Do ministers have a Plan B for Prestwick Airport?
Does government have a secret it needs to share?
The Scottish government is pouring another £10 million of taxpayers' money into Prestwick Airport and says it expects eventually to get a return. I just don't get it. Unless, of course, there is a Plan B that ministers are not sharing with the rest of us.
This is the second slug of cash loaned to the airport (effectively the government loaning the money to itself) since Holyrood bought the loss-making facility last year for £1 from New Zealand hedge fund Infratil.
Ministers insist the money is being loaned at commercial rates and that its support is within the European state aid rules.
Yet it is curious why ministers and civil servants believe they can do what the private sector has been unable to achieve at the Ayrshire airport over several years. Prestwick is not only unprofitable, it has been haemorrhaging passengers for years. Its only airline, Ryanair, is squeezing so tight on charges that Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon admitted to the Holyrood parliament in June that the facility will not make a profit for several years and could lose more passengers.
Not only are the passenger numbers in decline, the cost of administering them is exorbitant. Even before this latest investment, the government is expected to spend five times as much sending Scottish sunseekers to Benidorm and bringing them home again as it spends marketing Scotland.
The First Minister-designate said she expected revenue to rise from improvements to the retail offering. But with passenger numbers falling who will want to take extra retail space?
Prestwick was built at a time when a fuel-stop was required for transatlantic flights. Time and technology have overtaken this requirement. If airports were being planned now, no one would put one at Prestwick. Like it or not, small regional airports have had a tough time. Blackpool and Marston in Kent have both been forced to close.
In the past week Glasgow airport has been sold to a 50-50 partnership comprising Spanish firm Ferrovial (which formerly owned the entire share capital) and Australian investment bank Macquarie. They will be looking for a return on their £1 billion investment in Glasgow, Aberdeen and Southampton and will not allow taxpayer-assisted Prestwick to steal their business.
So where will the new traffic for Prestwick come from?
On the far of it the unprofitable facility is being kept on life-support simply for political reasons (to secure votes), unless there is a more reasonable and commercial explanation for why Finance Secretary John Swinney keeps sending bags of cash to Ayrshire?
One answer could be that it is one of six Scottish sites on a list of eight that the UK is considering as a space port. Should it win the nomination it would clearly give Prestwick an alternative purpose and some long-term security.
If this really is the Scottish government's game – and no one would criticise it for having a viable plan – then why not let us in on the secret? Until it does so, we're left to think it is living on a prayer and throwing good money after bad.
One Comment to Do ministers have a Plan B for Prestwick Airport?
Prestwick runway was not long enough to land the Space Shuttle but it may be able to facilitate Richard Branson's Glalactica to pick up rich Scottish space traveler's !
Don't forget its function as a military diversion airfield which may be required and be sponsored by the RAF, RAAF, USAF, USNAF, Nasa, and Nato!
May be Nicola Stergeon wants it to be the Scottish Hub airport upon independence ?
All the black project stuff is coming across to Macrahanish still !
Engine repair work would be difficult without the runway.
Are they to base privatised SAR at HMS Gannet ? Perhaps they can give William a proper job ?


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Northwestern's Gavin Skelly (44) and Indiana's Justin Smith (3) go for the ball during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Sunday, Jan. 14, 2018, in Bloomington, Ind. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
Indiana's Devonte Green (11) with Northwestern's Scottie Lindsey, left, and Dererk Pardon (5) battle for the ball during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Sunday, Jan. 14, 2018, in Bloomington, Ind. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
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Indiana 66, Northwestern 46
Hoosiers use 2nd half surge to pull away from Northwestern
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BLOOMINGTON – Robert Johnson scored 17 points and Juwan Morgan scored all eight points in the second half to lead the Indiana Hoosiers past Northwestern 66-46 on Sunday.
Indiana (11-7, 4-2 Big Ten) took advantage of an 18-0 spurt in the second half to win its third straight.
Vic Law and Isiah Brown each had nine points to lead the Wildcats (11-8, 2-4), who have lost three of four. And this loss may have been the worst yet.
Northwestern shot 26.8 percent from the field, barely avoiding a season low, and was outplayed in virtually every facet.
The Hoosiers, meanwhile, fought through the loss of Morgan to foul trouble for almost the entire first half. When he returned in the second half, it didn't take the Hoosiers long to start pulling away.
Indiana quickly extended a 24-19 halftime lead to nine before following the lead of Morgan and Johnson, who combined for the first 12 points in the big run that turned a 33-26 contest into a 53-26 blowout.
Northwestern never challenged again.
Northwestern: Much was expected of these Wildcats, who have lost four of six and look bad. After this abysmal performance, Northwestern desperately needs to find a way to turn things around and fast.
Indiana: The Hoosiers survived without Morgan relying on defense and hustle, then took control with him back on the court. It's starting to look like this team understands what coach Archie Miller expects — and how it can win with his style.
Northwestern: Bryant McIntosh scored seven points in what is likely to be his final college game in his home state. ... Derek Pardon had eight points and eight rebounds. ... The Wildcats finished 7 of 25 on 3-pointers with two coming in the final 90 seconds and had 17 turnovers.
Indiana: Morgan was 4 of 4 from the field and had five rebounds. ... Josh Newkirk had 12 points. ... The Hoosiers shot 60.9 percent in the second half and only four turnovers over the final 20 minutes.
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McIntosh was injured late in the first half while trying to defend a fast break.
After McIntosh tried to stop a drive to the basket, he tumbled over backward then stayed on the ground briefly before limping to the end of the bench. A few minutes later, he hobbled into the locker room. But he returned late in the first half.
McIntosh started the day ranked No. 9 on Northwestern's career scoring list (1,569 points) and No. 8 in Big Ten history in assists (653).


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The Origin of Modern Schooling
by Sasha Alyson
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Photos: Whether in colonial Madagascar of 1908 (top of page) or 1920s America (above), public schools have evolved in remarkably similar ways.
All around the world, students attend schools which have an astonishing degree of similarity.
Children are required to attend.
It runs from kindergarten to grade 12.
Students are divided by age, not by what they need or want to learn, nor by what they've already learned.
The teacher is the authority. The children provide empty heads which the teacher is paid to fill.
There is little or no opportunity for students to explore a subject in depth, to develop a passion, to hone a skill. There's an hour for one subject, then an hour for another.
Teachers are considered qualified if, and only if, they have the required certificate.
Whether they can teach well is irrelevant.
Whether they love or hate children is irrelevant.
Whether childhood is a happy time is irrelevant.
Curriculum is fixed, and taught at a fixed rate, even if that doesn't work for some students… even if it doesn't work for anybody at all.
There is little or no recognition of superb teachers.
It centers around a standardized curriculum and lesson plans, not real-life experiences.
Students and teachers alike believe that the main purpose of school is preparing students to pass the exam.
They do not come remotely close to helping children develop their full potential.
If you were starting from scratch, and wanted to help children become contributing, well-rounded members of society, would you have invented this plan? Surely not. Nobody else did. Well, almost nobody else.
For many centuries, the favorite pastime of European rulers was invading one another to win more territory. The Prussians encountered a problem: Most of the Prussian troops were farmers who had been drafted to fight. When the enemy shot at them, they had an annoying tendency to go home to their family and farm. Prussia wouldn't win more land with that army! The army wanted soldiers who, if ordered to make a suicidal charge, would blindly obey — not soldiers who might shoot their captain and go home.
To create them, Prussia instituted a system of schools that focused on making students respect and obey the authority figure — a teacher. When young men arrived for their first day in uniform, they already knew how to stand in a straight line. Prussia became a military powerhouse. It expanded its territory, and today we call it Germany.
But Prussia couldn't tell parents, "Send us your children so we can teach them to be cannon fodder." Schools also taught reading and arithmetic. History does not tell us if the primary goal was to mold obedient soldiers or obedient citizens. Prussia got both. Students did not, however, learn to think independently. The teacher had the answer; the students' job was to memorize it.
