Gemmill

The Steve Bruce of popes.

I assumed you'd been standing in women's bogs, clipboard in hand, trousers round ankles.

A noted intervention on probability from an xG denier btw. Interesting....

I don't doubt thtle truth of what you say at all. But there can't be much data on it.

No I would say you're a lot worse at it.

Nothing in what I've said is even close to as many IFs as what if Man United sack Amorim and he goes back there. Cos that isn't happening. Your first three sentences basically rule out the idea from your previous post that he's leaving for a bigger club btw.

I think Rashford stays. Which bigger club is realistically coming in for him? Villa might yet win the FA Cup and qualify for the CL again, and Emry has made it pretty clear that Rashford is his first choice striker. And if Rashford stays, the writing is on the wall for Watkins.

Aye sorry I didn't mean us. Callum Wilson looked great at 30 as well, and the drop off when it comes is pronounced. But there are clubs with deep pockets and a need for a striker. Saying that, it's not a deal that would make much PSR sense, but for an Arsenal who we know he loves, if they need a striker to push them over the top in a title challenge for a couple of seasons, they could do a lot worse.

I wonder if he might leave Villa in the summer. He's clearly now second choice behind Rashford, and he's 30 so that situation isn't going to improve. And he's clearly raging about it. There'd be a few teams interested if the price was right.

I think so cos: They shouldn't catch us from that, which would mean we only have to pick off one of Forest or Chelsea for CL.

Win on Saturday and Villa are back to an effective 6 points behind us with only 4 to play.

Get in.

Marmoush looks absolutely shit tonight.

They're dreadful. Unless they're playing us.

I'd rather we won on Saturday to go 5 points (effectively 6 with GD) ahead of Villa. With only 4 games left to play, that should more or less ensure they can't catch us. And then we only need to pick off one more of Chelsea or Forest.

You don't mean this. Things could be a lot lot worse, and they would be with Reform in charge. If you think things are bad now...

And now Duran for £75m in Jan. And yet they've still got themselves in a PSR pickle last season, filing 13 month accounts and that. It might take us selling someone for mega money to kick on. Either that or having 3 seasons on the bounce in the CL and then taking the piss a bit in sponsorships as an established CL club.

UEFA has set the precedent that you get fined, not kicked out of the competitions. They'll do the same with Villa and Chelsea. Villa have sailed closer to the wind on PSR than us, but we shouldn't forget that Villa had a MUCH better starting position than us. They were a professionally run club for a lot of the time that we were being run as a Sports Direct subsidiary.

It's a right fucking mess. He looks like an idiot, and it's not like he's going to gain praise from anywhere for this. Trans allies will rightly go at him for it, and the idiots that have agreed with his position all along will ridicule him for being a flip flopper, won't believe that he's changed his position anyway, and will ridicule him for having ever thought anything else in the first place. The truth is that you can't be honest or have a sensible conversation about anything anymore, so he probably sees this (correctly) as the path of least resistance. Go with the version that results in me getting asked repeatedly about my position slightly less. A complete fucking mess.

They'll have models that stimulate the games thousands of times weighted for relative form, strength of opposition, etc, I imagine.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/apr/22/larry-david-spoofs-bill-maher-white-house-visit-trump Good lad Larry.

Aye I think I'd go Man City win as well. I'm sure the correct mathematical choice is probably a draw cos I would imagine that reduces BOTH of their probabilities to make top 5. But us dropping another spot and seeing Villa move to within 1 point of us.... No thanks.

Dougie is WOKE AF ITT.

You'll be filed away in his head under "Sheeple".

There you go. It hasn't failed yet. Enjoy the match!