Good morning.
The Bale”s on the wing; The Jakes’s on the scoreboard; God’s in his Heaven – All’s right with the world…
First up I want to tackle the obvious charge that this was only Hearts and Hearts weren’t very good. Agreed that was the case. So this gives us an accurate gauge of quite how unspectacular the SPL really is. The Jambos, don’t forget are the widely regarded third best firm up there. Ouch.
Anyway. The Jam Tarts weren’t completely useless and to their credit they not only ran all night and remained determined to mount a comeback. My point being they were hard tackling and in Tottingham’s faces all night long.
Gomes -6 You make me nervous
Walker – 6.32 Lots of positives, more please
Dawson – 7.64 Every inch a captain. That’s what she said
Kaboul – 7.57 Rock solid
A&E -8 Assured and intelligent
Azza –7.58 Few trademark runs, but lots of clever little passes
Kranjcar – 8 Blimey he’s good. I doubt Arry noticed
Livermore – 8 Really decent type, a pleasure to see him in the shirt
Bale – 8.023 The mega bids in January will have many clutching their teddies
VDV – 8.024 Red hot & Dutch
Defoe – 7 The best I’ve seen him in years. More please
Hudd – 6.89 Very, very assured.
Townsend – Give him more game time, someone…
Pav – Not on for very long …I s’pose
Gorgeous highlights HERE courtesy of TonguesTooShortToFelch
LosL, get you.
I think you’re mixing your analogies, as if they were metaphors.
I’ve learned you may have a stockbroker(get you), are overly sensitive, and lose the thread too easily. I also think that anyone who defends the profligacy of financial institutions as eagerly as you, is giving his game away.
I was using your analogy to refer to the general intolerance toward our manager.
The current meltdown of western markets is beyond my control. Though self fulfilling prophecy it may be. Maybe you were too busy spitting your port over your cigar to have truly absorbed my meaning?
You may, or may not be, a patronising git.However; you are always interesting.
P.S. explain please your reference to “one poor performance.” I certainly didn’t allude to one, and I can’t find a reference in your previous posts. Cut down on the Taylor’s, dear boy, unless it’s an 83. Always liked the 83.
I think you misunderstood me a little, which is understandable as I wasn’t very concise.
The analogy was as follows. Just as a stockbroker does not control the day-to-day moves of the market and their effect on your portfolio, beyond having made responsible and well informed decisions beforehand. Neither can Redknapp affect the outcome of a game, apart from having prepared the team appropriately (with all that entails).
Knowing this, it is sensible to be aware when evaluating the stockbrokers performance, of the fact that there is much that is outside their control, and that my judgement may be tinted by the negative outcome for myself (assets losing perceived value in this case). In short, ‘Arry can’t help it if we don’t win with 24 (or whatever) shots against Blackpool, and the loss giving me the hump may be clouding my judgement.
Did not mean to defend the Financial Class in any way. I admittedly misread your development of the theme with misunderstood criticism. That poor performance was not a quotation, but a concept. That game that pushes you to take a swing at the management, but perhaps hastily so. Could be the Blackpool game, could be the Spammers. Doesn’t matter. It’s the catalyst.
As you rightly point out, there exists another game as well. The one where it is discovered that Gross has just been posing as a football manager. When it becomes clear that Goldman pushed mortgage backed securities on their institutional clients while shorting the very same on their own book. So to speak.
P.S. I told you it was a poor analogy…
Analogies be buggered.
Let’s try plain speaking, rather than the obfuscation you prefer.
I have never questioned Harry and Daniel’s ability. It is not my place. I do not find either of them particularly appealing, but I don’t feel I have to. It may be unpopular but, I would rather my team played beautiful football and lost, than grind out soul destroying victories. I would also prefer to enjoy Shakespeare than lethal weapon 24. If it were not the case, I would follow Man Utd. Following being what the heard does best.
Your, oh so devout, defence of the financial swashbucklers marks you down(in my eyes), as one of their ilk. It is, in essence, self defence. You may be a paragon of excellence and propriety, but when I hear that a prominent banker was recorded as saying, ” this has taught us, in future, only to to invest in things we understand”, my heart bleeds, as do the hearts of those whose pensions just took the long drop, whose savings were eradicated, whose lives were eviscerated.
You will, no doubt, come back at me with some worthy, and obtuse, justification for what you, and your kind, did.
You speak of matters being beyond the control of traders. Traders need a buoyant market.If they can’t have one, they’ll create one, as Soros did. A bull market is good, but a stag market is also acceptable. Carrion can taste fine.
You will, no doubt, excuse yourself by saying that this whole, sorry affair, is beyond your control. Yet you short and speculate as a matter of course. You need chaos in order to thrive.
I never met a met a trader I couldn’t out-think, and I never met a trader whose deepest principles I could wade through, and get my ankles wet. So spare me exculpatory bollocks, and your insoucance. If you are what I think you are, good luck to you. If you’re a successful investor, good luck to you. Otherwise, the financial analogies, and their defences, are wearing a bit thin.
On the other hand, I think Walker could be a great LB.
I told you we’d have a fight when the pubs closed.
Haha. No, I’m not a trader. Far from it. What money I have, I try to make work for me, but not an investor by trade. Have never short-sold a thing in my life.
As for Walker at LB, it is pure hypothesis. We already have the best in the business back there.
So don’t see a rumble a’brewin, but then again, the pubs haven’t closed here yet :shocked2:
Thank you for a reasoned response to what did become a polemic.
It’s just that I find the “Nuremberg defence”, offered by many of those responsible for the current situation, as unpalatable as it was when it was first offered.
Maybe it’s just jealousy. I would like to think I could fuck things into a cocked hat, then walk away with a multi million pound pension scheme.
I find, as I grow older, that I am turning into an idealistic socialist. I think the opposite is the norm but then, I’ve never liked conformity.
May I ask where you are located? Don’t worry, I won’t visit.
New York, but moving home to Norway shortly.
Going off point somewhat, in the next election, I will not be looking to vote for the person who offers to reduce my taxes most. I will be looking to vote for the person who offers to tax the rich the most.
But of course as we all know, they would dare makje such an election pledge.