This, alone, would have been enough to persuade other rulers to adopt what became known as the Prussian System. Soon another incentive appeared: The Industrial Revolution. Previously, most Europeans lived in the countryside and worked for themselves — typically as farmers, shopkeepers, blacksmiths, or carpenters.
The invention of the steam engine changed all that. Within a few decades, urban factories sprang up. Farmers — sometimes seeking a better life, other times forced off their land — moved to the city. But they weren't reliable factory workers. Owners needed workers who would show up on time, follow orders, and accept boredom as their fate in life. Prussian-style schools churned them out.
More support came from a different direction. Horace Mann, an American reformer, thought the Prussian school system could improve the lives of poor people in the United States. He got Massachusetts to adopt it and other states soon followed.
European nations introduced the Prussian system in their colonies. It created the docile, low-level workforce that they needed, while appearing to benefit the local population. In most countries today, school enrollment has increased but the Prussian system still predominates.
Today, further support for this Prussian system comes from a new source: The education industry. A vast network — administrators, teachers, and government officials; textbook and curriculum publishers; teacher training colleges; aid workers in developing countries; and the inevitable consultants — all derive their income from the public school system that has evolved. Many of them genuinely care about children and education. But they also care about their income and job security. That shapes their thinking, and limits their enthusiasm for deep change.
And so here we are today, with a model of schooling intended to mold soldiers who wouldn't run away when the enemy started shooting, and which evolved to meet the needs of factory owners, but also to make everyone feel good about sending their children into it. The origins of this system are still in evidence.
The Global Partnership for Education, a Western NGO that has spent $6 billion to influence school policies in developing regions, proudly announced its 2020 grants with this photo of schoolgirls marching in lockstep. (The boys, in back, seem less enthusiastic about the lockstep thing.) (1)
A never-ending stream of critics, in the global South and North alike, see plainly that the system doesn't work, and think this is so obvious, it shouldn't be hard to improve it.
But the system does work — for many people. Not only for those in the education industry, but also for the global elite. And so, it continues to thrive. Even if children do not.
My goal here has been to give a brief history of the school model that has spread to much of the world. There were schools long before this, but the earliest schools focused on learning. This system does not.
If this is what you've got, and you want to change it, I can't tell you what to do. Too many people are already trying to run it from afar! But I'll suggest a starting point: Set a goal to talk with five people in the next three days — family, friends, other parents, government officials — about this. Ask what they think. Discuss your ideas. If you do this, I'd love to hear what comes of it.
And of course, we welcome links to this page on social media or your website. If you found this informative, your friends and followers are likely to, as well.
Comments from Twitter
We announced this story on Twitter, where readers made these comments:
Kipkoeech araap Bor, @araap_bor: If we're talking of establishment of education and looking at time, then y'all don't know that education was established in Africa even long before Hippocrates established the medical school, and it was more advanced and effective than what's being forced down our throats.
[Sasha replies: I don't think we disagree. Schools existed long ago, and education, in the broadest sense, is older than humanity. I'm focused on the standard school model that is so widespread today but which many — including you and me — think does not work.]
Dizzy symbol, @Articulate_Kh: Being a teacher & education manager, I agree with you. Though in Pakistan we have private schools that claim to promote critical thinking, yet the teachers are not trained and in fact the same rote learning system is dominant. Only a few teachers like me believe in & promote thinking.
Bethel, @Bethel78877526: I have been waiting for this, thanks a million, we need to develop a new way of learning that will soothe us and develop us independently, I see a lot of kids struggle, we need a reform and fast. The educational system in Nigeria is at its brink and collapsing soon.
This story has generated considerable dispute. It is not intended to be a full history of schools, nor of education (two quite different things, often lumped together). I've merely tried to explain the puzzling fact that so many schools around the world share similar attributes, which don't have much to do with meaningful education. From what I can learn, this is because they evolved – with many adaptations along the way – from the Prussian system. Many people sent further questions or criticisms, I have addressed them in: More about the Prussian System.
1. Girls Marching in Lockstep is from the Global Partnership for Education website, 28 Feb. 2020. (The layout has changed since then but the picture is still posted.)
Left: Proud graduates, No jobs. Institutions with no accountability generally do a bad job. By giving out scholarships in developing regions, NGOs make schools worse.
Right: Fun learning: Children are EAGER to learn — but not if they are forced into schools that treat them like cattle. These 4 simple games are fun, and educational, for both children and adults, and can be enjoyed anywhere.
Left: Rethinking education. In many countries, the schools simply don't work. We can't fix this until we ask: What should be the top priorities of education? Here are some ideas.
Right: Masters of Deceit. Raising funds for "girls' education" has become big business…. and remarkably often, the aid industry has crossed the line into deceit and dishonesty.
Left: Do African perspectives matter? The Global Partnership for Education shapes education policy in 70 countries, mostly in Africa and Asia. Its CEO, chair, and 7-member evaluation team are from the USA, Australia, and Europe.
Right: UNICEF preaches diversity. But for 75 years, it has ALWAYS had a USA citizen in its top spot. It's hypocritical — and it leads UNICEF to push unsuitable Western-style approaches that often don't work.
Left: Cellphones and literacy. UNESCO took money from big tech to publish a deceitful report that benefited the company that gave it the money. If an African president had done that, what would we call it?
Right: What would make a better future? There are ways that wealthier countries can genuinely help others, if they want to. Give the aid money directly to the poor, for example. Here are ideas.
16 thoughts on "The Origin of Modern Schooling"
Girish.H.S HS on September 18, 2020 at 11:37 am said:
The so called modern schooling system is a prison.
James on September 18, 2020 at 7:44 pm said:
The rate of unemployment here in Kenya proves this !!
Sasha Alyson on September 19, 2020 at 6:45 am said:
You're VERY on-target there, thanks. Schools claim to prepare young people for adult life. From unemployment levels, also emigration levels, we can see that they fail.
Kankan Roychoudhury on September 18, 2020 at 7:54 pm said:
I'm enriched, going through this article is a treasure, thank you, Rabindranath Tagore thought a" free" education not a system, " where the mind is without fair
Thanks for commenting. I first read about Rabindranath Tagore in Pankaj Mishra's superb book "From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia." If U.S. schools were better, we would have learned more about him and less about King Louis-the-Whatever.
Fida Hussain on September 19, 2020 at 12:12 pm said:
Quite true.. in my opinion every nation state has turned into a ruthless monorchy. The survival of these states heavily depends upon a collective submission of it's citizens to all anti citizens' policy in the name of patriotism and nationalism.
While the super powers are trying to tame majority nation states to suit their own tyrant global objectives… Education has become a tool to curb indipendent thinking and human freedom.
Shabana Khan on September 19, 2020 at 12:59 pm said:
Good insight and thought provoking
The agony however i feel is that these ideas do not penetrate the education policies and we are so far still from actualizing these and challenge the existing status quo. My prayers to the Divine for the same.
John Elliot-Fayehun on September 19, 2020 at 3:37 pm said:
I'm glad to have read this, it shows that there are people out there who know true knowledge is not in indoctrination.
nomishants on September 21, 2020 at 4:12 pm said:
There are strong elements of truth in this article. Obviously the school system we have to is not really creating knowledge for independence in the children. It rather teach them to know only as much as the teacher knows. In this case, they cannot do anything the teacher is not able to teach them even when they graduate. It is a big mirage.
Thanks for commenting. On my (ever-growing) list of topics, a high priority is to look at some other systems, including those, also Montessori, and the education approaches that evolved in ancient times. (In the Comments section of the tweet that links to this, several people have said things like, 'You haven't given any alternatives.' It's a sad commentary that anyone has trouble envisioning other approaches.
abdul wahab on September 26, 2020 at 12:21 pm said:
Modern school system is a big source of slavery. They do not teach them liberity but slavery.
Thank you, that's helpful. Here, I've tried to make a distinction — and it's fuzzy at time — between schooling that does or did have learning as its primary goal, and schooling which is used more as a way of controlling people. So what I'm saying is, when Prussia took the existing efforts to help individuals read, and gave them this new focus, that is the origin of many characteristics we see today. I'll see if I can get the book. Very possibly, several motivations worked together.
