Nefilim

This was a cooking forum wasnt it, and isn't it not?

What do you think Hunting? Do you think Buck hunting should carry on

The healiest and cheapest eating is the smarstest cooking?

Vegan cream = seaseme oil and tofu + Vita mix

3rd test pissed me off England/Bazball could have gone down in records, world records - if they just didn't lose it before 'the day Bazball lost the test becasue of prick energy

He's a special type of scrufy billionaire Cayman Island-Monaco based UK loving proud gentleman that will restore heritage and fine history to the institution that is Manchester United. Ho hum.. He owns a football club in Lausanne Switzerland called, FC Lausanne - he took them over in 2017. Stade de la Tuilière started construction in 2017, funded by the state of Lausanne. He's also at Nice, who have a nice(no pun)new stadium off the back of 2014 Euros. This prick is going to make us all pay for a new Old Trafford. Sad reality upon 2024, but bring back the days of Roman Abrahmovic and Man City's Seihk.

Federico Redondo at Argentinos Juniors would be lovely if we could sell him a dream and beat off interest from bigger clubs. https://www.thecopaclub.co.uk/post/federico-redondo-the-next-big-5-from-argentina-s-talent-factory https://fbref.com/en/players/b7b9c8ce/Federico-Redondo

De Jong on for Nasri, Barry De Jong and 2-0 Toure.

None of Rice, Bellingham, Foden, Maddison, Grealish, Saka, Kane - all our best midfield/attacking players actually play that 4231 for their clubs. Just seems awkard for them all. In last few games I watched England (Australia, Macedonia, Malta) it was scary just how many players it takes England to move the ball into midfield, and get behind an opponents midfield line to actually attack them. Was frightening against Australia - the game everyone booed off Henderson - Including GK, it was 8 players either going backwards or sideways. He played Colwill as a BurnLB, with Trent AA coming inside who just got in the way of Henderson... Gallagher did fuck all but go backwards, and Grealish just came inside and back because Colwill couldn't overlap and had no fucker to pass forward too. Rice is more than capable of playing that single pivot as a DM, he does it well enough for Arsenal. It's going to be more natural for all these guys to play in that 433 shape rather than involving someone like Gallagher/Phillips.

Phillips is the lesser of the midfield evils that Southgate's selection policy plauges us with out of the Henderson, Gallagher and Phillips trio. Only injury can save us from Henderson going to Euros. For any other country going to this Euro's a midfield of Rice, Bellingham and Foden picks itself. Most progressive attack minded midfield we'll be lucky is if Trent plays holding mid alongside Rice, and Foden from a wing. Happen to think England wise, it's a perfect balance of two evils. Steve Holland being the tactical guy responsible for the handbrake being kept on, and Southgate being the FA middle-manager/PR guy that is responsible for team unity and positivity. Basically Southgate will always pick likes of Henderson because of 'muh leadership' and Holland won't see anything wrong with playing him over say a Foden or Maddison centrally.

"The problem for all the FFP rule sets is they're trying to make one size fits all, but there are so many different interests in the Premier League," Borson told talkSPORT. "You have the American-led teams with the private equity mindset*; you have City and Newcastle possibly looking with a slightly different view of things... "Teams are going to be saying, 'Hang on a minute. We're not changing the rules just as Chelsea are in trouble. We want to make sure that the rules still apply to the extent people still get punished for the previous rules.'" Behind the scenes, this is where our Saudi influence needs to come into play. Man U, Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea, and essentially Spurs all come into that American-led clubs, clubs that we need to surpasse. This summer the Saudi League simply can't be giving these clubs a get-out-of-jail-free card when it comes to transfer fees. Koulibaly, Mendy, Kante, Fabinho, Henderson etc. Fuck em and let them burn - stop buying from these clubs - nobody in will be queing to take Casimero/Varane at full cost.

