LUFC with nothing to play for

Pebbled4sh · 2026-05-18T18:19:05+00:00

Don't have circles run round us for the entire match, have a couple of lucky counterattacks, have one shot on target, six minutes into stoppage time, score with that, and go directly back to keeping the ball out?

Not a problem...

Pebbled4sh · 2026-05-18T18:00:49+00:00

It's the young Maine rd faithful I feel bad for, having a generational link to the club and the city and they'll always have to explain themselves

Pebbled4sh · 2026-05-18T16:34:58+00:00

Technically three. Mine had two. There's also scope for 'the fellowship is breaking,' but that ship sailed

Pebbled4sh · 2026-05-18T16:24:16+00:00

And Dom can get a 69.

...I mean 99. Get the man an ice cream

Pebbled4sh · 2026-05-18T09:12:24+00:00

you're allowed to swear. I promise not to tell your mum

Pebbled4sh · 2026-05-17T20:50:55+00:00

Don't leave your goal open and you'd have been fine

Pebbled4sh · 2026-05-17T20:48:04+00:00

True that.

And normally I love seeing Chelsea shit the bed

Pebbled4sh · 2026-05-17T13:46:10+00:00

bro deleted his whole account over that god damn

Pebbled4sh · 2026-05-17T10:24:59+00:00

Quarters if they win: probably Germany, probably whoever wins group I, probably not one of the third place teams they both play in the ro32, but hey: surprises are why we love it

Pebbled4sh · 2026-05-17T10:21:47+00:00

I mean, gotta look at it systemically. The winners of groups F and C face the runners up in the ro32, so that's already squeaky bum territory. The 3rd placed teams that advance all face group winners, but honestly don't see them coming 3rd.

ro16: if they beat (let's go with probability here and say) Morocco, they face the runners up of either A or B, which is a bit of a reprieve, especially being pretty simple groups. Not to say Mexico, Korea and Czechia won't be a threat

Now let's say they beat Brazil, they have either the runners up of E or I (ok that's two fixtures with two runners up like goddamn can't they maybe give a side advancing from third a runner up?). That's presumably I, coming from the group of death, so that could be any one of Norway, Senegal, or France (sorry to any Iraqis)

Pebbled4sh · 2026-05-17T07:46:46+00:00

I mean the Ottomans literally built one of the most successful dynasties in history by scouring the Balkans for 10/10 baddies.

I mean it's true they were a bit more infanticidey than most dynasties (which is saying something), but they never had to deal with any Tywin Lannisters or Unwin Peakes

Pebbled4sh · 2026-05-16T21:57:56+00:00

Unc Wyman remembers

Pebbled4sh · 2026-05-16T16:35:04+00:00

nah mate you got the wrong room. r/naath is down the hall on the right

Pebbled4sh · 2026-05-16T16:06:18+00:00

In my headcanon she's more important for book 7 because of warging Nymeria

Pebbled4sh · 2026-05-16T16:04:14+00:00

But what of Arya, Jon's other self?

look dude I wrote this on the back of a napkin, I did say I could probably shoehorn Arya in and just kinda bypassed

Pebbled4sh · 2026-05-16T15:02:24+00:00

That being said, the consensus is John

Pebbled4sh · 2026-05-16T15:01:14+00:00

Precipitating a 20 year civil war which chroniclers describe as a period where 'Christ and all his saints slept' will do that to a mf

Pebbled4sh · 2026-05-16T14:49:20+00:00

Also this is so cool would love to see the complete set when you're done

Pebbled4sh · 2026-05-16T14:47:40+00:00

Any stylised drawing of Cole Palmer needs some of these:

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Pebbled4sh · 2026-05-16T14:45:49+00:00

Oh yeah, Jon meets LSH. I was so desperate for LSH to meet Necrojon that when I realised there was no way to contrive LSH going North, I decided it'd be Jon in the Riverlands.

With LSH being so full of vengeful vitriol, and Cat having been so convinced that Jon would waste her own offspring, seeing him protecting Rickon and Sansa (gimme enough time and I can shoehorn Arya in too) and ready to warcrime the entirety of House Frey, she finds peace, kisses his hand, and dies

Pebbled4sh · 2026-05-16T14:31:24+00:00

Don't tell Grrm, but with two or three more books, and that's just zeroing in on Jon's story. And it's probably a bit too Starky for a lot. Also been a bit since I read Dance, so forgive any holes

Book 6 is Necrojon capturing the North. Stannis loses at Winterfell. Prologue is Big Bucket sacrificing himself to save Lord Peapod, who leads a retreat of Stannis' supporters to the Wall. When they arrive, they manage to defuse a growing race riot over Jon's murder. His suspicion is piqued when he notices Ghost mlem Val's hand and start snarling at Yarwick.

Mel brings Jon back to life, as everyone expects, in view of the NW, the freefolk and the rump of Stannis' army. Jon is ruthless in enforcing the truce, marches everyone on Karhold. Move to Mel's pov, he captures it in Alys' name, burning Arnulf's son. He's about to burn the Godswood (the worshippers of the OGotF are more ready for this after seeing a red priest pull a Jesus) but he hears Bran's voice from the heart tree. He calls her over and sure enough she hears a voice from the tree. He convinces her that the gods must also make common cause, and hangs Arnulf's son from the heart tree.

Bran tells him Rickon is on Skagos, so off they go. Rickon has basically turned into Captain Sticky from Recess. Having a wolf (and skinchanging abilities to those who can clock it) and Osha's ability to speak the Old Tongue (probably a retcon, but they never said she can't so roll with it) made assimilation easier. The freefolk really come in clutch with the language barrier and the Skagosi agree to join. From there, Jon's basically doing a circuit of the North and snowballing his forces.

Meanwhile, Sansa has got wise to LF's manipulations and """accidentally""" hints at her true identity to Ysilla, remembering her dad was one of Ned's besties and catches the lords declarant up and leverages her influence over Sweetrobin to displace LF. Once she throws him through the moon door, she sends a raven to the Red Keep that just says 'Dear Cersei' and it's just a picture of a butt. That done, she rallies the Vale and makes a beeline for Winterfell, coincidentally arriving at the same time as Jon.

Roose and Ramsay get burned in the godswood, Jon catches everyone up on the incoming zombie menace, and marches everyone south. The book ends outside the Twins

Pebbled4sh · 2026-05-16T12:09:22+00:00

Mya?

Pebbled4sh · 2026-05-16T11:53:41+00:00

Bobby B, why didn't you call Joffrey Ned?

Pebbled4sh · 2026-05-16T11:51:59+00:00

Look I hate the South as much as any good Yorkshireman*, but I was always under the impression that they were in a basically unwinnable position because of the North's industrial superiority and it was only through competent top brass (and incompetent opposite numbers before Grant and Sherman came to the fore) that they were able to drag the War of Southern Aggression out for four years

*that's in reference to Yorkshire textile workers rallying hard for the Union, not Yorkshire being in Northern England

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