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Le Saux, who I've not heard commentate for a while.

Nope. That new people coming in at a junior level, of any gender may be getting paid less than senior colleagues, of any gender. 🙂

🙂 I was meaning the rights were cheaper. Mind you, if there's a large influx of female presenters, they would presumably be earning less than their senior, and more male colleagues, creating just such a gender pay gap. Fast tracking will be underway.

While generally incompetent, the SNP made sure with their phrasing, that Labour would face internal turmoil. With them losing ground to Labour at home, this was a way of attacking them while claiming moral high ground. That was the avenue they went down, regardless of their genuine concern on Gaza. Labour seem to have put pressure on the speaker with a two pronged threat of ousting him (last night, that came from a labour source to the BBC) along with getting him to justify it by saying it was to bring in a wider view, with concerns over safety. Which, backfired as doing that completely undermines all of them. The SNP, while rightly miffed about having their day usurped, could still have voted with Labour, which did contain immediate and ceasefire in there. They chose not to do that. Right to be incensed at the change in protocol. But taking their eye off what they were there to actually do, regarding Gaza. SNP, one of whom had to have ceasefire explained to them, had their day spoiled. Both SNP and Conservatives didn't get to see Labour squirm. Labour minutes away from a bit of a disaster, said one source. But now seen to be bullying and threatening the speaker. Parliament seen as a joke. Meanwhile, out in the real world, wars continue and decisions are made on the future of the region.

John

Up to us if we want to accept it. I guess, if we don't go up the pennies will be handy.

As soon as I started reading it, I was wondering about the implications for abortion. Which it went onto cover. "The wrongful death law applied to "all unborn children, regardless of their location", the decision said. Concurring with the majority opinion, Chief Justice Tom Parker wrote: "Even before birth, all human beings have the image of God, and their lives cannot be destroyed without effacing his glory." The bit in bold stood out, and prompted me to go back to the top, where I'd missed "Alabama" first time. It also explains why the pics of my scans show me with a beard, robe and sandals. 🙂

He's a poor lamb. It's a conspiracy to get more women's voices on the commentary, doing him out a job. But that's all part of a bigger plan to then remove the women's voices on commentary to put on more ads, doing him out a job again. A double conspiracy, depriving him of a livelihood. A living that he'd be sure of getting...assuming people overlooked him being a bellend. As mentioned above, there's already as little half time chat as possible, to fit more ads in. Ad revenue is even more sought after than ever. No conspiracy. They just want to make more money. It'll help to offset the cost of the rights for a start. I imagine the Beeb can't believe their luck at the popularity of women's football. Lower cost rights; accessible players who interview well; Ticking as many diversity boxes as they've got; opportunities for lots of female pundits and commentators, who they will then mix across other platforms. No conspiracy there either. Cheaper, popular, diverse. Also allows them to make a lot more pace after decades of sexism too. Other broadcasters will be following the same route. The number of diverse appointments in recent times to offset what was there before has been covered elsewhere. And always good to be wary of the folk LD points out. Good times for the shirt sponsors too. Making the most of their investment by having lots of WSL coverage. I enjoy watching women's football. I'm as likely to watch a WSL game as a Premier League game, since we're not in it. I've learned which links are for men's and women's on the BBC site, and ignore the worst of the bandwagon jumping idiots, which everything has. I quite like having the extra coverage. I don't mind female commentators, in that there's just as much range of quality, so overall just as annoying, as the male ones. I generally avoid as much as I can. Would Barton do a better job than some of the commentators of either gender*? Maybe to probably. Are any of them toxic village idiots? Not that I know of. Which is why he's moaning on tiktok. *other genders may, or may not be, available.

Obtuse

I shall miss your user name, when you change it. 🙂

Explosive

Actually, on the inside back cover Dante jotted. "Of course, all of that lot is nothing to being chained in Fratton Park, with a season ticket."

When the Conservatives get booted out, and are about to turn on each other (well, turn on each other even more), perhaps someone will call a halt, and wheel out a swivel-eyed Truss. As they listen to her deranged plans to activate her orbital , Trump branded, laser to eradicate The Left, and install her own New World PopCons, maybe they will pull back from the brink. But they won't, and will spend extra years in the wilderness, unable to jettison their ideological extremes, consumed in their own power struggles, oblivious to the people they're supposed to serve.

Well, there goes the money for some therapy. The dawning horror in that one as you could feel the momentum shift....

Is this connected with Liz Truss' cheese obsession? I guess he took those glasses of milk from waifs and orphans on the way into the studio.

A lesson to us all, Mr Martin. 🙂 I vent on here. By the time I'm a couple of words in, that perspective has kicked in and shapes the posts.

Well we ent on a great unbeaten run. A run we needed to go on, just to make upthe lost ground and keep pace with 3 other clubs. Although we're light in the striker and fensive midifelder positions, we know we've got a strong team, with good support from the bench. Martin decided to pick a team that emphasised the weaknesses in our squad. Agianst a team who were sharper, quicker, with more pace and urgency than anything we could produce. Smallbone and Rothwell were never going to control the midfield. Manning was a weak link in both supporting the midfield and certainly in defence. Mara was a passenger up front. Edozie reverted to the poor decision making that saw him eased out of the team a while back. Neither AA or the more forward placed Stu could keep us in it. KWP was left to try some solo runs. We were poor across the team for the first, which epitomised the lack of tempo, aggression and control we'd ben showing. The second was a sloppy implementation of MartinBall. Bieng kind, you could argue that we'd not offered decent passes all evening. But Rothwell had other options and ran into trouble anyway. We offered none of the positives from MartinBall. And September and some recent games have shown us what happens when we don't have those positives. It took until very late in the game for us to have any kind of control or urgency. Notably, Hull dropped back after a few end to end exchanges, and certainly when we got one back. It's disapointing that the manager has slipped back into some of the issues that gave us September's form. He's not helping himself by not picking a team capable of carrying out his plans. Hopefully, that will be the last of that.

Aribo just not on the same wavelength as KWP there.

6 mins! COYR!

Some good blocking. Manning failed a bit there, thinking Aribo was going to make the tackle.

Nice move with Fraser, Brooks, Adams and Aribo. Imagine, our experienced attackers get a goal, Mr Martin.

Ariiiboooooooo!

Aribo had to stab his foot out to make contact with Manning's cutback. Nothing wrong with the pass, and our players should be prepared to run onto those sorts of passes.

Nice passage of play this. Both from Hull and ourselves. End to end with some excellent passing.

I never quite got why ROthwell went into the eleven so quickly. From all the huffing and puffing he was doing just to keep up with our fitness, to the systems he would supposedly have to learn that Martin got all the others doing. Martin rally eased Fraser and later Aribo into the team. All very gradual. Rothwell, while showing good attacking skill, seemed to be an instant favourite.