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Kilcline

Kilcline

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39 minutes ago, Mikky said:

The bloke that lays down in a wall - has anyone ever seen that player been hit via a free kick? Don’t think I have…

What makes me laugh is when you see the bloke lying down in League Two and games like that. I think in my life I've only seen Ronaldinho, Messi and De Bruyne actually score under the wall like that. Waste of time. 

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STM

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3 minutes ago, alexf said:

Why don't West Ham play Kudus? Looked good against us and is highly rated. 

 

Bowen and Paqueta currently playing in wide positions. Then it's whether you want to change formation or move Paqueta in the middle which hadn't worked.

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leffe186

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1 hour ago, Abacus said:

 

I went to a few Villa games years back. It might have been where I was sitting at villa park, or how the team was at the time, but it was always a bit miserable. Lots of silence and complaining - possibly like we were under Ashley tbf.

 

A fleeting impression from a while ago, but I always preferred going to the Birmingham City games - even though they were pretty poor as a team, I still liked the atmosphere better. Smaller crowds there, but those that went were passionate about it. I got the sense that there was more expectation at Villa and their fans, which might be a wrong impression, but it was mine.

 

I actually think Birmingham is a great city when you get to know it, but it's not 100% a football city. Ask almost anyone in Newcastle on a Monday and they'll know the weekend's result and usually have an opinion on it. Not the same there at all.

 

I'm sure the hardcore fans are just as passionate as any other, but I don't think the city's identity is driven as much by the rhythm of football as it is here. Maybe because it's a two team city, but maybe because it's a much bigger place as well.


Yeah, that’s part of it I think. It’s even more than two teams if you factor in the Black Country which is a continuous conurbation with Birmingham and brings in Walsall, West Brom and arguably Wolves.

 

Might be a combination of geography and culture. Birmingham and the Black Country are very much a collection of towns with separate identities. It has also been significantly more multicultural than most British cities for decades, with a large population from the Indian subcontinent that has historically been separated from football somewhat.

 

I worked near Aston and briefly shacked up in Erdington. I will always remember one of my staff talking about Villa and marvelling at how highly he thought of them. It was at the Martin O’Neill time - think maybe towards the beginning? This kid clearly thought of them as one of the rightful top two or three teams in England. He was too young for Ron Saunders - maybe he grew up with the Ron Atkinson team? I really had to bite my tongue on more than one occasion - he wasn’t alone. I mean, I do remember the Ron Saunders years but I hadn’t thought of Villa in that absolute top echelon for years and years.

 

@brummie will be the man to ask.

 

 

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Stifler

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2 minutes ago, The Prophet said:

Anyone who can't see Sports Direct was protested about as a means to get rid of Ashley is either being deliberately obtuse or is as thick as fuck.

 

 

 

This isn’t just in reference to Ashley, but I’m astonished that there isn’t more of an uproar about companies like SD.

 

I worked in retail for 11 years, end even though I probably worked for one of the better companies, there was still stuff that didn’t seem right and they seemed to be on a downward slope.

When I first started working for the company I did, they had someone who’s full shift was a whole role was to check the end of date life’s. It would be an 8 hour shift. By the time I left the role had been removed and a colleague had an hour at best to check the whole stock.

Self scans became a thing, and the initial intent was that you would have a person dedicated to being on them and making sure people had help, assist with age restrictions etc. Pretty soon that turned into the person on the till having to do that in between serving customers.

They brought in a new way of disciplining colleagues, which was essentially for any reason we can put you on performance management and then say you weren’t performing without a way of actually measuring if you were. I saw people be removed of their jobs because of this, and all down to the manager just not liking them.

It is now incredibly rare for a retail worker to get a full time contract. They are quite good at getting people to work part time with 4 hour shifts so that they don’t even have to cover their breaks. There is a whole database there for managers to use so that they can get people to work overtime, but stop at the exact point before they would be legally entitled to a better contract.

 

Aye ok this pales in significance of what Ashley does at SD, but we’ve heard the stories of what happens at Amazon etc. The whole retail sector is either at their levels, or very fast on the way to it. Working in retail in a non management position is fucking shit, and underpaid, and no one seems to be taking any notice at all.

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Paullow

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He's a lot older than I thought, 28 at the end of the year. With not much between him and Wilson, I was thinking it would make more sense to pick Watkins going forward, if like for like, because he's like 7 years younger. Thought he was nearer 24.

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