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Post by Dutchpeter on Jul 29, 2023 10:21:39 GMT
Off to watch Stafford Rangers vs Leek town today If anyone hasn’t been non league I’d recommend it, as top level football drifts further away from the working class non league football is a nice reminder of what football is meant to be 110% this and Scotland outside of Glasgow and Edinburgh too.
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Jul 28, 2023 22:29:03 GMT
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Post by Dutchpeter on Jul 28, 2023 22:29:03 GMT
Something that has struck me over the last few days is the excitement that the club’s fresh approach to recruitment is generating. If we’d signed a slew of decent, but entirely predictable, Championship players I think there’d be more pressure to hit the ground running. I’m sensing this group will get time to gel and the fans will be right behind them. That will help the manager. Starting to feel optimistic. Reminds me a bit of the Boskamp season when literally all we signed were unknown foreign players. Most fans really enjoyed that season despite us only finishing midtable. Exactly what came into my mind.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Jul 25, 2023 14:21:50 GMT
Former Stokie Ryan Sweeney should be lining up for Burton tonight.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Jul 24, 2023 18:14:50 GMT
They've also signed josh Gordon who's a stoke on trent lad and a very good player, one I hope we would at least look at if he does well in next couple seasons at Burton. Wasn't he in our academy till 15/16? I believe he was. Burton captain John Brayford is a Stoke fan.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Jul 24, 2023 17:34:26 GMT
Burton have had an excellent transfer window this summer bringing in 11 players. Goal threats will be from Cole Stockton, Joe Cole, Josh Walker and Mark Helm. The Lager men will take this seriously and will have a go. It’ll be a real test, hope Stoke turn up this time.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Jul 16, 2023 17:03:43 GMT
I think they should actually, it’s not just about the x amount of paying punters on a Saturday, it’s about in times of austerity and under shitty governments projects such as this are vital to the community surrounding a football club…… The community stuff we do is excellent but lots of other institutions do community work and they’re not protected in the same way. Let’s take the Vale. They do great community work but as a business their model seems absolutely bonkers. They need to build houses on Vale Park, find land for a 10k purpose built stadium and build from that. I don’t know of Southend’s pull or anything but from my lifetime as a football fan they always seemed a bit of a nothing club in a rotting stadium that’s too big for them. You have to pivot and if you don’t then you won’t be around for very long. In that case you are a ‘nothing fan’. You disgust me. If you have no romanticism about football then you are nothing. You post all this left wing bollocks on the EE board and talk like an 80s Thatcherite on this thread, are you the bastard offspring of Colin Moynihan? Shame on you.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Jul 16, 2023 12:49:11 GMT
That’s fine, what we are bemoaning is these clubs vanishing altogether, not the level they are playing at on the field. But it happens to lots of businesses and community projects. Why are football clubs so much different? That’s quite Thatcherite? Let the weak go to the wall. Football clubs have generally got away with being poorly run in the past, after all what bank manager wants to shut down the local football club? In comparison to a local business, football clubs are just too loved, too historic and part of the fabric of the community to shut down.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Jul 16, 2023 11:44:46 GMT
Southend United are a viable club, they’ve had the misfortune to have a reckless and irresponsible owner. Are they? They’ve been on the decline since our promotion season really. A traditional 3/4th level club like Vale, Lincoln, Tranmere etc. No reason for them not to have carried on that way if sensibly run.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Jul 16, 2023 11:38:28 GMT
Fuck the Coates in/out talk to another thread please Clubs are going to the wall re dodgy owners, we need to focus on that Football needs properly regulating ASAP Or maybe just maybe these clubs aren’t viable any more? Some clubs move up, some move down. It’s why I think a third relegation spot needs opening up from League Two. The cream will rise. And those that have been left behind will fall. Southend United are a viable club, they’ve had the misfortune to have a reckless and irresponsible owner.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Jul 16, 2023 6:19:06 GMT
