Joe Currie

I haven’t updated my bio in many years. Enjoying life, one day at a time.

[Matt Castelli @CastelliMatt]

Young Republicans and Young Democrats in Connecticut show more leadership and moral clarity than the President of the United States.

Let’s follow their example.

[Forward Party @Fwd_Party]

Democracy means debate, not destruction. Violence is never the answer.

[Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang]

Don’t allow a tragedy to lead to others. 🙏🇺🇸

[Joey Swoll @TheJoeySwoll]

A person becomes 10x more attractive not by their looks but by the acts of kindness, love, respect, honesty, and loyalty they show.

[MrBeast @MrBeast]

BEAST GAME EPISODE 3 IS OUT NOW!

To celebrate, I'm giving away $100,000 total to 10 random people who like and retweet this post!

Go watch it here: https://t.co/Yntf9E7FTN

[Joe Currie @josephfcurrie]

i’ve been saying this for months

[internet hall of fame @InternetH0F]

This dad is setting the standards at unreachable levels...

[Autosport @autosport]

🗣️“That was bad man, Jesus”

Hamilton exits his final F1 qualifying session with Mercedes in Q1 ⬇️

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[Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1]

Trae Crowder explains BRILLIANTLY to Trump supporters why they shouldn't be spiking the football for voting against their own self-interests.

If you only watch ONE video today, make it this one.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

This video is incredible.

Everyone should RETWEET it so the whole *world* sees it.

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Meanwhile in PA.

[. @CFColeWorld]

i’m glad someone said it, it’s genuinely embarrassing. they all swarm like ants when you suggest moving away to EC for 60k seats.. gives more fans the opportunity to actually support, a fresh start for the ownership and fans.

[Connecticut Sun PR @CTSunPR]

PRESS RELEASE: Connecticut Sun Sell Out TD Garden

Details: https://t.co/bZrMOKSrPH

[White Dudes for Harris @dudes4harris]

Jesse Watters criticizing @Tim_Walz's masculinity is why we organized #WhiteDudesforHarris.

Men like Jesse Watters aren’t born with an instinctive need to obsessively analyze and mock other men. Men like that begin as boys who follow a bad example at school or at home — or maybe watching Fox News over their dad’s shoulder. They are bullied and made to feel they aren’t masculine. They bully other men in a doomed and endless quest to prove they are finally “man enough.”

Guys: We have your back if you want better for today’s boys and for generations to come. We don’t have to let anyone else buy into Jesse Watters’ sad and dangerous idea of what it means to be a man.

If you want to do good — or you just want to do better — we welcome you to join us. There is no better day than today.

Even you, @JesseBWatters,

[Robert Griffin III @RGIII]

Imane Khelif is a biological woman and if you want to protect our daughters, you should protect her. If you don’t do the research to find the truth, then we should be protected from you.

[Matt Castelli @CastelliMatt]

Reminded of this line from Game of Thrones:

“There’s no justice in the world, not unless we make it.”

#Vote

[Joe Currie @josephfcurrie]

Amen. This is how it should be.

[Jason Kelce @JasonKelce]

Responding to this, because I have seen a number of people say it. I don’t think of Kylie as a homemaker, I think of her as my wife. I think of her as a mother. She has an occupation, as do I, and we keep our house the best we can. Our marriage is a partnership, we are equals who are figuring it out on the daily. The only expectation is that we love each other, support one another, and are committed to our family, that comes first. We both raise our kids, we both work, We both keep our home. It is both our faults it is messy, but such is life with 3 young children, busy schedules, and neither of us being neat freaks. She also makes a mean sandwhich.

If being a homemaker, works for some, and that’s what they want, then hell yea, that’s awesome, more power to you. I want to be clear, I’m not downplaying that at all, but that is not our family dynamic.

[Brian @CFCMJordan]

People are wanting the old regime back.

In 2017/18, we finished outside of the top 4, almost 30 points behind Man City. Sacked the manager.

In 2018/19, we scrapped top-4 in matchday 37, again finishing 25 points behind Man City. Sacked the manager.

In 2019/20 we scrapped top 4 matchday 38 finishing 33 points behind Liverpool.

In 2020/21 we scrapped top 4 matchday 38 because another team lost. We finished 19 points behind Man City. Sacked the manager in January. We did win the CL but that obviously papered over the cracks.

In 2021/22 we secured top 4 in matchday 36, finishing 19 points behind Man City.

In this time we played 6 domestic finals and we won 1 and lost 5.

We had a squad assembled for and by 4+ different managers with WILDLY different principles of play. We had a MASSIVE wage budget that was way out of control.

In short, we were about 25 points off the Premier League title for 5 consecutive seasons, we lost 5 of 6 domestic cup finals and had a squad incapable of dominating.

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Bringing me to the new ownership.

They come in and they want to make us consistently able to compete for all available trophies. That's a big gap to close looking at the numbers from the last 5 seasons of the past ownership.

Complete change of the board, the directors who had assembled this completely unorganized squad, the scouting team who didn't have a nano-byte of data on any single player.

The squad needed to be completely nuked and rebuilt from scratch.

The wage bill needed to be trimmed and incentives were added to contracts for obvious reasons.

Ever heard the saying "it gets worse before it gets better"? That's not coming out of thin air.

The owners came in with little to no time to prepare for the transfer window with insane pressure from the outside wondering what kind of owners they were going to be. They also made a promise to Roman to invest heavily in the team.

We didn't have any sporting directors at the time so the owners had to trust the football guy that was there. Thomas Tuchel, famously known for NOT having a great talent ID.

Tuchel was eventually sacked because he had a fallout with the owners. Our owners brought in Graham Potter. This was done prior to the appointment of out current SDs.

The job Potter had on his hands was impossible and was made even more impossible by a January transfer window that saw an already bloated squad adding 7 players to it while removing 1.

Eventually, Potter, who was not an SD pick, was sacked and Lampard was brought in to appease the fans as the season was over anyway and there was nothing to play for.

To emphasize how difficult of a job this was in Lampard's words:

Practically the whole squad either knew they were leaving after the season or were deeply unsure about their own future. The consequence of this in addition to the squad having 33 players expecting consistent game time in it, was a bunch of players on mental vacation since March, and probably earlier in some cases.

The summer of 2023 was the second of the "4 window plan" reported by @David_Ornstein. This was the first summer window for the SDs.

This was the summer we saw a BIG exodus of players and many more incomings joining us. We also hired Poch, which admittedly turned out to be a wrong decision in hindsight.

One can assume the idea behind it was to keep him for a couple of years while he developed our young players and prepared the team for "the right guy". After all, he had a proven track record of developing young players into a team and had even done it in the Premier League.

Moving on to the season as a whole. We started this season with basically a whole new team, most of which were under-23s. No player relations to rely on and very little experience. A difficult job for any manager.

Now, we spent most of the season struggling around 10th. Made it to another domestic final, which we lost.

1/2

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Seeing NBA & NHL Playoffs on the schedule today

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