Marka Ragnos

18 minutes ago, Tayls said:

This is going to be a rubbish window isn’t it? And I don’t mean just for us. Wonder if trades will be a lot more popular now than actually buying. 

I think it always was going to be just that. We're constrained, and everyone knows it. Another year of trying to hang on. Last year it was injuries. This year it's until the revenue streams catch up with our club's sky-high ambitions.

7 minutes ago, CarryOnVilla said:

Realistic,  it’s Newcastle. We share an almost similar journey and predicament 

relegated together 

both been Steve Bruced 

Highly ambitious new owners 

a few struggling seasons back in the premiership 

massive improvement after a new manager.

both have qualified for Champions League.

both are struggling with PSR 

both want CL qualification again next season.

They might not work out as our direct rivals next season, but they’re are definitely our closest foil

 

 

Very well said. I can't help but like Geordies for some reason, so it never feels bitter with them, but logically, yes, you nail it.

4 hours ago, HalfTimePost said:

I think Ollie gives you something different and a better chance of a goal late in a game. Toney gives you a better chance of scoring a Penalty in a shootout.

This. Ollie is a handful and helps tire out and wear down defenses physically and mentally, too. He's a pain in the ar*e to cover. Like Salah and Solanke, he takes a lot of shots, too.

2 minutes ago, ThunderPower_14 said:

 

Yep. I love him and i'd love him to play for a team I can cheer for, but I also want there to be consequences for a player of his talent being a squad player at a cheating club owned by a petrostate. Fair play to Southgate for leaving him and a few others out.

Absolutely. Players make their choices. He could have been a rich man with all kinds of opportunities without playing for MC. Not saying it's some grave, dark, immoral lapse in his character to play for MC, but it does come with a cost.

It's Arsenal for me. I guess it's the slight history there with Emery and Martinez combined with the insufferable quality of Arsenal supporters and their club's overexposure from the London-based media, which is echoed overseas in a big, predictable way. I feel somewhat less that way about Spurs. The clubs everyone hates (Man U and Liverpool) don't usually feel like rivals to me, for whatever reason. I still don't like them, but not as rivals.

Who do you see as our biggest current Premier League rivals for 2024-25? Not necessarily historical or traditional ones, but not not those sorts of rivals either. It's whatever you say. Multiple choice fine.

3 hours ago, Spoony said:

Do we have many happy ACL comeback stories? Would like to hear some to feel optimistic for them. 

Ask and you shall receive. Case report that gives hope.

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SUMMARY
This case report illustrates and discusses the non-
operative management of a complete anterior cruciate
ligament (ACL) injury in an English Premier League
football player, his return to play within 8 weeks and
problem-free follow-up at 18 months post injury. When
non-operative verses surgical ACL reconstruction is
considered there are many fundamental gaps in our
knowledge and currently, at elite level, there are no
cases in cutting sports within the literature to guide
these decisions. When the norm is for all professional
footballers to be recommended surgery, it will be very
challenging when circumstances and patient autonomy
dictate a conservative approach, where prognosis, end
points and risk are unclear and assumed to be high. This
case challenges current dogma and provides a starting
point for much needed debate about best practice,
treatment options, research direction and not just at the
elite level of sport.

6 hours ago, foreveryoung said:

Sorry forgot the worlds changed, we can identify as a zebra, but cannot give light ITK anymore. 

Forget I said anything

They do have impressive teeth and big juicy tongues.

Three massive players, three massive injuries in 2023-24.

Any thoughts on how you foresee the returns or Mings, Buendia, and/or Kamara unfolding?

I can't recall us ever being in a position where so many fundamental players had the possibility of returning, two of them perhaps around the same time, one later.

How will this play out? What would be some positive signs we should look out for? What time lines do you think we'll be dealing with?

Should it have any effect on transfer planning NOW?

Etc.

5 hours ago, GlobalVillan said:

Ffs, are we on the SHA forum?

I can't believe our player of the season is getting this rubbish on a Villa thread.

 

I reckon the thread in Ollie's own head is far worse. I just hope he moves on, too, and his poor England experiences don't shake his confidence generally.

I think most national team playing is just very, very different from Emeryball.

You couldn't write this melodrama. If Sancho goes back to United, and sucks, I'm sure Manure fans will be understanding.
 

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Jadon Sancho is ready to go back to Manchester United - but only if Erik ten Hag leaves this summer.

‌Sancho has been a huge success during his six-month loan spell back at Borussia Dortmund and the German club would like to sign him on a permanent basis. But Dortmund are faced with two major obstacles in United’s price is almost certain to be too expensive for them to make it happen as it will be in excess of £50million.

