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"you still need a CM who can pass the fckin ball".
You're exaggerating for effect here, Field absolutely can pass the ball but currently not as creatively as Madsen, who is probably our best passer at the moment. Madsen's passing can create opportunities and his dead ball deliveries are mostly excellent.
That said, football isn't just about being creative, passing forward and scoring goals. You also need players who can track back, close down and tackle, especially in central midfield. Field excells at those things.
I find it quite sad to see this pile-on against Field given his strong contributions *over seasons*, not just a few games. His average level of positive contributions over quite a few years - now there's a new metric for Sky to chew on - has been consistently high, with the exception of this season, he's chipped in with valuable goals and in spite of regularly taking a battering, he has had a superb injury record.
You beat me to it when you mentioned taking more than one type of painkiller at a time. I was going to say that you can take paracetamol and ibuprofen simultaneously (guess whose wife was a pain control pharmacist).
My back used to go every few months and tests attributed that to some of the cushioning material between my discs moving out of position.
I was playing a lot of football back then and what seemed to really help was introducing a 5-10 minute warm-up jog beforehand, ideally followed by stretching; stretching when cold is not ideal. I'd then do a warm down jog after the game.
It's important to keep moving, the traditionional advice about resting a bad back has been ditched. Don't do anything which involves heavy lifting, like weights, though.
Talking about welcome returns, this ensemble jacked it all in in October 2022 but then had second thoughts, returning in 2024. Now, this video of them has just appeared and it's very tasty .
One of my favourite rock and roll stories concerns Krautrock supergroup Cosmic Jokers. In a nutshell, a crafty producer invites a gaggle of talented musicians to a series of lavish acid parties. Without telling said musicians, he surreptitiously turns their jams into an LP and releases it!
More below, taken from independent music review website Allmusic.com
One day in 1974, Manuel Göttsching, guitarist for the legendary Krautrock band Ash Ra Tempel, walked into a Berlin record store and heard some wildly cosmic guitar sounds blasting from the speakers. He was shocked to discover that he was listening to a new Krautrock supergroup, and that he in fact was the guitarist. The Cosmic Jokers were the greatest Krautrock supergroup that never was, a cosmic joke even on most of the musicians who played on the sessions, unbeknownst they were members of this new "group." Over several months in early 1973, producer Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser organized several wild acid parties at Dieter Dierks' sound studio, where the musicians played in exchange for a small fee and all the hallucinogens they could ingest. These musicians included Göttsching and Klaus Schulze of Ash Ra Tempel, Jurgen Dollase and Harald Grosskopf of Wallenstein, and Dierks himself. They had all been part of the Cosmic Couriers, a loose group that had musically backed Kaiser-produced records by Swiss artist/poet Sergius Golowin, gypsy Tarot-reader Walter Wegmuller, and even acid guru Timothy Leary the year before.
From these 1973 sessions, the Cosmic Jokers were born, as Kaiser and Dierks edited and mixed the material and slapped it out on vinyl on Kaiser's Kosmiche Musik label without the other musicians knowing anything about it until the records appeared in stores, even as their pictures were posted prominently on the covers.
Great stuff! 👍 As someone who used to market tractor parts, I was aware that IH made tractors and combines, but I had no idea that they also made cars.
While we are on this subject, Porsche used to make tractors and even now, you can buy a Lamborghini branded tractor, should you wish to....
This isn't new but I'd never heard it until today. It's very decent . Longtime guitarists Bruce Franklin and Rick Wartell complement each other so well.
RIP Rick. In their pomp, they were amazing, some of the songwriting was incredible, an intoxicating blend of pop, rock and jazz. I saw them live in Paris in the late 80s and even though Hodgson had left by then, they were still great and came across as really enjoying their work.
I've always found this song very moving, so hopefully, it's appropriate here:
I think Madsen is arguably the best passer of the ball and best set piece taker we have currently, although that is partly a reflection of how poor the others are at such things.
However, the intensity and organisation with which teams in the Championship play these days is such that all ten outfield players need to work very hard when we don't have the ball.
Tracking back, marking, pressing and tackling are vitally important, in my humble opinion, but these are attributes which Madsen is yet to consistently display.
In my view, this is problematic because the only players a team can afford to excuse such duties are those who regularly make a large number of game-changing contributions, e.g. a lot of goals or a conveyor belt of assists.
I do think he has started making more meaningful contributions recently but it's at the times when we don't have the ball that Madsen really needs to up his game.
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. Longtime guitarists Bruce Franklin and Rick Wartell complement each other so well. 
