Does the 2nd - gen 2013
model present enough value to warrant an upgrade over the original?
Not exact matches
This is an incredibly difficult question to answer for a variety of reasons, most importantly because over the years our once vaunted «beautiful» style of play has become a shadow of it's former self, only to be replaced by a less than stellar «plug and play» mentality where players play out of position and adjustments / substitutions are rarely forthcoming before the 75th minute... if you look at our current players, very few would make sense in the traditional Wengerian system... at
present, we don't have the personnel to move the ball quickly from deep - lying position, efficient one touch midfielders that can make the necessary through balls or the disciplined and pacey forwards to stretch defences into wide positions, without the aid of the backs coming up into the final 3rd, so that we can attack the defensive lanes in the same clinical fashion we did years ago... on this current squad, we have only 1 central defender on staf, Mustafi, who seems to have any prowess in the offensive zone or who can even pass two zones through so that we can advance play quickly out of our own end (I have seen some inklings that suggest Holding might have some offensive qualities but too early to tell)... unfortunately Mustafi has a tendency to get himself in trouble when he gets overly aggressive on the ball... from our backs out wide, we've seen pace from the likes of Bellerin and Gibbs and the spirited albeit offensively stunted play of Monreal, but none of these players possess the skill - set required in the offensive zone for the new Wenger scheme which requires deft touches, timely runs to the baseline and consistent crossing, especially when Giroud was playing and his ratio of scored goals per clear chances was relatively low (better last year though)... obviously I like Bellerin's future prospects, as you can't teach pace, but I do worry that he regressed last season, which was obvious to Wenger because there was no way he would have used Ox as the right side wing - back so often knowing that Barcelona could come calling in the off - season, if he thought otherwise... as for our midfielders, not a single one, minus the more confident Xhaka I watched played for the Swiss national team a couple years ago, who truly makes sense under the traditional Wenger
model... Ramsey holds onto the ball too long, gives the ball away cheaply far too often and abandons his defensive responsibilities on a regular basis (doesn't score
enough recently to justify): that being said, I've always thought he does possess a little something special, unfortunately he thinks so too... Xhaka is a little too slow to ever boss the midfield and he tends to telegraph his one true strength, his long ball play: although I must admit he did get a bit better during some points in the latter part of last season... it always made me wonder why whenever he played with Coq Wenger always seemed to play Francis in a more advanced role on the pitch... as for Coq, he is way too reckless at the wrong times and has exhibited little offensive prowess yet finds himself in and around the box far too often... let's face it Wenger was ready to throw him in the trash heap when injuries forced him to use Francis and then he had the nerve to act like this was all part of a bigger Wenger constructed plan... he like Ramsey, Xhaka and Elneny don't offer the skills necessary to satisfy the quick transitory nature of our old offensive scheme or the stout defensive mindset needed to protect the defensive zone so that our offensive players can remain aggressive in the final third... on the front end, we have Ozil, a player of immense skill but stunted by his physical demeanor that tends to offend, the fact that he's been played out of position far too many times since arriving and that the players in front of him, minus Sanchez, make little to no sense considering what he has to offer (especially Giroud); just think about the quick counter-attack offence in Real or the space and protection he receives in the German National team's midfield, where teams couldn't afford to focus too heavily on one individual... this player was a passing «specialist» long before he arrived in North London, so only an arrogant or ignorant individual would try to reinvent the wheel and / or not surround such a talent with the necessary components... in regards to Ox, Walcott and Welbeck, although they all possess serious talents I see them in large part as headless chickens who are on the injury table too much, lack the necessary first - touch and / or lack the finishing flair to warrant their inclusion in a regular starting eleven; I would say that, of the 3, Ox showed the most upside once we went to a back 3, but even he became a bit too consumed by his pending contract talks before the season ended and that concerned me a bit... if I had to choose one of those 3 players to stay on it would be Ox due to his potential as a plausible alternative to Bellerin in that wing - back position should we continue to use that formation... in Sanchez, we get one of the most committed skill players we've seen on this squad for some years but that could all change soon, if it hasn't already of course... strangely
enough, even he doesn't make sense given the constructs of the original Wenger offensive
