Jimmy_D

Fantastic performance today! We’re in the World Cup Final! Top quality goals. Australia’s counter attacking game got them the win against us in the friendly, and probably gave them the best chance against us today, but we looked far more comfortable against a team that doesn’t use a high press. A final is always a one-off game where anything can happen of course, but we go into it with a fantastic chance of holding both the Continental and World Cup at the final whistle.

Great going forward, defending… not so great. Getting something from the game after going behind three times, that is promising.

We haven’t been at our most dominant this tournament, a large part of that is the players we’re missing, as well as how well other teams have progressed, but it’s huge credit to our resilience under Wiegman that we keep finding a way to win. Caicedo is some player for Colombia.

Played a team of mostly reserves, played like a team of mostly reserves. Disappointing but not the end of the world.

Knockout football, it’s the result that matters, but blimey we’ve rode our luck to get through that one. Nigeria’s defence and pressing was immense, at least there aren’t too many other teams that play like that.

Isn’t it normal to refer to managers by their last name? Klopp, Guardiola, Redknapp etc?

Che Adams price has surely gone up now. Averaging 9 goals a game so far this season…

A win? On opening day!? That’ll do Not as straightforward as it could have been, and we’ll need to get used to a lower standard of refereeing, but did well to stay focused, and the way we saw out the game was excellent.

Gerrrrrrrrrin!

Difficult to read too much into that, SW not the strongest opposition, and we don’t know exactly how we’ll line up by the end of the transfer window, but we’ve looked very decent and there’s a lot to be encouraged by.

Not a bad finish to start this season!

Just had a short promo about our last season at this level on Sky. That last season in the Championship was so much fun to be a part of. Completely exceeded expectations having just come out of League One, and watching Lambert step up and dominate a higher league was phenomenal to watch.

I always miss watching Saints during the summer, looking forward to the match now ^_^

Seemingly is correct. They’re targeting civilians infrastructure because it gets noticed and widely reported on. It’s useful to them to be able to claim they’re having success to the Russian people. It also does nothing for them militarily against Ukraine, but because military targets are extremely well defended in Ukraine now, and they don’t have the stocks to overwhelm those defences, it’s a way they can still get some use from their limited supply. Anyone doing anything to disrupt that messaging to the Russian people are finding themselves in trouble. Look back at when they started their terror attacks with missiles, numbers are tiny compared to then, they’re far more sporadic, and far less effective. Meanwhile, Storm Shadows supplied by the UK have had a reported near 100% success rate, with huge numbers of high military value targets hit. They’re about to get some more from France too. Not to mention the success Ukraine have been having with new counter-battery radar against Russian artillery and MLRS targets the last few weeks, as well as constantly hitting Russian ammo dumps. If Russia did have more in their arsenal, they’re not using it very well because Ukraine have been pressuring them back on all fronts for a while now.

Resulted in the only fighters and leaders that have had any success from Russia in the last 12 months being exiled to Belarus and Africa.

Difficult to see how Putin can possibly just let Prigozhin go into exile after leading an invasion of Russia that got within 200km of Moscow, destroyed at least 6 helicopters, a plane, reportedly all of the pilots for those, and a fuel dump. Doing so undermines a lot of authority that Putin had. Similarly with any Wagner troops that backed Prigozhin, letting them go scot-free again makes Putin look incredibly weak. Then you have the breaking of trust by any troops that stood aside for Wagner, or even supported them. Then, a lesser issue, but there will be trust issues with Wagner troops that didn’t go against Putin, but nonetheless refused orders to take that course of action. Then there’s the breaking of trust by Prigozhin in backing down and leaving troops following him high and dry, and troops loyal to Prigozhin are currently armed and pissed off. All in all, Wagner are unlikely to be anywhere near as effective a fighting force going forward, and the Russian army itself will have taken a hit too. On top of that, anti-Putin sentiment among the public was given the biggest platform its had in years, especially considering the lack of reprisals for a full on insurrection attempt. There are reports that Wagner troops were greeted with food and water by the public, while police returning tonight have been greeted with protests. In the meantime, Ukraine’s counteroffensive has been progressing, and made several advances today, including into territory that had been held by Russia since 2014. I wouldn’t mind betting that Ukrainian psy-ops will be able to create havok with the divisions opened up by today’s events too.

Reports that some Wagner troops are really not happy that Prigozhin backed off. We’re one internal mutiny in Wagner from a reenactment of The Rock.

Assuming the audio clip is genuine, it’ll be interesting what Prigozhin was offered or threatened with to get him to turn around. Also how long Prigozhin survives after this.

Claims by Lukashenko that Belarus has negotiated a ceasefire, and an apparent voice message from Prigozhin that they’re turning back from Moscow.

Looks more like being knocked off a viaduct just at the moment.

6 Russian helicopters visually confirmed downed by Wagner now, including a KA-52 Several unconfirmed reports that Russian troops are being pulled back from Ukraine to fight against Wagner.

https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3727224-ukrainian-forces-take-control-of-several-positions-near-krasnohorivka-which-russia-held-since-2014.html

An air force needs a lot of people to be functional beyond the pilots, as well as extremely robust logistics support. Are there enough people loyal enough to Putin to keep an air force running and willing to target Russians? Are they still being supplied with fuel and ammo? Not to mention that having already downed Russian helicopters and a plane, Wagner have demonstrated they have some AA assets.

Who knew that a three day march on the Capital and the seat of power was actually feasible for Russian forces.

Putin and the Russian leadership apparently fleeing Moscow judging by air traffic. Looks like there are some elements of Belarus’ military trying to kick things off in a similar way in Belarus. Seems likely Lukashenko fled to Turkey soon after things kicked off in Russia too.