CB Fry

This is known as invoking the Alan Ball mechanism. Nothing worked out as I expected because I wasn't as good as I thought I was. So let's pretend I was forced out against my will and honestly I wanted to stay but the horrible club didn't want me no more. Utterly laughable.

This is a pointlessly tiresome but also incredibly c***ish question. You do realise that "underlying health conditions" doesn't actually mean "would have died in Spring 2020 anyway". People are still going to die from standing on a rake, or falling into a stream. This is utterly irrelevant to the topic of a global pandemic of a disease with no vaccine or treatment.

By "hold to account" I obviously mean write posts/ask questions/raise issues on here, we all know this is a football forum after all. But you are writing very concerned posts about the decisions made that impact the poor suffering people of Wales. I was just wondering whether this concern and worry about the Welsh you are showing, and the questioning of political decisions by political leaders in Wales could ever translate to similar posts from you about one of the many other countries around the world. England and the leadership of the whole UK, maybe? Do you think that when this crisis is reviewed in a full public enquiry several years from now, do you think the final report will pinpoint, as the source of the most mistakes, the biggest failures and the most catastrophic decisions, to be Mark Drakeford and Kier Starmer?

Matt Hancock said they would recruit 18,000 by Mid-May. Well mid-May arrived and we've recruited only 1,500. Total, abject failure. Of course, if this was happening in Wales Duckie would be absolutely hopping mad about, I tell you. Hopping mad.

I think its fantastic you are so passionate about political leadership during the time of this pandemic, and you are so frustrated by political leaders and their disgraceful failings on testing and care homes. I agree that all political leaders in this country are responsible for their decisions and must be questioned and challenged on their failings. Mark Drakeford should be brought to account just like all the UK government leaders should be questioned unrelentingly, challenging unrelentingly, and like you, I agree those people need to be totally held to account. You'll definitely be doing that, right?

It's not a crucial point, it's a pretty facile one in the context of what we are speaking about here. The Liverpool vs Chelsea result was a match between top and third placed teams, and resulted in a 2-0 away win for the (slightly) lower placed team. The season finished with Chelsea 2 points behind Liverpool. That result is hardly some freak incident that no one could have ever predicted. Gerrard slipping over is an irrelevance in that context. There is loads of football modelling data, so perfectly possible to get to a set of repeated season simulations that could resolve a season. Being that we are talking about this vs points per game, it's about the least worst option (for any league not planning on playing the games of course)

I would like to think any algorithms have included "Liverpool choke again" to cover maybe 999,995 of the potential outcomes.

It's interesting the talk of points per game when I did think there would be more conversations about a more sophisticated modelling/analysis process to account for easy/difficult run-ins, form and so on. Daniel Finkelstein in The Times who writes about that kind of thing every week (when football existed) suggested that idea but adding on an additional layer where you run the remainder of the season through the model a million times and then see where that ends up. Just a bit more precise than just one metric. With all the opta stats and football nerds about it feels perfectly achievable. Probably wont happen as I suppose the Alan Brazils and Paul Mersons of this world would never get their heads round it. I'd imagine our own MLT would probably struggle.

Was astonishingly good. The telling of the story so far was great, and showed events from only a few weeks ago in completely different light. Great writing and very funny. Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

At least now she's got more room downstairs.

I think we can only conclude that Ducky believes that Thatcher and May did not secure the leadership of the Conservative party because they were the strongest candidates at the time but because the institution of the party decided that those two women deserved the job specifically because of their gender. I look forward to seeing Lord D's absolutely genuine passion for the role of positive discrimination in breaking down the barriers of gender equality coming through in the coming months and years. Fantastic progress.

Jesus wept.

I love things being explained to me by a disciple of, er, The Canary, Novaro, Sqwarkbox and Angry Voice Guy. Have fun in your lickle bubble.

Another crank website. Bless you x x x.

Boris did say "drive as far as you want" for exercise in the House of Commons earlier. Which feels mental at this point. Weekend will be interesting.

You decided to cut out from my post the line where I say that no Wacky Warehouse is going to be open so I am not sure who or what this post is supposed to be for or about. Maybe you could try to butcher this post to make some other counterpoint to something else I haven't said in the first place. Have fun if it makes you happy.

School 5 days a week, 7 weeks from June to nominal end of term = 35 school days, 6 hours a day, 210 hours active contact with other children (let's be conservative and say 60 other children/adultsacross those 210 hours. The adults/children will change a little each day. Wacky Warehouse absolutely no chance of being open during the same time, but in the spirit of the argument, let's say a birthday party but with social distancing applied as well as a school can: 2 hours (1%) 12 children (let's say 90% of them being school friends from the same school), so maybe 2 new children they haven't already been exposed to for hours already. So the party is 2 new children across 2 hours vs 210 hours with 60+ children and adults repeatedly. But you think not doing the Wacky Warehouse is your cure-all contribution. Anyway, no one is putting on a bloody birthday party for a long time so fairly irrelevant. But, Much like the hairdresser/football thing you seem to think the disease only spreads through activity you disapprove of. And repeatedly missing the big picture that once you've decided to do one massive thing (open hairdressers, open schools) the compound impact of doing other, smaller things is jack sh it. Maybe try and learn a little bit of incredibly basic epidemiology.

I don't think he was very clear about whether or not we are still allowed to do the conga round the estate with all of our neighbours, or if that was just a VE day-only thing.

It's the only way they will learn.

This is exactly what is expected.

Well, there were lots of things that could have been considered - a threshold, a regional electoral college, a different question. Who knows. At the end of the day you need to win the election or referendum you've been dealt, and Remain lost. Your hero is a lifelong leaver and got the result everyone knows he wanted so not sure what your point is a why you're addressing it to me. Also not relevant in a Trump thread.

Yes, sounds fair and fine to me - as I said I am no expert. However, Clinton still had to win the election that she was actually in, not the "yeah-but-no the system" one we can all discuss after the fact. But she didn't win, because she couldn't win states that Democrats typically win if they want the White House.

The one who gets the most electoral college votes, I'm afraid. There are states that Clinton should have walked but Trump took. Like Corbyn piling up vanity votes in North London, the absolute vote count is not (and should not) be the only determining factor. There's always a need to balance the votes of less populated areas. I'm no fan if FPTP and I am no expert on the US system but if Clinton couldn't win Michigan then she didn't deserve to win the Presidency - stacking up votes in California and NY just irrelevant.

I do agree that the Premier League really need to drop their demands that the final matches of the season are played in the courtyards of retirement homes. Despicable.

And? That's the whole point of the government's strategy - it's highly infectious so once it goes into a household, everyone in that household is very vulnerable. Do you think Dr Harries was suggesting everyone should pile on a train or a bus to get away from their disease ridden homes?