Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: kippaxvilla2 on December 28, 2015, 05:29:04 PM
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Not officially down but there are people who should immediately be relieved of their duties.
1. Paddy Reilly.
I have no idea who he is or how the fcuk he came to be the mainstay and major decision maker in our transfer policy but it has been an absolute unmitigated disaster particularly this summer. A team that finished 17th, allowed their main goalscorer to leave and replaced him with an entire team of complete unknowns.
2. Henrik Almstadt.
No idea who he is or what the fcuk he adds to the side. But it is clear if he is an analyst who is employed to spot players, then by any measure he is doing a terrible job. Games in the Premier League are not the same as playing FIFA15.
3. Tom Fox.
Has presided over all of the above. What is more, he gets interviewed recently and starts saying things like 'it is easy to look at the league table when we are great at increasing revenue.' Well yes Tom it is easy to look at the league table and to see what a total and utter joke of a club we have become and how it has accelerated on your watch. From the 'only one man on the list' in Sherwood, to going for another complete novice as manager and expecting a different result on the pitch.
How has it come to this. I don't even hanker for mid table mediocrity anymore. I am happy with 17th. We will be lucky to make 20th before being kicked out for pretending to be a team. This regime has stood and watched as Southampton, Swansea, Smethwick, Stoke, Watford, Crystal Palace, Wet Spam sailed passed us without doing a fcukin thing about it or seemingly having a clue how to.
They should all go now.
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Anyone involved with The Only Way Is Essex and shit like that.
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Would it not be easier to list those who should stay?
1) Nelly, Doris the tea lady's best mate, who covers for Doris when her cankers are playing up.
I think that covers it.
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Anyone involved with The Only Way Is Essex and shit like that.
Agreed forgot that one. I will throw in Geordie Shore.
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Not that'd make an iota of difference.
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SH unfortunately Randolph cannot sack himself.
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Richardson can keep his job - the best Jamiroquai impersonator in the league
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The editor of the New York Times. Sponsored content AND a front page editorial? Go fuck yourself.
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The bloke at our local takeaway.
They forgot to send the papadoms.
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The bloke at our local takeaway.
They forgot to send the papadoms.
So annoying when that happens.
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My line manager. He's an utter c***.
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The ****** who invented those Tesco adverts with that gormless Agbonlahor impersonator.
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Kay Burley
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Kay Burley
Yes this !! As if the poor folk up North don't have enough problems at the moment, now she turns up.
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Kay Burley
Yes this !! As if the poor folk up North don't have enough problems at the moment, now she turns up.
Sadness in her eyes.
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2. Henrik Almstadt.
No idea who he is or what the fcuk he adds to the side. But it is clear if he is an analyst who is employed to spot players, then by any measure he is doing a terrible job. Games in the Premier League are not the same as playing FIFA15.
He job is nothing to do with any of that.
You could have just as easily stopped after the first five words.
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Kay Burley
Yes this !! As if the poor folk up North don't have enough problems at the moment, now she turns up.
Sadness in her eyes.
You'll know when we've been relegated as she'll turn up at Villa Park interviewing passers by .
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The 40-year old German joins the Club from Arsenal where he spent the last four years in the football department working with the chief executive and manager in the areas of technical scouting, data analytics, financial budgeting and contract management, the academy and athletic development.
The above is his job description. Financial budgeting and contract management I think I get. What about technical scouting and data analytics?
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The bloke at our local takeaway.
They forgot to send the papadoms.
So annoying when that happens.
My brother told me once, with great sadness that one of his local curry houses forgot to send his rice. He was gutted and I've never let him forget it either. They were late too and he couldn't be bothered to wait for them to take another hour and deliver his rice, so he had to run to his nearest tesco for some microwave rice. I think that probably ranked as his "fuck my life" moment of 2014.
Anytime he gets a takeaway now I ask him if he got his rice.
