orangecity23

I should have stuck to Slowbro, but was too tempted by the slowking /Rudkin rhyme

Evolved structure Before: Director of football Now: Chief Football Officer

Just got a mental image of Beckham getting the ball on the right wing, delivering a wicked cross into the box where there are none of our players, then 5 seconds later Ayew walks up slowly behind him and says "nice cross mate. Who was that for?"

He doesn't press, he doesn't make useful runs. When you want him up front he's on the wing, or 10 yards behind the central midfielders. When there's an attacking move on, he slows it down instead of passing. Gives the ball away constantly, conceded free kicks in dangerous positions. Constantly diving for cheap free kicks, but hasn't twigged that he's in the championship, and refs here will be inclined to play on for anything below gbh because they can't be arsed. The only thing he should be useful for is time wasting, but he doesn't do that properly either. Wastes time when we are losing, but when we are winning and need to waste time he's nowhere to be seen.

He's a good Top, but got fired by his mama Bankrupted king power too He's a good Top, crazy about Polo Loves horses, and Jon Rudkin too It's a long day, working at Seagrave Yannicks dog running through the yard I'm a bad fan, for missing midweek games And Ayews dived and fell on his arse And we're free Free falling Yeah we're free Free falling We've lost to the team from The Valley Sad fans walk down Western Boulevard All the bad boys are booing Jon Rudkin And on Facebook, it's breaking Brock's heart And we're free Free falling Yeah we're free Free falling Gonna glide down, lower than Oxford King Power out, on a plane in the sky Gonna liquidate, out into nothing Gonna leave this league for a while

We were naive, we were not fully aware of the horrors of Ayew that we woukd be firced to endure for the next 8 months

Didn't Hull have a transfer embargo when they signed McBurnie as well? Rudkin so shit at getting strikers in, he was outdone by an embargoed club.

Cooper vs Ruud is the difference between losing 2-1 and losing 2-0. They were both shite, just Cooper picked up the occasional consolation goal, which dried up later. At ome point last season, someone on here said "Cooper would have gotten points vs Fulham and Villa" - ignoring the fact he played them both himself. And lost them both. Beyond that, it was people doing extrapolatory fanfiction off the fact Cooper took points vs Ipswich and Southampton, which, as it turns out, so did Ruud, once it was too late. Cooper was absolute dogshit, Ruud was absolute dogshit -. Both were horrific manager choices, and Cooper had the added bonus of inciting Rudkin into one of his worst ever transfer windows in terms of spend versus quality of purchased players.

We would concede a lot of goals from counter attacks, she can't handle the situation when it's on a break...

A case for the defence? Sure there is:

He just stood completely static for the rebound as well. Seems pretty slow from the little we've seen of him so far.

Change is happening - yes. We've changed from a premier League team into a championship team and soon into a bankrupt league one team. Soon we'll be at the lowest point in the clubs entire history, after 10 years from being the best team in the country. Keep running the club this badly and we might change from a football club into a liquidated pile of assets sold for housing.

Was walking towards upperton road after a game several years ago, and the pavement was completely full. Saw 3 lads walking in the road, in formation, with the one at the front miming a steering wheel while they were making car noises. One turns to their 4th mate lagging behind and says "hurry up and get in the car, we're going", so the 4th one ran up, mimed opening an invisible car door and getting in, and the 4 of them ran off up upperton road pretending to be in a car still

Goldeneye and Tomorrow Never Dies are peak Brosnan bond. Love those 2 films.

Think there's an element of Methven using this situation to rehabilitate his reputation here, drawing parallels with Sunderland and taking advantage of their current position to act like he saved them.

Whyew?

So if we have to sack Marti, what's the plan for getting a new manager, Top? Top: Manager next season

The crazy thing is those 2 games were back to back. We let in 11 goals in 1 week, and the hierarchy still didn't twig that they needed to do anything about it.

