Roberto Martinez discussion

[harry]

It's a fairly straightforward concept.

I coach cricket at a reasonable level. My batting is, and always has been, terrible. And yet I know exactly how to bat well. I know the stance you need, the technique, the temperament. I can tell somebody else how to do it, despite the fact I can't do it myself.

In an employment sense, I manage staff without ever having done their job. I know what they're supposed to be doing, however, and I know how best to do it. The idea that you must have experience of doing something to be able to understand the quality of someone else's performance is a fallacy.

But could you coach the England cricket team.

The Premiership is the highest level and I expect there is a lot involved in putting the team tactics together against other elite managers doing the same.

 

[Lanolin]

Can one ask how many years you have been on this planet sir?

I'd love to manage actual humans but there's no company or person daft enough to let such things occur.

How impertinent. If you were one of my humans I'd have you whipped.

I'm 32, sadly. Just on my way back from a stag do which has painfully highlighted that I'm no longer a spring chicken.

 

[harry]

How impertinent. If you were one of my humans I'd have you whipped.

I'm 32, sadly. Just on my way back from a stag do which has painfully highlighted that I'm no longer a spring chicken.

You should be drunk and planning to strip the stag and throw him off the bus, not on here debating Everton.

 

[Lanolin]

But could you coach the England cricket team.

The Premiership is the highest level and I expect there is a lot involved in putting the team tactics together against other elite managers doing the same.

Well I probably could, yes. Would I be better than the current incumbent? Almost certainly not. Does that mean I wouldn't recognise where he may be doing well/poorly? No.

I just don't quite understand the idea that it's weird to offer an opinion on something without having done it. I don't need to have kids to know that feeding a 6 month old a Big Mac is bad. I don't need a driving licence to know that driving on the pavement is a bad idea. I don't need to be a pro referee to know that a player has been fouled. See the pattern?

 

[chicoazul]

How impertinent. If you were one of my humans I'd have you whipped.

I'm 32, sadly. Just on my way back from a stag do which has painfully highlighted that I'm no longer a spring chicken.

Haha those hangovers about to turn from a one day into a two day event amigo. Enjoy.

You should be drunk and planning to strip the stag and throw him off the bus, not on here debating Everton.

As we can tell H is a man of traditional values.

 

[Lanolin]

You should be drunk and planning to strip the stag and throw him off the bus, not on here debating Everton.

I can multitask.

 

[vagant59]

I thought that the argument was not that change was needed, but that Roberto could not deliver it.

If Roberto had taken the advice he found on this site, he wouldn't still be here.

Their is no need to be so hard on yourself, everyone is prone to making mistakes in life

 

[Groucho]

So are we allowed to use the words "plotters" and "cult"?

@Groucho @Woolly Blue @The Esk

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Not if used in a pseudo-derogatory manner, like Kopite would be, no, we'd prefer they weren't.

I'd ask again for the words, when specifically used in that manner, to cease.

 

[micknick]

So are we allowed to use the words "plotters" and "cult"?

@Groucho @Woolly Blue @The Esk

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Hi

 

[Woolly Blue]

So are we allowed to use the words "plotters" and "cult"?

@Groucho @Woolly Blue @The Esk

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Down to context really.
In general though, I'm not a fan of either term. We're all Blues, there's no need to deliberately try and wind other Blues up. Sometimes it can be used in jest, but, if in doubt, avoid it.

 

[chicoazul]

Not if used in a pseudo-derogatory manner, like Kopite would be, no, we'd prefer they weren't.

I'd ask again for the words, when specifically used in that manner, to cease.

May one enquire about the term "pissy pant Geordies" being acceptable to use?

Towards either side of the debate, I'm not fussy in getting my fume.

 

[mkrudden]

Hi

Haha sorry mate.
I consider you the anti-Mod.
Basically a bluenose Batman. A vigilante if you will.

Need I go on?

 

[mkrudden]

May one enquire about the term "pissy pant Geordies" being acceptable to use?

Towards either side of the debate, I'm not fussy in getting my fume.

lol

 

[Groucho]

May one enquire about the term "pissy pant Geordies" being acceptable to use?

Towards either side of the debate, I'm not fussy in getting my fume.

That'll have to be run by the boss.

As an aside, the look on your face a couple of years ago as the Geordies entered the pub, pre-match - you were completely unsighted, yet totally aware of them entering.

Amazing to behold. Native American-esque instincts.

We'd probably best get back to fuming/loving Martinez, depending on the latest vine people have seen of him.

 

[micknick]

Haha sorry mate.
I consider you the anti-Mod.
Basically a bluenose Batman. A vigilante if you will.

Need I go on?

I'm going to ban you first chance I get.

I love Bobby by the way