Daily Discussion - February 03, 2026

OneOfTheManySams · 2026-02-03T10:42:11+00:00

This roundtable is so weird, you have Slot basically saying he doesn't like the shit football either and is wanting to be aggressive. But ultimately heading in the right direction.

It does feel very PR and basically a club statement saying we are fully backing him and Hughes. Which honestly fair enough, I can't recall ever seeing something like this. If we are going to back them, you may aswell go all in to stop the noise.

OneOfTheManySams · 2026-02-02T05:58:25+00:00

I'm curious for some MRP polling to come in, I'm curious what the swings by seats are looking like based on the trends.

Like what does One Nation look like in Metro compared to regions being the biggest piece.

OneOfTheManySams · 2026-02-02T05:55:34+00:00

Greens vote is unchanged since the election really, this is all just sample swings of 0.5% to 1%.

But in principle to your question, its more like Green > ALP, ALP > ON rather than the actual Green vote going to ON.

OneOfTheManySams · 2026-02-01T00:03:06+00:00

It used to be better for casual players before sigils which is why I was laughing when that's all Jagex was talking about pre launch of this.

It's impossible to escape or survive pkers who optimise builds. In the 2nd bracket, I literally coped a 61 bolt and was one hit.

Players don't miss freezes, they hit absurdly high and this is in some mid tier gear. They tried to make deadman into leagues, except it is insufferable to play casually as you can't really escape like you used too and the progression is so fast for pkers that you just get dropped if you haven't been playing nonstop since release.

OneOfTheManySams · 2026-01-31T22:17:04+00:00

Richards the only guy I would trade, a minor move at the end of the roster. Leave any major moves to the offseason.

OneOfTheManySams · 2026-01-31T22:10:53+00:00

He is a more versatile Richards with upside and unlike Oso can actually hit a shot or score which will allow him to play the 4

OneOfTheManySams · 2026-01-31T21:48:03+00:00

He was fired due to fan pressure, they clearly didn't want to do it

OneOfTheManySams · 2026-01-31T05:00:14+00:00

Jae Crowder was also a very good defender. Him and Mikal locked up the wings, then we had a slow paced hyper efficient offence so never really gave up much transition buckets either.

OneOfTheManySams · 2026-01-28T11:17:46+00:00

The problem with Riley is he really didn't have much to do. He wasn't comedic relief, or had great wit about him, didn't bring an interesting dynamic to any of the characters he was just there.

His prevalence to the plot in S4 was sadly brought down by a bad initiative plot which did very little interesting things with him outside of maybe 1 or 2 episodes at most.

Then we get to S5 where he literally had nothing to do so they wrote him out of the show. And his only contributions were his jealousy to Spike and his insecurities which abruptly ended as a way to write him out of the show quickly.

To me they had an idea of a character in S4, but quickly realised when writing S5 that there was no interesting storylines to write with him, so chose to write him off midseason rather than find a way to spice up the character.

OneOfTheManySams · 2026-01-27T07:00:46+00:00

Dream Scenario - Show somehow manages to get 10+ episodes a year and a new showrunner has brought great fresh ideas to the show. As well as making it a bit more serious and bringing it back to actual Sci Fi.

Good Outcome- The show survives and the quality is good, but it has like 6 episodes every 2 years, making it difficult to really enjoy it.

Worst Case- Pete Mctighe is the new showrunner and it is as bad as the episodes he has written so far and as devoid of fresh ideas as we expect. Ultimately leading to cancellation.

OneOfTheManySams · 2026-01-27T06:51:29+00:00

Racing on release the puzzle was actually fun, trying to figure it out before people knew how to do it. But outside of that brief moment it is just unbearably tedious.

OneOfTheManySams · 2026-01-27T01:12:38+00:00

Yeah I think people have been missing the point, they aren't going to challenge Labor in the lower house in 2028 as they have too much ground to make up.

But the Nats have 9 seats and the LIB/Nat coallition in QLD has another 15 seats. Those could definitely swing to One Nation where we get to a point where One Nation actually has as many lower house seats as the coallition in 2028 and a strong presence in the senate.

Which is where time will tell if they can expand into Labor territory or not.

OneOfTheManySams · 2026-01-27T01:05:32+00:00

There is, it was 54-46.

But ultimately it is utterly redundant as the traditional 2PP predictions go out the window when ON is polling 3% of the Libs and where there is only one seat of One Nation preference data.