Chimuntu on September 30, 2020 at 1:16 pm said:
Interesting read l must say. Equipped with such history, it should be easy to create teaching alternatives to the Prussian education system. We can create a completely divergent system that allows kids all that the current system suppresses.
Sasha Alyson on September 30, 2020 at 1:49 pm said:
And many people have done just that. So the big question is: Why does this system persist? Whose interests does it serve?


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Former boxer turned poet to publish four books
Published 12:00 am Thursday, February 20, 2003
Literature and writing never seemed interesting to Kevin Michael Jones. Boxing had always been his true passion.
Then one day, Jones was inspired to pick up a pen and begin jotting down poetry, a move that changed his life forever.
The Merchant Marine said he was sitting on the deck of a ship, enjoying the calm waters, the peaceful quiet and the cool breeze. The moment was so calm, &uot;it just made you want to write,&uot; he recalled.
After submitting his brief poem to a web site, poetry.com, Jones was able to accomplish in six months what it took Maya Angelou 20 years to do &045;&045; become a published writer.
After his poem was accepted by the web site, Jones continued to write. He submitted poems to publishing companies and began getting a positive response.
This spring, Jones' poems, under the pen name of J. LePoet,
can be found in four compilation books and a spoken-word compact disc.
Poetry.com will be releasing &uot;The Sound of Poetry,&uot; a collection of 33 poets whose artistry will be professionally recorded for a three-album collection.
Jones said the books – &uot;Pattern of Life,&uot; &uot;Whispers in the Breeze,&uot; &uot;Soulful Tales&uot; and &uot;Letters of the Soul&uot; – will be published later in the year.
The biggest surprise for Jones came last week, when he was awarded a recording contract with Magic Key Productions. With this contract, Jones will become a songwriter, whose words could be used by several artists.
On Feb. 28, Jones will attend the International Society of Poets convention in Orlando, Fla., and compete for the title of Poet of the Year for 2003.
Jones will be in competition with 35 other poets from around the world. The grand prize will be $20,000.
The former boxer said he now finds joy in his writing.
Despite the book deals and recording contract, Jones said he has no plans to move to Hollywood.
Jones said his writing inspirations are Maya Angelou, Tupac Shakur and Nikki Giovanni.
Jones graduated from Selma High School in 1992. He said his parents, Roosevelt and Mary Jones, are extremely proud.
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Q: SQL SELECT WHERE string ends with Column I have this table in SQL Server 2012:
Id INT
DomainName NVARCHAR(150)

And the table have these DomainName values

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*google.com

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*othersite.com

And this value:
mail.othersite.com

and I need to select the rows where the string ends with the column value, for this value I need to get the row no.3 othersite.com
It's something like this:
DomainName Like '%value'

but in reverse ...
'value' Like %DomainName

A: You can use such query:
SELECT * FROM TABLE1
WHERE 'value' LIKE '%' + DomainName

A: It works on mysql server. [ LIKE '%' || value ] not works great because when value start with numbers this like not return true.
SELECT * FROM TABLE1 WHERE DomainName like CONCAT('%', value)

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6th May 2009Michael Wood on McCall's next City squad starts to take shape
In which Michael looks at the prospects for the City squad in 2009/2010 after the club offered deals to Lee Bullock and Zesh Rehman but released Mark Bower and Rhys Evans.
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McCall's next City squad starts to take shape
Pakistan skipper Zesh Rehman has been offered a deal by the Bantams but longest serving player Mark Bower has been freed as Stuart McCall starts building his squad for 2009/2010.
McCall's side's failure to make the play offs has led to budget cuts – that is the short and not especially representative version of long story – and as a result four senior players have been freed with Bower joining out on loan Barry Conlon, oft injured Paul Heckingbottom, bit player Keith Gillespie and – surprisingly – Rhys Evans out of Valley Parade with the goalkeeper being rumoured to be interesting League One clubs including Leeds United.
The City boss has also prompted Paul McLaren, Graeme Lee and Michael Boulding to try find other clubs – something they can do owing to oddly one sided clauses in their contracts – but worries that should they not do the wage budget will be restricted. With times tough for many, if not most, clubs at the moment it is hard to see who will take the players on. Michael Boulding was not short of offers this time twelve months ago but traded from a position of being the leading scorer in League Two, likewise Paul McLaren negotiated with City as the most creative man in League One. Now these players go to a depressed market with a line on the CV that is read as a failure to make the top seven in League Two.
Do not be surprised if we have not seen the last of this trio.
Another trio who McCall would like us to see more of are Nicky Law Jnr, Dean Furman and Steve Jones whom the manager is trying to recapture on loan. Matthew Clarke, Lee Bullock, Luke O'Brien, Joe Colbeck, Leon Osborne Jon McLaughlin, Luke Sharry and Matthew Convey have been offered contracts while Kyle Nix is welcome back to preseason one assumes to await news of an exit for Lee, Boulding or McLaren. McCall will talk with Peter Thorne tomorrow.
All of which leave City with a weakened version of this season's team should these machinations come off. McLaughlin seems to be fancied to be the new keeper having kept a clean sheet in the final game of last term. At 21 he is young but League Two is – increasingly for City – a learner's league.
Paul Arnison has a two year deal and one assumes will stick at right back although his unwillingness to relocate from the North East is rumoured to have caused problems for McCall. Zesh Rehman and Matthew Clarke in the central defensive roles with Luke O'Brien at left back is an inch worse than Graeme Lee partnering either one – Lee came out of the season with more credit than most in this writer's opinion – but Rehman is a cultured player and one who one could have confidence in. Clarke will continue to have his critics for both not being able to spray a Glenn Hoddle pass – which defender can? – and for his defensive lapses but since he replaced Bower in the side City have stopped being bullied by the usual big men forward lines we face.
Without wanting to delve into the stats of how many six foot two plus players have won headers in City game against Clarke vs Bower anecdotally one would suggest it is obvious that Clarke has plugged that gap. That he has other failings is a problem but in a League where physical prowess – bigness, if you will – is often the route to goal it is that no being bullied which is important rather than Bower's more intelligent style of defending.
As with Andrew O'Brien before him Bower's style suits the club less the further down the leagues we are. O'Brien's man marking is superb on Thierry Henry but wasted in the Championship and Bower's foot in play could – and would – do a lot at a Barnsley but does not at Valley Parade. One would have confidence that Bower could nick the ball from big men frequently but McCall obviously worries that the long serving defender would spend the rest of his time on his backside having been flattened and getting little sympathy from Referees.
Hearts are heavy though when a player with a service record like Bower's leaves a club. He has given the lion's share of his career to Bradford City having signed up on the 13th of May, 1999 four days after promotion and broken into the side a few years later with honest displays. He did his bit in administration and beyond and few City fans would not hope that he can establish himself somewhere else for the five or six years he could have in the game.
Uniting Dean Furman and Lee Bullock would seem to be the key to McCall's midfield for next season with the City manager keen to see the Rangers midfielder back in the position he dominated last term – he played few games than Paul McLaren but made a more significant impact and was certainly more memorable – but Ibrox boss Walter Smith may have different ideas. Bullock is a useful player who has only shown his effectiveness in short spells while at Valley Parade. Next season McCall seems set to offer the former Hartlepool United midfielder the chance to make the position his own.
However McCall has struggled thus far in his management career to find a player to fill that number four shirt and role which he himself took at Valley Parade. Furman won the place from Paul McLaren whose season could be described as "middling". McLaren did not take the mantel of senior professional with enough zeal and as a result on occasion looked a peripheral figure – especially when compared to Furman – just as Paul Evans the season before had failed to make the McCall slot his own.
Returning to Hoddle momentarily it is said that when England manager Glenn was frustrated with the players inability to match the magic feats of his own passing and one can only imagine the frustration that McCall – a player who lived by taking games by the scruff on the neck – has watching two players who have no shortage of talent in Evans and McLaren failing to control matches. Is Furman a better passer of a ball than McLaren or a better tackler than Evans? One could argue not but he has more cunning, more guile and it seems a stronger character that allows him to have more of a constant effect over a ninety minutes.