Could see that deal coming from a mile off. Laughable really, as going into January the big ho-ha was us being able to just sign players like Neves, Laporte on loan from Saudi clubs. Would be happy for Al-Rumayyan to have a nice word with the PIF clubs in Saudi to start moving their attentions to these talents from South America. Which ever way you look at it their would be no loser - other than the butthurt PL. It would also instantly readress the market imbalance Saudi has caused the transfer value landscape. I see no loser whatsoever, and would be perfect for us too in terms of next 5 years. It could be a very well thought out long game of 4D Chess by PIF to fuckover the Prem Top6 that tried to close shop over our PIF's involvment with us. They could easily position themselves in a way Madrid have been doing for a while now - Casimero, Vinicius, Rodrygo, Endrick - and be hoovering up Brazil's next stars, from which we naturally become first refusers when they move.

I can't see an obvious answer, and for that reason it's probably going to a case of Howe sticking with Burn. Whenever I've seen heatmaps of us, it's always looked as Burn is a wide left CB. Tino is a right-sided player, attacking full back - whilst he's looked good at LB, I don't think he's suited in what Howe wants at LB - to make that 3CB, Tripps RM build up. Trippier would be far more suitable as a Burn like LB than Tino, as seen for England, with Tino coming in at RB. But that removes the creative threat Trippier has on the right side, as well as the set-piece height he likes with Burn. Tino's versatility from the bench is probably favored by Howe as well. He can come in at RB, LB, RW. If we're losing, on for Burn to make us more attacking - if we're winning we can go to a 5 with him on at LWB with Burn LCB. Only answer I see is that we have to get in a LB to match levels we have at CB with Botman, MF with Bruno and upfront with Isak. Going into next season, Burn simply can't be a LB. That's how we can progress again now.

Was going to say - Lemina was at Southampton. Jefferson Lerma was Bournemouth. Think that Ryan Jacob confusing the two players alludes to him not having a clue about what he's saying, and just stabbing in the dark with a statement that comes across as insightful and on-the-nose. Stand out memory from that season when it went off the rails for Howe at Bouremouth and he was relegated was how turbo-shit Phil Billing was everytime I watched him. Dossing about in CM. Which can be easily seen in highlights below when we beat them 4-1. I live on South-Coast, and watched Bouremouth a handful of times when they were in L1, Championship. A lot of those players Howe stuck with all the way to even a couple of seasons in the Prem - Cook, Francis, Daniels, Surman, Arter, Gosling, Fraser, Wilson. My memories of watching Bouremouth in the Prem at is was usally 4-4-2/4-4-1-1 with Arter-Surman, Billing-Lerma double pivot. 4-3-3 never jumps out in the memory. The recruitment was a huge issue at Bournemouth the longer they stayed in the Prem, and they never got it right when it came to transitioning away from the stalwart L1/Champ players into that next phase. Perfect example is the midfield of Harry Arter (40k from Woking)/Andrew Surman became £45M worth of Phil Billing and Jerferson Lerma. Howe's brother Andy Howe I seem to recall was big part of recruitment at Bournemouth, and is involved here too. We smashed Bournemouth 4-1 that season, in what is probably one of only a few good performances that instantly spring to mind from under Bruce. Hard to tell from highlights, but does seem like a 4-4-2... double pivot sort of midfield rather than the 4-3-3 (creative base, with 2 hardworking '8's' ahead) Howe's been playing here. The huge gap between defensive line and midfield is something we've seen here often when our press fails. Not questioning Howe yet, but there is now new challenges for him here that could be parralled to the challenge of turning PL Bouremouth 1.0 into Bouremouth 2.0, one he ultimatly failed at. Would like to see him bring in a fresh face to his coaching team in the summer - not to necasserily overhaul the team he's worked with for so many years, but we've seen Pep, Klopp, Fergie was classic for it bring in a new face that will help evolve the team.

