed penalty area. Bare statistics tell you nothing.

It's pronounced 'Cashcow' If anybody's interested Tyreshack down on the Millbrook Industrial Estate give a very good service and good prices.

I think you'll find that the players won the cup, not the manager.

Certainly wouldn't be able to post on football forums and suchlike.

Are you sure it wasn't KFC?

Unlikely. I think Thelonious Monk has been dead these past 35 years. There again, he could probably do a better job than Puel

Yes, it makes you wonder why we employ him. Maybe it's to provide a face to the press and public.

I can tell from your replies that you have never been in a managerial position or an office in a military organisation. Professional footballers have always behaved this way. If one player didn't like another he would deliberately give him a pass that was short or one that invited a crunching tackle. The extreme example of such behaviour was in Vietnam where fragging of unpopular officers became increasingly common. It's not a matter of 'not being arsed', there are lots of ways in which players can underperform and we have witnessed a lot of this in recent months. It's what is referred to as 'lost the dressing room'.

He wasn't the only one and it was in lots of games.

Puel is also getting paid shedloads of money and if he can't get the players to do the business for him then he's not up to the job. Hurt feelings? Poor little diddums (in French)

Neither are they cattle to be herded by whips. There are plenty of books on how to manage people to get the best out of them. It could be that Puel just doesn't have what it takes.

No, it says that Puel has lost the respect of the players and no authority. It's like naughty kids playing up in front of a poor teacher.

He hasn't gone yet. Has he?

What, even with an exciting new manager?

Do you think we're going to get a cup final every year? If not, then getting there once is not really a factor.