TigerTedd

We improved our goals difference more than any of the others at least. Back to having the best goal difference in the league. That could make a difference by the end.

Yes, you are correct. So those games will be dead rubbers.

United are crap. And yet this is the umpteenth time this seeing I’ve heard pundits at the end of a United game say ‘it doesn’t matter how you win, as long as you win, move into the next game.’ United have a decent amount of points on the board in the prem, and it’s got them to 5th, but almost every win has been on the back of a terrible performance and a last minute goal against what should be vastly inferior opposition. You count their good performances on one hand. Whenever they’re up against a decent side, they don’t just lose, they get battered, as reflected by their terrible goal difference. Has any team ever been in 5th with a 0 goal difference? snd yet pundits still blow smoke up them that they’re grinding out results. They’ve been so lucky to get the points they have. Starting with their first result against wolves I think in the first match. If I cared enough, I’d have a look through all their results, but they’re are so many where 3 points could’ve been 1, and 1 point could’ve been 0, off the back of a poor performance. But they’re good luck and table position masks all that. Their true position should be around 12th with Chelsea. Then imagine the melt down in Manchester.

I would’ve actually quite liked gimps (autocorrect, but I’m going to keep it in) to win that one. The extra distraction would just hurt them.

That seems a bit harsh on Hendrick. He’s not that bad is he? Can’t say I know, but he was great for us once upon a time.

And if they don’t have space for Hendricks in their squad, how do they have space for this guy?

A good win today. But it’s still on. If everyone below them wins their games in hand, then they’re only out of the relegation zone thanks to Everton, and Everton are better than them over the course of the season and will pick up more points. Deductions withstanding.

You both make such good points. I’m so torn. Unless you really buy into the necessity of humans being a multi planetary species, and I’m not sure that I do, the only reason to go to mars is to say we did it. Then I can see us not doing it again for generations. There’s not really anything we can do that robots can’t, so why risk human lives.

I thought that when I heard it. EFL had made their decision and our punishment was relegation by any means necessary. Couldn’t pay players more than your average upper conference / lower league 2 club. There’s no way we could stay up.

I agree with like 99% of what you’re saying. Elon is a bit of a t***. And I think there’s definitely more than a bit of vanity about having a city called muskville on mars. Rather than saving the world. Even if that happens to be an accidental side effect. If it’s a vanity project, then at least it has some benefits to humanity rather than just a giant platinum statue or something. but the 1% I don’t agree with is that there is a small window of opportunity. And that’s just because I’m selfish and would love to see a man (or woman) land on mars in my lifetime. Clocks ticking.

I was being facetious. But even Elon’s goal is more realistic than hoping the world’s leaders will ever come together and do something useful for humanity. We’re basically just waiting for crack pot billionaires to make ‘saving the world’ their latest project. But of course a lot of them became crackpot billionaires by burning the world in the first place. So we might be waiting a while.

I don’t think it’ll ever really count if it comes by way of points deduction. Although if Forest end up in 10pts following a points deduction, I’ll take it.

A lot of people have a go at musk for spending his money on space when he could be spending it solving other problems. But it’s not really Musk’s responsibility either way. He could be spending his money on hookers and yachts as many Uber rich people do. He’s decided that the space problem is important to him and he wants to devote a lot of resource to solving it. Many people will say it’s not the most pressing concern right now, but as @Carl Sagan it is, nevertheless, a concern that needs addressing. If Elon doesn’t do it, who will. War, famine, global warming, wealth inequality, etc. these are all problems too. But it’s not only Elon’s job to fix them. There are other billionaires out there who could stick their billions behind these causes (like bill gates is very into his vaccines). Or, heaven forbid, world governments might even try to solve them. But now I’m just being fanciful. At least Elon has set himself a realistic goal.

Snowflakes will survive quite happily in mars. It’s incredibly cold there.

Not a huge step for mankind, but one giant leap for the generations to come.

That’s basically what they’ve done isn’t it. I imagine there’s a specific cheat code on football manager that gives you unlimited cash.

Was that the game we won 2-1 without getting a shot in target (penos font count on the stats).

This sounds like Ed Sheeran’s castle on the hill, if Ed wrote it in his 70s. 😢

That’s the thing. I essentially offer a private healthcare service. I take people’s blood. Why wait 2 weeks for an appointment at the gp surgery when you can come to me and get it done same day. i can get paid £20-£30 for an appointment. Or I can work on the bank at the hospital, which I have done, for 5 hours, taking 12 bloods an hour, for just over minimum wage. By the time I’ve bought a coffee at the Costa, and paid for my parking I’m barely making £50 for the whole stressful shift. I love the idea of the NHS, but i honestly don’t know why anyone works for them NHS. Most of the phlebs that work for me also work in the NHS, because we can’t offer them enough work to be anything more than pocket money. But until we offered them this role, they were supplementing their wage being Uber drivers or deliverers. At least this way it’s basically Uber, but they get to use their medical skills. I employ doctors, nurses, they all earn so little that they need to supplement their wage with private gig work, one way or another.

My view is that he, and anyone who can afford it, are doing the rest of us a favour by using private health care. If you can afford it, you should almost be obliged to use it. Don’t waste NHS resources that can be used on those that really need it, when you can afford to pay for health care. Everyone’s a winner. You get faster healthcare, and the NHS has one less person to look after, so one person gets slightly higher up the waiting list.

I think they lost faith after Black Adam to be honest.

Cancer f****** sucks. And no amount of money can buy a cure. Just ask Steve Jobs. If it’s out to get the king, then get him it will. Even James Bond can’t jump in front of that bullet for him. I was hoping I’d see two coronations in this lifetime, but not this soon. I hope it’s just one of those little melanoma type cancers that can get zapped off and everyone can move on. My dad’s had a couple of those. But I feel like if there was not a lot to worry about, they would have specifically said that. Not giving any specifics implies that there’s nothing good to say.

Granted women’s football is at a lower level, but playing for England in a World Cup final, or winning a euros, has got to be worth something. The pressure on being in games like that has got to put you somewhere on a par with male England internationals. Makes me laugh that Barton, with his one England cap or whatever, has a go at women with champions medals. He’s closer to that tier 5 level than a lot of the girls he criticises.

Seems that he’s like a lot of managers that have a purple patch at one or two particular clubs, and then dine out on that for the rest of their careers.