Sentences with phrase «poor start to this year»

It's been a bit of a poor start to this year really.

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As he puts it: «I'd like to CHALLENGE every woman in tech who's a) got a nice care, b) owns a nice house, or c) is making over $ 125K a year to start thinking of themselves as the next Ron Conway or Esther Dyson in the making and commit to investing in startups...» I'll forgive him for the poor grammar, ditto for the wisecrack a couple of paragraphs later about how some of us might have spent $ 5,000 to $ 10,000 on our MBAs... or our wardrobes.

Investors should also take note that poor years — those in the bottom quartile of returns — tended to be worse when starting valuations were more elevated over the long - term average.

It is really a really poor way to end / start a year with this kind of turmoil; especially over a player who has been such a positive influence in the face of some pretty poor treatment from his manager.

Iniesta's start to the season has seen him hit the first patch of poor form for many years, while Xavi is rapidly being phased out of the side.

Despite the new additions, Stoke's new campaign got off to a poor start with a 1 - 0 home defeat to Liverpool, who had been linked to the attacker earlier in the year [Express].

For donkeys years now we have done the approximately same things: 1) We have a poor start 2) We pick up in September and we all think we are going to have a good year 3) Once the weather gets cold we lose games against all sorts and drop like a stone 4) Towards the end of March when the weather gets better we start winning again and we qualify for the Champions League (apart from last year) I have a feeling it will be broadly the same this year except Spuds and Liverpool are better for the last couple of years that they used to be and none of the big money three look vulnerable so we won't finish above them..

The most worrisome crack might be Steven Matz, though: Matz recovered from a poor start to the season and has been lights - out since, posting a 1.09 ERA from his second appearance of the year onward.

The Wings have had some... let's call them poor starts to games this year, particularly at home (just look at the Boston game last night).

The 25 - year - old is reported to be just one of a number of players the Blues are targeting ahead of the January transfer window as they look to arrest their poor start to the season and start climbing the table.

Thats just because when the poor kid got hurt, he'd just sit out for the rest of the year while we called him a nancy and his leg healed wrong and he started to have to walk all wierd.

Now we are a facing the worst start to a season in more than 30 years, after years of broken promises, increasing ticket prices and poor decision - making by Arsene Wenger & Co..

Still, it could be argued that actually Rodgers really benefitted from a specific set of circumstances that year — Luis Suarez being at the very top of his game (something that would have happened under any manager), Daniel Sturridge staying relatively injury free (clearly a bit of a one - off, based on his record since), and above all a lack of real competition elsewhere: Chelsea were in transition and poor in their first season with Jose Mourinho back at the helm, Arsenal imploded as they usually do after a fine start, and Manchester United were nowhere to be seen in terms of the title race with David Moyes» disastrous reign seeing them finish 7th and struggling to cope with the retirement of Sir Alex Ferguson.

Just like with Francis Coquelin, the just turned 20 - year old has grabbed his chance and he has been a big part of the Gunners fightback from a poor start to the season.

Deny it all you want but since Fabregas left Arsenal our frre flowing football has really declined.It feels like am the only one who thinks we lack real penetration and ideas in the final third of opponents.Also in 14/15 sesson I lost count of our misplaced passes and poor gameplay overall.We've been very very poor in our passing game for some seasons now.For a game like this to work you need players whonhold the ball very well and are possession efficient.Look at the Arsenal starting lineup and compare it to that of years back and you'll know what I mean.We have very few possession efficient players which is causing this problem.We don't have many players who can actually hold the ball and play the ball.That's what differentiates us from the top passing teams.

This is not about LOVE or HATE I don't hate the man neither love him, used to admire him though, unfortunately and this is an undeniable fact, he has lost the Compass, is not just about the transfers, POOR TACTICS, FAVOURING PLAYERS that underperform, believing he can switch Players from their natural position, POOR RESULTS against TOP CONTENDERS (while Newcastle, Sunderland, SPUDS and other bottom feeders made MAUREEN look helpless) I did not wake up one morning realizing all these facts, this has been happening for years now and his results are the proof that he either change or he should retire honorably and let AFC start a new era post WENGER.

Even with his slump to start the year, I would be fine with having him start, but his pitch framing skills and passed balls have been too poor to overlook.

Somewhat better that Wenger didn't get Mbappe last year because I guess our poor Arsenal fan would have said he isn't good enough to be in the Starting Xi putting him in all sort of pressure till he sinks especially in between the season we had.

The highly - rated 19 - year - old, who signed a new long - term deal with the club at the start of year, attempted to force his way into Wenger's plans for the new season by scoring a hat - trick against an admittley poor Singapore Select XI and his goal haul certainly didn't go unnoticed by the boss, who says he plans to keep the player at the club this season:

I think we should not fool ourselves with our defence at the moment.we are so poor infact ill say we are average in defence.the only guy who defends solidly is boss but unfortunately for us he to has some frequent off days where u can't count on him.bellerin has been superb for us but defensively he still has alot to learn.now debate about mert and paulista, I don't believe any of them should be a starting 11 cb for us nxt year, mert is gud but not worldclass or even decent he is average.pauli can proove us wrong but still not worth gambling him to fail.I believe we need a cb and am certain we will buy (hehe lol).