We have now become like a takeaway that sends out mediocre food with half the fucking dishes missing. We reluctantly eat it and hope that next time they get it right again because we once had a great Jalfrezi there that we long to try again.
Ultimately we're left with stomach pains every week and pebble dash the toilet in a shitstink of sadness the following morning. Brown arse tears of disappointment.
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Nicky Morgan.
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Most of the staff in my local McColls, especially the fat, sweaty rude bloke.
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The Queen, Prince Charles etc al
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The Queen, Prince Charles etc al
They have jobs?
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Is Nicky Keys still there
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Father Christmas. Fat lazy bastard.
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The bloke on the door of the Holte Pub who let me in for a piss after I flashed my France Lions card on Saturday should stay too.
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The bloke interviewing Andy Carroll and asking him about his new my little pony hairstyle.
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The Queen, Prince Charles etc al
They have jobs?
Well they get money from somebody else as a quid pro quo for turning up occasionally at a specified time and place. If they find it too onerous I'm happy to swap.
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The Queen, Prince Charles etc al
They have jobs?
Well they get money from somebody else as a quid pro quo for turning up occasionally at a specified time and place. If they find it too onerous I'm happy to swap.
Turning up and getting paid for doing nothing....sounds familiar.
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The Queen, Prince Charles etc al
They have jobs?
OK then, lose their benefits
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The Queen, Prince Charles etc al
They have jobs?
Well they get money from somebody else as a quid pro quo for turning up occasionally at a specified time and place. If they find it too onerous I'm happy to swap.
Prince William is alright though, he can keep his job.
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The Queen, Prince Charles etc al
They have jobs?
Well they get money from somebody else as a quid pro quo for turning up occasionally at a specified time and place. If they find it too onerous I'm happy to swap.
Prince William is alright though, he can keep his job.
Shagging Kate and free hospitality at VP.? I'm sure I could cope if I had to.
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Nicholas Witchell.
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Anyone who says 'can I get' when buying something. Splitters!
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Would it not be easier to list those who should stay?
1) Nelly, Doris the tea lady's best mate, who covers for Doris when her cankers are playing up.
I think that covers it.
Cheers Jimbo, nice to see my hard work is appreciated.
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The Queen, Prince Charles etc al
They have jobs?
OK then, lose their benefits
I am against unemployed people losing their benefits because they will only come and steal from me if don't have any money.
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The bloke on cash strapped Wolvo Council who sanctioned a £20,000 stone bench in a street that nobody uses!
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Ciaran Clark and alan fucking Hutton
And we should get Lambert back just so we can sack the fucker again for giving Hutton a new 4 year deal last year (and of course Fox)
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The bloke on cash strapped Wolvo Council who sanctioned a £20,000 stone bench in a street that nobody uses!
Talking of which, is that statue in Smethwick anywhere near being built?
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Tom Fox. Is probably realising that marketing a team like Arsenal is a very different proposition to actually running a team like Villa. The board room equivalent of Tim Sherwood when it comes to the job he's done.
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Tom Fox. Is probably realising that marketing a team like Arsenal is a very different proposition to actually running a team like Villa. The board room equivalent of Tim Sherwood when it comes to the job he's done.
Another in the line of men at the top who would have made a good number two.
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Nicholas Witchell.
He doesn't have a job. He gets paid but that slightly different.
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Don't worry we've got a new Chairman starting soon.
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The players who aren't good enough to get into our pile of sheet team
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Tom Fox. Is probably realising that marketing a team like Arsenal is a very different proposition to actually running a team like Villa. The board room equivalent of Tim Sherwood when it comes to the job he's done.
Another in the line of men at the top who would have made a good number two.
He might well have made a decent marketing director, given his experience, just like Paul Faulkner may well have been a decent assistant to Nicola Keye given his.
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Don't worry we've got a new Chairman starting soon.
I wonder who it'll be.
(http://mediastorage-lls.bauermedia.co.uk/0d/44032/e5813/c610b/e116b/8d4e8/23769/joey_646x363.jpg?1387186461)
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Don't worry we've got a new Chairman starting soon.