model because he holds onto the ball too long and he will give the ball up a little too often in the offensive zone... a fact that is largely forgotten due to his infectious energy and the fact that the numbers he has achieved seem to justify the means... finally, and in many ways most crucially, Giroud, there is nothing about this team or the offensive system that Wenger has traditionally employed that would even suggest such a player would make sense as a starter... too slow, too inefficient and way too easily dispossessed... once again, I think he has some special skills and, at times, has showed some world - class qualities but he's lack of mobility is an albatross around the necks of our offence... so when you ask who would be our best starting 11, I don't have a clue because of the 5 or 6 players that truly deserve a place in this side, 1 just arrived, 3 aren't under contract beyond 2018 and the other was just sold to Juve... man, this is theraputic because following this team is like an addiction to heroin without the benefits
Finally, and to reiterate an earlier point, the way forward for this club is to stop paying below average bench players so much money and to focus the bulk of the weekly wages on establishing a dominant starting 11... this will require the club to eat some wages in order to ship some players out, get rid of any deadwood over the age of 21, develop a cutting edge scouting service and put your money where your mouth is for once... I would much rather have a starting 11 that was world - class and give some reasonably paid young blue - chippers playing time when injuries occur than have 2 or 3 world class players surrounded by a plethora of overpaid and underwhelming players... management would no longer be able to sell their half - baked plans to the fans under the guise of «winning now», which any intelligent fan knows is a crap - shoot at best, and instead create a a squad that provides hope for the
present and the future... this is exactly the
model that has been used by Barcelona, Real & Bayern, so it should be good
enough for us... by the way, until Messi & Ronaldo re-signed just recently all 3 clubs weekly wages were on par with ours... think about that for a second or two
Whether the newly
modeled conditions prevailed long
enough to account for all four of the migration events molecular biologists have detected is uncertain, although preliminary data suggest that Madagascar did not move into its
present location until some 15 million years ago — well after the last proposed dispersal event.
But according to a second
model presented at the LPSC by David O'Brien of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona, Ceres doesn't have
enough muscle to drive these eruptions.
The climate
models aren't really good
enough in their representation of
present - day circulation to give you much confidence in the specifics of their predictions [so that you could use them to do a cost - benefit analysis for example], but the risk of widespread change is still there.
If clouds were well - represented by the
models then untangling the influence of aersols would be hard
enough, but... clouds are poorly represented in
models at
present [though much improved compared to ~ 10 years ago].
The results are
presented at a resolution high
enough to enable studying ocean eddies and other narrow current systems, which are overlooked by lower - resolution
models.
The
model in question didn't give a particularly good simulation of the
present - day climate, but one could say the same about every
model if one was picky
enough...
But after driving them both, I can confidently say that, although they may not
present a totally unique driving experience, they are different
enough from what you get in the standard Cooper to make them worthy new
models.
And can this Mercedes carve out a big
enough lead to beat the
present Audi A6 and BMW 5 Series, not to mention the next - generation
models due in the next couple years?
Their
present N20 engine fitted to the 3 & 5 series
models is not good
enough to have a «M» emblem.
We will also be lucky
enough to have 9 full - scale Vision GT Cars and 2 1/4 size
models present at the event, which is a world first!
Now, in terms of the
models we have an interesting situation where the
models are being built in order to match with a
present - day observed climate that is not stationary [but that is hoped to be stationary
enough that it can be assumed to be stationary for
model development].
Heck, if the Stadium Wave paper had simply more clearly said it was
presenting a Pretendland
model based on real world metrics as an example of the family of
models that might be plausible, that almost would have been
enough, if not for the autotuning inherent in the Stadium Wave.
The
models are not good
enough to predict the
present temperature, but they are good
enough to tell that we could not have it with much less CO2.
I think the
models are poor
enough at the
present time that making predictions is hazardous but we can see the trendlines.
According to some
models this is
enough to have caused all the warming since 1750 to the
present.
Even if the fingerprint were
present, computer
models are long proven to be inherently incapable of providing projections of the future state of the climate that are sound
enough for policymaking.
The role of ICCs in respect of Indigenous - specific programs is clear
enough, although there are significant issues with the workability of this
model of service delivery and coordination.Gray and Sanders note, for example, the view held by heads of government departments that ICCs
present «some very significant governance and skill challenges».