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Reply | Lessons from last year
at 10:20 19 Jul 2025
That's simply not true. Jack Clarke got better (in a team that got worse).
Ogbene started well and got injured.
Szmodics started well and got injured.
Philogene was never properly fit and then got injured.
Delap was brilliant.
Omari had a decent "young player's first year in the Premier League".
O'Shea had a good season.
Greaves was probably the most "jury is out" of the new signings who played a decent chunk of games. Did he play better than Cam Burgess? Many of us think not.
Muric had brilliant moments, and some of the worst clangers ever witnessed from Town keepers.
Palmer was pretty solid.
Loans:
Cajuste played pretty well.
Phillips failed to live up to his reputation.
Enciso started slowly, but got better.
Most of the money was spent on young players. Some were injured, so the jury is out. The two most expensive have, and will, generate a profit.
It was the loans that failed us, more than the signings. |
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Reply | Football fact
at 10:06 19 Jul 2025
Not quite. Nobody is promoted from the top division. For the majority of Grimsby's history the bottom teams in the bottom (old Fourth) Division were reelected rather than allowing a new team into the League.
And, for a relatively short period, teams could escape relegation by beating teams from the Division below in a Play-off.
Then there was the period when Division 3 was divided into North and South, so two (bottom) Leagues had re-election.
The rules, and numbers of teams promoted and relegated each season, have changed over the course of Grimsby's long history.
But it would take an übernerd with a lot of time on their hands to work out the exact odds for each season, in each division, with the historically relevant rules, of Grimsby's history.
And then compare it with all other teams.
And then to calculate Grimsby's deviation from the mean.
Surely somebody will take up the challenge?!?!? |
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Reply | Who is more likely to be on the plane to the USA next June?
at 23:39 18 Jul 2025
Delap could be played as Wide Right marauder by Chelsea alongside Pedro, too. Sort of like if Jon Walters was Bruce Banner and Liam Delap was his Hulk alter ego. Or maybe that should be his Hull alter ego.
He has two routes to First Team minutes. |
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Reply | Omari buy back clause if we sell
at 23:34 18 Jul 2025
A better season than last year and he will be a £50 million player.
International Caps (although as I have said on another thread there are several ahead of him right now) and playing well for England could see him reach £80 million plus.
Could he be as good for Brentford (or other team) as Grealish was for Villa? Even close to that would put him in the £80 million bracket. |
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Reply | Who is more likely to be on the plane to the USA next June?
at 22:57 18 Jul 2025
Depending on how Tuchel wants to play it, there are plenty of LW, RW and 10 options ahead of Omari:
Saka
Eze
Gordon
Grealish
Foden
Palmer
If all of the above were injured at once, would Omari be ahead of Raheem Sterling and Jadon Sancho, for example? |
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Reply | The realities of the Music Industry 2025
at 17:25 17 Jul 2025
The point they make in their statement that the article is based on is that this is entirely down to streaming.
They used to make enough from gigs and CD sales, but now CD sales have completely dried up, and playing as a Doors tribute band pays the bills. |
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Reply | State over reach....terrorist supporters everywhere.
at 16:34 17 Jul 2025
The only law I can see being broken there is by the driver of that white car with the yellow and blue fluorescent stickers on it who has parked on a roundabout.
It's not an Emergency, and Police drivers are only exempt from the Road Traffic Act etc if in an emergency situation and to prevent serious harm. |
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Reply | Are new signings dependent on fee from selling Omari?
at 10:14 17 Jul 2025
Reason for not selling Omari: he is our best attacking player, with future upside
Reason for selling Omari: we have several good attacking options
Reason for not selling Omari: most of those options are coming back from serious injuries
Reason for selling Omari: it's the operating model we now follow, and he is the player who has a bid in for him
Reason for not selling Omari: keeping him is a signal of intent to help attract other good young players with potential
Reason for selling Omari: selling him (and Delap) after one season to established Premier League clubs shows that we are great at player development which will help attract other good young players with potential
Reason for not selling Omari: we are solvent and may meet Fair Play requirements without his sale
Reason for selling Omari: £35 million would be enough to bring in two, or possibly three, players who improve the team |
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Reply | Best player in the last 20 years?
at 12:41 16 Jul 2025
Ainsley Maitland-Niles' Mum just left a very angry answerphone message demanding his inclusion in this thread. |
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Reply | Thats Masterchef finished then!
at 12:37 16 Jul 2025
If it is a professional chef who has a restaurant currently then they need to be London based, and have an extremely well set up brigade system as their absences would mount up.
Or, intriguingly, MasterChef the Professionals hosts, Marcus Wareing and Monica Galetti, and former host, Michel Roux Jr, have all closed their restaurants recently for work-life balance reasons, and so have a lot more free time for TV now. They have, or have had, contracts with Banijay, the production company who makes MasterChef for the BBC.
Ainsley Harriott was a comedy actor who lucked out hosting Can't Cook, Won't Cook, and is all about the fun and silliness. And, let's be honest, is a bit Marmite- plenty of people just think he is as described on the sausage packet above!
MasterChef has launched some very serious careers, and Si King, although an everyman figure, as Wallace was supposed to be, is right at the heart of the "foodie" revolution in British culture and so would have enough substance to carry it off.
