Sentences with phrase «failed badly this year»

Some combination of coaching and players failed badly this year.

Not exact matches

The banking system has been weak for years as most institutions have failed to deal with the high level of bad debt in the wake of the financial crisis.

Worse, if your plan fails a discrimination test late in the year, it might have to kick back a portion of participant contributions at year - end.

Hulu had struggled for years to find its footing with original programming, marked by failed pushes to launch original series with high - profile talent, including actors James Franco (in the time - travel drama 11.22.63) and Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul (in The Path, about a sinister cult).

The worst missteps were former CEO Ron Johnson's focus in 2012 on a failed re-imagining of the 114 - year - old retailer into a hipper store, along with the ill - advised separation of Penney's e-commerce and stores teams, a strategy that flew in the face of every other retailer's efforts.

Things look even worse if you're in the food service sector where the National Restaurant Association says 30 percent of new restaurants fail in the first year, with another 30 percent failing within the next two years.

Worse, over the past 12 years, these low numbers have barely budged, meaning that the vast majority of employees worldwide are failing to develop and contribute at work.

That plan had failed to so far lift the company out of its revenue doldrums; its year - over-year revenue losses have come in a little worse than the its peers.

Over the past two years most of the worst lenders that were under pricing failed and the «shadow banking system» (e.g., CDOs) dissipated.

When my skin started to break out 6 years ago after coming off the contraceptive pill I went to see various dermatologists and they all prescribed me different type of antibiotics which unfortunately they failed miserably and probably made my skin flares up even worse.

it is his fault Bolly from Borehamwood He gets paid in excess of eight million a year to have alternatives when things go bad, to motivate players when the run of play is against them, to buy players who are capable and good enough to NOT hit the woodwork time and time again, to sell players who are off form and who fail to deliver on thier promised talent, in effect TO MANAGE the team.

However after our worst start to a league season in over thirty years when we have more money than ever before to strengthen the team then yes boo the man responsible for failing to strengthen the team in two key areas in the summer, boo him for his tactics and boo him for his team selection.banners should be displayed as we need to show le fraud he is not earning his huge pay packet of 8m a year.

i do nt want to be so much negative minded but up to these day people still remember that fergie failed to lift a trophy in his first four years at utd so no matter what u think everything good and bad will be in history books....

The 24 - year old Ivorian has failed to extend his contract with the French club and is apparently thinking of going elsewhere and I reckon Arsenal could do a lot worse.

The worst kind — contemptible and happy to see the club fail as long as the man who has had his time remains for year after year.

The 21 - year - old could well be more at home in a team like England, who, for all their failings, can't be any worse than this relegation - battling Crystal Palace side.

We also seemed to get the worst possible outcome every time there was a draw made for the Champions League or one of the domestic cup competitions, but that changed last year as the injury crisis gradually cleared up and we got some decent cup draws, even though we failed to make the most of this against Monaco.

the obvious fact is that the club began to stagnate in football terms a decade ago after the CL semi against man utd and has been in outright retreat over the last 3 years... some fans were calling for wenger to leave in 2011 - 12 as it was clear he could not cope with a more competitive environment others have been more tolerant, hanging on to fa cup glory and hoping that he would somehow self correct his weak and erratic management style but most now realise that is not possible and that the club will deteriorate further under his management so also want him gone, that has left a hard core of wenger loyalists who are either fixated with the past (selecting episodic good and bad times to justify wengers decade long failure) or too frightened of the future to contemplate a change (with selective reference to failed managerial changes by way of justification) or both, to conclude, through a mixture of panglossian fatalism and corporate philosophising, how lucky we are to have such an honourable and educated man in charge... along with their confused references to club loyalty and addiction to computer games these are troubled souls who need our sympathy and concerned medical advice... SO JUST F OFF STOCK UP ON CANNED SOUP AND GO SUPPORT ASTON VILLA ON FIFA!

The best players at the club are still more likely to leave than stay and worst of all, we rewarded a failed manager with two more years.

He has badly failed to live up to the early expectations, with just 18 goals in 122 senior appearances over these four years, and he certainly has no future at the Emirates.

there is no doubting that Arsene has helped to provide us with some incredible footballing moments in the formative years of his managerial career at Arsenal, but that certainly doesn't and shouldn't mean that he has earned the right to decide when and how he should leave this club... there have been numerous managers at each of the biggest clubs in Europe throughout the last decade who have waged far more successful campaigns than ours yet somehow and someway each were given their walking papers because they failed to meet the standards laid out by the hierarchy of their respective clubs... of course that doesn't mean that clubs should simply follow the lead of others, especially if clubs of note have become too reactionary when it comes to issues of termination, for whatever reasons, but there should be some logical discourse when it comes to the setting of parameters for a changing of the guard... in the case of Arsenal, this sort of discourse was largely stifled when the higher - ups devised their sinister plan on the eve of our move to the Emirates... by giving Wenger a free pass due to supposed financial constraints he, unwittingly or not, set the bar too low... it reminds me of a landlord who says he will only rent to «professional people» to maintain a certain standard then does a complete about face when the market is lean and vacancies are up... for those who rented under the original mandate they of course feel cheated but there is little they can do, except move on, especially if the landlord clearly cares more about profitability than keeping their word... unfortunately for the lifelong fans of a football club it's not so easy to switch allegiances and frankly why should they, in most cases we have been around far longer than them... so how does one deal with such an untenable situation... do you simply shut - up and hope for the best, do you place the best interests of those with only self - serving agendas above the collective and pray that karma eventually catches up with them, do you run away with your tail between your legs and only return when things have ultimately changed, do you keep trying to find silver linings to justify your very existence, do you lower your expectations by convincing yourself it could be worse or do you stand up for what you believe in by holding people accountable for their actions, especially when every fiber of your being tells you that something is rotten in the state of Denmark

you equate us with Chelsea that they have the same points as us but you fail to realise that they are the defending champions thus failure to win the trophy this season wouldnt cause any alarm for concern.we have stuck with the team for years and all we are demanding is to make the obvious changes so we can win the league and all you say is that we are the worst fans?