And England international Sancho, 24, is reluctant to give up on his United career and still has an ambition to make it work at Old Trafford. But there is also a realisation that Sancho will not have a future under current boss Ten Hag.

 

On 27/05/2024 at 04:00, rbcuk said:

Yeah something is dodgy going on with the sponsor and them making it themselves it looks awful 

I don't know. That's a lot of rabid rage to live up to on the pitch. And it's a little hard to imagine blokes like this in those.

On 29/05/2024 at 15:02, BleedClaretAndBlue said:

 

All I see is a Campagnolo hat, circa 1980, or Mork suspenders. This is what happens when you're old and stuff from your youth starts getting re-appropriated and mainstreamed in unexpected ways.

On 31/05/2024 at 07:01, The_Steve said:

The weird cyan trim and back panel ruin this shirt sadly for me 

 

 

Player on left: "Oh, yeah, luv it. These prints are, like, sound waves, right? Sound waves of Ajax songs, innit?"
Player on right: "Yeah, mate, that's it."

Really hope that Sancho to-sell-or-not-sell drama plays out all summer long. More chaos at United, please.

Jeez, the horror just doesn't stop. Warning -- these are upsetting images. The thing that angers me the most is that this kind of assassination has become totally normalised in little local elections, not just big towns. A lot of the world seems excited by the election of a Jewish leftist woman -- Claudia Sheinbaum -- to the presidency of Mexico, and while the election of a left-leaning woman from an underrepresented group is great in macho Mexico, it's almost surely her party's not-so-secret supporters -- the drug cartels and gangs -- who are behind this murder of a center-right opposition candidate. Things are going to hell in Mexico.

17 minutes ago, Stevo985 said:

I had 6 teeth pulled without anaesthetic once. 
 

That makes it sound like torture. It was by a dentist so totally legit. 

I think that dentist advertises at the back of the BDSM Monthly.

Just goes to show you that true love wins out every time, and anyone who says that Rupe's $10bn made any difference is a real sad person and hater. #TrueLove4Ever

3 hours ago, Demitri_C said:

Im sure i read somewhere there there is something you can get done in the states that allows you to experience the pain women go through during child birth. Why dont you get it done and let us know if it is like that

I remember in "Being A Supportive Dad" class or whatever that called, before my son arrived, they made all the men hold cubes of ice in our hands until it hurt and not let go. The pregnant soon-to-be-mums seemed to enjoy our pain immensely.

My hornet sting all fine now. Immediate antibiotic ointment and ibuprofen only treatment. It basically took about 8 hours for ugly pain to end. Weird. 

1 hour ago, Demitri_C said:

I had a gallstone and that was **** painful.  The worst pain ove experienced- and kidney stone is apparently worse. 

I use to work in urology and i would see huge guys built as **** come in and they would be in unbearable pain. Ergh i hope i never get one

Definitely depends on the stone, too. I’ve had two kidney stones where I needed medical attention, and while they were bothersome, the doctor told me they weren’t all that bad. But my dad had them and was basically like Prometheus getting his innards pecked out by eagles.  

On the subject of bugs ... this is one we have locally,  was startled to learn. I came very close to picking one up and playing with it! It was just sitting on a wooden rail fence at a local dog park, and when I got home and looked it up, I was glad I hadn't touched it. Reputedly one of the most painful bites on earth.

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By the already brutal standards of the insect world, it’s an apex predator, one of the most vicious, pitiless hunters around. Few of our crawling brethren—bees, wasps, even the redoubtable praying mantis—are good bets against it. And that meat it liquefies includes ours. The critter delivers a bite that one victim likened to a gunshot wound. Your own results may vary, but rest assured: it hurts.  

1 hour ago, bielesibub said:

I killed it

Good move. I know they're good for ecological balance and all that, but the damn things pack an intense shot of venom. Not to be trusted.

3 hours ago, mjmooney said:

I think I've only ever seen one actual hornet, in a holiday house in France. I did battle with it and eventually triumphed, but **** me, it was one huge scary bastard, wouldn't want to have been stung by it. 

I think this is a guy who got me. I was lucky to get him to sit for a photo -- not really, I wouldn't chance it. They're called bald-faced hornets and they've got attitudes. About twice the size of a honey bee.

Oh **** oh **** oh ****! Got stung by a hornet a few hours ago, and jesus almighty, it hurts. Please feel sorry for me! It's been a few years, and I guess I didn't remember how ****ing much they suck.

The one benefit is you get a clear baseline understanding of what "sting" means.