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  1. Yeah good on him. I guess he sees it as a shame to call an early end to his "chapter" with Leverkusen. Passing up both Liverpool and Bayern is no small thing but he's probably got decades left of his managerial career if he wants them and the same or similar opportunities will be presented to him again. Maybe he's holding out for Ancelotti to retire...
  2. Predictions - Japanese Grand Prix I'm posting these very early as I'm off on holiday tomorrow. I'll try my best to tag reminders next Friday ahead of qualifying which will be early Saturday morning for most of us! @RandoEFC @Stan @MUFC @Tommy @nudge @Whiskey @The Palace Fan @Coma @DeadLinesman @OrangeKhrush Pole Position - Which driver will post the fastest lap in Q3? [INSERT DRIVER] Podium - Which drivers will finish the Grand Prix in the top three positions AFTER MAX VERSTAPPEN IS REMOVED FROM THE RESULTS? 1. [INSERT DRIVER] 2. [INSERT DRIVER] 3. [INSERT DRIVER] Random Driver - Predict the finishing position of this week's random driver, Pierre Gasly. [INSERT POSITION] Bonus Question - We've done this one before - which driver's finishing position will outperform their current Drivers' Championship position by the most places? E.G. if Carlos Sainz finishes 2nd, he will have outperformed his current position in the Drivers' Championship (4th) by 2 places. If nobody picks the "biggest overperformer", then I'm going to give the full 5 points rather than 2 consolation points to whoever makes the best pick. [INSERT DRIVER]
  3. Results - Australian Grand Prix A broad mixture of scores this week, starting off with a 0 for @Whiskey who didn't make any predictions. Qualifying was more or less business as usual, with @MUFC the only person to gamble on someone other than Max Verstappen for pole position. Leclerc sadly blew his last qualifying effort leaving him empty-handed, with everyone else bagging 5 points for the usual VER pole. Also resolved on Saturday was this week's bonus question. Not helped by Ricciardo's deleted lap-time seeing him knocked out in Q1, nobody predicted a gap between him and Piastri of anything like the 1.5 seconds that Piastri had out-stripped his compatriot by come the end of Q3, so 2 consolation points go to @OrangeKhrush who predicted the largest margin of anyone. Onto the race, and wouldn't you know that it took until just the second race after we started predicting "top three without Verstappen" that this ends up being the actual top three in the race. The change in this prediction achieved what we wanted anyway, with a variety of Perez, Norris, Ferrari and Mercedes picks yielding a nice mixture of scores. Nobody predicted Sainz in 1st place, but 2 points each go to @RandoEFC, @Tommy, @Coma and @DeadLinesman for putting him elsewhere in their top three. Everyone predicted a top three finish for Charles Leclerc, with @RandoEFC, @Stan, @Tommy, @nudge, @The Palace Fan and @DeadLinesman all bagging 5 points for putting him in P2, everyone else picking up 2 - the only points of the weekend in @MUFC's case. @Stan, @nudge and @OrangeKhrush all distinguished themselves by rounding off their podium predictions with Lando Norris in 3rd, collecting them another 5 points each. The presence of Perez in everyone's top three prevented anyone from bagging the 20 points for a perfect podium. Finally, this week's random driver was Oscar Piastri at his home race. Nobody was bold enough to predict a finish as high as 4th for him, but @RandoEFC was closest with 6th place here so picks up an extra 2 points. Here's what it does for the standings: Three races in, defending champion @RandoEFC sneaks to the top of the standings with a 1 point lead ahead of previous leader @Tommy. @MUFC's poor weekend and @Whiskey's no-show this weekend see them propping up the standings. In the Constructors', a mediocre week for Mercedes sees them drop from 1st to 4th. Red Bull raked in the highest points tally this week but it's McLaren who sneak into the top spot in a close battle between them, Red Bull and Aston Martin. I'm going away tomorrow so I'll be posting the predictions for next weekend's Japanese Grand Prix this afternoon.
