BigGibbo

Yeah, it's not happening for us, is it? Defence somehow gotten worse for the 3rd/4th season in a row and no more Vardy to bail us out up top (or any real attempt to replace him). We are cooked.

Tragic. Barely a man we can rely on in the whole organisation. For Shame Aiyawatt.

Jesus. H. Christ.

Okoli has worse passing than the average keeper. We are in dire straits..

I fear the opportunity will not come. 😆

We've seen enough of Carranza methinks. 🤦‍♂️

Wow, did I pick the wrong day to defend Thomas... 😂 Gerrin Stolarczyk! Let's make it count.

I'm not touching that moody looking link, but yea, he's been pony. His confidence is completely shot and he's not helping himself, but with any competence beside or above him he could still be decent cover and actually good as a fairweather player at least.

Didn't I hear something about shooting practice this week? Have they all got their boots on the wrong feet? FFS! 1 chance, 1 goal shocker...

1 striker and 1 CB is all we need to walk this league. We might already have the CB in Nelson if we bothered trying him, and at this point I'd be testing Fatawu, Mavididi and Ramsey out as false 9s in training to help us limp through to January.

Thats so bad I had to Google to check the stats are correct 😂 and only 54% of that 16% voted for her... so just over 8% 🤣

Thomas is pretty far down our list of priority problems for me. If he had a Huth-Morgan, level of stable CB partnership beside him he would look like a different player and would at the very least be a competent squad player who still actually wants to be here, which is more than we can say for most.

Is Nelson injured, or are they just taking the piss at this point?

Think she's the one who said grooming gangs were a dog whistle issue? Imagine saying that about our generations Jimmy Saville. Facilitating crimes against working class children is one thing this country still excels at at least...

Yeah, it's getting silly. Don't start me on printers. Hah! I got a HP printer that stopped working and became a brick the second I stopped my ink jet subscription because I hadn't used it in a couple of months and still had too much ink. The way things are going with micro-transactions on absolutely everything now is driving me mad. We are well on the way to owning nothing, but the being happy part is less clear...

Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of people that have misaligned priorities, buy a nice car before a house, eat out or Deliveroo too much, or whatever, but a large part of that can be explained by doom spending (where the amount they would save by not doing that is so piffling in relation to what they need to move ahead in life that they say eff it and give up, possibly prematurely) and there's also an element of we have always been promised that the next generation will have a better quality of life than the previous, but this is the first generation where that is no longer true and they're struggling to reconcile that. Also like you've already mentioned there is planned obsolescence into everything we buy and the reason there are less people able to fix things and 'make do and mend' is because most new products are protected from outside interference also. For example there are people that have fixed electronics all their life that can't get into an Apple product to fix it or people that have been mechanics all their life that can't even get access to the engine of some new cars. There is a bit of the trying to compare apples with oranges about trying to compare how things worked in the past to how things work now methinks.

Yea, I was offered work in Qatar and the UAE several years ago and turned it down as I was planning to get a mortgage and settle down here, but in that time the houses, (not to mention utilities and taxes) have gone up by as much as I've saved and the standard of services and general safety has gone down equally as dramatically. I'm thinking about reaching back out now. Still undecided and will shit or get off the pot in the next 12 months I think. Fair play to her, she should give it a go whilst a UK education is still considered valuable internationally. I definitely wish I had tried it before now.

Yeah, I think we're dealing with political entropy. Whoever gets in doesn't address the primary issues (inequality/cost of living/stagnation/poorly resourced/badly managed immigration, etc), they just try and manage what we have. For the most part they are essentially midwit middle managers because they are paid the wage of midwit middle managers and are only qualified as midwit middle managers. It probably gets worse before it gets better when Reform win unfortunately. I'm not that hopeful for the future here and the amount I have to save to get a mortgage on a house worth a piss, without too much leverage, is enough to live comfortably abroad, which is what I and most others lucky enough like me are probably going to do/already are doing.

Wild. Kind of impressive levels of incompetence. No one gets fired any more. Low standards have been accepted as the norm, so at worst they'll just move those responsible around, like peado priests. 😆

I'm talking about starting from scratch now. I imagine you could manage it if you timed it right buying a house over 5 years ago or had the bank of mum and dad to help, but if you're stuck renting a house at 3 times what a mortgage would have been 5/10 years ago and dont already have assets behind you to reduce your outgoings you'd be surprised how hard it is to climb the ladder. I could afford a family life if I was willing to live precariously at the whims of increasingly incompetent government and working family tax credits, but I'm not. I also know I'm one of the very lucky ones and that's what's scary. I'm the canary in the coal mine of what comes next. (Just to clarify I'm talking specifically about the wife at home family life you were advocating as still possible for the young today - obviously someone else on my salary would suddenly put us in the top 10%)

You have to laugh or you'll cry. I dread to think how it gets any worse from here with the caliber of people now running everything in this country. 🙈

It's borderline impossible to afford a family with one parent staying at home these days and 'luxuries' in terms of TVs & Tech are cheap enough 2nd hand to get even if you were on benefits. The necessary costs of living are much higher than ever though. I'm a surveyor/civil engineer that can't afford a family without leveraging myself to a stupid degree (like most now do), whereas I have a family member that did the same job in the 90s & could afford 2 families and a chateau in France on the same salary that has barely risen since, and it's only getting worse for those younger than me. It's going to be full on Dickens just with more cheap tech inside the next decade or two without violent change. The idea that it's possible for parents to just sacrifice a bit more and all will be well like in ye olden days is pure out of touch boomer fantasy I'm afraid.

Sure 🤷‍♂️

A source close to Keir Starmer said "This is the one thing we didn't want to happen". https://youtu.be/_U-7L1tmBAo?si=Nsi9zovObw2ewSEM

Free hit inside the penalty area. Our defence doesnt get enough contempt for me.