Guesty

At 10pm we'll get the Exit Poll. This is how they work it out.

I'd guess 3-4-3. Ricardo, VK and Justin wing backs. Keep Fatawu doing what he was last season. We don't have many central midfielders at the min; so this would just need two. But it could all change depending on future moves. Also means we've got more tall players for attacking and defending set pieces.

I could see us playing 3 at the back. Selling no one and loaning Nelson out so he gets regular first team development.

Were things every bit as bad as now...

Reform will probably get quite a lot of disillusioned Tory voters. But they'll be spread out so it won't translate to seats (most polls say 4 max). This will probably benefit Lib Dems and Labour. It could be such a weird election that Labour could win by the biggest landslide since 1832. Yet (depending on turnout) receive less votes in total than Corbyn's Labour did.

Don't forget this is the first General Election where you need to take valid photo ID with you. Just saw a survey and a surprising amount of people have forgotten/didn't know.

Like others have said. I think it's worked out well for him. Brought him attention and got him on TV and in the papers. In this election I probably wouldn't have paid too much attention to the Lib Dems without him. I didn't know his father died from cancer when he was 4 and he cared for his terminally ill mother till she died when he was 15. Meaning he had quite a lonely childhood. And now he has a severely disabled child he cares for. When I heard one of his more serious interviews I warmed to him as a person. Along with his stunts he did try and deliver proper messages as well. Like when he was surfing, he was also talking about sewage in the water. But the media didn't really mention them.

I know it won't happen but I'd love it if Starmer or Raynor came out and said: Thanks Sun, but we don't need or want your backing anymore. Oh, and remember Leveson part 2 that was abandoned. We're going to bring it back and make sure it's fully investigated.

Mercer's wife panicking that her cushy job is about to disappear and they'll both be unemployed soon. A classic case of the Streisand Effect as a little protest is now going viral. Then the police turn up, have no problem and don't really know why they've been called in another video.

Worth noting this Survation guy says these are the ranges it could be for each party. So it might not be as close. Of course, it could be closer.

D.B Cooper. Highjacked a passenger plane on the way to Seattle, USA in 1971. Got them to give him $200,000 dollars and a parachute when he let the pilot land to let the passengers off. Told the pilot to take off and he escaped with the parachute and the money and never got caught

I read some interesting theories as to the real reason America pumped the breaks on Israel and it was nothing to do with WCK killings. Not sure if it's scaremongering, truth, or fantasy. Basically they said. Biden has received millions of dollars over his career from Israel through AIPAC. That was enough to buy his friendship - and to look the other way during the mass starvation of an occupied people. But, not enough to get into direct conflict with Iran and a regional war. When Israel blew up Iran's embassy in Syria they expected an immediate reaction. Coming from Hezbollah. Now Hamas is crippled, they wanted to do the same to Hezbollah, whilst the US is on board. Also prolonging the war so Netanyahu can stay in power. But the problem was Iran didn't immediately react. Instead through diplomatic back channels they went to the US and said: Look, we know you didn't authorise this. We both know there are unwritten rules and this is so far over the line there will be consequences. We advise you to not get in the way. Then nothing happened, it started to worry the Americans and something spooked them. Because what they did know was: Iran had started deploying its missile systems; it has hypersonic missiles that can overwhelm Israel's Iron Dome defences. And that hundreds of thousands of Houthi rebels have told Iran they will join them if there is war. Now Iran are just sitting back enjoying the power of the unknown. Some people still think they'll do something; others expect millions of dollars of sanctions relief for Iran in the coming weeks and a ceasefire in Gaza soon. But they all agree Biden has put himself in a terrible position and is now being played from both sides. At home he's alienated his entire muslim voter base. They had to cancel the annual Itfar Ramadan meal at the White House because all the muslim leaders pulled out and refused to eat with him. That might cost him the battle ground state of Michigan. Lots of other left leaning voters are deeply unhappy and thinking about not voting. On the right there's a growing isolationist movement who just want to pull out of any foreign conflicts - especially when their ally openly defies them, mugs them off and risks drawing them into a regional war. So now he's had no choice but to act and a lot of people around him are not happy.

I've got close family members who are American so I guess I always pay more attention to their coverage of stuff than most people would. I've never seen anyone grill an Israeli government minister like this on US tv. The government minister doesn't seem to know what to do and is taken aback by the anger and facts. This interviewer isn't some left wing democrat. He was a Republican politician (independent now) and is a strong supporter of Israel. This WCK killing does seem to have changed things over there. Especially their view of Netanyahu - he may have pushed his luck too far. People are even starting to question the influence of AIPAC.