Defensive midfield – Furman's nominal position and the one McCall had – is perhaps the most crucial role on the field and Furman represents a safe bet for City. We have seen that he will not shirk in the role unlike the previous two candidates who were on the face of it excellent choices for such a position and thus he is a tried and tested option for a job which I would argue the failure to fill correctly has cost us over the previous two season, and probably longer.
It should be noted that Luke Sharry has had a productive season and while not ready for the number four role should be expecting to feature in a dozen or more games next term.
The scenario on the flanks remains as it was this season: Joe Colbeck, perhaps Chris Brandon, Omar Daley when fit, Nicky Law should he return and Steve Jones if he is interested. Returning Colbeck from the jaws is poor form and the critics that wait for such to attack him is of paramount importance for McCall as establishing Omar Daley as a threat on the left was this term. McCall flits between preferring a pair of wide players such as Daley, Jones and Colbeck and wanting one wide and one more tucked in as Chris Brandon or Law offers and one can expect that method of trying to fill the middle of the midfield to continue.
Brandon has been unable to provide much of an indication as to his effectiveness this season and – based on last season – given a choice between him and Law one would take the younger man from Sheffield United. Should Brandon be edged out of Valley Parade – and indications are that the club would be able to keep him – then Kyle Nix would be an able replacement and I for one am surprised that the young Rotheraussie has not been offered a new deal offering the heart and ability the former of which was often lacking last season.
In August Stuart McCall would hope to line up with Joe Colbeck, Dean Furman, Lee Bullock and Chris Brandon across the middle and few would suggest that represents a major shift away from this term with improvement inferred from consistency with all four players having spent long periods injured. Allowing whoever is in the number four role to build up a relationship with the defenders to feed the ball in ending the long hoof of the end of last term and with the three midfielders around him who would take the ball is crucial and Furman can be trusted to do that. If he is not retained we re-enter the lucky dip of trying to bring in a cog to be the most important part of our machine. Like good goalscorers – they don't get given away.
Peter Thorne will talk to Stuart McCall in a conversation about "legs" and if the striker still has them and McCall will hope to move Michael Boulding on to no great distress from I. For all his hard work Boulding failed to build a partnership either with the forward he was alongside or the players supplying him from midfield. Barry Conlon officially left the club and Willy Topp is long gone leaving the City boss looking for three or four strikers for next term.
In this respect McCall is in the hands of the trio of players who may leave. Should Lee, McLaren and Michael Boulding all exit then pressure on his budget would be loosened and the City manager could get to looking for a goal getter or two – one would suggest he tries to find a fast one, a skilful one, a big one and one who can finish again but that is how we entered this year – but should this not happen then the Bantams manager will be left looking at scraps to find a feast. The ramification of Barry Conlon and Matthew Clarke's fall out with McCall obviously preclude Conlon's return despite a half dozen goals for Grimsby Town and one wonders if allowing the fighting Irish to leave is not going to haunt the Gaffer as he starts looking for players with passion, strength and a good track record and finds that Barry's name comes top of the searches.
In such a situation Rory Boulding becomes an option although reports on him are mixed on the little brother while Leon Osborne and Sean Taylforth are no one's idea of the player to lead you out of League Two. All three could be world beaters but the fact that they are – should Thorne not be retained – all that is in the cupboard for next term shows the problem Stuart McCall will have in building a side for next term.
In the season John Hendrie talked about the need for another striker and McCall tried Chris O'Grady and Paul Mullin in that role but ultimately when cutting the cloth to keep the club in business the side suffers and the forward line would seem to be where City are to take the hit.
So McCall is charged with three summer tasks. He must get the players he has offered new deals to to sign – some are given reduced terms – and will use the carrot of a smaller squad and a guaranteed place in the starting eleven achieve that with the likes of Lee Bullock.
Secondly he must work on ensuring he has the right man for the number four role with Dean Furman being nominated as the prefer choice. Filling this position is or paramount importance.
Finally he must find a set of strikers who want to play for the club and who have the ability but for some reason – probably as with Thorne it would be age – are not at a higher level and do not expect massive wages. Rumour has it David Wetherall is being moved to youth team coach. Wetherall never really got on with Dean Windass…
Date Wednesday May 6th, 2009
More about 2009/2010, Andrew O'Brien, Barry Conlon, Chris Brandon, David Wetherall, Dean Furman, Dean Windass, Graeme Lee, Joe Colbeck, Keith Gillespie, Kyle Nix, League Two, Lee Bullock, Leon Osborne, Luke O'Brien, Mark Bower, Matt Clarke, Matthew Clarke, Michael Boulding, Nicky Law, Nicky Law Jnr, Omar Daley, Paul Arnison, Paul Evans, Paul Heckingbottom, Paul McLaren, Peter Thorne, Rhys Evans, Sean Taylforth, Steve Jones, Stuart McCall, Zesh Rehman.
A story in the telling
There is a nervousness as three o'clock passes and Bradford City – so long in the last chance saloon – kick off against League Leaders Brentford who arrive at Valley Parade looking to start this endgame of the season with a win they need to cement promotion.
Who on Earth will replace Ces Podd? Podd is a legend and we are throwing in some skinny kid who loves Leeds United to replace him. He is sixteen too and very ginger.
Thorne is on the floor. It is spent. It is all lost. The clock is, as always, the demon that devours Eden and after the City number ten put Steve Jones's centre towards goal only for Brentford keeper Ben Hamer to save.
The Bees are £10m in debt and believe that promotion will help lessen that deficit and to that effect they have pulled in a clutch of players on loan from the higher leagues like Billy Clarke, Damian Spencer and keeper Ben Hamer who is quickly into the action as the Bantams enjoy the better of the early exchanges. Spencer – for example – has arrived from Cheltenham in League One who need to cut their wage bill. It would seem that if City would like promotion then Brentford need it to increase income as expenditure raises.
The kid is doing well and Oldham seem to be interested in him but he seems to be able to play a bit. Hopefully he will stay cause Trevor Cherry thinks he can do something in the middle. Nice to see some spirit in the side and the kid has that.
Stuart McCall has sent City out to play a tight four-man midfield and his plan seems to have some merit with the Dean Furman and Paul McLaren middle of the pitch trading blows all afternoon with the confidence brimming Brentford and perhaps shading the midfield battle.
It was the last minute and all is spent because Thorne is on the floor and Hamer has saved City's last chance to level up the game and, perhaps deserved and perhaps in short measure, this promotion push has faulted for the final time.
The spine of the team is impressive. Jacko at the back, Bobby up front and the kid in the middle pushing and prompting. We are going to be champions this year and the kid is unbelievable.
McCall's selections have been causing concern for many all season. Chris Brandon – denied from the line up for most of the season – is back and looked useful forcing a save out of Hamer after good work on the right. Brandon his the ball low and Hamer's save was the equal of a reaction stop Rhys Evans made earlier form a free kick that deflected off Graeme Lee when driven at goal.
Brandon on the left was more successful than Keith Gillespie on the right who struggled. One can only guess what has gone on with Joe Colbeck – the fact that he does not even feature on the bench is clearly not just because he is out of form – but Gillespie and Jones have been incapable of replacing the drive of the winger who starred at the start of the season.
It is all spent because there is no Barry Conlon to troll the ball home as he did earlier in the season and Hamer will claim Thorne's late stab at goal and give the league leaders a 1-0 which they might not deserve but have worked for and will take and City will fail.
Back home now and The kid is the captain. The kid's contribution has been immesurable.
Gillespie brings to mind the Pitcher of Piazza, New York Catcher. He has the skills but his body is unwilling. He puts the ball past a man and would have got to the ball but now lack the yard of pace. Given a choice between trying to nurse Gillespie into form or Colbeck back I would want Joe back in the side but management is often about things unseen.
It is all over because City have failed to win promotion and not even reaching the play-offs, the result of this 1-0 defeat, will see Stuart McCall leaving his club, our club and no longer will we have the hope that McCall brought. It is all over for McCall and for us and everything is lost.
