CB Fry

God thought of everything, didn't he?

"You did not answer the question to a conclusion on Noah's Ark". SaintsWeb in lockdown May 2020.

Absolutely. I am happy to make it crystal clear that I'm not defending Coogan either. But it is nice to learn that Duckhunter and Guided Missile believe that millionaires furloughing the personal staff is a terrible, disgraceful thing for people to do. I look on with interest in seeing which other rich people they single out for criticism.

Suck it up snowflake x x x x x x

We all know that The Sun, Guido Fawkes and you remain absolutely passionate supporters of the free market right to hack the mobile phones of murdered teenagers so not a huge surprise that you are lining up with them to berate Steve Coogan for something that every single millionaire in the country has also done.

For the first time in my life I can genuinely say "I wish we were Everton". Would absolutely love a Hummel kit.

Starting to think I might get a call up to speak for the government at the Downing Street press conference one day soon. I'm a white man in his 40s and I'm not the Home Secretary so I feel I'm in with decent chance.

The press conference was slightly more interesting today. Today's boffin Angela McClean (who always comes across well anyway) was in absolutely no mood to be seen as a government lackey. She pointedly said that the early testing decisions were driven by capacity, that the schools reopening should happen when there is adequate test-and-trace in place, not on some arbitrary deadline. She made it very clear that any balls-ups on the execution of the field testing was an operational not scientific issue. Lastly was full of praise for South Korea and the Germans, rather than the usual woolly "well, we can't really compare with others etc etc". There's been a bit of nitpicking of the scientists recently (yesterday's slip about February dates being a good example) and it felt today that the scientists are going to show a little more than just social distance between them and the ministers from now on.

Jesus wept.

And the Premier League results are in. Tests: 768 Positive for Covid: 6 Clubs impacted: 3

But he hasn't got the balls to actually confront them directly. Absolutely crystal clear.

It's interesting you think the WHO are so supremely powerful that it would take "balls of steel" for the leader of one the world's greatest economies to confront them. Bizarre.

I saw some of those reports. In summary "I can't believe that all these other people came to the same place that we all decided to go to".

But Guided Missile wants what Norway have, which is Schengen, EEA, EFTA. If that's not BRINO I don't know what is. Still at least we would have sovereign-ly decided to do a sovereign thing as a sovereign state and everything.

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.