OrangeKhrush

One of those disjointed end of season performances.  Need a point in either of our remaining games to finish 7th to finish 6th will be dependent on results this week and our result at OT and Chelsea at the Amex assuming Both win out we will find ish ahead on goal difference 

Idris Elba would have been a good choice,  it is the type of role that suits him.   I think his role as Roland Deschain the gunslinger in Dark Tower was his best role yet. 

I looked at the stats and it looks like city are doing that thing where they pass the ball around for a long time making the opponents play chase.

I like the Bayern kit,  looks really basic but effective in the all Red.

I like our kit,  its your basic Newcastle kit,  I just hope we go with black socks again,  I do not like white socks. 

GK:  Ederson is the likely best in position,  best distribution and a good GK all round,   Allison is likely the next best and I don't see that position changing much.  Vicario, Martinez and Pope all suffer from non-elite distribution. 

RB:  Trent has been productive all season,  Trippier would have likely been this choice but he has missed 8 weeks with injury having played through and injury in December,  both Trent and Trippier have elite production at RB,  Ben White for positional flexibility

LB:  I like Antonee Robinson here, been a consistent performer all season and Udogie has probably been Spurs best and consistent player and the versatility of Gvardiol is indispensable for flexibility.

CB:  In pairs Saliba and Gabriel are good calls,  I think Schar has had his best season,  I also like Branthwaite and can see why he is hyped up for  a big move in the summer.   People are knocking Van Dijk but he has been solid if not his usual elite self.   Van De Venn has had a solid first season in a system that doesn't really value defence that much. 

The 6's: Rodri speaks for himself,  Rice has been elite and made the big difference Arsenal needed and Bruno Guimaraes has had 2.5 seasons of elite performances.  Douglas Luiz and Mainoo would be my outsiders

The 8's: I like Connor Gallagher and Alexis Mac Allister here,  Eze, Joelinton, McGinn outsiders all in with mentions,  Eze only getting 2000 minutes may hurt him here. 

10's:  Palmer, Foden, Odegaard nobody else is close. 

RW: Salah,  liverpool without him are just not the same, 25/14 in a year where he is supposed to be washed up is still God tier,  Saka is probably the more fashionable name if Arsenal do go on to win it and Jarrod Bowen is my outsider,  I will give a shout out to Tavernier, Neto and Olise as outsiders

LW: Gordon,  he is only the third Newcastle player to hit double digits in goals and assists,  he has scored against all top 6 clubs this season and he leads the league in goals directly from a successful 1 on 1 dribble.  Massive break out season.   Doku, Garnacho, Kluivert and Son as outsiders

CF:  Haaland is probably the easiest option though I would have Watkins as the next best,  outsiders;  Isak, Solanke, Havertz, Ferguson and Matata and Timo Werner

It is strange that Bruno Guimaraes and Anthony Gordon didnt get a nomination

7 hours ago, Stan said:

Mid-Nov is just after matchday 12:

It didn't sound right but they are higher than I thought they would be at

Big week ahead, the added incentive is finishing ahead of man united which will be a minor landmark.  

I read somewhere that if you take form from mid November chelsea would be second, I cant believe that but if true it may be the start of 1BN starting to repay itself, Mudryk is still crap though.

Why not a Graeme Potter or try poaching Iraola, Julien Laportegui is about as boring as it gets, he will be gone by November 

We wanted him 2.5 years ago when he was in the championship, so I think there is carry over.

I see him best filling at LB moving Dan Burn back to CB, he is experienced enough to help alleviate the pressure on Lewis Hall however Kelly has an injury history which may require a better split of time between him and Hall which is best for us as I think Hall is a terrific player.

While impressive that we have made moves for Tosin and Kelly I think they should not detract us from signing a high level CB like Diamande.  We need to cut out the goals we concede, we have already conceded 22 more than last season while scoring around 18 more than last season.    Links to Olise and Neto are nice but scoring goals isnt the major problem needing fixing..

