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I mean, I'm not saying you're insane but... Do you have any such certificate? https://youtu.be/RWc8JKVm28E

You guys are absolutely crazy, do you remember the games after we lost Wilson and before Wood came in? We were abysmal with ASM at CF and he was completely anonymous. Maybe I am remembering things wrong, but that period was pretty fucking rough. I know Wood isn't great or popular, but playing ASM out of position is not the answer. He is just not a center forward. You know what Chris Wood is? He's fine. Not exciting, not "good", but we'll do fine with him for the last few games, just like we have since he came into the side, and then we have all summer to upgrade.

Do people really want to see ASM starting a game at CF again? I don't.

Saved a goal with that header in our box today. The defender, I think it was Targett, was completely beaten. You could tell how big it was because Dubravka went nuts after.

Some S-tier time wasting from this dude today, he really has a bit of everything doesn't he?

Yup, this exactly. Though I also really think he has quality and hasn't performed here due to coaching and not getting a real run. Not sure it will ever come off for him here at this point, but I definitely don't understand the folks in the "20 players out, 20 players in" camp, like you know that's how you become Everton right? Miggy is exactly the kind of character you keep during a transition like this, gives everything, versatile, not going to cause a ruckus if he doesn't play every game. The role players are going to be key as we turn the squad over this next couple of years. I mean there are lots of players waaaay higher on the "get rid" list than this guy, and you can't do them all at once.

Angry Almiron is the new meme player, let's fucking go.

I'm most worried about Burnley myself, I absolutely do not want to go into that final game with anything on the line... I wish I could say I was comfortable with out current lead, but we have a lot of hard games left and had a lot of luck on our side during the unbeaten run.

That goal was fillllthy, especially if the turn was intentional.

That's actually a way cooler idea, I know you're probably joking but... A knockout tournament of all 55 countries would be absolutely insane. Just seed some byes based on ranking and fucking get into it with a 64-team bracket.

Best thing about the Euros was that there were less filler teams...

The point of FFP from the beginning has been to keep the small clubs small, which has been working fine. I think we'll be the first big test of it, but I am feeling optimistic that our lawyers will be able to circumvent enough of the rules to break through.

That's... incredibly optimistic.

The Saudis are a long time strategic ally of the UK and are using weapons purchased from the UK to facilitate their war in Yemen, so that's unlikely.

I mean once you go outside the boundaries of "court ordered executions with due process" it's open season my dude. Our police forces execute U.S. citizens without trial or consequence on a regular basis, so you don't even need to go abroad to make your point. Adding in the fact that we've been actively engaged in multiple concurrent wars for the last 20 years or so is really kind of cheating.

Maybe that's part of why I don't give a fuck about Saudi ownership, other than being happy to win some games. When you're in a country that does lethal injection by whatever you have around the house, allows police to routinely execute citizens without due process, and is in the process of reinstating the Jim Crowe laws and rolling back the civil rights act, it kind of disillusions you about the merits of one government or another. I'm glad I don't live in a theocratic police state such as Saudi, I'm also well aware that I live right next fucking door. You guys aren't that far behind us for that matter, you just need some snake handling episcopalians and you'll be right in with a shout.

Oh, I'm positive we have more than 81 since 2016. Sounds like they are just trying to finesse their numbers in the system to seem big league like the U.S. You've got a long way to go, Saudis, but keep grinding and you'll get there one day. #hardwork #hustleculture #dontkillnonecantgetnone

Just looked that up, we did 25 in 2018, 22 in 2019, and then 17 in 2020 but you know COVID-19 probably made it challenging to perform as many executions as we would like. There is also a worrying situation in the US where pharmaceutical companies are refusing to provide the chemicals used in lethal injections, so many states are saying "fuck it" and using homebrewed concoctions with absolutely horrific results. So it's really just a question of scale. 81 people in a day seems like a lot, but the U.S. does routinely executive its citizens as a matter of course, and those executions are occasionally proved to have been the result of false convictions. I'm sure the number of actual false convictions is higher than the number that have been proved, as well. I'm against it of course because, while I do think some offenders are probably best rehabilitated via murder, I do not have any faith in the ability of our legal system to determine who those people are either accurately or fairly.

100%. How bad we were with ASM up top, we'd have had no fucking chance at all.

He and Shelvey seemed to be stepping on each other's toes a bit in the first half hour or so, going for the same ball and such. I feel like it got better towards the end of the half though, so that's promising.

The "training ground guru" podcast is cool for that, they had a great episode with the new DOF coming in from Brighton.

Ahhhh it's my favorite though. Remember getting up at balls o'clock in the morning to watch that game and it was absolutely awful, fully destined to be a boring 0-0 draw, and then that shit happened. Probably my personal favorite NUFC goal, though Cisse v Chelsea from the wing is a gem as well. To add a little bit, the coolest part about that one for me is that after the initial (excellent) turn, he then dribbles past three players simply by varying his pace. He doesn't move left or right on the whole run, he just burns the midfielder then does a little change of pace to pop past the two center-halves, cheeky as hell man.

Nah mate, he's the new Cabaye, and Joelinton is Tiote.

530am here, so glad I didn't drink any pints last night, and will probably miss the match as I ferry my wife and kid around some sort of giant yard sale. Just as good right?

Yup I'm in this camp, not worried about having a morally questionable ownership group at all, I want to see my club win something and that means spending huge piles of cash. The fact is you don't get to "winning trophies" levels of cash without being an absolutely sick fuck however you get there, UAE, banks, etc, they're all fucked so we might as well get on board.