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Didn’t they try it in New Zealand then scrapped it after about a year? Number of younger people smoking is already massive down from a generation ago, I think prevention measures have already been successful.

Remember the post London 2012 Olympics high? Sadly was just a short lived thing Since 2016 and the Brexit referendum, the world has just been spiralling ever more horrendously out of control (not claiming cause and effect more that the Brexit referendum was the first really strong sign of how politics is destabilising)

Crazy overrated by some of our fans. Get some on here saying he’s as good as Kasper ffs

Really hope @fuchsntf is still ok. Seems to have stopped posting and given he posted about his terminal cancer on here, I’m starting to fear the worst.

Of course. I remember how much our attendances would drop once we had nothing to pay for in April May time in the Championship, without the playoffs that would’ve happened in December. Think about all those League One and Two teams who have to manage their finances game to game. It’s so much better now than it used to be without the playoffs

Feel like people are voting Ricardo due to his absence from the team if anything. Too early to vote. As others have said everyone had their ups and downs but ultimately I think KDH has won us the most points over the season so probably him.

Wow. Of course nothing anyone can say can bring comfort, but reading a post like that from FoxesDeb brings it all home how all the other stuff outside of spending time with friends and family is just noise that gets in the way of what is really important. Really heartbreaking to read and I guess a timely reminder of that we never know when the last time we’ll see our loved ones will be so make the most of our time with them while we can. Just hope you and your family can eventually find ways to cope with it all FoxesDeb.

We weren’t playing particularly well even when we were winning let’s be honest. Early in the season we were all talking about how we’d been grinding out results and getting lucky while not playing well. We had a good purple patch before Xmas but our luck ran out now I think, but it’s really just a reversion to the mean of the luck we used up early in the season.

Gets so much of a free pass while better players gets slaughtered. Can’t create, isn’t a ball winner, just makes simple passes all game and people make out he’s some genius because of it.

It’s like watching a Covid lockdown game, just feels so flat and empty from both sides

Don’t disagree but Harry tried to escape from it and got hounded even more by the press though tbf. I’m not sure it’s a role he can really just leave.

He doesn’t do it on his own though, that’s the problem. He’s good at recycling the play but he’s not a creator nor a destroyer. Same with players like Wellens or Mendy, even Tielemans to an extent. You can appreciate them and what they add to your backbone when it’s going well but you also realise what you’re missing from players like that when they don’t go well.

Pretty much agree with everything. Wasn’t his biggest fan last season but he’s carried us for large parts of this season then gets way underpraised for it on free but criticised at the first sign of poor performances. Meanwhile Winks gets way more praised despite being nowhere near as big a match winner and any of his poor performances get completely ignored and overlooked: it’s bizarre:

What are you talking about? We are not getting 102pts this season. That side will finish the season with more points.

Agree but that’s the best case scenario. Think unless we’re willing/able to heavily invest then I think there’s a high chance we’ll just come straight back down like Burnley SheffUtd and Luton anyway and the promotion will be kind of pointless. Definitely take the FA Cup win either way.

Moore played even either Wasilewski or De Laet were out mostly as Wasyl would shift to right back. It doesn’t matter so much anyway because it would definitely be Wasyl who be the choice from the 2 in the combined xi

Wasilewski was first choice alongside Morgan from memory but Moore played when Wasilewski was injured. I'd have Wasilewski in for sure, he was also one of our best players the following season during the great escape season whereas Faes nor Vestegaard have never looked much good in the PL

Think of you did a combined XI it would be 9 players from 13/14 and 2 from 23/24. Ricardo for De Laet then one of Winks, KDH or Ndidi in for James (though Drinkwater would still be the first choice cm). The rest would be the 13/14 side.

You forgot Benkovic. £12m and didn’t make a single first team league appearance. Personally think Adrien Silva is comfortably the worst though. £22mil and didn’t have a single good performance in his time here. Edit - Wouldn’t put Praet in the top 5 personally, he wasn’t worth what we paid for him but he’s had quite a few good performances which is more than you can say for many others in the +10mil range. Silva, Benkovic, Ward, Soumare, Musa, Ghezzal and Souttar (though he still has time to turn it round) were all worse in terms of cost to what they gave us.

Don’t think he did press particularly well today though. Other than one occasion where he came back just before he was substituted, he largely just occupied space today, his pressing, movement or general presence wasn’t particularly threatening and their defence had zero problems containing him or marching his runs. The looping cross thing is true, but I think that’s just how the game is developing. defenders have now grown up with tiki taka and have been developed from a young age now to be good enough to pack in tight and defend against short passing style and quick one twos and instead and force it into pretty ineffective U-shaped passes outside the box to the point where crossing is the only option. There’s a reason that Guardiola and Klopp are favouring the big number 9 who is strong in the air again now and abandoning the false 9s or goal poachers.

But all we did today was pass the ball round 100 times with QPR not even needing to close us down and then we’d get bored of that after a couple of minutes and try a weak loopy cross into the box which QPR dealt with easily. It’s not about if you think it’s an outdated style or not, that’s the style we adapted today and at least with Albrighton on and some height up from we’d have a chance of those crosses being useful.

His constant diving today drove me up the wall. Must’ve killed 4 or 5 promising positions for us today by pretending to be fouled and falling over. Was so frustrating and embarrassing.

Winks never gets noted for his off days tbh because people have convinced themselves he’s supremely consistent when he has plenty of off days like today like everyone else does . He has very little when it comes to actually unlocking a defence.

Mavididi is just a horrendous diver. Must’ve dived 5 times today in promising areas. It’s so frustrating

Agree he wasn’t our worst player but you’re over defending him to make a point and exaggerating and swearing a bit to get the likes I think. Think he had a very mediocre and ineffective and inefficient game despite being in good form recently Agree he had zero service and there were much worse players there but he was far from our best player; neither did he cover every blade of grass. Apart from 1 moment just before he went off he largely just stayed in the middle and didn’t really try to get involved. Vardy already been way more proactive about getting into play since he came on