Paninistickers

To anybody with the smallest microgram of football or business intelligence, it was obvious our transfer strategy this summer was to repeat last season's. Firstly we have the obvious financial constraints and secondly, frankly, anyone signing is probably signing up for a season in the championship too. And players - as proved by Mads and Winks and Stephy and Fatawu and Coady - will do that if the deal is right and the project is sold to them. But nope. We go balls out for this Juventus lad as if we were offering Europa league football and a top 7 finish. BDCR is tbf the equivalent of Coady I suppose. But where's the Stephy, Abdul and mads equivalents? I guess this lad from Italy is one, but a centre half FFS. Hardly a priority. That's the equivalent to the mystifying signing of Cannon last year. Absolutely shocking. The club is run on an almost criminal level of negligence.

That someone was Birch FFS. The Birch. Unbelievable innit? Essentially the whole KP legacy has been dependent on the untrained but common sense suggestion of a club cheerleader

Is he? Saw him for Burnley last year and he appeared very similar

100 this. A club that's spent 25m on a centre half and a young teen lad. And last year bailed out Everton with 10m on a lad we didn't need nor played. The club at every administrative level is a total shambles. A disgrace The

I think McAteer might break through, one way or the other. He looked hungry and up for it. He looked half a stone stronger.

Have to say, whatever happens, it's a breath of fresh air playing full backs. Both JJ and VK had to put on the burners and sweep round with an aggressive last ditch tackle in the second half. There's a reason 99.999% of teams play full backs and only Enzo doesn't..

Peak times need 10 carriages. Anything less are carnage. Off peak generally run as 5 or 7, which run at close to max

Tactically it was kinda interesting. It's clear VK will be part of the set up. Question is, is he good enough? The uber advanced attacking LB role is a key component and I'm not sure he's good enough. I thought we looked to have a LOT of bite in phases and had a clear structure to win the ball back quickly. Faes clearly given licence to be aggressive and dive in which leads to him being turned at times. Daka, Mavididi pressed well. Augsburg were poor. I'd rate them at Millwall level of big, strong cloggers. That's worrying that we most to garbage.. I liked Wilf back to his old role. Winks and Vesty picked up where left off. Not convinced by Fatawu. Interesting to play Mavididi just off the striker. BdcR ...hmmm, in patches.ok but a poor poor man's KDH

Not the point. Winning a downgraded one day cup mattered to people Winning the hundred means nothing to noone.

It's a fantastic tournament. The ECB, of course, despise it. As they do the t20. But it feels a throw back to the old NatWest that was played over the summer holidays. Settling in for a day's cricket. Loads of outgrounds being used too. Outgrounds being the unsung brilliance of English cricket (and antidote to that ECB hula hoop garbage)

I'll have a go at this and suggest that not all those who are concerned/opposed to mass and rapid immigration are 'far right' Fwiw, I'm a pro European, staunch remainer who would never ever hold a view against someone based alone on skin colour or religion or nationality. But there's many on here who would equate to the 'far right' my personal serious concerns of (literally) millions entering the country legally and illegally for (understandable) economic reasons but have almost zero interest in the UK

I think many of us would support the use of firearms in these circumstances.. Certainly taser them. I can only imagine those officers on duty were PCSOs Taser. Arrest. Charge. Aggravating features. Hand out maximum sentence of four years. Parliament should introduce a bill upgrading knife crime to life sentence as a maximum

Seems absolute madness to have kept the images though. Depends on the mood of the judge. Won't questions be asked why on earth did he continue to engage with this fella? Surely you'd block him and bin off that phone and its storage as a matter of immense urgency. That said, I think Edwards is more likely to receive an 'understanding' judge,.same age, same social class etc than a vindictive one.

I'm always amazed that in 1850 or whatever, there were no trains. By 1900, literally every single line, bridge, tunnel, viaduct and station we have today we're all built. Then we ripped half of them up again 60 years later. We are a very odd country. 1800s to 1950 or so with the creation on the NHS we just went for it. Ever since we look to penny pinch and short cut and patch up at every opportunity

Corby has a station. But I get your point. So frustrating for coalville but Leicester's poor connections to surrounding towns - Cov, Rugby, Northampton (in addition to the Ivanhoe line of coalville and Ashby) - hurt its own economy too.

I'm surprised at the detail and gravity of his offences. I had expected the images were going to be of his 17 yo sugar baby. Yet apparently no crimes committed there. His barrister is not making a defence. He's pled guilty. But his team are entitled to provide mitigation. My own opinion on reading the details is that there isn't much mitigation though. If this fella sent through some unsolicited filth, you'd either go to the police (as in the case of the girlfriend you mentioned above) or if you feared being arrested anyway like she was, you'd smash the phone with a hammer burn it and chuck the embers in a random skip.

Very rare a story upsets me. Most stories seem too distant, too remote. But this event and the John Hunt story a couple of weeks ago are both cut very deep. So unbelievably painful for the families

Since Alan Yung

Illegal immigration isn't even close to the problem. It's legal immigration that's fcking us over. The elderly have swapped European immigration - under freedom of movement - for some kind of ghastly student/nurse visa system that brings in all sorts from Timbuktu that haven't a scintilla of interest in the UK.

Should've been booted years and years ago.

Rachel Reeves having to cut road and rail projects, so says the news. That's gonna be bad for this (tho the scheme is half baked anyway)

Teams very quickly adopted a shoot on sight policy when Ward was in goal. The clearest example was Chilwell lining up that volley for two or three seconds, everyone in the stadium could see him lining it up except for Ward, who instead was busy organising his defence. Chilwell didn't really connect but, as per pre match instructions no doubt, so long as it's on target it has helluva chance of going in.

If we had a bubonic plague equivalent doing the rounds, count me in. . This was never ever in that league. I guess the whole exercise was a decent dry run for a virus that does actually threaten our existence though (however, I suspect antibiotic resistance will prove the far likeliest problem in the next 50 years)

Tbf, you come across as a very reasonable debater. I enjoy reading your well put views on this subject. We'll have to agree to disagree that we could've done virtually nothing with covid and the outcomes would still be ( more or less) what life is for us all today. After all, COVID has now been downgraded to what I personally considered it in the first place - a bit of a sniffle and head cold. But that's not the point. The point is, you have a view. Punters like @Daggers do too. But he's quite abusive with it. Which I'm fine with as frankly, I find him a total oddball. Not just on this subject, but on most items I see him chirping on.

Mate, there's a hardcore of people on here that assume any questions about COVID equate to a MAGA Trumpian / Tommy Robinson fanboy / conspiracy nutter Some people simply cannot tolerate a counter argument that lockdown may well have caused as problems as it solved. I think such a stance says alot of them themselves and their viewpoint