Nevertheless City gave as good as got in the first half. Thorne had a useful chance that Hamer saved and Graeme Lee hit a fierce free kick that the keeper was well placed and took to chest.
An inch off the top division. The kid is going to leave but he has done us proud. The kid says he will be back. He says "unfinished business."
A word for the referee David Foster who unsurprisingly failed to shower himself in glory. His bookings for Dean Furman and Paul McLaren set an early and harsh precedent that he failed to maintain to ludicrous levels once Damian Spencer had picked up a deserved booking for persistent fouling. Spencer jumped around Matthew Clarke and went blindly into Rhys Evans as the keeper scooped up the ball which could only been dangerous play and should have been a second booking but was not.
It is all over because Peter Thorne is on his haunches in the penalty area. He is on the floor. We were wrong.
Likewise Dean Furman – booked in the first half – made a lunging tackle from five yards away which (I believe) got the ball but resulted in a free kick and thus was given as a foul and as such should have seen Furman given a red card. Billy Clarke flicked the ball away as City prepared to take a free kick and should have been given a second yellow card but was not. The rules of football are not mutable on the basis of the outcome of breaking those rules.
Clarke was booked for removing his shirt in celebration of a well worked goal that gave Brentford the lead. Clarke darted in front of Graeme Lee and wrong footed Evans before peeling away to the joy of his team mates and his booking. It was a well worked move that would cut open many a team but it was telling that it was one of few times that the effervescent leaders breached the Bantams defence.
A night in Italy and the corner comes in and there he is – blue shirt on – on the floor pushing out a leg to poke the ball past the Swedish keeper. The kid. The kid has six league titles, the kid has scored two in the FA Cup final, the kid beat Leeds. The kid has come back.
Brentford taking the lead deflated the Bantams and let the air out of Valley Parade. Michael Boulding – benched in favour of Paul Mullin who won lots in the air but seemed on a different wave-length to Peter Thorne – came on to make a three man forward line and Steve Jones replaced Gillespie on the wing.
It is over because they key to this season was not keeping Throne fit because even a fit Thorne is on the floor and in the mud and on the damned floor in the penalty area after Hamer has saved his last minute shot and the ball is bouncing between them but it does not matter because Thorne is on the floor.
The Bantams had forward motion but seemingly not belief – at least little belief around the ground – but it was noticeable that following the goal Brentford moved back twenty yards and tried to defend. Furman buzzed around trying to win the ball from the two lines of four and showed a will to get something from the games he challenged Adam Newton heavily pushing both into a signboard at the side of the field: "Ever had unprotected sex?" it asked, Newton just had.
Gareth Whalley has the ball and is running away from the box as Wolves pile on the pressure. The Ref blows his whistle and eyes scan, looking for the kid, arms aloft. The kid.
Nevertheless the game ground down and it seemed that City would lose and fall behind Chesterfield in a possibly fatal blow to play-off and promotion hopes. There was a cross in from the left that Steve Jones hit the ball across the box and Peter Thorne – on his second attempt – stabbed the ball home to raptures, fans spilling onto pitch and general wondrous excitement.
It is all over because Peter Thorne is on the floor as the ball is sliding towards him and Hamer starts to look worried but it is all over.
So Stuart McCall takes his City team to Morecambe on Friday while Shrewsbury Town – who drew with Grimsby Town and a goal from Barry Conlon – play Bury but by then Chesterfield could have gone seventh if they beat Lincoln City on Tuesday. Wins are the order of the day and this draw when all is done is not the sea-change in performance that the Bantams needed.
Shot after shot, game after game, getting battered, still in with a chance. Last day of the season and the kid will not stop running until that final whistle. That glory.
Peter Thorne climbs from the mud and the dirt and Hamer is scrambling towards him but the City striker has fixed his eyes on the ball as if he – out of everyone – does not realise it is all over.
Not a sea-change but a start and one that the Bantams can push on from and perhaps that is not a benefit that will be felt this season but maybe that will be next. I think we have to let our manager – whoever he is – build something rather than taking the attitude that chopping and changing will eventually yield results which is seldom does.
Myers and the kid. There is blood. Twelve months later the kid is gone again and everything has gone to Hell.
Peter Thorne is getting off the floor.
Let the manager build, let him doing a job, if he fails this year then let him try again next year because I believe we are not going to get anyone who wants to do well for this club more than McCall does and we are not going to find anyone who can put that feeling into the team than McCall has.
The kid is back but everything is a struggle. It looks like the kid has cracked it and we are doing well but the wheels have come off the wagon and we have fallen out of the play-off places. The kid is on the radio. He sounds down. He sounds flat. The kid is on the floor.
Today City kept going long after the support had accepted defeat and that is all I want from the manager's team and from City and all perhaps that anyone should want.
If you don't like that then sue me.
Date Sunday April 5th, 2009
This is a match report on Bradford City 1 Brentford 1 at Valley Parade in League Two, 2008/2009
More about 2008/2009, Ben Hamer, Brentford, Damian Spencer, David Foster, Dean Furman, Keith Gillespie, League Two, Paul McLaren, Peter Thorne, Rhys Evans, Steve Jones, Stuart McCall.
The worst punishment
Putting aside debates over Stuart McCall's ability for a moment, everyone should be horrified by the prospect of the Bantams manager leaving this summer. A managerial vacancy in May will mean the play offs have been missed and a resultant punishment no one connected with City will relish – more of the same.
Today's 1-0 defeat to Port Vale was a bad advert for League Two and sadly something its biggest crowds have had to become used to. Not so long ago visiting teams came with clever game plans that often worked, this season the majority show up with limited aspirations of avoiding defeat. Five across the midfield, time waste as often as possible and, on occasions home players get through, bring them down by any means necessary.That they succeeded owed more to City's lack of confidence than any better parking of the bus compared to others.
The only goal of the game came four minutes after the break through a neat low finish by David Howland, but the chance came seconds after City had been on the attack and Keith Gillespie, making his full debut, had produced an ill-advised short pass to Dean Furman which had too much power to control and allowed Paul Marshall to break forward. Graeme Lee stood off him too long and, when he did eventually put in a challenge, the ball spun into Howland's path from which he beat Rhys Evans.
It was the only time Vale troubled City's goal, though the territorial advantage the Bantams enjoyed didn't manifest itself into many chances. Lee might have made up for his hesitancy for the goal with three attempts that were cleared off the line, Clarke had a decent half volley attempt which was straight at Valiant keeper Jon Anyon, Furman blazed over and Steve Jones stabbed a few efforts wide – but at no point in the game was momentum built up to the level of heavy pressure.
The biggest concern for Stuart will have been that the final whistle did not herald only the second home defeat of the season, his team looked beaten long before it. Confidence is draining from certain players who, only a matter of weeks ago, were in excellent form. Low confidence for City typically results in a more direct approach and an over-desperation to force a goal which was evident even during the early stages. The lack of composure in hurrying the ball forward rather than passing it around patiently meant possession was quickly gifted back to Vale, who tried their hardest to boot it back in the direction it came.
Stuart has faced the conundrum all season of two central midfielders being out numbered by three opposition and seemed to have found the solution in the boundless energy levels of Furman and Nicky Law, but even the on-loan pair looked jaded and unable to influence the game. Out wide Gillespie and Jones battled hard and caused problems, but the double-marking tactics left them struggling for space and the efforts of Zesh Rehman and Luke O'Brien to support were undermined by the former's favouritism of his left foot and the latter's struggle to handle the counter attack threat from his side.
Up front Paul Mullin made his debut after signing on-loan from Accrington and, though he showed some good touches and battled well, offered nothing Barry Conlon does not on a good day. The hope for Stuart will be that he has higher consistency levels. Michael Boulding looked useful with the ball at feet but finding space is a problem he's faced at Valley Parade all season. With the ball invariably aimed at Mullin, he was forced to feed off scraps. Stuart introduced Chris Brandon and Lee Bullock from the bench, but neither had any impact.
