Finnegan

You probably need to look more in to the indie game market, some of the best games that exist are indies these days and a lot of them are extremely nostalgic and tailored to our generation of gamers. A lot of the main stream AAA games that get a lot of hype are extremely cinematic, yeah.

Now I feel bad for not offering more poll options for the neurodivergent.

He's not doing great in this one tbh mun

I assume anyone that doesn't like cheese got lost here on their way to the Depression thread. How do you live your life like that.

Ugh, it's over boys, pack it up. The middle class have just come and gentrified the thread. Just needs Daggers to turn up with red wine pairing suggestions and we're done.

Fixed that for you

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Go sit in the corner with the tuna lovers.

This guy spuds. Putting the cheese on top might look more appealing but then you just lose the cheese everywhere and the potato sees none of it.

Sometimes I like to just throw a grenade and walk away.

Foxestalk. It's lunch time, it's cold, you've got a freshly baked potato, a tin of beans and the necessary six tonnes of grated cheese. How are you assembling this?

Under normal circumstances, Vards playing for another Premier League club would be awful. But the sheer memes of United lining up up with Jonny Evans and Harry Maguire at the back and a front two of Calvert Lewin and a 95 year old Jamie Vardy would be ****ing incredible.

It's a ****ing shit hole and a morgue. I'd go on record calling it the most over rated ground in British football. "ItS tRaDiTiOnAl" no it's just ****ing decrepit and literally the only time Everton fans make any noise there is when they're playing Liverpool. If it was in any other city the media wouldn't give a shit. It's basically just Turf Moor with a few more seats and at least the Burnley fans give a shit.

I'm not sure people genuinely believe that, they're just being dramatic because they're upset.

It really doesn't matter does it let's be honest. We've no ****ing chance.

In fairness that is a terrific opening shot and I'm nowhere near as big a degenerate pervert as @The Bear

What is he meant to say? "Look, I know the lad is League One standard but we're perilously short on players and they wouldn't let me sign anyone even if he was sold"?

No, Sherratt won't be permanent. Or at least, it's possible that in a few months time, the WRU realises nobody of the quality they're hoping for wants the job and that Sherratt is doing OK and they may test the waters with a slightly longer contract. But I doubt that. He's just convenient and local. Gatland is just past it. The best comparison I can make to football (in fact, it's a very, very good comparison - they're similar in a lot of ways) would be Jose Mourinho. Used to be one of the best in the world but he's just long past his best. We need fresh ideas, a more modern tactical approach, a coach that's more in tune with the current generation of players and has a hunger to prove themselves and compete. The squad has lost so much talent after the world cup and this generation is nowhere near the last due to myriad failings by the WRU but you'd still expect the players we have to be far more competitive than they have been. It's been a mess. Was only a natter of time before he went. My personal shout would be Easterby, if he wants it. Given there aren't any current, upper tier, Welsh coaches he's as close as we get (100% honorary Welshman.) Good experience working with a very succesful Ireland, popular in Wales, would be coming in to head coaching at the right time. Think the other names we're likely to eye up, guys like Cheika and Rennie, aren't really realistic. Franco would be alright but I'm not sure he'd take it to be fair.

Yep, this quote make me actually laugh out loud.

The Tories only ever suggested it in the first place to appeal to white working class voters. It was just populism, it's a fluff bit of policy that would never have actually done anything but the Tories get to pander to salt of the earth football fans. If a Labour government actually brought in a regulator designed to protect fans and clubs from billionaire owners there's a danger they might actually do something the billionaires don't like (which is hilarious while New Labour 2.0 is in power let's be honest.) Badenoch can't be having that.

My joy will last until Rob Howley is appointed interim coach

You don't win a Premier League title through luck, in fairness. We did (probably still do) a lot of good things as a football club. The problem we have is that regime change at a managerial level makes a drastic impact on us because the important decision making is made too low down the club's hierarchy. There's a bit of a myth here that Brendan Rodgers somehow managed to wrestle too much power. Whilst it's true he wielded too much influence and tanked the club with it, the idea that he's unique in having this level of control or that we gave it too him exclusively is wrong and the evidence was there years before. Pearson, Shakespeare and Walsh built something absolutely brilliant. Recruitment, sports science, nutrition, even sports psychology were all modernised and brought up to elite standards. Pearson had the image of a dourist and a bit of a caveman in the media because he was a hard nosed, English, ex-centre back with a military haircut and no style that didn't like them. But the reality was that he was an extremely progressive intellectual that moulded the club in his image. Claudio Ranieri, long before Rodgers, deconstructed a lot of that. He revised the nutrition based on his traditionalist, dated methods, he had no idea how to manage recruitment (because most Italians are reliant on a DOF model) and he even famously binned off the sports psychologist. Pearson handed him unprecedented success and he dismantled it in a manner he should never have been allowed to. The same ebb and flow between Puel, Rodgers, Maresca and Cooper is just that pattern happening in cycles again and again. So I suppose it depends what @Bilo means by well run and at what levels of the club. I don't think we, as a club, were lucky in the Pearson era (for which, I think most of us agree, you can slightly include 15/16.) Vichai tried big, famous names, realised it got him nowhere, brought Pearson back, listened to him, invested in him and let him build the club. It was good judgement and Pearson ran a good footballing operation. To that end, I'd say we were well run. But you're also right in that, from the boardroom, we've made some howlers and yeah there has been a certain amount of luck involved because when your club is run at the manager's level then you roll the dice every time you recruit one. United are the text book example of this. SAF was the greatest ever football manager in the old British idea of the job roll, which Pearson largely conforms to. He literally ran United, often not even bothering to actually lead training himself or even attend. But they refused to conform to a modern model after he left, as we've done really, and so they roll the dice every time they hire. The problem being that year by year, generation by generation, there's less managers out there to recruit and more head coaches. Especially when you recruit from overseas (which is probably a large part of why we look domestically every time we hire.) Most people that want to be head coaches in the Premier League these days expect to be able to be a Guardiola, a Slot or a Klopp, come in and hyper fixate on coaching the first team and not have to worry about everything else that goes on with it. You can't do that at Leicester because we don't have staff to take care of all those other components of the footballing side of the club because Jon Rudkin is largely just an administrative senior manager. By all accounts, a pretty good one as well, which is what makes the entire thing more difficult and absurd, because he's apparently well loved in house for doing the job he's been asked to correctly. Just, it's the wrong job for the title and for the club's success.