Post by Dave on Jul 2, 2010 22:38:24 GMT
Is it really a week ago since I last did poster of the week as it feels like it was just yesterday, mind you on Sunday morning when I get the spray bottle out from under the sink and fill it with water and then go an use it on Cleo (my double yellow crowned Amazon parrot) I know I will stand there and won’t believe it was seven whole days since I last sprayed her.
For Cleo the last seven days were much the same as the seven before them as nothing much really changes in her life and as she is so pampered and protected from any danger her life I’m sure is carefree and stress free. Six days of the week Carol will let her out of her cage at 6.15am to give the cage a really good clean and sometime on a Sunday morning I will spray her and give her a good soaking that she loves and strip the cage right down and clean it with special disinfectants. The same regular visitors will call around our home to see Carol and me and they will give Cleo some attention that she loves and life for her will be as normal as it always is.
But seven days can sometimes be a long time and a lot can happen in seven days that can be life changing as have been the case this week. Our club has been rocked by the very saddest and heartbreaking news that no one could have expected or ever thought they would hear and the news is always harder to take when the man in question was such a great man, so well loved and who is going to be missed by so many people.
Just as the lottery win was life changing for Paul’s family so will be his sad departure and Merse touched on the fact that none of us knows what tomorrow brings for any of us and he is so right and why we must try to make each day last as long as possible and make it has happy as we can.
It has been so good to read so many wonderful tributes written about Paul Bristow the man, written from the heart because that is where Paul Bristow was in everyone who knew him and I know he will always be with us when we go to games at Plainmoor and we will all feel him there looking down on us and doing his part to cheer the team on to victory. Such a shame and such a lose but his legacy will live on here in Torbay forever and ever.
There was another event that also shocked us all a bit in the last seven days and that was the TUST board sacking Lou as the Junior Gulls manager and that action will have a major impact on Lou’s life and I expect she has already wondered how she is going to cope at home games not doing all the work she would normally be doing for the Junior Gulls.
Yes her life has been changed and her life is going to be much more empty and why is that and for what good reason is that going to happen?. Lou’s private life is her own, but I will tell you it has had much heartbreak in it and has been at times very painful and also very costly and then add to all of that the health problems she has to put up with and you soon realise what a special person she is to give every second she can spare to her beloved Junior Gulls.
With all the other sadness in her life and believe if you knew what she has had to deal with you understand far better, the Junior Gulls was her driving force in life and what has given her so much strength to battle the days when the pains in the body are getting a bit to much and can you believe that some people have decided to take it all away from her. Yes its fine to be dedicated and committed to anything but no good if you can’t do the job in the end, but that was not the case with Lou and the Junior Gulls has grown and flourished under her and everyone knows that and everyone has seen the joy she has brought to those children and yet its over as far as the power crazy uncaring and thoughtless people who decided she somehow deserved to be sacked from something she gave all her time too and for FREE.
I believe those people (I will call then people as I can’t bring myself to call them men) should hang their heads in shame along with the person who wrote the email and sent it into the TUST. I still have many concerns about that email as do others and for now will not say anything else about it.
The real men in this world will put their hands up when they have made a big mistake or got something horribly wrong or simply took the wrong action. They will then put it all right because they would know at least they can feel a bit better about themselves. Do I expect that to happen? Not really and now is not the time due to what else sadly happened this week to make the sort of noise that needs to be made to get Lou back as the Junior Gulls manager.
The right time will come and due to the very strong feelings I know so many have about the action taken by the TUST board, I feel Lou will not have to wait too long before she is backing doing what has made her so happy over the last few years.
So who has won this week?
Well love him or hate him the TFF would never consider swapping him for any member on any other forum, he has been here from the very start and has been such a big contributor and has brought his great knowledge into the TFF and we would all be lost without him on here.
This week’s winner is Merse, well done Alan
A few posts made by Merse this week.
An irritating and irritable display, Dom Fabio must feel like a piano tuner who can't quite get it right....................
......................the team collectively looks like a Derby runner who peaked too early to win the The Dante but flops at Epsom.
We've been there so many times with England we're used to it................
