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With tactics beamed to his brain by aliens, MLT returns to football. "It's so left field, it's out of this world," grinned Rasmus at the press conference.

So important to look at the underlying data. That's what separates the historic teams from the rudderless, knee jerk ones where it looks as though they can't get anything right.

Optimist.

Two poster meltdowns in as many games.

Tsk. That could have been 1504 passes, had the players not wasted a pass by shooting.

A EFL pod mentioned that Robins was much more of a manager than a coach. That he worked well with his assistant, who was as key to the success. That assistant left during the summer, along with some other backroom staff.

That's tough on you, having pals that just don't understand football. Some folk just don't get it and obsessed about points and shots on target.

Lots of possession following another very early conceded goal. We did have an effort offside from a VAR review. Stung, we knuckled down and responded by ... not laying a glove on them. Plenty of possession, with nothing at the end of it. Some of our passing looks nice, but that's mostly just to get it clear from our own third, from where it breaks down. Along with the possession and the VAR, Martin will think that Archer got fouled for the second. Following that, Wolves had a spell where they pressed our defence. We folded under that pressure. So much for our ability to use the gaps to generate our own attacks. Wolves were much closer to a third than we were to getting a goal back. Martin brought on in teasingly attacking subs. More by rote than with any real plans of what to do with them. We've picked up a couple of worst ever records today for club and league. Sadly, you can see why.

5live folk talking about how Brentford changed tactics as their goal was to stay in the league. They're saying Martin has to do the same. So, clearly aren't aware of his outlook. They pointed out that for all the possession against Everton, we had around .74xg.

For me, the following stood out. 'Independent Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who lost the 2016 Democratic presidential primary to Hillary Clinton and the 2020 primary to Biden, said in a statement it was "no great surprise" that working class voters abandoned the party. "First, it was the white working class, and now it is Latino and black workers as well. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change," he said. "And they're right."' Trump chipped away at a lot of demographics. Harris' camp can look at what they think they didn't do enough of, or did too much of. But when you have classes of people abandoning your party, and you seem to have no plan for change or care much about keeping them, then you're going to lose those votes.

Taking a peek at Florida, the Republican votes exceeded the Democrats at every level of education, except the highest which was equal. Which best describes your education? You have: Never attended college (15%) D 34% R 64% Attended college but received no degree (29%) D 42% R 55% Associate's degree (AA or AS) (19%) D 45% R 54% Bachelor's degree (BA or BS) (21%) D 45% R 54% An advanced degree after a bachelor's degree (such as JD, MA, MBA, MD, PhD) (15%) D 49% R 49%

Excellent. Well done to them. Shame it's an outgoing coach, but gives them a chance to impress.

I heard that Trump felt that someone with an inability to accept legal results, racism, trivialising sexual assault on minors, faking racially motivated incidents, antisemitism and obsessions with nazi accessorising and far right individuals, was too extreme for him.

Absolutely. I was giving one example, but there are plenty of differences you'd expect from different political history there. His non traditional approach, coupled with the folks pulling his strings early on, have given both parties a chance to redefine themselves ahead of the next election. Hopefully one of both realise that there's a winning number of votes in not alienating masses of the electorate.

Couldn't agree with him more.

Thanks Hypo. Sums up a lot of my thoughts. While working class would be left here, Trump has connected with a lot of that base. The Democrats have gone out of their way to not only not engage, but to alienate and demonise them. Their left is left with progressive policies, that aren't as important as the economy to many. Both sides were as bad as each other on this prior to Trump. It's taken someone like that to get the votes of people who were alienated by both sides. That should have set off massive alarm bells last time round. But they didn't learn a thing at the top levels or in the media. I quite enjoyed watching them go through the same lesson last night. That lack of comprehension dawning on them again. "But...but...it can't be us" despite having no empathy for anyone on the other side and adjusting their policies to get votes. Electoral college, popular vote, looks like senate and house to be decided gives him a strong mandate. The Republicans have a lot of work to do in order to take advantage of Trump's presence, for when he's not there. Labour, through ambassador, look to have been building bridges away from their schoolboy sniping when they were in opposition. That's going to be put to the test.

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Not 40% but 41%! You're not fooling anyone Midfield General...or should I say... >tears off mask< Alpi...oh... it wasn't a mask... um... does anyone have a stapler...and a medic... definitely a medic...

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Nothing says equality more than that. 🙂

Which sporting event did you qualify for? 🙂

It's the excitement of looking forward to more successful RussBall.

Not crosses as such, but Bree was bought, in part, for his ability to play the ball from deep, to release players like TP. Very different from Martin's set up. THB seems more likely to do well from corners, these days. Maybe there's some improvement?

Beeb breakdown on the areas that could see each candidate over the line. Eyewateringly expensive https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj0jq134y91o