The Kraken

To confirm, are you in any of the vulnerable groups or conditions listed on the nhs site? From what I’ve read before it’s people at risk, front line health and care workers, carers etc, it read to me that most under 50s weren’t in line for it in the next tranche.

This. Tuchel would’ve been a miracle. Anyone who said otherwise would be a complete moron. Wolfman has been posting on here for many years, mostly under a different user name until relatively recently.

Probably the best was the ‘thief’ who nearly got tackled by the on duty copy who didn’t realise he was part of the police dog show.

You shouldn’t.

🤣 The heady days indeed. Some absolute whoppers on here thinking we’d smashed it because Cortese said so.

No, I wouldn’t agree with that. Haaland scored, hit the post when clean through, and had another couple of misses which on another day he would easily put away. When he played against bournemouth he only touched the ball 8 times all game. His day against Saints wasn’t his toughest test by any means whatsoever, he could very easily have had a hat trick.

I don’t think we need one other than to prove a point. Anyone saying ‘Ralph to stay’ is either a complete whopper or on the wind up.

No chance. It’s no surprise that Saints haven’t won anything since we got rid of the hilarious Mike Osman from his fantastically funny half time set. Now them were the days.

I won’t expect that to happen then.

It was a bit odd. Pep looked like he just wanted to get away from Ralph but Ralph kept jabbering is his ear and pointing at things.

IpNobody thinks he’s a bad person. The ticket-paying fans have two options: don’t pay for your ticket, or register your discontent. Both are fair game, nobody is forced to clap along like a noddy at a game If the performance is utterly shit. Ralph has had plenty of respect from the fans. You sound like a Semmens, blaming the fans for shit performances.

Which ones, out of interest?

Pony.

It’s not a gotcha, it’s an answer to a suggestion that we elect MPs to decide their leader. It clearly a pony statement. MPs clearly are influential but in this case it’s completely obvious that the membership weren’t aligned with the MPs. Truss didn’t come top in a single MP vote.

Aside from the two CBs I’m holding nobody from our team in any esteem today.

So you’re saying for Sunak to be PM, he would just have to decide to bypass/change the inherent rules of his party. Yes, it does sound very simple. And ridiculous too.

Talk me through this one @Lord Duckhunter. How did the people we elected decide who the PM is? Genuinely interested to hear. I’ll,admit, I’m a political featherweight so I look forward to you putting me right on that one.

In the case of Wilson, yes, I think that should trigger a GE. Biden is a US president, that’s different. Not worth a comment. People understand the system; that they disagree with it is something entirely different. Your last sentence is a bit arse about face. We send people to represent us in parliament based upon the fact that we know who the leaders of the parties are, and what they represent. Nobody elected the thousands of Tory party members who just decided who the new PM is. In fact, the very Tory MPs who you say “decide who the PM is” were in a majority for Sunak. So your last statement is demonstratively utter pony, Truss is PM despite the MPs and because of the member vote. You knew that, surely!

Not to go all MLG but S Armstrong started today.

I always thought we’d miss Forster unless Bazunu turned out to be true class. He isn’t that. There are better keepers than Forster but, at our level, he was good. Price was obviously a massive factor in losing him, but right now I’d have him as our number one any day.

Can’t disagree with this, at this point in time. The summer recruitment policy seemed to largely revolve around getting in the Man City recruitment manager and buying a bunch of nippers from Man City that he knew. As it’s looking so far our best signings this season are Billy Ketchup and Joe Aribo, who perhaps didn’t come from a Joe Shields recommendation. We also fucked up not bringing in a striker that the club, the manager and the fans all said we needed. Also, we spent a lot this summer, but from what I’ve read over the past year or two, that money has been sat in our account since a Covid load undertaken when Gao was in charge. So, have SR actually put up any money themselves? Far too early to pontificate on the merits or otherwise of SR, but let’s just say that the jury is out.

I don’t want to slag off Bazunu, he’s young and will make mistakes. In the last few games though, he hasn’t made enough big saves. He’s let in goals that certainly Forster wouldn’t have conceded. He made some solid saves today but I’d say all of them were those that you’d expect a top line keeper to make. There haven’t been many (if any) “wow, how did he save that?” moments since the season started. Today I thought his positioning was poor for the Cancelo goal and the Mahrez goal. His lack of a midfield shield does him no favours, but he’s not standing out at the moment for me. On performances I don’t see him as being better than McCarthy, which is a sad indictment.

I’d be happy enough with party members electing their own party leader, if there was a rule that there needs to be a general election if a new leader is required. For all the talk of “you vote for your MP and not the PM”, that’s not true for the vast majority of voters. Also, more importantly, changing a PM is never just changing one person at the top, it’s a root and branch change throughout cabinet and beyond. I vote Labour these days but I was never a fan of the way Gordon Brown engineered his way into the PM seat, I thought it was underhand and he should have been seen to win an election. For all Johnson’s faults as I see them, he was elected on a manifesto. Getting Truss is the worst possible example to use, but it reinforces my belief: new party leader = new election.

Sick of playing with a bunch of misfits.

Not to repeat other threads but…….Look at the performance and not the result. We we’re never going to win this game; it’s how the team stands up to adversity that counts. Our lot folded today. Compare that performance to other better games under Ralph’s tenure at top sides away (including drawing away at Man City). This was nowhere near that, we were utterly abject all over the park and looked a complete shambles. The players are culpable but the lack of team spirit and organisation suggests a much bigger problem.