The Kraken

You would definitely have to say that Still wasn’t helped by Spors and the team behind him. Tbf he had right backs, up to a point. James Bree didn’t go out on loan until 1st September, he played in pre season games but got a knock in the last one against Brighton and that was about it. By the end of the window we had signed Jelert and Roerslev (remember them? Nah me neither). So a failure of the recruitment team in that those two haven’t looked up to it (injuries also a factor of course). I can’t remember off hand how bad Bree’s injury was in August, but it can’t have been too bad if Nate picked him up. So yeah, there’s mitigation around RB though I’d question why Bree left in the first place. I have sympathy on the striker front. Downs was a complete failure of recruitment, and an expensive one. He also is, despite his physical size, not a striker who plays how we look to play now, he’s very much off the shoulder of the defender rather than a hold up man. Also, Stewart was on the books and hardly made an appearance before “coming back” in October then promptly doing his hammy. We also had Arma and Tasmin at the time, neither of them cheap. An extra CF on top of all those, I can get why not. Recruitment failure to get Downs. How much input Still had, don’t know. Also, not getting a keeper in the summer, I reckon recruitment failure. Maybe if Still had more gravitas he might have said “this lad is garbage, the fans who have seen him all know he’s garbage, he needs replacing”. But I think Spors was far more influential about that than Still at the time, and it wasn’t deemed a priority. Despite all that I think Still made some awful decisions and definitely we did not have any sort of ‘style’ under him, it was very much throw a lot of shit at the wall and see what sticks. Very little actually did. Eckert has definitely had the fortune of having better resources available to him. But he has also made a much better fist of looking like he knows what he’s doing, learning from his mistakes, and planning much better around the resources available. Still was hampered by his recruitment team but I feel he compounded that by picking a team out of a hat every game and sending players out who have commented since that the current manager makes it much easier to understand what he wants them to do.

Apparently they’re doing two more series of PB, so one would assume it’s Duke at the helm for that. Really, that is a massive downgrade on Cillian Murphy. Also no Arthur and Ada, and obviously no John and Polly so the whole of the original gang is gone. I’m sure it’s get viewers but I’m not eagerly anticipating that. I thought the series had done enough by getting where it did by the end. If anything I thought it was a series or two heavy. Duke wasn’t good but the plot of the film was ridiculous.

Just watched the Peaky film. Very well shot, great music, but I thought the plot was weak. Also Duke didn’t have the gravitas I’d expect of a leader of the Peakies.

Holy shit!

I’m just suggesting….if you’re going to call people thick, maybe try and make sure you don’t look a bit dimwitted yourself whilst doing it. Twice. Whatever, it was a funny so 👍

The aintforever edited version, ‘The general public are way to thick too grasp that though.’

A surprising one as at the start of the season Nick Pope’s star was on the rise, yet now he’s nowhere, dropped for his club side and national side don’t want to know.

“The general public are way to thick to grasp that though.”

Ouch. Got my notification yesterday, So’ton going up by a tiny smidge under 5% (police and fire up by slightly more).

Looks like HL are saying it's not. In a statement on Friday morning the company said this was impacting the ability to perform account transactions but said clients' assets and data were "secure" and there was "no evidence of any cyber incident data breach".

Yeah I couldn't get in on my I-pad and phone apps last night either, then tried it online with my laptop and that was buggered too. Tried it now and got an immediate "we're currently experiencing technical issues" popup. I hope they haven't been hacked....

Yeah hilarious, dead mum gags are brilliant.

That’s a reasonable approach. I would want any manager to be a full part of a committee of people who review signings together then agree them together. The manger will recommend some players he knows from before, the DOF does the same. Then the transfer committee choose who we we sign. As Lighthouse is advocating by saying “Tonda, if you get promoted you have zero influence on transfers”….”welI just think that is a lunatics approach.

That’s is just barmy. Wow,

I wouldn’t be surprised if he failed every eye test in his life 😉