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Are you suggesting shots that hit the post should count as goals?

Everton seemed determined to play through the middle despite Toon having four players in there. The only player offering any width was Iwobi and Ancelotti took him off for a CM. Good result for us though.

My favourite quote from that interview: "I watch the team, it's good football. Pass, attack, goal. Top." Seems geneuinely pleased to be here. Love that he says the team he's looking forward to playing against most is the derby against Baggies.

And this man doesn't have a right foot ladies and gents. He's belted that in with his stump. What a goal.

From Deano's presser today.

Whenever I hear him shout 'KEEPER'S!' I'm already looking around to see where our players are for a counter attack, so reassured that I am that he's going to catch the ball.

I'll never understand why after a game where we've put in a really good performance against the best team in the country despite having not trained for two weeks and being **** over by a referee, whilst also being on course for our best season in a decade, people's first thought after the game is to come here and slate our players.

Ready made replacement?

If we're forced to play this then the Newcastle game should be considered a forfeit and 3 points to us.

When you beat Cursed and Defiled Amygdala only to discover that the boss of the root version of the dungeon is.. Amygdala. Again. Only in a smaller room with more obstacles. These dungeons really are a grind.

Whichever one they want to sell skins for.

Yeah I get that, but it kinda feels like the equivalent of a Rockstar easter egg hunt only hidden behind it is all of New Austin (probably a bad example seen as NA was criminally underused in RDR2). I like a good puzzle or riddle or mystery, I'm all for some exploration, some hidden parkour spots, but it just didn't feel very intuitive in Bloodborne. And for me the middle section of the game could've really done with a decent narrative to pull you through, but I'll admit style-wise the game's not really my thing anyway though and I'm mostly here for the challenge. Like I said after the Ebriatas breakthrough (cough) I decided to look up at least the boss locations to make sure I got them all as I wasn't sure I'd bother with a second playthrough. So I haven't missed anything, but I'd have preferred to find them on my own, and I can say for certain I'd have missed Ebriatas, Amygdala, Moon Presence, Logarius, and maybe Laurence - I knew he was there but had to look up how to fight him.

And done. Overall I enjoyed it, I found large chunks of the game post-Cathedral Ward a tad tedious and started to lose interest, but Cainhurst (shame it wasn't longer) and the DLC really brought it back for me. I don't get why it's basically designed to be played with a guide, that's just not how I like to play games. I looked up the Emissary fight after I beat because I beat it first time and felt like I must've missed something, and in doing so discovered how to access Ebriatas, by doing something you can't do anywhere else in the game.. that coupled with how you find Rom made me decide to just break the immersion and start looking stuff up. And ultimately I'm glad I did because it turns out some of the best content in the game is completely missable, entire areas (Cainhurst, Upper Cathedral, Nightmare Frontier, not to mention the entire DLC - thanks @Chindie for the heads up) are missable, and as far as I can tell 8 whole bosses. And that's before you get into the fact that the entire story is basically hidden as well, a lot of the NPC interaction is missable/timed, and most of the weapons are basically only available in NG+ because you get them so late in the game and they're stat restricted. I just don't get it. The camera can be frustrating but you kinda get used to it, the whole game can be a bit buggy sometimes but again you kinda get used to it, but I'll never stop being annoyed at being hit through walls/floors etc. I also kinda wish there was a food item or some sort of out-of-combat health regen, using vials to top off 5% of your HP can feel wasteful, and going through two loading screens to port to the HD and back for a free regen is tedious, in the end i just gave up and went into fights without being full. Credit where credit's due though there is some really enjoyable content, the combat is generally well done and there's tonnes of variation, and way the game continually challenges you, forces you to hone your skills, learn new ones, and ultimately turns you into an unrecognisably better player is a great gaming journey. After killing Kos I felt like I was at my gaming peak, I just wanted to shout 'what else?! put something in front of me and I'll beat it'. And of course two minutes later I got my arse handed to me by the two shark headed guys in the next room over. Favourite bosses: Orphan of Kos, Blood Starved Beast, Ludwig, Lady Maria, Shadows of Yharnam. Least favourite: Cleric Beast, Micolash. Not sure what to do now, don't think I enjoyed the main game enough to play through the lot again, but I wouldn't mind trying some of the weapons and playing through the DLC again. DS3 is on sale at the minute as well but I'm not sure how much I'd enjoy the slower playstyle.

Thankfully none of you lot are football managers, you;'d be out of subs by HT every game.

Orphan of Kos is great fun, bloody difficult but really enjoyable. In fact the DLC has been by far the most enjoyable content of the game for me, the main game was starting to get a bit tedious but this has really drawn me in again.

