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The Fish

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  1. We were genuinely talking about getting a dog if we weren't lucky enough to get pregnant this year. So while I'm delighted to welcome an addition to the School of Fish, I'm a little disappointed we won't get a dog for a while.
  2. I'd love it if I could bring a dog to work. Because I work from home, and I don't have a dog and I want one.
  3. I'm not sure me and James Mclean are aligned on what makes a story 'funny'. Me: On the way to work a bird shat on my hungover face and I immediately threw up on myself. Him: a kid's dad threw back his shirt in his face and some people spat at him and his pregnant wife
  4. Good job they've got shit strikers who can't finish for toffee. I use the stats from Fbref, they have Everton (14.7) just behind Man City (14.9). But Everton have scored 9 and Man City have 17. We have 17.3 xg and 20 Goals, by the way.
  5. Posts as Gene Clark, very occasionally. Real name is Ian Cusack.
  6. That's the risk of the 'model'. Anyone who wants to copy Brighton and Brentford's approach has to understand that the key to it being successful is that you need to recruit for two steps down the path, all the time. And every transfer is a gamble, even if you have great analysts, great scouts and so on., it's still a gamble. Say you're Ipswich, you need to buy undervalued players who will deliver Premier League survival, because if you sign players who can get you promoted, you'll likely need to replace them when you succeed. That's incredibly difficult. Ipswich likely don't have the resources to hire the best analysts, or provide for them the best resources. They likely can't afford the best scouts, or afford to send them all over the world to unearth the next big thing. Brighton have made it look easy, but it's really not. Just a thought, but was this easier for Brighton because they've been operating in this way since Bloom took over? They've consistently been 2-3 steps ahead of every other team they're ostensibly competing with since League 1.
  7. I dunno if it's great. Some weird phrase choices like "Flekken in the Brentford goal is the football equivalent of a social hand grenade, liable to explode at any second." Why a social hand grenade? Why not just a hand grenade? A social hand grenade refers to someone who's likely to say something, do something that will immediately destroy any social situation. It doesn't need that extra layer. Also, he rightly criticises the mackems for saying the lad who got stabbed in Milan deserved it, then hopes for someone with a chainsaw to go after the bloke behind No Saudi Toon. He's got a broad vocabulary and sometimes he uses it well, but that piece was rambling and had an underlying tone of anger and bitterness.
  8. At 14 I liked comic books, football, Blur and masturbating. I was a complex kid.
  9. Isn't it nice to have real things to be proud of?
  10. I take care of the whole head. Just like your Mum! Heyooohhhhhhh
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