Things That Are Wrong

[braz83]

@sid waddell

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.

For what it’s worth, I agree that the strategy of Ronaldo shooting last was poor. My problem was with the instant assumption that lots of people seemed to make that he made the decision himself and it was all because of ego.

[Flano]

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[tazdedub]

The smell of feet in the office is unreal. The culprit is one of the birds in the office who is wearing those flat shoes all the womens wear with no socks on. She has decided to take the shoes off and inflict the smell of her sweaty feet on the rest of us. :shakefist: I wouldn’t mind but she is good looking as well, which makes it even worse.

[Flano]

@tazdedub

The smell of feet in the office is unreal. The culprit is one of the birds in the office who is wearing those flat shoes all the womens wear with no socks on. She has decided to take the shoes off and inflict the smell of her sweaty feet on the rest of us. :shakefist: I wouldn’t mind but she is good looking as well, which makes it even worse.

You wouldn’t mind the smell if she was an ugly bird? You’re fucked up man.

[The_Tipping_King]

It was a tough day at work today, plenty of shit hitting the fan so I said I would unwind by having a quick pint in the local on the way home.
I went in, sat down, asked the bar keep for a stout and next thing I know I’m being asked what I though of our performance in Croke Park at the weekend. I responded by telling him I was watching the racing from the Curragh instead which got a sneer or two. The bar keep then proceeded to talk to the other men at the bar about some player from Cavan that now plays with Kildare and how it effected them.
This sort of conduct in a Kildare pub is wrong, wrong, wrong.

[Sidney]

@The Tipping King

It was a tough day at work today, plenty of shit hitting the fan so I said I would unwind by having a quick pint in the local on the way home.
I went in, sat down, asked the bar keep for a stout and next thing I know I’m being asked what I though of our performance in Croke Park at the weekend. I responded by telling him I was watching the racing from the Curragh instead which got a sneer or two. The bar keep then proceeded to talk to the other men at the bar about some player from Cavan that now plays with Kildare and how it effected them.
This sort of conduct in a Kildare pub is wrong, wrong, wrong.

Do you think the whole Seanie Johnston thing affected them? Optimistic for the Cavan game? Will Seanie play do you think?

[The_Tipping_King]

@sid waddell

Do you think the whole Seanie Johnston thing affected them? Optimistic for the Cavan game? Will Seanie play do you think?

:shakefist: That was the gist of it. I had to sit listening to this, if anything it stressed me out more, I quickly drank down me pint and left. Fucking weirdos.

[Sidney]

Are you a Coill Dubh man, TTK?

[The_Tipping_King]

I’d be close enough to them, my local club gga club would be Rathangan. Not that I’ve ever attended any local gaa games here, it’s not my scene at all. Lads taking it too seriously as if it was a matter of life and death, I find that the simple people of Kildare are the big gaa fans in the county.

[fistoffury]

@The Tipping King

I’d be close enough to them, my local club gga club would be Rathangan. Not that I’ve ever attended any local gaa games here, it’s not my scene at all. Lads taking it too seriously as if it was a matter of life and death, I find that the simple people of Kildare are the big gaa fans in the county.

I Ron Y

[The_Tipping_King]

@fistoffury

I Ron Y

Clare’s finest numbers man enters, wow, how exciting.

[farmerinthecity]

@The Tipping King

It was a tough day at work today, plenty of shit hitting the fan so I said I would unwind by having a quick pint in the local on the way home.
I went in, sat down, asked the bar keep for a stout and next thing I know I’m being asked what I though of our performance in Croke Park at the weekend. I responded by telling him I was watching the racing from the Curragh instead which got a sneer or two. The bar keep then proceeded to talk to the other men at the bar about some player from Cavan that now plays with Kildare and how it effected them.
This sort of conduct in a Kildare pub is wrong, wrong, wrong.

How it AFFECTED them.

[Fagan_ODowd]

Having to take me slacks off for an X-ray of me legs. Wouldn’t give you much faith in an X-ray if it can’t see through a wool nylon mix.

[ClarkeyCat]

Bandage eating all my Tunnocks Tea Cakes. An absolute bastard.

[Watch_The_Break]

@ClarkeyCat

Bandage eating all my Tunnocks Tea Cakes. An absolute bastard.

Serious enough to merit his removal from the wall, clarkey?

[Juhniallio]

How many tea cakes might the mighty Bandage see off on an average wednesday?

[Sidney]

I’m afraid Clarkey only has himself to blame here for not the taking the obvious and necessary precautions.

[Bandage]

There were two tea cakes left. I ate one of them. Then I ate the second one. I didn’t eat my Lion Bar. Clarkey said I should have left the tea cakes for him and ate the Lion Bar. But the tea cakes are nicer.

[Watch_The_Break]

@Bandage

There were two tea cakes left. I ate one of them. Then I ate the second one. I didn’t eat my Lion Bar. Clarkey said I should have left the tea cakes for him and ate the Lion Bar. But the tea cakes are nicer.

Why didn’t you buy your own tea cakes?

[The_Tipping_King]

@Bandage

There were two tea cakes left. I ate one of them. Then I ate the second one. I didn’t eat my Lion Bar. Clarkey said I should have left the tea cakes for him and ate the Lion Bar. But the tea cakes are nicer.

Do you and Clarkey sit in the same room on laptops talking to eachother and discussing the happenings of your sitting room on TFK? That is all kinds of wrong.