21 Oct 2025 16:47:44
Four straight defeats have produced the expected optics and the incorrect conclusions.
Internally they are listed not as losses, but as alignment steps; the RELATERA board still reads FORWARDS!, but grows evermore faint.
This is not a wobble; it is an appointment kept. With the summer's upheaval, transition was always the price of doing the right thing. We were going to rebuild anyway; the only rational moment is at altitude - while the badge still reads "Champions" and the pen is in your hand. The schematic specifies low-contact, high-confusion pressure: a press that doesn't seize the object so much as obliges it to forget what it was doing. You saw it last year: the hands never touched the vase, and yet the vase moved. It will move again; that is the diagram.
Two fixtures (Palace, Galatasaray) deviated from diagram; acknowledge this. The others reached the required x-Allen-turns but failed at the final seating of the dowel. That is not system collapse. That is wood swelling in a damp room.
Personnel? Regrets exist where they always exist - in the space between a console and the person who could have faced it. The HAVSTA remains unclaimed. The conservatory remains softly humming. Emotional geometry issues persist.
If you rewatch, do it with the diagram in front of you: screws gathered, brace weighed, cross-beam aligned, torque applied in quarter turns. There is no scenario in which you abandon the build at this stage because the first drawer stuck on the trial run. You sand. You continue. The frame stands when the frame stands.
{Ed025's Note - good read that FORNAX, didn,t understand a bloody word of it but im sure you are right mate.. :)
21 Oct 2025 17:36:35
Spot on, FORNAX.
21 Oct 2025 17:52:24
Invaluable insight as always Fornax, lightens the mood somewhat ?.
21 Oct 2025 18:06:02
The more we lose, The more your posts make sense to me.
It’s easier to understand than some of Arne Slots starting Line Ups.
21 Oct 2025 18:24:51
We as fans are being forced to eat the rotten egg of a particularly angry tactical goose. I don’t like it, but I’ll have to go along with it. Rating? Trenta percenta.
21 Oct 2025 18:51:17
Why does this feel like Eric Cantona's speech?
21 Oct 2025 19:18:04
Let me Chat GPT this one. Couldn't agree more FORNAX. Question tho. reading your post why do i get this vision that you are sitting atop a mountain in Tibet with your legs crossed, eyes closed and holding your head to the sky?
21 Oct 2025 19:57:06
A bit like reading the Rosetta Stone but I got the IKEA references.
21 Oct 2025 20:16:30
FORNAX - Thank youy for this wisdom, did yoiu channel it from mother Mary?
It makes total sense to me. I hope Arne and Hughes read it.
21 Oct 2025 20:41:29
Keep them coming Fornax, weird but amusing, something different following the doom of Man Utd defeat.
21 Oct 2025 23:26:16
Class that, FORNAX.