Holmes_and_Watson

Samuel Goethals said "It was very complicated; I’m disappointed with our performance. It’s been a difficult week, and the match was just as tough. The squad has been emotionally affected—it will likely take a little time [to recover." The absolute last thing VA need is another excuse to hide behind. I wish Le Frapper every success. It's a managerial bingo card pick. Tenacious player; former VA player; VA player at one of their peaks; experienced coach, but not at a high level, making him an economical option; bring on youth players, where VA's budget will be going. One thing does come across from the above. Just how many troughs VA have been in. Le Frapper will have experience in each dip of club fortunes.

Time

It lacked the personal "you are low IQ, gullible, leftists" attacks for me. And a panel with a "I lurve Elon & Donald"

Thanks for posting. I heard some of the programme around it yesterday. The part I heard had a number of people essentially trapped. The moment they do anything, like Brian in the article, they lose the support. They're then liable for rents that make working very counter-productive. They can't move elsewhere, because the money going to them goes to their support landlords. They have no savings to get a deposit elsewhere. And not working makes that very difficult anyway. The whole thing is something I'd have thought a Burnham government would be interested in sorting. I hope so.

True crime podcasts continue to be very popular. The Beeb were really late into the cold case type of podcast. Now, since it seems all programmes are podcasts, they've looked for specific areas. Gangsters and the like are one of them. The Beeb, with all it's resources is much bigger than pretty much everyone else. I like to think that some of their tardiness into it, was due to them not wanting to clearly use public money to crush commercial opponents. But they were probably just decades behind the curve. I do listen to beeb podcasts. I'll listen getting to sleep, so endless ads for Indeed do get in the way. Since I watch little TV, I pretend I need a radio license and that I'm therefore getting good value. 🙂

In lockstep, or goose-step, with the mail front page, is an express article. Some quotes from other people, who I am completely sure have also played it:- Danny Cohen, a former controller of BBC television, called for an urgent investigation into the findings. "The BBC needs to explain why its educational website is pushing extreme Left-wing ideologies to schoolchildren," he said. "There is such a lack of balance in so many areas of the BBC's output that it cannot be seriously defended as coincidental." Former Tory Education Secretary Gavin Williamson MP said: "The mask has slipped and the BBC has yet again betrayed its rampant Left-wing political agenda. The state broadcaster brainwashing children using a homework game is like something from a North Korean re-education camp." Shadow Education Secretary Laura Trott has demanded that the BBC remove the game from its website, adding that it has a "duty to remain impartial" rather than to "push a Left-wing political agenda onto young children". Alex Burghart, Shadow Cabinet Office Secretary, said: "The BBC was set up to inform, educate and entertain - not misinform, re-educate and brainwash.", Some choice words there that I can enjoy before I undergo a "brainwash" by "something from a re-education camp" not to. The article then quotes the mail one "The instructions stated: "We don't have enough people of working age to keep our society running smoothly. We should try to attract migrant workers and incorporate them into our economy." Each option comes with a budget "cost" and once they have chosen, they find out the impacts on the economy, public health and the environment. In one scenario, students are told that "a few" immigrants are living here without proper visas or permission, and they can either deport them or grant them an amnesty. Those who choose deportation lose a point on economy and one on public health. They are also warned: "This can be potentially dangerous for them [the immigrants]. Don't expect this to be unchallenged!" Those who pick to grant an amnesty are told "this will make them very happy," and are rewarded with two points in the same categories. In a second scenario, it claims geography pupils are told that allowing people to pass through the border easily "could really help grow our economy". They are offered the option of "open borders," resulting in another three economy points and two public health ones, in contrast to voting no points for selecting the "too radical" option." Now you've played it Sheaf Saint. I'm not seeing any options for royal marines to use lethal force. That lacks the patriotism the likes of reform would be looking for. It also lacks the educational/ first person shooter crossover the Beeb are going to have to look at, as they become more commercial.

Players who don't take the knee, still having to have actions justified, regardless of their ethnicity. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/football/why-taking-the-knee-rebel-dominic-calvert-lewin-snubbed-anti-racism-gesture-with-five-other-players/ar-AA2fza8J?cvid=6ad64a396b6d459ba4bf3ff65905d5e9&ei=6

A couple of headlines today, pointing out Beeb issues. Newspaper editorial filters....ON! There goes impartiality. Beeb can say that no editorial decisions are made by civil service secondment staff. That doesn't mean that the writers aren't backing their bosses, and also have communication channels to them. There's also paying for the civil service, who are then in the Beeb, that we also pay for. The Beeb gets thumped from all sides over impartiality. There's also no doubt that when the gov threaten the license fee, or when they reported on the death of David Kelly, they jumped to the government's tune in the aftermath. But having the civil service do the writing is a dreadful look. I think I heard it had been going on under a couple of parties. BBC Bite size shaping the policy decisions our children will make, when they grow up. Perhaps it's civil service staff that are overseeing the educational content too? Others will just see it as yet another example of ideological capture in the Beeb. Yesterday, I heard the Beeb's great idea to fund it's pensions, I mean, educate, inform and entertain, was to charge people watching you tube. The beeb's recent announcements of more you tube content, now seems nothing to do with broadening their reach, and all to do with pretending everyone with access to their videos, must pay regardless of actually viewing it.

Loom

The radio has said "Maitland-Niles" a few times in the last fortnight, right before they concede. I was surprised he got picked up by a PL side.

Jam

Smallbone still to come into the team. So much for Leicester fans to look forward to.

Thanks very much, as always, for the articles @ChristopheVAFC I can't argue with the views of the fans. They are rightly exasperated with those running their club. I do think that the budget restrictions have focused the club to have a different recruitment strategy. One that does give them the required squad depth. However, if that's a squad with the second highest budget, I'd be asking some serious questions on where the money has been spent. It simply doesn't have the quality on paper for people to think it's a team that will easily compete for a title. And that's what the second highest budget should have. Perhaps a lot of that is on contracts for players signed before this season. Godin's fire, commitment and long hours ultimately means little. The many people he's dispensed with, gave all of those. He can dismiss the noise all he likes. His employers may have different ideas. Having watched Blois' games in charge last season, I wasn't convinced. The recruitment this summer, could have ended up anywhere, and you always like to have hope. But it certainly asked a lot, and wasn't giving Blois any immediate favours. I could see it stabilise this season, before pushing next. It's a squad geared for work over a longer period, not a title push with a top budget. VA made such a song and dance about finally getting it right, and having a plan for the future. I doubt Blois' has changed that much. So what is it in the 90% behind the results, that they see now, that they had no clue about last season? I think they just hoped Blois was another Tonda, and were trying to convince themselves, and SR.

Thanks. I'm not sure "less toxic than x" is much of a bar though. The world's combined radioactive reactor sludge is less toxic than x, but I'd not want to sit in a room and have a chat with that either. 🙂

SR have often said that they'd been tracking managers for a while. Often, as they've gone through quite a few. 🙂 Tonda was brought into the under 21s with an eye on him taking over at some point. So, there's planning there. I couldn't say about Lallana. No doubt he dreams of doing well at it, and going onto bigger things, as he tucks himself into his Liverpool duvet every night. Spygate will have certainly focused their attention on succession planning. Remember, the FA wanted an initial 6 month ban, before common sense/mitigation steps began to reduce it. "It's nearly Swansea again," said Russell Martin, taking the Swan Arms through their possession drills. 🙂 But it's all in the timing, as I say in my award winning Comedy Workshop posts. As you'd not give a funeral plan as a birthday gift to a 6 year old, you'd not pop the highly emotional bubble of joy when things are going well at a football club.