Last season we collected 32 points on the road, had a steely resilience that got us points even if we didnt look pretty, I want to get that same resilience back next season and drop these absolute white flag surrenders away from home.

2 hours ago, Stan said:

Saturday
Fulham 0-3 Man City
Bournemouth 3-1 Brentford
Everton 3-0 Sheff Utd
Newcastle 2-1 Brighton
Tottenham 3-2 Burnley
West Ham 2-1 Luton
Wolves 2-2 Crystal Palace
Nottm Forest 1-3 Chelsea

Sunday
Man Utd 1-2 Arsenal

Monday
Aston Villa 3-2 Liverpool

Tursday
Tottenham 1-2 Man City

Wednesday
Brighton 1-2 Chelsea
Newcastle 2-0 Man Utd

We are away to Man United,  not sure if that changes anything. 

very underwhelming

Arsenal must be licking their lips at playing Yanited this weekend

Hoping the Palace boys help us out and beat Yanited.

We control our own destiny now and we need to be looking to winning out the season.  It was incredible to see Pope and Joelinton back which is big for us in the run in.

I'm not sure why Lewis hall was not played more, he has been very good, I'm not sure on the reason why we waited so long to play him.

13 hours ago, 6666 said:

Hopefully one day countries that claim to be good aren't palling up with horror show leaders of countries like that of Saudi Arabia & Israel. Maybe those countries that claim to be good could start off by not having horror show leaders themselves and by no longer arming these psychos in their wars... Those dickhead leaders in Saudi are also trying to clamp down on criticism of Israel. Evil protecting evil.

And your last sentence applies to every religion when just judging by the book. Doing a whole "this religion doesn't, but the ones I identify with does" isn't the logic that works with anyone that isn't trying to feed their bigotry.

People, regardless of being religious or not, regardless of which religion they follow, can be progressive/conservative based more on how they've been brought, what they've learnt and who they've interacted with in their life. This is something that humans with at least an ounce of awareness know.

Also funny that you suddenly care about being progressive... Obviously you're not just playing that up to justify your bigotry. Hopefully you do care about unfair punishment of activists though and are against the mistreatment of the activists against Israel's genocide.

Iraq has just made homosexuality and transgenderism illegal and punishable by imprisonment.   We keep seeing flagrant human rights abuses in a region that simply care about western liberties.   

In 2020 turkey aided Al Bashir kill Kurdish opposition to Al Bashir, because Istanbul branded the Syrian Democratic Movement a terrorist group, this is while turkey actively supports ethnic cleansing of Armenians.   

Of course human rights abuses only become an issue when Israel is involved and the reason the power nations dont challenge each other is because if one goes down they will open the dirty laundry of others.   If israel is persecuted the so must russia, the US, UK, Iran, Saudi, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Yemen, Palestine, iraq, syria, china, north Korea,  Myanmar, ukraine and France.

Not to sound cliche but war never changes and will never change no matter how much you try make rules.

The symptoms of the turmoil seen to be the only thing people attach virtue to without looking at causes and solutions.  Ariel Sheron ceded Gaza to the PA under the intention of sustainable peace, since then attacks on israel have gone from decades apart to yearly, in that time has there ever been any semblance of fundamental human rights in palastine? The answer is no, so if they treat their own badly then what prospect is their for peace unless there is a fundamental shift in ideology of Palastinians.

Arsenal need to win out and hope city drop points, which is not looking great and between man united or Spurs, relying on either team is not a good way to hedge bets, man united are more capable of stunting arsenal than Spurs are of City, this is not the Conte first season Spurs that were resilient, this spurs team is more open than a porn star.

17 minutes ago, Danny said:

Dull game, 0-0. End of season stuff.

Saw the breakdown of teams with the most injured player time out,  you were behind us in second,   Brentford have had a torrid time this season with players missing. 

Anthony Taylor is an absolute prized chop,  in the end a dominant 1-4 win setting up a good run in.  Spurs have two tough games to come,  we have Man United soon so 5th is possible. 

