Sentences with phrase «kick up the backside»

The New Xbox User Experience, which was rolled out across the Xbox One community at the tail end of last year, gave the Windows 8 - styled dashboard a much needed kick up the backside.

There's no point in Wenger giving him a well - deserved kick up the backside if he's not going to give him another chance.

More of a dodgy mental attitude — it gave us the required kick up the backside — how long the sting lasts remains to be seen....

Three Arsenal players — Debuchy, Giroud and Ozil — look set to be out of action until the turn of the year, at least, which means that Wenger has been handed a serious kick up his backside, with a small squad at the start of the season further shortened by this injury pileup that also sees Ramsey, Arteta, Diaby, Monreal and Sanogo not yet fit to return.

Besides, he loves London, Arsene doesn't kick him up the backside and Arsenal fans love him.

The players have been given a justifiable kick up the backside, so let us hope that the increased enthusiasm leads to some positive results, especially in view of the tough fixture list coming up.

Awarding learners points for their actions in eLearning modules, on their Learning Management System and for interacting with other learners gives them an almighty kick up the backside.

Throughout your education, you've gradually been given more independence with your learning, but even at undergraduate level there are set structures and regular time set aside so your tutors can give you a gentle kick up the backside.

I keep meaning to make dosas and have yet to manage it... this is just the kick up the backside that I need — the recipe looks simply fabulous.

Might it not be an idea to give them a bit more of a kick up the backside every now and then?

As for giving the players a kick up the backside, the most likely consequence of this kick is that the best players will leave.

The former defensive midfielder believes that it might be the kick up the backside we need.

Giving the players a kick up the backside, now and then should be the Manager's job.

I think that Arsenal will do it because they have so much quality, but maybe they need a season of finishing outside the top four to give the whole club a kick up the backside.

Perhaps it might be a good thing in the long term, especially if it gave our players a kick up the backside and made them take a look at the way that Leicester and Tottenham have played for each other with energy and togetherness and left nothing on the pitch.

We need a player like Cazorla to deliver balls to Ozil and a new manager to kick him up the backside (excuse my French), then Ozil will be fine.

I think our players need a kick up the backside I can not believe how lax and lethargic we are today.

Hopefully the game against Stoke gave wenger and the players a kick up the backside and we will actually see a consistent arsenal

everyone needs a kick up the backside now and then.

I've been wanting us to miss out for a while, because it would give the club the kick up the backside it needs, and help us the next season in the league (like what we're currently seeing with Chelsea and Liverpool).

Cech is 33, both keepers are almost a decade younger and Szc especially needs a kick up his backside if he is to fulfill his potential.

Tottenham's main creators, such as Erik Lamela and Christian Eriksen, need a kick up the backside.

A kick up the backside.

Europa league is the kick up the backside the club's management needed to shake things up.

We all have to agree that our defenders need a kick up the backsides.

All players need a kick up the backside.

Happy to see Nelson given a chance as he deserves it and would give a kick up the backside for some of our «big» players.

That loan move appears to have given him a kick up the backside, he has said he wants to return and he still loves Arsenal.

A rebuild could be the kick up the backside he needs to step up?

There needs to be strong competition but I think the Arsenal players, especially those favoured by Wenger, have had things way too easy and they have needed a kick up the backside.

Michigan football needed a kick up the backside on every front three years ago.

He's got a great balance between when to be relaxed and when we need a kick up the backside... we all look up to him.

This guy is the kick up the backside that Jan Vertonghen needed to push himself just a bit further.

The game has put a major dampner on the genuine hopes that were building for the new season, but hopefully it is the kick up the backside the team needed to avoid being so complacent again later in the season.

«He's of that personality where sometimes he will just go down into a little bit of a lull and that's where he does need a kick up the backside from a manager to keep him going and from team - mates as well on the pitch,» Smith added.

The underlying implication has always been that private is better, more efficient, more forward - looking, and that the idle public sector needs a kick up the backside, or at least the threat of competition as the «grit in the oyster» that will improve productivity.

Say what I say — I'm Labour but Labour needs a kick up the backside!

This suggests they are actively choosing a life on benefits and need a kick up the backside to go out and get a job.

Sunder also notes that the anti-politicians message meant some politicians wouldn't promote Yes leaflets: «There were examples of LibDem MPs who were not prepared to distribute national Yes literature, promoting messages to their own constituents that they needed a kick up the backside, though Labour reaction was probably considerably more hostile still.

Brown Findlay's Linder gives the film — which, it should be said, is much, much better than the fan in me feared — a real energy boost when she turns up; a choppy - haired, confident, beautiful woman who gives the becalmed Morrissey a kick up the backside.