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If they were prepared to appoint co-captains then why not appoint co-coaches, co-ceos co-chairmans. Where is the data to say that shouldn't be tried?

Again, I never said I was in favour of our football department making the decision they did. I said the opposite a number of times. However, since it's impossible to run the co-captains experiment as a placebo-controlled trial, you have to conclude that either a lack of empirical evidence means it should never be tried, or that it's a decision that a well run football department (NOT our football department) could reasonably reach from a first-principles approach in the absence of compelling empirical data.

you would measure all seasons from all teams with co-captains results against all teams with single captains.

You would conclude that there is insufficient evidence to support the claim that a co-captain model enhanced the chances of premiership success.

If you're comparing two groups, you're probably testing against the null that there's no difference between captains and co-captains. If you want to test for association, you might find that some cell counts are too low for preferred tests. Depending on what response variable you choose, you may also run into issues with independence of your observations. In any case, it would be interesting to see if you could conclude a significant difference between the two approaches, and to model the effect size. Even then, the effect may be changed or reversed for specific individuals within the population.

This would then be countered with the loss of membership revenue

Projected, and you might have a hard time separating the effect of co-captains from all the other bullshit decisions that have brought so many of our members to the brink. It'd be the straw that broke the camel's back.
 

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Anyone who is going to this, can you ask about the media memo sent that states the club is not to be referred to as 'Port'.

1. What is the aim of this instruction to the media?
2. How effective do they think this will be? More or less than the memo instruction them to not refer to us as 'Port Power'?
3. Or is this a cunning plan to get them to refer to us as 'Port' using reverse psychology?
4. How does this memo reconcile with the fact that we currently have merchandise available with just 'PORT' on it?
 
Anyone who is going to this, can you ask about the media memo sent that states the club is not to be referred to as 'Port'.

1. What is the aim of this instruction to the media?
2. How effective do they think this will be? More or less than the memo instruction them to not refer to us as 'Port Power'?
3. Or is this a cunning plan to get them to refer to us as 'Port' using reverse psychology?
4. How does this memo reconcile with the fact that we currently have merchandise available with just 'PORT' on it?
From now on we're to be referred to as "Tawny".

Hitaf used to include "in no circumstances are we to be referred to as 'Port Power'" with her media releases back in 2000. Worked a treat.
 

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