Non AMP
Sky Blues Talk
  • Home
  • Forums
  • Coventry City Football Club
  • Coventry City General Chat
This is a mobile optimized page that loads fast, if you want to load the real page, click this text.

Championship thread 25/26! (68 Viewers)

  • Thread starter shepardo01
  • Start date May 14, 2025
Forums New posts
Prev
  • 1
  • …
  • 256
  • 257
  • 258
  • 259
  • 260
  • …
  • 429
Next
First Prev 258 of 429 Next Last

fernandopartridge

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 14, 2026
  • #8,996
Skybluedownunder said:
I remember Sheff Utd last year signed players from AI data but couldn’t recall seeing any of them in their squads each week so I just googled them…

Christian Nwachukwu: A winger signed from Bulgarian side Botev Plovdiv in February 2025. 0 games played so far

Jefferson Cáceres: A striker/winger who arrived from FBC Melgar in Peru, also signed in February 2025. Played 0 games and sold to Dunfermline Athletic.

Ehije Ukaki: A winger signed from Botev Plovdiv in the summer of 2025. Played 0 games.

Mihail Polendakov: A teenage right-back signed from Septemvri Sofia in Bulgaria in June 2025. Played 0 games


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
All the money that's invested in this drivel, honestly the tech bros have had politicians right over
 
Reactions: AOM, mmttww, Sky Blue Pete and 2 others

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 14, 2026
  • #8,997
fernandopartridge said:
All the money that's invested in this drivel, honestly the tech bros have had politicians right over
Click to expand...

If an organisation was asking an LLM in 2024 for signings that’s very much no one’s fault but that organisation. Not sure that’s what it was tho.
 

fernandopartridge

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 14, 2026
  • #8,998
shmmeee said:
If an organisation was asking an LLM in 2024 for signings that’s very much no one’s fault but that organisation. Not sure that’s what it was tho.
Click to expand...
I haven't said otherwise, it still doesn't mean that politicians haven't been had over by the potential capability of AI
 
Reactions: oakey

JSL

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 14, 2026
  • #8,999
fernandopartridge said:
I haven't said otherwise, it still doesn't mean that politicians haven't been had over by the potential capability of AI
Click to expand...
I think everyone has. Not just politicians. People see it as time saving, but its not if you have to double check everything
 
Reactions: AOM, oakey, skybluecam and 2 others

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 14, 2026
  • #9,000
fernandopartridge said:
I haven't said otherwise, it still doesn't mean that politicians haven't been had over by the potential capability of AI
Click to expand...

If we get AI the potential is huge. We do not have AI yet but we’re getting a lot closer than I thought we would. But yes politicians have once again been suckered by Silicon Valley hype men who have been suckering politicians since Gates was hawking Windows.
 
Reactions: skybluecam

Sky_Blue_Dreamer

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 14, 2026
  • #9,001
shmmeee said:
If we get AI the potential is huge. We do not have AI yet but we’re getting a lot closer than I thought we would. But yes politicians have once again been suckered by Silicon Valley hype men who have been suckering politicians since Gates was hawking Windows.
Click to expand...
But isn't the potential problem that AI only truly becomes useful when we don't have to check it? In effect it becomes sentient. At which point we're no longer necessary.

If AI ever became sentient in that manner, I think the only possible sensible conclusion it could come to is that there needs to be a reduction in humans. It's what we've done with species that become overpopulated and are causing huge changes to the environment and ecosystem.

If you wrote down all the things we're causing but changed it from humans to rats, or deer, or beavers etc. you know full well the course of action would be to have a cull, but we obviously don't do that because it's our own species. AI would have no such qualms.
 
Reactions: robbiethemole
W

wingy

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 14, 2026
  • #9,002
Sky_Blue_Dreamer said:
But isn't the potential problem that AI only truly becomes useful when we don't have to check it? In effect it becomes sentient. At which point we're no longer necessary.

If AI ever became sentient in that manner, I think the only possible sensible conclusion it could come to is that there needs to be a reduction in humans. It's what we've done with species that become overpopulated and are causing huge changes to the environment and ecosystem.