I wonder who it'll be.
(http://mediastorage-lls.bauermedia.co.uk/0d/44032/e5813/c610b/e116b/8d4e8/23769/joey_646x363.jpg?1387186461)
i think he can tell the time now so that must make him a frontrunner
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Rude officious women that work on receptions in GPs , hospitals and schools. Show them no mercy.
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Not officially down but there are people who should immediately be relieved of their duties.
1. Paddy Reilly.
I have no idea who he is or how the fcuk he came to be the mainstay and major decision maker in our transfer policy but it has been an absolute unmitigated disaster particularly this summer. A team that finished 17th, allowed their main goalscorer to leave and replaced him with an entire team of complete unknowns.
2. Henrik Almstadt.
No idea who he is or what the fcuk he adds to the side. But it is clear if he is an analyst who is employed to spot players, then by any measure he is doing a terrible job. Games in the Premier League are not the same as playing FIFA15.
3. Tom Fox.
Has presided over all of the above. What is more, he gets interviewed recently and starts saying things like 'it is easy to look at the league table when we are great at increasing revenue.' Well yes Tom it is easy to look at the league table and to see what a total and utter joke of a club we have become and how it has accelerated on your watch. From the 'only one man on the list' in Sherwood, to going for another complete novice as manager and expecting a different result on the pitch.
How has it come to this. I don't even hanker for mid table mediocrity anymore. I am happy with 17th. We will be lucky to make 20th before being kicked out for pretending to be a team. This regime has stood and watched as Southampton, Swansea, Smethwick, Stoke, Watford, Crystal Palace, Wet Spam sailed passed us without doing a fcukin thing about it or seemingly having a clue how to.
They should all go now.
Tragically that's all very true. But Lerner has ultimate responsibility. His decision making is appalling.He's been disastrous for Villa. Do we hear an apology from him? NO. Do we get a rallying call from our so called leader? NO. Does he even attend Villa Park? NO. He has not sat in the seat that he got for a knock down £67million for over 2 years. What we get is deafening silence from him. He has appointed a team of people to take all the flak on his behalf. A complete dereliction of duty and a cowardly way to run our proud football club. He has turned us into a rusting hulk of a once mighty ship, limping into the ships graveyard. It will take a miracle to salvage us now. Thanks for nothing y'all.
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Not officially down but there are people who should immediately be relieved of their duties.
1. Paddy Reilly.
I have no idea who he is or how the fcuk he came to be the mainstay and major decision maker in our transfer policy but it has been an absolute unmitigated disaster particularly this summer. A team that finished 17th, allowed their main goalscorer to leave and replaced him with an entire team of complete unknowns.
2. Henrik Almstadt.
No idea who he is or what the fcuk he adds to the side. But it is clear if he is an analyst who is employed to spot players, then by any measure he is doing a terrible job. Games in the Premier League are not the same as playing FIFA15.
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This season's transfer acquisitions threw up two very good players in Ayew and Veretout, probably another in Amavi and possibly a fourth in Traore. Even accepting that Gana's early promise flattered to deceive that still makes it arguably the most successful summer of recruitment for two decades.
The problem we have is that season upon season we have gone into transfer windows needing X number of good players, where X has been a steadily increasing number. Hence last summer we had to spread the Benteke Bonanza around a number of midfielders and a full back instead of using the bulk of it to find a suitable replacement.
I do wonder if what we are really paying for this season is last season's 'make do and mend pending takeover' window that saw our major acquisitions consist of Cole, Senderos, Richardson, Cissokho and Sanchez. We have got added value from just one of those players whilst our competitors - The Stokes and Palaces - got some genuine team building done.
It is almost ironic that the season we get a bit of effective recruitment under our belt is the one where we (may well) finally pay for the years of misspending and under investment.