Fortunately for City, this impact on the league table has been just as slight, with only Rochdale winning and the gap to third still only a mountable six points. Realistically the play offs are the target but the worry is this further dent on confidence will make it even harder for the players to achieve that. Next week's game at Chester becomes even more must-win and, with The Blues winless in 17 and having fallen into the bottom two for the first time, it will be a pressure game for both sides. Losing is unthinkable and would bring the reality of missing out on the top seven and another season in League Two closer.
That we are even here in the first place owes a little to today's whistle-happy referee who did as much to ruin the spectacle as Vale's Marc Richards and his kicking the ball away time-wasting efforts. It's almost two years ago to the day since Steve Bratt was last officiating at Valley Parade and on that afternoon he stopped a resurgent City effort against Blackpool by ridiculously sending off Steve Schumacher just as the Bantams were completely on top. The score was 1-1 but the game ended 3-1 to the Tangerines with the hapless referee later admitting he was wrong to dismiss Schumacher – in between City were relegated from League One.
Back at the scene of the crime, Bratt played completely into Vale's hands by continually stopping play and awarding some bizarre free kicks. On at least two occasions City players were fouled, only for Bratt to give the decision the other way. He also displayed ridiculous inconsistencies with the advantage rule, at one stage pulling the game back ten seconds after a Vale foul hadn't stopped Boulding charging into the area with just a defender and keeper to beat. No wonder the Vale players were so quick to shake his hand at the final whistle.
Stuart was yet to be installed as manager on Bratt's last visit; as assistant to Neil Warnock, he had just witnessed Sheffield United lost 3-0 at Chelsea. The bright lights of the Premier League quickly became distant after the five successive defeats early into his City managerial career, last season. His immediate task is to make sure that record isn't equalled next Saturday, as well as restore hope we might escape another year of punishment.
Written by Jason Mckeown
Date Saturday March 21st, 2009
This is a match report on Bradford City 0 Port Vale 1 at Valley Parade in League Two, 2008/09
More about 2008/2009, Barry Conlon, Blackpool, Chris Brandon, Dean Furman, Graeme Lee, Keith Gillespie, Lee Bullock, Luke O'Brien, Matt Clarke, Michael Boulding, Nicky Law Jnr, Paul Mullin, Port Vale, Rhys Evans, Steve Bratt, Steve Jones, Steven Schumacher, Stuart McCall, Zesh Rehman.
Deflecting viewpoints – Bournemouth v Bradford City – League Two preview
Deflections are habitually described as wicked, and the one which Dean Moxley's cross took off Paul Arnison to loop over Rhys Evans for Exeter's winner on Saturday was heinous in its contribution towards City's promotion hopes.
City spent the remaining 70 minutes trying to neutralise its implication but in the end it was late drama 250 miles to the East, in Kent, which had the most telling affect. Grant Holt's late equaliser may have pushed his Shrewsbury side above City, but the two points it cost Gillingham means automatic promotion remains a reachable three points away. Victory at Bournemouth tonight could shorten that gap to mere goal difference and deflect a season in danger of going either way back in the right direction.
Recent form is not good enough, no one would argue. Defeat at Exeter was City's fourth in a row on the road and fourth in six full stop. It's a measure of inconsistencies with City's promotion rivals – Brentford apart – that a one point deficit City had after drawing at home to Darlington last month has only increased by two during a period of some of the Bantams' worst performances of the campaign.
Much has been made online about the latest defeat with the extreme calls of Stuart McCall to be sacked aired by some. Normally I'd try to argue this is ridiculous but there seems little point, not least because their cries are not going to be acted upon by those who get to decide. Furthermore I – as, I would guess, are many others who defend Stuart – am tired of receiving the lazy and patronising put-down of wearing 'rose-tinted glasses' when I do.
There's no room for debate with some supporters, if you disagree Stuart should be booted out it's not because you rationally believe he's doing a decent job, you are stupid; or blind and own prescribed magic spectacles – I forget which.
Back in the South, the City squad have remained from Saturday and one hopes the unusually long period of time spent together as a group will have benefited team morale and increased focus ahead of a vital encounter with Bournemouth. Stuart took a squad of 20 to Devon last week before facing a disciplinary problem with Barry Conlon and Matt Clarke, which hampered selection.
Reaction to Conlon and Clarke's misdemeanours is like opinions on the best way to punish children – everyone has a view but no one ever agrees. Details are unclear, but it would seem Stuart chose to keep them grounded in the stand and stop their pocket money for at least a week. Some criticise him for cutting his nose to spite his face by leaving them out, others argue the pair should never play for the club again. Both players are expected to be back in consideration again with Stuart's reluctance to publicly criticise them hopefully being rewarded with a determination from both to make amends.
Conlon's absence and another little injury to Peter Thorne left Stuart selecting Nicky Law up front with Michael Boulding at St James Park. Stuart is often accused of playing Law 'out of position', though these critics seem to ignore the fact Law's career at Sheffield United has so far involved playing out wide or up front. A central midfield partnership with Dean Furman results in Law ultimately 'out of position'. Some might call it clever management by Stuart to get such great performances out of him in the centre this season. They will probably be the same folk wearing rose-tinted glasses, though.
Law should return to the midfield but perhaps on the wing with Lee Bullock or Paul McLaren partnering Furman in the centre and Steve Jones on the right. The club's failure to get returning injured players looking anything better than rusty is troubling, though Joe Colbeck and Chris Brandon may be considered for starts. As will Keith Gillespie.
Up front Thorne is definitely out so Conlon should partner the hit and miss Boulding. Stuart's failure to bring in a fourth striker is been debated by some. Tellingly up to five clubs are reported to be on the verge of administration with talk of one League Two club being unable to complete its fixtures. That won't be City, but the still tight finances mean the luxury of signing the mythical fourth striker who'd score lots of goals probably isn't available.
Jones is the nearest to a replacement we had for Willy Topp in terms of space on the wage bill, and may play more regularly in the striker berth if other wingers can start matching his form out wide. Gillespie was clearly only brought in because of Omar Daley's injury and whether he is on anything more than a pay-as-you-play deal is suspectable.
At the back Clarke will be expected to return with Zesh Rehman either switched to right back for Arnison or relegated back to the bench. Luke O'Brien and Graeme Lee will hope to better recent efforts with Evans keeping goal.
Bournemouth's recent form is amongst the best in the league and stronger than most promotion-chasing clubs. From a seemingly hopeless position, their third manager of the season, Eddie Howe, has reinvigorated belief and ten undefeated matches from 12 has propelled the Cherries out of the bottom two. They are also the only club to win at Valley Parade so far this season and present a tough prospect for City to end their away woes against.
Defeat would prompt an even angrier reaction from fans and a win would largely bring calm. Whichever there will be eight games left to play and nothing to suggest the up-and-down nature of the first 38 will cease. This is going to be the most exciting end to a season in ages and as much as they may leave us sleepness and distraught on occasions they should also bring excitment and joy.
Spectacles optional.
Date Tuesday March 17th, 2009
More about AFC Bournemouth, Barry Conlon, Chris Brandon, Dean Furman, Graeme Lee, Joe Colbeck, Keith Gillespie, Lee Bullock, Luke O'Brien, Matt Clarke, Michael Boulding, Nicky Law, Paul Arnison, Paul McLaren, Peter Thorne, Rhys Evans, Steve Jones, Zesh Rehman.
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In McCall I trust
Ever since the fixture list was released last summer, myself and some friends had been looking forward to our trip to St James' Park, home of Exeter City. During the cold, dark autumn months of late 2008, five of us decided to make a weekend of it and stay over night in Exeter after the game. So with maps at the ready (no sign of a sat nav in my car) and our over night bags packed, four of us left West Yorkshire before 8am and headed south towards Exeter. Eddie commented that he hadn't been up so early on a Saturday for years and what was worse, he and Stephen had not got to bed until the early hours of Saturday morning. However, with the thought of a good weekend ahead and a journey which was smooth with no hold ups or delays, we picked up our fifth team member, Paul, who'd caught a train from Reading to Exeter. We found our hotel, and after the helpful receptionist gave us directions to St James' Park, we headed off to the ground in high spirits.
