Sentences with phrase «so middle of last year»

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My baby is in his last year of middle school and it just seems so hard to believe.

1) On the pitch: - we always start 3 -4-3 but always switch back to a back 4... it isn't tactical as we look bad in both - Bellerin playibg LWB when you have the best in the bundesliga last season on the bench - Welbeck playing the striker role when he can do everything but score when you have Lacazette a record signing on the - Monreal in back 3 when you have Kostafi who can flank Per in the middle protecting him against pace as well as having a commending figure and - Telling Xhaka to not play as a 3rd offensive player when Ramsey dashes - Playing a guy in Ox so out of position and persisting with him over preseason as if he would be there for years when it is clear he doesn't want to play for us (his case is a weird one)

We have been patient with a lot of players throughout the years, how bad was RVP for so many years, how many times did we play Sanogo down the middle last year?

Time for some brutal honesty... this team, as it stands, is in no better position to compete next season than they were 12 months ago, minus the fact that some fans have been easily snowed by the acquisition of Lacazette, the free transfer LB and the release of Sanogo... if you look at the facts carefully you will see a team that still has far more questions than answers... to better show what I mean by this statement I will briefly discuss the current state of affairs on a position - by - position basis... in goal we have 4 potential candidates, but in reality we have only 1 option with any real future and somehow he's the only one we have actively tried to get rid of for years because he and his father were a little too involved on social media and he got caught smoking (funny how people still defend Wiltshire under the same and far worse circumstances)... you would think we would want to keep any goaltender that Juventus had interest in, as they seem to have a pretty good history when it comes to that position... as far as the defenders on our current roster there are only a few individuals whom have the skill and / or youth worthy of our time and / or investment, as such we should get rid of anyone who doesn't meet those simple requirements, which means we should get rid of DeBouchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Mertz and loan out Chambers to see if last seasons foray with Middlesborough was an anomaly or a prediction of things to come... some fans have lamented wildly about the return of Mertz to the starting lineup due to his FA Cup performance but these sort of pie in the sky meanderings are indicative of what's wrong with this club and it's wishy - washy fan - base... in addition to these moves the club should aggressively pursue the acquisition of dominant and mobile CB to stabilize an all too fragile defensive group that has self - destructed on numerous occasions over the past 5 seasons... moving forward and building on our need to re-establish our once dominant presence throughout the middle of the park we need to target a CDM then do whatever it takes to get that player into the fold without any of the usual nickel and diming we have become famous for (this kind of ruthless haggling has cost us numerous special players and certainly can't help make the player in question feel good about the way their future potential employer feels about them)... in order for us to become dominant again we need to be strong up the middle again from Goalkeeper to CB to DM to ACM to striker, like we did in our most glorious years before and during Wenger's reign... with this in mind, if we want Ozil to be that dominant attacking midfielder we can't keep leaving him exposed to constant ridicule about his lack of defensive prowess and provide him with the proper players in the final third... he was never a good defensive player in Real or with the German National squad and they certainly didn't suffer as a result of his presence on the pitch... as for the rest of the midfield the blame falls squarely in the hands of Wenger and Gazidis, the fact that Ramsey, Ox, Sanchez and even Ozil were allowed to regularly start when none of the aforementioned had more than a year left under contract is criminal for a club of this size and financial might... the fact that we could find money for Walcott and Xhaka, who weren't even guaranteed starters, means that our whole business model needs a complete overhaul... for me it's time to get rid of some serious deadweight, even if it means selling them below what you believe their market value is just to simply right this ship and change the stagnant culture that currently exists... this means saying goodbye to Wiltshire, Elneny, Carzola, Walcott and Ramsey... everyone, minus Elneny, have spent just as much time on the training table as on the field of play, which would be manageable if they weren't so inconsistent from a performance standpoint (excluding Carzola, who is like the recent version of Rosicky — too bad, both will be deeply missed)... in their places we need to bring in some proven performers with no history of injuries... up front, although I do like the possibilities that a player like Lacazette presents, the fact that we had to wait so many years to acquire some true quality at the striker position falls once again squarely at the feet of Wenger... this issue highlights the ultimate scam being perpetrated by this club since the arrival of Kroenke: pretend your a small market club when it comes to making purchases but milk your fans like a big market club when it comes to ticket prices and merchandising... I believe the reason why Wenger hasn't pursued someone of Henry's quality, minus a fairly inexpensive RVP, was that he knew that they would demand players of a similar ilk to be brought on board and that wasn't possible when the business model was that of a «selling» club... does it really make sense that we could only make a cheeky bid for Suarez, or that we couldn't get Higuain over the line when he was being offered up for half the price he eventually went to Juve for, or that we've only paid any interest to strikers who were clearly not going to press their current teams to let them go to Arsenal like Benzema or Cavani... just part of the facade that finally came crashing down when Sanchez finally called their bluff... the fact remains that no one wants to win more than Sanchez, including Wenger, and although I don't agree with everything that he has done off the field, I would much rather have Alexis front and center than a manager who has clearly bought into the Kroenke model in large part due to the fact that his enormous ego suggests that only he could accomplish great things without breaking the bank... unfortunately that isn't possible anymore as the game has changed quite dramatically in the last 15 years, which has left a largely complacent and complicit Wenger on the outside looking in... so don't blame those players who demanded more and were left wanting... don't blame those fans who have tried desperately to raise awareness for several years when cracks began to appear... place the blame at the feet of those who were well aware all along of the potential pitfalls of just such a plan but continued to follow it even when it was no longer a financial necessity, like it ever really was...

