Delphouneso

I really want to agree with you OBE, believe me I've tried, but I just can't bring myself to root for West Ham.

I don't think it does us or Fred any favours leaving him on the bench for a year, Cash is obviously first choice and Kesler his long term understudy so I expect we'll sell Fred this summer while his stock is high. The decision will be whether to promote Kesler or send him out on loan and give Elmo a year long extension.

That's more a result of them playing a lot of first teamers in U23 games.

I just don't see the point of putting Ross Barkley on a football pitch.

Unlucky Cooper you prick.

ITT: People who have never had shin splints. It's not a consipracy, Deano isn't feeding us all lies for shits and giggles, it's just a ballache of an injury to diagnose and treat. And it's nothing to do with his **** shin pads.

I mean he might well be travelling to Liverpool with the team but there's no way it's with a view to him being in the matchday squad. I think his issue now will be rebuilding his confidence. Deano saying Wes going down twice in the U23s game was 'nothing' suggests to me Wes basically has zero confidence in his knee, which is understandable and will take time to rebuild I guess.

"Wesley came off in a U23's game but it was nothing, he’s trained every day since. He could potentially play before the end of the season." From Deano's presser.

I don't understand why we have this arbitrary rule that nothing can be looked at if the ref's blown his whistle. That should be a Dortmund goal, but the whistle's gone so What ever happened to common sense?

Is this ref bent? Should be 1-1 and Rodri on a yellow, instead it's 1-0 and two Dortmund players on yellows.

https://www.strava.com/clubs/villatalk There's a VT Strava club btw.

Shin splints is a bit of a catch all term for all lower leg issues so it kinda depends what the root cause is. Honestly though the answer to your question is patience. Ultimately you wanna reduce the impact of your running, so slow down, try and shorten your stride / increase your cadence (it can feel super awkward at first trying to run at a slower pace but with a quicker turnover, but you'll get used to it), foam rolling and calf raises can help, I find rolling the muscle directly on the outside of the shin bone helps, just be careful not to roll on the actual bone. Also try running loops close to your home, the second you start to get any pain stop and walk home, go back out the next day (if you're pain free) and do it again, gradually you'll find the distance you're able to go pain free will increase until you don't notice it anymore.

I'm not entirely sure what is and isn't included with the free version now to be honest, but if they're still charging for the route planner then there's plenty of other free (and better) route planners out there like Ride with GPS, Komoot, Suunto have their own if you have a Suunto watch, I'm guessing Garmin/Coros/Polar etc probably do similar, and I'm pretty sure they all offer the option to download the .gpx file which can then be uploaded to Strava as a route anyway.

Honestly for running I don't think it's worth it unless you're desperate to see where you lie on segment leaderboards since they paywalled those a while back, but the running data isn't great. The cycling data is slightly better but only really useful if you have a power meter. No harm in using the free trial though, just dont forget to cancel it.

It's this, their servers are terrible. Every now and then I get put into a game where everyone's stuttering around at ~5fps, and it's the same for everyone in my squad, so I can only assume it's the entire lobby. It's another thing that seemed to get noticeably worse after CW came out. The killcams often show something completely different to what I experienced as well, either I'll be in cover on my end but wide out in the open on theirs, or I die instantly my end but on their screen they were firing at me for a full second or more but all the bullets arrived at once on my end due to packet burst. They really need a competent competitor but like you say there's not much about til BF6 comes out. Hell Let Loose is coming to console soon apparently but it's not really a COD competitor.

Ben Mee getting his pants pulled down by Ings. Yes please.

I worry for the future of standard multiplayer. They've said WZ is their primary focus now and I fear the yearly MP releases are essentially just going to become content packs for WZ. Although if the rumoured WW2 setting of the next game is to be believed it'll be interesting to see how they go about integrating that. It will also be hilarious when they release a reactive pink anime skin for a Thompson.

Not letting me pay for this on mobile, anyone know if you can buy it after the game to get access to the replay?

The Killcams always look dodgy because they're sped up by about 30% so people's aim often looks snappier than it actually is. Nonetheless as @Milfnermentioned when you're forced to play in PC lobbies there's always that uncertainty. I don't doubt the cheating problem stretches further than obvious aimbotters, I imagine there's tonnes of people just using wall hacks or 'soft' aimbot that go completely unnoticed. I haven't played much since the update but you can have multiple gulags now? Also the current gulag layout is so one sided, they claimed to have fixed the balance by removing the car but now the opposite side is way more powerful.

WZ is in an awful state atm. Yesterday's 50gb patch basically did nothing but re-introduce old bugs and break a load of weapons. Somehow the FFAR/AUG still haven't been nerfed, they're the only guns anyone is using. And if the leaks are to be believed the 'new' map is just a 1980s re-skin of Verdansk. Game's been a complete mess since the CW integration and they seemingly can't/won't get on top of it. But hey, there's a new reactive MAC-10 skin in the store..

It's likely a couple of injuries will be the deciding factor anyway, particularly this season. Though Gary seems hell bent on reuniting the old gang and taking as many 2018 WC players as he can, I've no doubt if fit Henderson, Dier, Trippier, Lingard, Rashford all go despite question marks over all of them. He couldn't recall Stones and Lingard quick enough and Dier would still get picked if his foot fell off.

There's definitely more goals in this for us.

That escalated quickly.

Great goal.

I thought they were working on a J&D remake for PS5? Or was that just a rumour? Edit: Quick Google suggests it was just a rumour.