Declan

Why does this sit with the AG's office? 

Seems a straightforward admin job of maintaining the register, checking KYC, general correspondence. I doubt those functions sit with the legal function at any bank, insurance firm, or e-gambling office in town. 

We've forgotten the rust on the slides of our childhood; we remember the sliding.

Wooosh. 

3 hours ago, manxman1980 said:

Arne Slot it is then...

A Dutch manager with an administration for Pep Guardiola and a reputation for an attention to tactical discipline. 

Reminds me of a description of someone else....

Johan Cryuff?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68906421
 

Tatlockesque incorrectitude. 

1 minute ago, Chie said:

I responded and then deleted.

 

In these circumstances, the convention round here is "Nevermind" not "Nil".

Or become a subscriber and you can delete posts. 

He doesn't have the money.

"If I have a fish for tea the tide will come in tomorrow," said the old man. That night he had fish for tea and the next morning the high tide was lapping against the sea wall. "Told you," said the old man. 

And you were proven wrong. They played their best football in the immediate aftermath of the announcement.

The team isn't the finished article and come up short at the end of the season. Do you think "not being quite good enough" for lots of complex reasons is a less accurate explanation than "Liverpool would have won it if the manager hadn't said he was leaving"

A cup (admittedly the wrong one) and champions league qualification is fine, about expectation and keeping the title challenge alive to mid April made it more fun, plenty of exciting comebacks. It's been a good season, maybe next season will be better. 

I've asked this before but it wasn't taken seriously, how does it look to fans of teams that spend all their time moving between league one and two to see Liverpool fans acting like this is a bad season? Isn't that entitled and arrogant?

1 hour ago, Moghrey Mie said:

I suspect it will become a Health and Social Care Levy in the next budget.

That's potentially worse. 

5 minutes ago, Shake me up Judy said:

 I heard that the new head at RGS has just paid £10,000 to carpet the school gym for examinations. You couldn't make it up. 

Surely somebody did make that up?

1 minute ago, Roger Mexico said:

Presumably when this reaction happened at the West meeting it suddenly occurred to the CoMin members that their seats in the Keys might not be as safe as they thought they were.

The South didn't matter because no-one from the Government will be standing there next time. 

3 minutes ago, thommo2010 said:

I seen a post the other day about Gaza/Palastine and someone commented on it that if Michelle Haywood wanted to do any good then she should go out there and help, she came on the comments and started going on about the abuse on the thread towards her was terrible but there was no abuse directed at her, some of these MHK'S live in a bubble where they see any kind of disagreeing opinion as abuse 

There are people who are unremittingly negative about everything politicians do. There's people on here who slag off COMIN for being useless, some backbenchers for asking lots of questions and being critical of government and other backbenchers for doing nothing. The cognitive dissonance must be deafening. 

Also woman politicians generally get it worse. 

But that's not an excuse to deflect criticism.

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"Concerns were raised by the Council of Ministers over an air of negativity across the board which was largely put down to increased use of social media."

Or "If people were less informed and engaged in what we do they wouldn't know how bad things are and would be happier."

That's been the root cause of recent poor performances. I think well organised teams have worked out how to deal with Trent stepping into a quarterback role. And being a work in progress they've not got a plan b. 

Some of the best football we've played this season has been when Gomes and Bradley played like Robbo and Trent in 2020 and got down the wings. But the last throw of the dice last night was to put Tsimkas and Gomes on, but too late. 

I think we've got to remember this was meant to be a transition year. There was a whole new midfield this season. Finished 5th last year. The BBC's poll of pundits had us finishing behind Utd this season.

If we're honest we rode our luck in some games earlier in the season and maybe that lucks rebalanced itself.

Team making progress, third and a cup's a fine season - not the great one we dreamed of, but most fans would be happy with a season like that. It seems churlish and entitled to treat it like a failure.

