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Excellent resource. Congrats. First player profile I checked was Ron Davies.

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I've been there. Lovely place--one of my favourite Greek islands.

The best album I've bought this past year is "Johann Sebastian Bach" by the Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson. It's a collection of solo piano pieces. Brilliant. If you like solo piano classical music, this is an album you'd love. Highly recommended. The album includes this set of variations--Aria variata (alla maniera italiana) in A Minor, BWV 989. Here's a live performance of it:

John Prine died today aged 73. He was a great American singer-songwriter, who emerged on the music scene in the early 1970s. He was one of those songwriters who were much admired and covered. Favourite songs of mine: "Sam Stone", "Paradise", "Angel from Montgomery", "Dear Abby", and "Hello in There". Another victim of Covid-19. So sad.

A poem by Donald Trump [actually it's verbatim from a speech of his last December] I never understood wind. You know, I know windmills very much. I have studied it better than anybody else. It’s very expensive. They are made in China and Germany mostly. —Very few made here, almost none, but they are manufactured, tremendous —if you are into this— tremendous fumes. Gases are spewing into the atmosphere. You know we have a world right? So the world is tiny compared to the universe. So tremendous, tremendous amount of fumes and everything. You talk about the carbon footprint — fumes are spewing into the air. Right? Spewing. Whether it’s in China, Germany, it’s going into the air. It’s our air their air everything — right? A windmill will kill many bald eagles. After a certain number they make you turn the windmill off. That is true. —By the way they make you turn it off. And yet, if you killed one they put you in jail. That is OK. You want to see a bird graveyard? You just go. Take a look. A bird graveyard. Go under a windmill someday, you’ll see more birds than you’ve ever seen in your life. ~ D. Trump 12/21/2019

Current: You need players willing to get stuck in (Romeu), with non-stop effort (Ward-Prowse), and who are able to put the ball in the net (Ings). All time: So many to choose from! Svensson, Paine, Lambert

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COYS!

I'm elated. Superb effort for the entire ninety minutes. Total team performance. Great work from Bertrand, Stephens, Redmond, Ward-Prowse, and Armstrong. Hope to see this continue.

Club website has announced a ten-man team!

I'd play either Ward or Prowse, but not both.

The word for this concept is contemporaneous.

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and Happy Holidays! All the best to everyone, from southern Ontario. Have a good day! COYS!

Excellent effort from the entire team. Looked good in that 4-4-2 formation. We seem to have a more settled team now.

"It's a game of two halves."

Really? To me we look like a team with a hell of a lot more confidence, and showing so much more effort, than a few weeks ago. Luck seems to be with us, at the moment. m

That's harsh. It's all relative, I suppose.

Well, he is a liability in defending but he put a number of excellent crosses into the box today.

A great effort from the entire team. Notably improved performances from Cedric, Hojbjerg, and Redmond. Fantastic running up front from Ings and Long, who lead from the front. Impressive high pressing from the team in the first half. All the other results went our way. Things look a lot better this evening!

Yes, but things seem to happen, when he gets on the pitch, and he creates goal-scoring opportunities. The only problem, as you point out, is his inability to get the ball in the net. It's a conundrum.

In his post-match interview, Ralph said, tellingly, that "it is important for us that [Ward-Prowse] is always there for such moments." For free-kicks near the edge of the area, that is. Expect to see him virtually every game.

Ward-Prowse takes excellent corners. And he does so consistently. You say his corners "hardly ever beat the first man". That is complete nonsense. You're confusing him with Paul Telfer.

That was an excellent effort all round. We played up high, rather than sitting deep. We showed initiative and pace going forward--with some impressive breakaways. The team was much better set up today. Only major drawback was failing to score from several sitters. We should have won that by at least a couple of goals.

McCarthy - Competent Gunn - Poor/Competent (inconsistent) Cedric - Poor (as a defender) Valery - Poor/Competent (inconsistent and better going forward than defending) Yoshida - Poor/Competent (inconsistent) Vestergaard -Poor/Competent (very inconsistent) Stephens - Poor Bednarek - Competent Danso - the jury is out Bertrand - Competent/Good (not played enough this season) Romeu - Competent Hojbjerg - Competent JWP - Poor/Competent (doesn't contribute much beyond the excellent dead-ball skills) Armstrong - Poor/Competent (inconsistent) Djenepo - Good Boufal - Good (but invariably tries one dribble too many and loses possession) Redmond - Good (shows initiative and pace, but often runs into a dead end) Ings - Good Adams - Poor Long - Poor (apart from his pace and work-ethic) Obafemi - Poor