I would laugh at this but I still haven’t got my poxy wages. :shakefist:
People who say penalties are a lottery. This was said a lot on RTE tonight. They are anything but. Teams with superior mental strength always win them.
They are only a lottery before the shootout. They become a part of one of the many pseudo psychological bullshit theories that they peddle afterwards.
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It’s ridiculous.
Why do the Germans and Liverpool always win and the Dutch and the Engllish always lose then?
Just for the record Liverpool have a 13-3 record in penalty shoot-outs with the only teams to beat them being Celtic in the British Cup Challenge in Dubai in 1989 and Wimbledon and Northampton in early rounds of the League Cup in 1993 and 2002.
A gimp who carries his keys on long thick red strap (sort of like the things people in factories use to hang their ID cards around their necks)
Are these house keys/car keys etc? Might be acceptable in some set of work circumstances if he’s a locker attendant at a large leisure complex or something.
We are after being told that from Monday onwards that we will have to have our Security ID badges visable at all times. I fucking hate wearing badges :shakefist:
You will be like some weiner with that on you. We’re supposed to wear them too, but i told them “i’m not wearing that” and i carry it in my pocket.
Seem to be just house / car keys as he always seems to carrying them first thing in the morning and after lunch.
He’s not a locker attendant, he works in a professional services environment like myself.
Will you avail of the elasticated reel from the belt option or the lanyard puke?
Hey, that’s the word I was looking for earlier.
My point was that they will say it is a lottery before the shoot out, and then fit the result to one of their theories after. For example, if Alves’s penalty had been a couple of inches lower and Fabregas’s had bounced an inch more to the left then Spain would have lost because they were mentally tired. The decision to hold back Ronaldo for the decisive penalty would have been hailed as genius. They can’t overcome the natural human inclination to try to find an explanation for everything rather than accept that luck plays a significant part in a lot of parts of life.
Don’t deny that there is a partly psychological reason why some teams have better records in shoot-outs than others though. I reckon it’s to do with teams having a ‘winning mentality’. Winning becomes a habit and when there is a chance to win in a shoot-out they don’t have a fear of winning.
boards.ie seems to be full of nerds what with their rules, charters, infractions and what not but I sometimes check their soccer forum to read the Celtic thread and to see if there’s anything else of interest on there. Anyway, I just noticed the geeks appear to have had a Euro 2012 competition where:
i) each participant picked an XI and posted it;
ii) some misfit organiser then had a draw that set up matches between the XIs;
iii) for each match the participants had to present their tactics and formation;
iv) then having seen their opponent’s set up, they had to post again saying how they’d counteract it;
v) then the other members voted to see which team went through to the next round where there was another draw and so on.
This shit went on all through the tournament until some freak was declared the winner. Here’s a typcial excerpt:
[font=verdana]Wouldn’t be an easy tie by any stretch of the imagination, but while Cole has a great squad I’m not sure that he can effectively lock up my strongest aspects, and Bale and Ronaldo are more than capable of winning any game if they have the freedom to make things happen down either flank.
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[font=verdana]Not sure how Bale was in it mind.[/font]
boards.ie is a fucking freakshow of a place. Unlike here.
Anyway,
I think these two got off very, very lightly. Though I suppose, “Yale graduate” and “Seapoint RFC vice-captain” says it all.
Any opinion tallback? Did you know these pair? Are you one of them?
Lads who read threads on boards and feel compelled to tell others about it. Wrong.
Fair enough. Just to go back to the Ronaldo thing, a penalty shoot out can end as early as the sixth kick. Therefore if you leave your best kicker outside the first three there’s no guarantee he’ll even get to take one. You could make an argument for inverting the order of your first three kickers ie your third best kicker goes first, second best goes second, best goes third as all would still be guaranteed to take one. However if you don’t have your best three kickers going first in whatever order they take them, you’re increasing the chances of your team missing at least one of the first three kicks and incresing your chances of losing the shoot-out. If it works out, as did for, say, Chelsea in the Champions’ League Final or Liverpool in 2005, it’s still a mistake in strategy.
I laugh when people go on about the “five regulation kicks” as if you’re guaranteed to get that far. In reality there’s effectively only three as three is all your guaranteed to have.
I’d compare it to the strategy on Ryder Cup singles day. Pack the top of the order with your strongmen. A good start is vitally important and can set the tone for the competition. No better of example of this than the 2002 Ryder Cup when with Europe two points behind, Sam Torrance put his strongest man Colin Montgomerie out first. An “in the zone” Monty, chest out and shoulders back, proceeded to demolish Scott Hoch on the front nine, providing inspiration to the likes of Thomas Bjorn, Paul McGinley and Phillip Price playing after him. Europe went on to rout the Yanks. That’s leadership and that’s strategy.
That’s an infraction for you.
Boucher. A very common name I’d say.