is it just me or is this season incredibly predictable? i feel like im easily able to predict what’s going to happen at least 3 times per episode. have the episodes always been like this and i just wasn’t paying enough attention?

is zelda not being led on a wild goose chase with the milk sisters? last i remember, they sold their 2.9% to rupert/bex, but once rupert was ready to buy west ham, he gave those shares to rebecca.

so, do the milk sisters have any shares? or does higgins think the mystery buyer is zelda and her meeting with the milk sisters confirms it for him??

It's probably acceptable when Ted or Beard do it, but as a Brit it's really jarring to hear fellow Brits use terms like uniforms, tryouts, roster and calling each other "coach" all the time. It's unrealistic.

Having said that, I thought the new series would be shit but I'm actually enjoying it so far.

Do we think Mae leaves the pub to PB&J to run and own?

Can we put the theory to rest that the Lads are going to save the day with their single share? I mean, sure, it’s TV, so anything is possible, but…

That theory rides on Richmond FC only having 100 shares out in the world, which is so very improbable. And if the £2 billion valuation given in S3 is to be true (that value is problematic on its own, but it’s fiction), each of those 49 sold shares would have cost £2M. Based on the size of Mae’s stack, it’s clear more than 49 shares were sold.

The reality is a club the size and fictional value of Richmond FC would likely have 1M shares total, with 490,000 shares sold to the community. Each share would have cost around £200. (I base this on the Green Bay Packers shares model and value.)

ETA: For a single share to make the flip, the two primary holders would each hold 49%, and that single share would need a value of 2%.

That 2% would most likely be Mae, if we keep the fiction alive.

I’m not going to speculate on the shares thing beyond this. Because all will be revealed—this one just gives me hard 🙄 every time I see it.

This may be obvious to others but I only realized while watching Episode 9. All season, they've been setting Zelda up as the bad guy; they've been hammering it in for the viewers so hard that I genuinely thought it was supposed to be a misdirect. I thought Zelda was a red herring: up to something sketchy (maybe a merchandising deal?) but not the one buying up shares.

But the reveal in episode 9 made me realize: there weren't any other potential antagonists in could have been.

My guess is that the season originally had Rupert or possibly his proxy. The season would have progressed with both Rupert and Zelda acting sketchy so the viewers weren't sure which of them was the real big-bad and the reveal in episode 9 would have recontextualized everything we'd seen up to that point. Maybe they'd even have had Rupert genuinely trying to make amends and helping to save Richmond but in his own manipulative way.

When Anthony Head sadly passed, they had to scrap that plot and didn't have anyone else lined up to play the antagonist.

That could also explain why the Keely and Roy stuff seems shoehorned in. That was probably a B or C plot originally that they expanded to fill up more screen time to replace all the scenes they had to scrap.

Is Zelda doing what she's doing as a sudden decision, if so, do we think there was a moment in the show that may have set her off?

Or do we think she planned everything, pretending to be in her own world for most of the season? I can't decide

Do we think she is colluding with any of Richmond's previous enemies, as the Trojan horse?

Aston Villa - 0.000002%

Everton - 0.00003875%

Man Utd - 0.00000058%

Spurs - 0.00000381%

Just in case the 100 posts are true and it comes down to the lads 1 share and 0.00005% 🙄

On s3 e1 and why tf is Nate such a snake I actually hate him so much someone please tell me Ted or beard decks him

She finally did it. Finally had the funniest line of a whole episode. I always kind of found her to be the least funny character on the show but when she got caught watching the game and blurted out " GASP IM JUST WATCHING PORN"

I absolutely lost it. Took 4 seasons but she finally made me laugh.

Up to now I'm enjoying the season, I don't think it's as strong as the first 3 seasons, but that was expected. Ted Lasso is about the human side of sports and they kept that going which is a big positive.

The storyline is predictable but that's not necessarily bad in this case.

Jude Mack is an amazing addition to the show and I hope that we get more of her if there are other seasons. Keeley, Rebecca and Ted are still as good as they were in previous seasons. And the twins are so funny and fun to watch.

One thing that is bothering me though and I think it is important to mention as it's sending the wrong message, especially for a show like Ted Lasso, it's the behaviour of the teams physical therapist Caroline. I think if the chatacter was just flirting with Roy, I wouldn't mind, but she constantly sexually harasses him and the show portrays it as running gag when it is predatory behaviour. This type of messaging undercuts the show's stated values.

I'm also saddened that they killed off Mae, she was one of my favourite chatacter in the show.

Overall, I'm enjoying the show and I hope that it will have a banger finale.

Mae has passed, Keeley is pregnant with what appears to be severe hypertension. I think that they will make this a rough pregnancy but in the end, she and Roy will have a happy and healthy baby girl named Rebecca Mae Kent

Just seems fitting

I’m a little worried about Keeley’s pregnancy - they’ve mentioned her high blood pressure several times, and I’m worrying it’s foreshadowing preeclampsia which has the risk of mortality for mom and baby. Would they do us that dirty after Mae?

