CB Fry

Getting fed up with the journalists asking the same questions over and over again in these pressconferences. And not in a "persistantly holding the government to account" way, but in a "I don't really understand this topic" kind of way.

Did Barry Venison have long locks for us? He certainly had "roles" as a midfielder and full back.

Woah. I'm just pleased I've achieved something today.

Belmadi?

So a meaningless phrase, then. Thanks.

You've made reference to "lockdown lite" so what is it you think we should have done?

I'm not sure who has said the pubs will be open in June, that doesn't feel particularly likely to me. Germany haven't got where they have with a stricter lockdown than us. They had a better plan and a much bigger and better diagnostics and testing industry in their own country. This utter horsesh it fantasising about everyone being on house arrest is totally counterproductive and utterly hysterical. We aren't going to get cases down to zero and we'd be mad to try.

No they don't and they will not be tightened any further. It's going to be hard enough to keep things at this level for another two weeks or so. The government are planning the next stages and they don't involve tightening anything up. They will involve more testing/track-and-trace and isolation alongside a phased return by business type/personal risk. Collectively there will be a readiness to start opening up, and there will be a collective wariness in the population which, alongside some clear guidelines, should allow life to move back to something closer to normality.

That's just the kind of thing a Nazi would say.

In the next few weeks plenty of businesses will reopen, including things like hairdressers. So the policies are obviously about to change. Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

Well, we'll see. I find it highly implausible that no professional football will be played anywhere until we have a vaccine some time in 2021. Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

But we are not 18 months away from a professional football match being played. You could put on a televised Premier League match with fewer people than are in a branch of Asda this morning. Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

Trump has said he didn't really say that stuff about disinfectant he was just being sarcastic to make a joke at journalists. Luckily for him, useful idiot worshippers like our Guided Missile will lap it up without question. Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

I'm more of a Dame Angela McLean man. Ding dong. #pressconferencehotties

This thread is in desperate need of Guided Missile to turn up with a long post replete with links and quotes on a totally unconnected subject, say China or the WHO or someone who once met Hillary Clinton. For gods sake someone give us a diversion to allow him to pretend that Trump isn't a dangerous, lying idiot. Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

I said to the missus when it was announced yesterday at the press conference that "that system will crash by 9am tomorrow". All too predictable Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

Think you're correct, and maybe this roll out of testing is politically motivated more than actually being massively useful at this point in the journey. Really we should be testing everyone that works in every care home regardless of symptoms as part of a track, isolate and trace plan. Might actually save lives in a very immediate way. Not self selecting those with symptoms. Either way, the actually useful test is the "have you had it/are you immune" which allows people to get back to work with confidence. Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

Slightly annoying that the BBC and others are still parrotting the line that it is a "demand" issue. When there are only a handful of sites for the entire country to go and get a test I would call that supply issue. It's not just the testing kits that one needs to supply, it's the facility to administer them. So an availability issue, a logistics issue, in summary issues on the supply side. Sorry just ranting at the sloppy journalism on TV this morning. Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

Red and Gold? Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

Hojberg is basically Glenn Cockerill without the goals. Think how Morgan flopped after his big move, and he was universally admired and infinitely better than Pierre. I'm sure he will be sold, they all are, but I can't see him doing anything at Spurs or Arsenal or (more likely) Everton or Leicester. Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

The government ones or the one about how McCain chips/Vodafone/the Co-Op/every flipping corporate you can think of are all on your side during this difficult time? If it's the second one I agree. But you have to marvel at the resilience of the UK marketing industry. Capitalism always wins through. Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

Today as in announced today as has been the pattern every day for the last four weeks of press conferences. Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

Another 759 dead in hospital today. Urgh. The move away from the peak is going to be a long old schlep. The notion that "20,000 dead would be a good result" is looking way off now. Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

https://fullfact.org/online/evidence-network-fake-nhs-tweets/ Full fact have investigated the sock-puppet Twitter account thing. No evidence seen or provided, the guy who started it won't share anything with them. No information on the 127 accounts, no information on the "marketing agency" involved. And on top of that the guy has made false claims before. Nothing to see here except a fantasist crank making up stories because Tories are evil or something. Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk

Don't think it's the government for a minute - the "NHS Susan" account (which is the only one identified despite claims of something like 127 accounts) reads like a wind-up/parody account. I don't think the government are using sock puppet Twitter accounts to stop the 8pm Thursday clapping sessions to be honest, which was one of "Susan's" messages. And the whistle-blower is a conspiracy theory nut-job rather than an actual journalist. However, the general issue is all of this stuff is tiresome noise and agree this is not conducive to effective democracy.