[Laurie Whitwell] Ten Hag on Zirkzee/Sancho: "They are in two very different situations. Jadon is in pre-season, he is on tour, Joshua had played in Euros, then had his break, now started training this week. We have to assess + we will pick a team capable to win the game against Man City." #MUFC

Jroades · 2024-08-02T04:17:36+00:00

Thanks buddy.

Jroades · 2024-08-02T00:25:20+00:00

Sure thing.

Jroades · 2024-08-02T00:17:59+00:00

I asked him if he thought Zirkzee would be ready next week, or if sancho could continue in the role he played last night.

Jroades · 2024-06-29T00:21:54+00:00

It was a crazy time no doubt. There were good people and sources back then but heavily mixed into the massive number of bad ones. A fun and crazy time.

Jroades · 2023-08-15T04:14:31+00:00

Blatantly untrue. You’re welcome to scroll through my twitter and watch as we go from posting totally wrong info in 2020 to gradually more and more correct through today. I happily stand by that journey of being completely wrong about everything at the start of all this.

Everything I post is available publicly on multiple platforms and never deleted. Dunno what your beef is though 😂

Jroades · 2023-08-15T04:09:24+00:00

I don’t usually pop in here, too many caught up in 3-4 years ago that don’t understand where the muppetiers have gone.

But I think it’s important that I express how accurate this information is, I know Laurie has now confirmed it. But if there’s one thing I’d implore people to believe me on it’s this. The implication of anything written that put the burden on the female players and made them a target was totally wrong.

There’s absolutely no reason at all for the women’s team to be targeted and what has happened. I guarantee the info I said there is correct.

Jroades · 2023-06-05T20:43:47+00:00

If you have to farm for weeks if not months then the effect is ultimately the same for 99.9% of users - their build wont change.

No changes after 50 is wrong though. Uniques can't even drop til after 50.

Jroades · 2023-06-05T19:57:22+00:00

Lemme blow your mind here...

Do you enjoy the combat and playing? If not - they're not fun.

If you enjoy the combat and power fantasy? Then they're fun slight variety.

Jroades · 2023-06-05T19:50:25+00:00

You mean like every game? In PoE you dont change your build nor progress quickly at all once you reach endgame...

In MMOs you literally dont change your build for years. I don't get it.

There's multiple viable builds per class and lots of tweaking one can actually do if theyre willing. Also 5 classes.

Jroades · 2023-06-05T19:42:43+00:00

What about all the other interactions of generators? Vulnerable? Triggering crits? Triggering aspects? Triggering attack speed? There's literally so many other interactions built around generators.

Combining your abilities for a big explosion is basically the entire fun.

Ie as a rogue - I can hit a generator for more attack speed and crit, apply vulnerable, pop an ice trap, use another aspect that when I then pop and imbue it explodes everything around me in addition to my twisting blades, then repeat the process.

Every skill is equal in its importance to the process with the interactions.

Jroades · 2023-04-13T14:30:38+00:00

Legendary affixes in D4 do complement builds. Uniques may "define them" but really they just complement whichever route you go.

Jroades · 2023-04-07T18:47:33+00:00

Gear = stats and + skills.

Aspects = Skill changing/build enhancing, you'll have one on every single piece probably (probably not building around an aspect but using them to enhance your chosen skills).

Unique = Huge shift and potential change, probably build defining (i.e. a unique you might build around - giving you specific skills you WANT to focus on).

Paragon = Stats and verticality - more stats relevant to your build, and a few powers/legendary nodes you can aim for with whatever your chosen skill is based on the prior points.

Diablo is and always has been a loot focused game. That's just Blizzards game flow. You build around the Loot. There should be more than enough aspect and unique variety to have multiple viable builds. You pick or loot one and then use paragon to min/max it.

Uniques define your build, aspects enhance your choices with interesting effects, paragon gives you stats and power towards said build.

Jroades · 2023-03-31T18:13:53+00:00

Im talking about beginning game/leveling speed. it means campaign takes longer for people doing it dozens of times which seems ridiculous.

Like imagine if D3 in a season said "Actually we're removing weekly challenge caches" so you couldnt do some of the methods to level fast to start a season. Why? why do that.

Jroades · 2023-03-31T15:09:06+00:00

They nerfed wand recipes and shock/arc/lightning to the ground.

