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Morgan / Tactical explanation of Pochettino's tactics
Smirking_Saint replied to benali-shorts's topic in The Saints
I would suggest that most teams know how we play anyway, its not difficult to work out with the data and analysis equipment we have. -
Post Match Reaction: SAINTS 2-3 Aston Villa
Smirking_Saint replied to Saint-Armstrong's topic in The Saints
Agreed but also for the third too many players seemed to just not track etc and it was a 1/100 strike. Also the second was poor from cork and then nobody stoped what ended up a very good cross. We were mugged, your right, but there were too many little mistakes. -
Post Match Reaction: SAINTS 2-3 Aston Villa
Smirking_Saint replied to Saint-Armstrong's topic in The Saints
Yup, lets not talk about Lamberts poor displays this season -
Because only the best teams can afford those creative, hard working players, you are talking the Wilsheres and Rooneys of this world. Tonight we just played poor, Cork seemed out of position at times, Yoshi was too tight for the first, and the third was a team fault followed by a worldie. Teams tighten up against us, and we play narrow so they tend to tighten up around the box which means we need deep crosses or very quick passing. I think Ossie will work with our system, and we will all click, as I said before its the silly mistakes we are making and lack of depth that worries me at the moment.
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And potentially detracting from the high pressing ? It all depends on the trade off, besides, we have one, Ramirez would look much better if he was passing to a more mobile striker but he probably doesnt fit the system.
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Insightful as ever glasgow
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We had 21 shots, 9 on target. Thats not bad going. We've been doing ok until this little run of bad form. We need to cut out silly mistakes and IMO drop Lambert as he doesnt suit the system.
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Not in the prem we didnt, and when we tried it we let in a boatload. Nobody complained when we werent letting many in, and infact we restricted them to 3 shots on target tonight so on another night would have probably won. Our problem in this system is that Lambert is not the man to lead it and Ossie isnt firing yet. But this is nothing new, I said this last year when MoPo came in but I was told Lambert would be ok. Our problem is we have started letting in silly goals, cut that out and we will be ok
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Russell Brand rages at Rupert Murdoch and The Sun
Smirking_Saint replied to Saint-Armstrong's topic in The Lounge
Of course, I would love that too but lets be frank what your talking about is a Utopia, of course that would probably be everyones dream on the surface, but in reality it will have its pitfalls. The only way really for that to be sustainable would to follow a communist like policy, 'for the people, by the people' as we have all seen before those societies just dont really work, true socialism will never work anyway as a people if we had no overall leadership we would crumble and many will succumb to put themselves first instead of helping out their fellow man, of course Id like to think it wouldnt, but it would as its in our nature. As per the destruction of capatalism be careful what you wish for, as much as I agree with you in the fact that most major capatalists will stop at nothing to boost profits etc it generally pushes technological and socialogical advances, I know you like your gadgets, as do I, even China embraces capatalism to some extent. As per your project, I agree, I have worked in R&D and integration of new communication protocols into the industry I work in aswell as new gear, you do that slowly. But will this work in a real time social experiment ? And what will you do if this mini environment fails ? Its hard. And this is my point, Id love a 'Utopia' but its not possible. What we need is to change the way we do things, capitalism wont go anywhere, nor will our type of government, but small changes can be made to how we work our current system. -
Russell Brand rages at Rupert Murdoch and The Sun
Smirking_Saint replied to Saint-Armstrong's topic in The Lounge
No but as I explained earlier its not how the industry works, its not going to be building any starbucks either without outside investment. -
Probably, I dont get time to be on here much with just me, I mean, partly because its nowhere near as good on here as it used to be because of the constant ubermodding and derailing of threads but also theres work and social life. Fair play if all he has is this forum, its nice to know people have places to go.
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I think so, but he is still here, x2 at the moment
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MLG can you confirm that is you talking boll&cks on the blackburn forum ?
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Russell Brand rages at Rupert Murdoch and The Sun
Smirking_Saint replied to Saint-Armstrong's topic in The Lounge
I vote bear You just need a slogan -
Oh thats just Glasgow, and I dont think he was actually banned was he ?
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Decent return last season, looks like he has something about him, word from the training ground is he is our most talented player, IF he was golden boy surely he would play ?
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You need chances to score to be honest, and we dont create enough Sharp would give us nothing at all in our build up or pressing game, IMO
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Shout
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Russell Brand rages at Rupert Murdoch and The Sun
Smirking_Saint replied to Saint-Armstrong's topic in The Lounge
Thats one of the most ill informed arguements Ive read on this thread. -
Russell Brand rages at Rupert Murdoch and The Sun
Smirking_Saint replied to Saint-Armstrong's topic in The Lounge
The only current british owned company SSE said it was interested in developing nuclear power but did not feel it had the correct expertise to carry out the build. The reason we went for chinese money (I think its a joint venture between China and France actually) is due to their expertise in delivering nuclear power, safety records and possibly some political posturing in building ties in China. So no its not a case of the 'only way of funding' the energy industry is not state owned and so the funding comes from outside, keeping it off of any government budgets, ok, so promises have been made to 'pay back' due to future energy prices but essentially this will reward us as energy users as it 'should' keep prices lower. This is essentially why this industry was sold off, it cost too much, essentially every year the government went over its budgets propping up the old district operators as they were not allowed to turn a profit and could never efficiently run the network to approved budgets. Oh and yes, communism is a socialist form of government I suppose, but not one Id wish to govern us, would you ? -
Russell Brand rages at Rupert Murdoch and The Sun
Smirking_Saint replied to Saint-Armstrong's topic in The Lounge
Whilst many could not argue that the current form of government is not working (and Im not going to start debating labours merits over the tories etc as they are systematically as bad as each other in reality) what other options are there ? Brands rant was exactly that, a rant. If he believes that there is a serious case for a socialist movement to revolutionise the political systems why does he not go about lending his name to a suitable party ready to deliver a viable alternative instead of making a rediculous statement such as 'stop voting'. Dont get me wrong brand is a very intelligent and articulate man, (though as I have said before I fully believe his eloquence is such to steer the average person away from realising his points have little to no actual volume to them whatsoever) but I think he should stick to seriously discussing what he knows, I do like him but he seems to have made an assumption he is the peoples mouthpiece at the moment. As I said, Im all for change, but how do you propose making things better exactly ? For one I expect renationalisation of the energy industry is likely high on the agenda, I work in that industry and its been discussed to death, it wont work. But what else ? Its one thing to say that one way is not working, its entirely another thing to describe how to change it. -
I dont think thats MLG.....
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Yup, then all we need is Cattermole in the middle, get darren moore out of retirement and tell lambert to be more of a battering ram uptop
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Russell Brand rages at Rupert Murdoch and The Sun
Smirking_Saint replied to Saint-Armstrong's topic in The Lounge
Excellent post -
Didnt think we wanted any more johnny foreigners ?