After 15 years of failing to win back the championship or make any real progress in the Champion league it was a very bad mistake that Arsenal gave Wenger a contract extension for two years

Dump Olshey the spin master as he created this mess with a flawed roster, no flexibility due to bad contracts and failed in last years draft.

At the present time we are 36 points behind City — our two worst seasons over the last 60 years was the 1960 - 61 season when we finished 25 points behind the spuds (12.5 wins behind) and the 1994 - 95 season where we finished 38 points behind (12.33 wins behind) Should we fail to win the EL which is a real possibility and we finish 40 odd points behind the leaders it will surely spell the end for not just Wenger but for a lot of people at Arsenal — Bould and the backroom staff for sure and many of the players.

The former Southampton man has struggled badly at Old Trafford in the last couple of years, failing to win a place in Jose Mourinho's side after a horror injury in the 2015/16 season.

Why are we trying to postpone the situation that will surely happened, Wenger go Wenger stay, that Man can't be there forever even if he's winning trophies yearly, if winning champions league and premier league in between 10 years now is primary joy of the fans then Wenger can go now, another history can happen bad today good tomorrow is the process to greatness and success, all the more successful club have got some difficult past, it's better than remaining in limbo and zombie, no fail no passed

its a sign of intent... lpool are vulnerable at back so klopp brings in a decent centre back... we need that same attitude times 6 if we are to have a team that competes again at the top... but with the delusional corporate tool running things it will be another failed year... thats basically 14 barren years and taking us back closer to the bad old days of the 1960s when we never one a title over the decade

So after they drew a blank on Saturday and failed to beat Burnley the stats show that Mourinho's first 10 EPL games have been worse than United's with van Gaal last year, and with David Moyes, and they were both slaughtered by the fans and the media and quickly sacked.

I would argue that by failing to do their jobs, as happens in the playoffs every year and gets progressively worse with each round, they are making it even more about them because it fundamentally distorts the game from what it's intended to be.

Its a contradiction to fail with this group for the last fee years yet want to offer them all contracts to stay!!!! Are our rivals going to get drastically worse Wenger so that we may overtake them, or is it that the players are good enough and Wenger is failing them?

But his decision to move across North London on a free transfer in 2001 was regarded as the worst possible betrayal by the fans he left behind and, some 15 years after, the animosity towards him has still failed to subside.

His father and his friends could not think of a way to secure his cooperation the next 8 years except armed intimidation, that even failed badly when he started ambushing them even in front of third family's and turning them into bleeding broken people.

Finally, the Working group failed to suggest term limits for leadership, which is an essential reform to turn the page on the bad old days of Shelly's 20 - year iron - fisted rule.

«Sadly he seems set to spend the next two years sticking to policies that are badly failing on living standards, growth and even deficit reduction.»

«The fact that the previous Government failed for five years to do what they knew was necessary has left our country in a much worse position, both because of the possibility of having to pay damages and because case law has moved on.

Failing to do so is not an option, as it would shamefully leave New York as one of only two states where 16 year olds are charged as adults and would perpetuate bad outcomes with increased likelihood of youth re-offending and decreased public safety.

While Gov. Andrew Cuomo has lauded the program as a departure from the secretive «pork barrel» spending of the past — «It's a waste of money, we did it for a lot of years, it failed,» he told Politico New York in February — the program has come scrutiny by lawmakers and fiscal watchdog groups as at best, overly optimistic and at worst, lacking oversight and tainted by scandals that have marred other economic initiatives, including the Buffalo Billion.

«We had 16 years of failed liberal leadership, and we are worse off than ever,» Lavine said.

In her speech, she called the Federal Marriage Amendment that failed the Senate last year to strictly define marriage as an act between a man and a woman «wedge politics at its worst.»

That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a year.

Last year — the worst year in recent memory for Democratic incumbents — they backed failed challenges to Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, and to Representative Steve Israel, whom they dislike almost as much as Tim Bishop.

In this case, failing means student test scores are in the bottom 5 percent, test scores are getting worse instead of better, or the schools» graduation rates are below 60 percent for three consecutive years.

Very many able people never get chosen at all, or are chosen in bad years for the Conservatives, and so fail to make it into Parliament.

It's one of the worst films of the last several years, a movie that fails on absolutely every level, especially when compared to the rest of the series.

The villains of the Marvel Cinematic Universe vary from simple and boring to complex and impactful, but no matter how great or how bad they are, none of them ever had to meet the high expectations created by six years of anticipation, After all of that, Thanos would either meet that high - water mark or fail miserably when he finally emerged into the spotlight in Avengers: Infinity War.

We also have a welcome appearance from the always awesome Powers Boothe (who also sadly died earlier this year) as FBI agent Doyle, with his mere presences never - failing to help elevate even the worst of films.

Actors who have committed far worse crimes have been allowed to rebound — Mel Gibson is starring in a Will Ferrell comedy later this year — and the jokes about Franco's failed efforts to be a renaissance man are frankly worn out.

Being the tallest mountain on our planet, every year lots of mountain climbers attempt to conquer Everest and many of them fail, or worse.

But while you can sympathize with a vulnerable, emotionally - starved 16 - year - old who falls for the sexual confidence and the romantic words of her childish husband's skeezy uncle (Dermot Mulroney), it's hard to keep that level of sympathy as her bad judgment fails to improve with time or experience.