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Post by waltzingthecowshed on Jan 20, 2019 21:49:02 GMT 1
Strange game, bit subdued by both teams. Obviously Hudson was going for the 'soak up the pressure and hit them on the break with pace' option but we barely troubled City, one or two bright spots but nothing to get excited about. The only problem with the pace option is that all Mbenza and Diakhaby have in the locker, no end end product or quality. Hogg decent though. Second goal clearly offside but City had a stone wall penalty waved away, swings and roundabouts I guess. Nice to see us go forward a bit more without looking to go backwards or sideways first. Mbenza and Diakhaby have not played enough for any great opinions to be formed on them, apart from those who know best with just a quick glance, why are these people not top 'player finders or directors of football' in the pro game..?? clearly the staff at Town rate these players and are at least 'prepared' to give them enough fucking real gametime to see if they can improve or at least get back to some sort of form that made them targets for clubs other than mighty wagners 'terriers'.. took durm a few games, took over a season and a bit for those in 'charge' at the club to notice how bad Zanka really was the biggest percentage of the time.. we have been playing the same players in the same formation and same approach for so long and so badly its gonna take time for anyone 'coming into' the club or the team to get a grip..
players with some talent sometimes take some bedding in, some coaching and some love, mbenza and diakhaby have had none of those, as yet.. by the way we lost 1-2 to city at home, one attempt on target(own goal) and 2 off target and we soaked up pressure for the huge majority of the game, not the case today, the experts say city were shit but thats always the case when it does not go fully the money's way... no mention on radio re the offside, the 3 dives by sterling and de bruyne, the ref booking bacuna on the 'advice' of de bruyne(he did not see a foul, neither did the lino) just the decision that sterling was not fouled by kongolo, he wasn;t because the ref said he wasnt.. truth is im fucked off with the premier league and all the c-nts that cling to it..city spent a good deal of today reffing the match, their bad attitude will cost them abroad.. we now have 3 'form teams' winning games without playing well and its seemingly ok? once they get well and truly fucked over in Europe the same silly c-nts will be asking themselves why? If they struggle against us and others at the bottom they will get fucked in Europe thats why, they lack the will to give 100% every week, they dive and cheat and try to have 30 minutes off in games and they get fucked over in the end.. but im not with you about Mbenza and Diakaby both havent the technique just athletes and theyve had the same chance in training to impress , never be players will end up in French leagues about their level
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Post by 4 pts on Jan 20, 2019 22:18:49 GMT 1
True and there is also a runt, oh and for what it's worth self praise is no praise. While we are on the subject as you are better than Buxton, Hand , Ross etc etc what about a few at other clubs, say Jose first time at Chelsea, Fergie, Pep ? Any of those up to much ? Of course some managers are better than others. Application, preparation. Think Fergie got 26 trophies in 27 years. In a statistical computer modelling anyone would get the same at the richest club in the world. I contend a club does not even need a manager. Fergie would finish you in less than 30 secs. Pep would laugh out of sympathy
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Post by artysid on Jan 20, 2019 22:23:40 GMT 1
Strange game, bit subdued by both teams. Obviously Hudson was going for the 'soak up the pressure and hit them on the break with pace' option but we barely troubled City, one or two bright spots but nothing to get excited about. The only problem with the pace option is that all Mbenza and Diakhaby have in the locker, no end end product or quality. Hogg decent though. Second goal clearly offside but City had a stone wall penalty waved away, swings and roundabouts I guess. Nice to see us go forward a bit more without looking to go backwards or sideways first. Mbenza and Diakhaby have not played enough for any great opinions to be formed on them, apart from those who know best with just a quick glance, why are these people not top 'player finders or directors of football' in the pro game..?? clearly the staff at Town rate these players and are at least 'prepared' to give them enough fucking real gametime to see if they can improve or at least get back to some sort of form that made them targets for clubs other than mighty wagners 'terriers'.. took durm a few games, took over a season and a bit for those in 'charge' at the club to notice how bad Zanka really was the biggest percentage of the time.. we have been playing the same players in the same formation and same approach for so long and so badly its gonna take time for anyone 'coming into' the club or the team to get a grip.. players with some talent sometimes take some bedding in, some coaching and some love, mbenza and diakhaby have had none of those, as yet.. by the way we lost 1-2 to city at home, one attempt on target(own goal) and 2 off target and we soaked up pressure for the huge majority of the game, not the case today, the experts say city were shit but thats always the case when it does not go fully the money's way... no mention on radio re the offside, the 3 dives by sterling and de bruyne, the ref booking bacuna on the 'advice' of de bruyne(he did not see a foul, neither did the lino) just the decision that sterling was not fouled by kongolo, he wasn;t because the ref said he wasnt.. truth is im fucked off with the premier league and all the c-nts that cling to it..city spent a good deal of today reffing the match, their bad attitude will cost them abroad..