Bayern, Toxic and a few others believe that if we were only run correctly,then we could become an established stable Premier League club,despite all the evidence to the contrary. We were an established, stable Premier League club and still should be but the owners myopic leadership and astounding complacency put paid to that. Quite frankly, I'm staggered by how lightly they've got off with the absolute mess they've made of things over the past 5 or 6 years. We had everything and they (and only them) fucked it up spectacularly. I guess the lack of ire towards them from the supporter base is a result of that peculiar trait of Stoke fans (and people from Stoke in general) have of 'knowing their place', putting up with any old shite, and demonstrating a staggering lack of ambition in relation to pretty much anything. I actually think the lack of ire is a more recent thing. Remember the grief Mick Mills, Alan Ball, Joe Jordan and Peter Coates got at the Victoria Ground? Gary Rowett was/is the exception in recent years but Michael O’Neil and particularly Nathan Jones seemed strangely exempt from vocal attack. I think regarding the Coates family supporters know that nobody with similar money will come in and hope they (the Coates) get it right at some point.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Jul 9, 2023 19:40:41 GMT
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Post by Dutchpeter on Jul 8, 2023 8:08:48 GMT
Sammy Mac was good for us but he wasn't 100% with us. Part of his heart was still at the shit Towards the end of his time here he definitely looked like he wanted to be elsewhere. Still put in string performances though.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Jul 6, 2023 13:17:11 GMT
In the early to mid 1970s when Liverpool, Leeds and Manchester United were spending modest sums on players like Kevin Keegan, Jimmy Case, Ray Clemence, Gordon McQueen, Joe Jordan, Steve Coppell, Gordon Hill et al, and winning trophies. Stoke spent seriously big money, won nothing and nearly bankrupted ourselves into the process. My contention being that the club could have been grown with more care in that period.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Jul 6, 2023 13:10:18 GMT
We shouldn't allow Jews into the stadium. Momentum likes this.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Jul 5, 2023 12:09:15 GMT
Interesting and refreshing to see. I note that’s she’s had an internal promotion and not moved over from women’s football. I suspect that if you recruited from the Women’s game you’d have a coach who’s been working in a markedly inferior grade of football. Recruiting a female who’s been working at a male professional club makes sense and was always going to be where the first female coaches in the man’s game would spring from. I expect to see a lot more appointments like this.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Jul 5, 2023 11:57:48 GMT
Cherie Lunghi likes this.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Jul 4, 2023 13:33:41 GMT
Now we’re out of the EU won’t it be easier to nationalise a utility like this? Over to you Labour Party. Britain’s private water companies have everything to do with Tory ideology and nothing to do with EU rules. I wouldn’t disagree. I was asking if it would be easier to re-nationalise post Brexit, but apparently not.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Jul 2, 2023 22:12:50 GMT
Is this class war? Old money, upper middle class, baby boomers drawing generous pensions of just stop oil, against the working classes. Just stop oil toffs won’t give up their privilege for the planet.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Jul 1, 2023 21:06:18 GMT
Now we’re out of the EU won’t it be easier to nationalise a utility like this? Over to you Labour Party.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Jul 1, 2023 9:23:30 GMT
White walled tyres and 3-speed Sturmey Archer hub gears. Top of the range in those days. I’ll go for a Raleigh Esquire Triumph Traffic Master I’d go for.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Jun 30, 2023 15:22:42 GMT
I think this was in the programme circa 1975, and he’s riding the cycle as part of recovering from a broken leg….if I recall correctly.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Jun 28, 2023 17:20:40 GMT
I’m running a BSA Thunderbolt 650, a lovely machine although I’m going through a run of snags at the moment. I’m looking for a second bike and I really fancy an air cooled BMW twin. I’d love the long range potential, with the old bike charm and more modern reliability.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Jun 28, 2023 15:06:45 GMT
I’m looking to get back into biking after a 10 year lay off. Are there any other bikers on here? I’m thinking about either the Royal Enfield Meteor 350 or the Super Meteor 650. Are you into the custom motorcycle? I think I’d go for the 650, not fast but the 350 would be dog slow. What did you ride before?
