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Spot on, WG.
Yep, don’t believe what you see, ignore the evidence of your own eyes, and just remember we are strong and stable…..
The main risk with playing a whole team of youth is if they lose a few games and heads drop, confidence saps away and they can end up ruined for a season or more. This could happen to Watson, as keepers are especially vulnerable.
Youngsters need to be brought in gradually and learn their trade around older heads. Anyone having served an apprenticeship knows this.
Young, rooky players plus inexperienced manager = expensive, ugly car crash. And that’s what we’ve got this season.Sack the vicar? Why, what’s he been up to??
No doubt the club will support him as best they can. However, we’ve seen plenty of cases like this before, where wayward young players in need of support just don’t get it from managers who are themselves under pressure, and who don’t have time to get alongside and effectively ‘social work’ footballers, because there’s a ton of other things they have to do and they could themselves be unemployed within a month. And, how many managers has he had while he’s been here?
Course, you could say ‘if others can behave, why not Colclough?’ but that would be missing the point.
“As with football so with life”…
Good point Ferrite.
Immigrants, blacks, teachers, single mothers, social workers, the homeless, the low-paid in general…. Don’t complain or level the playing field, just look after number one and hang on to what you’ve got or you might end up like them – relegated and begging for a handout!
This country has become a world leader in reality denial.
When racists start sounding off, decent people get angry because they see it as a violation of respect for others, an injustice against other members of society. They get angry because they don’t want their community sullied by racism, disrespect and intolerance.
It’s important that people speak out against racism, because when good folk say nothing, the more the racists think it’s ok to diss people of other countries and cultures. It creates an atmosphere in which it becomes ok for others to do this, because it appears that nobody minds.
UKIP exploited this, and the Tories did too, when they saw how popular UKIP were becoming. Both thought they could win some easy votes by blaming the financial crisis and austerity on immigration, rather than failing Tory policies.
They ran campaigns based on fear, bigotry and fury, rather than rational evidence or thought, which effectively gave license to disgusting people to be racist and follow their own dark hearts.
So when lying leaders in politics, together with their supporters on here, all create a climate which implies it’s ok to be racist (you know who you are, Jonnies, Or-not, doppelgangers and dad), it’s not surprising that specimens like IITB feel comfortable being disgusting from behind a keyboard, because nobody knows who they are. You reap what you sow, and people like this are your Frankenstein’s monsters.
The things this country fought against in two world wars – fascism, intolerance, racism, prohibition of the truth, the abuse of minorities, and campaigns of lies organized by liars, spread among those who were unlikely or unable to seek out reliable information, have now become the ‘leitmotiv’ of those who have the brass neck to call themselves patriotic. That is the lamentable state of affairs of the UK in 2020.
If you listen quietly, you might hear your forbears turning in their grave at how those with tawdry, bilious, racist opinions which carry the weight of an empty crisp bag, have come to form national policy. It’s as bad as Covid. It’s the disease within.
Opera at the Albert Hall, Melky??? Surely some mistake……
https://www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/
Not a soprano in sight…
Try the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, tho’ sadly tonight’s Madama Butterfly is download only!
https://www.roh.org.uk/tickets-and-events?event-type=opera-and-music
But back to the OP, an radio important doc today on football finance, dodgy ownership of lower league teams, etc.
Not looking good at all. Cox has descended into madness even at this early stage….he appears to be one of most safety first, conservative managers we’ve had.
Agreed.
In the past this would have led to speculation about Swann’s role. Cox said in the Humberside interview today ‘this is how the chairman wants the team to play’ or something very close to it, but in these cash-strapped times, who dares bite the hand that feeds?A teenage black lad from inner-city London trying to find his way in north Lincs. needs consistency from someone with the talent to manage his.
Unfortunately, he didn’t get it here, and from age 16 he’s had about 9 managers in 8 years, most of whom were struggling themselves. Plus, some ‘fans’ were quick to get on his back when he did make a mistake.
Not good, especially in the early years – as any teacher knows.
Just turned 24, he still has great potential which McCann has evidently seen and can bring out at Hull.
He’s had too many managers – about 7 at GP alone before he was 22! Not good for a talented young player.
Certainly did.
He’d just turned 22 when he left. Nobbut a lad, and that was after a season of 49 appearances and the club in league 1 playoffs.
He needs a manager with the talent to handle talent.
Fantastic graphic of our passes from the weekend’s game.
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Is that tongue in cheek, SST?
The main stat from this weeks game was Crawley 1 Scunthorpe 0. And the qualitative assessment is that it was yet another crap performance.most posters on here hate the royal family and probably the country itself.
LK, being patriotic – i.e. loving your country – means loving the people within it, not blindly cheering your leaders, no matter how incompetent they are.
Brainwashed, euphoric followership is what they used to have in China, for example. Or Nazi Germany…..
… most posters on here hate the royal family and probably the country itself.
#leftisthaters
Most people on here hate the way the country has gone in the last ten years, yourself included. And just look who’s been in charge. It’s not complicated, in fact it’s staring you in the face.
I’m actually looking for a new kitchen so will give these guys a call.
This is the sort of thing said by little people with big mouths when they’re in deep financial do-do. What a shame, BI actually filleted by the Tories themselves!