I hope we keep wenger give the man a long term contract you must want some unloyal cheapskate whos been fired at 5 clubs and successful at 1 or 2 for a few years when the club spent big cause they got a new manager and after a couple years got fired beacause those spendy players got old and that manager did nothing we have the most loyal consistent winning manager in europe and if the linesman did nt make incorrect call we woould of been 1 - 0 up and mkhitaryan played poor balls in the rain which we always play bad in amd are you suffering short term memory loss we beat tottenham 2 - 0 at home so we still won the derby on aggregate this season again thanks to mr.wenger i mean where to people come out woth these low iq thoughts and mostly you have to fire three new managers before you get a couple good seasons then start the circus again people should be embarrassed wenger to stay

Wayne Rooney rolled back the years to score a sublime effort from just outside the box, making it 1 - 0 to the Toffees in a game neither side can afford to lose after poor starts to the season.

The 31 - year - old Blues star has endured a miserable time of it this season with a host of poor displays which have played their part in Chelsea's woeful start to their Premier League title defence.

The 20 - year - old has made 27 appearances for the North London side, helping them to overcome a poor start to end the season third in the Premier League.

If this was the first time we have had a poor start or had lots of injuries or failed to sign players we need I would agree give Wenger time and a chance to correct but this is why so many of us are fed up is this is the 9th year now.wenger has no excuses he chose not to buy a DM and CB in the summer when he had the cash to do so, he fails to work on the defensive side of the game and we lose games we should win, he plays top players out of position arshsvin and now Ozil.

And with the competition for the title looking strong this year with Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho taking over at Man City and Man United while Chelsea are sure to be a threat again under Antonio Conte, Arsenal can not afford to get off to a poor start and be having to play catch up from the very beginning.

Somehow, despite the poor form of the likes of Chris Smalling and Phil Jones at the back, Lindelof still hasn't been able to get much of a look in from Jose Mourinho, who has started the player just seven times in the Premier League, with the last of those coming against Everton on New Year's Day.

Ozil truly started to get into his game this season (he has had quite poor games this seasons by the way), while Cesc had been doing it for Arsenal for several years.

He scored 10 goals and provided seven assists as Leicester recovered from a poor start to finish 12th in the league this year and reach the Champions League quarter - finals.

Fans citing that as an excuse for our poor start this year need to remember that Upton Park was not always the intimidating fortress that they remember.

Shakespeare was only four months into a three - year contract when the board decided to act after losing faith following a poor start to the season.

At goalkeeper, 18 year old Matvey Safonov was given the start last week over veteran keeper Andrei Sinitsyn after a poor game against FC Akhmat, and will hope to start again this week after a decent performance.

Michy Batshuayi has yet to see minutes on the field this year and could be handed a start in place of Alvaro Morata, who's undergoing a poor run of form.

Taking a break from work for a few months or years is not in itself a big issue — yes, you'll be somewhat poorer for it, but unless you were very poor to start with, you can probably weather it.

It's funny I have noticed how burn out often starts out with that that you just start doing more and more asking less and years down the road that you go you are not helping at all why don't you do anything then we have got this poor dad with helplessness that doesn't know really to engage with his children in those ways.

We want to help poor people so we will start the welfare system and we operate the welfare system and there are all sorts of criticism about the welfare system and then thirty years later, someone stands up and says the welfare system doesn't work and we need welfare reform.

The proposal, for the final budget of Mr. de Blasio's first term, provided a blueprint of sorts for a potential second term with big - ticket investments — including an additional $ 1.9 billion in capital spending to create more apartments for some of the poorest New Yorkers — and long - term plans, like tens of millions of dollars to start a preschool program for 3 - year - olds in city public schools, and new spending on homeless shelters.

«We anticipated that kids who had poor English skills at the start due to a lack of exposure at home would be doing well by Year 2, but actually, their poor outcomes persisted.

But Chaffee believes that instruments such as GeMS are already starting to remedy years of poor scientific performance.

Our regular rainfall started to fail and we were seeing dry years, poor yields and more droughts.»

As a result of that gaping cavity, the NRC shut down Davis — Besse for two years (from 2002 to 2004) in an attempt to patch the nozzle that had been leaking boric acid as well as to address design flaws that had been in place since the plant started operation in 1977 and what the agency described as a poor safety culture.

Statistically, 90 % of weight loss has a 2 - year outcome of a return to the starting weight, or surpassing it, with poorer health markers.

After years of looking to lotions and potions for naturally clear, glowing skin, I finally got the results I was looking for when I started eating a nutrient - dense, real food diet, and working to remedy a number of internal imbalances that — like poor gut health, hormonal imbalances, and chronic inflammation — that manifest in the skin.

Unfortunately, due to my rigorous undergrad and graduate studies, career choice, and poor health that started my freshman year in college, I dismissed this dream as a distant fantasy.

However, a couple years ago when I started noticing acne scars and little eye bags due to lack of sleep, poor water intake and an inconsistent skin care regiment, I knew I had to step up my game.

This is largely due to poor starting salaries, however, the report did find that after 10 years experience teachers in England do earn more than average compared to other developed countries.

«We anticipated that kids who had poor English skills at the start due to a lack of exposure at home would be doing well by Year 2, but actually, their poor outcomes persisted.

The Head Start program has needed a radical overhaul for the past 45 years, i.e. ever since its founding and its near - immediate demonstration that it doesn't do much lasting good by way of readying poor kids to succeed in school.

Teachers and administrators who work with children from low - income families say one reason teachers struggle to help these students improve reading comprehension is that deficits start at such a young age: in the 1980s, the psychologists Betty Hart and Todd R. Risley found that by the time they are 4 years old, children from poor families have heard 32 million fewer words than children with professional parents.

With only days to go until the start of the new school year, Connecticut's 30 Alliance Districts, the thirty poorest school districts in the state, still haven't heard whether they are getting the additional funds that Governor Malloy and the Connecticut General Assembly promised them for this year.