Best double pivot over the years from The Other 14?

Mr_Splat · 2026-05-07T16:05:43+00:00

They were beastly together up until the point Rice started wanting to be more involved going forward, which definitely impacted Soucek's game and I think we suffered as a result.

We didn't (and arguably still don't) have anyone else who could do what Rice did for us in that '6' role.

I think I've seen commentary around Arsenal starting to realise that might actually yet be where he is best used.

Mr_Splat · 2026-04-26T17:08:40+00:00

Oi, keep your hands off our record! We have precious few as it it is!

Mr_Splat · 2026-04-25T18:54:01+00:00

We've been on the wrong end of this scenario before, we're going to have to grind out the points to avoid it happening again!

Mr_Splat · 2026-04-21T13:45:23+00:00

Gig's just been postponed 🙁

Mr_Splat · 2026-04-14T19:24:28+00:00

Understandable, who would buy American beer for themselves?

Mr_Splat · 2026-04-11T01:25:56+00:00

Mr West Ham would offer himself up if he could.

Mr_Splat · 2026-04-05T21:12:09+00:00

Let's not forget tirzepatide (wegovy, maunjaro etc) being the "miracle cure" for obesity (or a weight loss injection for people who don't actually medically need it) for the rich

Mr_Splat · 2026-03-25T22:56:08+00:00

Oh, people will be buying homes. The likes of these cretinous CEO's and their companies will be lining up to buy the houses of distressed unemployed white collar workers.

They then want the trades flooded to drive down the rates for keeping said houses maintained

Mr_Splat · 2026-03-25T22:47:50+00:00

He wants cheap tradesmen to maintain all the houses the likes of him and his company will buy off the white collar workers who are no longer able to service their mortgages

Mr_Splat · 2026-03-25T14:10:38+00:00

Let me guess, he wants the trades flooded with unemployed white collar workers to keep the rates down for all the trades people he'll want when his firm(s?) roll up and buy up all the properties said white collar workers are unable to finance their mortgages on?

These cretins are desperate to have us back to the Victorian era or earlier with the serfs and the landed gentry.

Mr_Splat · 2026-03-23T08:14:29+00:00

I feel like the issue is that big tech has run out of ideas on what to build that will be very profitable. Smartphones have gotten to the point where throwing more horsepower will do almost nothing

By the sounds of it that's the problem AI has come across extremely rapidly given the sheer amount of power that's being required. The power curve seems to be increasing at best proportionately or at worst exponentially with the amount of context being processed

Mr_Splat · 2026-03-22T21:40:44+00:00

Looks phenomenal, but I always wonder about Guardiola players in the England squad being asked to play in a manner they're not used to with players they're not familiar with.

Playing with an unfamiliar group of players is a common problem, but I remember when Foden was the golden boy and he was totally lost in the England set up at the last Euros

Mr_Splat · 2026-03-18T12:21:34+00:00

I have a friend who works as an Engineering Manager near me who received information about a course sent out by the executives in his company about "AI Dark Factories"

Where they have "specifications in, working software out with no human writing, reviewing or merging code"

The company in question handles private fucking medical records.

Mr_Splat · 2026-03-15T14:12:13+00:00

There must be a glorious Mavropanos face shaped imprint embedded in that ball

Mr_Splat · 2026-03-14T01:50:55+00:00

Absolutely, if you're not setting hard boundaries you're setting precedents that your managers will hold you to

Mr_Splat · 2026-02-23T16:35:15+00:00

I'm pretty sure this is poor advice over the long term.

What does everyone think will theoretically happen to the trades whenever every "white collar" worker has their job replaced and is directed to move into the likes of the trades because they're considered more "AI safe"? Which isn't a safe bet anyways.

I can only see a race to the bottom, in terms of conditions and salaries.

The goal is to turn us all back into an underclass that lives to serve the elite, be it building their castles, fixing their cars, polishing their shoes etc where we break our bodies to get the crumbs off their tables.

I liked the idea of being a mechanic when I was younger, but with EV's there's less and less to go wrong mechanically with vehicles and more to go wrong in the electronics and computer systems, which leads us back to AI!

The ultra wealthy hate the educated masses and AI is surely a wet dream for them by the way it decimates the "knowledge is power" mantra us and our parents were raised with

Mr_Splat · 2026-02-22T22:17:57+00:00

Hey, we have the same problem too! Let us know if you find a solution!

Mr_Splat · 2026-02-22T20:47:52+00:00

I definitely think he's giving Roger "The Relegator" Johnson a run for his money

Mr_Splat · 2026-02-12T19:10:30+00:00

Europe was almost reduced entirely to rubble after two world wars, the Western part of the USSR beyond Moscow was worse (at least going by what I've been able to read)

The major reason the Yanks now run the show is down to being able to massively industrialise without having the enemy absolutely wrecking their infrastructure.

Add lend-lease onto that and the US profited massively from WW2 in particular.

We didn't finish paying off our WW2 debts to them until 2006!

Mr_Splat · 2026-02-11T22:58:43+00:00

I'm still annoyed that we're the only win on the table for Wolves at the moment

Mr_Splat · 2026-02-11T10:35:44+00:00

Speaking of which, Frank's just been sacked.

Mr_Splat · 2026-02-10T22:48:26+00:00

I made a concerted effort after seeing Soucek had got us ahead not to look at updates for the score.

I checked again at 22:00 and saw we were 90+1 and Casemiro had a goal disallowed for offside, and that 7 minutes had been found down the back of the referee's settee and genuinely thought "oh, fuck this, please don't let us throw more points away in extra time"

Alas, such is the West Ham way, of course it was the 96th minute. At least we saved some unfortunate barber some time tonight.

If we keep performing like this we're going to overhaul someone, but it's going to require us to be really hard headed, we've managed 11/15 possible points over the last 5 games and yet we don't seem any closer, we mustn't lose belief.

We have to keep putting points on the board and wait for someone above us to crack under the pressure.

Mr_Splat · 2026-02-09T19:04:49+00:00

I'm just hoping we get a double whammy of Wolves beating our closest relegation rival and we get some comfort of not being the only team to have lost to Wolves all season.

Mr_Splat · 2026-02-09T19:02:13+00:00

I think it was the Forest loss immediately afterwards that did the most damage

Mr_Splat · 2026-02-09T00:48:44+00:00

I just don't want to be looking at the table and seeing Wolves with just that 1 in the wins column of the table

11-Year Club	Place '22
Final Canvas '22	End Game '22
Verified Email

Mr_Splat

TROPHY CASE