I followed his theory to its logical conclusion. Then concluded that everything was relative.
relative to my cock!I followed his theory to its logical conclusion. Then concluded that everything was relative.
Generally or specially?
Generally. I wasn't ready for the next step.
Continuity of management is important, but - like the fabled 'consistency' that teams aim for - it's only half of the story.have the most successful teams of the last 28yrs had a continuity of manager?
We have to judge ourselves against them, especially if we are considering the PL era. In the early nineties the clubs were generally on a par. They had achieved greater success on the pitch but we had won a cup and finished high in the league. We were far ahead of them commercially. Since then our fortunes have diverged, only recently - on the field at least - becoming comparable again. So, coming from a similar starting point, we have to judge our success, first and foremost, against theirs.fuck the gooners; yes they've been better than us - in certain respects, but cab we please stop judging ourselves against them - they will probably win the CL before - but let's just realise how far we've come.
Don't beat yourself up about it, you're new to the thread and it'll take time for you to settle in. However, seeing as you've been a member of SC since 2003 I think you might have had a bit of an easy ride and perhaps slipped under the radar a bit. SC expects you to start being much more entertaining with your posts. Being right or wrong doesn't matter as long as you do it the SC way. Posting is about glory and all that. And if you could crouch whilst posting so much the better, but please do it in way that doesn't make it look like you're having a tom tit.EDIT: having read the rest of the thread since posting, I think that the above may be a little too serious. Oh well.....
Fuck sake. How long until our next match?
I said something similar when Hoddle, Jol and Harry was sacked. Yet the club continued to improve during that period.
Schrödinger's cat says that I may laugh.Depends whether you're on a moving train or standing on the platform.
I'm sorry.....that joke is only relatively funny.
not too serious, just serious enough.Continuity of management is important, but - like the fabled 'consistency' that teams aim for - it's only half of the story.
Many teams are consistent: consistently bad or consistently average. What is required is to be consistently good or consistently successful. Similarly, success usually only comes when a club sticks with a manager - but that manager has to be a good one. There is no point in managerial continuity if the man at the helm can't deliver what is needed. The question is therefore not whether the club should stick with AVB; of course it should, if he can deliver what is required. The question is whether he is the right man. I think that he is, but we will only know in the fulness of time.
We have to judge ourselves against them, especially if we are considering the PL era. In the early nineties the clubs were generally on a par. They had achieved greater success on the pitch but we had won a cup and finished high in the league. We were far ahead of them commercially. Since then our fortunes have diverged, only recently - on the field at least - becoming comparable again. So, coming from a similar starting point, we have to judge our success, first and foremost, against theirs.
We also have to judge us against them as they are our greatest rivals. Man City judge themselves against Man Utd. Sheffield United against Sheffield Wednesday, Birmingham against Aston Villa, Everton against Liverpool etc. So no matter how far we progress, the first yardstick will always be how we compare to them.
EDIT: having read the rest of the thread since posting, I think that the above may be a little too serious. Oh well.....
Problem is that unless you give a manager 4/5 years
how do you know whether he might have become successful?
Wenger became manager at Arsenal at the end of 1996.
Since then we have had 10 managers.
Our most successful before AVB, who is currently our top ranked manager
was Harry who stayed 3yrs which is double the average life of our managers in that time.
Unless the manager is clearly incompetent or mentally unstable which I don't think AVB is,
or is convicted on drug, sex or financial fraud grounds
he should be allowed to get on with job with guidance of course from interested parties
which he is free to ignore.
Problem is that unless you give a manager 4/5 years
how do you know whether he might have become successful?
Wenger became manager at Arsenal at the end of 1996.
Since then we have had 10 managers.
Our most successful before AVB, who is currently our top ranked manager
was Harry who stayed 3yrs which is double the average life of our managers in that time.
Unless the manager is clearly incompetent or mentally unstable which I don't think AVB is,
or is convicted on drug, sex or financial fraud grounds
he should be allowed to get on with job with guidance of course from interested parties
which he is free to ignore.
Who's to say?Which of gross, santini, graham, ramos or Jol would you have liked to have been in charge for the last 15 years?
Who's to say?
What am I Mystic Meg?
Hoddle was probably sacked too early, Ramos who knows,
I didn't say 15 years in any case. 4/5 was my measure.
I don't have to quote the early years of Fergie do I?
Bloody things stuck in italic now.
Nurse, Nurse!
relative to my cock!
(which makes everything seem bigger!)
do I have to say something relative to the thread (puninteded- the first one wasn't, the second one was when I realised it)
let'sgive any manager 7yrs, even if it's pardew (the song would write itself), bcos that's what we need more than anything else; a manager with a vision (we could always break the bank for Pep, win the CL, and live off that for the next 80rs - tbh, I'd be on for that - or we could give AVB a chance.....let's break the bank!
or not
we all know what's gonna happen, Pep is gonna take over from "the registered offender" and we'll be sacking managers.
Can we also have a like for like negativity thread?