I agree the last few managers at United have been fall guys for structural problems at the club. The lack of a strategic vision, which the director of football should oversee. There's a lot of short-term decisions to appease the fans on social media. Sack manager bring in an interim, he does ok give him the job. Buy a big name player at the end of his career who's good at first then tails off. 

United's current team are weird. They can be resilient and have lots of talent but they can completely lose their heads for ten minutes. Sometimes in the same game.

Also what kind of football are they trying to play? 

I'm not sure all Liverpool fans are "all in" on anything. 

I could say I wanted Alonso because of his history as a player and with the club. Because he was being successful in Bundesleague and Europe and played a style of football that I like and would favour our existing squad. 

And we know Jose wouldn't be  great fit. 

But does anyone really know enough about the the Sporting or Feynoord manager? They might be ideal, but I don't know enough. 

Dutch managers traditionally - Van Gaal, Koeman, the current United guy - haven't been Liverpool type managers. But I'm sure Cruyff would have worked.

2 hours ago, littlebushy said:

They don't need to dump much rubbish down South as they have their bins emptied weekly 😉

But they don't collect our recycling so we have to go to the tip with them.  I'd rather Douglas's service. 

23 minutes ago, manxman1980 said:

 That approach goes back to the problem that @Declan outlined before about play continuing as if nothing had happened before being brought back and potentially something else happens like an injury in the time between.

It would occur less often than under the current laws.

At the moment, the linesman doesn't flag when an offside occurs but lets play go on. Most time there isn't a goal and the lino then flags. So people get injured challenging when the play is meaningless. 

In Thommo's proposal the linesman would flag if he thought it was offside and play would stop. The challenge would only come in if there was a goal and if the linesman thought it was onside and the opposing team didn't (ie every time there's a goal!). 

I can deffo see Pep doing that. 

I guess there could be a limited number of challenges per half and only after "a play" has come to an end. However even then a team hanging on in injury with challenges in hand could use them to disrupt the other team's momentum - like last minute substitutions are used. 

It’s not necessarily even taken at the moment the ball was kicked and you can’t see where the Coventry player is either. 

7 minutes ago, manxman1980 said:

Isn't it also a rule that both teams must have the same number of players on the pitch for a penalty shoot out?

Meaning if either Martinez or Onana had been set off then the opposing team would also have had to remove a player.

You seem to be right ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penalty_shoot-out_(association_football)#Procedure

See pts 12 and 15 I suppose the other team has the advantage of ditching their worst player.

But "If a goalkeeper is sent off during the shoot-out, another player who finished the game must act as goalkeeper." So  goalie getting sent off would result in a non-goalie going in nets and the worst penalty taker on their opponents not getting to take a pen.

1 hour ago, manxman1980 said:

Sorry that you don't like United benefiting from this decision, however, there is not a perfect solution at the moment.  People were unhappy with decisions pre-VAR and they are now unhappy with decisions it makes.  

Until an automatic system is approved then I am afraid we either stick with what we have or go back to the previous imperfect decisions.  

It's not United specifically, just using it as a topical example. If you revisit my first post - I give TWO scenarios for how this would have played out without VAR, including flagging for offside before the ball ever went into the back of the net. Cov fans may have booed in the moment but it would be forgotten now. 

16 minutes ago, woolley said:

The penalty yesterday was never a penalty. How was he supposed to get his arm out of the way other than trying to withdraw it, which he did? A similar one was not given against Coventry.

I can't comment on that Liverpool were playing at the same time so I've only seen the end of extra time and pens. 

But, in general the handball rule has also been messed up thanks to VAR and Wenger's Crazy Rule Committee. And that rule affects every level of football - what's an unnatural hand position for an 8 year old running around school playground?

And this business of the yellow card count beginning again for a penalty shoot out. That's like a free pass for goalies to be unsporting. 

On 4/20/2024 at 1:02 PM, HeteroErectus said:

 

(My personal favourite..)

Beach volleyball.... in a "warzone".

Yeah but Hamas's psy-ops wing are playing Metallica to put them off.