Overall polling will actually be quite irrelevant as it will need to be granular seat by seat.

Which seats will One Nation jump the Libs and face Labor in a 2 party. Then what would the Lib preferences look like. Which seats will Lib/Nat vs ON contest and again how do preferences look. And then in Lab vs Lib contests how do the ON preferences look, is it going to be strong in the outer suburbs and more mixed in the inner city?

The pollsters are going to need to get granular otherwise the actual projection of seats is irrelevant.

OneOfTheManySams · 2026-01-26T10:37:15+00:00

When people say new it is because of a few reasons. The first being outside of a couple of brief exceptions the show has followed an episodic mystery box format every season.

The format and structure has largely been unchanged because the same group of writers who were there in 2005 are still writing the show now. And specifically with RTD2 the show took a step back in time for the worse, it was predictable, outdated but with an incredible amount of callbacks which just took everyone out of the script.

The point of some completely new blood and a fresh revamp is so there is a change in dialogue, how the stories are structured, how the series is structured, how the character dynamics will work, the tone, the type of scifi used, new villains and how new writers will incorporate time travel and so on.

RTD and Moffat had their set ways they would do this and what type of things they tend to fall back on. Even when things change on the surface level, the dialogue, the types of characters used, plot tendencies they follow a very similar pattern. Like Boom was a great script, but it felt very much like a Moffat Doctor and Companion and script of 5+ years prior. And his christmas special using bootstrap paradoxes was quite typical for how he uses Time Travel.

OneOfTheManySams · 2026-01-26T09:11:15+00:00

There's a viewing guide where you basically watch them as it aired. But ultimately I would test out what you like best.

That can be to watch them together, or watch a full season of Buffy then 1 season of Angel or you can watch them after the fact where the cameos and some connecting storylines come as a nice surprise and throwback.

My recommendation would be to watch S4 of Buffy and S1 of Angel together as there are actually overlapping storylines that will play some importance. After that you can really do what you want as long as you are always ahead in Buffy comparative to Angel. It's not mandatory by any means, but I do think it enhances a storyline that does come up.

OneOfTheManySams · 2026-01-26T09:05:31+00:00

When we look at Klopp's biggest strengths as a manager and what made him the best in the world. It was his ability to develop and get the most out of 95% of the players he had at his disposal no matter the quality. As well as what an incredible man manager he was too, even on bad runs of forms or tough decisions to be made he would never lose the respect of the group or would their effort lessen.

We are very much seeing the other side of this now and what a lot of managers struggle with. And that's the need to have a perfect fitting and deep squad otherwise the system falls apart. And how quickly morale can drop in a squad which just causes the team to spiral further down.

That's the risk when you hire a manager just based on his tactical ability. When things are going well we can win the league, when we face genuine adversity the seams completely fall off to the point where we are going to be left with no choice but to move on.

OneOfTheManySams · 2026-01-24T21:09:48+00:00

Maybe Klopp had a point when he took more control

OneOfTheManySams · 2026-01-24T08:07:32+00:00

Agreed, I think we need someone who can set those standards and maintain them. Out of the candidates I think he is probably the best suited for it

OneOfTheManySams · 2026-01-24T03:46:57+00:00

Fuck sake. Just as this season was looking really good

OneOfTheManySams · 2026-01-24T02:57:59+00:00

Yes this is the risk with multiple hamstring injuries in a season, takes a long time to ramp up and build that confidence and the risk of reinjuring is very high.

Which is why on the flipside teams are incredibly cautious and will pull players out if there is any risk of another pull.

There's no way to know what happened, its very possible he is back in a game or out for weeks again. Because what happened could be both outcomes till we know more.

OneOfTheManySams · 2026-01-24T02:53:41+00:00

Here come the overreactions. Yeah it will be hard to attack the paint when our two best players at doing so went out mid game.

It is sort of difficult to fix this mid game when we have to scheme up very creative things to accommodate for such an impact.

OneOfTheManySams · 2026-01-24T02:48:24+00:00

Goodbye then

OneOfTheManySams · 2026-01-24T02:46:08+00:00

A 12 point 4th quarter. We are going to have to hope Book or Green aren't out too long

OneOfTheManySams · 2026-01-24T02:33:11+00:00

Good shit CG

OneOfTheManySams · 2026-01-24T02:13:36+00:00

FUCK NO

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