That's my point with Pulis.Do you think he (and Bill Nick) would be putting up with this crap of players going through the motions. I get the feeling sometimes that some players don't want to over do it in case it ruins their night out!
The hardest an NFL team may have ever worked as a team was the mid-1960's Green Bay Packers, and they did it because the economics were at a tipping point and Vince Lombardi, their coach, knew how to exploit it. He said, look, you're making five, ten, fifteen thousand a year for working fairly hard, wrecking your knees and getting hit. If you work very hard, we'll win titles, and if we win titles, you can start a car dealership because guys buy cars and guys would rather meet a football hero and buy a car than just buy a car. So you can keep doing what you're doing and hope you can find a job with bad knees, or you can work your asses off now and make good money shaking people's hand at a nice, big car dealership later. Players now can't be motivated by economic survival, and most will quail at putting in an uncomfortably great effort. The few who work their asses off do it for the greater glory of their own careers, like Ronaldo and Bale. As a Spurs fan I'm hoping that younger and more ambitious players than most will work harder if a coach who demands more than most asks them too. We'll see.
"This is what happens when you overplay players. He NEVER rests Ozil infact keeps him on for the full 90min when its proven that he tires out after 70 mins. Wenger the faking clown strikes again. Kept playing Ramsey for ages last season Kept Playing Walcott when he had a few knocks. Kept playing Jack (whos sh ite anyway) This season Ramsey was injured for wales but Wenger kept playing him and boom hammy gone. Same with Ozil. This clown will never lean. Just Fak off Wenger - This muppet need to be sacked." Talk about Overeaction
I take it that this is someone's reaction to the news that Ozil's out for the next three months, Dave? He's been ****, anyway. Might actually play someone out wide who's comfortable there now.
What does RWAEB make of the Deirdre and Blanche references? Confused? You won't be after this episode of......
It's one of those where you can fill in the blanks if the separated-at-birth pictures work. And they were outstanding. Is it worth getting a bunch of shows on DVD? I'm always looking for good comedies. It's off to a good start, since I'll be thinking Wenger in drag every time I see Deirdre and Blanche. You would think they'd be sacrificing a goat in thanks for one of their two chronic passengers being out for a while. Playing Ozil and Wilshire, and not playing Cazorla in the middle, are at least half Arsenal's problems. Watch Arsenal go on a good run now. I love one of the comments: "[Ozil] was due to go on a good run soon." So, because he's been ****e, he'll be good soon?
Ozzie! I was wondering whether or not you had been taken prisoner by Scientologists! Phew! Glad to see that you have managed to escape the strictures of religious indoctrination (which, actually thinking about it, might have made you a better person). Yes, I am banned from the Arsenal board. No way will a certain peskie Gooner (who I am forbidden from ever mentioning, even on here) ever let me back on that board whilst he remains a mod, because he fears me more than he does piles or death. Still, I do like to log out of the site and then go touring on their board (as a visitor), clicking on topics of interest, and making careful note of any inane comments. That's always a tiresome task, because there tend to be so many. Then, I'll log back into the site, come on this board and file my gloating opinions to my fellow Spurs fans. It's perfectly normal behaviour.
"Still, I do like to log out of the site and then go touring on their board (as a visitor), clicking on topics of interest, and making careful note of any inane comments. That's always a tiresome task, because there tend to be so many. Then, I'll log back into the site, come on this board and file my gloating opinions to my fellow Spurs fans. It's perfectly normal behaviour." HIAG : My gift to you (and I do this ONLY because you are such a judicious poster who does not tolerate WUMmery on his articles) : https://translate.google.co.uk/tran...06.com/forumdisplay.php/11-Arsenal&edit-text=
HIAG : My gift to you (and I do this ONLY because you are such a judicious poster who does not tolerate WUMmery on his articles) : https://translate.google.co.uk/tran...06.com/forumdisplay.php/11-Arsenal&edit-text=[/QUOTE] Wow! that's superb! It means I can tour their board without having to log out, first! What a great gift! Thank you.
"Wow! that's superb! It means I can tour their board without having to log out, first!" With great power comes great responsibility. And you will show up as a "guest" (because Google is acting as a proxy - the login cookies are on your machine and not theirs) .
Using this Google tool, I can undertake WUM by stealth. Gooners will, in time, come to know me as The Ninja WUM.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29546374 So let me get this straight: The FA were quick to rule out the possibility of us using Wembley while we're building our new ground, yet are so accommodating to the idea of an NFL franchise being dumped in London that they're willing to tell the England team they can't use the stadium for a chunk of the year as the Jacksonville Jaguars are more important? First of all, they seem blissfully unaware that the NFL games staged at Wembley are full of expats regardless of affiliation, as it's one game a season - having one team playing a regular season there makes the prospect of NFL games at Wembley a lot less exclusive and, therefore, less appealing. Secondly, as has been suggested, the plan is the Jacksonville Jaguars will be moved to London whether they like it or not - but only if they start to win more games to justify their being moved - which makes it possible that expats would find this far less appealing as they will see Jacksonville fans getting the shaft because the NFL want to expand their brand, so they may well stay away from games for this reason. To look at it another way, if The FA see it as an opportunity to pay off the mortgage of rebuilding Wembley, they have a poor grasp of economics: at most, the London Franchise will have eleven games a season (eight in regular season, plus three in the play-offs - and that's assuming they get home ties in every play-off game) while Spurs would have at least 19 home games per season, and that's before taking cup competitions into account.
BBC London covering the NFL story now. TBF, with England being so dire now and attendance figures possibly slumping, you can understand why Wembley may be considering all avenues to bring in revenue.
Except they weren't, as they were quick to dismiss the idea of Spurs playing nineteen league games there. The simple mathematics of it is that, presuming we qualify for the Europa League and have at least one home cup draw, we'd play as many games at Wembley in one season as London Franchise would in three, yet when the NFL suggest expanding into Europe whether Europe or the Jacksonville Jaguars want them to or not The FA couldn't drop their trousers fast enough.
There are also the concerns that the new Wembley cannot take the wear and tear of too many events in a year. So N hours of getting torn to shreds by NFL games cannot be that appealing for the ground staff either.
Offhand and not knowing very much, I think the NFL in London would start off well, then fade as the novelty wore off. There are more than enough expats to support a game or two a year, but not eight, and I have trouble believing English people will pay to sit for four hours to watch seven minutes of action. You never know though, I guess. I couldn't understand why anyone not born to it would get to like basketball or baseball, but the NFL and ice hockey are fun in their ways--or the NFL would be, if it could figure out how to compress it's seven minutes of action into 1 1/2 rather than four hours. Ah, I'm being unfair to basketball, come to think of it. It's strange having constant scoring, but it's the second biggest game in the world, there's got to be something to it. I've always enjoyed playing it, for that matter. I was just watching a kid by himself, practicing. Dribble behind the back, between the legs, spin, swish. And again. Guaranteed that kid is a decent high school player at least.
There's another angle about why The FA don't want Spurs playing at their money pit: they're afraid we'd attract bigger crowds than the England team...
