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Reply | Hidden gems of movies
at 23:03 22 Feb 2021
I'd add Once Were Warriors to the list.
I'm not sure it's a 'hidden' gem, as in 2014 it was apparently rated the best New Zealand film of all time. However, it is around 27 years old now, with some difficult subject matter, but I still think the acting is superb. |
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Reply | Bloody vaccines....who need 'em!
at 12:27 22 Feb 2021
There is the small matter that an awful lot of us have been in various tiers or locked down for a signficant part of the study period, so results are bound to look 'spectacular' against such a backdrop.
I'm not saying the experimental vaccine(s) haven't had an effect, but if the majority are indoors the fourth week after the first dose, then hospitalisations are bound to be reduced.
I doubt the reduction will be solely attributable to the experimental vaccine(s). [Post edited 22 Feb 2021 12:28]
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Reply | Lambert's departure
at 23:04 19 Feb 2021
Investigation into what? Whether Lambert can manage a football team? I think that's a foregone conclusion ;) [Post edited 19 Feb 2021 23:04]
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Reply | Nothing on the behaviour of certain PL clubs as yet?
at 00:15 2 Apr 2020
This is a PR disaster in the making for the Premier League in particular, as has been said elsewhere, so they will seek to squash this as quickly as they can, by coming up with some deal and no doubt a few high-profile players will be wheeled out to spout some bull**** about "we felt it was the right thing to do".
However, it will now feel like they have been forced into it due to the growing public outcry and I have no doubt there will be some kind of gurantee that they will eventually get all their money. The Premier League's last published accounts show they had £1.5BILLION in the bank FFS!
I'm sick of hearing about players having such short careers, so they need to be paid these exhorbitant salaries. SFW. Go out and get a real job when you've finished playing. They earn so much money they will probably never, ever need to work again.
Personally, I hope the PL get well and truly shafted over this, but I fear it will ultimately be the lower league clubs :( [Post edited 2 Apr 2020 0:18]
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Reply | OK, I was wrong.....
at 19:53 29 Mar 2020
They don't need to meet all of those criteria at the same time; even if they meet just one of them, that's still a lot of people who think the rules don't apply to them.
I had to go food shopping Friday night (first time in over a week) and everything was going okay, people socially distancing etc. Got to the checkout, giving the guy in front plenty of distance. Once he'd finished loading his shopping onto the conveyor belt and moved past the checkout operator to re-load his trolley, I started to unload my trolley. Within about 30 seconds, some chubby bint bowls up out of nowhere, dumps a load of items on the conveyor belt in front of me, then turns to me and starts shouting "You're not social distancing, you're supposed to be 2 metres away from me, get back, get back behind that line!"
By this point, I'm like WTF? I said "I'm socially distanced from the guy in front, you've just rocked up out of nowhere."... to which she replied "I'm with him!" (the guy in front and past the checkout operator).
I was pretty much lost for words, apart from "How the f*** was I supposed to know that?!"
I was very tempted to say "As it goes I think I've just seen your name on my loaf of bread, but I was mistaken; it said 'Thick cut'... but I thought that might inflame the situation.
Plus, I thought only one person from each household was supposed to make essential food shop journeys?
It really is a shame this virus isn't more discerning... |
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Reply | Delays may help us.
at 17:46 13 Mar 2020
The initial headline this morning was that "all elite football was being cancelled"... I did wonder whether that would actually include our games...? [Post edited 13 Mar 2020 17:47]
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Reply | No Coronavirus in Suffolk
at 22:42 8 Mar 2020
"Those types wouldn't be seen dead with a virus."
Love it!  They might be soon! |
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Reply | Will you be renewing next season?
at 17:10 29 Feb 2020
I don't know about renew; I'm hoping I can cancel my direct debit before it goes out Monday morning! I reckon this season is finished. We have 3 home games against top 8 sides in March followed by an international break. By the time we do come to our so-called 'easy' games, the fat lady will be shrilling at the top of her voice... |
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Reply | Path to the playoffs
at 20:07 12 Feb 2020
... still, those muppets don't need to take the next international break over the weekend of 28-Mar, as that was our scheduled Bury away game, so we'll be taking it by default. The next game after that is home to Southend on Sat-04-Apr, so I don't think I'd be banking on 3pt there... |
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Reply | Path to the playoffs
at 19:41 12 Feb 2020
I'm sorry, but I don't see us getting anywhere near 25 points. Football, like a lot of sports, is a 'momentum game' and right now we don't have any. 22 points from the last 20 is bad enough, but we've also taken only 1pt from the last 12. We threw away what potential momentum we did have earlier in the season, by keep needlessly taking the international breaks when we didn't really need to!
Sat-17-Aug - Peterborough United (a) drew 2-2
Tue-20-Aug - AFC Wimbledon (h) WON 2-1
Sat-24-Aug - Bolton Wanderers (a) WON 5-0
Sat-31-Aug - Shrewsbury Town (h) WON 3-0
Sat-07-Sep - Rochdale (a) POSTPONED (International Break) - Rescheduled Tue-05-Nov, won 1-0
Sat-14-Sep - Doncaster Rovers (h) drew 0-0
2-week break between Shrewsbury Town at home and Doncaster Rovers at home, apart from the EFL Trophy game at home to Spurs on Tue-03-Sep, after 3 good wins on the bounce (4 if you include the Spurs game). Shall we try and kick on; no f*** it we'll destroy the momentum and take a break!
