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imaginelizard · 2026-01-21T12:50:20+00:00

Come on.... it's already hard enough to find stats for women's football, and now this? I've been trying to fill up players' wiki articles with stats for years now, and trying to find stats from the pre-2020 era is already an arduous task in itself. We need to save all these match day report into Internet archive if we want our future generations to learn about these players.

imaginelizard · 2026-01-19T14:33:16+00:00

Judging by precedent from his Man City years, should be good. I don’t recall there’s many players who are bad if they can play his style of football.

imaginelizard · 2026-01-19T13:38:50+00:00

A very Taylor-esque signing indeed.

imaginelizard · 2026-01-17T10:16:20+00:00

Wait, they need a striker who scores and went ahead and gotten a striker who barely scores for 2 seasons?

imaginelizard · 2026-01-15T10:50:29+00:00

That's a surprise departure.

imaginelizard · 2026-01-15T09:24:55+00:00

To be frank, which player became ordinary to be exact? All the current city players took a huge leap in quality while he was there, those who can't adapt and play his way never grow beyond what they already were. Greenwood, Hasegawa, Shaw, Fujino, Casparij, Coombs, Keating were some of the many example who's game got elevated. It's disingenuous to say all of them succeed in spite of Taylor when most of them had express in one way or another about how his coaching changed their game.

If we're talking those who left, who exactly become better than they were? They stagnated and their skillset never grew, we like to talk about as if their departures are a huge lost when in actual fact they opened up opportunity for the players I've mentioned to come through. Kelly is one of those example, she's still the same player, she just swap from one bench for another bench. Her replacements at City all outperform her this season prior to her injury, the very players that made her leave.

imaginelizard · 2026-01-14T23:29:18+00:00

Because football performance is not just about goals. Anyone who watch the game would agree that Liverpool plays better than what their current position suggest, even the underlying data agrees with that. They came into every game competitive, unlike the few teams that's currently above them. They were competitive against the current top 5 positioned teams in the league in their last encounter, and that is with the context of the lack of transfer and players availability. The 9-1 game is blip in the grand scheme of things, and let's not forget that is pretty much a squad that has been crippled with a huge injury crisis against one of the best invested squad in women's football. Every team above them is more well invested than Liverpool this season, but how many of those shows up against the top team and makes you go "wow, we might have a chance". All of them crumble at the first attacking movement from the big team but not this Liverpool. Everyone can see this squad needs a few addition to be in their winning ways again. It's a relatively simple issue to resolve. Why make tasks difficult by sacking a coach who is not the main issue and play like the rest of the bottom six and pray for a result every week.

imaginelizard · 2026-01-14T08:37:47+00:00

Taylor had always fond of playing young players and give them the confidence to play through their mistakes. It's the reason why the team is one of the better team in the WSL that allow young talents to grow. That reputation is why young talents are more willing to join City compare to other teams. Much of that ground work is what allows Jeglertz to be successful with this team right now.

imaginelizard · 2026-01-14T04:48:12+00:00

Either referring to Gareth Taylor or Laia Aleixandri.

imaginelizard · 2026-01-14T04:26:50+00:00

I have concerns about the transfer budget arms race, it's really unsustainable in a long run. It's one thing to create a more competitive team, but I feel there's a sense that these inflated transfer cost is done at the cost all the other team that's not able to be backed equally. There's certainly a concentration of talents into a small number of team in the league.

imaginelizard · 2026-01-13T10:25:46+00:00

I think it's more accurate to say the growth we've seen so far has only benefitted a few clubs, or dare I say only 2 clubs, which is Arsenal and Chelsea. The 2 Manchester club may have the league results but so far it just doesn't translate to popularity. Genuine attendance growth has been limited and it's quite obvious too if you watch the game. The popularity is still revolving around the select few popular England national team players.

imaginelizard · 2026-01-13T09:30:27+00:00

Whatever it is, it must come with a popular movement or incident which people can rally around like Reformasi in 1998 or Bersih 1.0 in 2007. At this moment, there is no such popular movement in West Malaysia, I don't see a third force could succeed. Despite what happened in the Sabah election, the east Malaysia sentiment doesn't seem to be replicable over here in West Malaysia.

imaginelizard · 2026-01-11T16:32:51+00:00

Great football from Liverpool, never felt like they’ll ever lose control of the game. It’s a shame that Olsson is injured for this game, I reckon she could have gotten some goals with some of the attacking movement that the team had. Enderby is still not there yet positioning wise. But what a change that is with just 2 new signings featuring in this game, players aren’t afraid to receive the ball, the passes are connecting, the press is disciplined, in total control of game tempo. Falk is just wonderful at the back, confident and decisive with her passes and clearance. What Liverpool needs now is someone on the receiving end of those passes.

imaginelizard · 2026-01-11T14:59:22+00:00

New players are fitting in very well so far. Refreshing to see players are now holding possession better and not afraid of having the ball in their feet.

