CB Fry

Isn't the accurate comparison to the Health Secretary in this instance the Home Secretary?

....and those supermarkets will source far more meat products from Denmark or France or Poland to cover volumes if the price of UK products is at a premium. They'll use British when they can charge consumers a premium for it, but it will be a volume drain from farmers and processors who will just lose out to EU competitors, whose products continue to be waved through our borders far more easily than British producers can move stuff out other way. Lose/lose. But it didn’t take long for the mugs to hoover up the "it's all their own fault" narrative, so well done Boris. You reap what you sow indeed.

The team would start running out to "Thong Song"?

Nah, he know exactly what he's doing there. a) in the moment, obfuscate and just muddy up the issue but pretending that Andrew Marr is objecting to the death of any animal rather than engage with the real issue b) in the aftermath make the social media/wider coverage about him not understanding farming rather than the actual issue. He is using his own buffoon character as a human shield against actual policy analysis. In it's way it is clever and its why he wins. Either way, just like the CO2 issue a couple of weeks back, this pig issue will get miraculously sorted, and played as a win for the government before the week is out. There's no doubt that as soon as he left that studio he told Defra to do whatever it takes so he can say he "saved the great British banger" in two days time. Really the main issue is all the stuff he was coming out with on the restructuring of the world of work in the the UK is abject nonsense but probably scores well in focus groups. He's a master at what he does, I'll say that.

If they been ours for three years you'd fucking hate them i guarantee it.

If Townsend or Gray had been our players for a few years they'd be absolutely hated as inconsistent wasters by the exact same people demanding we should have signed them in August.

Meanwhile Ralph and the Norwich dude are on jobs for life.

All I can see is a season of a lot of "well, it's completely unrealistic to expect us to beat them" followed by a lot of "well, on another day we would have won that" and plenty of "well, bad day at the office" followed by the occasional win. And of course, when that win happens the exact same people who keep referring to our defeats as one-off events, and berating other users for their negative knee-jerk reactions to "look, it's just one defeat" will respond to that singular win as comprehensive and irrefutable proof that absolutely everything is fantastic and great and off we go into challenging the top half and all you doubters have been proved utterly wrong because we won that one game. What a season it's going to be.

my usual - hesgoal.com - picture great but is one of those weeks where they are streaming dutch coverage. So in the market for any alternatives.....

Tella not good enough to bring on against a tiring Wolves but is good enough to start at Chelsea. Good luck Saints

That period in 2020 he had the benefit of not having a team that was still stuck with the shackles of the Puel era and disasters of the past. Of course now in 2021 he does have all those shackles again. Shame really.

Only if we lose massively - seven, eight, nine - he'll go. But a run of the mill 2-0, even 4-0 and he won't. And that kind of defeat will get the usual response from the usual suspects on here: it's just a one off isolated result that people are knee jerk reacting to. Just one single isolated defeat, I can't believe how impatient people are, it's a one off a one off a one off. Etc etc etc.

Probably playing Chelsea at a good time. Either we get a result (let's hope for a draw) and there's a proper story that Chelsea are in the first real slump of the Tuchel era. They're under a bit of pressure. Or, we just lose and Chelsea are not in a slump, story over. Another normal day for all concerned.

Except all the data on climate change is also coming from scientists. Fuck knows what point you're trying to make. Just go back to wanking over your hero Donald.

To be honest I think this kind of thing is something your average Brexit voter would be okay with. What was wanted was to get the Polish out, get rid of the Polish shops on the High Street, people speaking funny on the bus, foreign kids in your kids' school with Srabble-champion surnames, send them home send them home. If an upshot of that is we need to import a bit more product then probably an acceptable compromise. Especially as you can still play the "look we are still trading with Europe" thing. Look, we're still trading with Europe. British farm businesses are the losers in this scenario but you can't have everything and just remind me this means those foreigners are definitely fucking off home, right? But an interesting development, nevertheless. Joyeux Noel, Wesołych Świąt.

I thought we were independent global Britain who have freed themselves from the tether and shackles of backwards, failing Europe. We're standing proud and doing our own thing, mate. Of course the Germans are failing, they're in the fucking hopeless, sclerotic EU.

Not entirely sure that "stuff happens with the municipal administration of the city of Rome" was covered in great detail in the Operation Yellowhammer report but if it's important to you sweetheart, it's important to you.

I remember very clearly the passionate campaigning that if you voted Remain then something something something the Rome Mayoral election in 2021.

Jesus. Terrible news. No age at all, by which I mean my age. Feel so sorry for his wife and children. Remember seeing them as Corky all those years ago. Great voice.

We haven't avoided relegation by the skin of our teeth since the Pellegrino/Hughes season. If you haven’t noticed then try to pay more attention.

Except there isn't really anyone saying "it's all down to Brexit". But there are people, like you, desperate to say its nothing to do with Brexit whatsoever. There's a difference.

Nice one - like many on here I watch Strictly with my daughters who love it but like you say there is plenty for the Dads as well. Kai was friends with my brother's daughter when they were kids so we'd known about him for a while - he was on Britain's Got Talent a few years back as well. On first outing he could be nicely on track - and if he wins it he will have achieved more than his dad did in his profession. COYK

We were never, ever, ever going to let Ings run his contract down. Whether he went to Spurs for £20m on deadline day or to Villa as he did, he was going. It's about manageable financial risk - the fact is there are plenty of football clubs that have not been relegated without Danny Ings in the team so not unreasonable to think we can plan to mitigate that through replacements, re-investing. But letting Ings just run his contract down and leave for no return is a significant financial risk with really only one mitigation: sell him. So dont bother with the "well, the cost relegation is much higher than Ings staying blah blah blah" stuff. So what. He was always always always going.

I always find this line of argument incredibly tiresome. It's basically exactly the same argument you could use to not have sacked Mark Hughes in the first place. Hasenhuttl wasn't appointed following some poll of the fanbase.

Don't see it at all. As a club we have gone "all-in" with this guy. We will have to be solid bottom 2 or 3 in December for him to get the bullet. And when we do sack him there will still be people on this forum saying he didn't get a fair chance.