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I had assumed after reading it they meant Doc

Seems likely he’ll make us tougher to break down and so we might stop losing games. At this stage I’ll take that as the first rung on a long ladder. It’s a damning indictment of our league that the best version of success seems to be McInnes ball where you play it safe, always do the basics well and grind out results consistently to make sure you’re in the fight to be better than everyone else except them. Occasionally you might strike gold when they don’t step up to the plate. Robinson feels like another iteration of that for us. Assuming we retain our top flight status we’ll probably perform to our budget and XG and it’ll all be a bit meh. Hello darkness my old friend.

Inter Miami v Nashville on YouTube for those interested. Currently 1-0 Miami with Messi scoring. Apparently his 900th competitive goal.

Especially the cheats Chelsea and Man City

Yup. England are hopeless underperformers. No culture of learning really, just punishing people who doesnt do well and little encouragament for those who do. They also understood 20 years later than the teams in France and Spain that acadamies are a good thing. They should be winning the vast majority of CL/EL/ECL titles and get a medal in just about every World Cup with the resources they have, but the chance to solve every problem with money just allows incompetence to grow. But there are some good academies in England now, think they have a strong future.

Indeed. Nice to see 4 out of 6 being handed their arses

Robinson seems like a no nonsense kinda guy. But I imagine him having more of an “I’m not angry just disappointed” attitude, I think he will be honest with the players and it’s up to them to pull their weight. Of course I could be totally wrong with this.

Why do you say that? I don't get that vibe from him 2bh.

You mean the "self proclaimed" best league in the world

But but but......it's the best league in the world

The cynic in me wonders if those with financial interests had the lobbiests out in force. Much like making buildings more energy efficient, or 'the 15 minute city' idea goes against the interests of some very large industries/ companies, would the potential for someone to choose to depart this world when still reasonably happy rather than spending years or even decades in potential pain, and misery with the extra kick of watching their posessions vanish and debts rack up ring alarm bells for those who make a profit from it? The potential costs of long term social care is frightening (seen quotes of up to £90k a year for people with certain conditions) and yet so many of those who are employed to carry out such a noble yet often thankless task are paid peanuts and given very little support. The real money is going somewhere Early episodes of Futurama introduced the idea of suicide booths on street corners (which the main character initially mistakens for phone boxes). Do wonder if Musk, Zuckerburg, Branson, Bezos etc have their eye on them as a future cash cow.

It's clear that English clubs just can't compete at the very top level of football.

Barcelona a joy to watch against Newcastle. 6-2 up, 7-3 on aggregate.

Just occurred to me that I had money on Morocco to win this tournament. Wonder if it will pay out now.

The obvious thing that should have happened is that the referee should have abandoned the game when Senegal left the pitch. It is absurd to change the result 2 months later

I'm still expecting him to be fired before Christmas.

I think that would be a result acceptable to everyone.

Interesting points In the same way, England intrigues me. So the population of England is 10 times that of Scotland and based on your figures, England should have 750-1000 players in the top 5 leagues in Europe. They currently have about 180. That's about 21% of what they should have, Scotland's 35 players accounts for about 40% of what they should have. So double. Last weekend English players in the starting line ups in the top 5 teams in the EPL accounted for just 30% of the 55 players. Plus, with the STAGGERING resources available to English football, can you believe the English national team have won the same number of major trophies in the last 60 years as Scotland. Mental.

Absolutely. I try to think of this at a human level first of all, but the financial implications of 'man's' obsession with constantly prolonging life (for the benefit of the receiver or not) are huge and simply cannot be supported. Especially given, as you point out, the dropping fertility rate that will further contribute to a shift in age demographics with more pensioners to support. And as people live longer (either naturally through medical advances, or artificially through machines) there simply won't be enough in the pot to support social services - so we get to that survival based on wealth (which you could easily argue we already have - but that gap will just widen). What's the answer when, through medical advances, we all live to 150 (compos mentis or not). Make us work to 120 to keep the pot topped up. Fuck that. I would rather be dead at 80 than work for 100 years. Now, I am not suggesting we take a Logan's Run approach and vapourise people at a set age. But bodies have a natural shelf life. When that is reached, let it be, and let us slip away in comfort when there is no more quality of life. Keep the population balance at a more sustainable level, and allow people to fully enjoy the finite time we have on this planet whilst accepting it is not forever. And when we are proper fucked got absolutely no life to look forward to, why is it that can we decide a dog or a cat will have no quality of life, therefore it is better for them if they are 'put out of their misery', but we can't do this for a person - instead we need to keep them going for our own selfish wants. It's just wrong. There is no humanity in that. "I'll make you suffer in pain or in a vegetative state because it would be really sad if you weren't around any more and I' not ready to say goodbye" (slightly over simplifying things, but you get the gist). Our bodies, our choice. And I am genuinely sorry if I offend anyone with my belief that we should be allowed to die our own way. I have seen a lot of unnecessary suffering and can see no good in blocking assisted dying.

Hornelands 'personal circumstances' seem to be that he was offered a punditry gig for the world cup and not that he had cancer like someone shamefully said on here.

I'm kinda warming to the guy. As someone else said, it feels very much like a long term plan more than short. If that is the case I worry if he will get the time he needs. I'm speaking more about the fans than the board. It seems to only take one armchair fan on facebook to criticise a manager these days before a large group are calling for his head. 3 points would be lovely on Saturday night but even if that isn't achievable I feel he really needs a good performance from whatever team he decides to put out.

Any news on whether he's a chipper or a chippy man, or if he's a rowie or buttery man?

One of the largest problems lies in your last bullet point though. It does indeed cost a lot for care services. The Scottish total fertility rate is 1.25. Without serious levels of immigration in the coming decades, the balance of age demographic is going to be unmanageable. Cost, or ability to pay, will be the difference between keeping the machines on or not. Almost certainly.

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That’s just cos of his accent though. Even when they’re being nice they sound angry. But like Germans.