JohnM Posted December 30, 2024 Posted December 30, 2024 (edited) Teams just taking the field and standing still for 90 mins (plus added time) ? That would be something! The opposite: they'd have to try in order get the prize. Edited December 30, 2024 by JohnM
bobbruce Posted December 30, 2024 Posted December 30, 2024 2 hours ago, Eddie said: Would the objective be to lose and be crowned the worst team in the world? Would be interesting to watch the knock out stages where the winner goes out. Or the loser in the final lifting the trophy.
Eddie Posted December 30, 2024 Posted December 30, 2024 2 hours ago, JohnM said: Teams just taking the field and standing still for 90 mins (plus added time) ? That would be something! The opposite: they'd have to try in order get the prize. Like West Germany v Austria in 82.
RayCee Posted December 30, 2024 Posted December 30, 2024 8 hours ago, gingerjon said: The thread around it explains the why ... They can truthfully tell people the proudest moment in their sporting career was wearing the England shirt during a match, doing so with pride. My blog: https://rugbyl.blogspot.co.nz/ It takes wisdom to know when a discussion has run its course. It takes reasonableness to end that discussion.
HawkMan Posted December 31, 2024 Posted December 31, 2024 (edited) There's some great comments on the HYS on the Beeb Web pages regarding the Manchester United situation. Thumbs up if you’re looking froward to a Manchester derby played in the Championship next season. Wayne Rooney's Man UTD has a ring to it, If I were him ( Amorim) I’d resign, go back to Sporting and pretend the last few weeks never happened. Erik ten Hag won two trophies with most of these players. He might be a genius Is it just possible that United DID have the right person at the start ? They gave David Moyes no chance and no money.All these years (and managers) later the club is a shambles. Moyes may not be liked by all but he is/ was a proven Premier League manager. They had the right person in Ralf Rangnick. Remember him? But, being a highly intelligent man, he quickly realized that "Manchester United needs open-heart surgery" and left, turning down the zillions of the Technical Director job to go and transform lowly Austria into a decent side. Hilarious! They hire & fire several managers, many of whom are actually quite decent. They buy a disparate group of rubbish players for ridiculous fees on ridiculous contracts. Then they hire the latest (decent) manager who they know plays a system completely incompatible with the rubbish over paid players they’ve signed. Then they’re astonished that the car crash continues. Comedy gold! I'd say ten hag is sitting somewhere with his feet up having a great laugh watching the going ons at old Trafford Just double checking he's collected all the severance pay before United spends it on getting pest control and some roofers in just when you thought liverpool and forest battling it out at the top was peak retro... man utd get relegated!! Warnock is your man... Can you just imagine the faces of Bruno, Casimiro etc when Warnock would let loose on them!... Oh the tears as they call agents asking if he can really speak to them like that Lol All Newcastle Utd fans know (because Manchester fans have teased us about it for decades) that Jim Ratcliffe is just Mike Ashley with a low BMI. So now, you can just watch the ground open up beneath your feet and swallow you. While we have a good laugh. “Mould Trafford”, “Mousechester”, the “Theatre of Streams”…Championship, here you go! Edited December 31, 2024 by HawkMan 1 1
OriginalMrC Posted December 31, 2024 Posted December 31, 2024 I think Sir Jim needs to make a few more people redundant, that will sort things out. I think they'll win enough games but I do wonder what Sir Jim and his incompetent lackies would do if they are sat in the relegation zone with a few games to go.
Gerrumonside ref Posted December 31, 2024 Posted December 31, 2024 21 minutes ago, OriginalMrC said: I think Sir Jim needs to make a few more people redundant, that will sort things out. I think they'll win enough games but I do wonder what Sir Jim and his incompetent lackies would do if they are sat in the relegation zone with a few games to go. The Glazers have played a blinder making him the new focal point for ire as United stumble. 1
Sidi Fidi Gold Posted December 31, 2024 Posted December 31, 2024 22 minutes ago, OriginalMrC said: I think Sir Jim needs to make a few more people redundant, that will sort things out. I think they'll win enough games but I do wonder what Sir Jim and his incompetent lackies would do if they are sat in the relegation zone with a few games to go. His lackies ! he's got Dave Brailsford, what could possibly go wrong, apart from jiffy bags being delivered to the training ground. 1 1
OriginalMrC Posted December 31, 2024 Posted December 31, 2024 26 minutes ago, Sidi Fidi Gold said: His lackies ! he's got Dave Brailsford, what could possibly go wrong, apart from jiffy bags being delivered to the training ground. Nothing to see here lads ...while mumbling something about marginal gains
OriginalMrC Posted December 31, 2024 Posted December 31, 2024 29 minutes ago, Gerrumonside ref said: The Glazers have played a blinder making him the new focal point for ire as United stumble. They've somehow managed to find someone less suited than they are to run a football club 1
gingerjon Posted December 31, 2024 Posted December 31, 2024 19 minutes ago, OriginalMrC said: They've somehow managed to find someone less suited than they are to run a football club At least, basically, the Glazers made it clear they had no interest in running a football club, rather they just wanted a cash machine to pay out to them. Radcliffe believes he can run a successful football club and is now showing just how good he is at that. 2 Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. (Terry Pratchett)
RayCee Posted December 31, 2024 Posted December 31, 2024 (edited) 5 hours ago, gingerjon said: At least, basically, the Glazers made it clear they had no interest in running a football club, rather they just wanted a cash machine to pay out to them. Radcliffe believes he can run a successful football club and is now showing just how good he is at that. Maybe the Red Devils had a lucky escape. Edited December 31, 2024 by RayCee Can't spell Red properly My blog: https://rugbyl.blogspot.co.nz/ It takes wisdom to know when a discussion has run its course. It takes reasonableness to end that discussion.
