The Fish

I think there are far more problems that lead to Ings' goal than one centreback turning his back, yeah. You seem to think that if the players were taking shots to the face (rather than turning their backs) we'd not be losing, when, in reality, it's an infinitesimally small factor that you've arbitrarily chosen as the hill you're going to die on. Calling them cowards to make it seem a more heinous crime is pathetic as well. We're losing because we're not pressing well, we're not using the ball well and we're not finishing chances. We're not organised defensively and we're not measured in our attacks. We rely way too much on individual incidents of ability, rather than team play. We have a good striker that we fail to provide for. We've a few technically gifted attacking midfielders that we don't support. Our lynchpin central midfielder is a selfish cunt whose prefers to spray Hollywood balls about the place and shoot from the halfway line, instead of using that passing range to build attacks consistently. We've seen a poorer iteration of this squad play pragmatically, with a mean defence and an efficient attack. Now, with better players we should still be able to be mean at the back, while playing with more verve at the other end. So no, cowardice isn't the fucking problem. Bruce and his cohort are.

Was up home for a funeral on Wednesday. Are there always someone at a wake that nobody has a fucking clue about? There was this woman, a good 25yrs younger than my late Godfather, so not a friend. According to the neighbours, she's not a local. Wasn't from St Oswalds. No idea who the fuck she was. But she sat at the service, got her free drink at the wake, ate from the buffet, spoke to a few people, gave her condolences and all that. Proper weird.

What do you mean? In a similar way to saying something like Bob Dylan isn't a great singer, but his style is his own? (I'm revealing some vulnerability here lads, so be gentle.)

Can't blame me, even Watts says his career was based on copying off others.

I'll admit to knowing fuck all about music beyond what I do and don't like, but the Rolling Stones never struck me as exceptional musicians. For those who know more, am I way off?

100% It was like registering Dummett and Gayle when they were both expected to be out beyond January last season. Also, in the past few games, would we have been significantly worse off with Mark Gillespie between the sticks? Why not let Woodman go off on loan? Or, if Woodman is to be the Number 1, why register Mark Gillespie? Why not just use a kid as the sub 'keeper? It's not like Gillespie's going to be on huge wages. Fuck, we're so poorly run.

Lascelles made himself as big as possible and conceded a penalty. 'Giving 100%' cost us a goal, so put that in your curmudgeonly pipe and smoke it. Turning their back is not the biggest issue, it's not even in the top five. We concede goals because we've average-to-poor defenders, coached by average-to-poor coaches and managed by a poor tactician. It's like moaning about the in-flight meal as the plane plummets towards the ground.

Right, so if every team has players who show this COWARDICE is there any value to endlessly mention it? The number of times you bitch about it make it seem like you think COWARDICE is the reason we're in the shit. When, in reality, it's poor management, poor recruitment and poor quality.

There's a couple on twitter who make their fun by defending Ashley's tenure, leaning heavily on the idea that he saved us from financial ruin. The central premise that if he hadn't bought us, Shepherd would have taken no measures to stave off calamity and we'd have folded, never to return.

Literally every team does, so we're not at a disadvantage because of it. Maybe obsess over something that has greater impact on our results, like our disorganised defence, our inert midfield or anything else that makes up Bruce's remit?

Shhh Lads, we missed an opportunity there.

This squad isn't lacking attacking midfielders, even though James is quality we should be using one of our squad numbers for a central midfielder, or fullbacks.

Acceptance.

I think we have to stop caring about how much was spent on Joelinton and judge him instead on how he performs in this system. The kid was played as an isolated targetman for a poor side. At least now we're likely to play a style that means he won't be chasing down lost causes or trying to keep the ball for half an hour while Shelvey strolls up to join him in attack.

Only to a low t motherfucker.

You're right. It is. But I don't think we agree on what "it" we're talking about.

Careful on the roads.

This went exactly as I hoped and expected.

Great, cool, exciting, but what's going on with the Llamas?

About fucking time.

? What've I missed?

From my experience Lancs think everything and everywhere is shit, Yorks think everything and everywhere else is shit.

People die all the time, but how many have died during the pandemic that were avoidable?

Because isn't it less about winning wars and more about money?

Funny thing? From what I've read? That's not in the FA Laws of the game.