Flipping between Fallout 4 modded to New Vegas style and using the series mods to add Vault 33 gear,  the tranquiliser gun and all the NV weapons instead of FO4. 

I have also finished Cyber Punk 2077

It is an interesting move,  a premier league proven player at a good age. 

0-3 up at Turfmoor playing some silky football.  Goals from Wilson, Longstaff and Bruno G

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/saudi-fitness-instructor-sentenced-11-years-prison-choice-clothing-and-activism

Meanwhile Saudi Arabia is saying "Iran hold my beer" and sentencing women's rights activists to death or imprisonment, I dont see any protests in America about human rights but they sure as hell twerk for islam even though islam is completely incompatible with "progressivism".

On reading the Bill it doesn't make criticizing israel illegal, it clearly sets the parameter for what is construed as hate speech and what is free speech.  Referring to Jews as Zionists in the political version that has come up in the later 2010's so as to incite violence against Jews is pretty much a no no, frankly dehumanizing, demeaning and derogatory terms towards any group is hate speech not free speech. 

If the rules were reversed and Jews or supporters of Jewish rights said something about Palastinians or arabs they will be branded domestic terrorists and given 20 years.

I have said anti semetism transcends left wing and right wing, the left is self explanatory, but the right shows up religious nutjobs like Carlson, Knowles and the bible puncher brigade.

I have been talking about this for weeks now, there is a two tiered system, the reason why nobody goes after Russia after all their bullshit is because it will end up in dirty laundry becoming public, America, UK, France, Germany will all come under scrutiny so the idea here is to throw the little guy under the bus just to appease the mob.

It was 8 October and the world was running "if israel reacts it will be a genocide" line, it is made up, if israel wanted to kill every Palestinian they could but haven't,  Palestinians want to kill every Israeli but can't.   Genocide requires there to be a intention to eliminate a group entirely.  A UN former head of the ICC explained that the ICC did not state there was any proof of genocide only confirmed the risk in all out war.   

Have there been possible war crimes, it is very possible but there are war crimes on both sides, so palastine should be held responsible for their hand in it.

In the beginning of April a UN special council heard hundreds of mathematicians and statisticians provide issues with Hamas's numbers, it is important that Hamas lied about Al shifa bombing and the rape of woman so they have every benefit to lie, the data points used were found to be bogus, for instance every Male death is deemed on stats combatant deaths this is not true, palastine have over 3000 child soldiers(war crime), these are combatants not civilians,  Hamas cannot distinguish civilian from combatant deaths.  Needless to say that the deaths are high but it shows that there is a degree of control fighting an enemy that dresses like civilians (war crime) and fights inside a civilian populace (war crime).

I am very much for a free palastine but not one where extremists and there actions are normalized under this notion of resistance to jihad is bad.

Pole Position - Which driver will post the fastest lap in Q3 AFTER MAX VERSTAPPEN IS REMOVED FROM THE RESULTS?

Leclerc

Podium - Which drivers will finish the Grand Prix in the top three positions AFTER MAX VERSTAPPEN IS REMOVED FROM THE RESULTS?

1. Lecleec

2. Perez

3. Norris

Random Driver - Predict the finishing position of this week's random driver, Lando Norris.

4th

Bonus Question - Which driver will be the biggest UNDER-performer this weekend? (This will be judged by the driver who finishes the race below their championship position by the most places).

Stroll

12 hours ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

Tbh I think it's only common sense if a condition to the suspended sentence is he goes and gets into some kind of therapy treatment for gambling addiction. He's already serving a ban for gambling and he went ahead and... gambled again. I think he's very lucky to not be banned again. I understand addiction is tricky, but I'm not sure we'd see the same sort of leniency if it was a drugs issue he was struggling with and testing positive for cocaine multiple times a season... and drugs don't put the integrity of the sport into question.

He was cooperative in investigations which I think helped, he has gone through addiction treatment in the time he has been out.   

A suspended sentence is a sensible sanction