  4. Nicely worked equaliser but what are those celebrations about in a friendly?
  5. Surely Red Bull have to be tempted? Ricciardo is clearly washed and Tsunoda doesn't have the temperament to be a reliable second driver in a championship team. Sainz is an upgrade on Perez. The Audi project is clearly appealing in the long term but I can't see that Sainz won't have offers from Red Bull and/or Mercedes and personally think, looking at the dustbins Sauber have put out this year, he'd be mad to go there instead.
  6. 4 points is already scandalous compared to what we got given that they signed 42 players in 18 months or whatever it is. Sounds like they won't get points added on for frivolous appeal so best we can hope for is they get laughed at. All of it just goes to show how absolutely ridiculous our initial 10 point deduction was.
  7. The esk knows his stuff but by all accounts he's close to either MSP or one of the other consortiums interested in swooping in at a lower price if 777 falls through, so I do take his commentary on the 777 takeover with a pinch of salt.
  8. Haha the gammons thinking they're the "silent majority" and being convinced that they've got a massive boycott on the go only for it to amount to about 20 people will never get old.
  9. I'm pretty sure the last race I missed and watched the highlights was Singapore where Sainz also ended a Verstappen winning spree and Russell crashed out on the final lap . It's important to me that a Driver/Team never win an entire season of races in F1 so at least that one's back on the shelf this year.
  10. All I've managed to glean is that the big, strong, beer-breathed flag shaggers who are known for saying things like "we could do with a good war to toughen up this snowflake generation" as if they speak with some authority despite the last world war ending 20 years before they were born, have seen the pink and purple bits and been reminded of the rainbows that have them waking up at night in cold sweats. Remember though it's the "woke brigade" that are snowflakes, offended by everything and need to be toughened up.
  11. I know it's probably generally true of internationals and especially friendlies but that was a hard watch. This England setup has been reasonably successful at tournament level but I also think there's quite a flat track bully element about it. Boringly efficient against the cannon fodder and then usually just coming up a bit short against their proper rivals. In both cases, not particularly exciting viewing.
  12. What's wrong with it? Genuinely? I'd be more concerned about them charging £125 for kids' shirts personally. Think that's more disgraceful than a bit of purple thread but I'm here to be educated.
  13. Whatever happens with this, the Premier League have badly let us down here. This has taken 6 months ffs. Simultaneously coming after us for the way the club has been run, inflicting heavy handed points deductions that risk sending us to the Championship and potential financial oblivion, all the while leaving us in limbo on the change of ownership situation. If 777 are suitable owners, why has it taken 6 months for them to be approved, and if they're not suitable owners, why dick around over this for half a year? If they get turned down then that's months worth of time Moshiri could have been looking for a new buyer that could get the club back on a level footing and all the while, the financial situation has been getting worse and worse as 777 have been loaning us money which means yet more debt for any alternative new owner to take on. Moshiri is a cancer on this club and the Premier League is not fit for purpose as an organisation on so many levels.
  14. Rookie numbers. £10 returns £910. Have some of that!
  15. I've seen a few people mention this. I think PSR was sold to the clubs as one thing and is turning out to be something completely different. The lack of a set in stone sanctions policy is on the clubs as well and it's been pointed out that Everton were one of the clubs that voted against having one so that cases could be handled on a case by case basis. Obviously that leaves some trust in the Premier League to act fairly and in good faith but I don't think we've seen that. It goes to show the people running these football clubs can't be trusted to have a say in the governance of the sport either so the sooner all this independent regulator goes through the better.
  16. So Alex Albon destroyed his car in Practice, leaving the chassis un-raceable. They don't have a spare chassis so they've withdrawn Sargeant from the weekend to give Albon his car. Obviously no right-thinking team would do anything different but that's some kick in the teeth for Logan.
