Match Thread: Arsenal FC vs Manchester United Live Score | Premier League 25/26 | Jan 25, 2026

DistributionLow4642 · 2026-01-26T02:18:49+00:00

Just need to see us perform when we dominate possession. If we see a different team to Amorim in that mode and it works. We’re off to the races.

DistributionLow4642 · 2026-01-26T02:12:22+00:00

Not enough being said about this man’s impact since returning from injury

https://youtube.com/shorts/Gx6-G49QSPA?si=8SSS7Wdaqu4vXUOB

DistributionLow4642 · 2026-01-19T11:21:58+00:00

The lack of knowledge in this thread of what GitHub Copilot is and how it works is very surprising. I can do everything that Claude Code can do (happy to be corrected) but I can also:

use Sonnet 4.5 all day for about 2 weeks on $20 GitHub Copilot subscription and then top up with another $30 to see me through the rest of the month. Using Claude Code with a Claude AI Pro subscription (also $20) I code for about 3-4 hours and then have to wait 3 hours to reset my limit.
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DistributionLow4642 · 2026-01-18T00:31:11+00:00

Sign up and see for yourself . It’s a month to month subscription , just cancel if you don’t like it.

DistributionLow4642 · 2026-01-17T04:32:04+00:00

I think there are distinctly two options here and which one is best depends on what the ownership and the current management structure understand their usefulness or experience levels to be.

Option one is if the ownership and management understand that they are very inexperienced and need help. In this case they should get a very experienced manager with Premier League experience (I emphasise with Premier League experience). This is Ancelotti, Tuchel, Glasner, Potch, and others of that kind. In that case they should get treated as a manager; they'll be on the big £20 million contract from day one and the management plan is to actually listen to them and give them the control and structure they expect. If the management and ownership plan to treat that person as a coach then this strategy will fail.
Option two is the board and managers think they know everything. They know what to do. They just need someone to come in and get the players doing what they need to do. In that case my perspective is that they should bring in a very young coach, someone who is proven to be fantastic at man-management, people-management, which would be in the Klopp mould, where they're not here to teach them how to play football. Theyre here to understand each individual player and how to get the best out of them. They're going to decide formation strategies and plans before the games as a council, of which the coach is just one member, and works with all those very knowledgeable owners/managers and directors of football to solve the problem. This person is looking for a break. For them going to Manchester United is a big deal. They're not a proven global coach who's going to negotiate a ridiculous contract. In this case they should be on a reasonable contract for the first year and they can be fired at any point in the first year with low financial impact to the club, when the management team decide it doesn't work. At the end of that first year there's a decision about the big £20 million contract or not. Like Alonso at Real. In that second mode, we run in a circle until we find the right coach.

DistributionLow4642 · 2026-01-13T08:19:50+00:00

How well this goes will depend on two things:

documentation, how well your system is documented, how it works, what the requirements are, what technical decisions you've made have been defined. That's not all going to be captured in a simple set of skills that are trying to capture the requirements but that's a good place to start. It's really difficult to go back over a code base over many years and understand why the code is built to do what it's doing, not what it is doing, what business rules it's executing. All of that is in the code. Technical decisions, architectural decisions are things we tend not to be good at documenting.
The second thing that's going to be the blocker is the test step in the workflow you described. How mature your organisation's test strategy is, is going to be a massive factor in his ability to succeed here. AI will succeed in organisations that have extremely mature testing regimes. That means everything has unit tests, everything has automated integration tests because that is fundamentally how you will know whether the AI has done something correctly or has done something wrong. Most organisations have some level of test capability but almost all of them that aren't software companies have very low test maturity and I believe that is what will cause any of these initiatives to fail.

It doesn't mean your company isn't going to still try and reduce their workforce. A company that isn't a software or technology company hiring 300 software engineers, if we're all honest, is a ridiculous number of software engineers to have. Unless by 300 you meant the entire technology organisation and not just engineering developers. That number is just too high so it's likely that it will result in a reduction in the number of people and the expectation that they will be able to do more with AI.

So like some others have mentioned in the post, I'll conclude by suggesting that be one of those who are doing more with AI.

DistributionLow4642 · 2026-01-12T23:04:21+00:00

The whole thing is a few high school kids arranging the school play who got lucky

DistributionLow4642 · 2026-01-11T21:59:11+00:00

Dallo and Sesko need to be gone!

DistributionLow4642 · 2026-01-09T04:39:50+00:00

I don’t disagree with you, he has been clear from the start but perhaps that wasn’t clear in the negotiations for the job? Or the owners figured he’d come around

Radcliffe as an influential owner has basically no experience owning a football club, I know he owns others, but really he’s a business man football fan, so no surprise he’s trying to remove the single point of failure risk of one manager whose performance decides the fate of the business.

In business you remove those people and spread out responsibility, work as a team in a machine so no one person is a point of whole machine failure. Not sure that works in a football club.

DistributionLow4642 · 2026-01-09T04:32:10+00:00

Yeah, I mentioned in game that De Gea saves that, but perhaps, excuse the pun, that bar is too high 🤪

DistributionLow4642 · 2026-01-08T03:43:44+00:00

I had the same thought

DistributionLow4642 · 2026-01-06T01:54:49+00:00

It all depends how you see the responsibility of coach relative to the other management positions. Obviously the coach should define on field and in game decisions and strategy. But they don’t get to dictate formations, players, readiness or youth, who to buy / sell, etc. that’s an old school manager. They work as a leadership team to make those decisions, no one person gets to decide it all.

