Bryn

He's done exactly what I expected him to do, yet again the fault truly lies with whoever appointed him.

Club needs to launch a review of training practices since we moved to Seagrove. We used to have one of the best injury records in European football and now we keep getting this kind of injury.

I’d take Carsley. Our last manager who was involved in the U21s turned out alright.

Be a good time to let him go, this. It's not the right fit.

Didn’t see that. I specialise in Older People’s Medicine so can assure you I have nothing but love for providing healthcare to the elderly. However - the amount and type of resources allocated to them and the settings in which they are cared for is a valid discussion. The evidence of harm from just repeatedly throwing them at the NHS without due consideration of their circumstances is strong and getting stronger. That’s not to say we should stop caring for them - but you can definitely provide them with lower intensity care in the right setting at a lower cost with a better outcome.

It’s neither nice nor not nice to say, it’s just irrelevant.

There’s no evidence for this, this is just punitive. There are evidence-based treatments for obesity and a dire need for a more sophisticated approach to it. I do agree that there is a general need for people to take more responsibility for themselves - but have a look at yourself in the mirror here. Are you doing your load-bearing exercises to prevent osteoporosis? Are you going to bed early every night to mitigate your risk of cardiovascular disease? Are you managing your stress levels to keep your cortisol levels down and reduce your chances of hypertension and diabetes? Are you eating your three portions of oily fish a week and minimising your alcohol intake to prevent stroke disease? If you are - fair, but you’re rare. Every single person on the planet can take a shade more responsibility for their own health and demonising one particular group is demonstrably counter-productive.

We actually don't have enough managers. And specifically, we don't have enough GOOD managers. We have thousands of people overpromoted into management roles, or clinicians who have percuniary or other malign interests in management, or clinicians who don't want to manage but are forced to. I actually don't think we need a huge amount more doctors either. We do need some, if you compare our numbers to similar countries with better healthcare, but probably not as many as people fear. We definitely do need more nurses, and we need to far better incentivise, retain and train the ones we have. They should nurse - not deal with aggy patients and not provide personal care. There is nothing wrong with managing the expectations of patients and their families nor is there any shame in providing personal care, but we need to let nurses nurse and doctors doctor, and support them with an army of well looked after and well remunerated but ultimately cheaper staff who can perform auxiliary functions to let specialists do what we've paid a ton of money to train them to do. We've got doctors who have trained for years running round the hospital waiting for computers to boot up and performing tasks they're overskilled for that our European counterparts laugh at us for doing - they're not beneath us but it is a waste of a resource, would you hammer a nail in with a $2.5m Da Vinci robot? Then why would you spend £250k training a doctor then pay them a salary to take bloods when a medical student will do it for experience and we could have happy and well supported 18-24 year olds doing it as an alternative to working in Costa? There's enormous amount of funding going into the blurring of roles in healthcare and the downsides are starting to manifest themselves. Do the people want the NHS to function as a sort of employment charity in which people have to be promoted upwards? Is society ready to deal with the aftermath of any reduction in the scale of the NHS and the mass unemployment that would follow? We need to recognise that the NHS cannot fix all of society's problems. It can't change that culturally, many/most families don't want to care for their own relatives or don't want to be cared for by their own families anymore, for all sorts of reasons, and it can't fix that the population is ageing and more people will need care. It can't fix the education system and truancy. It can't fix crime, we can't fix homelessness, it can't fix domestic abuse (we can be part of the response but the NHS is not the fix). It cannot end the culture wars surrounding transgenderism and sexuality. It's a healthcare provider and it needs to be allowed to manage healthcare. We need to have a national debate to define the NHS' scope. The government should tell us how much things cost and how much money there realistically is, **** all these different nebulous pots of money that no-one understands. That's a really, really difficult conversation, which is why no government wants to face up to it. I think most people would agree that pregnancy and obstetric care, paediatric care and emergency care and intensive care should be free, and the most things should be at least subsidised. But everything? Should people pay a small contribution towards their chronic disease management - high blood pressure, diabetes and such? Should we make a distinction between different intensities of mental illness - do we treat neuropsychiatric conditions like schizophrenia the same as we treat people with anxiety and depression but who function well? Do people agree with funding fertility treatment and providing obstretic care to people who want and can afford to have large families? What about management of non-life threatening conditions such as that provided by audiology and opthalmology? Do we want to deal with the societal costs of abandoning these areas? I'm not offering my opinion on any of these here - my personal view is there is more than enough bloody money and wealth in the world to provide comprehensive free healthcare to every person on the planet - but not everyone shares my view. We need to use the services we have far more effectively. Most services see far too many people or far too few to be really viable. Far too many people are being managed in the wrong setting. We need better alternatives to hospital admission. General practice needs to be rejigged to be allowed to focus on urgent conditions that can be managed in the community and chronic disease management that they have specific training for and can manage in an appropriate time frame. Specialist conditions, including frailty, need better input from secondary care (this is slowly starting to happen). We need to invest in proper equipment. I'm paid at nodal point 4, my salary is a matter of public record, I reckon I spend 10-20% of my day waiting for lifts, or computers, or broken electronic door locks, or for someone to answer a page or a phone, looking for equipment like the right kind of needle, trying to find patients in an overflowing A&E. It's pathetic, it's embarrassing and it's a waste of everyone's time and money. We need to fix social care. Salaries in this country are far too low for there to be a viable alternative to socialised care unless we start properly tackling wealth inequality so we need to just get on and find the way to fund it properly. I'm a doctor and I'd describe myself as a socialist, and even I don't think we need to spend another 80 years pouring money into a black hole. We need to work smart, not harder. We need appropriate capital investment, we need to recognise what it is our trained specialists do and respect and retain them, we need to find new ways of providing care that are actually successful and aren't just cheaper or more politically palatable. That's a tiny part of how I feel. I honestly don't think it's that difficult to fix, there's just too many stakeholders and too many people trying to abuse the NHS for their own ends.

There’s a bit of a player in McAteer. He’s one of those players who makes good decisions and has a good attitude and is sufficiently athletic that putting it all together they end up having a steady career despite not being the most brilliantly gifted players.

Why the **** aren’t we putting more attackers on?

Should score

Players should be refunding the fans here.

That second half performance was atrocious, you cannot consistently make mistakes and poor decisions like that and expect to get away with it. Entirely down to the players tonight, the midfield shape and tactics actually gave Forest a lot of problems. We should have gone in ahead at half time with the control we’d had. But they ****ed about and shat the bed. Ricardo, Faes, Justin, Ndidi and Fatawu all very poor.

Good performance this.

Good thing there are no good keepers in top form who Maresca has signed before. Oh wait.

I think. That he's not a great manager. But I think he's doing a decent job. I know there's consistent decisions we don't agree with and some of the signings are questionable (Bobby DCR is patently shit, though Ayew has a sort of clumsy effectiveness about him). But right now I don't think binning him off is the right call, much as I cannot see him being the manager that establishes Leicester in the PL. The players respond to something about him, we are consistently pretty excellent in the second half. A bit of me thinks he oversubscribes to the modern idea of substitutes being finishers, not replacements. Making a deliberate choice to leave top players on the bench to bring them on the finish the game off. There's some merit to it, think. But I dunno. We start games so poorly.

Faes and Ayew both excellent today.

Have we ever had a manager who made good subs?

Imagine that had been allowed to stand, the officiating is so poor.

That’s a clear penalty by the modern rules, it’s absolutely clear as day.

Not even showing a ****ing replay.

Clear foul.

That's a brilliant move from Walsall. Fair ****s it's a cracking safe.

Why am I watching this

Sad news. Great player.