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Brown comments after the game : Thu Apr 11, 2013 1:51 pm  
Have we got a small squad , must have a shead load of salary cap left , or paying players to much !!! ?
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Re: Brown comments after the game : Thu Apr 11, 2013 3:22 pm  
To say NB has used 32 players so far in the first team this season, and called Carl Forster up for this weeks game I wouldnt necessarily say we have a small squad
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Re: Brown comments after the game : Thu Apr 11, 2013 3:23 pm  
I think he meant a small squad remaining due to the injuries we have.
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Re: Brown comments after the game : Thu Apr 11, 2013 5:49 pm  
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I think he meant a small squad remaining due to the injuries we have.

Nah. He said that we looked like a small, tired squad. He was making excuses for our poor performance.
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Re: Brown comments after the game : Thu Apr 11, 2013 5:55 pm  
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Nah. He said that we looked like a small, tired squad. He was making excuses for our poor performance.


Okay then.
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Re: Brown comments after the game : Thu Apr 11, 2013 6:07 pm  
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To be fair it's a pretty ironic statement. ie looking for the negative....

I don't think she was being negative, just stating her opinion that he was making excuses for a poor performance.
She was not nessasarily saying Brown was poor for making the excuses, just that he was making excuses for a poor performance, something that all coaches do to protect the players.

The Alternative would be to lay the blame on the players, or to take the blame himself or blame the ref.
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Re: Brown comments after the game : Thu Apr 11, 2013 6:32 pm  
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I was actually quoting Brown, you idiot.

To say that they looked like a 'small tired squad' is actually a simile. You may have learned about them at school. They are preceded by 'as' or 'like', and are used as descriptive shorthand. However, I don't expect you to be able to read text at that level.

He could just as easily have said they played poorly, because that is what such a simile would suggest, but that would have been to be frank in his post match assessment and Brown is never frank in his post match assessments.


However small doesn't necessarily mean physically. He could quite have easily meant that it was a small squad in terms of number available, either option can be taken as the statement is unintentionally ambiguous.

Using two adjectives together though would suggest they are related, small in terms of stature and being tired are not related. Being short on numbers and being tired is related as he couldn't rotate the players as wanted. Either way, we weren't that far off and could have won against KR. The notion that whoever won has played well and whoever has lost has played badly is something introduced by Eddie and Stevo, in all their wisdom, which frankly is ridiculous.
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Re: Brown comments after the game : Thu Apr 11, 2013 6:41 pm  
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However small doesn't necessarily mean physically. He could quite have easily meant that it was a small squad in terms of number available, either option can be taken as the statement is unintentionally ambiguous.

That's the beauty of using a simile. Metaphors can be equally flexible. Nobody can pin you down. I fully believe he was being deliberately ambiguous. As I said, Brown is never frank in his post match assessments. I've also said he talks BS, which is a less polite way of saying the same thing.
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Re: Brown comments after the game : Thu Apr 11, 2013 6:42 pm  
Given the number of untested youth we've had to use this year we do have a small squad. Even with a fully fit squad we have no experienced strength in depth
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Re: Brown comments after the game : Thu Apr 11, 2013 6:44 pm  
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That's the beauty of using a simile. Metaphors can be equally flexible. Nobody can pin you down. I fully believe he was being deliberately ambiguous. As I said, Brown is never frank in his post match assessments. I've also said he talks BS, which is a less polite way of saying the same thing.


I'd say he keeps his cards close to his chest, probably just another way of saying the same thing. I like that though as it's not just fans who listen to the post match interview. I'd rather he kept us all guessing than gave out information on where he would like to focus improvement, inadvertently pointing out or weaknesses.
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