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Thank McGrath we're home. We've had some nice rests for some, but not for others. I hope the travel doesn't affect Luiz too much. But then it'll likely affect Gomes too. Hopefully Cunha is still out. We really need to win this. I'm kinda confident we can eek out a narrow home win.1-0 or 2-1.

Me and a mate just shared our wildcards. We have 14 players the same, and the one we have different, we had the other person's player yesterday.

Malibu and red* lemonade tastes exactly like Frosties. The hard boiled red sweets we used to live on when growing up. * Which may be a uniquely Irish product. You guys usually only have white.

This got a belly laugh as I wasn't expecting it where I found it

I await your memoirs with damp pants.

And come on now Adding context to a table of cold numbers, especially when you open with "Daniel Ricciardo did alright" is hardly 'caveat police'. Stats are often slightly deceiving without context.

I don't think a 'proper' driver would do much more than Perez already is tbh (I believe Perez is a proper driver). As we have seen with Perez, Max haters aren't long in deciding that actually driver X is no longer proper when the results aren't bearing out their presumptions. Perez was fairly proper before joining Red Bull IIRC. I'd like to see them put a top tier driver in the other seat (something over and above a proper driver). But there are reasons against that too, and they're not just 'Max wouldn't want it'. Obviously I think Max probably wouldn't want it in an ideal scenario, but I'm sure he'd live with it. While Max would inevitably still win the intra-team battle, the other driver would get a larger share of the points pie than a Perez or a Sainz/Gasly/Albon would get, and therefore unnecessarily impact on the WDC race, if not the WCC race. As you say, it's currently the perfect scenario. Not just for Max, but for Red Bull. Why on earth they'd try to rock that boat I don't know. They have the best driver. Keep him happy and he'll win you titles. But I can't shake the feeling we're on a precipice at the moment. One that will probably remove Red Bull from the top over the next few years, or at least it'll give F1 a huge shake-up. The irony is, last time there was a big engine shake-up, Mercedes shot off into the distance and weren't seen again by another team for about 6 years. And who has Max been linked with recently? Yep.

Jesus Rob. Everything OK?

This gets disingenuously trotted out once a year at least. Ricciardo's peak versus a teenager who had the measure of him long before Danny buggered off. It'd be interesting to see the 'when' for those points, podiums and wins. I'd wager the crossing point of one line going up and the other going down cross each other fairly quickly during their time together. Danny knew which way the wind was blowing.

Funnily enough, the music snobbery actually does cheer me up in here. As it re-inforces its own existence unashamedly I will say though, as an actual trance fan, I'm not a fan of Sandstorm. It's a good bit more techno-y than trancey for me, and dare I say the main instrument is a bit too harsh, and the melody lacking nearly any variety even for that often (but not always-)repetitive genre. It did well commercially which should tell you all you need to know (Eric Prydz anyone? Compare 'Call on Me' to 'Opus' and get back to me). Most good trance tracks don't do well commercially, nor should they!

Done

Can't be arsed with that. Don't even know what it is and have no interest in finding out.

I enjoyed the race. Yes in hindsight it was still kind of a procession, but there was still the jeopardy of who would win while it was playing out. Especially with Ferrari's ability to shoot themselves in the foot. Plus there's the novelty, even in a procession, of it not being a Max win. And some good stuff happening further down the field as well as usual. Double points finishes for the Haas, and Yuki with another good race.

It's just a shame the car is so far ahead and then Perez coasts to the win instead.

Weekend results updated.

Ah @VILLAMARV you were googling Mooney T12 Fluorescent nearly 8ft bulb. Silly billy.

One solitary league win in 9 attempts since promotion, and that was a 1-0 from a 90th minute penalty scored by Anwar El Ghazi. We can't start relying on other sides slipping up. We're home, so hopefully it won't be on the back foot which has started to creep into our game of late.

Here's one. Did you know, it is possible to sail in a straight line from England to France!

Yeah for stuff like mountains, ocean depth or aircraft travel, I automatically do the feet to yards to metres to km (and then miles if I want it).

It's often been asked.

Well they're competitive European games so I don't see why they wouldn't.

Not sure it's been mentioned yet, but his 6 goals in the Conference League this season means he's already our 3rd highest scorer in Europe ever. Behind only Shaw & Withe, both on 9.

In a violent nature currently 93% on RT. Very high for a horror.