Tue-17-Sep - MK Dons (a) WON 1-0
Sat-21-Sep - Gillingham (a) WON 1-0
Sat-28-Sep - Tranmere Rovers (h) WON 4-1
Sat-05-Oct - Fleetwood Town (a) WON 1-0
Sat-12-Oct - Wycombe Wanders (h) POSTPONED (International Break) - Rescheduled Tue-26-Nov, drew 0-0
Sun-20-Oct - Accrington Stanley (a) lost 2-0
Tue-23-Oct - Rotherham United (h) lost 2-0
Rebuild the momentum again with another 5 wins on the bounce (4 league games above, plus a 4-0 home win against Gillingham in the EFL Trophy) 3 of which are away from home. Shall we try and kick on with a home game against a major competitor; no f*** it, we'll destroy the momentum and take a break and lose our next 2 games.
Sat-26-Oct - Southend United (a) WON 3-1
Tue-05-Nov - Rochdale (a) WON 1-0
Sat-09-Nov - Lincoln City (h) drew 1-1 (FA Cup)
Tue-12-Nov - Colchester United (a) lost 1-0 (EFL Trophy)
Sat-16-Nov -Oxford United (a) POSTPONED (International Break) - Rescheduled Tue-14-Jan, drew 0-0
Sat-23-Nov Blackpool (h) drew 2-2
Rebuild the momentum again with 2 further wins and progression to the FA Cup 2nd round after a replay. The only blot was the loss to Colchester United in a dead-rubber EFL Trophy match. Shall we try and kick on again; no f*** it, we'll destroy any momentum we have for a 3rd time and take a break!
Talk about 3 strikes and you're out! 3 times we had a chance to kick on but took the break. That is poor decision-making by the club and management in my book. |
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Reply | I've been a reader of this forum on and off over the years...
at 09:36 9 Feb 2020
Thank you all for the responses.
Talking of parallel universes and Ian Marshall, I attended an Identity Access Management summit (full of IT geeks ) last year and one of the keynote speakers asked whether anyone had ever heard of “the footballer Ian Marshall”. Clearly, very few people in that room were going to have heard of Marshall and even I had a bit of a “really?” moment.
Anyway, the story told by the keynote speaker was essentially the one about Marshall fitting his heart rate monitor to his dog, as Sam Allardyce described later in an autobiography: https://www.dreamteamfc.com/c/archives/uncategorized/176211/big-sam-ian-marshall
I just never expected to be asked whether I’d heard of Ian Marshall at that particular event! |
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Thread | I've been a reader of this forum on and off over the years...
at 19:34 8 Feb 2020
...I think I did actually register at one point before now, but maybe not...
Anyway, I've registered again this evening, as like many, I'm just disappointed and dejected. Yes, there's lot of football still to be played, but the way we are playing of late means it will make little difference.
I don't profess to be any great footballing tactician; I just try to observe... and end up swearing now and again... well, quite a lot lately. As a football club, we do seem to get some of the basics wrong (repeatedly).
Goalkeepers... any team needs a consistent keeper at the back they can rely on, who's MO they know. The current swapping of Holy and Norris reminds me of a similar situation with Marshall & Sereni nearly 20 years ago. Holy has done little wrong as I recall, whilst Norris pretty much dropped us 2 points at Wycombe... and then there's just no excuse for what happened for the 2nd goal against Peterborough. There's a reason he's on loan from Wolves (a Premier League team) with us (a League One team) at 26 years of age!
Our possession stats for most games are usually good, but that's hardly surprising given the amount of sideways and backward passes. When I watch the highlights from ours and other divisions, I'm always struck by some of the great goals scored from players just taking a shot, often from distance. We rarely seem to have done this over the last few years, seemingly obsessed with trying to pass our way to the edge of the 6-yard box, where the move invariably breaks down, if not before. Why don't we take more of a chance, especially when the weather is wet or windy? Take a shot and mistakes can happen - the ball may take a deflection, the keeper can spill it, we could gain a penalty from a handball. We just rarely take a chance to ever see any benefit or stroke of luck and it feels like we just over-complicate things.
Strikers... Norwood and Keane are both average in my book, nothing more. Sears is still coming back from a long injury. I have no time for Jackson. The guy is just not a natural striker. Yes, he has pace and runs around a lot, but not always in the right direction! His reading of the game and where he needs to be is poor, his body language is shocking at times; his shoulders drop like Harry Enfield's 'Kevin' character way too often for my liking. The guy always wants an extra touch and with that extra touch the moment/chance is usually gone.
Lambert - talks a lot of bland footballing clichés - "all the gear, no idea" as a tennis coach friend of mine used to say - but he's had over a year now and his win ratio during that time is poor. I cannot fathom why Evans gave him a 5-year contract? Based on his recent managerial record, was he really going to be poached from under our noses? I think not. He may yet still get us up, but if he doesn't get found out before then, he certainly will in The Championship.
With an average home crowd circa 20,000 per game, Portman Road should almost be 'fortress-like' in this division, but for whatever reason, it clearly isn't.
Anyway, enough rambling for my first post; I'm just depressing myself even more...
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