Lighthouse

The lack of a ‘story’ has never really bothered me. I was more than happy with our 2013-16 teams being upper mid table and certainly wouldn’t call the likes of Tadic, Mané, J Rod and Pelle ‘no heroes’. The table is largely a byproduct of football for me, I just like watching us play well and win.

Why? All that does is drop Redmond for another CB and go back to a system which was dreadful for us last season. I’d take as few changes as possible to both men and formation. Walcott for Ings and either Stephens or Valery at LB.

I’ve never understood the romanticism of relegation fights, to me they’ve all been dreadful. You’re only in one if you’re terrible and get spanked every week.

Nah, I just want to see Donald throwing an absolute waaaambulance about a state he wins anyway but still loses the election.

Trump will take PA and it’ll all hinge on whether NV holds.

I was going to say, the Beeb have been saying all day that Biden’s path to the White House involves NV, AZ, WI and MI giving him exactly 270. Edit: I make that map 54 votes giving Donny 268 total, Tim?

I’ve never understood it either. Literally all they needed was any straight, white, God-fearing male, aged 40-60. How and why they’ve managed to choose a guy who makes Trump look young and dynamic I’ll never understand.

There’s a correlation between democrats winning the US election and a Brit winning the F1 world championship going back to the 1950s so it’s looking good for Biden.

On the last page of this thread, various posts by Shroppie, Fabrice29 and trousers contain large blank spaces which I assume to be images or embedded posts. Edit: ironically, my own embedded link on this post doesn’t show up after I hit submit.

I was p*ssed off when we lost 4-1 at home to Chelsea last season and they are definitely higher and mightier than us. I don't think there's anything wrong with Mings thinking Villa have 'work to do' after their performance yesterday. I wasn't particularly bothered by anything he said about the diversity quota's either.

He leaves the lids off things?

Yeah, I don't think that's going to go down too well with their fans. That was a 1-4 game and we switched off 2 mins into injury time; sloppiness in Boro 2005 portions from us that flattered them. Saying you should have had 12 minutes injury time because you would have scored 4 goals is weird and desperate, even in a joking - but not really joking - gritted teeth kind of way.

How was Cash not sent off for that handball?

TBF I've just finished watching the Martin Luther King Biopic staring Vinnie Jones and it was a cracking watch.

Have you read and understood the context of it?

United have inherited our throne at home.

The bottom four are that lame that I really can’t see Brighton being a factor anyway. Personally, after 3 years of looking nervously over our shoulders, I’d quite like to have a season of just not caring about the R word. That means those bottom four continuing to get spanked for another month or two, so that even if we have a Bournemouth style, mid-season 8 defeats in 10, we’re still comfy.

Friday night home game, can’t remember the last time we had one of those*. Obviously the injuries are the worry here. I’m guessing it’ll be Vokins, Jack and Redmond in for the three we’ve lost, with Theo going up top. That’s what I’m hoping for anyway. *I’m being sarcastic, you don’t have to tell me.

Yes but we haven’t scored any goals off target all season. A worrying stat IMO.

I’d have thought if there was any suspicion of ACL injuries, he’d be told at the very least to keep the weight off it. I wasn’t watching, did he receive any kind of kick when he went down or was it a twist/fall?

No, why would you assume that? Given a straight, binary choice between winning today and Ings is out for the season or losing and Ings is uninjured, I'd take the latter. Hopefully that's not the case but until I hear news on his injury, it's all a bit flat.

I think the injuries are the downer. Especially when you’ve got Ings and ‘knee’ in the same sentence. I’d rather have lost today than lose him for the season, although hopefully it doesn’t come to that.

Still last on MotD. Shame about the injuries.

Interesting. Have I missed an injury to Obafemi or is he now behind N'Lundulu in the pecking order?

So the potential for an extra 450 cancer deaths per day upsets you but an extra 3,500 Covid deaths doesn’t?