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Post by PotterLog on Nov 29, 2023 16:44:00 GMT
Just did a bit of maths... AN's average score from the last two "rate the manager" threads is 0.7/10. 34 out of the 44 scores are 0 (or below). On Saturday 24 out of 26 people gave zeroes or lower. The other two game 1s.
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Post by PotterLog on Nov 29, 2023 14:15:28 GMT
they were saves he should be making The one in the first half was a superb save. You can't win as keeper, get your positioning and footwork right so that you can make a save and it's "a save he should be making." I understand Bonham isn't a world beater, but it's a shame some of the other players don't get the same level of scrutiny. For example let's analyse Vidigal and Hoever's contributions over the last couple of games incident by incident. They've been absolutely shite. I'd say about 85% of what makes a good keeper is consistency - making those solid saves and claiming those catches over and over and over again, getting the positioning and footwork right every time, making the right decisions. The vast majority of saves any goalie makes are saves they *should* be making... you can't use one or two (or even three or five or eight) of them as evidence of a keeper having a good game if he then lets someone pass it past him or obligingly presents the ball at a forward's feet for a goal. That's just the lot of a keeper unfortunately. It's even true of goalies who make extraordinary saves.. Jordan Pickford has made some of the most jaw-droppingly elastic saves I've ever seen, as well as what I consider to be one of the best ever penalty saves vs Jorginho, but I still don't really trust him overall because he's too jittery. This is just an observation btw, not really commenting on Bonham necessarily (I think he's useless whatever happens :
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Post by PotterLog on Nov 29, 2023 12:21:00 GMT
Fuckin hell, chapeau. I equalled my best (41), I was just admiring/cursing whoever that was at the top of the sqworboard
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Israel
Nov 29, 2023 11:15:17 GMT
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Post by PotterLog on Nov 29, 2023 11:15:17 GMT
I didn’t realise I was a liberal first I’ve heard. I guess I’ll take that as fact then a bit like Them introducing tuition fees (which has zero to do with my original point). Ash Sarker is a communist if that floats your boat then fair enough and if she comes across as “far from objectionable” then that’s fine too but I don’t agree from what I’ve seen of her. So we’ve gone from me talking about how prejudice agains jews living in this country is all wrong from a video interview with Vanessa Feltz, who’s been sent abusive online abuse (which has been dismissed as bunkum), to me being a liberal and how Feltz kept butting in on an interview. Sounds like classic whatsaboutery This is Novara's first YouTube video post October 7th, they set their stall out immediately and pivot from the usual 'left/labour is better than right/tories' schtick to 'hamas/Palestine right - Jews/Israel wrong'. They're a channel of media columnists who don't have the backing of a GB News and their goal appears to be to pick that opposite side and critique the living daylights out of it. GB/Novara/Whoever doing that seems about how many views they can garner rather than objectivity. One of their reporters was feverishly celebrating the attacks on Oct 7, saying we should make no apologies for Hamas’ “fight for freedom”. So she was fired. I’m joking of course!! The bright-eyed young private school graduate is still there now, making informative finger-wagging TikToks about what is and isn’t antisemitism, for any of us who fell into the trap of thinking it might involve something like celebrating the butchering of Jewish children.
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Post by PotterLog on Nov 29, 2023 2:45:41 GMT
John Eustace will be contacted very soon I would imagine. Given his nationality and relative success with a Championship club he is nailed on to become next Manager. But only if we act quickly. He wont be available for long. I honestly couldn’t bear to see SJE ruin a promising coaching career by coming to the fucking swamp of sorrows that is us at the moment. Save yourself John, don’t do it
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Post by PotterLog on Nov 29, 2023 1:25:46 GMT
These three fixtures look like manna from heaven for Warnock Sign him up to the end of the season. AN isn't getting us relegated and neither would Colin but at least it would be honest stuff whilst they look for a proper Manager full time I’d take that. Fuck me, I’d actually take that.
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Post by PotterLog on Nov 29, 2023 1:10:46 GMT
Anyone got a link to his interview?
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Alex Neil
Nov 29, 2023 0:46:18 GMT
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Post by PotterLog on Nov 29, 2023 0:46:18 GMT
Go just go. But the worrying thing is i can't see a replacement out there, who could turn this shower into a capable team. It’s a curious feeling, simultaneously desperately hoping someone fucks off, while knowing with cast-iron certainty that the next cab off the rank will shudder to a similar grinding, deflating halt sooner rather than later. We’ll be in exactly the same position in eighteen months or so with some other wretch in the driver's seat.