These were my thoughts after the first of our group games and it was no different throughout the rest of the tournament. Now Fabio Capello reveals the players were "tired" ~ don't knock him for that, it's not new for an England squad to go into a World Cup in that condition, and if we don't bring in a mid season break for The Premiership we will only carry in that vein.
Wayne Rooney's situation clearly illustrated the problem. Man Utd burned him out, failed to rest him when he was carrying that ankle injury and of course he was useless for England and the World Cup campaign.
We took Ledley King with his history of unreliability and of course he lasted but 45 minutes. For King read Kevin Keegan, Brian Robson,and David Beckham of similar gambles that backfired. Do we learn anything from the past? Not on this evidence.
When we got hammered by the Hungarians at Wembley in the fifties what did we do? We modernised our kit, our footwear and brought in lighter footballs. We played 4-2-4 and 4-3-3; but did we reappraise the way we treat kids from the time they should be learning the game from scratch? Did we hell.
When I was a kid I never played club youth football until I was an under 15 in an under 17 league................no-one did, no-one could. There was no thought nor concession to teaching kids how to command a football at the age of 5. At Grammar School all we got was the Spring term of January to the end of March for football; the school sports pitch got wrecked from playing rugby in the rain of November and December and wasn't fit to keep hippos on...............games would be called off for weeks at a time.
When I was at Primary school, all we got was a kick around on a piece of wasteland in ankle length grass with a full sized football that came up to our knees. Unless it was a nice day that would be arbitarily cancelled by the headmistress and music lessons substituted.
Is it any wonder we have never emulated the Germans and the Dutch?
Nowadays we have sensible, tailor made coaching schemes now that youth football has been taken away from the schools and their idiot teachers and kids can get football coaching from qualified coaches in specially adapted environments to suit their tender age and small stature. A lot has been done and put in place to right the wrongs from the past and yet at the very highest level our Premiership clubs continue to sabotage all the effort and thought that is put into it through their selfish self interest and naked greed.
That's the subject that needs to be addressed, these players in a very poor and technically deficient England squad are the product of that self interest and greed...................nothing more, nothing less!
Post two
I agree with your opinion of the performance Pete, but if the grass roots need looking at then the manager of the national side falling on his sword is pretty futile as you have by your own submission admitted that he does not have the players with which to compete with at World Cup level. Anyway, the grass roots have been receiving the most intense examination and as Sir Treveor Brooking stated only this week (and I for one thoroughly agree with him) we have NOTHING much to look forward to until the kids who are 11 years old right now become the "New Generation" ......................so that's THREE World Cups away I'm afraid.
You saw today with your own eyes that so called superstars fell away like chocolate soldiers: Johnson ~ embarrassment, Terry ~
Upson ~ 
Ashley Cole ~ 
defending at Sunday League level and as for making excuses about the likes of Terry having some excuse because he was asked to play "right sided" what the hell are we banging on to nine year olds about familiarising themselves to playing in ALL areas of the pitch and in different positions (let alone defence) so that they are relaxed and comfortable wherever they find themselves during phases of the game? It's Chris Todd at Wembley all over again isn't it?
Gerrard can't play out of his comfort zone and continually makes terrible decisions under duress, Lampard at 32 has NEVER been any good at this exalted level.
That's what we have paid top dollar to bring in a top world coach to come and work with. It's like taking a Paignton Beach donkey to Henry Cecil and then firing him for not winning the Derby with it.
Capello didn't have to work with such technically deficient plodders at AC Milan, Real Madrid and Juventus did he!
I said all along that our only genuine world class player was Wayne Rooney but he has been simply embarrassing throughout the tournament and we are as far behind genuine world class performers as that Wembley side that got humiliated by the Hungarians (who never won a world Cup by the way) in the fifties...........................it's that bad and it's that serious. Far more serious than only looking at the individual who is managing the national team.
Stop being fooled by the Terrys and the Upsons of this world and believing that such players are fit for purpose in a World Cup Finals campaign. Stop accepting the appalling unprofessionalism of the Terrys (again!) and Ashley Coles of this world and putting them up as "typical professional footballers" ~ they are not, they are appalling individuals; and stop paying lip service to the clubs at the top of our Premiership who have no interest in the England team at all and certainly provide no service whatsoever to the national interest in providing a production line of English footballers in the same way that the German clubs do so for their nation.
