Lionator

Will be difficult to lose from here

That’s a ridiculously good overtake.

They’re essentially 30-2, the pitch still isn’t doing too much. We can certainly still win this.

Enzo by all accounts sought out the club rather than the other way around.

My socialist king, now tax the profits!

Leading now though, get a lead of 50+ and we’re on top.

Anything under 400 is way under par I think. The pitch has done nothing from what I’ve seen, Holland’s opening spell was just amazing.

Hilarious that Starmer and Macron think that Trump is going to do anything meaningful about Russia, when he’s simultaneously rage tweeting about Taylor Swift. Time to put up or shut up. No sanctions are going to work. We tell Ukraine to take a deal or we mobilise our societies and go to war with Russia to save Ukraine.

Pitch looks a belter so that’s not a bad start at all. Will be happy with anything less than 400 still, Higgins is a superb player.

Flimsy numbers that don’t really indicate any long term trend. It’ll likely reduce in growth rate in the next quarter to closer to zero.

While we’re participating in the abhorrence of what’s happening in Gaza, we can not take the moral high ground on anything. As Trump says, how can we lecture people on what’s morally right?

Trump and Witkoff weren’t raised on the US school of foreign policy, they’re very simple people who tend to go with their instinct and whatever can make the most money. The stuff Witkoff has been saying about Gaza is refreshing, it’s surprising he hasn’t been labelled an anti-Semite, because he’s seeing and reacting to the human suffering that’s going on there. The neo-conservative warmongers have very little skin in the game currently, if there’s anything good that’s come from a Trump presidency then it’s this.

If they didn’t have access to medics, he’d probably be dead. Sounds scary but also fortunate.

It’s wild that they used to race at Aintree. I used to have a duke VHS reviewing all of the 70’s seasons and it used to hypnotise me. The cars and sponsors were iconic, the drivers and women incredibly glamorous, drivers being killed left, right and centre. Truly a glorious era that’s sadly (and fortunately in some aspects) long gone.

Other geopolitical news, it was very funny to watch Witkoff go straight over Netanyahu’s head, negotiate with Hamas directly and immediately get a release. Trump seems to be done with that murderous ghoul.

There obviously won’t be a deal in that case.

One on one Putin v Zelenskyy is pointless and it wouldn’t get anywhere. That’s not how negotiations work, there is an element of theatre in it all. They’d likely only meet once a peace deal has been signed. Ukraine need to get their strongest team together led by Yermak and see who Russia put forward, based on that you’ll soon know if they’re serious or not. If Ushakov (Putin’s right hand man) rocks up then these will be serious talks.

Where have you seen that? It seems like something will be going ahead on Thursday. Both sides have been in touch with Türkiye.

I think Russia would want peace but their demands are completely unreasonable, yet there’s no realistic way aside from outside intervention (which would be risky) to make it happen.

Hence why you might as well do it in the first place? Make them look silly, make them look like the problem.

In danger of being called a Russian shill but does anyone find this “negotiations can happen unless there’s a ceasefire” line a bit daft or completely unrealistic?

Just to say, Marinakis should be in a Greek prison now, and the port he owns has a horrendous past of trafficking. Not to mention how he’s helped get Russian resources in Europe throughout the war to keep their economy going. Abramovich got disqualified despite actively trying to solve the war, whereas Marinakis is actively enabling it.

I think out of Cov, Derby and Forest, Derby are by far the most affable fans. The other two seem to have a delusion about them whereas Derby are generally grounded. We need to do the double over them though.

If only they were that cool.

When you look at it, teams over the past 25 years that have had similar seasons to them are the likes of Ipswich, Bolton, Wolves, Southampton, Burnley. All finished in European spaces on merit. They should be thankful to be in that group of teams after their 30 years of misery. It’s about their size I guess.