If you wrote down all the things we're causing but changed it from humans to rats, or deer, or beavers etc. you know full well the course of action would be to have a cull, but we obviously don't do that because it's our own species. AI would have no such qualms.
Click to expand...
Isn't this what's happening now,let alone the competition with us for power water ect, the globe is going to end up like a circuit board, plug in a capacitor here,a resistor there.
 

skyblueelephant76

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 14, 2026
  • #9,003
QPR planning to move their academy to Category One. Hopefully something we'll look at if we go up.

Queens Park Rangers to apply for Category 1 academy status - BBC Sport Queens Park Rangers to apply for Category 1 academy status
 
Reactions: Sky Blue Pete

Captain Dart

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 14, 2026
  • #9,004
Skybluedownunder said:
I remember Sheff Utd last year signed players from AI data but couldn’t recall seeing any of them in their squads each week so I just googled them…

Christian Nwachukwu: A winger signed from Bulgarian side Botev Plovdiv in February 2025. 0 games played so far

Jefferson Cáceres: A striker/winger who arrived from FBC Melgar in Peru, also signed in February 2025. Played 0 games and sold to Dunfermline Athletic.

Ehije Ukaki: A winger signed from Botev Plovdiv in the summer of 2025. Played 0 games.

Mihail Polendakov: A teenage right-back signed from Septemvri Sofia in Bulgaria in June 2025. Played 0 games


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Click to expand...

Surely there is a lesson to be learned here.
 
Reactions: acs, DazzleTommyDazzle, torchomatic and 8 others

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 14, 2026
  • #9,005
Sky_Blue_Dreamer said:
But isn't the potential problem that AI only truly becomes useful when we don't have to check it? In effect it becomes sentient. At which point we're no longer necessary.

If AI ever became sentient in that manner, I think the only possible sensible conclusion it could come to is that there needs to be a reduction in humans. It's what we've done with species that become overpopulated and are causing huge changes to the environment and ecosystem.

If you wrote down all the things we're causing but changed it from humans to rats, or deer, or beavers etc. you know full well the course of action would be to have a cull, but we obviously don't do that because it's our own species. AI would have no such qualms.
Click to expand...

I mean you have been banging the “kill all the humans” drum for a while so I’m going to say maybe we just don’t let you have the AI
 

Sky_Blue_Dreamer

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 14, 2026
  • #9,006
shmmeee said:
I mean you have been banging the “kill all the humans” drum for a while so I’m going to say maybe we just don’t let you have the AI
Click to expand...
I don't want the AI.

I'm just pointing out that if you were to look at it entirely unemotionally and independent of any bias towards any particular species, as you would expect technology to do, then its conclusion would be 'Too many humans'.

I also assume it wouldn't kill us all off as, like every species, we do have a function within our environment and ecosystem. We just need to manage those impacts. If not nature will, eventually, manage it itself in a very similar fashion.
 

Brighton Sky Blue

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 14, 2026
  • #9,007
Sky_Blue_Dreamer said:
I don't want the AI.

I'm just pointing out that if you were to look at it entirely unemotionally and independent of any bias towards any particular species, as you would expect technology to do, then its conclusion would be 'Too many humans'.

I also assume it wouldn't kill us all off as, like every species, we do have a function within our environment and ecosystem. We just need to manage those impacts. If not nature will, eventually, manage it itself in a very similar fashion.
Click to expand...
Take it to off topic fellas
 
Reactions: Skyblueweeman and Mcbean

Captain Dart

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 14, 2026
  • #9,008
Sky_Blue_Dreamer said:
I don't want the AI.

I'm just pointing out that if you were to look at it entirely unemotionally and independent of any bias towards any particular species, as you would expect technology to do, then its conclusion would be 'Too many humans'.

I also assume it wouldn't kill us all off as, like every species, we do have a function within our environment and ecosystem. We just need to manage those impacts. If not nature will, eventually, manage it itself in a very similar fashion.
Click to expand...
You need sectioning for thinking like that.
 

TomRad85

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 14, 2026
  • #9,009
Signing shite Bulgarians for the Blunts to destroying all humans in double quick time. This place is great.
 
Reactions: AOM, Ian1779, Lamps and 9 others

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 14, 2026
  • #9,010
Sky_Blue_Dreamer said:
I don't want the AI.

