Cifuentes has done a spectacular job at QPR.

Not really, as you were implying your post was manually edited rather than changed by an old forum filter that was set a couple of years ago and evidently just forgotten about. The former suggests a nefarious intent, whilst the latter is far less so. The filter should be removed though.

That it is, Szmodics and possibly Tronstad aside.

Mystery solved, although it looks like you've been outwitted with an intentional misspelling 😆

Last time I can remember it being this bad in the goalkeeper department is that season where we had Jake Kean/Simon Eastwood as our main two for a while. 2014/2015 maybe? You were guaranteed at least one massive mistake in every match. Feels like we're right back there now. Last time we had Raya coming through the youth team to bring some relief after Steele's error-strewn tenure - have to hope we have another decent lad on the verge of being ready soon.

We go into every game trying not to lose as opposed to trying to win. Evidently that's what Eustace believes is the best approach to keeping us up, but he must rate our squad extremely poorly if he won't even deviate from that strategy at home to teams below us in the league.

We never change the content of a user's posts, so please don't accuse the admin or moderation team of that. We're generally limited to changing a thread title or hiding posts. If Luca Toni appeared in a quoted post, either it was in the original post or the poster quoting you made the amendment themselves.

Yeah absolutely, you just need an audio editing tool. I tend to use something like Cool Edit 2.1 which is ridiculously old these days, but if you're literally just wanting to splice two audio tracks together it's perfectly capable. Programs like Adobe Audition are obviously better, but it depends how far you want to go with it really. Anyway, it's pretty simple. Download the program, load the track you want into the input, select your output, then tweak the settings to your liking. I've got mine set up as below: But YMMV depending on the type of music you're working with. I primarily extract rock/metal and this works pretty well, but not sure how it would fare with other genres. Anyway, it'll save a vocal and an instrumental stem. If using the above setup make sure to check the HP-UVR extracts that are created - I often find these sound better than the fully ensembled output. Once you have your instrumental and vocal files output and you're happy with them, you're sorted. Open up your audio editing program, insert the instrumental to channel one and the vocals to channel two... and then do whatever you please. Audio volume between both tracks should be perfect so no need to mess around with those, unless you want to lower or raise volume.

It's genuinely scary how accurate voice cloning has become, so I can understand the pessimism. What is noticeable is that AI struggles with natural accents and general dialects. Like, 95% will be fine but then there's 5% that just sounds wrong. Not that the voice itself is wrong, but the inflection doesn't quite match what you'd expect to hear. From what I've read this is (at the moment) being solved by having somebody provide the vocal rhythm and cadance, and then putting the AI over the top of it to change the sound to the voice of the person you're cloning. So you don't have to actually sound like the person in question, you just have to be able to match their accent and general delivery of sentences. So, in theory a voice over studio could license out a famous person's voice and then hire a random voice actor to deliver the lines with the AI voice being laid over the top. Ultimately I imagine the technology will advance to the point where the VA in the middle is no longer required, but I can see that being the interim process. To be honest in terms of AI I mainly just use ChatGPT and Ultimate Vocal Remover these days - the former to help with coding and the latter for musical endeavours. Both very cool and in terms of the latter, something I wish had existed 14 years ago when I could really have made use of it. But alas. Still very cool to be able to create instrumental versions of basically any song I want within 2 or 3 minutes, as well as being able to play around with the vocal stem. I don't really use Stable Diffusion for anything these days (although I'd probably use it if I wanted to create temporary front/back pages for any books I'd written that I wanted to potentially do something with - whereas before I'd have been asking someone on fiverr or something) and most of the other AI related software is a bit too intensive for my current setup. Laptop has an RTX 2070 which is reasonable enough, but the heat generated as programs like RVC-Beta run is too much of a concern for me. Not so bad on the tower, but that's only got a GTX 1070 - still VR capable which is nice, but in terms of AI somewhat slow.

Many teams who have won tournaments have squad imbalances. Even the Brazil team of 2002 had the likes of Roque Junior and Kleberson starting for them. Nobody would have said Greece had anything close to the best squad in Euro 2004. It's rare to have a team, even at international level, which is top quality in every position. It can happen, but even those teams can struggle if the set up is wrong. It's about making a team greater than the sum of its parts - Southgate, in fairness to him, has come close to getting it right. He's just lacking that final piece of the puzzle which, as a result, always sees us fall short at the end.

Relegation, and at this rate it's coming soon. If not this season then most likely next.

Whilst I agree that the result means nothing in the grand scheme of things, and the scheduling is stupid, a friendly against Brazil is still a special occasion. We haven't played them at a tournament since 2002, and I believe it's the first time we've come up against them since 2017 in a competitive match. England Vs Brazil is always a fascinating tie (on paper). Also very rare that we beat them - once in twelve matches since 1990. But yeah, the timing is not particularly great.

Brazil weren't even particularly good, but had all of the good chances in the game. England were largely boring and listless. Not sure I can recall us creating much if anything of note. A shame for the fans who went expecting to see a decent match, but then, it's England under Southgate. Functional but rarely exciting.

Ipswich have scored the most goals in the league and lost the least games in the league (5 out of 38). A point behind Leicester and Leeds and eight points ahead of Southampton on a fraction of the budget. They're an incredibly well-drilled team with an extremely strong mentality. We haven't seen that in well over a decade. That isn't talking them up or talking us down, it just is what it is, and at this stage of the season the table doesn't lie. You don't fluke 81 points, 80 goals and 5 defeats across 38 games. With that said, of course they're beatable. Any team in this league is, especially when you're at home. They've conceded 49 goals so their defence can be breached, and they've actually conceded the most goals of anyone in the top eight save for Norwich. Our problem is that we now don't score many and our defence is still pretty dodgy, despite improvements in that regard since Eustace came in, so it's going to be a very difficult match to get anything from. We can match them if we're up for it, and they've shown they can have off days - Cardiff recently - but the reality is we will need to have a solid game plan and the players up for it from the first whistle if we want all three points. It's obviously galling to see a team come up from League 1 and do something we haven't managed in 12 years of being in this league (excepting L1 season), but there you go. That's what a combination of good ownership and management can do. Perhaps one day we'll experience that again, when Venky's finally disappear.

Ipswich will be coming to Ewood to win, no question about that. They're gunning for top two and will be desperate to take advantage of Leicester stumbling at the finish line, also aware that Leeds' imperious form over the past few months leaves little margin for error in terms of keeping pace with them. Ipswich's playoff spot is essentially secured, so they can afford to put it all on the line in every match. Very little pressure either, as the team are already performing high above expectations. It remains to be seen how a Eustace-managed Rovers will deal with this. Ipswich are top scorers in the division by some margin (80 goals scored, Leicester next best with 74), so the chances of our sub-standard defending not being punished at least a couple of times seems small. Holding out in general seems unlikely, but try to fight fire with fire and it could be back to getting properly hammered. Don't really envy Eustace in preparing for this one.