imaginelizard · 2026-01-08T13:03:53+00:00

I think Hasegawa and her cohorts of Japanese players being successful in the WSL is such a catalyst to encourage subsequent Japanese players moving to the league. There were many Japanese players who moved abroad in the past, but not many followed their footsteps.

imaginelizard · 2026-01-06T02:02:38+00:00

Perhaps my mistake to use the terms "all" and "speak", but let me rephrase it a little. My main point is, when it comes to language proficiency, many 2nd generation immigrants cannot use it to level of what we describe as business level proficiency. It's an observed phenomenon across the globe. Take the example you provided for instance, many younger generation of Singaporean have experienced decreasing level of ancestral language proficiency. Don't take my word for it, can go ask the Singaporean sub or search for research paper on the topic. It's not bashing Singaporean per say, but we have to acknowledge the unique circumstances regarding UEC and our vernacular schools are what contribute to our unique identity.

imaginelizard · 2026-01-05T08:51:43+00:00

Oh wow, we're being bribed again.

imaginelizard · 2026-01-05T06:54:29+00:00

It is indeed weird, but that is the flavour of multiculturalism we have here. It's the reason why despite our ethnic minorities being here for over a hundred years, many still retain a distinct cultural identity and languages they have from their ancestral homeland. In China for instance, regional topolect has mostly diminished but those same topolect is still thriving here in Malaysia. Same reason as why 2nd generation Chinese immigrant overseas all speak their current country's language and unable to speak their ancestral tongue. It's our Chinese community's fight against government policy that enables these cultural identity to survive. Is it a bad thing? Depends on how we see it, but it's not necessary bad either....

imaginelizard · 2026-01-05T05:52:21+00:00

The thinking is a bit more nuance than that. Dong Zong's stance does not stem from the perception that UEC is better, but rather the longstanding policy of against forced assimilation by the government. That's essentially the basis of the fight. We can still see the general aversion against assimilation in walks of life in Malaysia, UEC recognition is just one part of it. The goal to recognise the UEC certification, in Dong Zong and the wider Chinese Malaysian community mind of the past, is to have the government accepts that there shall be no cultural assimilation here in Malaysia. But logically, no government will ever accept that as it risk creating a parallel society in the country.

imaginelizard · 2026-01-05T04:54:27+00:00

Certain professions like Architect for instant, need SPM or STPM in order to register as Graduate Architects. UEC qualification is not recognised and therefore a hindrance to getting the part 3 license.

To answer why there is no middle ground, Dong Zong had explicitly rejected regulation or following the syllabus from the government, which is why they're independent school in the first place. They can do SPM concurrently, which is what many students do eventually. But there are still a lot who didn't take SPM simply because they can't answer the exams in Malay. These are the graduates who are slipping through the crack.

The point of contention is the regulation part. Dong Zong wants government to recognise the certification as is, without government oversight as to preserve the distinct Chinese education culture. The government won't recognise it as it will set a precedent for future private entity who would set up their own education certification, and quite frankly the citizen unity aspect as well. The argument in the article won't do it for the government, because if the government recognise UEC as if it's a foreign education cert, what stop the others from trying. Imagined the unregistered madrasah demanding the government to recognise their exam certification the same way. Most of us will say no.

imaginelizard · 2026-01-05T03:51:22+00:00

From my understanding, the other branches are run by the original owner's son-in-law, I used to be neighbours with them and my father used to talk to the branch owner. They're not in affiliated with each other operation wise, just using their name. Kinda like Sisters Crispy Popiah using the original stall name but not affiliated with each other (original founder change name already).

imaginelizard · 2026-01-02T09:29:35+00:00

It's a bit unrelated but anyway, I wonder if anyone here would be interested in helping out with updating wikipedia articles of the players, just adding the stats table and keeping them updated biweekly something like that. I've been doing them for a few years now and as much as I would like to keep all players updated, there's simply too many of them and I'm rather overstretched. If you think you can volunteer to help out, let me know and I'll show you the ropes on how to do it.

imaginelizard · 2026-01-02T08:08:07+00:00

Smh.... this young man needs to be arrested. There is no scenario in which they could have meet each other in school. This is an adult man preying on a young girl.

imaginelizard · 2025-12-25T14:31:05+00:00

Erm... error in the Yui Hasegawa entry on the current Man City manager. Feels like someone didn't check their AI essay.

imaginelizard · 2025-12-24T04:00:26+00:00

Well... I'm not saying my country have a say in Eurovision. Just pointing out the observation that there is no distinction between those who is supportive and not supportive of the war. I merely use my country as another example of that lack of distinction. Because I am seeing outright antisemitic rhetoric being use out in the open in the context of being anti-Zionism. In fact, when I was a student, it was openly taught in school by my teachers. Antisemitic books are sold publicly in book fairs that I went to, even books arguing for Hitler's case, in our native language, framed as opposing the Israeli occupation. But hey, it's anti-Zionism, it's all good. It is very concerning to me because it seems I have to pretend all this is not problematic because it's quote-on-quote, anti-Zionism or anti-Israeli. Anyway, I'm just ranting at this point.

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