we now have 3 'form teams' winning games without playing well and its seemingly ok? once they get well and truly fucked over in Europe the same silly c-nts will be asking themselves why? If they struggle against us and others at the bottom they will get fucked in Europe thats why, they lack the will to give 100% every week, they dive and cheat and try to have 30 minutes off in games and they get fucked over in the end.. I used to always want the English Clubs to win in Europe now I don't. Similarly, whilst I always want the big Clubs to win against our rival smaller Clubs I still always fume at the bias shown towards them.
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Post by softboy on Jan 20, 2019 22:23:58 GMT 1
A shame we decided not to play a striker today and give it a go
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Post by Million Dollar Babies on Jan 20, 2019 22:27:23 GMT 1
A shame we decided not to play a striker today and give it a go Yeah cos playing our strikers has worked a treat this season hasn't it. I'm glad he tried something different
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Post by softboy on Jan 20, 2019 22:30:52 GMT 1
Well im not glad we played nobody up top. the way to build Mounie confidence is not to drop him but play him - to put Kachunga up gront instead was mad
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Post by Million Dollar Babies on Jan 20, 2019 22:37:37 GMT 1
Well im not glad we played nobody up top. the way to build Mounie confidence is not to drop him but play him - to put Kachunga up gront instead was mad Kachunga didn't just play up front. All three interchanged What good it would have done Mounie's confidence to run around for lost causes all afternoon I'm not too sure
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Post by waltzingthecowshed on Jan 20, 2019 22:38:35 GMT 1
Well im not glad we played nobody up top. the way to build Mounie confidence is not to drop him but play him - to put Kachunga up gront instead was mad its the way we set up against those outside the top 6 and then the championship that counts, as long as we give it a go and attack take the game to the opposition then if the players arent as good as the opposition and we lose thats tough shit
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Post by teddytheterrier on Jan 20, 2019 22:41:22 GMT 1
Mounie and depoitre are fucking shite. Theyve scored 1 goal between them this season, it's embarrassing.
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Post by detox on Jan 20, 2019 22:50:43 GMT 1
deflected goal..offside goal and we missed at least two sitters... surely , one day...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2019 23:26:30 GMT 1
City won it at a canter but there were some encoraging signs in that we tried to play it fowarads and with a bit of pace. The difference was the big gulf in quality Talksport is an easy listening radio station, so do not expect anything considered or insightful, rather bland guff and dickheads trying to get a rise. Not to my ears. I cannot stand listening for more than 5 minutes. Morons spouting uneducated filth, adverts, morons, adverts, morons. A travesty that it is allowed to broadcast its shite to a nation. People on here slag the BBC and listen to these cretins. These halfwits and their listeners are allowed to vote. Just think about it. They have a say in your future with their knee jerk ill thought out prejudiced 'opinions'.