A couple of pints of real ale including the fine Tribute from the St Austell brewery were consumed in the friendly Green Tavern whilst watching Liverpool beat Manchester United 4-1 and then it was into the ground. As we walked into the away end, this is how I remembered some of my earlier away trips supporting City in the late 80's and early 90's; a terrace open to the elements! Andrew headed off for a Cornish pasty which prompted a stampede to the tiny snack bar located in the corner of the away end. Much of the pre-match talk centred around the fact that Thorne was only on the bench. Had McCall come for a point?
The game started fairly evenly with an outstretched Boulding just failing to connect with an O'Brien cross. Steve Jones, who had started on the right wing, due to Colbeck been relegated to the bench, tested Jones, the Exeter goalkeeper but his shot went straight at him. However, on 20 minutes disaster struck; an innocuous cross from Moxey on the Exeter left appeared to strike Arnison and looped over the stranded Evans and into the Bradford net. That was how the score stayed until half time.
The second half started with McLaren wearing a shirt which displayed no number on the back of his shirt. Is this against the rules? Answers to the editor please. City continued to toil away with the busy Boulding being supported by Law. However, with Furman, McLaren and Bullock all starting in our midfield, we were lacking width on the left hand side. The situation was crying out for the now fit Brandon to come on or even the recently signed Keith Gillespie. Neither came on but Thorne did appear in place of McLaren with about half an hour of play to go. Many supporters could be heard muttering, "why didn't McCall start with two up front instead of going for a 4, 4, 1, 1 formation?" Unfortunately Thorne's introduction to the game had little effect and Colbeck didn't really have time to make an impact when he replaced the hard-working Furman with five minutes to go. Indeed, Exeter were the closest to scoring again, when Rehman bought down Stansfield and from the resulting free-kick, Evans finger-tipped Moxey's fierce shot on to the cross bar. The final whistle blew following a Bradford corner and we had experienced our tenth away defeat of the season and more worryingly, our fourth consecutive away defeat.
As the 500 or so City faithful trudged away from the ground, you could now hear many supporters saying "if I was manager, I would have…" After any City defeat as I exit the ground, I always hear many supporters expressing their opinion (which they are entitled to do) which tends to suggest that they would make a better manager. Personally, I disagreed with McCall's starting eleven. I would have gone for a 4, 4, 2 formation with Thorne starting upfront with Boulding and giving either Brandon or Gillespie their starting debut to provide some width on the left side of our midfield. However, I was delighted when McCall recently signed an extended contract as I believe that he is the right manager to take Bradford City forward. I'm sure that McCall wants promotion this season, just as much as we, the supporters, want it.
And so, the five of us headed into Exeter city centre for a few more pints of real ale including one in the greatly named Fat Pig followed by a excellent curry at Ganges. We were left to contemplate what might have been but it was interesting to hear more views on our performance on Sunday morning when we got chatting to some fellow City supporters, at our hotel, who's also been to the game. Interestingly, we agreed that McCall should start with a 4, 4, 2 formation on Tuesday night at Bournemouth.
Written by Richard Wardell
Date Sunday March 15th, 2009
More about 2008/2009, Dean Furman, Exeter City, Keith Gillespie, Michael Boulding, Paul McLaren, Stuart McCall.
The long leap of faith to Exeter for Bradford City
Exeter City, or Town, or United. I forget which it is but Michael Jackson once played here and like the King of Pop/Stuff that people don't talk about any more City would like to get back into the big leagues.
Jackson is selling out stadium and City might be depending on which figure you believe but without wanting to run down the corner of Devon too much both club and pop star would rather be somewhere else.
For City to get on we need to play better than Tuesday night but 3-0 flattered them and a whistle happy Referee did not help matters. That said City need more spine and more punch away from home.
So who better to get that punch than Keith Gillespie the former Newcastle man who brawled unsuccessfully with Shearer and beat up the Beatles, well, George McCartney anyway. Gillespie is an out and out winger and one of the best crosses of the ball in the last fifteen years. He comes in to replace Omar Daley in the squad and played a reserve game alongside Chris Brandon, Paul McLaren and Kyle Nix as City's midfield options increase again.
Joe Colbeck is struggling to get back to form and so could drop out for Gillespie's debut but probably the former Manchester United winger will start on the bench alongside Brandon with Colbeck, Nicky Law, Dean Furman and Steve Jones in the midfield.
The back four still does not let in many goals but seems to binge on them like some demented Priest who presents one pious face to his flock on Sunday at Valley Parade with a clean sheet then goes away on a drink and drugs bender of letting in goals away from home. Zesh Rehman is in line for a recall probably over Paul Arnison but maybe over Luke O'Brien. I don't like the idea of dropping a card carrying City fan for anyone. You get passion from playing passionate players and who is more passionate than a guy who if he was not on the pitch would be next to it watching?
Up front Barry Conlon is expected to be back on the bench for Michael Boulding. Peter Thorne keeps his place.
We talked about needing five points from these three away games. A game in we have zero but two wins would give us six points. The faith but be kept just like those people who refused to believe anything bad about Jacko and that Priest mentioned before. Why? Well whatelseyagonnado on a Saturday?
Written by Roland Harris
Date Friday March 13th, 2009
More about 2008/2009, Exeter City, Keith Gillespie, Luke O'Brien, Michael Jackson.


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Want to Discharge a Mortgage? Pay It off First
The Ontario Court of Appeal recently affirmed that a mortgage cannot be discharged until it is paid off. Although this may sound obvious, complications can arise when the amount owing on the mortgage is in dispute.
In Sub-Prime Mortgage Corp. v. 1219076 Ontario Limited, two mortgagees held mortgages on two different properties. 1219076 Ontario Limited ("121") was the first mortgagee and Sub-Prime Mortgage Corp. ("Sub-Prime") was the second mortgagee. A dispute arose as to the amount owing under the mortgages held by 121. Sub-Prime commenced two applications in Superior Court seeking to obtain an immediate discharge of the mortgages held by Sub-Prime on each property by paying money into court, pending the resolution of the dispute.
In bringing its applications, Sub-Prime relied on section 12(3) of the Mortgages Act (the "Act"). This provision states that when a mortgagor wants to pay off a mortgage and the mortgagee cannot be found, the mortgage may be discharged by paying the amount owing into court. Section 12(3) of the Act also applies when a mortgagor is not able to discharge a mortgage for other reasons, and its application is in the discretion of the court.
The applications judge held that section 12(3) of the Act did not apply because Sub-Prime was a second mortgagee and not a mortgagor, and it was not a situation where the mortgagee could not be found. Section 12(3) is not triggered automatically when there is a dispute regarding the amount owing on a mortgage. Even if this provision did apply, it was held that the court would not exercise its discretion to grant the relief sought, as there was no compelling reason to do so.
The applications judge also held that, rather than bringing applications to discharge the mortgages, Sub-Prime should have paid the mortgage balances under protest and then later should have brought a proceeding to determine the disputed amounts.
The Court of Appeal held that the applications judge erred in law in finding that section 12(3) of the Act was not available to Sub-Prime because it is a second mortgagee and not a mortgagor. In section 1 of the Act, a mortgagor is defined to include "any person deriving title under the original mortgagor or entitled to redeem a mortgage…" Sub-Prime therefore qualified as a "mortgagor" under the Act.
However, despite the error, the Court of Appeal noted that the application of section 12(3) is a matter of discretion to be applied to the facts of each case, and the applications judge was justified in refusing to exercise its discretion to grant the relief sought by Sub-Prime. Accordingly, the Court of Appeal upheld the reasoning that section 12(3) cannot be used to discharge a mortgage when the amount owing is under dispute.
The court emphasized that if a mortgagor has legitimate concerns about the amount owing under a mortgage, a court application should be brought under Rule 14.05(3)(e) of the Rules of Civil Procedure, rather than section 12(3) of the Act. This Rule enables an applications judge to determine the amount owing, and may make an interim order for the payment of monies into court. It was noted that "[w]hat is crucial in such an application is that the applicant seek a judicial determination of all of the disputed items and provide evidence in support of its position".