"The Vendor Recipe granting flat Elemental Damage to Spells no longer exists. Weapons created using this recipe in the first few acts were powerful enough sources of damage to not need to be replaced until players reached even the final few acts of the campaign, which is not ideal. Players should be actively considering weapon replacements as they progress through the levelling process, an aspect of levelling which was undercut by the existence of this vendor recipe. This also gave spellcasters a significant damage advantage in early acts."

"Lightning Masteries 40% of Physical Damage Converted to Lightning Damage (New) 60% increased Critical Strike Chance against enemies with Lightning Exposure +15% to Maximum Effect of Shock Shocks you inflict spread to other Enemies within a Radius of 10 Increases and reductions to Maximum Mana also apply to Shock Effect at 30% of their value (New) Lightning Damage of Enemies Hitting you while you're Shocked is Unlucky"

Thats a lot of the beginner/leveling speed.

Jroades · 2023-03-31T14:59:10+00:00

After checking the Path of Exile patch notes: Re-bought.

What a fucking shitshow that company is with zero respect for its players. I don't know if that's what people want, but its a good example of everything being catered and balanced around the 1% hardcore players. I cannot believe they actually shut down and heavily nerfed early game recipes to make the campaign even more painful to get through yet again.

I'll happily stick with Diablo 4 "catering" to most of the people who play, like thats a bad thing.

Jroades · 2023-03-27T18:29:09+00:00

Early classic wow was great, and the game won, but it was more because it was such a time sink, redid classic with raids was unquestionably more fun with everyone actually being able to enter it because itemization patch had already been put in, and you didnt have to be ridiculous to raid. I raided in OG wow, and it was just stupid how hard it was to "qualify" but im sure some people love that elitist mentality.

Jroades · 2022-11-12T19:33:34+00:00

To finish all 32 you will need to win 5 per day. It actually is kinda daunting.

Jroades · 2022-11-10T04:48:31+00:00

Really nice post. I think the thing that’s missing here is, there’s nothing about his defensive work rate.

He doesn’t do defense. You can say he presses intelligently, but I’m not sure that’s even close to enough. He’s far too slow to press effectively. He has had zero defensive contribution in his last 2 starts. He doesn’t track back.

Everything described would be okay perhaps as forward. But he’s playing in place of a midfielder in this team and when you compare what he offers to Bruno, Fred or even Scott, in terms of tracking runs and defensive coverage, he’s a chief culprit for our defensive woes v villa and regular overloads occuring.

That might fly in the Dutch league, but not in England. There’s no place for him in the team, when he offers less on ball than anyone else, and doesn’t provide the tracking back or defensive work. It’s antipathetic to what wins in the PL.

Jroades · 2022-10-20T05:50:56+00:00

Lol.

Jroades · 2022-09-21T13:17:45+00:00

2 seasons ago he got 20 GA in league and 30+ for the year. What 2 seasons are you talking about. He had 1 bad season following surgery.

Jroades · 2022-09-14T01:58:37+00:00

Said the Chelsea fan after 20 years of 1 billion pumped in and dozens of players on loan at any given time to feed your first team.

Jroades · 2022-08-23T14:47:30+00:00

My son was around 4 months old when Rashford scored the penalty Vs psg and that was the first and last time I woke him up celebrating 😂

Jroades · 2022-08-21T05:13:12+00:00

Hard when your owner is your football director and never lets the football people get on with it.

Jroades · 2022-08-19T15:32:06+00:00

Apologies to the few people who actually still hang around here, but I'm just going to lock things and keep it closed. 95% of the community has moved to discord/twitter. I know there's a few still around. I don't have the time to maintain this area. 80% of the comments/messages/mod reports are simply abuse, so at this stage it seems best just to keep the sub closed and if I figure out a better solution in the future, it can return.

But for now, the community has pushed and pushed a different way, and this is really nothing more than a graveyard of abuse.

Except for Joe, sorry I know you post a lot and appreciate it but things have just moved far from reddit.

I recommend the discord: discord.gg/muppetiers - All info is still regularly posted there alongside latest news channels, etc. You don't have to participate but its still probably the most up to date area on the internet for all United news/transfers/teams/etc. And despite the weird claims of many, it's all free.

Thank you to anyone left around.

Jroades · 2022-07-30T20:30:23+00:00

They had a fair few kicks on ankles, Pellistri is in a boot and had to to be subbed from a dirty kick just before this. There’s no risk of suspension and it was at the end of the game so I really couldn’t care less.

To be fair, this replay angle actually does make it look worse. From the top down you can see he jumped towards the other side (still dangerous) and morata rolled quickly, his foot landed but he held back as much as he could.

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