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Post by Dutchpeter on Jun 25, 2023 17:12:26 GMT
Had an Uckers table on every boat I served on. Never took to it, although it looked like it could get competitive.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Jun 24, 2023 8:36:41 GMT
Noises underwater have very precise sonic signatures (for want of a better phrase). You can almost very certainly identify something straight away, even details such as amount of propellor blades, engine configuration etc. And of courses there’s loads of ‘Biologicals’ in the ocean too clouding the picture. Pete if they were regular noises surely it wouldn’t have been difficult for a triangulation of passive sonars to almost pinpoint its location? The submersible was shattered so I guess there was nothing they could pick up. All I know from my time in the mob was that surface ship’s weren’t great at finding large military submarines at much shallower depths, let alone a tiny submersible 4000m under the ocean. I was on a submarine that was part of an international effort to find MH370. It was like trying to find a needle in a haystack. I was under the impression (at the time) there was little prospect of finding it. There’s also been scenarios where helicopters with dipped sonars couldn’t find us.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Jun 23, 2023 22:24:33 GMT
There are lots of strange sounds detected in the ocean. Search the bloop mystery. Just because they heard a sound consistent with a submersible implosion it doesn’t mean they assert that’s exactly what it was and warn against a rescue operation. There’s still a chance at that point that they heard something unrelated. What is creepy to me now is all the talk of hearing SOS tapping. I saw several reports that seemed quite adamant that had been detected, but we know now it wasn’t the team in the sub… IMO this is probably the answer. There are loads of noises even when there's no missing sub. It's only after you get more info you can look back and be like "oh that noise was almost certainly from the submarine"... Noises underwater have very precise sonic signatures (for want of a better phrase). You can almost very certainly identify something straight away, even details such as amount of propellor blades, engine configuration etc. And of courses there’s loads of ‘Biologicals’ in the ocean too clouding the picture.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Jun 23, 2023 17:57:25 GMT
Copied from an old shipmate.
"So for those friends who have been talking and asking questions, about the loss of the submersible 'Titan'.
This was posted on one of the Submariner's pages (thank you to the original author)
“What happens when a submarine implodes?
When a submarine hull collapses, it moves inward at about 1,500 miles per hour - that’s 2,200 feet per second.
A modern nuclear submarine’s hull radius is about 33 feet. (Bear in mind the submersible had a hull radius of about 6 ft) So the time required for complete collapse of a full sized military nuclear boat is 20 / 2,200 seconds = about 1 millisecond.....
A human brain responds instinctually to stimulus at about 25 milliseconds. Human rational response (sense→reason→act) is at best 150 milliseconds.
The air inside a sub has a fairly high concentration of hydrocarbon vapors. When the hull collapses it behaves like a very large piston on a very large Diesel engine.
The air auto-ignites and an explosion follows the initial rapid implosion. Large blobs of fat (that would be humans) incinerate and are turned to ash and dust quicker than you can blink your eye”
Sounds gruesome but as a serving submariner we know the risks and we used the professionalism which was constantly practised and re-practised to keep us all at a level that kept us safe at sea.
A very sad event and perhaps a good example of why good advice and experience is required when designing and operating such vessels!"
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Post by Dutchpeter on Jun 21, 2023 1:34:15 GMT
Quite impressed with how well our average attendance has held up since coming down. If you'd said we'd be consistently bottom half of the Championship for five seasons post 2018 relegation, I'd have said about 17,000, so over 22,000 is good going. Kudos to those who've kept at it considering the shite that's been served up. I moved to the South Stand last season for my first season ticket for a long time. The place is full of young, partisan vocal kids with simple, and improvised, humorous support. Shades of the Victoria Ground. Is this the seeds of Stoke City 7s flowering forth?
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Post by Dutchpeter on Jun 20, 2023 6:56:57 GMT
It’s a bleak situation. I know it’s morbid but how will they die? If what’s been said about a rescue mission that far down being close to impossible, you can only hope there was a breach and a presumably quick/instantaneous death. How long could they survive if nothing catastrophic has taken place? It’s horrendous to imagine. It’s like being buried alive. No way I’d do something like that with the potential for such a horrific death. 'No back up, no escape pod': My trip aboard the sub CBS journalist David Pogue was invited to travel on OceanGate's Titan submersible on a press trip last year, to reach the wreckage of the Titanic. He told the BBC that passengers were sealed inside the main capsule by several bolts that were applied from the outside and had to be removed by an external crew. He said he initially thought the sub seemed improvised: "You steer this sub with an Xbox game controller, some of the ballast is abandoned construction pipes." If the sub became trapped or sprung a leak "there's no backup, there's no escape pod", he said. Sounds horrific. Not really a submarine just a glorified diving bell.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Jun 19, 2023 22:51:35 GMT
The submarine set up looked a bit of an half arsed shambles from what I’ve read. Most tourist submarines are positively bouyant in case of failure so they can surface without power. At those unbelievable depths I don’t think it could. It’s terrifying that it had no way of navigating itself and a modified gaming console to direct it. Only a miracle can save them.
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