Pretty sure the ban only applies to PL games so they'd miss the Spurs game. You'd hope Jack should be able to keep out of the book 'til the amnesty - it's his mouth that's most likely to get him in trouble - but I can see us having to cope without one or both of Targett and Ginny for a game.

There's no more reassuring sound in football than hearing Emi shout 'keeper's!' Brilliant point and no suspensions for the Manure game, can't ask for more than that.

Utterly outstanding. Shades of Rotheram away that, Deano going for the jugular again. Such a shame there weren't fans there to watch it. Massive performances all round, but special mentions to: Targett: Ref may as well have closed that side of the pitch for all the chance Palace were gonna get past him today. Watkins: What a performance in that second half, may not have got his goal but we don't win that game without his work rate today. There was a time when we used to routinely embarrass ourselves on the tele. Those days are over. Merry **** Christmas Villa fans.

Matt Targett still at Villa park in 2080:

Cheers @Chindie, turns out the eye of a blood drunk hunter was already in my inventory, like I said, don't know what half the stuff I've got does. Also turns out i'd already been to Upper Cathedral Ward, somehow managed to erase that from my memory, but I guess I didn't have the key for the gate back then. Took down Emmissary who potentially receives the easiest boss award, tied with WoH maybe? And Ebretias, who also should've gone down first time but for the one shot laser attack that it suddenly pulled out at 10% HP. Maybe I just play better after a few festive beers.

I'm not really sure what point of the game I'm at but I've seen people mention doing the DLC before finishing the game, is it quite clear when you're at that point? Seems like a silly question because nothing is clear, obviously. Also seems odd to be trying to avoid spoilers when I have absolutely no idea what's going on story-wise in this game. Nonetheless I've beaten the following: Cleric Beast, Gascoigne, BSB, Amelia, WoH, Shadows, Rom, Paarl, One Reborn, and Micolash. Should I be thinking about the DLC yet? There are definitely a couple of areas I haven't explored, there's locked door at the top of the cathedral tower (although I think I have the key for that now), the area before I got ported to Micolash island, and there's loads of items/keys I have that I haven't used, plus boss names I've seen in this thread that I haven't encountered. Saying that how do I even access the DLC? Fairly certain I have it seen as I bought the GOTY edition, does it just appear at a headstone in the HD when I'm 'ready'? Edit: I've done zero chalice dungeons either, should I do those before the DLC? I feel like I'm maybe underlevelled a bit as well cause I've not done any farming really, I watched a video of the One Reborn after beating it and the guy mentioned having like 40+ Vit, I think I'm at 28.

Don't know why you're all so worried about Man Utd, Leeds have shown us the way.

Do people Google a lot of stuff whilst playing this game? I ask cause I generally like to play games blind, I feel like I get the best experience that way, and then I'll maybe google stuff on a second playthrough to make sure I don't miss too much. But with Bloodborne I'm starting to feel like I'm missing out on a lot by playing blind. I Youtube every boss after I've beaten them cause I like to see how it's 'supposed' to be done, whether I missed any weaknesses or clever strategies - as a side note it's genuinely surprising how many of these 'how to' boss guides are just people eating hits and chugging vials, and even more surprising that it works - but outside of that I've been playing blind, up until Rom the spider thing. I must've spent close to half an hour fannying around at Byrgenwerth, I was convinced there must be a boss because there was a summoning point, I ran everywhere, I went through every item in my inventory trying to find something that might summon a boss, I panicked that maybe the old guy in the chair was the boss and I killed him rather than using an item on/near him, I even took a peek over the edge looking for something to drop down on, until I gave in and looked it up to discover you have to jump in the sea. You know, that thing that kills you instantly anywhere else in the game. And it got me thinking, surely I'm not in the minority in not being able to find Rom? And if I can nearly miss what - as far as I can tell considering it teleports you to Yahar-gul after - is not an optional boss, what else have I missed? I mean there's so many items in my inventory that I've got no idea of their purpose I wouldn't be surprised if I've missed a boss or two.

Every time I start to enjoy this game it does something to annoy me. What on earth is Darkbeast Paarl? Luckily - despite my intitial fears - it's not a difficult fight, but man is it an awkward mess. And that whole area leading up to it with the bell ringers and the giant laser beams, hopefully that's not the direction the rest of the game is heading because running around manically looking for one enemy whilst being chased by half the map, being shot through walls and round corners by magic bullets, and trying to avoid being zapped by a giant laser is not my idea of fun, not even in this game.