Duncan

Go to a back three with a libero.

I don’t love it. But I don’t love whistling past the graveyard with relegation-level shot numbers either.

I get why the lads hate it, but I think given our limitations for the foreseeable future, going Air Raid with simple automatisms to create quick shots before defences can set-up is our best option right now. And I think focusing on getting our best shooter (Brennan) to take those shots matters.

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S10E19 Keep Your Shirt On, Spurs

@barditei.bsky.social, @nathanaclark.bsky.social and @windycoys.bsky.social dig deep into the week's results.

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#COYS #THFC #Spurs

They actually won it.

That’s an utter nonsense goal.

The final match of the 2025 Canadian Premier League, avec beaucoup de neige.

Meanwhile in Canada…

Sad that my Budget recommendation for [redacted] didn’t make the cut.

This is so absurdly on the nose it hurts.

Imagining this Spurs team with Jermain Defoe up top.

The lesser-spotted mirror Alderweireld crossfield ball from VdV.

Vicario’s offering these hands, and opposing forwards can come get some.

Take off Kolo Muani at half time for Odobert, and make Johnson the striker. If we have no central creativity just go full air raid and turn everything into a turning race.

Depreciation Source More than three years ago, based on Paul Butler's The problem with bitcoin miners , I wrote Generally Accepted Accounting Principles...

read this post. One of the accounting fuck fuck games in AI is fiddling the depreciation. The Nvidia cards die in 12-18mo. Amazon, Meta, Google all depreciating at 4-6 *years*. This makes *huge* difference in earnings per share.

blog.dshr.org/2025/10/depr...

(the bitcoin miners also pulled this)

You know who would’ve solved Spurs midfield problem right now? Harry Winks.

Tottenham Hotspur unveils new Men’s football leadership structure

The #1 piece of advice that TransLink's CEO offers other North American transit agencies:

Provide frequent service

The people demanding equivalent-to-US tax cuts are also very insistent that Canada should not have equivalent-to-US budget deficits, but no one ever likes to ask them about this contradiction.

The funny thing about Singapore is that between the autocratic state-capacity technocracy, the free-trading Hanseatic city-stateness, and the government having built owner-occupied housing on a massive scale, it’s like a blank screen where a lot of the political spectrum can project its fantasies.

Jeff Bezos hails AI boom as ‘good’ kind of bubble Amazon founder’s comments follow warning by Goldman Sachs’ David Solomon that ‘it’s not different this time’

Roses are red
Black cats can mean trouble
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Unique style setting up Crystal Palace for sustained success Their table position is no fluke, and Oliver Glasner's stock is soaring.

This week's article for @thetransferflow.bsky.social is on Crystal Palace. They've been rolling in 2025 so I wrote about their success, including:
- Bend but don't break mid-block
- Speed attacks
- Shifting PL tactical meta + Glasner's coaching scalability
www.thetransferflow.com/p/unique-sty...

Damn. Was hoping we’d see the light and I could move somewhere I had fewer bathrooms to clean.

Is there a really high demand for 2 full bathrooms from most families? I ask because one way a lot of Japanese flats seem to maximize space is having one bathroom, but the toilet and shower/bath are actually separate rooms so both can be used simultaneously. Is that just not sellable here?

If you were on payroll there should have been mandatory pension contributions off each paycheque, so yes?

Anyone done a deep dive on Ryan Mason’s WBA yet?

This going to sound snarkier than I mean it to, but you’re trying substitute one result last year that wasn’t on him for the entire 25-year period and where we were when he started.

I understand context and longer-term perspectives are tricky for new fans.

Levy stepping back leaves one achievement of his tenure clear. Under him, Tottenham Hotspur were the only club in the English pyramid to organically grow themselves into the group of elite clubs. Everyone else required an oligarch/petro state to ride a helicopter to the peak. He actually climbed it.

Yeah, it’s irrationally annoying to me. We didn’t have a problem calling Lamela Coco, so why not do the same this time?

Kulu: Deki