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Have a funny feeling this could really go either way, both up-and-coming managers with different styles, expect Wednesday to turn up and give us a good fight, but they could very easily capitulate early and drop their heads. Do like Danny Rohl though, hopefully, the first half will be entertaining.

I think if we utilised his talents better he easily could be one of those players we dread losing (at a higher level than this) He’s done really well and he’s definitely our most influential player in terms of controlling the game, but I still think we waste a lot of his talents at present, hopefully Enzo can find a way to unlock his full capabilities.

Great result, happy I chose to not watch most of the first half as once again it sounded awful, wasted far too many chances again but were comfortable.

Casadei needs his loan cancelled in January, need a replacement.

It's almost like we've transitioned from a side last season that was individually good but poor team cohesion, to this season having quite strong team cohesion but very little individual bite to make it count or make the right final pass/shot

It's always good, if you don't like it you just don't understand it, I think that's how it goes

Exactly, this whole race was a giant learning experience, suck up the cost and gain public trust, they have already pissed off most of vegas for the amount of time it’s taken disrupting the area building the track, this just makes them look even more greedy when fans who have supported them have to sue them or at minimum seek legal advice to get a refund. It should have been immediate. Doesnt seem to matter what it is, the FIA can do an amazing job on something but always manage to make a decision somewhere along the line that leaves a sour taste in the mouth.

Class Action lawsuit has been officially filed against F1 to recover money spent on FP1 tickets. The fact it even got this far is a bit shameful, the FIA sold tickets to an event and they did not deliver said event, the tickets should have immediately been refunded without question. The FIA offered a $200 discount in the gift shop but only for those who held single-night tickets for Thursday, according to CBSNews the majority of fans there had 3-day passes. https://www.autoweek.com/racing/formula-1/a45882538/f1-liberty-media-sued-over-las-vegas-debacle/

Sounds like most footballers tbh 😂

Great race, hopefully that shows the potential of this race, the overreaction about the track before a car had even taken to it was very silly tbh. One of the better races this season, will improve year on year and provided loads of overtakes and battles.

Massive shame, Lewis was driving such a huge race so far, 10th>17th>6th>19th

Not sure 5s is a sufficient penalty. He’s just going to pull away, he doesn’t care. He really needs to grow up and get over this “yield or I’ll crash into you” attitude. Should have been forced to give it back and let him fight for position.

Lando

Max Verstappen special 😂😂😂😂

I'm slightly annoyed with myself because I have spent the last day or so livid with the FIA and calling corruption and generally talking down the FIA over the Sainz situation, and now that I reflect I think it's a bit more nuanced and it's annoyed me as I wanted to be angry with them Would be interesting to get some opinions on this. We know Sainz has been hard done by, he does not 'deserve' the penalty. However, imagine for a moment they decide to waive Sainz penalty as per the regular rules on part changes, and now Sainz goes into the race with brand new parts on his car with no penalty, why does Charles deserve to race against his teammate who now has a potential power advantage just because of a mistake made by the contractors who laid the track and obviously failed to test it properly? (obviously, the buck stops with the FIA on that) And say for example in practice next week, Yuki makes a mistake and smashes into Checo, and Checo needs a new part and then takes a 10 place grid penalty, how would that then be fair if he's also a victim who did nothing wrong but Carlos had his penalty waived? The difference is that both Sainz and Checo are victims but one was the track and another was another driver, but is that enough to punish 1 driver but not the other? I feel for Carlos a lot and I feel like maybe a 5 place penalty would have been fairer and a minimum of compensation for the replacement parts, or the other alternative could have been to allow everyone on the grid to have the option to replace the same new parts as Carlos penalty free should they wish? I appreciate in the analogy I gave there is a difference between a racing incident or a driver making a mistake compared to the track falling apart, but for the impacted driver there is no difference right? so how could you treat those situations differently without ending up with protests etc.

He's been a bit of a dick all weekend so far

From what I’ve heard drivers are confident of good overtaking opportunities, lots of fast straight and very slow corners to send it down, I wouldn’t be surprised if this track is in the top 5 for overtakes but could easily be wrong. There’s a few low grip areas of the track especially turn 1 so I wouldn’t be surprised to see a few dive bombs tomorrow

Great quali in the end. Great to see Logan put in a good performance he’s needed that. I think ultimately in rookie seasons you should judge them on their peak performances rather than their consistency. Hes got talent just needs to turn up more often next year if he still has a seat.

Listening to Brundle commentate a lap is quite mesmerising, hes so good at it

Hamilton struggled all weekend, Perez again though, bloody hell checo.

Regarding Vegas there’s obviously a lot of issues going on but I think Vegas is an entirely different beast compared to any other track in the world and the sheer amount of disruption being caused and planning that has been needed was always going to throw up issues, the track problem for Carlos happens and it’s hard to test for this stuff regarding simulating the downforce I would imagine, it’s not good enough obviously but street tracks are not immune to it and it’s happened in Monaco, Baku and Barcelona before. I think a lot of the issues right now are teething problems that won’t be present next year as they learn. The Carlos Sainz debacle is just disgusting really and I really feel for him, he’s done nothing wrong and there needs to be an urgent review of these rules really. Overall I’ve been really excited by vegas, it can be cringe and it’s definitely more of a spectacle than an event purely for racing, but Vegas does it big and as f1 spectacles go this is the biggest. Track has multiple good opportunities for overtaking, hoping for a few upsets in quali if Fp2/Fp3 are anything to go by!

Just finished the first Ep of the Brawn GP series, recommend it so far it was a great first episode, captures the desperation the team had in those early months quite well.

Yeah agree with that, I think Winks may actually improve with a step up in level too, if we get promoted he obviously won't have the ball so much and won't be able to dominate the tempo of the game as he is now, but the time he does get on the ball if we go up would be more valuable to his skillset I feel, as instead of him getting the ball and recycling it sideways or backward because of the deep block ahead of him, he will actually have more space to play into in the premier league. So as strange as it sounds, I think Harry Winks can improve by playing in a harder league regarding the effectiveness of his contributions. He's been incredible at this level but I think he's got much more in his locker.

Yeah, I think this is partly what makes the step up to the premier league should we get promoted largely "unknown" from a tactical perspective because right now we are enjoying so much possession of the ball, if we go up, we will likely drop from 70-80% possession to 45-60% based on opponent. I think the level of opposition is one of the reasons we have so much of the ball and struggle to break down the deep block as they tend to just sit back and setup not to concede. So right now we are learning the foundations, but next season's tactical approach might have to change quite a bit given the opposition is much stronger. There is no way we will be "wearing out" premier league teams in the manner we are now should we get promoted. But with that said, premier league teams won't be sat in a deep block parked outside of their box so you could also argue that our offensive tactics might actually work better as the strikers and wingers won't have a sea of opponents in front of them all the time.