I'm just pointing out that if you were to look at it entirely unemotionally and independent of any bias towards any particular species, as you would expect technology to do, then its conclusion would be 'Too many humans'.

I also assume it wouldn't kill us all off as, like every species, we do have a function within our environment and ecosystem. We just need to manage those impacts. If not nature will, eventually, manage it itself in a very similar fashion.
Click to expand...

No that’s your conclusion. Maybe I assume AI will agree with me and we all Star Trek off into the stars? We don’t know, that is why it’s called the singularity.

If you’re asking us to stop researching maths you’re gonna be disappointed like every other person who wished technological progress wasn’t a thing.
 

mmttww

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 14, 2026
  • #9,011


when Off Topic leaks into the Championship thread...
 
Reactions: AOM, Skyblueweeman, torchomatic and 6 others
S

Samueljames1991

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 14, 2026
  • #9,012
AI is great for data analytics but you still need to give it the correct information to begin with.

Probably down to not ranking leagues correctly to gauge quality or something along them lines
 

covcity4life

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 14, 2026
  • #9,013
Nothing wrong with using AI as a tool to scout players but sheff utd is a case of it clearly not being done right

Any club with sense will actively be exploring the possibilities of using AI though
 
W

wingy

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 14, 2026
  • #9,014
There's no satisfaction for the Humans.
 

fernandopartridge

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 14, 2026
  • #9,015
covcity4life said:
Nothing wrong with using AI as a tool to scout players but sheff utd is a case of it clearly not being done right

Any club with sense will actively be exploring the possibilities of using AI though
Click to expand...
Signing a player needs a lot more subjectivity than AI will ever be capable of. It's probably useful for identifying a pool of players based on objective facts but the rest of it will always really need human intervention.
 
Reactions: Sick Boy, mark82, covcity4life and 1 other person

Brighton Sky Blue

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 14, 2026
  • #9,016
fernandopartridge said:
Signing a player needs a lot more subjectivity than AI will ever be capable of. It's probably useful for identifying a pool of players based on objective facts but the rest of it will always really need human intervention.
Click to expand...
You would realistically need an artificial scout capable of assessing video footage alongside underlying data.
 

covcity4life

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 14, 2026
  • #9,017
fernandopartridge said:
Signing a player needs a lot more subjectivity than AI will ever be capable of. It's probably useful for identifying a pool of players based on objective facts but the rest of it will always really need human intervention.
Click to expand...
Agreed. Like I said nothing wrong with using it as a tool. Relying on it would be naive though
 
Reactions: robbiethemole

clint van damme

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 14, 2026
  • #9,018
fernandopartridge said:
Signing a player needs a lot more subjectivity than AI will ever be capable of. It's probably useful for identifying a pool of players based on objective facts but the rest of it will always really need human intervention.
Click to expand...

I said the same about data driven recruitment.
Cra,y not to use it, but crazy to rely on it solely.
 
Reactions: TomRad85

David O'Day

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 14, 2026
  • #9,019
clint van damme said:
I said the same about data driven recruitment.
Cra,y not to use it, but crazy to rely on it solely.
Click to expand...
yeah it identify someone but you still want to do the old fashioned thing and watch them
 
Reactions: Ipad Boro

Brighton Sky Blue

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 14, 2026
  • #9,020
Andy Irving due to join Norwich from West Ham.
 

Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Jan 15, 2026
  • #9,021
Samueljames1991 said:
AI is great for data analytics but you still need to give it the correct information to begin with.
Click to expand...
Until it starts hallucinating and making stuff up.
 
Reactions: blunted and CovRes
S

SkyBluePower

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 15, 2026
  • #9,022
Bet there is already a Ransonsque start up flogging an AI engine driven player scouting tool around the sport .
 
W

wingy

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 15, 2026
  • #9,023
Again where's the satisfaction in/of that?
 
T

Trueskyblue20

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 15, 2026
  • #9,024

Blues looking to sign August Priske ahead of Lille and Besiktas.

Now that would be a statement signing.
 
