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I think it's becoming clear that it is us who are waiting for the Man U decision. Ten Hag incoming I think.

Will there ever be a person who can swim faster than a shark? If you ate yourself, would you be twice as big or disappear completely?

I'm no cricket fan, but I had no idea the US had a cricket team. I had to read the article twice. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/cv22me263jmo

The irony being that Man Utd could be one of the teams that could buy up those players, despite being nearly £1,000,000,000 in debt.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5115e7k2eno Not sure where to start with this. I hope the parents are located very soon.

On balance I do. If you look at the last decade I think they've got most of the managerial appointments right, probably most of the players have been fine (most clubs are hit and miss with their signings). For me, the mistake they did make, and it was a whopper, was that they bought into Brand Brendan way too much. The players signed with Brendan have been largely doggo, the end of season capitulations were an embarrassment. The board should have pulled the trigger on Brendan months earlier, if they had I'm sure we'd be in a very different situation now. Instead, we're still licking our wounds and the scars will last for a few more years yet.

The term legends is quite subjective. I quite like the idea of a hall of fame. The club can quite easily set a high bar for inductees into the hall of fame - appearances/goals/outstanding achievement etc... then the conversation about legends becomes a bit easier and it's a proper tangible recognition of a player (or manager's) contribution to the club.

I agree. Stop posing for staged photo opportunities and just get on with explaining how you intend to actually do the serious job of running the country.

Yeah and Rudkin went home early, switched off his phone and started a lovely long bank holiday weekend. He'll be back in the office tomorrow morning and find out that we don't have a manager!

I wish him well. I liked him. I think his style requires some very, very good players to work. The quality of our squad was just about good enough for the Championship but without some major investment I really think we'd struggle in the prem. Chelsea might have the players that he can start building his brand of football. If it works, he'll give himself a platform to go on to great things in football, if it doesn't he'll boost his bank balance by a few million and be able to bounce around a couple of mid-table prem teams until he decides to do something else.

This isn't National Service in the traditional sense, this is something different that's being labelled as National Service. It think the idea addresses a number of serious issues which need addressing. Is "National Service" the best way to go? I'm not sure. Here's how I view it: From a national security perspective, I am becoming concerned about some of the noise coming out about what the future might look like... Russia, China, Middle East, etc... Here in the UK we have had a long period of peace, something most of us take for granted but there is a growing sense of unease and our armed forces need bolstering. How do we do that? There are a few options, but the key thing is that this National Service thing will be the cheapest. The military part of NS seems to be aimed at a small number of 18 year olds, about 4% or something like that, and it seems there will be quite an application process to actually get in. I can see it being quite appealing to quite a few young people. Learning skills from the military in cyber security or logistics are valuable life skills and could well send some on a successful career path - an appealing prospect for 18 year olds who don't really know what they want to do in life. So they get skills and experience and the government get a somewhat bolstered military. The "Public Service" part is nothing but a cheap way of getting more hours on the clock. Yes, there are some benefits. Some young people will learn skills, some will do a great job, and the public may see some benefits. But look at the maths... Let's say 500,000 people actually take part, allowing for around 200,000 to be exempted or just refuse. 500,000 x 25 days per year = 12.5 million working days. 12.5 million days at 8 hours per day = 100,000,000 hours. Let's say the job they'd be doing costs £15 per hour, that means the government get £1.5b worth of labour for free every year (I know it's not free to administrate). So is NS a good idea? Well I don't think it's terrible (as a parent of 2 children who would likely be affected), I'm not dead against it, but it won't make me place a X in the blue box. The public services and military need bolstering and some young people need a helping hand at age 18 to give them some direction. So NS does, on paper, go some distance to addressing these important issues. The alternative? Spend more money (lots of it - where does it come from?). Make careers in public services and the armed forces more appealing? I'd like to see more of this, but that costs money too and is a tough sell given the way the public sector has been treated over the last 15+ years. Essentially the Tories have backed themselves into a corner. Getting public services to where they need to be will take massive money that the country doesn't have. It's a mess. NS is something, not nothing, but it's not the same as tempting the brightest and best into a public service career, giving them the tools to do the job and the pay that recognises the professionalism required. My fear is that whether it's Labour or Conservative in power for the next 5 years, there is no quick fix.

Will more likely lead to a rise in crime?

It won't make any difference! Same line, different scenario. The camera angles, timing of the ball being played and image quality all remain the same. The only thing that will be different is the question will change from "Was his toe ahead of the other guy's toe?" to "Can you really say there was daylight between them?" Just keep it as it is imo, or scrap it completely (which I don't think they should).

I'm getting tired of signing players and then hardly playing them before getting rid. From what I've seen, Cannon looks decent and we should keep him, but y'know, give some decent minutes on the pitch.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-68942321 You cant just "phase out" apostrophes. Get a better computer system.

Well HMS Piss The League has docked this season, maybe they're hopeful of getting aboard next season?

Not as good as 2014 but more important. Not an easy league to navigate but we were rightly one of the favourites from the start. Job done as far as I'm concerned.

Oh. My. Days.

Blow the whistle ref!!!

Nothing to see here

Spaceman. Netflix. Adam Sandler. Dreadful.

Let's get real for a second. The people who are forced to eat processed crap food because they can't afford to switch an oven on are in a tiny minority of processed crap food eaters. Most people eat so much crap because it's convenient and they are lazy (I'll include myself in there). Fair play to @dsr-burnley to get 3 decent meals for about £10 + cooking expenses. @FoxesDeb is probably onto something around household make up.

He touched the ball more than Vardy and he only played stoppage time.

Get him in!

Sometimes people get added to this thread too easily, but this POS and all his followers fully deserve their place. The internet can be a disgusting, disturbing, dark place full of weirdos.