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Post by lindleyite on Jan 20, 2019 23:34:50 GMT 1
So would Flo, Durm or Smith Yeah but at least they have experience of been ripped apart Thought Smith did ok today.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2019 23:35:07 GMT 1
I think you alluding to the Bury post? The Bury bullshit nonsense that everyone witters on about every time i mention Billing. If you, like all the other halfwits on here, took time to look at what i posted over two years ago then you will see that i put "the likes of Bury". Nothing changed..nothing will. Lower league player at best....like Scannell...Gobern...Rhodes...got them all present and correct. I see on here people who are/were fans of the likes of Alan Lee and De Poitre...what can i say to them? Donkey lovers? I think i am right in saying i only ever claimed two players were good enough for the Prem before we got there...Pilkington and Mooy...also i said VLP.. perhaps. Not a bad call...all 3 have played there. I hated Hudson as a player but he dropped Zanka and Billing today so will do for me. It is all opinions you see....carry on with yours. You can fool some of the people...... You claim to deal in facts, well here's some for you, your like Bury quotes appeared after your original claim that by next year Billing would be at Eastleigh in the Conference, this stupid claim was of course stated as a FACT presumably courtesy of your infallible crystal ball, the one that nailed the GB Olympics disaster, a certainty, not an opinion. I took you up on this and even though I probably wager around £20 a year, whereas the Great Otium was at pains to tell everyone, on several occasions, that you've been doing over £4M a year for 20 years, didn't meet my challenge, which from memory was £100, 5 years gambling funds for me. Deny it, belittle it or smart arse it and I will pull the posts and put them back on display to show you for what you are. The man is the biggest buffoon on here. Every fact he comes out with is a lie, every statement is proved to be incorrect, his life stories have more holes in them than that sweat stained vest he is wearing in his bedsit. Read his posts and laugh at the sad cock.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2019 23:37:22 GMT 1
I could manage Town as well as anyone the last 40 years....no doubt in my mind. If you really believe that (and I struggle to believe anyone could be that arrogant / stupid - the talanted people I know are much more humble) then you should be putting the theory to the test elsewhere. You obviously enjoyed managing your womans team in a Swedish lower league (given how much you bang on about it) why don't you try and back up your claims? "No doubt in my mind". I'd suggest that degree of arrogance is stupid and/or dangerous. The only thing he has managed is a wank.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2019 23:39:30 GMT 1
Yeah but at least they have experience of been ripped apart Thought Smith did ok today. He did. I have never been his biggest fan, but anything is an improvement on Flo.
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Post by impact on Jan 20, 2019 23:40:38 GMT 1
Thought Smith did ok today. He did. I have never been his biggest fan, but anything is an improvement on Flo. I thought he had a poor game. He lost the winger time and time again, which is how the 2nd goal came about.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2019 0:03:49 GMT 1
He did. I have never been his biggest fan, but anything is an improvement on Flo. I thought he had a poor game. He lost the winger time and time again, which is how the 2nd goal came about. honest lad and done well for town but he is a championship player at best. Under the circumstances and relative to the opposition i thought he did ok and was an improvement on Flo. That said why Durm isn't first choice right back i will never know.
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Post by otium (EPBS) on Jan 21, 2019 5:22:50 GMT 1
I think you alluding to the Bury post? The Bury bullshit nonsense that everyone witters on about every time i mention Billing. If you, like all the other halfwits on here, took time to look at what i posted over two years ago then you will see that i put "the likes of Bury". Nothing changed..nothing will. Lower league player at best....like Scannell...Gobern...Rhodes...got them all present and correct. I see on here people who are/were fans of the likes of Alan Lee and De Poitre...what can i say to them? Donkey lovers? I think i am right in saying i only ever claimed two players were good enough for the Prem before we got there...Pilkington and Mooy...also i said VLP.. perhaps. Not a bad call...all 3 have played there. I hated Hudson as a player but he dropped Zanka and Billing today so will do for me. It is all opinions you see....carry on with yours. Ah so by the likes of Bury you actually mean a team 2 divisions above them? Good one. You didn't get Rhodes correct at all, he has played Premier League. And if you are right because all 3 of those have played there, then you got about 20 others wrong who have all also played there. No doubt you'll move the goalposts again with that though, as usual. When Rhodes was banging them in i said on here that he would "never succeed in the Prem". Loads of top clubs came sniffing and i actually spoke to two who came to watch him. Think i am right in saying he never scored in a handful of Prem games. I feel very much the same about Billing. If some on here think he is worth £50 million then good luck to them....honestly, if i managed a championship side i would not have him given to me. You cant carry liabilities no matter the talent.
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Post by otium (EPBS) on Jan 21, 2019 5:33:00 GMT 1
I could manage Town as well as anyone the last 40 years....no doubt in my mind. If you really believe that (and I struggle to believe anyone could be that arrogant / stupid - the talanted people I know are much more humble) then you should be putting the theory to the test elsewhere. You obviously enjoyed managing your womans team in a Swedish lower league (given how much you bang on about it) why don't you try and back up your claims? "No doubt in my mind". I'd suggest that degree of arrogance is stupid and/or dangerous. Why so? Every man who takes on the job goes in and tells the owners how he will make a success of it...all of them do that and believe it. Most fail miserably. Most fail because generally they are dumb footballers without business knowledge. Giving a £100 mill turnover club to an ex-journeyman is like Amazon getting a delivery boy to advise Bezos. Thats why top clubs have stopped doing it and managers deal with just team matters. To run a club is the same as a business....you need intellect, man-management skill, understanding of finance, an ability to handle stress (thick skinned), organisational skills and a number of other disciplines. Why does that have to be a footballer? I dont think it arrogant at all to suggest i could manage the club. I genuinely believe it. Could not do worse than some of the dross we have set on this last 40 years. I would jump at the chance but it would never happen. Richard Branson said "business success is easy, just surround yourself with good people".
