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Si will go furthest from that quarter. I think it’ll either be Trump or Zhao Xintong though. We maybe see our first Chinese winner?

Keiffer Moore, Louie Barry or Kone from Wycombe

This was a guy who was beating Robertson and Ding 10-1 and 10-2 little over two weeks ago. What a sport.

How is Selby so bad

Modi does concern me to be honest. Have the Pakistani government condemned the attack? The Kashmir issue (like post empire arrangements) seems like a tricky one to say the least and both sides have become more conservative over the past several decades.

The Ealing owner is a lot richer than Tigers and doesn’t hand out premiership level salaries to men

Celtic would be a sensible and tolerable British option but I just can’t imagine this man shushing the Brits (Rangers). I could also probably accept Wednesday for obvious reasons. Maybe even Wrexham is they go up.

Of course, but it was the strongest position Ukraine have been in all war. Maybe Crimea was on the table at that point so I’d be wrong but ever since then there’s been a general degradation and there’s little evidence that won’t continue. Wars aren’t won on morality and I worry that’s the trap a lot of us are falling into (including myself a few months back).

Patriots who are apparently concerned about the future of the country want our next generation to suffer, nothing ever makes sense.

General Milley said they should’ve taken a deal in October 2022, looks like he was right.

Wollaston played some lovely stuff but was clearly struggling by the end

True, and now at 2-3 when he was a centimetre from 1-4.

I agree there’s no right answer and politically Zelensky is probably doing the right thing for himself(?), I feel incredibly depressed by it all.

How can Selby look unbelievable two weeks ago then look like he’s had his hands sawed off tonight?

Ok so what’s the plan?

What evidence is there that Russia is closer to collapse than Ukraine? It’s Russia that are constantly on the offensive, the Ruble has also recovered and they also have a greater depth of people to mobilise. I just don’t think it’s credible that Ukraine can ‘wait it out’, it’s a crazy gamble.

It’s not a short term view when nobody actually has a plan other than carry on and hope something falls into place. If somebody actually had a credible plan for Ukraine to kick the Russians out, I’d be more supportive but all I see right now is more pain for both Ukranians and Russians, and sadly Russia will be able to tolerate more pain.

The post-empire partitioning geopolitical spaces seem totally fine at the moment. Israel-Palestine conflict, Sudanese civil war and now India and Pakistan (two nuclear states) about to go at each other. We just need it to kick off in Belfast for the bingo house.

A wet Trump.

Because it was all a gimmick and both Putin and Zelensky are trying to prove to the US who the bad guys are, and both look silly. They both broke the ceasefire and they’ll both break ceasefires moving forward. Nobody will win this war but the longer it goes on, Russia will likely be able to improve their position more than Ukraine by pure numbers alone and very few people have a plan other than hope. I do suspect we’re going to see Ukraine go full sabotage in Russia now, I’d expect some high level assassinations.

The end of the dying is certainly a positive. I’ve put on these pages many times that there will be no good outcome for anyone in this war. Everyone will walk away worse off. Ukraine can keep fighting and we can keep supplying but they’re never going to take back the majority of what they’ve lost by force. We missed the boat in 2022.

It actually seems that something positive (if it can be called that) is on the horizon in Ukraine. Both sides seem to be making moves towards a ceasefire, or at least a slowdown in hostilities https://archive.ph/GJtFD

Can you think of any other topics in the recent past that has so little real world impact but carries so much political weight? It’s so bizarre.

If you were in his shoes you’d do the same. It’s the idiots once again giving out ridiculous contracts that are the issue.

You have to say Forest play some lovely stuff. If they qualify and get a better striker than Wood, they could easily go a long way in the champions league the way they play.