Sampson

That’s 3 or 4 gilt edge chances this half. We need to be scoring at least 2 of them let alone 1.

Have to hit the target from there

That was more like it

Meh. We’ve already been playing like this for a few weeks with Winks in the side. I don’t think Winks being in or not in the team is making any difference whatsoever to todays performance.

McAteer forced a save out the keeper from a tight angle, there was the free kick, then Faes and KDH both had a couple of limp long rangers, but it’s not been great

Mavidi having another stinker. I had high hopes for him early on but his last 2-3 performances he’s just killing our attacks and giving the ball away constantly

Sport isn’t life though. It’s not even close. It’s just a leisure activity. If you’re a teenager with no responsibilities and never lost a loved one I get it, but I’m baffled how grown adults can get so bitter towards people for how they performed in a football shirt or how they posted innocuous social media posts relating to football. Life is too short to get more angry about relegation than enjoying winning a FA Cup from your free time activities and leisure activities. There’s so many more things in the world to get worked up about.

There’s literally a poster calling him “a total bellend” based on an extremely innocuous and inoffensive social media comment about a leisure activity in terms of game of football. It’s clearly not “pretty light hearted”. “Unbelievably warped out of all sense of perspective” is a much better description. Some people need to get a life.

You only have to look at some of the videos of the marching on the cenotaph on the 11th November to see what the point of being critical of your own country's historic narrative and romance of its past is. Just giving credit to your country's successes while ignoring the genocides and murders of millions of innocent people is exactly how people learn to become blindly patriotic and learn to think that their culture is inherently better. It is also important in learning why people from other countries are poorer and why certain rich nations have built a lot of their wealth on the bodies of people from poorer lands. How can you understand why Ireland, our only neighbour state, was so poor until relatively recently and became rich so much later than the rest of western Europe and that's why it lacks much of the infrastructure and is a permeant building site if you never learn of the impact the British Empire had over it for example? What is the old saying, we learn history so as to never repeat it? Nazi Germany was not an anomaly though, fascism had a huge following amongst the academia and working class in many countries in Europe, Asia and South America at the time and was leading governments in several countries and selling itself as an alternative to liberalism and communism, hence why the world war was seen as a battle for the future of government philosophy around the world.

Yes of course they do and no of course there wasn't, but that's just whataboutery isn't it? Of course the British Empire was evil and should be considered fascist by modern standards, of course all European empires were. Saying "oh, but actually the British Empire abolished slavery" absolutely is little different to "Mussolini made the train run on time" or "Hitler improved the German economy" tbf. I mean, yeah, certain group of multiple genration native men of a certain religion might get jobs in factories, but it's hardly worth the deaths of millions of people for having "the wrong" social, economic, religious or immigration background is it? Concentration camps existed in Kenya until well into the 1960s. Millions of natives in Austalia, US, Canada and the Carribean were killed so we could take their land. Farmland in Ireland and India was forceably stolen from the locals and then the British at best ignored famines and let people starve in those countries due to its ideas of social darwinism and at worst actively redistributed food from those countries to Britain. Tens of millions of people died both directly and indirectly at the hands of the British empire because they were not British or not Protestant enough and British and Protestant people were allegedly prioritised for resources under the banner of the empire. If that's not fascism, what is? And yes, of course it was "of its time" and no, it doesn't mean we as Brits have to apologise to the rest of the world forever, but the fact still plenty of Brits romanticise the Empire and we don't even teach its horrors to children in history lessons in the same way Germany does to its children of the horrors of Nazi Germany is unfathomable to me. It's one of the debates I find it actually hard to comprehend the thought process of the other side on.

Not sure but was one of those collecting the trophy at the end Billy Wright from Wolves beating us in the 1949 final?

I think full rejoining is probably unrealistic for at least another 15 years or so, once it’s been a generation since we left. Still I’ve always felt a drift towards a Norway/Switzerland style status where you’re essentially inside the EU and have freedom of movement of people and goods but no say on the laws is probably inevitable. Most polls have it around 67%-33% these days in terms of people who think it was a mistake to leave vs those who still think it was the right decision, so it seems like a pretty clear majority. I think having a Norway like deal is probably enough to satisfy both sides, as most remainers and businesses get their freedom of movement and trade back, whilst the EU also gets an economy as big as the UK in its sphere without the UK having the ability to vote on any of its laws, and still has enough to say to other nations “this is the inferior deal you get if you leave.” The UK-EU trade deal is up for renegotiation in 2025, I’ve always kind of thought both sides had built it in to drift towards a Norway-style status once the furore has died down and the EU got the chance to show other nations who had populist anti-EU parties that the grass isn’t greener. Think that’s already worked, a lot of the populist anti-immigrant parties doing well in countries like France, Sweden and Poland all had campaigned on EU referendums before Brexit but have since dropped EU membership referendum ideas since the UK became a bit of a useful idiot for the EU.

I think it depends on the business. Bigger businesses and bigger recruiter chains definitely do use AI/algorithims to pre-screen CVs before the recruiter/employer even seens them though. You also get sent a lot of those pattern recognition tests and tests which take 30 minutes of multiple choice questions these days. The main point of these isn't really to see how good you are at solving problems but just to weed out candidates who can't be bothered to go through aa half hour test (which is probably the great majority) in order to cut the numbers of job assessments down to a more manageable size.

Still just the 1 sub? Nacho and Mavididi still on the pitch despite stinking the game out? Why?

There we go

Don’t see how Albrighton could be any worse,

That was the chance

How are Mavididi and Nacho both still on the pitch? 1/10 performances from both

Mavididi didn’t need to cut inside there . If he kept running on he was one on one

Think our midfield has been fine, it’s the attack that’s the problem today. A different front 3 and we could easily have had way more chances and given away way less chances too.

Because the front 3 are the worst players on the pitch and every time we do get the ball forward they lose it.

Love Nacho but he’s having a stinker Dewsbury-Hall playing well, everything going through him. There’s just no target up front for him to hit today.

Genuinely thought someone had done some editing but google maps seems to confirm its genuine

Thread shows why Mendy was overrated. People use meaningless, vague phrases like “ticks the boxes” “keeps possession” “keeps us ticking over” and try and accuse others of not understanding football and “it’s only because he lacks flashiness” that you can’t see it. There’s always been a certain type of elitism from some fans who rated Mendy, as though they could understand the game to a deeper level to those who don’t. Yet one look at his fbref stats show he was a poor player not a “tidy” one. His stats never showed he even stood out at the “basics” and showed we performed worse with him as a team even when the alternative in Ndidi was awful. And of course you need to be “more than solid”, the game isn’t just about keeping possession if you never play it in a progressive way. Counter attacks are broken down and attacks stopped dead several times a game by players who aren’t competent at making risky through balls and only ever pass to feet.

We weren’t playing better with Mendy in the team at all. Our win % was actually worse in games he played last season despite Ndidi being awful. That’s exactly what I’m talking about. He had a single good performance vs Spurs and people went insanely over the top on him. Mendy started 7 games last season and the Spurs one was the only one we won. He wasn’t doing game changer at all.