CB Fry

It's all there on a blog by John Redwood.

https://thesecretbarrister.com/2016/10/14/10-myths-busted-about-the-ched-evans-case/ An excellent read taking on the social media nutcases from both sides of the debate.

There are literally hundreds of these on Twitter from foaming mouth Chedettes. Ched Evans. Truly the Rosa Parks of our era.

We've got enough to beat Burnley there.

I think you're out of your depth here on this topic. Let's all assume you really don't know what you're on about and leave it at that.

In fairness it might be not be directly to do with Brexit in itself. It's not common but it's not so rare in the world of FMCG/Grocery negotiations for big branded players to withdraw supply at one of the grocers leading to empty shelves, especially when one is pushing through a price rise or the other is pushing through some change in terms. Occasionally threats are actually actioned. Certainly happened in both of the big old branded businesses I've been at from time to time. This one is interesting because of the sheer size of the range involved but also because Tesco CEO is ex-Unilever.

We don't need to play a weakened team against Burnley. We can still play a full strength team in Milan. It's MCFC away where we should be "utilising the squad". And a direct flight to a major European city a couple/three hours away is not comparable to a trek to Isreal.

Clearly I've mixed up my diminutive South-western Europeans.

Cedric has to be a contender based on that picture of him with the little dog.

We can rest assured all this inconvenient information will be written out if the history of the club.

Yeah, brilliant. There's this: http://www.factcheck.org/2016/06/clintons-1975-rape-case/ but not as much fun as the dinlow version probably rattling around on Facebook, probably written in white text over a photo of her laughing. She's, like, virtually a paedo innit. I look forward to your new found objection to accused sexual criminals having a case assembled by a defence lawyer coming up next time the Ched Evans up for debate on here.

Maybe this is the actual final straw. Arnie and Condi Rice and McCain have come out against him today. Why Rice didn't stand I don't know, I'd think she would annihilate Clinton who is an appalling candidate. Just seems to be a culmination of things - not convinced this particular incident in itself is worse that the stuff he said about Megyn Kelly actually on the record. And that was months ago. Any fool could see he was like this anyway. They've found some archive tape of him behaving like you would expect him to behave. It's odd that this might be the actual thing that brings him down. Anyway, be great to see him humiliated but he'll only be on Fox news every night spouting sh it for the next decade so he's hardly going to go quietly.

Actually I think it's a nothing story. Any Trump supporter (or even floating voter) already thinks that Bill Clinton has done worse and by extension said worse, just not on tape. When I saw the headlines I thought he'd said it recently but this was 12 years ago.

Well, it is not true. Therefore it's a... (presses "Would I Lie To You" button)...LIE.

Didn't he get to final of that ITV sports endurance program last year? Can't remember the name of it, James Cracknell and Gail Emms were on it as well.

So blathering on about completely irrelevant housing analogies isn't deflection and changing the subject but me talking very specifically about net transfer spend is deflection and changing the subject. Absolute spend on the team you put out on the pitch is the only metric worth a candle. Everything else is irrelevant. And who said anything about zero wages? That seems to be a different subject you have changed to - almost a deflection in other words. Exceptional, exceptional stuff. Do another house example. It's so on-topic.

What about a team of 11 £100k players with no sales ever - that's £1.1m pure net spend - BRILLIANT! versus a team of 11 £1m players who sold one player for £11m - that's zero net spend - DISASTER! Which one of those would you back to escape from the Championship, and which one might struggle in League One?

Why on earth would we be buying Tadic if we have Chamberlain, Walcott, Bale, Lallana and Mane in the squad already? Ditto Hojberg, ditto Romeu, ditto Betrand, ditto Mane (why on earth did Club A sign Mane?) even Ditto VVD who we wouldn't have bought and wouldn't have signed to be back up to Lovren and Fonte. So well done but just a nonsense comparison based on things that don't actually happen in the real world. If you're putting out a team on the pitch at a higher value versus other teams, your chances are success are higher. What you may or may not have got in for transfer fees for players that are not stepping out on that pitch is a total irrelevence. It gets dins on forums excited though. Sunderland have built net spend on net spend on net spend on net spend on net spend for five (last time I looked, now probably six) years running so they must be, like, tons better year on year on year, right?

Not. A. Relevant. Metric.

Except it's more than is spent by more than half of the division, so it's not chicken feed, is it?

He'll go to Palace, as long as there's a coffee in it for the manager.

We're lumbered with Gardos who is currently just squad filler - he may turn out to be the long term replacement for Fonte (or if VVD does leave next summer) but seems very unlikely now. As it stands our first choice back 4 is top drawer but any major injury to either JF or VVD and we can kiss consecutive clean sheets goodbye. We need one more proper centre back. Maybe we will get one in January, like we acted early up front with Austin earlier this year.

Still believe what?

I wish they wouldn't do it in number order. Unnecessary momentary "who's playing up front?? Fu#*! Oh. Yeah. Fine." syndrome.

It worked on Thursday, mission accomplished as I said at the time but personally still feels deflating to deprioritise a tournament we tried so hard to win, to such an extent that the captain doesn't even travel. A defeat today is hardly going to define our season irrevocably, even a win won't but it would be nice of course.