Oh s**t! This game's been so good.

I wrote in an other thread I've worked in two toxic organisations. What's happening here has all the hallmarks of there. Over promoted untalented senior managers - and CEO's who were too nice, buried their heads in the sand and were too frightened to make big decisions.. Where I worked the senior managers knew they were out of their depth. Their only real skills were taking credit for other peoples achievements and arse covering/kissing. They were quite good at employing other people who's work they could take credit for. But sooner or later they employed someone who wasn't as good as they thought. Then they were in the position of actually having to do their own jobs. And they couldn't. They'd also made it so toxic that anyone with any talent or skill who they now needed had left the organisation. When s**t finally hit the fan they made reckless decisions based mostly on self preservation. They cared nothing about the long term future of the organisations. All they cared about was kicking the can down the road because they didn't want to be exposed and they hoped for a miracle. And this is what happens: it reaches a point where the dam breaks. Our transfers strategy is so chaotic it's clear our DOF has no strategy. He also blocks any promotion for the likes of Walsh and Macia. Who it's clear now deserve the credit for our old well run club reputation (along with people like Pearson and maybe even Puel). We even had old recruitment staff and data analysts leave under Rodgers because they said they were being ignored. It makes no sense to ignore the people who helped you reach where you are. Unless you're incompetent. Why on earth knowing the finances are like this and after relegation are we spending the money we are on the likes of Coady and Cannon. It's clearly blind panic. Just like offering Harrison £100k a week in the January relegation season. They're so cowardly/incompetent they let Rodgers bang on about having a s**t squad for months and only told him on the first week of pre-season there was no money. I have serious reservations about PSR and it needs looking at. Yes, it gives too much protection to the big six. But, it's partly in place for when people like this are running your club. Just imagine running at this big of a loss and your owner dies with no other family member/person willing to fund the club. Then suddenly there's no one footing the bill anymore and you're losing £90 million a year.

Rodgers could change things: like in the Cup Final season. He would go 3-5-2. But in his last season he clearly didn't care and was praying to be sacked (which is why I'll never forgive the clown). Enzo just seems clueless now his masterplan isn't working. Even Pep will change things like putting 2 up top sometimes. Enzo doesn't even seem able to make tactical subs.

I also said something very similar under Rodgers. The board seem to want to play a certain technical way; but this is the issue with it. It's very hard to recruit the right mentality. With PSR I don't think we have the finances to play/recruit this way anymore. We need to be more pragmatic or at least have a plan b. And it seems Enzo is far too stubborn for that.

His in game management has lost me today. People are right to question the players. But I think this is the big problem with his system. When you rely on technical players and try to fill your team with just them. You're relying on players who've always been the most skilled in their teams ever since they were a kid. It's never been their job to dig in, fight and battle (even defenders); they've always relied on teammates to do that. It's really rare to find a player like that. It's why Rodri is so important to Man City. It's a big flaw in Enzo's system. Especially at this level.

We've been worked out and have no plan B. We also have a lot of mentally weak players.

The most frustrating game I can remember watching possibly ever. I can't be doing with any whataboutery today trying to shift blame today. They're all responsible. Lack of desire from everyone, missed absolute sitters. And waited far too long to make subs. Even if we were winning we were looking tired and should have made subs. But we can't even say that; they were all round honking and we had a strong bench. With regards to Enzo: I don't really care how we play as long as we get results. But his in game management borders on amateur at times. I am starting to worry teams have figured us out; then players on the pitch don't know how to adjust.

I think this might be the most frustrated I've ever been watching us play. The lack of drive and the missed chances are on the players. But waiting so long to make subs is on Enzo. It's indefensible considering how they've played. Really do start to question him at times like now.

Pretty sure if you get sent to federal prison there is no parole anymore (was abolished for new inmates around 1987). I think the earliest you can get out is 80-85% of your sentence. It's around 54 days per year for good behaviour. There are other rules regarding terminal illnesses, old age and presidential pardon.

I watched that too. That guys videos are great when he goes on his challenges. The big problem is with all things like this: everyone admits it's a problem, but when it comes to paying for it everyone is like: you pay for it; no you pay for it; no you pay for it. So people just do short term fixes which never solve the issue. Governments know it's such a big long term project they kick it down the road and they'd rather budget for something else. And they know if they told everyone their water bill was going up £200 a year for the next 20 years to fund it, it won't go down well. As others have said, water companies should never have been privatised. The cost and logistics of digging up the UK's entire sewage system and changing it from a 1 pipe to a 2 pipe system are massive. But it'll have to be done one day.