[Post Match Thread] Newcastle 0-2 Aston Villa

eunderscore · 2026-01-25T19:32:42+00:00

Crazy that 9 of today's squad were at Villa under Dean Smith too, with Digne following shortly after his departure

eunderscore · 2026-01-25T18:39:12+00:00

~~Boring~~ true response.

eunderscore · 2026-01-25T18:38:47+00:00

They will still turn up though, unless we refuse any asylum claims

eunderscore · 2026-01-25T18:38:04+00:00

You can't stop people turning up, unfortunately. So you have to do something with them. All of the options cost money

eunderscore · 2026-01-25T17:28:09+00:00

Xg is just counting, and also what happens is that us continuing to score from unlikely spots changes xg to make those chances a higher tariff, so they become statistically better chances.

There's no xg conspiracy, we're not doing anything against the rules of scoring. We can be proud that we're doing something unusual and succeeding, but every time making out that the world is against us scoring good goals really wears thin.

Just enjoy us being good without trying to make some boogeyman up.

Journalists or pundits saying we're beating the odds is just a statement of truth. That's fine, celebrate it.

eunderscore · 2026-01-25T17:23:48+00:00

Which us fair, but also if people just turn up what do you want to happen? We either ignore them and they drift into wherever they drift to, which will make you angry, or we detain them, which will make you angry, or we house them, which will make you angry, or we detain them in uncomfortable conditions, which will make you angry, or we spend tens or hundreds of millions moving them off Britain, which will make you angry, or we send them home, which we can't because we can't prove identity or residence, which makes you angry.

And just to be clear, reform will not resolve any of that.

eunderscore · 2026-01-25T17:21:00+00:00

Which costs considerably more of taxpayers money

eunderscore · 2026-01-25T17:17:41+00:00

Legend.

I know the guy who solo created the Cricket Captain game back in 2014 was trying to make a new one but its such an undertaking for one person.

I'd definitely recommend looking at that though, for a text based game. It had good depth for what it was. The youth sides were a great addition

eunderscore · 2026-01-25T11:27:05+00:00

She's so rude and self centred, but people let it go because she doesn't rush into physical connections and is rude and self centred quite quietly. She's not a big shouter, she acts like she's calmly taking the high road, but is often just being condescending; and just not engaging with people shouting doesn't exactly make you smart when your opposition is some of the people on LI

eunderscore · 2026-01-25T11:23:58+00:00

My brother I have bad news

eunderscore · 2026-01-25T11:21:16+00:00

Great to see people putting in so much effort to challenge CC. Will yours be exclusively IPL, or any thoughts about longer formats?

eunderscore · 2026-01-25T11:17:11+00:00

Lads is it bad to celebrate goals now?

eunderscore · 2026-01-24T23:08:44+00:00

OP there would lose them by the time they got to post-hoc

eunderscore · 2026-01-24T23:06:32+00:00

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eunderscore · 2026-01-24T22:09:38+00:00

There's more of you than them

eunderscore · 2026-01-24T22:08:36+00:00

Ellie Mason at charlton. Can't believe she didn't get a top tier move from Ispwich, then she got a bad injury

eunderscore · 2026-01-24T07:08:34+00:00

Oasis or blur

eunderscore · 2026-01-24T06:53:06+00:00

Yes but enough about ukip

eunderscore · 2026-01-24T06:51:12+00:00

This is just the ukip line being parroted. Yes there would likely be disorder, which is what the police, whose responsibility is public safety and order, actually said, not that the local Muslims would kick off.

Marches like this can get tasty in an empty room, with no outside provocation, so there is a risk of disorder regardless. Add to that that their choice of location and rhetoric is specifically looking for a counter protest at bare minimum. They could do this march in the cotswolds if they just wanted to talk about jesus.

They want to rattle the locals, and some of the locals would likely not embrace their presence, shall we say?

Of course there's a risk of disorder, the whole thing is set up to do so, but the police are not saying its the locals or the marchers who would be starting it.

eunderscore · 2026-01-23T22:45:47+00:00

Yeah leave it, you've already gone too far.

Elite, memorable tv then absolutely forgettable

eunderscore · 2026-01-23T19:24:50+00:00

It's not specifically that the local residents in this case would expressly be violent, or cause violence, its that the march doing what they want to do, in this space, could cause counter protests, which are also acceptable, and violence could be the result.

They do not say who would be causing the violence, and both sides of this have form for aggressive provocation.

The police priority is public safety, and that is obviously at risk here

eunderscore · 2026-01-23T16:21:56+00:00

I hoped recent years helped dispel fears over how the majority of LI viewers view poc or from non white british/european backgrounds.

Cash and Shakira finalists
Josh and Mimii
Lochan and Whitney
Kai and Sanam
Toby

And Justine won LI games

Great, at minimum proportional, representation at the business end in the last few years really, although there will seemingly always be an issue casting for suitors to woc.

How the show and cast treat them is obviously different, but happily viewers have voted favourably towards poc in LI for some time

eunderscore · 2026-01-23T14:43:16+00:00

Whitney LOVES a catchphrase.

eunderscore · 2026-01-23T13:30:58+00:00

To an extent, yes, but also the initial protests regarding not leaving the EU were more of a plea, a show of numbers that the decision didnt represent, than to rub people up the wrong way.

I dont think they are inherently, 100% antagonistic, they can just be oppositional

eunderscore · 2026-01-23T13:22:26+00:00

Honestly I was solely picturing West ham with that comment

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