Sub-Prime did not follow the proper procedure in its applications, nor did it legitimately support its claim. In the applications, Sub-Prime requested that the disputed amounts be assessed at a later date and that the mortgages be discharged immediately without any payment to 121. Additionally, Sub-Prime did not provide proper evidence to substantiate its position on the amount owing under the mortgages. As such, the Court of Appeal confirmed that the applications judge was correct in refusing to make a finding on the validity of the amounts claimed by Sub-Prime, as that relief was not requested, nor was it supported by the evidence.
Sub-Prime's appeal was ultimately dismissed and the parties were directed back to Superior Court to determine the disputed amounts owing under the mortgages pursuant to Rule 14.05(3)(e).
Sub-Prime establishes a useful precedent for mortgagees seeking to discharge mortgages and settle disputes regarding outstanding balances. Although section 12(3) may apply broadly, its reach is also limited and it does not allow mortgagees to discharge a mortgage before it is paid off. If the amount owing under the mortgage is at issue, parties should stick to Rule 14.05(3)(e) as a starting point before attempting to have the mortgage discharged.
Authors: Anne M. Kennedy, Daniel Waldman
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Note: This is a translation of an article from AVfM's companion site in Sweden that has stirred an enormous debate in that country about the rights of men and boys. Annelie had already upset the Feminist establishment there earlier this year, and by announcing her direct affiliation with A Voice for Men the whole country is abuzz. Here's the article, translated from the original Swedish, that has them so upset.—Eds.
Update This article has also been translated into Italian. –Eds.
Now I've had enough, have you?
Now that I've taken the step to become an editor at AVfM, this move seems both strange and completely natural to me. Strange because I've been pretty uninterested in gender issues for most of my life. It's always seemed completely obvious to me that both sexes should have the same rights and the same responsibilities. But at the same time, completely natural because I've come to realize that these rights and responsibilities are a far cry from being self-evident. Women's issues are making headlines in every agenda everywhere, and feminism is viewed as the fairest of all ideologies—a movement that claims to fight so that both sexes are valued equally. If you are not a feminist, then you are viewed as someone who is against gender equality and equal opportunities. Still, whenever any matter relating to the rights of men surfaces, it is met with complete silence. To have the gall to bring to attention that there are some areas where the rights of men should be questioned and defended is something completely foreign in a country such as Sweden, where feminism is viewed as an ideology everyone must profess to lest they be viewed as chauvinist, backward misogynists. If and when men's issues are brought to attention or discussed at all, it is nearly always done from the feminist point of view.
In reality, it is utterly absurd that we have gotten into an equal opportunities debate that bears no resemblance to a debate; instead, it is nothing but a power struggle of women's vs. men's rights. Equality and equal opportunities should never be about who has it worse or about the rights of the one sex being set against and valued according to the rights of the other sex. Women and men have throughout the ages been fighting at each other's side. This has been the prerequisite for our survival. What we have today can only be compared to an all-out war between the sexes, and as such it has only losers, men and women alike.
I have always thought of Sweden as a forerunner in gender equality. Swedish women have had the self-evident right to vote for a long time now, just like women in other Western countries. Equally self-evident is a woman's right to get an education and invest in a career, and most Swedish women today are professionals, which has been made possible due to the extended access to daycare services provided by the state. Whatever prior hurdles that prevented women from fulfilling their desires of getting the education and jobs they wanted are long since gone. This gives Swedish women an opportunity to be economically independent.
That Swedes have liberal views on female sexuality is something that is known to many outside of Sweden. It is not by accident that the movie One Summer of Happiness, with explicit scenes, could be aired as early as 1951 here—something that was utterly unthinkable in many other countries at that time. Today, no one questions a woman's right to her body and her sexuality.
This is why I, with a great deal of wonder and surprise, during the past few years have noticed that more and more people were speaking up and saying that gender equality issues were in big trouble and that feminism was needed more than ever before. I asked myself, quite naturally, "What?" "How come?" "What happened and how did it come to this?"
Purely out of curiosity and not without a great deal of naiveté regarding the matter of gender issues as something to be treated objectively, I started to look around and read more and more. What I found was a vicious gender issues debate all bundled up under the umbrella of feminism. This type of feminism, to which everyone is expected to adhere to, was not only based on false or inadequate premises, but I also discovered that everyone who doesn't immediately accept its holy doctrines or dares to question them will immediately be harassed and showered with pejoratives. There is apparently a special place in hell for every woman who dares to criticize the holy dogma of feminism.
Now that I'm an editor at AVfM, I will be publishing all my posts under my real name. Some might think this to be stupid. Others might find it brave. For me, it is simply an obvious choice for me not to be anonymous here. I have nothing to hide or be ashamed of. I am for gender equality and equal opportunity for both sexes. I feel that both men and women should be valued equally. I am not a homophobe or a racist or a gender role conservative or whatever derogatory term is thrown at anyone who questions the holiness of feminism. AVfM is mainly a movement for men's issues, but my commitment is based on my belief that both men and women will gain from a more nuanced and healthy debate on gender issues. To raise men's issues, which have been neglected for a long time, will benefit men and women equally.
Those issues that lie closest to my heart and that I'll touch on in the upcoming posts are:
the continuous decline of the performance of boys in the school system
the high number of reported sexual crimes, including the number of unrecorded cases and the reasons behind why they were unrecorded
the need of children to have both of their parents present in their everyday lives
Gender equality is not a power struggle between the sexes. It is a struggle to raise women's issues and men's issues on their own terms. It is a struggle to raise human issues.
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June 2018 July 2018 | Customer Care, Seasonal
When monsoon storms mount their annual assault on Tucson Electric Power's local grid, the Map Room is where the company's system controllers collaborate with crews to plan their response.
TEP's system control center gets its name from the detailed, hand-drawn street and circuit maps mounted on its walls. Though the room lacks windows, banks of computers provide a clear view of TEP's local distribution system.
The room is staffed around the clock by a team of approximately 15 TEP employees who monitor the quality and delivery of power and manage service disruptions with the goal of restoring power quickly and safely.
Years ago, distribution operators pushed pins into wall maps to note the areas affected by outages to help diagnose problems. Now, TEP primarily relies on data from its Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system.
"SCADA provides the accurate and real-time status of breakers, meters and other equipment," explains Lonnie Chapman, Manager of Transmission & Distribution Control. "It feeds information to our Outage Management System (OMS), which shows us the outage area along with a likely cause."
Map Room personnel also rely on customer reports of outages, field assessments, 911 notifications and information from meters to diagnose issues. "We compile and assess all of this information and then dispatch repair crews to mitigate the issue and restore power," Chapman said.
The Map Room uses its Storm Plan, which is updated annually, to manage service disruptions due to severe weather.
When an outage occurs, information from the OMS is uploaded to the outage map on tep.com. Details about the outage boundaries, cause and estimated restoration time are updated every five minutes if there is a change in status. Customers also can view and report outages using TEP's mobile app.
Once Map Room personnel learn of a potential outage, supervisors send a troubleman to the outage location to assess safety risks and secure the area until field employees arrive to conduct repairs. System supervisors and field crews work to restore electric service as quickly as possible by rerouting power to customers, if possible. This also allows employees to isolate the circuit and complete repairs.
The more complicated the problem, the longer it takes to resolve. If the system has incurred extensive damage in multiple locations, restoration might require coordinated efforts with multiple departments.
"Weather is a big factor that can delay our work," said Chapman. "High winds damage poles and lightning strikes blow fuses. Flooding can wash out roads that our crews need to access to make repairs. We also must arrange for underground utilities to be marked before we start digging."
When multiple outages occur, Map Room personnel prioritize repairs to restore service to the largest number of customers as quickly as possible. Public safety hazards, such as downed wires, are given first priority, followed by restoration of power to critical service providers like hospitals and police and fire stations. Crews work continuously until all power is restored.
"Heading into storm season, we focus on the availability of equipment, materials and personnel," said Sam Rugel, TEP's Director of System Control and Reliability. "Crews may be held over or called in to work extra hours so that we ready and able to respond."
"A lot of people work together to get the lights back on," he continued. "And all of these activities are coordinated through the Map Room."
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