James Fern

Could never get bored of playing Parkstone GC, one of the best in the country.

Article reads: Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Headline: Green party Starmer will hand Britain over to Farage, says Green party leader Zack Polanski Leader tells party’s conference he is ready to take the fight to Labour and speak out in support of immigration

What @zackpolanski.bsky.social is saying is simply what anyone who pays attention to politics is witnessing

Starmer has played a key role in mainstreaming far-right politics, enabled by a mainstream media which still tiptoes around this terrible state of affairs

Maybe it’s me but I find listening to him incredibly frustrating. People go on about how well he communicates…I don’t think I’ve ever heard him make a single clear, coherent & insightful comment that is grounded in what we see on the pitch. Think he’s pulled the wool over a lot of people’s eyes.

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

Pretty excited about this one. In this paper, we discuss the replication/credibility crisis, the factors that contribute to it, and clinical psychology's slow (really slow) progress in dealing with it. We offer a competency-based fraemwork for improving our training of future scholars.
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Really sorry to hear this, its been an incredible resource I've used with many students over the years to teach R - thanks for all your efforts building and maintaining this.

Do you expect someone to take over from you?

For these law school application essays, AI is required Using artificial intelligence for admissions essays is often discouraged or prohibited. For aspiring attorneys hoping to land a seat at two U.S. law schools next fall, it's an opportunity to stand out from the crowd.

“The University of Miami School of Law’s new essay requires applicants to submit a detailed prompt for a generative AI large language model like ChatGPT to generate a ‘comprehensive analysis’ that will help them make an informed decision about which law school to attend.”

At least he paid the extra £9! 😂

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Not looking to persuade, or be persuaded, we don’t all have to agree. Just genuinely interested in what would be different between the loss today and a loss next week? Is it the number of losses, or the opponent?

Before the game, could you see us losing today? Why would you be concerned to lose next weekend, but not today? Given we were outplayed, and Amorim out coached?

Have you seen anything to make you think we could get a result against Sunderland?

Weirdly, I've largely agreed with his 'off-pitch' handling of players (Mainoo the exception - he should start every game for me) - it's his apparent lack of any ability to actually manage or coach the players he does want to work with, that makes me want him gone.

I wish I had your optimism. I don't see a win on the horizon, loses to Sunderland & Liverpool might force INEOS et al to sack him, so we'll never know if he'd relegate us (I think he would - we've no divine right to stay in the league - averaging a point per game is strong supporting evidence).

If we are in the relegation zone come January, would you still stick with Amorim? Given what Amorim has shown so far, do you think relegation is possible, likely even?

Charts I don't like:

Yep, atmosphere was electric as it often was for European nights back then. Got two pretty early on, then a great free kick.

I was there for his debut hat trick against Fenerbahce in 04, what a player he was.

Predicted it before KO, was so obvious Henderson would dominate our midfield today, largely by himself.

He’s the player Amorim thinks Bruno is.

Remember that clip of Rooney saying that when he started training with the Everton first team at 15 he couldn’t believe how bad the players were, and how much better he was than all of them.

That must be how Mainoo feels every day in training at United.

averages 6 goals a season in the PL when removing penalties.

Take away penalties and just look at PL data.

You cant really use 'season totals' as the number of fixtures and quality of opposition is huge confounder. Over a PL season, he is not above average (in fact often below).

Depends what KPI's you use to quantify 'output', but on goals & assists he's very average. People like to talk about stats like 'progressive passes' & 'big chances created' etc - these aren't useful metrics. He lost possession >400 times last season, 220 more times than the average for his position.

I'm not sure. For once I think we have SOME good players but this really is about the manager being clueless and out of his depth. A sensible pragmatic manager should be able to get a top half finish with this team. Amorim wont be anywhere near that.

He's not. He's numbers are no better than anyone else in that position (when normalised for attempted passes), but his inability to complete a pass (simple 5 yrd passes, not difficult 'chance creating passes' etc) makes him a huge nett negative on everything everyone else is trying to do.

I have to disagree, I've never ever wanted him in any position in the team, even when he was supposedly scoring & assisting lots (which he factually was not, when you remove pens & adjust for attempted passes). He's an absolute nett negative on the team in any position, but especially in midfield.

Is it 'dying on a hill', 'being stubborn' etc, or just being not very good at managing a football team? We don't need to romanticise it to justify sacking him. It's fine if he's been found to be completely out his depth, the PL is very tough.

We've not been 'inconsistent', we are just very very bad. We've attempted to build a team around and rely on a very poor player in Bruno, for years. There's not a single player in all of the top 5 European leagues as poor as him for the rather important skill of, 'passing the football'.

Would be the only positive to come from today if he did get a red and couldn't play for a game

I hate the system, but the bigger issue is the personnel. Bruno and Maguire are a disaster, De Ligt and Shaw being made to look out of their depth. And we have no wide players.