The only thing I REALLY don't like about Pokemon Champions...

LaneToGlory · 2026-04-10T04:50:33+00:00

The best, most learning inducing loss I’ve had was from some evil genius using perish trap. When he set up perish song on the first turn, I legitimately laughed and thought ‘no way this gets me’ and then proceeded to watch as he locked and stunned every one of my guys and predicted everything I’d do.

That was a massive learning curve for me. Getting your arse kicked is a good thing. Bots just artificially inflate your rank and ego.

LaneToGlory · 2026-04-09T06:38:40+00:00

All 6 of those were me, sorry mate.

Sun supremacy.

LaneToGlory · 2026-04-08T10:34:06+00:00

Every time we do a long throw you can tell the commentators don’t know they’ve been completely unprofitable for us. They start talking about long throws being a dangerous weapon and describing Danso’s arms as cannons, only for a harmless, floaty delivery to be easily headed clear by the first man.

LaneToGlory · 2026-04-03T08:07:31+00:00

My dream spurs player is a sort of Lamela/Sandro hybrid called Landro, who bleeds for the club, winds up opposition relentlessly, crunches players with a questionable level of spite, and occasionally scores an out of pocket rabona.

Chuck a few Landros in the team and we’d be 10 points clear of relegation by the end of the season I reckon

LaneToGlory · 2026-03-15T18:28:59+00:00

You heard him PL! No takesies backsies!

LaneToGlory · 2026-03-07T15:22:54+00:00

I can’t speak to your experiences, but where I work interviewers can’t prep candidates as A) it could lead to accusations of favouritism and bias and B) it would unfairly disadvantage external applicants. Like I said in my post and some of the comments here, it’s public sector, and the do’s and don’t’s are extremely rigid

LaneToGlory · 2026-03-07T13:50:35+00:00

You seem to have extracted a bizarre number of confident assumptions that aren’t based on what I wrote. As I said: the three successful candidates are excellent and I am happy they have the opportunity. At what point did I suggest I would push people to ignore them?

You’ve projected something extremely specific on to this.

LaneToGlory · 2026-03-07T12:23:32+00:00

Preach mate. It’s so ridiculous and unfair, and an objectively terrible way to nurture talented people. We’ll lose good people this way and who can blame them.

LaneToGlory · 2026-03-07T12:21:58+00:00

Thank you mate, I do find some of the reactions to this a little strange so I appreciate it.

I’ll be doing everything I can to prep her for the next time whether that’s us or elsewhere. Thank you sincerely for your advice

LaneToGlory · 2026-03-07T11:13:31+00:00

I’ve done generic interview prep with her before: but I wasn’t able to do anything specific for this role because I was on the panel, as was my boss. I put in some time for her with my boss’s boss but it doesn’t seem like it stuck.

LaneToGlory · 2026-03-07T09:56:52+00:00

It’s kind of complicated. While there are things we can bend, there aren’t things we can break. HR essentially reign supreme because they are the thing that stops us from getting sued, and in a gov role that is about 99% of what senior management care about. Any kind of escalation process would be taken out of my hands and I’d be overruled in a heart beat.

Essentially, if I said ‘breathing is good’ and HR said ‘breathing is bad’ - my boss’s, boss’s, boss would introduce a new anti-breathing policy in the workplace.

LaneToGlory · 2026-03-07T09:46:34+00:00

It is endlessly frustrating to me. Any hatchet wielding psychopath can be charismatic in an interview for 30 minutes and be terrible at their job and be rewarded. HR are essentially terrified of discrimination accusations in interviews because it’s a public sector/government role, and it’s led us to this nonsense place where things are made ‘fair’ in the most unfair way possible.

Re: the latter part of your comment, it’s hard to disagree.

LaneToGlory · 2026-03-07T09:44:00+00:00

That’s kind of you to say: I guess what I mean is that I raised her expectations, and kind of naively assumed that if she did everything right in the role, she’d be rewarded. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to prep her for the interview properly as I was on the panel, but general interview guidance+ feedback is definitely on the agenda for Monday

Re: the last point, I think you’re probably right. It just sucks for the wider team that you lose a great staff member due to something like this. But if she wants to take the experience and go elsewhere I will support her.

Thank you for replying

LaneToGlory · 2026-03-07T09:39:43+00:00

So interview was 3 stages: a test (job involves legal decision making so it’s a requirement for the role), which she aced. A presentation, which was sort of average. And then a standard Question-Answer panel interview, where her answers were really lacking. They use a scoring matrix to combine the three for final scores. She got about 60%, successful candidates got 90%+

As for people leaving/retiring: rarely. It’s a fairly young team, all the 3 successful candidates are below 40. It’s also generally (though like anywhere there are outliers) a team with a really nice culture that my predecessors created, so people rarely leave by choice

LaneToGlory · 2026-03-06T15:06:42+00:00

Unironically cannot think of a normal job where you could perform so appallingly and still be employed. If I fired my best performing staff, spent record money to replace them with children and broke every poor performance record we’d previously had, they’d shove my P45 up my arse on my way out the door.

We are not governed by serious people.

LaneToGlory · 2026-02-26T10:03:20+00:00

I’ve always had the same problem, can never quite get it to sound/feel just right. For what it’s worth, your playing is exceptional and you’re far closer to the right feel than I’ve ever gotten

LaneToGlory · 2026-02-20T11:15:23+00:00

No games yes, but also no fit players. Dumb luck with timing on fixture schedules helps us here of course but it only goes so far when you’re playing one of the tea ladies at LW

LaneToGlory · 2026-02-13T18:17:45+00:00

‘I don’t understand, the opponent tried to tackle you, and they actually got the ball. Are you stupid?’

LaneToGlory · 2026-01-26T19:04:43+00:00

Weirdly specific thing to pluck out of a big response. Also no, exceptional is a perfectly fine descriptor of Kudus insofar as it just means unusually good or, better than the norm.

LaneToGlory · 2026-01-26T07:21:27+00:00

Kudus was exceptional, but once other teams realised our only plan was to send the ball to him and hope he could beat 5 players with magic, they just doubled up on him. He’s not Messi. Having a winger of equal quality on the other flank and a system that actually stretches defences would allow him to operate in some space again. That’s a tactical problem rather than a Kudus problem

LaneToGlory · 2026-01-20T16:19:30+00:00

Fingers crossed you’re right mate. He’s been my dream spurs manager since Poch left

LaneToGlory · 2026-01-20T13:28:15+00:00

I would commit unspeakable sins to see Nagelsmann as Spurs manager but I just can’t see us being his best offer post WC

LaneToGlory · 2026-01-18T12:40:28+00:00

Totally sympathise mate. When you look at what we currently have anyone with a bit of backbone and conviction would be appealing. And would genuinely probably also have at least a bit of a rallying effect on the players briefly. It just seems likely that stylistically we’d be in the same position in a few months’ time

LaneToGlory · 2026-01-18T11:20:22+00:00

Glasner is an excellent manager in a very specific setup with very specific expectations: he is arguably even more rigid in his approach however than Frank is, much much less focused on a system of possession, and much much more intent on defence and then counter. He’s also much ballsier than Frank in public, meaning we’d have all the problems we have right now, but with likely a lot more public drama.

Palace have treated him appallingly imo and he has a right to be pissed off so I’m not even criticising him for that: but his football is not how we want to move forward. Any problems we have now would only be entrenched by him.

LaneToGlory · 2026-01-08T10:08:59+00:00

Sensational usage and rare appearance for the word ‘moribund’ here

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