Holmes_and_Watson

Surgical

It's only fitting that he rejoins us in episode 6, and takes us to promotion. Age is nothing when you have that talent. 🙂

That's not your channel?! Oh great, I'm now a premium member of Only Cats (which I'd have thought would be you as well.)

Thanks for posting that. This is a thread I think of often on game days.

Football management opportunities https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68584776 Delroy Corinaldi, of the Black Footballers Partnership, was on 5 Live earlier. Diplomatically avoiding a "is football racist?" question, he and others, are looking to any new regulator to take action on the issue. The link highlights a call for include diversity and inclusivity objectives in the Football Governance Bill announced today. From the article "report by three academics looked at off-the-pitch careers of about 3,500 former footballers who played in the Premier League or Championship between 1990 and 2010. It found that despite black players making up 25% of Uefa-issued coaching qualifications, in 2022 and 2023, they only accounted for 4% of all managerial roles."

Pool

Endless

Yup. I was completely comforted by "The SMMT said: "Wherever the UK automotive industry exports, it is committed to compliance with all trade and economic sanctions, and continues to work closely with government and the new Office For Sanctions to ensure the effective implementation of the regulations." And they are complying with the sanctions lists, as they stand. That you can drive a shiny new car through them, doesn't seem to be a concern. Strangely, they aren't at all keen to investigae if any of the technology could be dual use (Azerbaijan has some military trade sanctions on it), or to track either the vehicles or the funds across borders into Russia. Just one of the number of examples where you think you're on the same side looking to end a conflict, only to find that a number of folk on your own side are only interested in lining their pockets.

I just caught Dune as it left my local cinema. It's been a long time since I read any of the books. I had caught a few comments somewhere being a bit sniffy towards the Lynch version. Which I thought a bit unfair. I felt that, despite the increased running time, that the fall of the Attreides, specifically the lead up to it, was rushed in the first one, and that, very much like the 80s one, that a lot was crammed into the ending of this one. Knowing how things would roughly go, I found that Rebecca Ferguson's arc was the interesting one, and that she gave a lot of weight to the film. But it's really good to see it this sort of running time, with this sort of budget. The extra space allows for a lot of the complexity running through it to come out.

I was sure that this was the time he'd lose, so I bet on the opponents. I was telling the officers who have just arrived to take me to my torture in a detention cell, that I just didn't think he could stay so popular.

That's a bit harsh on the data analysts, updating the coaching team as the games progress. 🙂

Fernandes gets the ball pinched from him, and concedes a goal. He goes on a hissy fit about it, according to the readio. Sounds familiar from somewhere...

Imagine everyone on X and all the others, with a direct line to a police force, who have commited to look into every one of their complaints, about topics and people they don't like. Introduce this legislation in the heart of a country run by incompetent/crooked troughers determined to push an agenda held by a few at the centre, and their political partners, who prop up the party in power with their minority vote. Don't forget to remove one side of one of the key arguments from protected status while protecting the other. Don't forget to renege on promises from the first minister to engage with one side, while stacking advisory groups entirely with those on the opposing side. Those enforcing it have seen a PowerPoint presentation, and about the only chance of the data not being held and used against citizens later on, is if the police servers melt under the volume of malicious complaints. The Police Scotland video talks about a focus on "night time economy." But it says online abuse counts, and it can actually be anywhere. Ibrox and Parkhead will resound with shouts of abuse, followed by the tapping of furious hate crime reporting. Post counts of online groups will fluctuate from highs of horror, outrage and abuse to lows when all sides are having to help the poor husks that remain policing the country with their enquiries. But this is about more than that. It's even beyond the front lines of sex and gender. It's about free speech across a number of areas, and the consequences of expressing it.

I can read it on this device. Not that you're missing much, by not seeing the rest. The Scottish Express pretty much likes to get its focused hatred of the SNP out in the first couple of paragraphs. Not that it's inaccurate, just a little pathological about it. Here's the Beeb's take on it. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-68570614 Just after the odd opening paragraph about the cartoon character fronting the campaign (Not Yousaf. A different cartoon character). In passing, the Beeb have changed the pic on the article since yesterday. It originally showed some rather angry trans activists. Now it's a default rainbow themed pic. No doubt complaints were received there, resulting in the change.

From April 1st, people expressing any number of views on this in Scotland will have opponents waiting to file hate crime reports. Investigations are not going to be back dated to the date of it passing, only from the date of enforcement. Police have said they will investigate every one of them, even as they are unable to investigate other crimes as it is. https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/scottish-news/police-scotland-say-trans-activists-32355651 Fortunately, we live in a reasonable world where common sense prevails. Oh....

Ned

Oh, my God! They sacked Kenny!", "You bastards!

A squad with Baz and Smallbone! I appreciate they don't get as much time with the players, but the foundation of International MartinBall is right there. 🙂

Meltdown in The Pink 🙂

Rio

I wasn't paying attention to everything from the club before preseason, but I got the early impression that the club were already prepared to spend more than a season in the Championship. For much of the reasons above. The way it ended, the new manager and style, the need to ship out lots of players, yet rebuild. I heard things like project, and later promotion, but not with an expected timescale of this season. We started decently, I thought. A fair bit of settling into the system, but with a decent quality gap over our opposition. JWP working well with Smallbone, and Tella offering a direct alternative to the other flank. I didn't realise how much the balance was thrown out by their departure until that run in September. I was a little surprised at Leeds coming back from losing so many of their squad. It was only later I saw how many Leicester had lost.

Girls

"It said the 62-year-old had died from a "self-inflicted" wound on 9 March and police were investigating." The coroner seems sure it was self inflicted, saving police time in that investigation from having to look for time consuming things, such as other parties being involved. Case closed. 🙂

And their manager doesn't follow the Nathan school of management, where that would be tougher. Always nice to see Munich not win it, just for a change.