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Post by otium (EPBS) on Jan 21, 2019 5:56:28 GMT 1
I think you alluding to the Bury post? The Bury bullshit nonsense that everyone witters on about every time i mention Billing. If you, like all the other halfwits on here, took time to look at what i posted over two years ago then you will see that i put "the likes of Bury". Nothing changed..nothing will. Lower league player at best....like Scannell...Gobern...Rhodes...got them all present and correct. I see on here people who are/were fans of the likes of Alan Lee and De Poitre...what can i say to them? Donkey lovers? I think i am right in saying i only ever claimed two players were good enough for the Prem before we got there...Pilkington and Mooy...also i said VLP.. perhaps. Not a bad call...all 3 have played there. I hated Hudson as a player but he dropped Zanka and Billing today so will do for me. It is all opinions you see....carry on with yours. You can fool some of the people...... You claim to deal in facts, well here's some for you, your like Bury quotes appeared after your original claim that by next year Billing would be at Eastleigh in the Conference, this stupid claim was of course stated as a FACT presumably courtesy of your infallible crystal ball, the one that nailed the GB Olympics disaster, a certainty, not an opinion. I took you up on this and even though I probably wager around £20 a year, whereas the Great Otium was at pains to tell everyone, on several occasions, that you've been doing over £4M a year for 20 years, didn't meet my challenge, which from memory was £100, 5 years gambling funds for me. Deny it, belittle it or smart arse it and I will pull the posts and put them back on display to show you for what you are. Dear Shortarse. Here is the original Bury post for you...the very first one...February 21st 2017. I said "the likes of Bury". I was implying he is not good enough, i stand by that. When you read the Princess and the pea it was not literal. A pea did not keep anyone awake. The "Eastleigh" was in reference to Billing joining Gobern. It was an analogy. I was making the point that highly rated footballers are often over-rated and blow over. I did not literally mean he would play for Eastleigh...if you do not get this go back to the "Princess and the pea" reference for assistance. Yesterday was a quiet day betting wise...i bet around £10k. At my peak i was betting £3-£4 million a year. I started professionally in 1995. I believe i have bet considerably more than £1 million every year for 20 years. Is that statement robust enough for you? The Olympics thread came with a caveat, and the advice to trade out. Go and read again. I lost pips, £500 i recall. Called it wrong largely because of the cycling successes where we had super-dooper bikes that no-one else had. 8 golds from cycling alone. Want me to send you screen shots of 40 grand wins for £30? Want my accounts for the £97k profit last year? Would not fit your agenda would it? When you put your balls on the line you have to be prepared to not only make bold statements you have to be prepared to accept losses. So, go away and pull legs from spiders....i dont tell lies. I have now shown you for what you are....a tedious little pedant. downatthemac.proboards.com/thread/103712/
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Post by otium (EPBS) on Jan 21, 2019 5:59:11 GMT 1
Of course some managers are better than others. Application, preparation. Think Fergie got 26 trophies in 27 years. In a statistical computer modelling anyone would get the same at the richest club in the world. I contend a club does not even need a manager. Fergie would finish you in less than 30 secs. Pep would laugh out of sympathy Ever noticed how none of these guys ever worked their way up from non-league? Wondered why?
