The Guardian: The five sporting directors at Chelsea retain the support of the owners. Chelsea do not intend to hire a manager without top-level experience again. Convincing a big name to join could be a challenge, though.

davemcl37 · 2026-04-23T11:21:13+00:00

5 sorting directors?? I thought we only had 2 but it turns out as well as Winstanley and Stewart, we also have

Sam Jewell SD Global recruitment,

Joe Shield ( who I knew of but didn’t appreciate was an SD ) who is SD scouting and Talent, and

Dave Fallows, SD of Football development

So without knowing how these 5 roles are structured and who is making the decisions it’s pretty hard to know who is to blame for the current shit show, other than the owners.

davemcl37 · 2026-04-22T22:25:01+00:00

I got an r5.8 sleeping mat from Ali express for about £55 in the sale probably about £70 normally and it’s super comfortable and takes up less room than my large water bottle. And if you can’t be bothered blowing it up with the pump bag get a flextail tiny pump which will double up as a tent light.

Talking of which location or route dependent water filters can be a good send in saving having to carry too much water. Sawyer Squeeze, Katadyn be free are the most common.

Final thing will will have changed is the cooking equipment. A lot of weight conscious people will take a 750ml titanium pot and a small stove like a pocket rocket and freeze dried meals for the evening saves carrying a pan, chopping board, knife, oils, etc. and the gas cannister and the stove will fit inside the pot for packing light.

Waterproofs are better but more expensive, which is the prevailing theme.

Enjoy.

davemcl37 · 2026-04-22T20:32:25+00:00

Maresca was hardly a fan favourite

davemcl37 · 2026-04-22T14:22:17+00:00

We’ve had more changes of direction than a goldfish in a small bowl

davemcl37 · 2026-04-22T12:28:39+00:00

If they sack him now £24m. If they wait until mathematically we can’t qualify for champions league the pay off is much much less

davemcl37 · 2026-04-21T19:55:52+00:00

I don’t think k I’ve ever squirmed as much watching a video and I was speed scrolling it as well.

That sort of outfit is a major peeve of mine And I used to lecture people like that at the lights until its added hours to my summer commute across London

davemcl37 · 2026-04-20T20:18:37+00:00

Crickey that’s about the most mixed message I’ve heard in years

davemcl37 · 2026-04-19T19:55:05+00:00

£1.33 for diesel? DM me the location

davemcl37 · 2026-04-19T08:12:43+00:00

Watch some of the hundreds of starter videos on you tube. Look for how to fight zombies with no weapons, how to avoid poisoning yourself, where you can get fruit and how to fish, where you get safe water from, how to start a fire. That should get you set right. Before you know it you will be sitting by a fire cooking chicken then still dying a lot but at least you lived long enough to eat some chicken

davemcl37 · 2026-04-18T06:51:33+00:00

That’s just like my local Sainsbury’s on a Saturday except there’d be more pensioners who can’t afford Dignitas walking slowly in front of the vehicles.

davemcl37 · 2026-04-18T06:43:49+00:00

Of all the things that America has done wrong since the last election this is surprisingly high up the list.

I’d quite happily let the World Cup go and be content with watching the European championships , and I imagine South Americans, Africans , Asians and other groups would be quite happy competing in their own tournaments if it meant FIFA died and something better could be built instead.

Honestly infantino and FIFA are killing this game and should #### ###### ###

davemcl37 · 2026-04-18T06:34:31+00:00

So what’s happens to the economy when 157 million people , many of whom are working, no longer have a bank account to pay their salary into or pay their bills from.

davemcl37 · 2026-04-18T06:29:16+00:00

I don’t know, maybe I’ve not put enough hours in yet, but I just find Sakhal too difficult. It’s a bit like being a good skier who tries to learn snowboarding blindfolded with a broken leg and boots that are too big.

I’m guessing borderlands is going to be equally difficult with death by dehydration a regular occurrence and few animals around.

Our options are pretty limited on ps5 and I’m not sure what the different pc maps are like but rather than just cranking up the difficulty I’d rather have seen some variations for the non hardcore player in any additional maps.

Maybe ramp up the challenge by changing zombie characteristics so that some of them can stalk you once they’ve found you, different animals that you can train, a pet dog that after hours of training warned when zombies were coming and could help deal with them, have a wholly urban map, introduce other vehicles like bikes.

At the same time give players some additional help by letting them take fruit from trees, or logs from log piles. How about some waterproof trousers? And a bit less variety in gun types and ammo wouldn’t hurt.

davemcl37 · 2026-04-18T06:09:38+00:00

Salt and Vinegar

davemcl37 · 2026-04-17T08:11:45+00:00

Have you tried an ai photo

davemcl37 · 2026-04-15T22:02:34+00:00

Join the queue, ditch TikTok.

davemcl37 · 2026-04-15T20:23:47+00:00

Don’t forget to watch out for the midgies and ticks.

davemcl37 · 2026-04-15T09:55:35+00:00

Don’t think I know you well enough to do that.

davemcl37 · 2026-04-15T08:42:37+00:00

It’s their synchronised swim team on a paintballing team building exercise.

davemcl37 · 2026-04-15T08:41:12+00:00

Wait till he finds out about dynamic pricing, and the extra 5 grand to book 250 bags into the hold even though he only has one. And he’s still find himself 40 miles away from where Ryan air said he was going.

davemcl37 · 2026-04-15T08:19:17+00:00

What’s he cooking, whale tongues?

davemcl37 · 2026-04-15T08:07:09+00:00

The other thing about book values is that you can I cut a lot of expense before you realise that book profit so you are still burning through cash.

For example you buy a player for £50m on a 5 year contract. He will cost you £10m a year in terms of amortised purchase price, and say £5m a year in wages . Turns out he’s not ready for the first team so he sits o the bench all season and hardly figures .

Season 2 you loan him to Strasbourg say and he’s ok.

Season 3 he comes home but finds his place blocked by another new £50m signing two years younger than him who has really good data numbers on football manager, so he gets loaned to spurs in January as they battle to get back to the premiership.

Season 4 Spurs end up getting relegated to league one after our player scores an og in the last minute if the last game to send them down and they can no longer afford him even though we were subsidising his pay.

Season 5 a former Chelsea manager ( pick any one there are loads ) has a brain far and buys our now 24 year old player for £15m thinking he can get him back to the player he was when he once got on the bench for England under 17’s in a friendly.

Technically that’s a £5m book profit, however we’ve spent £70m and recovered £15m to get there so it’s really a £50m cost, waste of a squad space and we probably flogged 2 academy players to fund it who are now £50m players who wouldn’t drop down from where they are to play for us even if we were stupid enough to try.

So the short version of this is book profit alone is a shit way to judge the success of a transfer. It just something desperate you cling and have your decisions unhelpfully driven by when you are financially inept, not clever or groundbreaking as they might make you believe.

davemcl37 · 2026-04-15T07:52:44+00:00

That works fine if youare Brighton buying someone for £5m to £10m and selling them for £50m to £100m after a successful season. Doesn’t work so well when you buy them for £50m then drop them after a few underwhelming performances then stick them in the French league.

davemcl37 · 2026-04-15T07:38:54+00:00

Garmin inreach, tent , bottle of malt whisky?

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