T-Dog

We play a different game with Emi in the team. A completely different game. Olsen is adapting to that, and bar a couple of bad passes, he did okay. The fact that Emi has the most time on the ball in the Premier League this season shows how important his role is. Some of his shot stopping is dubious, and I think Emi probably saves 1 or 2 tonight, but if we didn't have Olsen, who else would have playing the semi final of a European competition? Some of the criticism is unfair, he's clearly improved a lot this season, and he's NEVER going to be Emi.

Let's put this to bed. McGinn did the 'pick the ball up, let the opposition get in his face and put him' trick that we're all used to, worked a treat. Dougie then took the ball, with a little bit of shit from their players still, but not like McGinn had, still fine. Then as Dougie is stood their waiting to take it, Diaby gets involved in a minute long tussle with their defender and the ref about where he's allowed to stand on the edge of the box. Diaby, who's probably one of the quickest on the pitch, getting into a push and shove about standing on the corner of the D in the penalty box. The pen was 2 inches away from being a great penalty, Dougie had another minute of standing around to take it because of our own player being a bit of a fanny. The rest of his game, dogshit, no argument. But I think you gotta be fair on the penalty tonight.

He's 20 years old and getting into the first team during our best season in however many years, someone at the club rates him given we let Donk go and I don't even know where Chambers is these days. If I was 20 and playing in a European semi final, I'd probably be shying away. He probably expected to be playing Championship football again this season, and now he's on a stage he could only ever dream about. I like him, I hope he makes it.

I'll never understand the criticism of Cucurella - He's a bit maverick at times, but he's not a shit player for a mid table team. But anyway, UP THE CHELS for tonight (and that's the only time I'll be saying that in my life). One step closer.

Couldn't see what was going on but fair play, what a hero, hope whoever it was pulls through.

Mistake for the goal, but a menace going forward. I said to my mate, he seems to be one of those players that plays better when it's a more intimidating atmosphere, whereas some of the others seem to shrink away from it.

They set up to stop our midfield playing, they didn't allow the half turns in the first half, and they cut off all the passing channels. Granted, he was poor, but I think we played into their hands a little bit with how they set up. Neither SJM or Dougie had a good game, for the same reason.

And also, what the **** was he playing at before Dougies pen? Why get involved with that shit at that stage in this game?

He was shite, where is all this praise coming from? I've never seen a player bottle so many 50/50s, make so many poor decisions. The fact that Rogers looks the better player says everything for me. Expect a lot better from him in these kind of games.

Hmmm a lot of food for thought there, thank you

Anything in the back pocket (ooer) is dangerous. I'm strictly a front pocket man.

A girl I was seeing a couple of years back argued that even if you lived the perfect life, it couldn't not be selfish. Even if you gave everything you had, time, energy, love, money, effort to everyone else, you're still doing it as an act of self interest. It's a hard thing to not argue. Nice girl, bit mental in the head, but a cracking pair of tits.

Having seen the damage caused by government cutbacks to front line services, and the plight of the families affected in Dudley and the Black Country, and the absolute shitshow of the local authority with their hired consultants on £100s a day to tell someone that can't read a spreadsheet that there's no money left, because, er, it's been spent on consultants, I hear this 1000%

Diaby - MOTM? Absolutely no way. Took his goal well, every other touch he looked like he was playing in flip flops. Gotta be Cashy or Rogers for me.

Apart from the smoking weed, this is how I'm feeling I think, just living a life of chaos all of a sudden. I don't really know how it works but my mindset is definitely not what it used to be.

Great reply, thank you

No. Spicy ketchup, maybe. Not vindaloo you animal. Although, a vindaloo full of breakfast food, on an evening... Bacon, sausage, tomatoes, hash brown (not chips), possibly an egg, but would have to be boiled. I'm in.

He's the most flip flop plastic rat in the media for supporting teams. I hope we finish 5th now just to prove him wrong. (I don't, but I do dislike him and his opinions)

I think Ronnie's resurrection shows most of the fatigue in the sport is mental fatigue. There aren't very many 'healthy' looking snooker players, never have been.

Incredible work. Don't demonise bread, unless you're eating 10 slices a day. It's very easy to replace those carbs with other equally shit calories. Some may say buy better bread, not really my ethos, but I get it, but if you're doing bread, pack it out with protein and salad. Two pieces of bread with a massive load of piri piri chicken and salad in it is a great lunch. Two pieces of bread, covered in butter and dipped in gravy, less so. And, never trust a swimmer. I'd rather paint the garden fence than swim. I fell off every single routine (not just the gym, but literally everything) after a festival in Feb, but back it on Monday. I've give myself a few days to get everything else in check so I don't need to need to worry about much else, and then it's back to the 5am Power Hour, leeeeet's goooooooo

Anyone playing this years game found that there seems to be a big 'memory leak' the longer you go on into it? I've never noticed it before, but it feels like every season it's getting ever so slightly slower, everything from loading the Scouting screen, the post match press conference to the main menu and to loading the next game. I know it's pretty data heavy, but CPU stats seem absolutely fine when I look at the usage. It definitely felt quicker at the start of the career, and even our network game seems to whizz by when compared to my one player game.

Roasties have a much better place on a breakfast over chips. Although, if you've ever (middle class siren) made a potato rosti with your left over roasties, and had that with your breakfast, that is a game changer. Some diced onion, bit of garlic, couple of runny eggs too, get in me you dirty bastard (kw)

Genuine question - Is that sarcasm? Didn't he get called out for being quite "handy with the inhalers" for Sky? 1% better by doping, isn't 1% better, it's 100% cheating (not that he'd be the only one in cycling tbf)

Whilst the point about running in Zone 2 is true, I thought it was proven that the overall difference was considered almost pointless unless Calories consumed was restricted too? (This was a long time ago, but I'm sure there was a whitepaper on it). For someone running at Zone 3 and eating normal food, the overall % of 'fat' calories burnt was usually lower, but overall calories burnt was higher, which meant the total 'fat' calories was about the same? I might be wrong, but I definitely remember reading something about it, but this could've been 10+ years ago. But also, there's a million other reasons to run at Zone 2 anyway, not always, but definitely embrace it. Running at that Zone fixed so many problems for me, with injury, stamina, even just the desire to run.

I'd bite Wolves arm (leg I guess, being a wolf) off if Lemina became available for a reasonable price. He does come across as a bit of an arse, but I rate him.