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Post by PotterLog on Nov 28, 2023 20:23:34 GMT
I like Gooch
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Post by PotterLog on Nov 28, 2023 20:10:32 GMT
wtf that didn't go anywhere near Campbell
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Post by PotterLog on Nov 28, 2023 15:36:30 GMT
Demanding Jews condemn Israel in order to talk about antisemitism (or otherwise be accused of sickeningly “playing the victim”) is antisemitic. No worries potterlog. And not condemning a country which has been bombing minority children for 50 days is racist using the same logic. Still time for you yet to condemn it. When you say "the same logic", I presume you mean "a spurious false equivalence I've resorted to as cover for the fact I've been caught out". Here are some examples of antisemitism from the Jerusalem Declaration definition provided by Prestwich a couple of weeks ago, described as "far simpler and more effective", in a post which you liked: And here are your words about (British) Jews speaking publicly about rising antisemitism: I don't believe it and I think at a time when 10s of thousands of people, mostly children, are being murdered by the Israeli regime. I think it's sort of sickening for people to come out and play the victim while not condemning israels actions or campaigning for a ceasefire. You've committed a textbook example of antisemitism as detailed by pretty much every definition, including ones you yourself have endorsed. It's no wonder you can't see it if you're part of it.
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Post by PotterLog on Nov 28, 2023 13:46:52 GMT
Am I missing something here. I don’t really have an opinion on Vanessa Feltz but I really feel for her having listened to her talk. I just don’t get why people in this country can be so bloody cruel to someone just because they’re Jewish. There’s so many people that have nothing to do with the conflict and have lived here for many years. Politics/religion really is a bitch and so divisive. Why can’t people be just judged for the person they are. The problems root from the definition used for antisemitism. When criticising the state of Israel is considered antisemetic there lies the problem. Israel does bad stuff, people criticise them, people cry "that's antisemetic". When people attending these jewish marches and are abusing orthodox jewish people, that's antisemetic - and there's been plenty of it towards orthodox Jews too. And who are the main people doing that? Zionist Jews. I hope there becomes more transparency on what these antisemetic incidents are because it feels very much like any Israel criticism = antisemitism these days. I'm hearing about landlords murdering babies because they're Palestine, students being stabbed because they're Palestine, counter protesters turning up to Palestine marches attacking police and trying to break down barriers to keep them away from the protest. I'm not hearing about any jewish people being murdered, being stabbed, having thugs showing up to counter their marches. So what is the rise in antisemitism? What strikes fear on these non orthodox Jews who aren't identifiably jewish in appearance from facing antisemitism? A black person can't hide they're black. An orthodox jew can't hide they're jewish. A strict Muslim who wears a hijab can't hide they're Muslim. A Sikh with a turban can't hide they're Sikh. But these non orthodox Jews who can walk past you in the street and nobody knows what religion, race or nationality they are... are now the target of loads of attacks? So what is the rise in antisemitism? And why do the media only care about one form of it. There's plenty of videos of orthodox Jews experiencing antisemitism, usually at the hands of jewish people. Where's the evidence of this huge rise in "antisemitism"? I don't believe it and I think at a time when 10s of thousands of people, mostly children, are being murdered by the Israeli regime. I think it's sort of sickening for people to come out and play the victim while not condemning israels actions or campaigning for a ceasefire. People aren't going to like this opinion. But I just don't believe it. Don't get me wrong I'm sure there is a rise in actual antisemitism and I'm sure some jewish people have been victim of it. I just don't think the numbers are quite as high as some are alluding. I would love a breakdown on them. Someone removing a poster about a "missing person" 20,000 miles away is probably recorded as antisemetic. I wonder if I put up a poster for a lost person in Cork, in the middle of Birmingham, and said poster was removed would that be considered racist and anti Irish? Or if someone did the same with a Palestine poster for a missing person would it be islamaphobic. For both I think not. Demanding Jews condemn Israel in order to talk about antisemitism (or otherwise be accused of sickeningly “playing the victim”) is antisemitic.
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Nov 28, 2023 11:56:56 GMT
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Post by PotterLog on Nov 28, 2023 11:56:56 GMT
Am I missing something here. I don’t really have an opinion on Vanessa Feltz but I really feel for her having listened to her talk. I just don’t get why people in this country can be so bloody cruel to someone just because they’re Jewish. There’s so many people that have nothing to do with the conflict and have lived here for many years. Politics/religion really is a bitch and so divisive. Why can’t people be just judged for the person they are. Agreed but with one note - it’s not politics or religion. It’s race and ethnicity.