For Cleo the last seven days were much the same as the seven before them as nothing much really changes in her life and as she is so pampered and protected from any danger her life I’m sure is carefree and stress free. Six days of the week Carol will let her out of her cage at 6.15am to give the cage a really good clean and sometime on a Sunday morning I will spray her and give her a good soaking that she loves and strip the cage right down and clean it with special disinfectants. The same regular visitors will call around our home to see Carol and me and they will give Cleo some attention that she loves and life for her will be as normal as it always is.
But seven days can sometimes be a long time and a lot can happen in seven days that can be life changing as have been the case this week. Our club has been rocked by the very saddest and heartbreaking news that no one could have expected or ever thought they would hear and the news is always harder to take when the man in question was such a great man, so well loved and who is going to be missed by so many people.
Just as the lottery win was life changing for Paul’s family so will be his sad departure and Merse touched on the fact that none of us knows what tomorrow brings for any of us and he is so right and why we must try to make each day last as long as possible and make it has happy as we can.
It has been so good to read so many wonderful tributes written about Paul Bristow the man, written from the heart because that is where Paul Bristow was in everyone who knew him and I know he will always be with us when we go to games at Plainmoor and we will all feel him there looking down on us and doing his part to cheer the team on to victory. Such a shame and such a lose but his legacy will live on here in Torbay forever and ever.
There was another event that also shocked us all a bit in the last seven days and that was the TUST board sacking Lou as the Junior Gulls manager and that action will have a major impact on Lou’s life and I expect she has already wondered how she is going to cope at home games not doing all the work she would normally be doing for the Junior Gulls.
Yes her life has been changed and her life is going to be much more empty and why is that and for what good reason is that going to happen?. Lou’s private life is her own, but I will tell you it has had much heartbreak in it and has been at times very painful and also very costly and then add to all of that the health problems she has to put up with and you soon realise what a special person she is to give every second she can spare to her beloved Junior Gulls.
With all the other sadness in her life and believe if you knew what she has had to deal with you understand far better, the Junior Gulls was her driving force in life and what has given her so much strength to battle the days when the pains in the body are getting a bit to much and can you believe that some people have decided to take it all away from her. Yes its fine to be dedicated and committed to anything but no good if you can’t do the job in the end, but that was not the case with Lou and the Junior Gulls has grown and flourished under her and everyone knows that and everyone has seen the joy she has brought to those children and yet its over as far as the power crazy uncaring and thoughtless people who decided she somehow deserved to be sacked from something she gave all her time too and for FREE.
I believe those people (I will call then people as I can’t bring myself to call them men) should hang their heads in shame along with the person who wrote the email and sent it into the TUST. I still have many concerns about that email as do others and for now will not say anything else about it.
The real men in this world will put their hands up when they have made a big mistake or got something horribly wrong or simply took the wrong action. They will then put it all right because they would know at least they can feel a bit better about themselves. Do I expect that to happen? Not really and now is not the time due to what else sadly happened this week to make the sort of noise that needs to be made to get Lou back as the Junior Gulls manager.
The right time will come and due to the very strong feelings I know so many have about the action taken by the TUST board, I feel Lou will not have to wait too long before she is backing doing what has made her so happy over the last few years.
So who has won this week?
Well love him or hate him the TFF would never consider swapping him for any member on any other forum, he has been here from the very start and has been such a big contributor and has brought his great knowledge into the TFF and we would all be lost without him on here.
This week’s winner is Merse, well done Alan
A few posts made by Merse this week.
......................the team collectively looks like a Derby runner who peaked too early to win the The Dante but flops at Epsom.
We've been there so many times with England we're used to it................
