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5 minutes ago, il_serpente said:

Took me a minute to figure out what they're doing.

I was tempted to explain what they were doing but thought it'd be more fun this way.

For those stuck:

4 minutes ago, bickster said:

Might be more relevant to other teams sites because we all know

Agree he'd be fairly well known to Villa fan's, but most fan's in this country wouldn't gave a clue, let alone those overseas. 

Surprised nobody has posted William McGregor yet.

He did some football stuff or something. 

Jeremy Bentham. Was born in 1748 and was a leading theorist in Anglo-American philosophy of law, and a political radical whose ideas influenced the development of welfarism.

He advocated individual and economic freedoms, the separation of church and state, freedom of expression, equal rights for women, the right to divorce, and (in an unpublished essay) the decriminalising of homosexual acts. He called for the abolition of slavery, capital punishment, and physical punishment, including that of children. He has also become known as an early advocate of animal rights.

Hundreds of years ahead of his time and did a lot of good.

2 hours ago, HanoiVillan said:

It's not remotely the same situation. In 15/16... At 21 gameweeks, Leicester were joint top, not two points off it. In the end the clubs that got closest to Leicester were Arsenal and Spurs, two other sides with no experience of winning a league. 

I'd say these points actually show that Murphy is talking nonsense and having that experience is crucial to winning a league. 

I'd argue the reason City have won it so much recently isn't because they have that experience, but more that they have better resources and larger/fuller squads. They're better placed for the tail end of the season as they'll have fresher players who are less burnt out due to better rotation.

You only need to look how we used to explode under MON at the end of each season to see how much this can affect teams.

8 hours ago, Marka Ragnos said:

Can you imagine a more out-of-touch awards ceremony, a set of prizes where the awarders seem to have more desperately "misread the room." What planet are FIFA on?

 

There's only one trophy that matters apparently. 

Messi won best player too.

It's all about marketing/Internet clicks sadly.

8 hours ago, useless said:

Lost Azaz, Lee Cundle, Kesler-Hayden, and Lewis Warrington this month, also Tyreik Wright has gone back to Bradford on loan.

As I thought Ian Foster is making use of his England youth connections with loan signings of Darko Gyabi and Ashley Phillips, they could do with a few more,

A lot of disruption for them which could easily ruin their season and send them back down.

Hopefully not though. 

On 14/01/2024 at 10:12, sidcow said:

Does feeding will birds create an imbalance which is bad for nature? 

We've got a couple of bird feeders that generally benefit the smaller garden birds. And a couple of nesting boxes that help Blue Tits and Great Tits. 

So are there far more Blue Tits, Great Tits, Coal Tits, Goldcrests and Nuthatches than there should be. 

They tend to feed the little green caterpillars to. Their chick's in breeding season. Are those insects being decimated because of too many small garden birds? 

Are larger birds suffering because they're being out competed by the smaller birds? 

I don't know but it's something I've wondered about. 

Don't worry. There can never be an overabundance of tits.

Cov fans made and displayed (on a road bridge not at the stadium) a banner today showing an exploding helicopter. Disgusting at any time but especially given what's happened with Leicester's owners. 

8 hours ago, Zatman said:

Another English player actually scored twice and ignored

Musiala isn't English. He has 25 caps for Germany, was born in Germany to German and Nigerian parents and only moved to England when he was 7. He played youth football for both us and Germany.

I'm just surprised people still play the lottery.

How do you tell the difference between a chemist and a plumber?

Ask them to pronounce "unionised".

40 minutes ago, bickster said:

Nah, I’d put him third behind Gareth Edwards and Phil Bennett

You could probably put David Duckham into the mix for England

I've got the dvd for the 1973 Barbarians game. Unbelievable try scored by these players.

12 hours ago, bickster said:

Welsh rugby legend JPR Williams gone at 74

 

Brilliant player.

He was also my father in laws claim to fame. He did a training session at London Welsh (I think) and managed to stop JPR scoring a try by ankle tapping him. Was super happy with himself until the coach told him off for risking injury to JPR.

11 hours ago, dubbs said:

Out of interest what do you guys do when you struggle for motivation to get to the gym / classes?  I've only been to the gym once since New Year and today will be my first class since Christmas Eve.  It feels like a chore at the moment, and the last thing I want to do is let it slip to a point where I don't bother going at all.  

When it's feeling like a chore to go, try focusing on exercises that you enjoy and want to do, even if it's not the day for them.

Just do bench press, or deadlift, or arms or rowing machine or whatever you enjoy. 

It's better to mix your routine up but still do something rather than do nothing. 

If you need to spend a bit more time looking at your phone or whatever between sets on that day then so be it.

Make it enjoyable until you want to do it properly again.

2 hours ago, Xela said:

What about the elite stormtroopers being beaten by raccoons with catapults and pebbles in return of the jedi?! 

Raccoons who then eat the stormtroopers. 

45 minutes ago, CVByrne said:

Who is BVB?

Who is CVB?

4 hours ago, rjw63 said:

Shame, it’s just the defence been letting them down really but to lose Azaz and the manager will not end well.

The defence was 'letting them down'partly due to how Schumacher set them up. They were very attack minded.

Rough few weeks for them though and hiring Gerrard's assistant doesn't exactly fill me with excitement for them.

8 hours ago, Zatman said:

The old Grealish would. Not this negative version terrified to beat players and disappoint Pep

It's hard to judge him based off his club football and how Pep plays him.

Who knows how an attack minded tactical genius would utilise him. 

We'd have to look at where else he is playing and how his international manager uses him to figure that out.

Actually, hang on, that doesn't work.

Forget it.

2 hours ago, DJ_Villain said:

Yeah, but Man City’s takeover was the catalyst and then they benefitted the most from it…

Had any other club done what they did to us and leech us into near oblivion using an endless pot of gold, I would have hated them instead…

but it was those parasitic vermin in Manchester 

We were making bad decisions before their take over. 

Lerner and MON had us hemorrhaging money and signing dross on crazy fees/wages before their takeover.

Add in his divorce and MONs tantrum and that's why we crashed as the money ran out.

Cities rise is a convenient excuse for our fall.

I'm not defending them though, they're a horrible club.

12 hours ago, DJ_Villain said:

Man City…

No other team has benefitted from our downfall from European football to the Championship than they have…

Their cheating, financial doping, stealing our captains every few years (only when they broke into the England squad though)…

They are arguably the team that is at most to blame for the worst period in our clubs history over the last 30 years…

 

The team most to blame for how bad we've been is ourselves. 

We've made bad decisions, after bad decisions and are only now in the last few years fixing them.

Blaming other clubs is a victim mentality. 

19 hours ago, Rodders said:

 

Ah, no, shit was taken in my current employers. It was a teams chat. 

The way this is written, I thought you had a shit whilst on a Teams chat.

Nice to at least have it confirmed what is going on. Comments are interesting too.

1 hour ago, CVByrne said:

Might be sending him to Plymouth

Argyle have no manager at the moment so doubt they'd be signing anyone until that's sorted.