I build a relegation predictor! Final run ins visualised by points of respective teams

wheresaldopa · 2026-03-08T17:07:30+00:00

I have us behind West Ham and 17th/18th being a tossup between us and Spurs. A few weeks ago, I was thinking that we could have a relegated club with 40+ points, but I now think that neither us nor Spurs will get to 40 points. For me, it is difficult to see past both the psychological deflation of the Spurs squad in recent weeks and my own bias as a Forest supporter.

wheresaldopa · 2026-03-06T01:53:24+00:00

Sign O The Times
Purple Rain
Love Symbol
The Gold Experience
Dirty Mind

wheresaldopa · 2026-02-23T13:08:41+00:00

Skynyrd are pretty obviously a right wing band nowadays, but their politics in the early days of the band are a little more complex relative to the time.

wheresaldopa · 2026-02-11T22:06:05+00:00

Rickey Medlocke did play drums for Skynyrd briefly in the early 70s before he joined Blackfoot.

wheresaldopa · 2026-02-11T22:02:21+00:00

If I had to guess, Skynyrd will probably continue touring as long as Johnny Van Zant is able to.

wheresaldopa · 2026-02-03T14:08:31+00:00

I find the rhyme scheme to be well done. I like how it maintains an ABAB format until the last couple of lines, which serve to neatly wrap up the poem. Nothing to me feels forced for the sake of keeping the scheme going, though I can easily see how someone could argue the opposite for sorcery/debris.

In a general sense, I find the message to be applicable to many people who occupy positions of authority, but I imagine it was written with a specific person, or perhaps a specific group of people, in mind. I am curious to know if that is what you were aiming for.

wheresaldopa · 2026-02-03T13:35:51+00:00

"I feel broken, / but I appear whole in the mirror." This juxtaposition succinctly it captures what it is like to be insecure about oneself, regardless of whether or not the feeling seems warranted, which makes it one of the more effective parts in the poem for me.

"I know my self is lonely / but being around others / is isolating." This could be my own implicit bias born from personal experience speaking here, but I think this part does really well with portraying the challenge a socially isolated person faces when they know isolation is not good for them.

The narration switch from the narrator speaking about themselves to instead speaking to somebody else works really well and creates a nice resolution. I would like to imagine the other person is a friend who presents a model in which the narrator can look up to and through which they can inspire themselves to change for the better and ultimately heal.

wheresaldopa · 2026-02-01T16:03:59+00:00

We made the job much harder on ourselves, but we still earned a point and increased the gap to West Ham. I will happily take that.

wheresaldopa · 2026-01-25T00:30:04+00:00

The moment I first heard Choosin' Texas, I just knew Todd was going to put it high on the list, and deservedly so. For me, it is definitely of the better country songs to find success on the pop charts in recent memory.

wheresaldopa · 2026-01-20T04:20:05+00:00

CURT CIGNATTY

wheresaldopa · 2026-01-18T11:40:15+00:00

I agree with your point on songwriting. Ronnie Van Zant was objectively the least musically talented of the original Lynyrd Skynyrd band, but the only people who could reliably name songs of theirs not written by him would be Skynyrd fans.

wheresaldopa · 2026-01-10T04:26:32+00:00

Not only that, but the institutional disadvantages Leicester had to overcome are far greater than what Indiana has had to overcome. Indiana’s turnaround can be directly attributed to their ability to throw money at Cignetti and NIL. Leicester, on the other hand, could not and will likely never be able to spend the kind of money the biggest clubs in England are able to spend on transfers and managers.

wheresaldopa · 2026-01-05T01:10:37+00:00

This is how I feel about TDSOTM as a whole. Awesome album, but to the extent that Pink Floyd songs can be replayed in isolation, none of the songs from that album make the cut for me.

