Lionator

Josh Hull took this personally.

Not feeling confident now, we needed early wickets.

Liang Wenbo sounds like a right nasty character from all of that and the DV

If we can squeeze out another 30 runs that would be perfect. Set them the highest score of the game

The pitch is doing an awful lot isn’t it. It’ll be some effort to chase 200+.

I disagree, I think they’ll just blame central government and people will lap it up. Council funding is terrible as it is and these areas will need higher amounts of social care funding due to age.

Solar farms I half understand although disagree. Pylons and battery storage tho, absolute insanity. Acceleration to the Dickens era.

Doesn’t really change the fact that they’re quite considerably better than the other three teams in the play offs.

To be fair though, that Cov team would get obliterated in the Premier League to the point where it would be tragic. Provided Sheffield United keep their composure, they should ease through these play offs but you never know.

I shouldn’t be but I was staggered just how bad Southampton were, especially as it looks like they’ve at least been competitive in the past few games. They didn’t lay a glove on us. Bilal was obviously the main of difference between the two sides.

The big question, will Ukraine attack Russia’s victory day parade? They have the chance to take out Putin and Xi Jinping if they get it right.

His save for the disallowed goal was really impressive

You’d think 250+ lead would probably be enough but you never know with us.

Blackburn finishing 6th would be wild considering where they were a few weeks back

Have to feel for Okoli

Would rather us give Evans a start than Monga.

5 wickets for 14 runs. Lads are smashing it

The 2019 election is so fascinating looking back. Corbyn was not the right man, but the message was. He wanted to nationalise the things that now everyone is begging to be nationalised, including the Reform supporters! Meanwhile everything that Boris Johnson promised was a lie. Levelling up, bringing immigration numbers down, it was all a load of BS. Economically Reform supporters and the left are close together.

Where is anybody saying that? Again, the general theme is that everything sucks and we just have different ideas of how to fix it (it can’t be fixed). A lot of people are recognising that not engaging with the issues and calling people racist is an issue.

Went to a couple of t20 games last season and there was a lad to our right near the Gower suite who was talking into something all the way through, giving a running commentary. Had assumed he was doing something for Cricinfo/Flashscore but I’m assuming it was that?

You’re correct, he’ll serve more than his full term 👀

This is one of the issues I have with some other people on the left. They’ll go into bat for hardcore Islamist’s with incredibly conservative values that completely contradict everything that they stand for. It’s nearly always morality over practicality. There’s also some incredibly daft things that happen in this country that leftists keep quiet about. Currently only 42% of British trained junior doctors are getting speciality training because a high percentage of places are getting taken up by more experienced consultants trained and working within the developing world who are happy to do more for less. That to me is insanity and a complete waste of state funding. So there’s arguments to be had. Like it or not, the economy is set up in a way that it requires immigration and cheap labour (hand in hand). Reform will not solve these issues because they’re ultra capitalists who would thrive in the gig economy. So it’s up to the left to make a coherent argument about how we can change the economic model that benefits the many not the few (remember that line).

Please don’t get personal. I enjoy this thread and want it to stay open.

Sadly this place is disappointingly centrist. And I’m pretty sure nobody is calling reform voters thick, everybody knows we’re screwed, we just don’t think that Nigel bloody Farage has the solution.

Planting to shield the ball perhaps?