DJ Barry Hammond

Centre half is a position you don’t tend to take too many risks with - ideally you want a settled and regular pairing and of course you don’t substitue them in game that often either… so it makes giving Nelson a chance a little trickier. Alves on the otherhand - the positon(s) he plays gives him more scope to get in the matchday squad and then game time if deemed good enough - you almost always change one of your wingers.

Signed by Chelsea 😏

Fab and co no doubt get their source info from agents, they’re not regional reporters. JP is East Midlands football correspondent, who goes to matches and no doubt plenty of dinners with people high up in the club. I’d also suggest that given we as a club like to do our business in a low key fashion - Percy wading in now must mean this is very close. To the flight tracker people!

I’d suggest JP’s will be closer to the mark here given his contacts are clearly with us.

Could it be all the previous reports were eminated from Juventus in the hope of attracting a higher bid?

For me it was the complete lack of hazard perception he showed. There are certain situations where upmost caution is the better play - and riding into a wedge against a bus is probably one of them as a cyclist. Add in that in the video Vine shows himself; • In a rush to get past • making a blind overtake • (presumably) himself moving around a vehicle without indicating • Making a close pass / attempting to push through a tight gap • escalating a situation afterwards; It’s not exactly helpful in creating better attitudes on the roads is it!

Who’s delivering that Daggers? I have a sneaky suspicion that’s a Royal Mail estimate!

This guy is getting a little too self-important for his own good. Mean, he’s not even the best Vine sibling! Anyway - this particular cycling clip of his peeved me today. He was duly challenged by me and others over his part in the incident and he didn’t like it!

Reckon it was the motorised chair user that tipped the cop car - pegged it out of his seat, up and over, back in his wheels and off he went. ”I want that one!”

I think it’s pretty much confirmed - there’s a video of the apparent father on Twitter going around. There’s also suggestions a local councillor or two were on the scene too.

It’s certainly an ‘interesting’ set of sentances @EnderbyFox I’ve only read a couple of summary newspaper reports, but I believe the 5 were regularly pissing the judge off and received several contempt of court charges during the trial - not likely to help you when it comes to sentancing. It was also suggested that the policing cost was in the region of £1 million. I expect both the charges and sentences to be appealed - and possible shortened - but I think the end result will still be a custodial sentence. What is also clear is to characterise the actions as merely a ‘protest’ is disingenuous - the actions crossed a line.

I very much doubt any of the rioters really knew what they were rioting about. But if you have media creating divisions - groups will try to protect their own, regardless of whether that makes any sense at all. The situation in NI is another example.

I’m not so sure about that. The sheer numbers there meant it was a difficult situation to police in the moment. Would Yorkshire police have had the tactical numbers of riot trained police and appropriate vehicles on hand, midway through on a Thursday evening? We can see from the footage they did have a go and sensibly decided to withdraw - so I think the suggestion the lack of action was down to ‘who’ was causing trouble is an unfair suggestion to make.

It’s awkward in situations like this though, because they always have the best footage of the monumental craziness that’s going on!

Been a busy old news day today and includes the Daily Mail doing a 180 on their opinion on Judges!

I always found Adobe products weird because as powerful as they might have been - I always felt the programmes were never that intuitive. Hopefully this move backfires and someone else can rival them a bit.

Will definitely need those extra prison places now!

More of a BBQ @st albans fox

Yep, I expect there will be a show of force by Yorkshire police soon enough.

Haven’t Adobe inserted clauses into their terms that allows them certain ‘rights’ to creators content? (possibly for AI training purposes - not that this seems fair or correct at all).

Leeds is falling apart… again! Lots of crazy videos about - most of them posted by certain ‘characters’ which I didn’t want to share directly.

No of course not - but I think clubs have realised loans provide much more than just the playing time as I’ve mentioned in the post above and that the mental aspects it develops can help decision makers decide how ready a player is going in from there. I highlighted Barnes, KDH and Thomas because I feel one of the areas Thomas lacked was a level of mental toughness and maybe application - areas that you could say Barnes and KDH are much better at - and could reasonably conclude that their loan spells helped that.

I’m not sure that is the case anymore. Of course if you’re loaning players you want them to play - but I think a bigger part of the calculation for loans these days is how players react to a new environment, new voices, one that is likely less comfortable than the one they’re already in, one where they can potentially be a big fish in a small pool rather than a small one in a lake.

Yes, the UEFA World Cup 2026 qualifiers don’t start until March 2025 (drawn December) - so in theory they could wait for Pep and only have to manage 2 of these.

Yeah, well - that was just a performative interview by both sides, with each playing to their own supporters. I get that the “he will do nothing for Clacton” is an attack line, but I don’t feel this was the occasion to really push that notion. Sometimes you just need to wait a bit and let a pattern of behaviour form before challenging.