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Nige has publicly said pre season is about fitness only hasn’t he

Hard to be too fussed when he’s started 2 games all season, in Nige we trust.

Not the worst but Ward-Prowse in 2006 chinos looking like he’s giving birth isn’t a vibe.

Haha, yes, agreed. Ignore stats from bias silly sods that try to prove a point instead of debating for truth*

Scott got 42(?) second assists, or whatever it’s called, goal scoring opportunities maybe.. the ball before the assist, I don’t know. Stats can be used to show any bias, ignore them..

They do that often, on deadline day, a few kids and League Two rejects normally

Unpleasant tents - Foul ground.

This was hilarious, City stating the global company that we use for all IT very clearly on the website. But no! A loss losing shop in Henbury does all the work hahaha.

Loans and transfers under Ashton, as in players he signed himself, excluding players already here.

Another point, it takes a good two or three years for a CEO to really stamp their mark on a club. For example, there’s been one set of accounts since Ashton has joined. To suggest he’s done amazing blabla, is not backed with any evidence. As has been said recently on this thread, the only objective information we have so far, shows a massive loss, and on who? Their squad has some good players I’ll give them that, no great ones are there(?) and a lot of nothing players (in regards to Championship standards), Wes Burns being one of their better players says a lot. Chaplin is an alright Championship striker, better than what the bottom 5 probably have, but pretty average otherwise. Broadhead was distinctly average at Wigan, Luongo the same (and several years older). For the incredibly large % increase in every area of the club (and that’s not including the undoubtedly additional increases when their new accounts are released), they haven’t built a Championship squad. I do like their manager though, that probably was an Ashton signing to be fair, he likes these ‘trendy’ signings, as we all know, that’s the 1 in 10 bits of shit that sticks to the wall.

I disagree, we got good money for great players, Webster, Brownhill, Reid etc. Nagy - Essentially a free transfer out Famara - Record signing / free transfer out Walsh - Essentially a free transfer out Paterson - Essentially a free transfer out Wright, Adeluken, Eliasson, Smith, Szmodics, Watkins, Pack, Eisa.. all wakes for free or a nominal fee, and that’s just the last couple years of his time with us. I’m sure @Davefevs has a spreadsheet with profit/loss on player sells, we made a loss on about 90% of ‘his’ signings. He only got good money for the players that actually commanded it, and the majority of those players were here before he even joined!

People try to protect their knowledge by basically saying, “Well, I understand this term and that term and what this term means.” But the reality is, most people don’t actually know what these things mean underneath. I find this very common in accounting. A lot of business people don’t know accounting, and even a lot of accountants will have fancy words for things. But when you dig underneath, they don’t really understand the principle of what’s going on below it. And if you just understand the principles, and even if you don’t understand the words, you will have an advantage in, for example, negotiating deals, because you will understand underneath how the pieces are actually moving on the board, as opposed to what they’re called. And I think the Feynman example is, his dad would take him for walks and they would see birds. And his dad would say, “This bird is such and such a warbler,” but that doesn’t tell you anything about the bird; that tells you about humans. And humans gave that bird that name. Really the bird, it likes to stand on one leg at this point and it likes to pick lice in its feathers, doing this, and it likes to eat these kinds of things. And it flies this way for that reason and that these are its predators and these are its prey. So, I mean, those are the kinds of things that really give you understanding. Who cares what the bird is called? The name of the bird is irrelevant. In professional life, this happens a lot, which is jargon. So you always want to strive for understanding, not for memorization. You should be able to re-articulate it five different ways in every language that you know. Otherwise, you don’t really understand it.

I still have this in its packaging, keeping it pristine for as long as I can. An absolute classic for all the wrong reasons.

Have a look at the views of every club he’s been a part of https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/sport/3995357.oliver-phillips-reflects-on-the-departure-of-mark-ashton-from-watford/

He can, but at least very recently, publicly said he definitively wants to play on the left. It doesn’t seem to make sense with Jr there currently, but what do I know, I’m sure they must have a plan.. although with Ancelotti close to the boot, who knows? edit: to add further, and somewhat public opinion, but Madrid seem to be a squad of superstars, rather than a team, so maybe they’re just buying as much quality as possible, without thought for roles(?)

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Ctez8deMcEc/?igshid=ZWQyN2ExYTkwZQ==

Bloody lucky to win it though, was absolutely shocked. Additionally, although they did win, most of the squad are on their last legs, at least at the most elite level. I’d argue only a handful of current players can continue for the mid, even short term future, let alone long.

I don’t understand the Mbappe stuff, Vinny & Mbappe love to sit on the left

I love Cooper, don’t understand the hate, quality innovative British manager

Not sure if said already but this is todays signing, 2m, apparently

I must agree, although I think this is highly rare, as Barton usually spouts.. ”There’s no excuses today.. the ref was their 12th man” ”There’s no excuses today.. they kicked us off the pitch” ”There’s no excuses today.. etcétéra”

Now release the audio where they forgot to draw the offside lines. Call me a cynic but what’s the point of showcasing these specifically(?)

This isn’t true, I get charged £25 every month.

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To clarify, it is a modern map ‘Lord of the Rings style’