Daemon the Leaner

you can't really do anything against Ralf Rangnick's Austria though

not watching the game but apparently McTominay is doing fine at RW for Scotland this should give ETH ideas if Antony was to follow a Greenwood path

they played us off the park and should have won by 3 or 4 disgusting 3 points to start the season

Garnacho really isn't a starter yet Wolves are shaky at the back though and we have some bench so we might get to score at least one?

also, Atalanta already rinsed us once for Amad Traore, so they know we have a tendency to pay stupid fees sometimes

I think we were in competition with you at some point to sign him, which means he's probably quality. ...right ?

how much is he worth then? because it feels like asking for less than 50M is a hilarious loss on the purchase price, while asking for more than 50M is hilariously deluded considering the player he is

Didn't realize that E. Mendy, Ziyech and Koulibaly were all past 30. You'd expect all three of them to have still a few good seasons to spend in Europe, though ?

He's won the Premier League, Champions League and World Cup the same year. Has it ever happened? Not that it's enough to make the Ballon d'Or top 3, though (you'd expect Messi, Haaland and Mbappé to make it, probably in that order...)

City, Chelsea or us would have been told to pay 70 M for him

Just like Lewandowski, Zlatan have always been accused of not being very good in the big, decisive games and I'm not sure Ronaldo and Messi not being there would have changed that (he even once played with Messi IIRC) also, playing for Sweden is no boost in the race for a Ballon d'or

I was referring to Sane's attempt like 30 sec before Musiala's goal, 1v1 vs the goalkeeper and he shots on him.

Musiala did well to cover a massive fuck up from Leroy Sane

Chelsea played better than I expected them to tbh. They should keep Frank in the job

it really is City's year also I think there is a pattern that if you draw the first leg at home despite being the better team, you are always going to be knocked out

I readed this post and I knew Liverpool were in front without checking the score

which team are you rooting for, again ?

I think the only season post Fergie we had a decent finish run was the 19/20 season, but this was thanks to a 3 months break. Other than that, we have an usual collapse to end the season. Would be interesting to see how many PPG we average in our last 10 games each season, since 2013 vs prior to 2013.

guess who's going to gift Super Frank his first points on May 25th.

Erm, ok... I won't pretend I've already seen a holocaust with my own eyes, but... It was very white ashes, wasn't it ? u_u Oh, and a supplement of thoughts: love how they landed a random guy with a Doran x Trystan look, so we get that "it's him the new Prince of Dorne", lol most crucially: I also like how Dany's fate match with some political aspects of our current world. As Charlie Chaplin said in "The Dictator": "Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people!". Autocrats appear because of people's desire of freedom, only for them to fall in different kind of chains. Well, that's deep complex stuff that would deserve a proper thread to be discussed, lol. If it's interesting to anyone, Dany's last scene also reminded me that last scene between Anakin & Padme in the Revenge of the Sith. "let's make things the way we want to", etc. Damn, Tyrion is a bit of the Obi-Wan of this story!

Well, it depends. If we are rating this ep as the conclusion of a show which identity and brand have been long devoid of what it used to be, and considering this finale makes no effort of reuniting with this brand (complex storylines, political stakes, etc), I'd rate it 3. If we are rating this ep as an individual 75min piece, and we're talking just about acting, scenario and cosmectics in this single ep... then I think I can give it a 7. If you absolutely need an average between these two POV, then it's going to be 5. Overall, I'm fine with the way they drove the major characters's plotlines (except Jaime ffs). Almost every single conclusion that every character has, makes sense in the big picture. (it makes sense for Tyrion ending Hand, for Jon heading North, for Arya heading West, etc.) Only Bran was really unexpected (apart from bookmakers I see??), but I'm surprisingly of with it. Too bad they had to rush the details, some dialogues, R+L=J was just a reason do divide Dany's squad... and, obvisouly, too bad how they dealt with the WWs.

Some random thoughts: so those bookmakers saw right about Bran ending up king... ah, well played to them, how did they do ?? so happy for my man Davos. Dude kinda took the social elevator ...and so did Bronn actually. But I actually dislike Bronn since that crossbow moment that Frodo-like ending for Arya was long predicted, but was still delightful to watch how did Drogon not burn Jon to the ground after he killed his mom?? Ah, well, Targ blood etc I guess... how did they handle weather in this ep ?? At the beginning it's clear, then there's snow everywhere, then a few "weeks" later it's summer again ?? And wasn't the WW extinction meant to bring back some balance to the rythm of seasons ? isn't Davos aware of the Unsullied being eunuch? His proposal of them filling an empty Reach with new generations of Unsullied babies felt so nonsensical lol why do they think they'll absolutely need a Master of Whisperers though? Not sure this function actually helps the regime, not to mention it leds to the MoW being an absolute schemer lol Jon basically brokes his NW vows for the 2nd time, what a champion. this Sansa ending isn't going to please our resident anti-Sansa activists lol so Brienne really thought it was outright necessary to mention that Jaime was rock wrecked by Robb at the Whispering Wood ? lol so the Unsullied are heading to Naath... are they aware that there are foreigners-killing butterflies out there ? this vision Dany had at the House of Undying back in S2, was so perfectly fullfiled. Reach the throne, but instead reach her gone Khal & baby in the fields of death. Jon's storyline, as much criticized as he may be, makes sense IMO. He's in eternal conflict between love & duty... as is everyone in this story. I think it's one of the rare GRRM elements of writing that D&D successfully implemented in their show. Tyrion throwing his Hand badge down the stairs was so badass. Even more badass that Ned doing so with Robert back in S1. I hope Tyrion will experience less difficulties with Bran in the future lol (at least this King is a bit less adventurous than Robert & Dany, if anything) so those Northerners just can't stop yelling " [something] IN THE NORTH !!!" ,right ?

It's to be 1. Didn't think they could do worse than ep3. Meantime ep4 gave me a bit of hope. In the end they did do worse. Everything was so dumb, and so conveniently handed, and so predictable, in this ep. Really it's about time we get to the end. The only appreciable thing in this ep was Maisie's acting. And the CGI, for what it's worth.

Gave it a solid 3. Slow, underwhelming, and quite anticlimatic. The Jenny of Oldstones' song and Tormund Giantsbane make this episode worth watching. Let that apart, there's nothing to relish, it's basically a filler. I understand the "moving" statements, but I think those moving scenes could have been handled far better. Remember that "you would by my lady" scene between Arya & Gendry, back in season 3 ? Well, I recall it even more moving that this topless scene we had today.

I'd rank it 7. As many, I actually expected it to be much worse. But it turned out to be a decent starter of the season. The stakes are fairly set up, and the reunions between characters are funny, sometimes relevant at best. I'd have expected a bit more quality of acting in that Jon /Sam talk though.