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Post by themanfromatlantis on Jan 21, 2019 8:56:12 GMT 1
If you really believe that (and I struggle to believe anyone could be that arrogant / stupid - the talanted people I know are much more humble) then you should be putting the theory to the test elsewhere. You obviously enjoyed managing your womans team in a Swedish lower league (given how much you bang on about it) why don't you try and back up your claims? "No doubt in my mind". I'd suggest that degree of arrogance is stupid and/or dangerous. Why so? Every man who takes on the job goes in and tells the owners how he will make a success of it...all of them do that and believe it. Most fail miserably. Most fail because generally they are dumb footballers without business knowledge. Giving a £100 mill turnover club to an ex-journeyman is like Amazon getting a delivery boy to advise Bezos. Thats why top clubs have stopped doing it and managers deal with just team matters. To run a club is the same as a business....you need intellect, man-management skill, understanding of finance, an ability to handle stress (thick skinned), organisational skills and a number of other disciplines. Why does that have to be a footballer? I dont think it arrogant at all to suggest i could manage the club. I genuinely believe it. Could not do worse than some of the dross we have set on this last 40 years. I would jump at the chance but it would never happen. Richard Branson said "business success is easy, just surround yourself with good people". OK, seeing as you've taken this on another ego trip... Thick skinned describes someone who has to have the ability to fend off criticism, it's not a measure of handling stress. Stress tends to come from inside and when that situation is portrayed outwardly (& publicly as football mgmt is) it will be pounced on by those critics. Being thick skinned is only a hairs breadth from dogma as well... Richard Branson, you mean that bloke born with a silver spoon who somehow has managed to become some sort of sound bites guru? See his sage advice on LinkedIn all the time. Easy to give all that reach for the stars shit when putting food on the table is never going to be in the back of your mind. I can't dispute the one about surrounding yourself with good people, him and a few other of the landed gentry class would be nowt without them. Not saying people shouldn't aspire either, just there has to be context with your personal circumstances & Branson is about as close to 99% of the population as I am to your greatness... The rest of your post(s) are just the usual boastful arrogance. I know this is only a football forum but I can't believe how, for such a learned & travelled man who cites some amazing stories, that you haven't considered writing your memoirs? You'll have to arrange for some signed copies to be auctioned on here... You might earn ten bob for the YAA... Anyway, apologies for interrupting you...
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Post by Mecha Corte on Jan 21, 2019 8:57:10 GMT 1
Oh Bless her, seems like Baron Von Otium's woken up a little tetchy this morning and we now know there are 3 certainties in this life, Death, Taxes and Otium moving goalposts.
As for your offer to show me your evidence of past greatness if it's all the same to you I'll pass thank you, by and large I read your increasingly ludicrous tales and laugh, every now and again when you insist on murdering a point repeated I'm prompted to challenge it, like Billing WILL join Eastleigh in the Conference, like HTFC should challenge MUFC in the sponsorship stakes and like your often repeated "I get up at 5am......wager £4M a year for 20 years.....it keeps the senses sharp" guff.
I've made this point with you in the past but it's worth repeating (IMO) you clearly hold the vast majority of posters on DATM in contempt, they're not worthy of you, well of course we're not, we are ordinary Joe's, worried about work, taxes, will my car pass its MOT, are the kids doing ok at school etc etc
None of this mundane triviality applies to you though as you jet around the globe with supermodels and CEO's of Amazon for company, while "we'" read the Sun or Mail at lunchtime you're up at 3am finishing some obscure 500 page tome by Confucius, written in Mandarin, one of 20 languages you're fluent in. We get it, we've no choice but to get it the number of occcasions you've told us all about it have we, you are much more interesting, intelligent and more rounded than any of us, you mix in social circles we could only dream about - we of course don't dream about them because we would be so socially awkward in them, we haven't got that "Otium" factor to Wow them with.
So IF all your fabulous tales are true why do you feel the need to share them on DATM with a few hundred plebs like myself that you don't like ? Of course IF it turns out they're not true it could be that you're actually a bit dull and want to try and pretend your not and we're the only captive audience you've got ?
In case you've forgotten the last time I put the question to you your reply was that you don't think you're better than us and you regard DATM posters as your family because you don't have proper family. It seems you can't help posting porkies on here doesn't it. No doubt in due course you'll reply, rip my argument to shreds and make me look like the bumbling oaf I am, no doubt Miss Sweden and Sir Richard Branson will find it quite amusing as you eat your gazpacho soup in some quiet little tavern in the Alps before you fly back to Oslo to catch Billy Bud.
