Rayvin

I don't think we should underestimate how powerful that rhetoric was mind you, Russia definitely did shut up and go away. We've heard nothing about them since...

Threatening who? Has he told someone to shut up and go away again?

Sure but even so, it's some progress. Imagine if we did get to 100% - you set it up state owned and charge people cost + 2% for future proofing.. no one would ever freeze in their homes again. Fully energy independent.

Is it really that high? That's actually really impressive.

Tbf to them, that's a really compelling argument. "The economic consequences of cutting ourselves off from our largest trading partner could harm GDP by up to 5% in the short to medium term and make us a poorer country" is a much less robust argument, from an intellectual standpoint, than "HA HA Fake Wall Go BOOM"

Fully agree - this has to be the end of them for good, we can't risk any more of this incompetence. They've disaster capitalist'd the country to the brink of oblivion. I'm prepared to give Starmer the benefit of the doubt on whatever it takes to win him power, if he locks them out for good. The thing is though, I feel like there'd need to be an actual conversation around how much damage they've done, and I'm not sure anyone is prepared to talk about it yet. At this point it's not even about whether you're left or right wing - it's about whether you appreciate that running a country requires a serious attitude, intelligence, experience, and competence, or whether running a country is a game to be played by born to rule rich fucks who substitute all of the above with a posh accent and a tendency to spout off in Latin. Eton must be a fucking shit school btw if this is the calibre of moron it's pumping out. See also Oxbridge's PPE course.

Yeah ok. It's really useful then IMO. @PaddockLad would you accept this - xG may not tell you anything you couldn't see yourself (IMO it could but I will accept you may just be a more astute observer than I am, wouldn't be difficult) but given that it collects -everything- in this context across all players, it therefore proves its use by converting the analysis into a quantitative form that can be easily manipulated/sorted to quickly offer the same level of insight that you'd otherwise have to spend hours of time watching games to replicate. Therefore, it's a great tool for assessing players who we don't normally get to watch much playtime of - maybe it does indeed have more diminished impact at a club where you watch every game though.

Truth be told mate, it doesn't particularly matter to me whether you did or not. Plenty of people I care about did too. What matters to me at this point is people burying their heads in the sand and refusing to see reality - which I've not seen from you yet, so don't take that comment the wrong way. In direct response, the biggest venn diagram overlap between those who voted for Brexit and any other political issue is immigration (closely followed by the reinstatement of the death penalty, interestingly). Given your views on immigration as expressed so far, it seems a logical inference. It's either that or you want to bring back hanging I'm afraid - I don't make the rules

How is the 'expected' bit of XG established again? Do they have a database of all goals with specific criteria assigned and then do a weighted average (which would be awesome) or is it just goals from a specific part of the box? (which would be practical but not as awesome).

I'm aware

We just have to hope that the need becomes clear. The tables are turning in the media at least, you can see it even at staunch Brexit cheerleaders like the Telegraph and the BBC.

The only thing the Tories ever manage to grow is inequality. For all that people went off on Corbyn for being ideological (rightly) the Tories are actually far more consistently ideological in their crazed pursuit of austerity. There is no economic justification for it at a time when we need growth. They won't run out of money, they can afford to raises taxes on corporations, but because that would mean that everything they stand for is shown up to be the nonsense that it is, we have to watch them double down on destroying what's left of this once proud nation.

More than enough though. I think it will continue to be a long game with Brexit though and even with my staunch opinions I'm ok with that as long as we're moving towards rejoining. People need time to understand that they really did vote to make us weaker, insignificant and poorer. Starmer's approach is to pretend that's not happening so that he can win in the short term, but the media is now starting to talk about it more honestly and that in turn will make it more possible for Labour to do so. As that happens, that 57% will become 60, then 65% etc. Once it reaches that kind of level, we can likely persuade the EU to forgive us.

Am actually feeling fairly positive on things atm. The Brexit Sea change, the Suella scandal and now Matt Hancock. The Tory party is an incompetent, hilarious mess even under Sunak. There genuinely were no capable Brexiteers it seems.

Think I heard a Labour MP say in the commons yesterday that 70% of them were legit. Depends where they're coming from too tbh, that may also be a factor in the increase. I wouldn't even put it past the Tories to have manufactured it themselves in order to give them something to 'win' on.

I've never observed any significant ill feeling towards City from our fanbase, I think possibly because your success came at the expense of many clubs we genuinely didn't like. Charnley and Ashley were entirely on their own path with what the club did anyway, you can fully consider the institution and the fans to be hostages in that situation.

I read it too and felt the same. Different fucking planet, the daily mail.

RTG analysis, incidentally, is that the Saudis are right, we belong to them and they can do what they want.. except that the club has actually taken our line, not the Saudi one. It's not great to see that backlash though, reminds me of reading RTG itself before our takeover necessitated that they have to be "pro" most of the things that their politics thread reveals them to be "anti".

Granted, am only aware of this thanks to RTG and exile specifically, but this tweet seems to have caused a bit of a backlash amongst our new Saudi followers:

So we only beat 5 teams so far, no big deal. Goes on to say that them besting a single team, Brentford, a team we also destroyed, is proof that they'll get a result They might tbf but we'd have to be having a very shit day. If both sides turn up to 100% of what they're capable of, Villa lose 10-0, frankly.

Aye cos, as we all know, water companies famously avoid filling their reservoirs unless told otherwise by politicians. Utter prat.

Aye genuinely not sure what to make of that Maybe he's trolling everyone.

One of the tweets under that video: Work to do yet.

Totally agree I just wish it was a bit higher nonetheless. As I've said I'm happy that it's even being discussed at all.

Still only 51% though. Accounting for death and replacement you could probably argue that all who voted for it still refuse to see reality, to varying degrees.