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Reply | Goalscoring
at 20:22 5 Jan 2026
I dunno. There were some serious practitioners of the defensive dark arts in years gone by.
For me it's still mostly tactical. Mordern philosophy tends towards an "all team" possession approach. If you've got a striker who can still bang in 20 goals despite all that you've got a rare one.
Arsenal don't have a player past five league goals this season yet they're still the second highest scorers in the PL. |
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Reply | Venezuela
at 17:49 5 Jan 2026
I wouldn't really call it a precedent because there's probably not another Nation on Earth with the capability to pull it off. For all people have speculated about "what if China did it with Taiwan's leader", in all likelihood the simple reality is that they can't.
Besides, the US did it before with Noriega and the World just moved on.
What happens after will probably decide whether it turns out to be a net good or not. They need to help Venezuela to become the prosperous nation it once was before the Chavezists got hold of the place. Fail to do that and history won't look kindly on them. |
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Reply | Goalscoring
at 12:32 5 Jan 2026
In fairness wingers everywhere seem to be coached not to take players on, but to play it back inside or cut in if they can. The old art of hitting the touchline and crossing seems to be reserved for overlapping fullbacks these days.
It's a subject that stuck with me a bit when I started doing some digging after the insistence that we "need a 20 goal striker" became a bit deafening in the Summer. Like you say, the days when forwards were the focal point of attacking play and service seem to have come to an end.
Vipotnik is doing about as well as we could possibly be asking him to so far this season. We do need others to chip in more. |
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Thread | Goalscoring
at 12:05 5 Jan 2026
In the top four divisions of English football only one player (Haaland) has scored fifteen or more goals so far this season. In the entirety of last season across the top four divisions, only seven players managed to score 20 or more, five of whom were in the Premier League.
Is this a sign of poorer quality strikers or just the ongoing rise of tedious play driven by tactical systems instead of playing ability? |
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Reply | Venezuela
at 07:31 5 Jan 2026
The US doesn't need Venezuela's oil. As per usual the Socialist thickies (and the BBC it would appear) have jumped to that conclusion. It has more than enough from its own sources to meet its needs.
It's more important to the US that China, Cuba and Russia don't have it. A US friendly Venezuela will not sell oil to any of the above (for all their own reserves, Russia has been making good money buying and reselling Venezuelan oil to fund its war in Ukraine). For all its wealth in other areas, China is oil poor. Cuba is basically screwed even more without it.
There's also the fact that Chavez stole US owned assets when he nationalised the industry, plus the fact that Venezuela's output is a fraction of what it could be because it's gone to shit since, as Communist run things invariably do. |
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Reply | Millwall v Swansea City : Match Day Thread
at 17:47 4 Jan 2026
I'd be hard pressed to agree that we were unlucky today just down to the sheer volume of saves that Vigs had to make. Millwall would have been kicking themselves had they not won, regardless of how improved we were in the second half.
We should have got something at Coventry. |
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Reply | Millwall v Swansea City : Match Day Thread
at 17:01 4 Jan 2026
Five games played between 19th Dec and 4th Jan. Three wins. Nine points from Fifteen. Only defeats against the team top of the table and the one currently in fifth.
I'll take that. |
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Reply | Millwall v Swansea City : Match Day Thread
at 15:42 4 Jan 2026
Millwall have worked hard and pressed us well. Their movement has been good too.
We're just either doing things too slowly or panicking. Fulton is about the only one trying to get it down and play. Even Galbraith has been off the boil. |
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Reply | Millwall v Swansea City : Match Day Thread
at 15:00 4 Jan 2026
I've never been concerned about the squad quality in terms of relegation. Even when things were going poorly under Sheehan we were still regularly taking points off the teams below us.
I'm firmly looking up the table. We've clawed our way into the midfield mix. Keep taking points at the clip we are and it'll be top ten next. After that then who knows? |
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Reply | Venezuela
at 14:30 4 Jan 2026
As part of the EU we couldn't formulate our own trade policy. We were bound by EU regulations on many, many things. Our own National Parliament had no control over large swathes of our own National policy. That is subservience.
Personally I voted to leave because I wanted no part of an organisation that was purposely designed to limit the impact actual voters could have on the running of it. Show me how I can vote Von Der Leyen out of office and I might reconsider.
GDP is a measure of how well an economy is functioning and how much richer the populace is. Show me a country where GDP is dropping and I'll wager most of them are becoming increasingly indifferent to the supposed benefits of "life experience". European economies are flatlining and the continents best and brightest are looking elsewhere. |
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Reply | Luke Williams
at 13:01 4 Jan 2026
Said the right things when it suited him, acted completely differently when it came to the crunch. That make him disingenuous and untrustworthy rather than nice in my book.
Will go down as a mostly irrelevant footnote in Swans history. |
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Reply | Venezuela
at 12:52 4 Jan 2026
Our voice would be one of many and subservient to the EU Parliament. We'd have been better off boosting the Commonwealth instead of throwing our lot in with Europe.
The GDP of the EU is a third less than the US and falling. Fifteen years ago it was bigger.
We've got that already through NATO, although the Americans are understandably fed up of being taken for granted.
The US doesn't give two shits what the EU thinks about its policy. That much is obvious because of the travel bans placed on EU bigwigs who seem to be under the impression that they can tell US companies what to do. The EU never paid much attention to us anyway, except when it came time to spend our contributions on subsidising French farmers.
The game is changing. The EU is not a power. Never was. Never will be. It's the US, China, and maybe, in 30-40 years, India. |
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