AlexLaw76

Lets put a cheeky bid I'm for Broja. Knowing their issue, offer to pay for their Megabus to their next away game, as a form of transfer fee. Seems fair

Mid 90's wasnt it???? Wimbledon were 2-0 at one point, I am sure?

Exactly, we could easily be rendered pretty ineffective over a single weekend against them. That not to say we have crap kit, far from it. We just have embarrassingly little of it, and such few people to operate it. Throw in Russias apparent tolerance for loss of life compared to ours..... That is a reflection on what used to be a pretty powerful UK armed force, not of those currently serving.

Trying to change the narrative?

Not another game, but seen this clip for the first time. Made me chuckle

How long before we see pictures of £2 a ltr of fuel?

Happy "Person with a Cervix" day

As reported this morning that Germany and another will oppose EU entry for Ukraine. Probably same for NATO, although not reported as such (yet)

I think it is wonderful that the progress made in woman's rights, that the best US female swimmer has a penis.

This lunatic was right about 1 thing...

Worldy

Everton a f-ing terrible

It's tragic, but guess it is what nuclear powers do.

I am not taking at face value, just asking what should happen if the offer was worth its salt.

Russia have apparently set their conditions for them to stop; Crimea to become Russian 2 X disputed areas to become independent Ukraine mist agree to never join NATO, or such an alliance Take that statement on face value, what should happen now? Despite the news feeds and Twitter updates, Russia is destroying the country. They have not yet got to a level as they did in Syria, and this has the potential to spill beyond Ukraine - which no one has an appetite for. Ultimately, Ukraine is being destroyed, Russia can pummel the Eastern part of Ukriane from Russia itself....

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Not sure I have said we would be wiped out? If that was implied, not my intention. However, we could easily be made pretty ineffective quite quickly, with what are relative minimal losses. Anyway, none of which will happen as we are not (yet) rolling the dice. Im sure of the projected attrition was palatable, we would have closed down the airspace by now, as we do everywhere else.

Don't tell me, tell the western world. It is our leaders stopping short of it all. Given how small our armed forces have become, would take very little interns of losses to make us pretty ineffective in combat.

Totally agree. worth noting that France include the Gendarme in their head-count. Unsure about the others, but I believe we include pensions in our 'Defence spend'. We do have superior 'kit' compared to nearly everyone else, but just so few in numbers as it is extremely expensive (hence my point about suffering a bad weekend at and we could offer nothing of note militarily as a result) - direct result of decades of continued slashing of our uniformed members of the MoD. I mean, the RN is about to retire its only S-S anti-ship missile, and there will likely be a gap before a new one is brought in, despite what we read in the news snippets - WTF! That is my point, if we lose a tiny amount, it will really degrades us. That is the UK being the 2nd biggest actor in NATO. We are so used to fighting people who fire at us from the back of a Toyota Hilux, whist we have complete uncontested control of the skies. Hopefully, this big wake up call for Europe's attitude to Defence spending sticks! I hope our Defence Budget is permanently increased to 3% (at least) and we increase numbers in all parts of the pointy end of the MoD.

We lose 10 a/c, or 25 tanks, or 2 warships, or 1500 troops, and we significantly degrade what we can/cannot do. That could happen over a weekend if we were to go for it against Russia. Given we are the 2nd biggest actor in NATO, where do you think a bulk of the fighting force (from a single nation) will come from, even if a relatively small amount? As said, thankfully the leaders in the West have zero appetite to go-in. They could not help themselves fast enough in other areas of the world (and still can't in some cases)

It seems Spurs are the most hated club in London - No smoke without fire

Surely they have no chance, right? Howe is apparently an appalling manager, and has no chance against the mighty saints Right?

Then why are we not putting in place the NATO tried and tested No-Fly-Zone? Surely, if it is cut and dry, we could do this now. I know you will say it will prohibit Ukraine taking to the skies and Russia are are using mostly long range S-S engagement. But the UKR President is literally begging NATO to do it. So why not if Russia are 'fucked', as we know it will likely escalate into a war of sorts.