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10 hours ago, WallisFrizz said:

All true but if we don’t achieve 4th or the cup win, it will take me a while to really appreciate all of that, but I will.

same. it will hurt for a while, and having a summer of piss taking from people saying how we've bottled it won't help

since playing MLB the show 24 on xbox i've come to realise baseball isn't as shit as i originally thought and am keeping an eye on the marlins (only because i'm a bit of a dolphins fan and miami is my favourite of the small number of US cities i've been to)

i don't think i've chosen very well.

1 hour ago, BOF said:

Not that you hardy grizzled veterans would get caught out by it, but beware the 8pm Friday kickoff this week lads & lassies.

i hadn't actually noticed, thanks

7 hours ago, omariqy said:

Would be lovely right?!

I don't know I just get the feeling it will go to the wire. All the injuries we've had and with what happened with 5th not getting CL. Just points towards another twist. I hope not and I would expect Spurs to get a maximum of two points in their next two games. 

i agree i think it'll go to the wire too. we SHOULD beat brighton (and on current form you'd argue liverpool too) but there will be a twist and turn i'm sure.

i don't think it will be as bad as us needing a win on the final day, but i can see it being a situation where we need to avoid defeat

so this is what owning ederson looks like. first time for me. probably the last. another to add to the FPL troll list

20 minutes ago, useless said:

 My excellent post regained

We're in a better position now relative to Spurs than if we had have both won this weeked, and now can't go above us even if they win their games in hand, it's not even guaranteed they will beat both of Burnley and Sheffield United

sheff utd, yes i'd say that's about as safe a bet as you're likely to get

we need to hope that burnley have a chance of survival though. teams fighting for their lives have a tendancy to spring the odd surprise

phew...

37 minutes ago, Delphinho123 said:

Bizarre statement. I’ve not seen anyone post saying they wouldn’t mind selling him off the back of a couple of recent performances. 

as has been said by a number of people, we're right on the line for FFP. failure to get CL means someone is leaving this summer. he's the one that (IMO) we would miss the least of the key players as has been proven in games he's missed

42 minutes ago, JoshVilla said:

I feel like I need to preface this by saying that 7 points out of 9 from Bournemouth, Arsenal and Chelsea is a good return, and I'm sure if we swapped the Chelsea & Arsenal results we'd be pretty happy.

this is a fantastic point.

this forum would read TOTALLY differently if we'd drawn to arsenal, then won against bournemouth and tonight.

3 minutes ago, ozvillafan said:

While I agree that Olsen doesn't inspire confidence, the 2nd half stats were pretty much a repeat of the first - except we somehow managed to score 2.

the 2nd was definitely against the run of play. olsen changes our game play so it's fair that emi going off might have galvanised them, the same way it would if you were playing PSG and mbappe goes off.

southampton are absolutely terrible now. it's 100% the team you'd want to be playing in the playoffs. if i were norwich, i'd certainly not be rolling over vs blues and doing everything possible to finish 5th

13 minutes ago, MrBlack said:

Plymouth is the big one. If they can score...  my word what a day that would be.

apparently they're happy with a draw. someone needs to get a message onto the pitch that a goal and they're safe

7 minutes ago, AndyM3000 said:

The free hit GW34 teams have had the advantage in the end but it can't really be a mistake if it was the right decision before the GW had started, you can't control the results. Very small margins overall with huge variance involved, I played my free hit GW29 because I had about 4 players for it and already had 7 DGW players for GW34, I think it was very team dependent decision for most not because one was a clear better option.

It's a good example of just how much variance plays a part though. Reguilon red card which ruined most the Brentford picks that week and Spurs completely falling apart at Fulham with none of the other main picks even getting any returns at all has to be in the bottom 1-3% of potential point returns, it couldn't get much worse. This GW free hitters were able to gamble on different Arsenal assets like Havertz, White, Odegaard when most have Gabriel/Saliba/Saka nailed all season. Majority of the gamble picks paid off while Haaland was also missing. Everton defenders hauling despite conceding 3xG over the two games and surviving a handful of penalty claims, thinking of that someone should check the VAR guys team for double Everton defence.

I think if you were able to simulate these two GWs again 100 times I doubt you'd get a more polar set of results than the ones we got. 

 

i don't think many could've predicted that palace result either and mateta was one of the best striker options for this week only, but you'd never have him otherwise. stuff like that just massively went against those of us that didn't FH

red eye...dreadful, but annoyingly watchable

want something silly and easy to follow then go for it. but keep expectations low.

my WC draft so far:

definites:

haaland, watkins, isak, gordon, foden, son, palmer (edit: if fit, obvs), a spurs defender (probably porro), a newcastle defender (probably burn or schar)

probables:

ederson, pickford, another spurs midfielder (probably johnson), dunk

no idea:

the remaining 2 defender spaces.

16 minutes ago, Farlz said:

Anyone planning to move on Salah or Haaland? Maybe both?

I feel like I'm going to get one of them out. VVD as well.

100% moving on salah (already done in fact)

no way i'm moving haaland when he's got a double on the horizon and no europe to be rotated for

can't believe i just paid £1 to pump my tyres up. it used to be only 20p

i guess that's inflation for you

51 minutes ago, Milfner said:

DOF mode would be good, getting to buy the players, hire/fire managers etc. 

interesting idea. they don't necessarily hire/fire managers but acting as that middle man between manager and board. like recommending to sack the manager, or rejecting a manger's suggestion of a player, or suggesting players to the manager. working with manager if tactics aren't working etc

rank taken an absolute battering. 40k-80k and counting

42 minutes ago, limpid said:

Are you mistaking BST and GMT too? Do you manage the OS?

ah i see - yes i was

2 hours ago, limpid said:

8m GMT is not 10pm EEST. FFS.

google says it is

think it would've been even later had we been playing fenerbahce. watched the pen shootout vs olympiakos and the commentators mentioned that it was gone 1am there when the pens were being taken!

FM25 will have a chairman mode apparently. am i the only one that thinks that would be really fun? something totally different

Rayner: "tories are obsessed with my living arrangements"

Dowden then makes a shit joke about her living arrangements