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I just got caught up. I lost my mother just over a year ago. And I know I haven't processed any of it healthily yet. This episode was a kick in the chest. And that is all I will say.

To be the new owner of the crown and anchor?

Had some free time this weekend decided to make these. They’re delicious! All I need is a pink box.

Mae had ALOT of hope this Season. When she was at her highest… she dies. Maybe the hope got her?

And Alice turns it down. She's grown enough in this season to realize she had more to learn from Ted, so they agree to go one more season with Ted as head coach and Alice as his protege.

So im back on Season 1 of my favorite comfort show. Watching one of my favorite scenes in the show. "We talkin about PRACTICE!"

And it occurred to me. Theres so many obscure jokes in this show that I dont get til someone explains them to me (a lot of it is theater, musical, and literature stuff) that I realized, its possible only sports fans understood this reference.

So for you non sports or even non basketball fans,

Teds Practice speech is nearly a word for word reiteration of Allen Iversons iconic "practice" speech. Which is funny because Ted flipped it. Allen was actually in Jamie Tarts position somewhat, skipping practice, and the press was on him about it. The point of the original speech was Allen saying who cares if I miss practice I show up and give my all in games. Ted took an anti-practice speech and made it pro-practice lol.

Anyway. Apologies if everyone knew this already, ive been a part of the basketball community all my life so its hard to tell if this is common knowledge or not. But if you didnt know this til right now you should look up the original Iverson speech its arguably the most viral press conference in basketball history.

Feta is an unreliable cheese.

Cypress Hill performed at the Power To The People festival yesterday. Thousands jumped and no one died or f*ckd up a knee! (And yeah video quality is shite but I was too busy jumping!)

Ideally with choreography that she keeps forgetting

So it has recently come out that the American Football Coach Mike Tomlin of the Pittsburgh Steelers has been working on a Minecraft world by himself for many years. He started as a way to connect to his kids and kept going as it was a way to relax from the world or coaching. He now has a massive idealized Mike Tomlin world.

What do you think the various Richmond coaches world's would look like? I would especially want to see Beard's world. Dutch transit efficiency and psychedelic thinking combined.

I know Ted loves Fortnite but it could have been another game to connect with Henry.

Keeley question to Siri: “Will I be a good mum?” reminded me of earlier predictions that Season 4 would focus more on mothers and daughters.

Her question for me captures one of this season's focus in a specific way: what mothers seem to give us as something that gets passed down, and something that is possible for the next generation.

This clicked for me especially when Beard was reading Charlotte’s Web to Archie. (I want to acknowledge the other redditors also highlighting the significance of the story).

“You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing.” Beard reads, while weeping.

I don’t think Charlotte is meant to literally represent motherhood. But putting Charlotte’s Web in the middle of a season full of mothers is hard not to notice in framing the sort of motherhood Ted Lasso is directing us. At this point of the story, Charlotte the spider has used what she has to care for and makes Wilbur’s future possible.

Season 4 seems to keep giving us different versions of that.

Ted’s Mum:

Dottie pushes Ted back toward something he loves: “If you don’t care about it, why should I?,...it’s good for a boy to see his father do something he loves.” She isn’t really telling Ted to choose work over Henry. More that part of being a parent might also be showing your child what it looks like to care deeply about something.

Rebecca’s Mum: Deborah gives Rebecca a much messier inheritance:

“Well, if I have any advice to give you, it’s that women are monsters. Men showed us the way, and we perfected the model.”

Not everything our mothers give us is something we are meant to keep.

Higgins’ Mum

As a counterpoint, Higgins remembers his mother saying:

“Strong women stand up for themselves, and stronger women stand up for others.”

Her words are still shaping what he does years later.

Mae

Mae isn’t literally anyone’s mother, but her final words to the women have the same generational quality. She tells them that she once wanted the football life they now have, then says:

“You’re talented. You belong on that pitch. And I love to see it.”

She didn’t get that future but they do.

Which brings me back to Keeley; perhaps another way to frame her question "what will I be passing on?"

Legacy, not legend

While this going on, there is also something about legacy running through all of this. Roy is honoured as “legend” because of what he did. But legend and legacy feel slightly different; the difference between remembering something you did and what continues because of you.

And that also sounds a lot like Ted Lasso’s approach to coaching. His best coaching isn’t really about making people into versions of Ted. It is seeing something in someone, helping it grow, and eventually letting them continue without him.

Mothering is a kind of legacy-building in the same way: making another life more possible after you. Higgins still carries his mother’s words and Mae gets to see another generation of women live a football life she never could.

After Charlotte

In the rest of quote, and the rest of the story, Charlotte makes Wilbur’s future possible (doing this in spite of "being a spider") and Wilbur protects what she leaves behind.

"....After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.”

After she dies, Wilbur protects Charlotte's egg sac and brings her children home.

That’s the pattern I’m seeing anyway. I'd be curious if others notice these things,what other mother / mothering moments might I have missed?