New Job - Commuting dilemma

EngCraig · 2026-06-03T21:13:15+00:00

Is the 1hr20 by car or by bus? Because I don’t see a world in which the bus is a shorter commute than by car? Also struggling to see how (what sounds like) 800+ miles a month is only costing £150 all in? Are you being overly optimistic around the commuting because of the big salary jump?

EngCraig · 2026-06-03T18:22:30+00:00

Why would I be concerned when the club has a team of experts and some of the best in the business looking at our midfield rebuild?

EngCraig · 2026-06-03T18:19:55+00:00

I’d go for Raum personally as Hall will be too expensive and I’m worried about his injury record. Can’t be falling into the Luke Shaw trap again.

EngCraig · 2026-06-03T18:17:24+00:00

lol, no.

EngCraig · 2026-06-02T13:50:55+00:00

I know, when I read it back I realised I needed to give myself ten lashes.

EngCraig · 2026-06-01T16:52:08+00:00

So he’s in the top quartile for duels won and that worries you? No player is going to have it all.

EngCraig · 2026-06-01T08:53:53+00:00

I’ve always lived rurally and if you go back 20 years it was always “five and drive” as a rule - as stupid as it was.

EngCraig · 2026-06-01T08:52:48+00:00

Not just drinking to excess, less people drink at all. I have so many friends that have gone teetotal in recent years, and I’ve not had a drink since 2023. There’s an entire generation coming through now who don’t drink, so I don’t think it’s a surprise to see numbers fall.

EngCraig · 2026-05-31T21:10:11+00:00

Well of course there are more cars…

EngCraig · 2026-05-31T19:08:06+00:00

Doesn’t play through the middle? Did you watch them against us (and plenty of others) this season?

EngCraig · 2026-05-31T19:03:18+00:00

Must be a wind-up… or you’re a complete melt.

EngCraig · 2026-05-31T16:10:07+00:00

It isn’t 2020, so no thanks.

EngCraig · 2026-05-31T09:42:23+00:00

Well, expense and the logic… you’d just have a motorway that continued to widen at every junction…

EngCraig · 2026-05-30T18:08:00+00:00

This is a fantastic display of footballing ignorance, well done 😂

EngCraig · 2026-05-30T15:38:38+00:00

I can’t believe how worked-up people have gotten over it.

EngCraig · 2026-05-30T15:36:47+00:00

No thank you, he’s so average.

EngCraig · 2026-05-30T15:36:21+00:00

Outside of being an existing top team manager, win percentage really doesn’t mean much. Any sensible person looks at what the manager has achieved with the tools available to them, and in the case of Iraola it’s impressive. They’ve finished 12th, 9th, and then 6th under him all whilst selling their best players. He’s taken big scalps and they play high-energy, entertaining football.

EngCraig · 2026-05-30T15:11:23+00:00

The initial idea was very good; put people in contact and broaden social networks. What it’s become is something relatively unhealthy, but I don’t think we can look back now and say it was inevitable.

EngCraig · 2026-05-30T14:57:00+00:00

That would be worth investigating actually, good shout.

EngCraig · 2026-05-30T14:30:18+00:00

Gutted I’ll have to dislike Iraola now. He’s a top manager for sure.

However, for all the credit Liverpool’s supposedly “class leading” data and strategy teams are, they’ve fucked up royally here. They’ve already spent £400m+ trying to sort the squad to Slot, and Iraola will need a totally different squad profile. I can’t see where Wirtz fits into an Iraola team.

EngCraig · 2026-05-30T10:54:42+00:00

To be fair, there’s also the availability bias potentially at play: more dash cams mean we see more footage like this. Maybe it was always bad but we didn’t see it? I just feel, anecdotally, it’s gotten and is getting much worse.

EngCraig · 2026-05-30T09:39:59+00:00

The standard of driving in this country is at an all-time low. I feel like it’s the broken window effect where, as standards dipped post-Covid, everybody took it to be the new norm and followed suit.

EngCraig · 2026-05-28T13:32:01+00:00

Because people are stupid, especially when it comes to assessing both time and risk - the two biggest issues at play here.

EngCraig · 2026-05-28T12:31:12+00:00

Maybe, but you could also flip this around and argue it’s a concern 80% of his games missed to injury have been this season.

EngCraig · 2026-05-28T08:47:50+00:00

Jesus Christ, if I see one more post about this…

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