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Post by kennyk2 on Jan 21, 2019 9:02:06 GMT 1
Come on otium (EPBS), just a little bit of humility doesn't go amiss sometimes!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2019 9:06:46 GMT 1
Come on otium (EPBS), just a little bit of humility doesn't go amiss sometimes! ifind some of his posts amusing but in the real world bemusing
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Post by impact on Jan 21, 2019 9:21:25 GMT 1
You can fool some of the people...... You claim to deal in facts, well here's some for you, your like Bury quotes appeared after your original claim that by next year Billing would be at Eastleigh in the Conference, this stupid claim was of course stated as a FACT presumably courtesy of your infallible crystal ball, the one that nailed the GB Olympics disaster, a certainty, not an opinion. I took you up on this and even though I probably wager around £20 a year, whereas the Great Otium was at pains to tell everyone, on several occasions, that you've been doing over £4M a year for 20 years, didn't meet my challenge, which from memory was £100, 5 years gambling funds for me. Deny it, belittle it or smart arse it and I will pull the posts and put them back on display to show you for what you are. Dear Shortarse. Here is the original Bury post for you...the very first one...February 21st 2017. I said "the likes of Bury". I was implying he is not good enough, i stand by that. When you read the Princess and the pea it was not literal. A pea did not keep anyone awake. The "Eastleigh" was in reference to Billing joining Gobern. It was an analogy. I was making the point that highly rated footballers are often over-rated and blow over. I did not literally mean he would play for Eastleigh...if you do not get this go back to the "Princess and the pea" reference for assistance. Yesterday was a quiet day betting wise...i bet around £10k. At my peak i was betting £3-£4 million a year. I started professionally in 1995. I believe i have bet considerably more than £1 million every year for 20 years. Is that statement robust enough for you? The Olympics thread came with a caveat, and the advice to trade out. Go and read again. I lost pips, £500 i recall. Called it wrong largely because of the cycling successes where we had super-dooper bikes that no-one else had. 8 golds from cycling alone. Want me to send you screen shots of 40 grand wins for £30? Want my accounts for the £97k profit last year? Would not fit your agenda would it? When you put your balls on the line you have to be prepared to not only make bold statements you have to be prepared to accept losses. So, go away and pull legs from spiders....i dont tell lies. I have now shown you for what you are....a tedious little pedant. downatthemac.proboards.com/thread/103712/I'd be interested on all of those screenshots and your accounts, so feel free to send them to me. Thanks.
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Post by otium (EPBS) on Jan 21, 2019 9:32:54 GMT 1
Why so? Every man who takes on the job goes in and tells the owners how he will make a success of it...all of them do that and believe it. Most fail miserably. Most fail because generally they are dumb footballers without business knowledge. Giving a £100 mill turnover club to an ex-journeyman is like Amazon getting a delivery boy to advise Bezos. Thats why top clubs have stopped doing it and managers deal with just team matters. To run a club is the same as a business....you need intellect, man-management skill, understanding of finance, an ability to handle stress (thick skinned), organisational skills and a number of other disciplines. Why does that have to be a footballer? I dont think it arrogant at all to suggest i could manage the club. I genuinely believe it. Could not do worse than some of the dross we have set on this last 40 years. I would jump at the chance but it would never happen. Richard Branson said "business success is easy, just surround yourself with good people". OK, seeing as you've taken this on another ego trip... Thick skinned describes someone who has to have the ability to fend off criticism, it's not a measure of handling stress. Stress tends to come from inside and when that situation is portrayed outwardly (& publicly as football mgmt is) it will be pounced on by those critics. Being thick skinned is only a hairs breadth from dogma as well... Richard Branson, you mean that bloke born with a silver spoon who somehow has managed to become some sort of sound bites guru? See his sage advice on LinkedIn all the time. Easy to give all that reach for the stars shit when putting food on the table is never going to be in the back of your mind. I can't dispute the one about surrounding yourself with good people, him and a few other of the landed gentry class would be nowt without them. Not saying people shouldn't aspire either, just there has to be context with your personal circumstances & Branson is about as close to 99% of the population as I am to your greatness... The rest of your post(s) are just the usual boastful arrogance. I know this is only a football forum but I can't believe how, for such a learned & travelled man who cites some amazing stories, that you haven't considered writing your memoirs? You'll have to arrange for some signed copies to be auctioned on here... You might earn ten bob for the YAA... Anyway, apologies for interrupting you... Why on Earth could i not manage a football club? Why is it always ex-footballers? One of the reasons it goes wrong so often is BECAUSE they set on ex-players. Arrigo Sacchi said "i did not know that to be a jockey you have to be a horse first". Bill Nicholson was the Spurs physio. He became manager, they scored TEN v Everton in his first game and he went on to win the double. Houllier, Parreira, Sacchi, Villas-Boas, Mourinho, Rodgers, Roux, Bill Struth...all amazingly successful managers who never played professionally.