JohnM Posted January 1 Posted January 1 Just stop it with this Manchester Untied stuff. Don't you know it's bad form to mock the afflicted? Just think of the children, for once .
ivans82 Posted January 1 Posted January 1 Leave Urd alone . It`s like printing money at present , some betting shops still had them odds on at home to Newcastle , even the most ardent fan couldn`t possibly have fancied them to win that one .
JohnM Posted January 11 Posted January 11 Just watching City youngster James McAtee. From Wikipedia: McAtee is the younger brother of Bolton Wanderers striker John McAtee. They are from Walkden. Their father, paternal grandfather and great-uncles played rugby league professionally, and the football players and managers Alan Ball Sr. and Alan Ball Jr. are their maternal great-grandfather and great-uncle respectively. Any idea of who their dad played for?
Irish Saint Posted January 11 Posted January 11 http://www.saints.org.uk/saints/player.php?num=15929 11 minutes ago, JohnM said: Just watching City youngster James McAtee. From Wikipedia: McAtee is the younger brother of Bolton Wanderers striker John McAtee. They are from Walkden. Their father, paternal grandfather and great-uncles played rugby league professionally, and the football players and managers Alan Ball Sr. and Alan Ball Jr. are their maternal great-grandfather and great-uncle respectively. Any idea of who their dad played for? 1 Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor but because we cannot satisfy the rich.
JohnM Posted January 17 Posted January 17 Haaland long-term contract. https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/32850943/erling-haaland-man-city-contract/
Yorks Tim Posted January 17 Posted January 17 6 hours ago, JohnM said: Haaland long-term contract. https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/32850943/erling-haaland-man-city-contract/ £500,000 per week salary. That's a lot of shirts to sell.
JohnM Posted January 17 Posted January 17 (edited) 1 hour ago, Yorks Tim said: £500,000 per week salary. That's a lot of shirts to sell. It is reported that Manchester City sold 1.3 million shirts in the 2022–2023 season. In 2021, they sold 1,087,000 shirts. Edited January 17 by JohnM
The Hallucinating Goose Posted January 17 Posted January 17 1 hour ago, JohnM said: It is reported that Manchester City sold 1.3 million shirts in the 2022–2023 season. In 2021, they sold 1,087,000 shirts. That really highlights the monumental size of football over other sports doesn't it. Man City sell 1.3million shirts in a season, a rugby league team sells, maybe, 15-20,000 or so.
OriginalMrC Posted January 17 Posted January 17 9 hours ago, JohnM said: Haaland long-term contract. https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/32850943/erling-haaland-man-city-contract/ I assume he has a relegation clause in his contract. Not sure he'd be happy to play in league 2
JohnM Posted January 17 Posted January 17 13 minutes ago, OriginalMrC said: I assume he has a relegation clause in his contract. Not sure he'd be happy to play in league 2 Boring.
Father Gascoigne Posted January 17 Posted January 17 1 hour ago, JohnM said: Boring. Be that as it may, a points deduction that leads to a relegation would mean a minimum of two years without Champions League football for players. You'd have to be supremely optimistic to think they'd all stay. Short of clauses and selling, City could seek to loan out certain players who would otherwise push to leave. Otherwise, there'd be an exodus. The precedent exists with Juventus. When they were relegated, they sold Ibrahimovic, Cannavaro, Vieira, Thuram, Zambrotta, Emerson and Mutu in the one window. Nothing has been sorted yet, and City may not face any punitive measures, but the possibility is on the table, so it's fair game to speculate about players and contracts. There's been a suggestion doing the rounds that City's signings and re-signings suggests the club and the players involved know there won't be any serious sanctions. We'll have to wait and see. But on the question of relegation clauses, I'd be surprised if every top player at any club didn't have such a clause in their contract. 1
JohnM Posted January 18 Posted January 18 But on the question of relegation clauses, I'd be surprised if every top player at any club didn't have such a clause in their contract. Probably true, I agree We'll have to wait and see : better than speculating, certainly.
OriginalMrC Posted January 18 Posted January 18 11 hours ago, JohnM said: Boring. Oh so you are a Man City fan. It was a serious point and you've got your head in the sand if you don't think it is at least possible, and that players are insisting on a clause in their new contracts.
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