  17. This is where I'm at. I love football and I can't stop following Everton, but I'm not just throwing a tantrum when I say that the Premier League has now completely jumped the shark in my eyes. People can argue about whether it's corrupt, I think it is to be honest, because the governing body should be placing sporting integrity above all else and they clearly have too many conflicts of interest to do so. If anyone doesn't think it's corrupt then they at least have to admit that it's uncompetitive, and the way this PSR era of the Premier League is playing out, it's becoming clear that it's uncompetitive by design. I'm done with the Premier League but unfortunately I'm one of millions of fans who is held hostage by what a train-wreck modern elite football has become because my football club happens to play in this league. It's why I said above that I could find many reasons to be grateful if I ended up supporting a Championship club. At least it's still vaguely "real" at that level.
  18. I don't care what they've done to be honest mate. Every day now is PSR, PSR, PSR. Almost daily reminders that this is the new football. Accountants, lawyers, yawn, yawn, yawn. I think the Premier League have shown beyond all doubt this season that they're in no position whatsoever to be pretending they can implement these financial rules. I can see where this is going now. Nobody likes VAR but it gives everyone something to talk about and, most importantly of all, it gets clicks. The more VAR drama, the better, because it gets people on social media shouting about "the worst decision they've ever seen" and more people are talking about the Premier League. It's going to be the same with PSR. Let's find another way we can introduce financial charges to a club so everyone can keep talking about points deductions and appeals and how stupid the rules are because the only thing worse than people slating the Premier League is people not talking about the Premier League at all. I'm sure Leicester have a case to answer just like Everton and Forest did but you can see how the coverage has changed since Everton initially got the 10 point deduction. Things that would have been dealt with behind closed doors are now a spectacle that has to be played out in public over the course of several months, several meetings, and rounded off with a few journalists leaking the result before it's published accompanied by a bunch of emojis. I'm convinced it's all deliberate. All this "Forest are expecting a decision on Monday or Tuesday at the latest and maybe Sunday" is deliberately designed to get people spending three days refreshing their social media pages and searching for information. It's telling now that the national journalists have increasingly started tweeting out minor updates that would have been a footnote in an obscure article in the past. It's all about the buzz. Football is so fucked, man. If the Premier League want to be viewed as a credible enforcer of these rules then they'll start making a dent in Man City's 115 charges instead of going after a team that's already been relegated from their league. Low-hanging fruit. Of course 115 charges are more complicated but that's all the more reason to get started ffs.
  19. The Premier League are massive cunts. Pass it on.
  20. Pole Position - Which driver will post the fastest lap in Q3? Verstappen Podium - Which drivers will finish the Grand Prix in the top three positions AFTER MAX VERSTAPPEN IS REMOVED FROM THE RESULTS? 1. Perez 2. Leclerc 3. Sainz Random Driver - Predict the finishing position of this week's random driver, Oscar Piastri. 6th Bonus Question - Which of the Australian drivers (Oscar Piastri and Daniel Ricciardo) will qualify faster, and what will the margin be between their fastest laps in qualifying? (E.G. Piastri by 0.3s) - Anything within 0.1s of the correct answer will win 5 points. Piastri by 0.3s
  21. Predictions - Australian Grand Prix We're off down under so don't go to bed on Friday night without making your predictions! @RandoEFC @Stan @MUFC @Tommy @nudge @Whiskey @The Palace Fan @Coma @DeadLinesman @OrangeKhrush Pole Position - Which driver will post the fastest lap in Q3? [INSERT DRIVER] Podium - Which drivers will finish the Grand Prix in the top three positions AFTER MAX VERSTAPPEN IS REMOVED FROM THE RESULTS? 1. [INSERT DRIVER] 2. [INSERT DRIVER] 3. [INSERT DRIVER] Random Driver - Predict the finishing position of this week's random driver, Oscar Piastri. [INSERT POSITION] Bonus Question - Which of the Australian drivers (Oscar Piastri and Daniel Ricciardo) will qualify faster, and what will the margin be between their fastest laps in qualifying? (E.G. Piastri by 0.3s) - Anything within 0.1s of the correct answer will win 5 points. [INSERT DRIVER AND MARGIN]
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