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Post by galpharm2400 on Jan 21, 2019 9:39:47 GMT 1
Mbenza and Diakhaby have not played enough for any great opinions to be formed on them, apart from those who know best with just a quick glance, why are these people not top 'player finders or directors of football' in the pro game..?? clearly the staff at Town rate these players and are at least 'prepared' to give them enough fucking real gametime to see if they can improve or at least get back to some sort of form that made them targets for clubs other than mighty wagners 'terriers'.. took durm a few games, took over a season and a bit for those in 'charge' at the club to notice how bad Zanka really was the biggest percentage of the time.. we have been playing the same players in the same formation and same approach for so long and so badly its gonna take time for anyone 'coming into' the club or the team to get a grip..
players with some talent sometimes take some bedding in, some coaching and some love, mbenza and diakhaby have had none of those, as yet.. by the way we lost 1-2 to city at home, one attempt on target(own goal) and 2 off target and we soaked up pressure for the huge majority of the game, not the case today, the experts say city were shit but thats always the case when it does not go fully the money's way... no mention on radio re the offside, the 3 dives by sterling and de bruyne, the ref booking bacuna on the 'advice' of de bruyne(he did not see a foul, neither did the lino) just the decision that sterling was not fouled by kongolo, he wasn;t because the ref said he wasnt.. truth is im fucked off with the premier league and all the c-nts that cling to it..city spent a good deal of today reffing the match, their bad attitude will cost them abroad.. we now have 3 'form teams' winning games without playing well and its seemingly ok? once they get well and truly fucked over in Europe the same silly c-nts will be asking themselves why? If they struggle against us and others at the bottom they will get fucked in Europe thats why, they lack the will to give 100% every week, they dive and cheat and try to have 30 minutes off in games and they get fucked over in the end.. but im not with you about Mbenza and Diakaby both havent the technique just athletes and theyve had the same chance in training to impress , never be players will end up in French leagues about their level you will discover at some point why Hudson and others feel differently about them... At the end of his time here they could have looked like Messi on speed but he would not have picked them to start.. Their 'technique' was never in question at previous clubs or in their national U21 sides?? They actually looked at least part of the team yesterday and that someone had instructed them on what we were doing and what was expected of them..hardly kicking a ball in anger in a brand new team, new system, new tougher league, risk averse tactics and little coaching probably affects a young lad quite a lot? Its a start...
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Post by galpharm2400 on Jan 21, 2019 9:46:36 GMT 1
Of course some managers are better than others. Application, preparation. Think Fergie got 26 trophies in 27 years. In a statistical computer modelling anyone would get the same at the richest club in the world. I contend a club does not even need a manager. Fergie would finish you in less than 30 secs. Pep would laugh out of sympathy be nice to see Pep take on a different kind of managerial 'challenge'... my opinion is due to money spent and wages, if Liverpool win the league then Pep has failed as badly as any of the 3 managers that go down. if its clear to the 'experts' that relegated managers have failed and someone else 'needs' to come in and freshen it up with new ideas etc, then Pep should be sacked and another bloke brought in to spend the national debt of Mexico on players and wages a true 'genius' with no financial limits has to win the league and by some distance, every year?
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Post by Farsley Terrier (UK product) on Jan 21, 2019 9:52:08 GMT 1
Fergie would finish you in less than 30 secs. Pep would laugh out of sympathy be nice to see Pep take on a different kind of managerial 'challenge'... my opinion is due to money spent and wages, if Liverpool win the league then Pep has failed as badly as any of the 3 managers that go down. if its clear to the 'experts' that relegated managers have failed and someone else 'needs' to come in and freshen it up with new ideas etc, then Pep should be sacked and another bloke brought in to spend the national debt of Mexico on players and wages a true 'genius' with no financial limits has to win the league and by some distance, every year? it's the difference between the haves and the have nots. Pep gets to be like a kid in a sweet shop. Any player he wants he could have. Money is no object. Clubs like ours have no chance of competing on a level playing field until the arabs get bored of it all.
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