Reactions: Skyblueweeman and Sky Blue Pete

Ccfcisparks

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 15, 2026
  • #9,025
Trueskyblue20 said:

Blues looking to sign August Priske ahead of Lille and Besiktas.

Now that would be a statement signing.
Click to expand...
Fantastic player. Saw him in person and he was brilliant.

Would have been a great option for us.
 
T

Trueskyblue20

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 15, 2026
  • #9,026
Ccfcisparks said:
Fantastic player. Saw him in person and he was brilliant.

Would have been a great option for us.
Click to expand...

Yeah really good player and a lot of top clubs across Europe were supposed to be interested.

I really think this is our chance to go up this year as the likes of Blues and Wrexham are going to be too strong next year. They will keep chucking cash at players until they have unbelievable Championship teams.
 
Reactions: Saddlebrains

mmttww

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 15, 2026
  • #9,027
Ccfcisparks said:
Would have been a great option for us.
Click to expand...

if we didn't already have three strikers on track for 12-15 league goals each. Simms is scoring while Haji is off it. Asante back soon. Expecting someone to come from that league and bang in a load of goals in the fifteen(ish) games they'd be here for is a bit naive, no?
 

Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Jan 15, 2026
  • #9,028
Trueskyblue20 said:
Yeah really good player and a lot of top clubs across Europe were supposed to be interested.

I really think this is our chance to go up this year as the likes of Blues and Wrexham are going to be too strong next year. They will keep chucking cash at players until they have unbelievable Championship teams.
Click to expand...
Wrexham have a good chance of getting into the play-offs this season, IMO.
 
Reactions: Saddlebrains, fernandopartridge and Trueskyblue20

Ccfcisparks

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 15, 2026
  • #9,029
mmttww said:
if we didn't already have three strikers on track for 12-15 league goals each. Simms is scoring while Haji is off it. Asante back soon. Expecting someone to come from that league and bang in a load of goals in the fifteen(ish) games they'd be here for is a bit naive, no?
Click to expand...
His ceiling is a lot higher than any of the 3 strikers we have, and would be an option in the prem.
 

Ccfcisparks

Well-Known Member
  • Jan 15, 2026
  • #9,030
Trueskyblue20 said:
Yeah really good player and a lot of top clubs across Europe were supposed to be interested.

I really think this is our chance to go up this year as the likes of Blues and Wrexham are going to be too strong next year. They will keep chucking cash at players until they have unbelievable Championship teams.
Click to expand...
Yes to be honest I have said all along we should be in for him. He has Premier League potential.
 
Prev
  • 1
  • …
  • 256
  • 257
  • 258
  • 259
  • 260
  • …
  • 429
Next
First Prev 258 of 429 Next Last
You must log in or register to reply here.

Users who are viewing this thread

  • SkyBlueChrisA moment ago
  • covcity4lifeA moment ago
  • martincov1 minute ago
  • Alan_BE2 minutes ago
  • Major Tom2 minutes ago
  • NortonSkyBlue4 minutes ago
  • TomRad858 minutes ago
  • SkyBlue_Adam8 minutes ago
  • Jamesimus8 minutes ago
  • skyblumatt10 minutes ago
  • SeaSeeEffCee10 minutes ago
  • CovveeBreak10 minutes ago
  • Sbarcher10 minutes ago
  • ... and 4 more.
  • Total: 64 (members: 17, guests: 47)
    Share:
    Facebook Twitter Reddit Pinterest Tumblr WhatsApp Email
    • Home
    • Forums
    • Coventry City Football Club
    • Coventry City General Chat
    • Default Style
    • Contact us
    • Terms and rules
    • Privacy policy
    • Help
    • Home
    Community platform by XenForo® © 2010-2021 XenForo Ltd.
    Menu
    Log in

    Register

    • Home
    • Forums
      • New posts
      • Search forums
    • What's new
      • New posts
      • Latest activity
    • Members
      • Current visitors
    • Donate to the Season Ticket Fund
    X

    Privacy & Transparency

    We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:

    • Personalized ads and content
    • Content measurement and audience insights

    Do you accept cookies and these technologies?

    X

    Privacy & Transparency

    We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:

    • Personalized ads and content
    • Content measurement and audience insights

    Do you accept cookies and these technologies?