Spoonie

The Man Utd Way will go out the window if he wins things. Fans have a very flexible 'team compass' when success comes along

This is something I've been getting into over the last few months, reading some books, attending some meetings and webinars that were offered through work and making use of Headspace. Anyone else do it/have an interest in it?

totally bizarre - especially when the collection point is the seller's house!! If you're gonna dick people about, don't do it at your home address, surely?!

Decent. I've been coaching for about five years now and as much as I love the technical aspects of American Football, it's all the non-technical stuff that really interests me. Building culture, designing practices and approaches, developing leadership, all that kind of stuff. If anyone comes across any good coaching resources, I'd love to see them,

Leith has been wild these last 36 hours. I think the people here were quite pleased to win.

Probably meant for the Pet Hates thread! Great story tho!

I'm exactly the opposite when it comes to internet purchases. I stopped using eBay for years and recently I've been back on and unable to shake my old habits of compulsive purchasing and instant payment, irrespective of need. Most recent example - I have always loved Sigg water bottles and I had one back in the day when I inter railed round Europe which has somehow got lost in the many flat moves since. In my return to eBay, over the past six weeks, I am now the proud owner of twelve water bottles. What the fuck do I need twelve water bottles for? I bid on a Hello Kitty one when I was drunk on a stag do last weekend and woke up to find I'd won. The same thing happened a few years ago with whistles. I have more whistles than a coach could ever possibly need, and I use precisely one of them. Pay as soon as the response comes through and it's done.

great blast from the past, this thread! is anyone on here coaching sport of any kind at the moment?

Forza Italia is excellent and I know we've talked about Inverting the Pyramid on here before too

Currently reading To the Lighthouse by Virginina Woolf. Tried it a while back but moved onto something else so I've gone back to it.  It's beautifully written, I'm just not really sure what's going on!

Starter Mr Robot last night after hearing Morgan Spurlock recommend it on a podcast over the weekend. First episode was pretty interesting, so keen to see where it goes

I saw American Psycho YEARS ago and remember enjoying it but not being compelled to watch it again but I will be doing so now after having read the book. Will add Glamorama to my reading list for the future too.

Yeah, certainly makes sense. She clearly knew something about him. It's been a while since I've read a book where the ending wasn't clear cut.

Yeah, absolutely savagery and it just gets worse and worse as the book progresses. The kid at the zoo is awful.

It's very hard to tell re: the ending because everyone constantly confuses who everyone else is. The fact that his lawyer didn't realise he was Patrick Bateman makes it possible that he hasn't had lunch with Paul Owen at all, as it could easily have been someone else, so he might actually have done the things that he claims.

The bit where he goes to visit Owen's apartment was very odd, and suggested that the woman showing the apartment knew something about him, but it didn't suggest that she knew about the murders, because surely she'd have taken some sort of legal action if she did. He definitely unravels as the book goes on tho, so I wouldn't be surprised to find it was all imagined.

Read American Psycho which was bizarre and reckless! Quite a long read too, but not too bad. Now dabbling between some non-fiction ones that I'd started but not finished. A parenting one, one about mindfulness/meditation and one about Perfect Practice

Draft chat is an odd subject because I remember the Seahawks getting panned for the draft where they took Wilson and co. I watch a lot of college football and I love seeing these dudes come to the NFL and seeing how they perform, but there are so many factors that determine success in the pros. Looking forward to seeing the Giants new guys getting out there and showing what they can do.

On ‎24‎/‎04‎/‎2016 at 11:42 AM, Spoonie said:

Yesterday the East Kilbride Pirates Junior American Football team, which I took over as Head Coach in September, had our first game of the season, away to the highland Wildcats in Inverness. To put the game into context, we've played them three times in the past and lost by 26, 50 and 52. Yesterday, after a long off-season of hard graft, we went up and beat then 24-8 with a fantastic team performance. I was a very proud coach and celebrated with a nice whisky, basking in the glow of victory and single malt.

On Sunday we hosted the Newcastle Vikings for our first home game of the year and beat them 36-12, taking us to 2-0 (already the most successful season in the teams 3-year history!). We are only 8 points off our total from last year and 16 points off our total from 2014, so it looks like a year where we will set a lot of team records! We now have an EIGHT week layoff, where the main focus is keeping the guys engaged, interested and developing and then we have 4 games in five weeks to finish the regular season and try to secure our first ever post-season spot.

Yesterday the East Kilbride Pirates Junior American Football team, which I took over as Head Coach in September, had our first game of the season, away to the highland Wildcats in Inverness. To put the game into context, we've played them three times in the past and lost by 26, 50 and 52. Yesterday, after a long off-season of hard graft, we went up and beat then 24-8 with a fantastic team performance. I was a very proud coach and celebrated with a nice whisky, basking in the glow of victory and single malt.

Finally watched this over the last month or so and watched the last two episodes last night. Fantastic TV and amusing looking through this thread at all the speculation and guessing as to how it'd all end. Sad there wasn't more love for Skinny Pete tho. Most enthusiastic character on TV!

The problem is it's self-perpetuating. Critics say it's good, loads of people buy it, it gets a rep for selling loads, loads more people buy it, it's more likely to stay in print and be available years later and when people see it they know it sold loads etc, etc.

I read The Old Man and the Sea last year and I really enjoyed it but it did make me wonder about how authors and specific books come to be so highly regarded. It's a lovely story and well described but is it much lovelier and much more well described than other books about fishermen? Like all art, I struggle to tell what differentiates it.

Did anyone else find this line a bit ridiculous? "Total Extreme Fighting, which organised the event, said it was "deeply saddened" by Carvalho's death."

14 hours ago, ca_gere said:

Articles that are centered around one tweet.

e.g. http://www.thesportbible.com/articles/gary-lineker-perfectly-summed-up-manchester-city-vs-psg-120416

A mildly amusing/insightful tweet does not warrant 300 words of 'content'. I feel like 80% of the internet is like this nowadays.

You're not wrong on that, all of these 'bibles' and buzzfeed and other sites make the majority of their content by taking one tweet and adding some vague context or some barely-related tweets together and using them to show what 'being a student in Scotland vs. England' or 'fifteen times X won the internet'. The worst are the ones like the above where you'd just like to read his tweet but then you get that click bait tying to sucker you in. Minging.

Blasted through The Blade Artist by Irvine Welsh which was excellent entertainment and also read Blood, Sweat and Chalk about some of the historic tactical innovations in American Football. If you like the sport, it's well worth a look. Very similar in style to Chris B. Brown's Art of Football books and blog. Now reading a rubbish book on coaching hoping for some nuggets of wisdom.

Bigfoot email forwarding. I set this up maybe 15/20 years ago, and have used the email address for some key stuff such as my PayPal account. For some reason over the last 6 months (at least) there have been a number of times when it just hasn't worked, so I buy things using PayPal and never receive a receipt or some crucial information like a confirmation when something is delivered to a shop and needs picked up. Total pain in the hole when you have no idea what else hasn't been delivered. I probably missed out on a fortune from a Nigerian prince.