@MakitaUK
My wife got me a Makita advent calendar even though thoughtful gift I feel Makita has scammed people. No way gift has £80 worth tools nothing more than what’s offered at petrol stations free of charge with fuel.
Why is almost impossible to speak to someone at the @RAC why would you take any value in RAC approved dealerships when you are unable to operate yourselves
@evrisupportline received a damaged parcel today, unable to get resolved as Ai chat system does not recognise damaged parcel option on your chat disappointed
@RoyalMailHelp Very disappointed with Royal Mail delivery, hasn’t turned up in allotted time having made arrangements at my cost. Now I have to make other arrangements also at my cost. Royal Mail tracking absolutely a joke
@RoyalMail Very disappointed with Royal Mail delivery, hasn’t turned up in allotted time having made arrangements at my cost. Now I have to make other arrangements also at my cost. Royal Mail tracking absolutely a joke
#typicalblues#bcfc
All the hype get to the ground early happy hour, Gil Merrick upper tills aren’t set up for happy hour, queue for 1/2 hour, run out of beer
The situation at Birmingham.
John Eustace and Wayne Rooney are polar opposite personality types.
Completely different functions, different attitudes, different temperaments.
They could hardly be more different.
• Eustace values control (work to a plan)
• Rooney values chaos (be ready for anything)
• Eustace is tribe above self (shared collective cause)
• Rooney is self above tribe (motivation comes from within)
• Eustace works to logical criteria (tactics and strategy)
• Rooney works to emotional criteria (desire and motivation)
The above variables all have their own merits. They each bring varying rewards in different contexts and scenarios, over different timescales.
The players don't know any of this. They haven’t got a clue what's going on.
They just know its different, and it has spooked them. Big time.
The players were content with the blueprint they were working to. They were invested in Eustace.
Then Garry Cook does what Garry Cook does and imprints his ruthless ambition on proceedings.
He doesn’t want content now, he wants success later. Big success.
Bigger success than most of those players are capable of achieving.
So now those players are wrestling with the realisation that this might no longer be a journey with a final destination for them.
They might be surplus to requirements sooner rather than later.
One minute, you're in a controlled environment and everything is settled, everyone knows where they stand and all the messages are predictable.
The next minute, it's all change and the messages are different. It's unsettling. And it's bound to affect performance.
This is no longer the season those players thought it was going to be. No longer the future those players thought they were going to have.
Back to square one.
All that conditioning in the summer?
All the stuff they thought their efforts and performances were going to be judged on?
It's just been ripped up and thrown out of the window.
Start again. New guy, new methods.
The players have gone into survival mode.
For them, this is a crisis situation. Nobody knows where they stand.
That collective cause that Eustace fostered?
Now it’s every man for himself.
When you're in survival mode, you can't be creative.
You can only be creative and fully express the best version of yourself when you feel safe.
And to feel safe in this context, you have to have strong convictions about yourself and your abilities.
The ones who do have a long-term future at St Andrew’s will be the ones who react best to this change and step up quickest.
If you can quickly adapt to this sudden threat to your livelihood, then you might just have what it takes to survive in the Premier League as well.