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6 minutes ago, BOF said:

I don't know who will come out on top. I just know last time out, they got it right. Which means their engine department are good at what they do. It's just as possible someone else nails the new spec straight off the bat, in which case they get the advantage for the first few years. I just mean that when you throw the cards in the air, you create the possibility for anyone to come out on top. And when you're trying to stop the Red Bull/Max dominance, it would be pretty funny if Max jumped ship right to the people who dominated the last engine change. The odds at the very least suggest Merc will not be far away power-wise when it all starts from scratch again. The only thing we do know for a certainty is Alonso will make a terrible career decision.

Remember when Hamilton jumped ship just before the new regs and came out on top with Merc.

I wonder if he see's the same thing with Ferrari........(ie: has an idea what Mercs and Ferraris new reg development is like as of now...)

33 minutes ago, BOF said:

I just mean the one where Red Bull loses Newey, Horner etc, and possibly Max as a result, and then McGrath knows where it all ends up. Plus the 2026 engine rule change. Basically I don't think people will have to 'suffer' or enjoy Red Bull's uncontested dominance for much longer. Although they may have to endure Max's, depending on how it pans out.

i agree re newey, once he goes, if he ever does, it will be a game changer for Red Bull, he is clearly the best at his specific game.

With regard to the engine, do you really think Merc will have the best new era engine?, isnt the current Ferrari and Red Bull (Honda) engine better than the Merc one now?, do you think Merc will actually be the best new generation engine next time around?, does lightning strike twice?

I do wonder if Merc have lost their way a bit and might struggle even in the new regs, i wonder if they have lost a lot of good engineers etc, and just arent the same team from 3-10 years ago.

The fact merc are currently behind, or mostly level with their own customer teams (McLaren/Aston Martin), is pretty damning for them, massively so tbh, its kinda like Alpha Tauri being level(ish) with Red Bull, or Haas being semi level with Ferrari etc, its pretty poor, to the point i wonder whats going on with Merc, and whether they have the ability to turn it around.

time will tell i guess.

38 minutes ago, Genie said:

That Red Bull’s dominance is turning a lot of people off the sport and something is urgently needed to make it interesting again. The powers that be will be under a lot of pressure to do something.

Even outside of Red Bull being a bit too good at designing cars there isn’t a huge amount of racing throughout the field, and they keep adding more and more shit tracks for racing to the calendar. 

It needs some urgent surgery.

thats fair, but tbh, when hasnt f1 been one sided in the last decade and had many sh*t tracks?

i do see your point, but its been an obvious problem in f1 for years, its just a little worse than normal right now?

1 hour ago, BOF said:

 

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?

 

what precipice are you talking about?

15 hours ago, Delphinho123 said:

This guy is just the pits. Only one more tournament and then he’s gone. Remember that people. 8 years completely wasted. 

thing is, who would the incompetent FA appoint to replace him?, do we actually think they will make a good choice?

sounds like he did well.

Fully expect Sh*tgate not to pick him, and i aint joking.

Feeney & O'Reilly dont seem to be doing too well at Union, both have had injuries i think, and even when available havent played that much from the look of it?

looks like Feeney has started twice, off the bench once, and on the bench and not used 4 times.

Looks like O'Reilly played 30 mins in his first game, the injured for 7 games, still injured by the look of it.

1 minute ago, Adam2003 said:

To be fair that other guy is probably Polish which might work in his favour (the manager who persuaded Cash to declare and was chasing similar second-generation connections has left, right?)

no idea tbh, you could be right?

2 hours ago, sne said:

23/24	unknown injury	Nov 8, 2023	Dec 11, 2023	33 days	4
23/24	Hamstring injury	Aug 20, 2023	Sep 25, 2023	36 days	5
23/24	unknown injury	Aug 20, 2023	Sep 24, 2023	35 days	5

 

https://www.transfermarkt.com/philippe-coutinho/verletzungen/spieler/80444

seems to have been excellent.

At booking holidays and away days.

Does he have a sister or five?, might have Neymaritus.

On a serious note, was it a 2 year loan?, sure i read that somewhere?

Just now, Tom13 said:

He's rotated with Konsa there, often not starting the bigger games when everyone's available, and he's not first choice for Poland either.

thats a weird one, isnt the guy he is competing with, playing at championship equivalent level or something?

19 minutes ago, omariqy said:

Emery’s PPG and rolling 5 game PPG extended beyond this season to show his entire spell so far.

 

i have done something similar, a 5/10/15 game PPG average for 23/24, with conditional formatting for colour coding of PPG etc.

defo had a bit of a PPG drop off over the last 15 games or so, specifically over the 10 game stretch.

Just now, villa4europe said:

I think there is an added laziness to it too, we looked toothless and didn't create much upfront largely due to tactical ineptness which they could analyse and slaughter Southgate in a way that the majority of the general public would be bored by, or they could just write an overly simplistic piece about us not scoring because world class Kane wasn't there,l

too many heads nod along to the 2nd one for them ever to bother with the 1st

They could also write a piece on us looking disjointed without Kane because Southgate overplays kane in needless games vs the lesser teams in the qualifiers but they won't do that either 

ye.

the fact is, Southgate has the tactical nouse of an under 12s coach, im entirely not surprised that he doesnt/cant get the best out of probably the best England squad in half a century.

Just now, Tom13 said:

Come on...

come on what?

19 minutes ago, Tomaszk said:

Huh? He's played for Italy mate.

Donkety Donk has played/plays for Belgium.

Zaniolo may get in the Italy squad.

Coutinho had played for Brazil while he was fit and with us.

Olsen is a Swedish international.

Would you want to keep any of them in the summer?

11 hours ago, villa4europe said:

Scanned over the various player ratings in the rags, it's 5s and 6s

Guardian said England are disconnected without kane

Daily mail said he's just not the same player for England as he is for villa

Neither mentioned the fault of that being big nose... 

no media would mention it, Sh*tgate is a media darling, not one of them would ever speak against him tbh.

8 minutes ago, useless said:

The buyback is only fifteen million if Hull get promoted, it's less if they don't, probably around ten million as that's what Collomose has reported the buyback to be. I think It's pretty much guaranteed that we will be buying him back, but whether we do so to use for our squad or to sell on for a profit is another question

 

Interesting, i thought the buyback deal was "only" if they were promoted.

If there is a buy back regardless of promotion or not, thats good, assuming he would want to come back to us (as he wanted to leave as not a first teamer - so not sure why he would be happy to come back as a squad player......which is what was offered in the summer).

3 hours ago, PieFacE said:

 

:"Him coming back will be like a new signing"  

Crikey, i really hope we can offload him in the summer.

is he locked in to England now?, or does it not count as its a friendly?

On 21/03/2024 at 18:23, KAZZAM said:

20 mill a season is big money but comes at a huge cost of promoting gambling again. 

who cares tbh.

make hay and all that.

6 minutes ago, nick76 said:

@limpid Official confirmation from their side

 

it just says that the player has been invited to train with a PL club for two weeks, nothing to do with a permanent transfer etc.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68580638

i wonder if this might impact their promotion?, 3 seasons worth of breaches they are being charged for (before they were relegated).

2 hours ago, Dante_Lockhart said:

Dybala is coming according to James on Twitter.

who is James?

1 minute ago, StefanAVFC said:

You're right! I can't count  

looking at manures remaining fixtures, and i know they have averaged only 1.7 PPG so far this season, i can see them getting 2 PPG for their remaining fixtures.

However, they could also totally not, you never know with manure.