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  1. Football is an opinions game. JWP is not a top 6 player in my opinion - not even close. Take his set piece delivery away and I think he is a fairly average player. I think it showed that we didn't miss him at all when he was suspended (perhaps we even looked a little better).
  2. My personal view is that the squad's quality was always going to put us in a relegation battle. We have defenders and midfielders who seem to make key individual errors at critical moments and forwards who don't score goals. The fact you could take any player out of this XI and we don't lose much quality shows that we have no real match-winning quality anywhere on the field. We have championship players all over the XI and halfway through the season are 9 points above the drop zone - not fucking bad if you ask me. Sometimes you only realise how good a manager is when they go; if Ralph leaves, I think we might find out quite quickly just how much he impacted this group of players.
  3. LFT are totally pointless as people can just lie about their result. To get the email saying you're negative all you need to do is register the LFT unit on the gov website and click negative. You don't even need to complete the test. Makes a total mockery of the whole thing.
  4. I must admit, I'm pretty surprised at how many fans are cool with this news. 25m sounds like a good deal for a guy in the last year of his contract on the face of it, but what is the cost of relegation? Who will replace Ings' goals this season? Having scrolled through the forum, lots seem happy with replacing him with an unproven Championship striker. It is more likely that this swap will make us a worse team than a better one next season and, truthfully, how much worse can we afford to get? People ask what do you want the club to do? I would have liked to have seen him stay for a year to ensure we have a proven goalscorer in a likely relegation battle. The cost of relegation far exceeds 25m or whatever they got for him yesterday. Looking at the squad, I find it impossible to not be concerned. There's not one area of the squad that I feel comfortable with - from GK to strength in depth up top, it all looks very relegation to me. I see us conceding goals and now, without Ings, I can't see us scoring enough. This is a very big ten days for us in the transfer market. We need proven, experience. Without it and I think we are going down.
  5. That was an absolute shocking game of football. Horrific. As bad an advert for the Premier League as it gets.
  6. You're totally correct. I switched off after they disallowed this. They are literally changing rules (sleeve/arm/part of body) to suit the narrative that they want to create. It's the clearest sign of corruption i've seen in quite some time. Let's face it: 9-0 is a great story for the league and the ref did everything he could to ensure it happened. I honestly don't think I've ever been less enthusiastic about football. It's so boring analysing refereeing decisions after every single game. I suppose the only good thing VAR has shown is how truly bent this league is. When using technology, there is nothing to hide behind.
  7. How do you know this? After half-term i get, but surely it's too early to make a call until Easter? My two are 7 and 10 and are desperately missing school. Keeping Primary children off until Easter seems ridiculous to me.
  8. I know it's a rag, but the Daily Mail today talking about the lockdown easing on Good Friday, apart from schools which will start going back after half term. Good Friday feels like a hell of a long way off.
  9. Might just be me, but does anyone else find these 'lockdown' rules a little more than head-scratching? The local park today is absolutely heaving (similar to a Summer's day). People enjoying drinks in groups, games of basketball, tennis courts open, organised game of 8-a-side on the footie pitch etc. The vast majority of stores on our high-street are also open either for you to go in or as click-and-collect. Cafes packed with queues for takeaway. At the same time schools have been 'closed'. Yet, my son, who logged onto his Google classroom this week found that 16/30 of his class are in school and the numbers are growing by the day! Apparently out of 350 children, 160 were in school Friday. What on earth is the point of closing schools in the first place, if you're allowing that many in? Totally bizarre approach. P.S. Open up my golf club please and let me go for a pint.
  10. All a lockdown does is kick the can further down the road. At some point, someone is going to have to make some tough choices and face up to fact that we are going to be living with this virus for a long time. A vaccine isn't going to magically appear for all at Christmas and we cannot afford to keep locking down every two months. The tsunami of unemployment grows every single minute we are in lockdown and this will devastate so many businesses. What a mess. As a conservative, Johnson has now completely lost the little support I had left in him and must go, along with several others in the cabinet. Time to see what Sunak has.
  11. This seems to happen every day now, doesn't it? A huge public outcry on social media (yawn). It seems to me that over the past few years all people want to do is get offended by absolutely anything they don't agree with. People going out of their way to try and defund the police. Then the same time, people trying desperately to defund the BBC. It all stems through social media and I think it's an incredible shame that the world is going this way. The BBC just can't win right now and it's a damn shame. I've voted conservative my entire life and voted to leave the EU. Some of my left-wing mates think I vote the way I do because I watch BBC news! Seems to be the opposite accusations flying around now. As a nation, it seems people don't want impartial news; they want stories to be written in biased ways (Guardian/Daily Mail) to suit their political agenda. Seems everyone is offended by everything right now.
  12. One of the things that I thought Teresa May got right was trying to promote Grammar schools again and I was disappointed that many of her own backbenchers didn't support her on the issue. I''m also very surprised that so many left-wing voters oppose so strongly to Grammar schools. Ultimately they're giving bright, potentially poverty-stricken children an opportunity that local comprehensives don't give them. There's a lot of talk about BLM at the minute and why black kids aren't getting high profile jobs etc. The issue lies in education for me; the system and school curriculum are failing them. When you consider the opportunities given at private schools vs local comps, it's not surprising that predominantly white, privately-educated students are running companies in higher paid jobs, whilst black students (and working class white males) generally fill the minimum wage jobs etc. Grammar schools would give some/more of those poorer children a chance...
  13. I totally agree. The farcical decision to cancel exams, without a proper plan, is the one that has caused this grading mess. However, wasn't that a government decision?
  14. As I follow him, I've seen what he posts, and I don't personally agree with any of his Covid-19 tweets. But what does that matter? It's his personal opinion and he is totally entitled to share his views on platforms like twitter. I am completely stunned by how strongly some people view/judge others based on their isolated opinions. Twitter seems to have amplified this issue. If we were all the same and had the same views on life it would be a very boring world. There is quite a hateful tone to your post and if you truly feel he has gone from hero to zero, then I think it's probably you who needs to take a step back and get rid of twitter.
  15. To be fair to the government, our scientists have spend months deliberating masks and have only just made their minds up that they are effective. I remember watching a daily briefing a few months back and one of the doctors said that masks aren't necessary. Meanwhile, in places like Taiwan, who have handled the crisis superbly, they were wearing them from day one. However, it's foolishly to pretend that our failure is all down to the government; the Scientists and NHS leaders have played a big part in it too. I must say, I'm pretty baffled that anyone would have a huge issue with wearing a face mask at Tescos for for 45 minutes on their weekly shop. Listening to the radio, many people are whinging about it making fools of themselves (most of whom deny that Covid is even a thing!). We really are a nation of complainers. Even if it makes a small difference in protecting shop assistants and bus drivers, I'm confused why anyone wouldn't be on board with it.
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