Following on from NI’s comment, some years ago there was a Spanish manager – I forget his name – who advocated the bat-man defence, i.e. ten men hanging from the crossbar, bat-style, and the goalkeeper darting around the area. It was particularly effective in night games, apparently.
Maybe we could try that. But would it be sufficiently Wilcoxian?
And there we have it…. (sigh).
I wish I could share your enthusiasm, MKIron. Reading through the posts about this match and others, it’s a litany of despair. How long before we get an entertaining performance? How long before we actually win, not a throw in or corner, but a match, let alone a trophy?
Pennies from the PL indeed, Ferrite, and probably lucky to get those. Will it make a difference on the field?
I see the club gambling on the unpredictability of youth, with the youngest team in the league. I see dwindling gates with spectators counted on a handful of hands, even when the gates are finally open, and God knows when that will be. At this rate we’ll get the line up of likely players: Watson, Bedeau, McGahey, etc. followed by a line up of the likely crowd: SST, WG, BS, MistertonMick, Ferrite, Darrynstamp, Cass, Cliff Byrne, Sanfran, DutchIron, Alfred…. Subs in case the regulars are in the shed: Gurnelista, NI, Heathy, DM, BRI…
Maybe it’s just the time of year, or life, or Covid…. but even tho’ it’s the start of the season, a time which should lift the spirits and galvanize us with optimism, following the club and keeping the faith has recently got so hard.
Exactly, folk like AWG being gung-ho about how much they don’t know has become almost mainstream thanks to the populists in charge. And, that’s why the infection and death rates per capita in Britain and the US have been among the worst in the world.
Just look at Johnson a few months back, poo-pooing the risks, back-slapping and shaking hands and all and sundry, telling people to just wash their hands and sing ‘happy birthday’. No doubt AWG was singing from the same hymn sheet.
Then what happened? Johnson nearly died, probably after passing on the disease to numerous others.
Evidence here and in other European countries suggests rates are increasing again, and with some returning to work and uni, coupled with cooler weather, more time spent indoors, and a general outbreak of ‘I’ve had enough’ selfishness and ignorance, it’s likely to spike again, and may be around for the next 2-3 years.
You seem to be saying you’re happy to take your chances, AWG, because even though you might catch it, you might not die, rather like with flu’. However, unlike with ‘flu, you might unknowingly acquire Covid, and pass it on to others who won’t be so lucky.
And that’s why you should be taking precautions, whether you like it or not.
It’s this ridiculous mindset which stops people coming out and saying what they feel/think. This is why everybody nowadays feeling like they’re constantly treading on egg shells.
WG, I’ve read your stuff before and frequently agree with your knowledgeable comments on football matters, but this is a shot wide of the post.
We all have opinions about all sorts of stuff, you’re absolutely right. But our opinions shouldn’t confuse feelings with facts.
We all have feelings about football, our wife/girlfriend, family, maybe our job. But here we’re talking about factual matters. It’s a fact that masks help, if they are clean and fit well. It’s also a fact that infection rates are lower in some areas because people are taking precautions by social distancing, wearing masks, not going out much, etc.
It’s also foolish and dangerous to think that because Covid infection rates are low, it’s safe to go back as usual to social gatherings. It’s like saying that it’s OK to drive without your safety belt, because death rates from car accidents are nothing like they were in the 1970’s, so the risk must be lower!
Trouble is, in the current climate it’s become ok to confuse feelings with facts. Populist politicians like Trump, Johnson, and Farage all rode high by making people prioritise feelings over facts, feelings about immigrants, feelings about the EU, feelings about nationhood and exceptionalism, even over Covid, initially.
The government even said it didn’t like experts (or unskilled immigrants, for that matter), and they worked hard to target their messages at the kind of voters who would be susceptible to their propaganda, voters who were unlikely to seek out factual information (middle-aged and elderly, with a big family and non-university education).
Putting our trust in such a band of fools was catastrophically wrong, as we’ve discovered to our cost. And the more we let feelings rule over facts in these matters, the more we let the lunatics run this virus-riddled asylum.
OK thanks for clarifying. Everyone should see the original comments from Bradley Guest, as well as how it was reported on the BBC, so they can make up their own minds about it.
What happened to the original thread(s) on this?
The BBC picked it up and ran a feature on it – why on earth not IB?
Exactly what are contributors permitted to say and not say now?? Come on Matt, this is national news. It’s also in the public interest.
The club needs to act – it’s no wonder players like Haks didn’t feel at home here, or why black players don’t want to live in the town.
Les, I felt the same way about Farage years ago. It was plain for all to see. I wish you had too.
“Calm and on an even keel”? I admire your optimism, 99%!
Logging in feels like walking into a familiar pub that’s just had one of those Gordon Ramsey style makeovers – it seems the same yet it looks all different.
But Matt, as IA says above, little un should come first before a few pixels on the screen.
Pity about the archive, you often get better sense of somebody’s political opinions etc. by browsing past comments, rather than just looking in an individual forum. It was also useful for ‘today’s listening’ if you wanted to catch something new, different, etc. Maybe it could be reinstated going back a year or two, instead of 4-5 years, to keep teh database smaller.
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