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Those players are not 'very good' players. I believe in Ayew and Veretout we have bought decent prospects. Traore hasn't had a chance to show us one way or the other. Amavi showed signs of promise.
The policy has been a failure in the sense that 12 unknowns (at this level) were signed with virtually no genuine quality experienced players bought in to complement them and certainly no leaders. With us on 8 points 12 points from safety would suggest something has gone wrong somewhere?
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No, it might suggest that what was already wrong has finally bit us on the arse and that the best bit of recruitment in many a year was not enough. It was bound to happen sooner or later.
If you don't rate the lads I mentioned as highly as I do that's fine. I see them as the kind of players we should have recruited to make an impression on O'Neill's 6th place glass ceiling, let alone preserve top flight status.
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I don't rate any of our new recruits as highly as Delph and Benteke. We lost quality, went for quantity from an inferior league and did the same with our choice of new boss.
Its a mess created by the chap at the top and his advisors.
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Those players are not 'very good' players. I believe in Ayew and Veretout we have bought decent prospects. Traore hasn't had a chance to show us one way or the other. Amavi showed signs of promise.
The policy has been a failure in the sense that 12 unknowns (at this level) were signed with virtually no genuine quality experienced players bought in to complement them and certainly no leaders. With us on 8 points 12 points from safety would suggest something has gone wrong somewhere?
I pretty much agree with that assessment. Some of the signings have showed potential and have played well in patches but it hadn't been enough. I have been impressed by Ayew and Veretout's attitude in the past few weeks - more than any other players.
We needed more experience, particularly down the spine of the team, and I have been saying for ages we have needed more physical creatures and leaders in our team. We are crying out for an enforcer.
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I don't rate any of our new recruits as highly as Delph and Benteke. We lost quality, went for quantity from an inferior league and did the same with our choice of new boss.
Its a mess created by the chap at the top and his advisors.
We have not been downsized; we have been poncified, demarrowed and clusterfucked.
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I don't rate any of our new recruits as highly as Delph and Benteke. We lost quality, went for quantity from an inferior league and did the same with our choice of new boss.
Its a mess created by the chap at the top and his advisors.
The problem was that Benteke's goals were making up for weaknesses in two or three positions in the team. Sell him and you have to buy two or three players to be in the same position. Add to this that Gana has not turned out yet to be the replacement for Delph and Richards has not turned out to be the replacement for Vlaar (however much people criticised him). When you look at the number brought in (13 I think), it almost matched the number leaving. What was short was an additional £15m to bring in some higher quality players than some that were bought.
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Tom Fox needs to f*ck off back to London sooner rather than later. He's proved to be hopelessly out of his depth so the quicker he disappears the better. Idiot.
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http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/aston-villa-stan-collymore-relegation-10664706
So in what line he says sell the whole squad and then he says ensure we supply Gestede in the Championship next season?
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http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/aston-villa-stan-collymore-relegation-10664706
So in what line he says sell the whole squad and then he says ensure we supply Gestede in the Championship next season?
I think he wants you to phone in, and "get involved".
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Did he encourage you to "come on!"?
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Just to clear it up, Hendrik Almstadt has nothing to do with player acquisitions. His job is to help the manager on the playing operations side.
For example - Manager suggests there is an issue with the medical team. He is there to look into the medical team and fix it.
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Just to clear it up, Hendrik Almstadt has nothing to do with player acquisitions. His job is to help the manager on the playing operations side.
For example - Manager suggests there is an issue with the medical team. He is there to look into the medical team and fix it.
a very important job that by the sounds of things?
how much does he rake in for doing something so vital
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The defense coaches and defenders should have a good look at themselves. How we keep making shit mistakes every single game that costs us momentum and eventually the game is beyond me. How our players keep switching off or getting dragged out of position is baffling. These are international defenders who are looking more brittle by the game.
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Agree Lapin. Wham's goal on Boxing Day was directly caused by Hutton roaming way out of position and Norwich's second on Monday was directly down to Clark being out of position.
