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Reply | Most confident going into a new season?
at 09:15 1 May 2025
Same as this thing you always hear about "Oh, we'll not get a result at XXXX similar club because we lost every game there in the nineties." - "But not one player or staff member is still at either club from that time!" - "Yeah, we always lose there." |
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Reply | Is that dog sh1t at 0.36?
at 08:33 1 May 2025
Mid left is a desperate swimmer trying to front crawl away from said massive eel. |
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Reply | Net Zero and Tony Blair.
at 17:38 30 Apr 2025
The time will come when the price of not having adapted / scaled back will suddenly jump to being far more extortionate than taking lots of different small actions now (and over the last, lost, forty years or so).
We tend to think of things in terms of costs within the current relatively stable financial environment and what, say, a 10% or 20% cost increase would feel like to us now, and naturally a lot of people don't like the idea of 'losing that sort of money', but the consequences of inaction blow that sort of short-term petty consideration out of the water.
In terms of building, cement production is the source of about 8% of CO₂ emissions [1], so we need to consider building a hell of a lot less - sure we need houses, but we don't need massive vanity projects etc.
But it's a change of attitude by everybody across all of the ways we affect our poor fked up planet that we really need, and that challenge seems to make far too many people indignant when confronted with the need to scale back on personal activities such as buying junk, flying lots, building bigger houses. We also need to do a bit of carbon capture if we can, if it can be scaled up to be anything other than a bit of posturing.
If / when various tipping points [2] start being hit, it's going to be far too late to be banking on some sort of as yet unknown tech fix. We'll feel like sh!t at that point and wonder why we were too selfish to scale back when we had the chance.
[1] https://www.chathamhouse.org/2018/06/making-concrete-change-innovation-low-carbo
[2] https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-exploring-the-risks-of-cascading-tipping- |
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Reply | Most confident going into a new season?
at 16:56 30 Apr 2025
Exactly the same. Probably more positive and excited than ever actually, having heard some of the hints from Joe and others as to how ambitious the owners remain, with McKenna and Ashton having really proved themselves in ever-increasingly challenging circumstances over the last three and a half years.
Ins and outs yes, but I feel pretty confident that they'll find the right players to develop over a season in the Championship to give both a great chance of promotion, and a good chance of staying up afterwards. |
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Reply | Player of the season rankings 2024/25
at 14:19 30 Apr 2025
I'd agree with almost everything/everyone down to about number seven inclusive, but then it gets a bit harder to order them. I'd have Woolf, Greaves, Davis and Jack Clarke all a bit higher. |
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Reply | Carl Rushworth, Jason Knight & Flynn Downes
at 14:01 30 Apr 2025
If we can upgrade the firmware and get a Muric 2.0 who communicates well and decides when to do what more reliably, we could still have one helluva keeper there. Would need support from the stands too, of course. |
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Reply | What signings do Town need in the summer?
at 13:40 30 Apr 2025
Morsy is a yam-yam isn't he? From Wolverhampton? Or Woolverstone?
What you're saying puts more importance on the Academy then, which looks like it's progressing nicely? I thought there was more direct recruitment of young players from say European or South American leagues, which we haven't been able to do yet. But I bow to just about everyone else's superior knowledge on the matter!  |
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Reply | Net Zero and Tony Blair.
at 13:34 30 Apr 2025
I suspect that the pace of consequential change we're already seeing and likely cascading events and some possible tipping points reached means that most people of voting age will see consequences on a scale which is unimaginable to the majority who refuse to think, act or educate themselves about exactly what it is we have done to ourselves.
Our kids will certainly see the worst.
Doom-mongering? I don't think so. Shock tactics. Maybe. An uncomfortable reality which most of us seem totally unwilling to face. Yes. |
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Reply | McKenna linked with Spurs
at 08:54 30 Apr 2025
We're not mate.
Other Championship clubs might worry about it though - at least those who will be challenging for promotion next season, so not everyone perhaps. |
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Reply | What signings do Town need in the summer?
at 17:23 29 Apr 2025
I think the evidence is in the fact that every other Premier League club is made up primarily of overseas recruits. I say this empirically, I haven't actually checked that I'm not talking crap. |
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