Jimmy_D

Wouldn’t be the biggest escape we’ve ever had

Best half we’ve played of the season by a distance.

That’ll do! Deserved that result with that performance.

Enjoyed watching that half!

If anyone needs an example of just how nuts the gap between the Prem and the Championship is…

Finding it difficult to even be interested or hope that we might get the rub of the green this season when we’ve so consistently been ****ed over by such **** officiating decisions. We’re not a good team this season, but at the very least we’re good enough to be in the relegation battle rather than cut adrift.

Decent half of football, that!

Absolutely ****ed over by a useless **** stealing a living as an official. Again.

Officials have been their usual **** standard for us today.

Wow! Unbelievable save to stop that.

Game… on? GERRRRRRIN!

Well at least the second half was better(!)

You’re not very good at this whole trolling thing.

Regardless of the fact that it was not, is not, and will never be up to Russia to dictate which treaties a sovereign country can or cannot join, care to find any source at all for NATO intending to expand to Ukraine before the invasion?

Merino didn’t get called offside for far more obvious interference in the Arsenal game for Martinelli’s goal.

Not before Mitoma should have gone!

Reading it like that means that there’s no point in even having the ‘not interfering’ clause. Every single goal with a non-interfering player offside the keeper can claim they’ve been affected by that player.

Yet more points we’ve been cheated out of.

Utterly corrupt.

Those production figures are even worse than they seem, as they include reporting refurbishing and upgrading Soviet era equipment as equipment produced (hence the mention of dwindling Soviet stocks of equipment.) It won’t be lost on Putin that the conditions of high military spending and a collapsing economy are very similar to those that led to the collapse of the USSR.

Walking away from this one feeling like we deserved something from the game. Our second goal was a thing of beauty.

Oh yeah. Russia’s in a far better state now than it was over a year ago. Staying in Ukraine hasn’t cost them anything. So you don’t think that Russia’s economy is getting far worse, and think that that isn’t already having an effect on their ability to wage war then? Russia’s train service hasn’t just got a ‘bit’ worse, it’s catastrophically worse than it was at the start of the war. You might not care, but it’s far more than a ‘service’, it’s an absolutely vital part of logistics in Russia. The point being that it demonstrates clearly that Russia isn’t getting everything it needs if something so vital to them is in such a poor state. It’d be one of the first priorities to fix and improve if Russia were capable of it, and demonstrates that the state of the rouble is already having very real effects. Russia hit Ukraine with a missile that they can only have in extremely limited quantities, so far has a launch success rate of 50%, and that they were so nervous of triggering an international response with that they notified the USA in advance before launching it. It’s not worth much to them militarily beyond a headline compared to what they’ve already been hitting Ukraine with, and seems to have had the opposite effect to what they were hoping for in terms of Europe reaffirming their backing of Ukraine since it was used. Ukraine‘s people certainly aren’t willing to give up, which isn’t surprising considering they’re fighting to stop a country that wants them to no longer exist. That’s been using terror, torture, murder and rape as tools to commit genocide.

So you’re claiming that Russia’s capabilities haven’t been degraded at all since the start of the war then? Also care to point at any predictions in particular? Go on, go and find a quote.

Plummeting currency value combined with incredibly high inflation and interest rates, as well as withdrawal restrictions banks are imposing, would suggest they’re not self sufficient at all. Food prices in Russia are going up and that’s only accelerating. The state of the road network and the size of Russia means they’re massively reliant on the rail network, but railway maintenance is one of the things that’s suffered most under sanctions and Russia’s war economy. Take a look at the volume of rail cargo year-on-year in Russia, that’s just one of the symptoms of Russia’s economy degrading, and that degradation having very real effects.

Where do you think the term ‘war chest’ comes from? Every war in history has been waged based on each side’s ability to pay for it according to the economy of the time. Russia have been absolutely torching their economy to pay for this war, and despite what they would like everyone to believe, their resources aren’t bottomless.