Other names with TV hosting experience:
Jimmy Doherty, Simon Rimmer, Matt Tebbutt (please no), James Martin (triple please no).
Good current chefs with TV profile and decent inter-personal skills:
Richard Bainbridge (would be excellent but a trek from his restaurant in Norwich), Sally Abé (one of the standouts from Great British Menu this year who has taken what looks like a less pressured job in a Gastro pub in the Cotswolds recently), my completely random suggestion is Scott Smith, who has been on Great British Menu and recently closed his fine dining restaurant in Edinburgh to go in with a firm opening a Gastro pub, he has the looks, is personable, and has a non-London accent.
Simon Rogan, Angela Hartnett and Tom Kerridge are too busy with multi-restaurant groups.
Plenty of chefs have historical "HR issues" lurking, having been as shouty and angry as Marco Pierre White and Gordon Ramsay when that was seen as the way to do it, or stories in the press about screwing staff on tips, or closing restaurants leaving big debts to suppliers or people with Gift Vouchers angry, so wouldn't be a safe pair of hands for the brand right now! |
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Reply | Sibley or Hameed for Crawley?
at 11:10 16 Jul 2025
"Our best opener": there's only two of them to compare- the one who gets runs and the one who doesn't, and yet you have bafflingly gone for the pedigree Great Dane with no runs over the snappy Staffy-cross with a healthy average.
If Crawley ends this series against Bumrah and Siraj averaging 40+ then he will deserve to keep his place. If he ends it with an average in the 20s then he definitely doesn't. 30 to 35 is moot point territory, 36 to 40 is benefit of the doubt. The same should apply to Pope.
Ben Foakes has a Test average of 29.2, which is respectable for a wicketkeeper-batter as opposed to a batter who keeps a bit. But it should be remembered that he played for the team and sometimes sacrificed his wicket to the excesses of Bazball when England were trying to thrash a quick extra 60 before a declaration.
Crawley, who only concentrates on his batting (judging by the catches he has dropped recently) averages 30.1 across a statistically significant 57 Tests.
Duckett has an average of 41.89 from 36 Tests.
The googly in all this is that Crawley has a very good average against Australia of 43.1. He still needs to do it against Bumrah and Siraj this series, in my opinion, though, to be on the plane for The Ashes. |
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Reply | omari bid apparently
at 10:25 16 Jul 2025
Because Delap had an extremely good first season in the Prem, and Hutchinson, in comparison, did well considering he was in a struggling team, without pulling any trees up.
Delap gave experienced, internationally capped, central defenders a mauling on more than one occasion, Hutchinson, generally, was at best honours-even against similar quality full backs. Which is still impressive for someone his age in his first Premier League season, but Delap had a much bigger impact.
The stats put it plainly:
Delap 12 goals, 2 assists in 37 (5) appearances.
Hutchinson 3 goals, 2 assists in 31 (1) appearances.
Plus Centre Forwards usually have a 1.5 to 2x mark up on wingers and support forwards. |
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Reply | Sibley or Hameed for Crawley?
at 20:48 15 Jul 2025
The advantage of Crawley and Duckett as the opening partnership is that it gives bowlers a problem of having to shift both line, because one is right handed and the other left, and length, because one is one of the tallest openers in Test cricket, the other one of the shortest.
For the Ashes in Australia, where length is extremely important, it would be good if we could find another tall right handed if Crawley is to be discarded.
A left-field shout would be to bring Foakes back as wicketkeeper, and promote Jamie Smith to open. He has the best average in world cricket against short-pitched bowling over the last year, according to a stat Sky showed during the Second Test. There's also an argument not to mess with one of the departments that is working well, but I favour an attacking approach against the Aussies. |
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Reply | Thats Masterchef finished then!
at 19:52 15 Jul 2025
They should get Si King to do it.
He could save the brand, is excellent at getting the best from people who aren't used to being on TV, and is as close to a national treasure as can be found!
Plus it is a programme of similar status to Hairy Bikers, so it would give him a great chance to resume his career with something different to what he has done before, but that will let him shine.
They'll probably just pair Jay Rayner with Grace Dent, but Si King would be better than either. |
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Thread | Sycamore Gap vandals sentenced
at 15:31 15 Jul 2025
The Judge has been very strong. She went beyond the maximum guideline for sentencing (4 years) due to the social harm and distress caused, and due to them revelling in the crime and the fact that others had been arrested for their crime.
Sentence 4 years 3 months.
They will serve a minimum of 40% in prison (approx 20 months).
What's the feeling on that sentence?
I am aware that some "one punch killers" have been given shorter sentences than that, for example. I am concerned that the Judge said that the widespread public response was a factor in increasing the sentence. That suggests that social media campaigns could influence sentencing.
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Reply | Twtd hive advice
at 12:55 15 Jul 2025
The third one isn't far off that- what a moron! |
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Reply | Best player in the last 20 years?
at 12:23 15 Jul 2025
If you were trying to put a team together, with those criteria, Alan Lee would be in with a shout, too.
And I absolutely loved Stephen Hunt. A fantastic footballer and an inspiration to his team mates. |
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