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Also watched Black Cab recently. Went in not expecting too much from it - and that's what i got.
(copy and paste from Letterboxd)
This isn't good. But it's only 80 minutes long, and has a reasonably enjoyable first half hour.
Nick Frost is doing Nick Frost things, and is entertainingly hammy. The other two main characters are annoying and the acting is bad, especially the boy friend. He's really bad.
The story is predictable right from the start and somehow still manages to be a let down.
Started watching Marty Supreme the other night. Really enjoyed it, but we ended up calling it a night because it's pretty long and we're pretty old and sleepy.
Weirdly, even though I really enjoyed the hour and half I watched, i'm not in a great rush to watch the rest. I enjoyed the vibe, the score and general sound scaping is superb - I'm really into that sort of thing, and it sounded amazing over 5.1 surround sound. I thought Chalamet was really good, clearly having a whale of a time. But the narrative had kind of lost its momentum by the time we ducked out - perhaps it picks up again in the second half.
I find it hard to have a strong opinion on Stephan really . He seems - fine? Some of the defensive coaching has looked suspect at times. He's done some stuff that has appeared odd from the outside looking in (big rotations out of the blue, then little to no rotation when it would seem the right time for it), but we don't really know what goes on in the dressing room or the training ground. If you had to score him, you'd probably say he's kind of mid-table championship quality - which is what we are as a club right now.
But the point others have made is also true - you're never going to know what a manager can achieve if you don't give them time and support. And he has at least shown he can be successful elsewhere.
And FWIW none of the most obvious problems we have appear to lead back to JS, so on balance it would be stupid to start calling for his head imo.
EDIT: And if the club were to sack JS it would be a diversion from the more structural problems that have been outlined in great detail on this board.
Agree it's been really noticeable how often this has happened this season. I'm assuming that it's not quite as big a problem on the pitch? Not sure.
There was an occasion years ago away at Newcastle, sat up in that little corner about 4 miles from the pitch, where I genuinely couldn't tell the teams apart because we were I think in black and blue, and Newcastle were in something similar. Absolutely ridiculous.
With Madsen's injury and his pivotal role, it occurs to me that Stephan is about to be forced into the third drastic change to the set up of the season?
Start the season: "game model" template
Post-Coventry: rapid transition, use Burrell's pace to stretch defences, high press
Post-Burrell injury: Kone up top, less pace, more hold up play
Appreciate this feels largely academic now, but it occurred to me after the Hull game that, with so many teams all eyeing up the sixth playoff spot, our Coventry-deficit goal difference could plausibly come back to haunt us if we were in the running at the end of the season... Even if the gap weren't now looking insurmountable, a minus 6 goal difference would make it very difficult in such a congested table.
Really is a lovely finish from Kone. Reminds me of his goal against Charlton, also right at the death. He's very calm running through on goal - unlike most strikers we've had in the recent past.
Like others this kind of stuff completely bewilders me - I go in to a kind of defensive cognitive shut down, my brain just refuses to engage. But I genuinely appreciate the work and effort that Simon and others do to help the likes of me understand what's going on behind the scenes at our daft little club. Thank you.
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