Lionator

The Martyn Blake/Chris Kaba case is an interesting one. From what we know I think the jury came to the correct decision. In an ideal world he wouldn’t have been shot but we don’t live in that world in those particular circumstances. In terms of the wider picture, I think it would be damaging to tie this case into a systemic discrimination argument (which is a very real problem such as in the Bianca Williams case), the individual factors are so strong that this was a murderous man in a desperate headspace.

He intimidated and threatened people and caused a very high level of trauma. I for one would not like a justice system where people don’t get sent to prison on the basis that they may end up harming themselves once inside, as nobody would ever be sent to prison.

Forest fans are generally the most doomer fans that I know. A few got excited during the Cooper championship run and way back in the Fawaz fridges banter era when they first got money but only in the same way we thought we’d be class under Mandaric when we first got money.

Some of the best people on this forum are Wolves and Watford supporters. Very random but bring a lot to proceedings.

He pushes the limits and is well aware of the rules. He has a ruthlessness that others don’t have. I think Hamilton is a much better driver than Verstappen but Verstappen is an absolute winner, and Norris needs to find that dog in himself.

Bad results coming out the Moldovan election and EU referendum. I would put money on the Russians hacking or corrupting the counting.

Absolutely crap.

What’s happening in Nottingham is really sad. The amount of homeless people and street drug use is pretty wild and like you say, I think Leicester is probably better these days.

I find it interesting that you pick up on lack of creativity and give good justification as to why that is the case. However, we have scored the 9th most amount of goals in the league. So we are creating chances and we’re creating chances in every game we play. It’s an interesting juxtaposition I guess, because I agree that we lack creativity but the chances and goals were create, defies that objective stat. Or an exciting interpretation could be, just how good we could be if Cooper just let the shackles off.

It’s like Starmer campaigns on a message of ‘national renewal’ then immediately goes in hard on austerity. Do they really think that’s going to win them the next election and solve the issues of this country?

The problem they have is that the centrist system that made everybody richer and more affluent in the 90’s, no longer works for the masses, yet they’re all pretending that it does. The super rich are looting the system and the masses are becoming poorer and poorer, with less and less. Quite frankly democrats climate policies are still pathetic compared to most of Europe, even China are doing far more in terms of renewable energy investment. It almost feels like tokenism to me at times.

Some ‘top six’ brains are absolutely cooked. Trying to conjure some conspiracy over the Arsenal red card and Man City goal today which were both 100% correct decisions.

I love the idea that Howard Webb is sat there like some kind of sontaran overlord, manipulating referees into making the *checks notes* correct decisions

I have little sympathy for the democrats, they needed to offer more in many policy areas. The whole system there is a binfire. If they lose, rather than attacking Trump, they need to start again and restratagise and offer something for the masses.

The only consolation for me would be that the neoconservatives would probably be done forever but that’s me clutching at straws and I realise the alternative may be just as bad.

I know it doesn’t work like this, but looking at the nationwide polls, in 2020, Biden was leading by about 7-9% which was enough to win. In 2016, Clinton was leading between 3-5% which ultimately was not a big enough lead to take the electoral college. This time around Harris is leading by 1-2% and that lead seems to be reducing in the past few weeks. I really think it’s going to be difficult for her to win. 538 gives Trump a 52% chance of winning. It is a toss up but the trend is not good for Harris

One thing about Winks. He was played into the ground last season and massively fatigued by the end of the season. Managing his minutes and rotating in midfield may not actually be a bad thing.

If we win 6 of our last 30 games, do you think that’ll be enough to stay up? That would be 27 points plus you’d think 6 or 7 draws. And I’d like to think that would be a worst case scenario.

It surely is a diet thing. I’d love to know if this is a mainly British/American trend. If the southern European countries aren’t seeing the same issues, I really wouldn’t be surprised given their reliance on whole foods.

We did it three weeks in a row in 2015/16

If Man City and Forest do a job this weekend and we win on Friday, we’ll be 9 (NINE) points clearly of 18th, at this stage. That would probably be way beyond what any of us could’ve hoped for.

We like to think that Enzo would’ve got us off to this semi decent start (and I think we would) but we would’ve also become unstuck in more games too. The one thing even compared to Enzo that Cooper deserves massive credit, our players are clearly mentally stronger this season.

Lando is just not good enough to win a world championship yet imo. A champion driver wouldn’t throw away second like that.

The unfortunate truth is that Ipswich and Southampton have played much more expansively than us and are really, really struggling. Burnley and Luton did the same last season and really, really struggled (Sheff Utd were just crap). To stay up, it’s likely that you’re going to have to play pragmatic football such is the nature of the beast.

This will be a dogfight. They play a similar brand of football with a more tactically astute manager and probably better players. We can win it and it’s one to really get stuck into as supporters.