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Who'd have thought a team nicknamed the Tractor Boys would engage in a bit of agricultural football eh?

The ball was just slightly over-hit which allowed the keeper to get out and close down his angle.

Another one bites the dust (or the pay cheque). If we have refused a fee, does that mean it will go to a tribunal?

Enjoyable half, that. Deservedly ahead, could be more, and no surprise at all that we look so much better defensively when Manning isn't playing.

And even then we took a gamble that, luckily, paid off. For one season at least. Realistically, you have to go back to the season before we sold Pelle and Mane for the last time we actually had a decent roster of strikers.

It's like all the other "Death of XXX" threads in recent years. Eventually everyone just ignores the thread title and treats it as the current general UK politics thread. Having said that, SOG's post might have been more appropriate on the Russia thread, but hey ho. If it was any other poster, you and WSS probably wouldn't have even bothered to comment on it. Any excuse to stick the boot in.

That can't be right, surely? The Tories have grown the economy and made us all better off, and I know that's true because Jonathan Gullis said so.

I doubt any of the schools in Stoke will hire him, given his obvious toxicity. I also doubt he will even contest the next election as a Tory.

No worries, he's found a foolproof way of plugging that gap in his finances - he's adding Bible Salesman to his CV: Just imagine being such a fucking idiot as to actually support this shameless grifter.

I'm sure Rishi has only given him this 'accolade' in order to stop him from defecting to Reform as well, but little does he realise that this is comparable to being promoted to assistant chief stoker on the Titanic after the previous holder of the post jumped overboard.

Well I would just like to congratulate Vladimir on an excellent, hard fought victory. It's incredible to think that, even after all these years, he's still so popular with the Russian voters that they keep re-electing him. He must be such a wonderful, caring leader to garner so much respect and support from such a diverse range of cultures all across Russia.

Wow. Well done Cov. Fully deserved.

That's got to be a red card.

Cracking effort from Cov, this. Lemina having one of his can't-be-arsed days in midfield is probably helping, mind.

Fucking hell! How many times does VAR have to replay this before making a decision?

This is the long and short of it. For many people, the way to express dissatisfaction at the status quo is to vote against it, without thinking about what they are actually voting for. I vividly remember the vox pops after the Brexit vote, where numerous people said they didn't care whether we stayed in the EU or not, but they voted leave purely because they didn't like David Cameron's government and blindly believed that voting for a change would improve things. So we can argue all we like about whether people should be more financially responsible, but it doesn't change the fact that plenty of people aren't and will blame the government for their current situation regardless.

And what if the reason they are struggling to repay their mortgage once rates rise is because they've been subjected to year upon year of below inflation wage increases? Is that still their own fault?

It's all very well pointing to personal responsibility, but it ignores the fact that entire point of reducing interests rates is to encourage people to borrow what they otherwise wouldn't be able to afford in order to get the economy moving. It's like dangling a carrot and then criticising the donkey for actually taking it. People are like lemmings (from the old video game, not real ones). If you give them the opportunity to do something, they will always do it. If you offer people cheap mortgage rates, how many people are honestly going to turn down the opportunity to take one out and buy a home because rates *might* go up again in future?

Best comment I've seen today... "Lee Anderson's defection to Reform UK has had the unusual effect of increasing the average IQ of both parties".

Yeah it was a pathetic attempt at a block. He needed to take a step forward to stop it completely, but it was just a half-arsed effort in the end.

That's a pretty terrible excuse if so. Really fucking poor from the club to neglect this.

I agree it's unlikely, but stranger things have happened. If we win our game in hand against Preston then we're 6 points behind them. Beat them at their place, which given their current form isn't that far fetched, then the gap is only 3. I know we don't look like auto contenders with our current defending, but I'm not gonna give up hope just yet.

I've just been to see it, and based on your post, it's times like these that I'm glad I've never read the books and could just enjoy the film at face value. The only frame of reference I have is the 1984 David Lynch version, which I did like when I was younger, but its many flaws are laid bare by the depth of DV's films. My only slight gripe is with the casting - as much as I like Rebecca Ferguson, she simply doesn't look old enough to be Timothee Chalamet's mum (she's only about 11 years older than him), so it's not convincing. But on the flip side, Austin Butler is infinitely more menacing as Feyd Rautha than Sting was 🤣