Jorge Grant & Adam Jackson Update
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impede
Vital 1st Team Regular
For some people it has everything to do with everything
hulloutpost
Vital Champions League
Perhaps the relevance is that if young men could fill that onerous role then we should all show some faith and trust in our young inexperienced players/men of this generation; and be less stressed out at all the injuries and disruption ourselves.
Perhaps it is us that need to sit back, while they step up with confidence and show, 'no worries, we got this'.
Nothing to do with football though.
hulloutpost
Vital Champions League
Comme si, comme ca, each to their own.
I don't know what happened. I had to check what year it was with the wife! Bloodyhell!
Yesterday I spoke with my friend Mike Heaton, now 95 and an ex navigator on Lancasters flying out of Skellingthorpe. He thought that in spite of their young age, his and his crews survival was based on the leadership of their pilot, the commitment, belief and trust they had in one another, and a huge element of luck.
In some ways it is not actually that different to what we will need in our next few games.
HoofGrantBrown
Vital 1st Team Regular
Didn't notice you were wrong until you said so !
I suppose the same applies to Panzer tank crews if your going down that route or maybe the crew of the Enola Gay.It's bull shit .We are playing Fleetwood mate not fire bombing Dresden
EastvilleIMP
Vital Reserves Team
Obviously a game of football is nothing like going to war, but numerous posters above have pointed out why the comparison was made.
I took from the post, that age is irrelevant, it’s the leadership and organisational skills that are required.
it's a crap analagy
exhertsimp
Vital 1st Team Regular
.. and balls.
EastvilleIMP
Vital Reserves Team
Why is that?
Are leadership and professional maturity beyond their years only attributes suited to being at war?
German Imp
Vital Football Hero
I too have been pondering giving Tayo a go in midfield. Let’s see what happens but he may just be one answer to the problem, he certainly has the energy.
Good lord.No they are not .Whatever attributes we require tomorrow evening have absolutely nothing in common with piloting a Heavy Bomber aircraft and dropping tonnes of bombs onto a target some where over Europe over 70 years ago now do they?
gijsbert_bos
Vital Football Hero
I also find this glamourisation and obsession with the Second World War a little bit...weird. I dunno, it's just not very tasteful and strangely seems to be perpetuated by the generation that didn't have any role in it.
I'm with you on that Gis. I personally think it's time to change the narrative. It's 2021(.I know this because the wife confirmed it.) Zombie by the Cranberries comes to mind.
EastvilleIMP
Vital Reserves Team
They don’t in the same sense and importance as obviously WW2 and it’s not something I would think to compare it to my self.
I don’t think you have taken it in the way the original poster meant and I was able to see the sort of comparison he was alluding to.