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Just to clear it up, Hendrik Almstadt has nothing to do with player acquisitions. His job is to help the manager on the playing operations side.
For example - Manager suggests there is an issue with the medical team. He is there to look into the medical team and fix it.
a very important job that by the sounds of things?
how much does he rake in for doing something so vital
Are you suggesting that some kind of logistics manager is superfluous to requirements?
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Just to clear it up, Hendrik Almstadt has nothing to do with player acquisitions. His job is to help the manager on the playing operations side.
For example - Manager suggests there is an issue with the medical team. He is there to look into the medical team and fix it.
His job description includes technical scouting what does that mean exactly?
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Technical Scouting must be when you do it on FIFA 2015 or Football Manager.
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Not officially down but there are people who should immediately be relieved of their duties.
1. Paddy Reilly.
I have no idea who he is or how the fcuk he came to be the mainstay and major decision maker in our transfer policy but it has been an absolute unmitigated disaster particularly this summer. A team that finished 17th, allowed their main goalscorer to leave and replaced him with an entire team of complete unknowns.
2. Henrik Almstadt.
No idea who he is or what the fcuk he adds to the side. But it is clear if he is an analyst who is employed to spot players, then by any measure he is doing a terrible job. Games in the Premier League are not the same as playing FIFA15.
3. Tom Fox.
Has presided over all of the above. What is more, he gets interviewed recently and starts saying things like 'it is easy to look at the league table when we are great at increasing revenue.' Well yes Tom it is easy to look at the league table and to see what a total and utter joke of a club we have become and how it has accelerated on your watch. From the 'only one man on the list' in Sherwood, to going for another complete novice as manager and expecting a different result on the pitch.
How has it come to this.
They should all go now.
Can't agree more mate --- however some 'red-faced' people try obscure an hijack your thread.
YES !!
We have seen a people load of ex-Arsenal staff ~~~ why did the gooners let them go if they were relevant ??
One winds up with a plum-crazy owner...got an ex-gooner yipeee ;D
He recruits other ex-gooners, cos he don't know footie--- unfortunately they don't either.
Hmmm -- what did Arsene do ? He tracked and plotted Theiry Henry, got him for peanuts, wore a false moustache and hat and watched and tracked Fabrehas...brilliant.
So, what we do is watch DVDs, which every European Club has been furnished with by agents..get a load of cheap French players, cos another Thiery might be there..
OOOps we need a new manager.
That's right ! The guy who rebuilt Spurs, gave birth to Harry Kane and personally burnt down the impediment building.
OOOps... we gotta a lot of French players who don't understand 'hoof-it' EWe need a new manager !
Get Arsene's advice....a guy who speaks French....brill...back on track...
kippax....I couldn't agree more mate.
A dysfuntional management -- from top-down.
And has been since Lerner took over.
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William Faulkner is an easier read, that is all I can say.
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Most of the staff in my local McColls, especially the fat, sweaty rude bloke.
There must be a specialist recruitment agency out there that provide overweight, disinterested staff exclusively for McColls, One Stop and W H Smiths.
I'd like to nominate my colleague Chris (not you Chrissy), who slid on his teflon jacket yesterday and ignored a customer request that came in an hour before he finished, knowing that me, who covering two days this week to his one, would have to pick it up. It would have taken 5 minutes to sort yesterday, with the customers still on site, whereas now it's a major ballache for me to try and get a formatted recording up on their system remotely.
The fucking bellend.
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Dostoyevsky's The Idiot was the read that came to my mind.
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Dostoyevsky's The Idiot was the read that came to my mind.
I was thinking of Benjy in Part 1 of the Sound and the Fury.
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I was thinking All Work and No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy by Jack Torrance.
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This was the part of the announcement about Almstadt on the official site when he joined.
The 40-year old German joins the Club from Arsenal where he spent the last four years in the football department working with the chief executive and manager in the areas of technical scouting, data analytics, financial budgeting and contract management, the academy and athletic development.