These were my thoughts after the first of our group games and it was no different throughout the rest of the tournament. Now Fabio Capello reveals the players were "tired" ~ don't knock him for that, it's not new for an England squad to go into a World Cup in that condition, and if we don't bring in a mid season break for The Premiership we will only carry in that vein.Wayne Rooney's situation clearly illustrated the problem. Man Utd burned him out, failed to rest him when he was carrying that ankle injury and of course he was useless for England and the World Cup campaign.
We took Ledley King with his history of unreliability and of course he lasted but 45 minutes. For King read Kevin Keegan, Brian Robson,and David Beckham of similar gambles that backfired. Do we learn anything from the past? Not on this evidence.
When we got hammered by the Hungarians at Wembley in the fifties what did we do? We modernised our kit, our footwear and brought in lighter footballs. We played 4-2-4 and 4-3-3; but did we reappraise the way we treat kids from the time they should be learning the game from scratch? Did we hell.
When I was a kid I never played club youth football until I was an under 15 in an under 17 league................no-one did, no-one could. There was no thought nor concession to teaching kids how to command a football at the age of 5. At Grammar School all we got was the Spring term of January to the end of March for football; the school sports pitch got wrecked from playing rugby in the rain of November and December and wasn't fit to keep hippos on...............games would be called off for weeks at a time.
When I was at Primary school, all we got was a kick around on a piece of wasteland in ankle length grass with a full sized football that came up to our knees. Unless it was a nice day that would be arbitarily cancelled by the headmistress and music lessons substituted.
Is it any wonder we have never emulated the Germans and the Dutch?
Nowadays we have sensible, tailor made coaching schemes now that youth football has been taken away from the schools and their idiot teachers and kids can get football coaching from qualified coaches in specially adapted environments to suit their tender age and small stature. A lot has been done and put in place to right the wrongs from the past and yet at the very highest level our Premiership clubs continue to sabotage all the effort and thought that is put into it through their selfish self interest and naked greed.
That's the subject that needs to be addressed, these players in a very poor and technically deficient England squad are the product of that self interest and greed...................nothing more, nothing less!
Post two
I agree with your opinion of the performance Pete, but if the grass roots need looking at then the manager of the national side falling on his sword is pretty futile as you have by your own submission admitted that he does not have the players with which to compete with at World Cup level. Anyway, the grass roots have been receiving the most intense examination and as Sir Treveor Brooking stated only this week (and I for one thoroughly agree with him) we have NOTHING much to look forward to until the kids who are 11 years old right now become the "New Generation" ......................so that's THREE World Cups away I'm afraid.You saw today with your own eyes that so called superstars fell away like chocolate soldiers: Johnson ~ embarrassment, Terry ~
Upson ~ Ashley Cole ~ defending at Sunday League level and as for making excuses about the likes of Terry having some excuse because he was asked to play "right sided" what the hell are we banging on to nine year olds about familiarising themselves to playing in ALL areas of the pitch and in different positions (let alone defence) so that they are relaxed and comfortable wherever they find themselves during phases of the game? It's Chris Todd at Wembley all over again isn't it?Gerrard can't play out of his comfort zone and continually makes terrible decisions under duress, Lampard at 32 has NEVER been any good at this exalted level.
That's what we have paid top dollar to bring in a top world coach to come and work with. It's like taking a Paignton Beach donkey to Henry Cecil and then firing him for not winning the Derby with it.
Capello didn't have to work with such technically deficient plodders at AC Milan, Real Madrid and Juventus did he!
I said all along that our only genuine world class player was Wayne Rooney but he has been simply embarrassing throughout the tournament and we are as far behind genuine world class performers as that Wembley side that got humiliated by the Hungarians (who never won a world Cup by the way) in the fifties...........................it's that bad and it's that serious. Far more serious than only looking at the individual who is managing the national team.
Stop being fooled by the Terrys and the Upsons of this world and believing that such players are fit for purpose in a World Cup Finals campaign. Stop accepting the appalling unprofessionalism of the Terrys (again!) and Ashley Coles of this world and putting them up as "typical professional footballers" ~ they are not, they are appalling individuals; and stop paying lip service to the clubs at the top of our Premiership who have no interest in the England team at all and certainly provide no service whatsoever to the national interest in providing a production line of English footballers in the same way that the German clubs do so for their nation.