That will be a 3 game ban as well

Good job we sold Kasper to "save on his wages" and didn't sack Rodgers until it was too late because we "couldn't afford it". Saving those small amounts of cash really helped out in the long run, now we've instead lost our Premier League TV cash that made up the bulk of our income and are on our way to the lowest point in the clubs history, and still won't shake off PSR concerns for years to come. Truly superb leadership of the club, what astute decision making. Without it we could have ended up like Everton or Forest.

The age verification is tangentially related, as it is required as a direct result of legislation being introduced by the government, and continually getting modified every few months. The digital ID seems very much as being brought in to solve a problem the government is creating. It's been also been sold as a means of ensuring people are checked for eligibility to work in the UK, but again, that was already a requirement, and has been for years, which is why responsible employers checked driving license or passport info on the start of a new employee. How difficult is it to access government services presently? People have been registering with GPs, getting jobs, registering for driving licenses, taxing cars, getting state pensions etc for decades and we've never needed them before The issue of the app is that even if it only releases the required info, is that it very much depends on there being zero vulnerabilities in the implemented code. This is always easier said than achieved. For an extremely simple example, a classic vulnerability in SQL database systems is code injection. Someone designs an interface where you can enter a name, and the system returns the age verified flag. Cool. Then a hacker enters the name: Joe bloggs" GO use master select all from sys.databases and suddenly instead of disclosing and age flag, they are getting back the name of the internal databases on the server. That's trivial level stuff, hackers will resort to all sorts of methods to weasel their ways in, be it through phishing attempts and social engineering to trick government bods into inadvertently downloading malware, brute force DDos attacks to overwhelm servers etc. This kind of system would have to have absolutely top notch security, with the most rigorous testing imaginable. By the sounds of it, at least from the itv article, it's being outsourced on the cheap as a bolt on addition to the pre existing one login system. Not exactly giving much optimism for the final product.

Holding it internally and securely, not a problem. Building lots of external interfaces to that data and tying it all together makes it more vulnerable. It's not the government holding it thats the issue. It's them inadvertently creating gateways with vulnerabilities in them that will put everyone at risk of fraud and Id theft. If it's all in one central place, then when it gets compromised Everything will be stolen - names, addresses, age, financial details, employment details, details of children, medical records, state pension details. The internet age verification is an absolute disaster zone, people having to share sensitive id documents with poorly vetted third parties , but being rolled out at breakneck pace. The first step should have been producing an age verification system that guaranteed absolute privacy, with the only thing disclosed to the final website is just an old/not old flag and nothing else. Not the current approach, where platforms are asking for id doc scans, selfies or credit card numbers.

The problem with the ID card proposals are that it isn't a card. It's an app. On your phone. Which means storing details on an internet facing device, and making a government based interface for digitally checking for all the miriad ever increasing number of age and Id checks mandated by the government (thanks to the online safety act, I got ID checked the other day when turning on my Xbox - to sign into my Microsoft account. The account itself is over 20 years old, but now you have to submit a selfie or scan of id to Yoti (3rd party identity checkers used by Microsoft, who "delete all images straight away, trust us") After all that was done, I was finally able to get to the dashboard and watch a bloody dvd). Which means the government is proposing to implement a shodily developed repository of everyone's most valuable private id data that will be the biggest, juiciest hacking target in history. If it was a card in your wallet it would be a lot bloody safer. But instead, it is a digital interface, which is soon enough going to be needed everywhere online to prove your age, interacting with multiple 3rd party identity checkers with servers all over the world, to prove you are old enough to go online to look at things like YouTube, Reddit, any social media, football forums, you name it. Edit: For those who haven't read it, there was news at the end of last year about the security vulnerabilities of the system being used, and the "high level" of risk of data theft possible https://www.itv.com/news/2025-12-18/whistleblowers-raise-extreme-concern-about-security-of-governments-digital-id

This deal was brokered by Chesney Hawkes, so thanks to him, we got Dujuan on Loan-y.

It's a good job we have such a good relationship with the Prem and the EFL, I'm sure it really helps at times like these.