I read this morning he is part of the 'quintet' that make decisions on transfers. That quintet being Fox, Reilly, the manager Almstadt and Lerner.
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What's wrong with that.
Manager says I need an attacking midfielder to help the big man up top. Chief scout goes out looking with his team. Sees somebody in the second division in Japan who the manager and much of Europe, had never heard of. Has the qualities that fit the bill. Filters back to the logistics guy who looks at the data available to help with the report to the manager. Manager picks his guy and agrees that this Japanese kid has something to offer. CEO goes to owner to confirm finance. Owner gives thumbs up. Data man looks at what the budget is like for a contract and passes it back to CEO who green lights the move financially.
End result is that Borussia Dortmund sign Kagawa and win two league titles, with the player scoring getting on for one in two.
Player moves on for a huge fee, before returning. More interestingly, the manager moves on to replace dear Brendon whose woes are placed on a "committee" because "Klopp wouldn't stand for such nonsense". Mega lolz.
There is nothing wrong with the way we sign players.
We are where we are because of five years of failure to invest, of lurching from one manager and therefore strategy, style and player type, to the next. It was a complete failure by Lerner and Faulkner from 2010 to now that has lead us to this abyss. That we have finally adopted common practice for purchasing players is not the root cause of the demise, its not even a symptom.
Benteke's goals kept us up, we sold him and the managers plan was to rely on an expensive, 33 year old, fruitcake who decided, after having a medical, that he did not want to come because God hadn't given him a sign. The back up was a Championship player who the manager wanted. And that was it.
We've conceded 57, 61, 69, 53 and 59 goals over the past five years and the manager picks a player who looks past it and a full back as our centre half pairing, to supplement a player in Clark who isn't and never will be good enough and a young lad who has the ability, but has injury problems.
The list of long term and short term causes are both long. The way we sign our players is a press gimmick.
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Anyone with at least 2 years' continuous service, legal expenses insurance, my telephone number and an employer who does not have any grounds for getting rid of them legally.
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Agree with all of that, Ads. Another sign of the stupidity is that we have an injured left back with no specialist replacement at the club as they are both out on loan.
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Kay Burley
Yes this !! As if the poor folk up North don't have enough problems at the moment, now she turns up.
Sadness in her eyes.
Very harsh, she's got nice tits.😉
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The defense coaches and defenders should have a good look at themselves. How we keep making shit mistakes every single game that costs us momentum and eventually the game is beyond me. How our players keep switching off or getting dragged out of position is baffling. These are international defenders who are looking more brittle by the game.
I agree with Monsieur Le Lapin.
I said a few weeks ago that when you are shit and struggling you first work on making yourselves hard to beat. Play ugly, bore the opposition to death and maybe sneak a goal or two for a win, worst case scenario a few bore draws. We seem to have gone for the Looney Tunes school of defending, with no visible benefit of coaching appearing on the pitch.
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The bloke at our local takeaway.
They forgot to send the papadoms.
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So annoying when that happens.
My brother told me once, with great sadness that one of his local curry houses forgot to send his rice. He was gutted and I've never let him forget it either. They were late too and he couldn't be bothered to wait for them to take another hour and deliver his rice, so he had to run to his nearest tesco for some microwave rice. I think that probably ranked as his "fuck my life" moment of 2014.
Anytime he gets a takeaway now I ask him if he got his rice.
We have now become like a takeaway that sends out mediocre food with half the fucking dishes missing. We reluctantly eat it and hope that next time they get it right again because we once had a great Jalfrezi there that we long to try again.
Ultimately we're left with stomach pains every week and pebble dash the toilet in a shitstink of sadness the following morning. Brown arse tears of disappointment.
Bravo! (Especially the inspired 'shitstink of sadness' bit). ;)
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Ads probably has the best summation of things to do with transfer policy to be fair. But I'd still like to know what technical scouting is.....I actually do think it's what BE said it was!