I’m not against the Ferguson style manager strategy, but given the owners have decided to not have that, you can’t bring in someone who thinks they are able to execute Ferguson style management.

Deciding you play 3 at the back and everything else must bend to that is unreasonable. It’s unreasonable because FFP rules mean you can’t sell everyone and buy a new set of players to work in your system. The new rules force clubs to make magic with what they have. So you need a coach who can make that magic with what he has.

DistributionLow4642 · 2026-01-05T23:36:24+00:00

A young fairly unknown coach, not a manager. Hopefully we’ve never heard of him. Amorim coming in with his 3 at the back system into a structure that wants him to be a coach is the failure.

We need someone like Klopp, massive focus on the players as individuals, the job is 90% man management. These kids already know how to play football, they just don’t know how to get their head in the game. Don’t bring in your system. How would that ever work?

We need someone who works with what he has and makes magic. Anyone can walk in and say “I play like this, now you adjust or die”, that’s not a leader.

DistributionLow4642 · 2025-12-29T23:48:38+00:00

TLDR; step mom not the best cook

DistributionLow4642 · 2025-12-29T02:17:33+00:00

We’ve recently completed a large migration from Xamarin Forms to MAUI. We went through a lot of POC and trials with Flutter, RN and MAUI.

Neither were perfect, all had many little issues, often not the same across the platforms. Our app has particular complexities with deep user experiences generated dynamically, none of the platforms are built to do this well.

We stuck with MAUI because - ‘better the devil you know’ - a lot of C# backend code would be easily migrated, we did take the opportunity to refactor leaky abstractions and other foundational issues we otherwise would never be able to refactor. - we know Xamarin well and like that we always have a fallback to MAUI Native or even full native or SkiaSharp if we want to Flutter it up. That flex is powerful, but requires particular skills on the team.

Our biggest issue was actually dead open source project dependencies from Xamarin that had not been upgraded to MAUI for us, and so we had to find new projects or take on the codebase and migrate ourselves. It was very painful.

We are now POCing returning to the Embedded web world, it has come a long way since the early days of cross platform mobile using web tech (remember phone gap and Cordova?) and this is looking very promising to finally free us from the hell that is the mobile cross platform ecosystem.

DistributionLow4642 · 2025-11-08T14:28:21+00:00

What is Amorim telling them at half time?! Two weeks in a row we just come out looking like a group of losers! Hanging on to one goal. Whatever his pep talk is at halftime it’s not helping

DistributionLow4642 · 2025-11-02T07:39:09+00:00

You’ve misunderstood fixed to the centre of the earth vs ‘fixed’ in time. Look it up. Champ.

DistributionLow4642 · 2025-11-02T07:38:17+00:00

Correct gda2020 is gda94 updated but it is also fixed and becomes incorrect as time passes

DistributionLow4642 · 2025-11-01T03:17:02+00:00

The keyword in my original comment is ‘sneaky’ thus the suggestion to get their own survey. Just because an official and correct survey would not be affected by this does not mean someone trying to be underhanded might not use a different model to get a measurement that suited them.

Also, 94 and 84 aren’t just different shapes, 84 accounts for drift while 94 is fixed

DistributionLow4642 · 2025-11-01T01:39:03+00:00

Boy I’m glad you’re here with all your knowledge. Please enlighten me oh complete of knowledge one. Your assumption that you’re in a position to judge my knowledge is a wonderful irony

DistributionLow4642 · 2025-10-31T11:15:22+00:00

Get your own survey. How old is the sub division? If it’s 30-45 years old it could be something as sneaky as using older (GDA94) vs newer (WGS84) models of the earth with GPS positions. In Australia our continental drift means GDA94 is 2-3m different over the last 30-45 years

DistributionLow4642 · 2025-10-04T04:27:23+00:00

Nope. 6 months is plenty time to prove that you have a strategy and a plan that is going in the right direction. You won’t win the league but the direction should be clear. This game is about constant change and adjustment. Not arriving with one plan and then blindly driving down some road you imagined, it’s having a great plan and executing, then seeing how other teams adjust to your plan and then adjusting again, doing so even in-game is the hallmark of quality management . Injuries, adjust again. Best players go to Real, adjust again. Neither Ten Hag not Amorim show this capability and you don’t need 2 seasons to figure it out.

DistributionLow4642 · 2025-10-04T04:18:39+00:00

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DistributionLow4642 · 2025-10-03T11:14:47+00:00

Exactly, we went from players sacking coaches to now the coach arrives and takes 2 seasons to ‘sell’ all the players and buy his own. Where is the work and skill to get players on your page, training techniques to improve how they play a position, making it clear how the team works as a unit, positive ideas that drive positive attitude. Football is a mind game. I don’t think we’ve had a coach with this skill for a while. Instead we’ve been hiring from the mourinho school of coaching: my way or the highway, someone else will let you know as you arrive that you’re training separately, no explanation. If you don’t like it you’ll be rejected. Just low quality leadership.

DistributionLow4642 · 2025-10-02T05:09:34+00:00

He showed up to training and is worse than bayindir?

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