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Post by PotterLog on Nov 27, 2023 17:58:32 GMT
They need money: justgiving.com/campaign/stokefilmtheatreThe FT was brilliant, often the only place you could see independent/foreign/arthouse films in S-o-T. Pretty sure it was the only volunteer-run picture house in the country. My mum volunteered there religiously every Friday night for years when I was a kid, then in my early 20s I trained as a projectionist and did a couple of seasons projecting. Great experience. One time we did an old silent movie and had a live pianist in the auditorium improvising the soundtrack, exactly how it would have been done a hundred years ago. Also had talks there from the late John Jordan who ran it, and who worked on films with Stanley Kubrick in the 70s. Anyway a great institution, it was a real shame they couldn't get up and running with the university again after Covid. Good that they've found a new home but looks like there's work to do.. certainly worth a donation for anyone interested in the cultural fabric of the city.
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Post by PotterLog on Nov 27, 2023 3:50:03 GMT
Where would he recommend going for a beach holiday in November? In an ideal world it would be him making that enquiry
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Post by PotterLog on Nov 27, 2023 1:19:36 GMT
Not exactly overwhelming evidence of him “improving” us though is it. With him or without him we finish about 16th. Mind you you could say that about all our players. And managers. Nathan Collins here same period. You don't think he'd improve us either? Put him in the red and white and I’m sure he’d soon start making dozy mistakes 😅
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Post by PotterLog on Nov 27, 2023 0:50:50 GMT
So we were a one man team then, all down to Mr Brown? He got the offer. You're not that daft! Not exactly overwhelming evidence of him “improving” us though is it. With him or without him we finish about 16th. Mind you you could say that about all our players. And managers.
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Post by PotterLog on Nov 27, 2023 0:28:11 GMT
A Premier League player? Technically yes, but in reality he is bit part player who gets 15 minutes at the end of games because he can run around a lot against tiring defences. The team he plays for is unlikely to be in the Premier League next season and I hardly see a queue of Premier League clubs waiting to snap him up once Luton go down. I would be amazed if he starts more than a handful of Premier League games in his whole career. Factually he is one. Factually we are a club that have been bottom half of the championship finishers for five years, and well on our way for a sixth.
Yeah and for three of those five he was in the team (and we finished round about where we are now)
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Post by PotterLog on Nov 26, 2023 21:56:44 GMT
On the one hand, well duh. On the other hand, he’s rubbish.
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Post by PotterLog on Nov 26, 2023 14:32:12 GMT
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Post by PotterLog on Nov 26, 2023 14:07:29 GMT
He clearly has to go but surely now its obvious that even when he does that nothing is going to change. What’s that swamp called in Neverending Story
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Post by PotterLog on Nov 26, 2023 6:46:38 GMT
Kind to Bonham for the 3rd, I thought it was a pretty feeble effort It was a 1 vs 1 and the player had half a pitch to make up his mind. Only Gayle is missing under those circumstances 😂 I was ready to say you’re probably right but I’ve just watched it again and it was even worse than I remembered. Pitiful effort, the bloke ambled past him. Not that it really mattered one way or another
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Post by PotterLog on Nov 26, 2023 2:11:58 GMT
Think it's hit a stumbling block because some of the money was going towards soap in the bathrooms and hygiene measures.
Big protest march planned tomorrow apparently
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Post by PotterLog on Nov 25, 2023 19:51:11 GMT
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Post by PotterLog on Nov 25, 2023 18:39:10 GMT
Kind to Bonham for the 3rd, I thought it was a pretty feeble effort
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Post by PotterLog on Nov 25, 2023 18:18:47 GMT
Even more evident following his tetchy radio stoke interview just now What did he say? I didn't even find it tetchy. Tetchy would at least indicate a level of anger or frustration. He just sounded sanguine, accepting of it. "We're not going to run riot over every team we come up against" was one quote I think, along with "it wasn't a 3-0 game". It was a shrug of the shoulders. Wasn't he known for his proactivity before he came to us? For identifying where things were going wrong in a game and making brave changes? He's been sucked in, captive to the under-achieving, low expectations, comfortable complacency that hangs in the air in ST4, just like everyone else.
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Post by PotterLog on Nov 25, 2023 17:20:40 GMT
I expect we'll back him fully in the transfer window then be left with no option when we get 2 points from six games in February or something
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Post by PotterLog on Nov 25, 2023 17:02:35 GMT
Taking my lad to his first game against Millwall in a month, I can only hope to fuckin god we’ve got a new manager by then otherwise he won’t be in a hurry to go back
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Post by PotterLog on Nov 25, 2023 16:54:33 GMT
Why do I watch this tragically pathetic bag of shit football team
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Post by PotterLog on Nov 25, 2023 16:52:38 GMT
Calamitous in every moment
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