our managers stubborness and reluctance to spend seems to have our fans split right down the middle... i genuinely believe its not the fact that he thinks the squad is good enough its more that hes trying to prove that you do nt need to buy success and by god if it takes him 10 years for this bunch to mature enough to do it hel keep us suffering so he can turn and say «told ya so» to fergie, rafa, hughes, abramovich, etc.the problem is by the time this happens theyl have won titles by spending the question is are all you fans on the other side of the argument willing to wait that long and watch cesc, RvP, arshavin, cliche etc go elsewhere for momentos of their careers.in the time since our last league triumph (also last serious challenge) the team that has won the league most has invested in berbatov, nani, evra, vidic, carrick, hargreaves, anderson, tevez to name a few....

Hospitals have at least improved over the last few years in not trying to take babies away to the nursery so much; but there are still too many bothersome and unnecessary actions in the middle of the night, and too many needle pokes disrupting early bonding.

There is a big circle in the middle of bare grass where my husband moved an apple tree last year, and the patio is split into two, so is pretty useless.

«Over the years we have been downgraded and compared to junior directors of middle - sized companies at the last review [in 2004] but, even so, we have failed to keep up.

Last year a woman living down the street from me backed out of her driveway as if she were Danica Patrick, without so much as glancing behind her to see if there were any Spandex - encased middle - aged men on vintage racing bikes tooling down the road just then.

Love it, our seasons are a bit confused — we had Winter last week, totally skipped Spring (same last year) and we're right in the middle of Summer already... so, we will have a lot of braais soon.

My baby is in his last year of middle school and it just seems so hard to believe.

Oscar opened the Best Picture list to ten nominees last year, not out of guilt for leaving out so many worthy nominees, mind you, but as a way to make sure the big audience - pleasing Hollywood movies that Middle America (in other words, the Oscar telecast audience) has actually seen would find a place in the show.

Constance: It certainly feels plausible that members of the Academy might be drawn to a movie that allows them to demonstrate that they care about the middle of the country, especially after so much of last year's narrative was about how La La Land was bound to win because it's such an LA movie and Hollywood wouldn't be able to resist.

However, as education in California becomes steadily more impoverished and schools become more and more incapable of providing different levels of instruction, the middle class too has begun to bow out of public education over the last 30 years or so.

Porsche comes with a brand new car and they mounted their engine in the middle of the car, you have Ford with four cars, exactly as they were at Le Mans last year, Ferrari did two cars, you got BMW back with their M6, so we know its gonna be unbelieveably tough.

A subdivision really with individual houses, more accidental in design than planned, and in the last year of Richard Nixon's presidency with Watergate the most conspicuous of Washington's monuments, Witchita Hills was self - consciously democratic and middle class, a look of studied poverty about the place suggesting, or so it was assumed among the residents, a new intellectual freedom with responsibility born of the sixties.

In the last few weeks many new e-readers have hit the market, and will continue to do so until the middle of this year.

They think of moments like the one Carol Everett, a certified humane education specialist who volunteers at the Kauai Humane Society, recalls: A middle school student came up to her after a presentation on puppy mills, a spay / neuter activity, and a tour of an animal shelter and said, «We got a puppy from the pet shop last year and I am so sorry we didn't get one from the humane society.»

I failed to get Candy's last name, but the 20 - year - old American from south Florida explained why she ate in the middle of Jamaa el - Fna almost every night, despite the fact that there were so many beautiful rooftop restaurants less that 100 yards away.

And even though it falls within the middle of the hurricane season, only two hurricanes have hit Cancun in the last 30 years — Gilbert on September 15th 1988 and Wilma on October 21st 2005 — so the chances of one hitting during your August holiday is extremely unlikely.

However, by attempting to remake a game that remains precious to adventure gamers worldwide even today, LucasArts has not only faced the tremendous challenge of updating a classic without diluting any of the ingredients that made it so special in the first place, but also the task of improving upon last year's Secret Of Monkey Island: Special Edition, which split fans down the middle with its bold graphical updates and somewhat clunky controlof updating a classic without diluting any of the ingredients that made it so special in the first place, but also the task of improving upon last year's Secret Of Monkey Island: Special Edition, which split fans down the middle with its bold graphical updates and somewhat clunky controlof the ingredients that made it so special in the first place, but also the task of improving upon last year's Secret Of Monkey Island: Special Edition, which split fans down the middle with its bold graphical updates and somewhat clunky controlof improving upon last year's Secret Of Monkey Island: Special Edition, which split fans down the middle with its bold graphical updates and somewhat clunky controlOf Monkey Island: Special Edition, which split fans down the middle with its bold graphical updates and somewhat clunky controls.

The theme of last year's show, for example, was artistic production from Eastern Europe, while this year sieves through the so - called «Middle East».

The smoke from the fires started by nuclear weapons would block out so much sunlight that temperatures in the middle of continents would plunge to sub-freezing levels, even in the summer, and these effects would last for years.

Looking at the first number — 408 parts per million CO2 — we find that the last time global levels of this potent heat - trapping gas were so high was during the Middle Miocene Climate Optimum of 15 - 17 million years ago.

My office is located in the middle of this community, so the last couple of years, we offered up our office for restrooms to be used by the people taking the tour.