Martyn D Green

My mum always told me it was bad to make things up. I didn't listen.

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@EFLXtraHQ I’d say so, but the Tolaj deal will have really set the price here.

He’s younger, on a longer contract, and scored more goals.

Just natural that he would be worth more.

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@bennetthaselton @BalderdashianLA @lunnadream8859 @moultano Also got to remember that, if I understood it at all, Tenet is about how we should stop the person sent back from the future to stop the environmental disaster.

But I can’t claim to have followed it very well.

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@bennetthaselton @BalderdashianLA @lunnadream8859 @moultano Interesting. You’re right, but the solution is a conservative-coded theme.

So we’ll call that one neutral 😂

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@BalderdashianLA @lunnadream8859 @moultano He’s not alone, there are well worn tropes. But a director with that much power could just as easily challenge them.

And that’s not bringing in his mostly flat, plot-device female characters.

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@BalderdashianLA @lunnadream8859 @moultano It’s fairer to say he makes conservative art. Mass surveillance in TDK is the most famous, but TDKR spins equality into Bane, Inception suggests capitalism the only answer to corporate feudalism, Interstellar says we must leave rather than save planet. There’s others.

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@ronnie4861 @OSIBPODMAG The contract is why he’s worth £8m instead of £3m.

(Or whatever the numbers are)

Peterborough got to the Championship repeatedly on that model. Basically all the small clubs that got there have been on that model.

I’d rather that than go bankrupt. Maybe I’m the minority.

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@ronnie4861 @OSIBPODMAG But we’ve never been a club who ignore the money. To think we can suddenly start is a quick way to trouble - look at Oxford. Or even, us, ten years ago.

This is the best model we’ve had in my lifetime - buy young, sell expensive. That’s the best we can be in the medium term.

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@JohnHancoc36574 @PolitlcsUK @andyburnham I’m a lifelong Labour voter, and I’m genuinely impressed by him.

Takes something special to get a load of people who thought Starmer was too right wing to re-elect New Labour.

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@RyanTalbot12 @ronnie4861 @OSIBPODMAG We ran away with League Two with a top scorer who had, what, 12 goals?

Because the rest of the squad was so insanely strong for that level.

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@ronnie4861 @OSIBPODMAG The risk is if he loses form, or gets a serious long term injury, or just that another forward steals the spotlight.

Then we lose value on a player we know will leave at some point anyway.

I’d love to keep him on, but sadly we’re not that club.

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@EliasBurke Southgate also insisted - repeatedly - that he didn’t tell his players to hang on against anyone.

Which makes me wonder what this ‘proven winner’ actually does better, if the players are also not listening to him.

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@Celtix14 @OrientOutlook 😂😂😂

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@titanussy @enya_farina @janhopi No, TSOA has a far, far superior quote. This one reads like that one was fed into AI with the prompt ‘strip out any originality’

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@enya_farina @janhopi I’m sure there are some exceptional fanfic writers, but this is just cliche wrapped in platitudes.

The original is massively superior.

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@casey96206622 @OrientOutlook Aww, shucks!

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We provided the current England forward who has been the best to play for the country.

Will we provide the next? #LOFC @OrientOutlook

(Yes I’m saying we provided Kane)

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We'll be fine

Only Lineker was an established top flight starter 4 years before his first tournaments

Shearer came through in 88, picked in Euro 92
Owen broke through 1 year before 98
Rooney 2 years before 2004
Kane was on Championship/L1 loans in 2012, picked in 2016

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@Gary_Poynton Teddie Lamb?

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@1GAFC My problem is why we hounded out the most successful England manager since 1966 to bring in a 'proven winner' who did the same thing and trotted out the same excuses.

Either Southgate was right, or Tuchel was wrong.

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@DMNets_ @johncadigan Southgate also, repeatedly, said that he told the players to play progressively but they went defensive by themselves.

What’s the point in a managerial ‘upgrade’ if the players also don’t listen to him?