The Cat

Major contraction in supply of vaccine from 29th March. Just when it's getting to the point where I'd be offered one, looks like I'll be waiting a bit longer now. FFS. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/17/nhs-covid-vaccine-rollout-under-50s-delayed-major-shortage

Here's an article of one sentence paragraphs by our favourite skate journo if anyone can hack scrolling through GCSE standard writing and a load of unrelated ads and pictures. https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/football/portsmouth-fc/portsmouth-face-competition-for-ex-barnsley-boss-daniel-stendel-as-length-of-fratton-deal-becomes-sticking-point-3166681

Apparently it's the guy who got Barnsley promoted while getting slapped by Joey Barton. He then got sacked, ended up at Hearts, got them relegated and was sacked again.

Or he'll go away, have a great time, score a goal or 2 and come back mentally refreshed not having spent 2 weeks with our squad of losers.

I see they are warming up for the match by being 2-0 up against a decent Swansea team. We should win but taking into account our current downward spiral we will probably crumble to an insipid 3-1 defeat.

Interesting read on the decisions made by the PM and government in the early days. There's a few bits that they probably would have preferred not to see the light of day in the article. Somewhat pertinent as well because it's written by Laura Kuenssberg who is often seen as a bit of a government cheerleader. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56361599

Oh well. I just remembered that post, but thought it was a bit more recently when it was obvious DeGrosa wasn't going to happen.

His agent has been seen at their training ground or something. Maybe Pompey will get Karanka. Would be good because he plays dull football and we can easily make up a song which rhymes with his name.

Here you go, this is the post. Although it was in November and says a couple of weeks so is probably nonsense.

Someone from the States popped up on here a while back and posted a couple of cryptic posts like "don't worry it's all going to turn out well." Probably a wind up merchant but who knows?

PSD will be busy this week in the Met sifting through hundreds of hours of BWV footage that's for sure.

He was a complete failure at Schalke. No doubt he'd jump at the chance to come here though!

He just took over Bristol City. The issue with most managers is that anyone currently in a job will mean we can't afford them. I don't think Ralph will leave or that we'll sack him though.

The lure of managing a team in front of the best fans in the world next season will surely be enough to lure Eddie Howe back to his spiritual home.

There are 3 core questions that should be considered before using force to effect an arrest. You could argue they haven't all been reached in this situation, especially shoving a woman around who was trying to pick up her glasses!

We were marginally better in the first half, at least we had some shots. Once Brighton took the lead they sat back and it was up to us to break them down. Sadly we are spectacularly poor at doing that.

Don't we do zonal marking? If so then Dunk runs towards Bertrand's zone and the corner kick taker aims for him. As long as the corner is accurate then he's got a relatively unchallenged header.

That is 100% correct. There was one in the statue protests where some guy got nicked but he'd been acting up for ages before trying to provoke the police so his mates could film it and make it look like the arrest was completely out of order.

They have about 4 times more cases a day than we do, although obviously their country is vast so I think some areas are under heavier restrictions while others have practically none.

512k vaccines yesterday which is the 4th highest day so far. Shows that supply must be fully back in place now. I expect they'll be ramping this up even more in the next couple of weeks which is great news.

The consequences of their actions though should not include being wrestled to the floor and handcuffed, that is in no way proportionate to the rules they were breaking. It was poorly handled. That much is obvious.

I don't think we had any shots after Adams missed and then the free kick was deflected wide. That was at least 25 minutes before the end of the game.

Nice of us to start actually attacking as soon as the clock hit 90 minutes.

None of the subs have done anything. Armstrong has looked tired, been far below his normal standard. Tella and Minamino faded terribly. Midfield totally outplayed in the second half once they changed system. Not sure we did anything to counter that?

Have we had a shot since the free kick after Adams' miss?