CB Fry

That's the way it is going. My company were hardliners on WFH days in the before-times but have now completely changed so the company wide policy is now 3-in, 2-home a week. I work for a big multinational and it sounds like most companies that size are moving to that. This is the "new normal". We'll leave it to the dins who get all worked up reading Daily Mail columns berating people for wanting to avoid 3 hour commutes and/or eye-watering train fares to add more productivity into the economy. Especially as most of the time those opinion pieces are written by people sat on their arses at home, and in the most high profile cases by people who haven't worked in any office anywhere for 30 odd years.

What do you mean "equally"? The whole thing is set up as a fig leaf, and a means to get off on technicalities in the first place. The reaction you describe is exactly what Boris will want. Provoke enemies to shout cover-up so he and the cabinet can take the new moral high ground of "Sue Gray has spoken let's all move on". Thats two posts now where you have confirmed you are absolutely ready to support that narrative. So its nice to know where you are.

Sue Gray works for him and will hand her report into him. We already know from the information already available that he's done enough to justify his resignation. We know he's mislead the house with his "oooh I'm furious about these parties I've just found out about" routine in December. Sue Gray isn't going to conclude that that didn't happen. It was on TV and everything. He's already accepted parties happened in his office run by his own staff and he's already admitted he was there. Sue Gray just gives him a point in time to do another apology, "take personal responsibility" by sacking people that aren't him and then get his cabinet to go fully into "let's move on" mode. Basically just a tactic to see if the press and the wider public just get bored of the story if it stretches out long enough. The fact that there will be enough saps out there who believe that it is an actual investigation where he could be "found clean" proves that it is a tactic that might just work.

Are Burnley ever going to play a football match again?

Completely exonerated. To be honest this is just the opposition playing politics while we get on with the real work of turning the country around. People want to move on from this.

It's an appalling defence but plenty will swallow it whole. I've seen too many supportive Minister interviews where they say that Johnson is responsible for delivering the vaccines, the furlough, keeping the economy moving and so on and so on. He's totally responsible for all of that stuff but absolutely not responsible for anything happening in his own back garden and organised by his own right hand man. Try not to get hopes up but feel there's an email or a photo somewhere.

Yes and me, Chrome on Android phone. I did the cache/cookies stuff and still there. Laptop I think okay though, although I don't use the forum much on there. Odd.

I remember one of Mark Hughes press conferences. Ward Prowse? Get him out of my sight. A good son in law yes but f**king not what you need in the trenches. Wesley Hoedt, though? Absolute mint.

If the Australians don't like the Novak ruling then they can register their displeasure at the ballot box at the next election. That's democracy etc etc.

I've heard Kelvin does it with his old gloves on.

Just seen the goal and Perraud hitting the woodwork on the YouTube highlights. On another day etc etc. On the highlights they cut to a camera shot showing how far out JWP's free kick was: at which point i said out loud "what a goal" before he'd even hit it.

Absolutely delighted Newcastle fucked up again. Couldn't beat either of Norwich or Watford (or Cambridge) at home with all of their brilliant fans and everything. Pathetic. Leeds away and then maybe a new-manager-bounce Everton at home coming up...

Weird that there's a transfer thread really, if that's the consensus. Maybe that thread is just everyone saying we don't need anyone.

Not sure how this could possibly be a surprise to anyone. If we want to sign him permanently then really we need him to be utter dogshit between now and May. Maybe one more goal, and a sending off for kicking a goalie in the nads.

Drip, drip, drip.

You'd think he would want to finish the season for us at least. And Chelsea probably not looking to just flog him off to Newcastle or Tottenham, when they own him and probably getting quite a lot out of this deal at the moment. So I don't think Chelsea are going to sell him to us in January, but I also think they're not going to sell him to anyone else either.

Do you want him to sign an extension because he's rubbish and wouldn't get another contract at a top level club, or because you think he's good and would get a contract at another top level club? If it's the latter, maybe the player and the agent have similar thoughts? It still boils down to the idea that we can tie players down at a point when they and their agents have absolutely no concept of what their value might be. I'm sure the club (under either ownership) were/are well aware of what we can do for Salisu. We're probably better equipped now than we were two weeks ago.

Always love the idea that the club can step in and extend someone's contract before the dopey player and his dopey agent even realise they could get more money elsewhere. Quick club, get them to sign it now before they work out how transfers work.

Dean Smith new manager bounce going well then. Just the six defeats in a row with zero goals scored in those six. I reckon they might go be going down at this rate.

Bit harsh.

I'm sure if Mike Ashley and Steve Bruce had signed Burnley's Chris Wood their wonderful fanbase would be absolutely fine with it.

Quite fortunate for Boris that the Prince Andrew story has broken today as well, giving media outlets that (still) support him another story to go big on.

I think it's nice the forum has a new club to moon and drool over. Aren't Villa just simply wonderful with their dreams and ambition and just spunking money on famous name players who were good three years ago. I always think a good guide to whether a player truly is world class can be assessed by one simple question: a) Have they just been signed by Aston Villa? The answer will tell you all you need to know.

In three years time Villa are just going to end up like Everton are now. Splurging left right and centre to maybe finish eighth once.