We basically defend with a back 3 anyway as Burn offers us fuck all going forward. We don't have a midfield that can protect a back 4 and not leave them isolated and ran at like today or against Forest - at least setting up with Burn as a authodox CB we should be better suited and set up to defend at someone like Barkley robbing Longstaff and running at us. Tino would be width on left side that can actually get across the half way line at attack, and we'd still have a front three of Miggy,Wilson,Gordon for example.

If we end up pinned down as a back 5, yeah - fully agree that's the answer to nothing. We've no midfielder than can sit and hold, and defend against transition anyway. We got fucked by Forest breaking on us and a back 4 dragged all over the shop, same today. Burn at LB has been isolated and looked a risk to liability against Kabore/Townsend, Elanga, Doku, Harry Wilson for 45mins, Bailey and now Ogbene. Whatever XI that's left seems to be running on fumes when it comes to having that front-foot intensity, that always helped aleviate Burn's weaknesses which teams even then tried to isolate. Playing with cards we've got left - I'm saying [Schar-Botman-Burn][Trippier, Miley/Longstaff, Bruno, Tino] and whatever 3 is fittest out of Barnes, Murph, Almiron, Wilson, Gordon is going to be the best approach for Forest, and wouldn't have been any worse 5 of our recent games we've dropped points in.

I think it could be a broader case of Howe adding something different to his backroom team end of the season too. It's something that will inevitably have to be done for Howe to now progress at the top end of PL management and keep us progressing as well. There is definatly a consistency that borders on a lack of flexibility in Howe's approach. For example, in recent weeks I don't think setting up as a 343/back 5 would have been the worst shout - Burn LCB, Tino LB - Longstaff/Miley, Bruno - Miggy, Isak, Almiron. Going back to Luton away, going into Forest on Boxing day. Both shite performances - we could have easily matched both sides up, and seen just as much if not more going forward with Tino playing on the left. We wouldn't be the first or last side to play 541 against Man City or Liverpool away either, and I don't think we ship another 4 goals today playing Burn LCB with Tino LB in a back 4. We're seeing zero benefit in having that extra man in midfield, and all the drawbacks of Bruno/Miley/Longstaff not being a midfield 3 that can control a game neither overun boss a game. All the while running our 3 remaining fit CMs all into the ground at once.

Across the two games against Luton, we just allowed them to compete and drag us down to their level. Credit to Luton, but conceding 4 goals at home to them is unforgivable. On the whole a truly pathetic display. I really miss that Big Joe-Little Joe interchanging partnership down our left side we had last season. Think that was really a glue that held many other things together, and made us so good last year. We we're never amazing at the slow build up, but solid at the back, never out fought in midfield and hard to play through whether we sat off, or pressed higher. They always seemed to take in turns in playing slightly higher, or slightly deeper/narrower - whilst both of them being able to press and close down either a RB, or midfielder. When we we're at our best it was like playing with 4 CMs, and 2 left wingers. Knock on effect of not having that is Burn is much more isolated having to engage that 15-20yards higher. Pope's miss has also fucked us obviously - but whilst we might moan about his kicking, Dubs being better on the ball than Pope is causing us bigger problems down the line. We're not a Brighton type side that can lure a team onto press us 20yards out our goalline, then be in behind their midfield. Dubravka being better on the ball than Pope has actually made us far easier to close down when playing out. Pope would either not be given that extra pass back in first place, or boom the ball long. Dub's more comfortable on the ball, but we're just not suited for that - especially with sides allowing ball played into Burn before closing us. All in all, we just seem to be far softer than last season, and easier to play against. Bruno, Longstaff and Miley should have been able to control a midfield 2 of Barkley and Nakamba/Lokonga both home and away fixtures, but as a unit where piss poor. Especially today, just shows how much they let themselves down as a unit on the basics - Bruno's outside of boot assist, his chance made a end, thought Miley was decent, Longstaff scores twice but robbed by Barkley.

Seems more of an echo chambor than a forum.

I think Lucy Leby is pure human scum. I think Derek Chauvin should be a free Man. Mandela also blow up a train, and killed people. As soon as socity realises 'Peace isn't profitable' the war is won.