Finnegan

Yeah absolutely, don't get me wrong, it's a good game and it'll appeal to basically everyone but that's sort of the point. So many genuinely good games these days get review bombed or attacked because the capital G Gamers find some reason to call them woke or get offended by some hint of inclusion or diversity in there somewhere. Where as Clair Obscur has you playing as a handsome but slightly nerdy white man leading a team of beautiful waifus that you can buy the deluxe edition to put in hot pants, fishnets and thigh highs. It's just that unlike terrible gooner bait slop like Stella Blade, Clair Obscur also manages to be a really good game that normal people will also enjoy.

I've played about seven or eight hours, I'm really enjoying it, it is damn good. I do think the user scores are it being love bombed by a very specific type of gamer, mind.

That ****ing troubadour

A tier above technically. Not mentally. This is the problem, Rodgers loaded up all of his prioritisation in to players perceived as technicians with no care for what their other flaws were. It's also not a good approach when you're signing an entire squad this way. Using Tielemans as an example again, I think he's a little bit soft. I think he's a hard worker, I think he's extremely professional and a grounded guy. There's a lot to like about Youri as a sportsman and a human being. But he's got a bit of a soft streak to him, his head drops too easily, he's not a fighter, he'll roll over when it gets difficult. You can carry a player like that when he's surrounded by a squad with good leadership, good culture, good management. Villa haven't filled their squad with the same personality over and over and Emery is a phenomenal leader. Rodgers had the hubris to think he's God's gift to leadership and coaching and that he could fill up his squad full of these personalities and "fix them". But this is the same man that then started crying about a lack of leadership and fight whenever they lost a game. He's ****ing useless, he's not the coach he thinks he is and it cost us enormously because every player we signed had the same soul. Kristiansen might be the only player we ever signed in the Rodgers years that is a true scrapper and ironically he's technically useless haha. As with all things in life, it takes balance. We've got none.

You're looking at it too logically. He's a fifteen year old kid and fifteen year old kids are largely impulsive, immature and in a rush to get on with their lives. Not to mention he's going to have Man City and Liverpool scouts in his ears telling him it's now or never and they're going to change his and his family's lives. Plus, come on, at this club there's no guarantee he's going to get a season of Championship football anyway. We said the same about Braybrooke, Alves and plenty of others before them.

Our club definitely isn't a model of perfection and we have made some horrendous recruitment decisions by putting too much faith in poor managers, Rodgers in particular. But I do think, in fairness, we as fans do forget that there was a major pandemic. We are almost certainly the Premier League club that was MOST significantly hit by covid. It came at exactly the wrong moment for us, we'd just spent all of this money to try and bridge the gap to the top four and then wham. To make it worse, we're one of the clubs most reliant on match day revenue. Our commercial revenue was miles behind a lot of the teams we were above, let alone the ones we were trying to reach, then that rug got swept entirely from under us in a manner that literally nobody could ever have predicted. I hate to sound like I'm overly defending Top because he's made some business decisions that are frankly unforgivable, in particular the fact we still don't have any modern sporting director in sight and if it's true he's the main drive behind us getting RVN after his dad make the same mistake with Sven then that's ****ing shameful. But it does mitigate just how bad we've been over the last five or so years and there's some validity to it as an excuse.

The two things aren't mutually exclusive and we should be angry about both. We should be annoyed at the advantageous position we've thrown away and we should equally be annoyed at the rules specifically designed to kick the shit out of clubs like ours that dare to spend. I've always been confused by why people on here - in both camps - argue back and forth using these two things as counters to the other. It's a bit like the people that thought we shouldn't be angry at Everton and Forest for surviving by cheating at our expense and not getting points deductions in that season. Yeah we ****ed up and that's bad and we should be angry about it but there's also nothing wrong with wanting just laws. It's OK to be annoyed at both at the same time. Edit to say I'm not targeting this purely at you but @urban.spaceman just as much and anyone else that's had a back and forth like this over the last couple years.

I partly think the opposite, I don't think enough of our fanbase truly appreciate just how important good man-management is and how devastating bad man-management can be. It's not entirely an excuse but I do think dismissing all those players as lazy or not caring is over the top. I can well see JJ, Soumaré, Daka and Faes in particular going to other clubs and having careers that will frustrate Leicester fans. Think Tielemans is another good example of this, he's thriving at Villa under proper leadership. Rodgers just did so much damage to the psyche of this squad and a lot of them never properly got much self belief back. You could see it in Daka last year, first bad game and he fell straight back off a cliff. That said, there's also a point to be made here about the mental fortitude it takes to be an elite athlete and why Rodgers' philosophy of signing "broken players" was completely daft. Pearson would never have allowed us to build a squad of such delicate wall flowers without any real leadership.

No. It's too subjective.

Wtf

Your kinks are your own, man, I'm not gonna judge.

Depends what sort of football a new manager wants to play

Behave. He wouldn't and, as painful as it might be to admit, they'll want better now.

Always got the impression they weren't that close. Might just be me.

Just **** off

I'd rather Vardy’s moment over shadow a promotion than a relegation over shadow Vardy’s moment.

In fairness, "a club in Ealing" is a 150 year old London based rugby club and one of the most well known in the English game. They'd be back in the men's top flight by now if they had a bigger ground but they have the same problems most of the historical London clubs do, real estate is ****ing expensive in the capital and land is scarce. Hence why Welsh, Irish and Scottish have all hit financial disaster, Wasps left the city and now don't exist, Sarries only came back with major financial backing and Quins get by because they're from Twickenham. But those limitations are less of a problem in the women's game where attendances are lower and the rules for ground size aren't as strict. Hence why Loughborough and Hartpury unis are two of the stalwart teams. Ealing aren't to be sniffed at. All of that said, it is still shameful that the biggest traditional rugby club in the country is so awful in the women's game and took so long to get a pro team in to the women's top league. They should have been founder members, proximity to Loughborough isn't an excuse.

Just give him the ****ing club, can't do much worse

Yeah I suppose. But if they've got a soft spot for the US, he could probably make a good wedge doing a year or two in the MLS. He's apparently pretty popular over there right? Ngl I'd find it hilarious watching Vardy score a Messi assisted goal.

Don't really see the point of him going only to still play in the Championship.

Say it louder pal so the board can hear you.

Can we have multiple statues? One of him holding the Premier League trophy, one of the 11 in a row celebration, one of him slide tackling a corner flag and one of the eagle celebration? Also, as a sign of respect, they should whack one up of him at the Hawthorns. Just whack it in front of their Kop with a shit eating grin on its face as a permanent reminder.

In hindsight, wish it had been last year so he'd be going out on a high. Shit that his send off will be the end of such an abysmal season.