Mystic Force

Surely the best part of this is if he gets a new job we don't have to keep paying him.

Thanks you gave me ammunition to argue, as the people who would like to deny promotion and relegation should exist will say that promotion sounds great but what about relegation. And here we are after experiencing one of the worst ever seasons, wouldn't change the system.

So I live in the US these days, and we don't have a system of promotion and relegation currently. One league system is going to do it without a clear outline and it will be closed within it's own set of clubs, and will not include the current top teams. Mexico stopped it as a consequence of Covid and are resisting bringing it back. As (including me) fans of a team that just sent down, would you rather have Southampton in a league we couldn't get demoted from or is sporting merit essential?

I am vaguely amused by the way that footballs history is littered by the wreckage of broken clubs caused by outsiders coming in thinking they know better, and their plans to be destroyed by first contact with the enemy. Then continuing to claim that everything else is wrong rather than maybe they didn't know what they were doing after all. I stopped laughing when they did it to us (again)

This was the first time this season that I thought we looked decent, but when it went against us we just completely collapsed. I am at this point expecting relegation. There is no way they turn this around. Trying to be Man City on Saints money is the height of stupidity.

I have no power of bargaining

I am wondering after how many games I am allowed to be at the below levels Concerned Worried Angry Resigned to fate I don't want to tread on toes until consensus allows me to feel a certain way.

I enjoyed their commitment to passing it out from the back, such that when a ball broke to those in midfield, they would make sure to give it back to the defenders still surrounded by Notts Forest players who would then have to use their skills and pin point passing to get it back to the midfield, after satisfying the boss they are following thr instructions. Modern football where the attackers have to have their best attribute be what to do without the ball and defenders have to be greatest with the ball.

So it seems that people who like money and ruining it for the rest of us are trying again. Flush with a ruling that footballs governing bodies can't stop it the fans can now be safely ignored. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/67791936

Charlie Munger (Warren Buffets right hand man) might not have avoided death this week but I bet he avoided a lot of taxes along the way.

Having a philosophy makes you predictable, and without the individual players able of changing the approach you will get countered that's the inevitability of all football tactics that get overcome by people who don't just sit there and take it.

I am wondering if Russia called up one of their few friends, Iran, asking if they knew anyone with some grievances, Hamas, that could cause trouble to a non Nato western aligned state, Israel, to distract the United States from continuing support to Ukraine. And letting them win their war. Seems convenient timing that a large Russian offensive attempt is launched a few days after Israel kicks off. Because pulling all the necessary equipment and hiding it away is not the work of a moment, but something that would have to be planned. This clear Russian failure is why Ukraine haven't tried their own blitzkrieg attempt but using tactics more reminiscent of British bite and hold operations from WW II.

Didn't Chelsea win a league title with the 2nd or third least possession? Only lower teams were some awful relegation fodder. Not that playing ultra defensive all the time is anymore entertaining than looking like you are playing keep the ball against no one

The one question I have is, If Pep Guardiola was suddenly parachuted in to our team, would he make them play the Man City way, or would he have them play a different way based on the players available strengths and weaknesses. I think Pep is a good manager, so would therefore attempt to maximize his chances rather than slavishly follow a 'system"

So in modern football the hipster things is for attackers who specialize in not having the ball and defenders whose prioritize playing the ball.........