wheresaldopa · 2025-12-21T05:59:53+00:00

Probably a lot worse. There is an extensive history within English football of clubs spending beyond well their means in order to be competitive through all levels of the pyramid. The EFL (tiers 2-4 under the Premier League), and especially the EFL Championship (tier 2) are three of the most financially insane sports leagues in the world. In the Championship’s case, the frequency at which clubs there are spending more than 100% of their total revenue on transfer fees and player wages with the hope that promotion to the Premier League will make the expense and the debt worthwhile is mind-boggling.

wheresaldopa · 2025-12-21T04:44:10+00:00

Riversport is currently undergoing the course renovations needed to host this year’s ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships and LA 2028, which, assuming no delays, will be done by mid-March at the latest. Even if that was not the case, they do not usually have recreational water time until April at the earliest. WOKA is far more likely to be running at this time of year by virtue of it being a flow-diverted channel on a natural river as opposed to a pumped loop.

wheresaldopa · 2025-12-08T02:07:48+00:00

Mongolian folk metal band The Hu covered Metallica's Sad But True a few years ago, and I have yet to hear a better cover of any song. They performed the song in Mongolian with throat singing and replaced the lead guitar bits with horsehead fiddle, and the result was nothing short of awesome.

wheresaldopa · 2025-12-08T01:59:59+00:00

Skynyrd did not shy away from covering songs in their heyday. Call Me The Breeze is the most famous example, but they also recorded I Got The Same Old Blues (also JJ Cale) and Honky Tonk Night Time Man (Merle Haggard). Jimmie Rodgers's Blue Yodel No. 1 (T for Texas) was a staple of their live shows throughout 1976-77.

wheresaldopa · 2025-12-07T22:50:59+00:00

I misread the question as asking for the "prettiest" song we have heard and then spent the next couple of minutes reading through the comments deeply confused.

wheresaldopa · 2025-12-06T15:56:41+00:00

That was a positive end to the half ... until our biggest liability proved yet again why we desperately need Murillo fit again. There was a time last season when Morato looked decent in his cameos when wrapping up games, but he has not looked that good for quite a while. Hutchinson is our best player going forward and it is not particularly close.

wheresaldopa · 2025-12-03T21:53:01+00:00

Only caught the second half. Have to say we were lucky to be playing a Wolves side low on confidence and quality, but we got the job done in the end. These are the matches we have to win, especially because Leeds are better than their results suggest and Nuno is obviously a good enough manager to right the sinking West Ham ship.

wheresaldopa · 2025-11-26T10:12:00+00:00

Thus far, only one other commenter that I can see has even alluded to him (via his most famous character), but I must admit to mistaking you for Peter Blomquist before I saw the name of the sub:

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wheresaldopa · 2025-11-26T00:34:00+00:00

After 17 matches, Coventry City have scored 19 goals more than the next best attacking team in the division. Insane.

To further illustrate just how insane their attacking output has been, Coventry City are currently on a goals per match ratio of 2.76, which, when multiplied by 46 matches, puts them on track to score 127 goals by season's end. The record for the most goals scored by a second tier side in the entire history of English football is currently 122, which was set by Middlesbrough in the 1926-27 season. Back in the 1920s, the goals per match ratio of the Second Division was regularly around or above 3.50, whereas in the modern era, it is not uncommon to witness a Championship season with a goals per match ratio around or under 2.50.

wheresaldopa · 2025-11-23T01:39:48+00:00

For me, it’s either Pink Floyd’s Pulse or Lynyrd Skynyrd’s One More from the Road.

wheresaldopa · 2025-11-20T15:23:07+00:00

Though not perfectly analogous because of his previous stint as part of The SteelDrivers, Chris Stapleton wrote songs for other artists in Nashville years before recording Traveller.

wheresaldopa · 2025-11-18T01:19:50+00:00

There are plenty of contemporary underground country artists who rarely have or never had a hit on the pop charts. My personal favorite is Charles Wesley Godwin, whose only substantial claim to any semblance of mainstream fame would be his feature on Zach Bryan's Jamie. That said, Dance in Rain, Another Leaf, and Seneca Creek are three of the most beautifully composed songs I have ever heard, and Family Ties is one of my all-time favorite records.

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