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gjohnson

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  1. An unfortunate paradox prevents this....if it happened, then there would be no reason in the future or present to go back in time to prevent it, thus no one would go back in time to prevent it so it wouldn't happen then it would, or wouldn't....ow my head hurts. Stupid time travel with its grandfather and novikov paradoxes For clarity ...lets say HTT goes back and stops Mike Ashley being born, there's no Mike Ashley running Newcastle now, so HTT decides not to go back in time to get rid of Mike Ashley, so he doesn't do it, and then all of a sudden there's a Mike Ashley again. Too much temporal physics for one day
  2. An unfortunate paradox prevents this....if it happened, then there would be no reason in the future or present to go back in time to prevent it, thus no one would go back in time to prevent it so it wouldn't happen then it would, or wouldn't....ow my head hurts. Stupid time travel with its grandfather and novikov paradoxes
  3. Imagine how much more we could get out of him if we had a recognised striker. Brooks certainly was last night, so much so that he didn't even need a trick to get past him. Simply stopped and went the other direction, while Brooks just stood and watched
  4. :lol: I almost wet myself laughing at that ?
  5. An attempt.... Flowers Le saux Henry...don't remember...don't remember Wilcox batty Sherwood ripley shearer Sutton
  6. Good managers make a team that is remembered regardless of who is in it....I'd be quite willing to bet more people remember the 4-3 team we put out than the one Blackburn won the title with
  7. A lucky League cup against a dire Tottenham team
  8. And there's the difference. KDB has a similar size and body shape to Colback. One clearly works massively hard in training on technique and in gym for strength and power, while the other get on with being a 'good lad' and runs about hard in 5 a-side training matches KDB is far more upright than Colback. Only because he doesn't spend half his time on the floor having tried and failed to put in a tackle where the other player has made him look like a total gimp and left him on his backside.
  9. Reputations can sometimes be based on assumptions though. How much do we really know about his coaching methods? Kind of the point isn't it? If he had any decently effective methods, then surely players/pundits/colleagues would be highlighting lauding them? Rafa had a reputation for attention to detail and drilling methods into players Klopp likes high energy pressing... Guardiola likes his players to make a pass or two... Wilder goes for rigid team discipline with hard workers Wenger wanted players to pass the ball until two yards from goal Fergie just scared the hell out of everyone so his team won All i see from Bruce is let the other team have the ball, hope they make a mistake and let ASM/Almiron/Joelinton run 40/50 yards with the ball to see if they can beat the keeper. Most decent managers have at least one decent and memorable team through their career. I can't really think of any for Bruce. Birmingham with Dugarry maybe? Possibly that Wigan team that fluked their way to the final then got hammered by the first good team they played? Robson liked pace and directness Paul Jewell was manager of Wigan in that final. My bad, but shows how memorable Bruce's time was there
  10. Reputations can sometimes be based on assumptions though. How much do we really know about his coaching methods? Kind of the point isn't it? If he had any decently effective methods, then surely players/pundits/colleagues would be highlighting lauding them? Rafa had a reputation for attention to detail and drilling methods into players Klopp likes high energy pressing... Guardiola likes his players to make a pass or two... Wilder goes for rigid team discipline with hard workers Wenger wanted players to pass the ball until two yards from goal Fergie just scared the hell out of everyone so his team won All i see from Bruce is let the other team have the ball, hope they make a mistake and let ASM/Almiron/Joelinton run 40/50 yards with the ball to see if they can beat the keeper. Most decent managers have at least one decent and memorable team through their career. I can't really think of any for Bruce. Birmingham with Dugarry maybe? Possibly that Wigan team that fluked their way to the final then got hammered by the first good team they played? Robson liked pace and directness
  11. And there's the difference. KDB has a similar size and body shape to Colback. One clearly works massively hard in training on technique and in gym for strength and power, while the other get on with being a 'good lad' and runs about hard in 5 a-side training matches
  12. Swap the black and the white around, then it's a winner....with the obligatory crap sponsor caveat
  13. I didn't realise that in Portugal since the league formed in in the 1930s, that's there has only been 2 seasons where one of Sporting, Benfica or Porto havent won the league, that's insane Still more diversity than the SPL. And only slightly less than the EPL
  14. gjohnson

    Sunderland

    You just knew this was going to happen though, same as our first relegation. All we needed to do was get promoted and it was a foregone conclusion that we'd be regularly above them in the table. but but but we're classier and have more football friends (RTGtastic) Aye but 6inarow marrs
  15. Clearly not a single case of OCD amongst the Puma designers
  16. gjohnson

    Sunderland

    Could probably get a million or two for Will Grigg from a championship team who need a catchy chant
  17. gjohnson

    Sunderland

    Colback signed for these yet?
  18. I’ve mentioned this before on here. It’s worst for dark skin African players. Even world class ones like Eto’o, Yaya Toure or even Pogba. There’s not a pass KDB or Silva can make that Pogba can’t but Pogba is oft labelled a ‘great athlete’ without true appreciation for his technical ability which is legitimately second to none. Nothing to do with race but it is a fundamental biological truth that people of certain descents can be more athletic than others. Slow/Fast muscle fibre ratios dictated by genetics etc. A lot of this can be overcome in terms of footballers to a degree, but there will always be differences however minor at the top end.
  19. They wont be getting Sancho then.....if a Joelinton can go for £40mil
  20. Is there any chance he was sacked for doing a crap job, or is it almost definitely maybe possibly because he's not white
  21. Surely quoting something so specific isn't keeping it highly confidential ? Aye every time he has been interviewed he keeps saying confidential and then says something which goes against that. Mind what he did say looked a positive indication it seems. This is just a guy who's been heavily briefed by lawyers about what he can and cannot say without breaking any agreements. There is strong hints in there that they've asked KSA to sort all the piracy stuff, but he doesn't actually confirm or deny anything, other than that. Biggest thing to take from it, is that there is no outright 'no' yet. Interestingly/amusingly nothing on Amnesty or the Cenig woman
  22. Never saw him going into management tbh. Wasn't he super shrewd with his wages? Always thought he'd be one of those that would just enjoy the rest of his life doing the occasional punditry. Fair play. Seem to recall he did a lot with property, and was always high up in the lists on footballers net-worth even after retiring. Impressive considering he retired before the stupidly massive wages and image deals. Certainly won't be one of those footballers you hear about being bankrupt a few years after the wages dry up
  23. Van Persie, Kluivert, Kuyt and Bergkamp were pish too. Luuk DeJong says Hi
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