Jimmy_D

Sholing are having a brilliant season in Southern League Div 1, currently winning today to remain top. If they go up they’ll be eligible for the Dafuge or Youth Challenge in next year’s Football Manager.

They’re probably complaining that Forest raised their game because they were against Liverpool

League looking ridiculously tight this season, 8 points between 7th and 20th.

Add Man Utd into that list this season too!

Gerrin! Hard fought win there, but we were able to close it out professionally there.

Che Adams outstanding tonight.

Great goal to put us 1-0 up. We’ve looked decent in spells but between Bournemouth knackering themselves with a ridiculously high press, us playing some long ball to break that, and the ref having a Bournemouth shirt on under his, it’s been a bit patchy. We’ve been able to break through a few times, if we can get one of them to count we’ll be in a very nice position.

Bloody hell ref, it’s not Old Trafford or Anfield.

Gerrin!

Russia documented using artillery last produced in 1949 now. That doesn’t mean it’s completely ineffective of course, but it’s telling that Russia can’t provide anything better than that to those troops despite 70 years of military production as one of the world’s military superpowers in the meantime.

So you’re trying to make some point, large scale peer reviewed studies don’t back that point up, and you’re looking for smaller data sets in the hope that they’ll back you up?

Trousers was asking a series of questions to try to get you to figure out for yourself that anecdotal cases aren’t anywhere near painting the whole picture. You obviously hadn’t got that so I was supporting his argument in a different way. In short, no, anecdotal cases aren’t anywhere near being as important for the purposes of vaccination policy.For a start it’s countless anecdotal cases that are being used to create the large scale data. To take the opposite extreme as an example, one person being vaccinated and not getting ill wouldn’t mean that the vaccine was proved to be effective.

Because individual immune response varies? It’s not difficult. You’re conflating anecdotal cases with the recorded large scale effect of vaccination reducing transmission, severity, and mortality.

If it prevents you getting it, that protects every other person you would have been in contact while ill. This was a tested effect. Contributing to herd immunity was one of the effects that’s saved thousands of lives.

I assume Alex is talking about Warfighter 2021 https://www.army.mil/article/245466/warfighter_21_4_concludes_strengthens_collaboration_with_british_and_french_forces

China in particular don't want to risk breaking sanctions and losing US trade. It's possible they're being circumvented to a certain extent, but if Chinese components were showing up regularly in exploded ordinance that's been fired at Ukraine, we'd know about it.

Not personally, no, and I've never claimed to have one. I'll always be immensely grateful to those who fight, and allow people like me to not have to. I have been doing a lot of reading/listening to many that do have a military background, for what it's worth, over the last few months, and I've always had an interest in military history.

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In the past 2-3 weeks, Russia have lost territory that took them months to take. Any progress on the front line has been minimal to none for months. Putin has been forced to use a significant amount of domestic political capital to partially mobilise and reinforce the Russian army, with limited effect. The limited supply of precision missiles is self demonstrating by how rare events like today have been. Sanctions really have been having an effect, and that's not an assumption. Instead of using precision missiles to target Ukraine's military capability, they've used them to target highly visible targets, that don't help them in any significant military way, but that instead can be used for propoganda both domestically and internationally. That appears to be the only way they can claim any sort of success currently, hence it sends a message of weakness.

Among other limitations, sanctions mean they can't produce or obtain the microchips or materials for precision guided munitions. Missed Targets: the Struggles of Russia’s Missile Industry - CEPA They're not 'out' of missiles as such, but they can't get anywhere near sustaining heavy usage of them.

So I guess attacks like today, that Russia's been preparing for weeks for to scrape together the missiles to carry it out, they'll be a daily occurrence now eh?

The message they've sent is "We're too weak to take on military targets, so we're targeting defenceless civilians." Militarily these attacks do nothing for them. In fact the opposite, it's using up their limited supplies of precision missiles.

Yeah, that's not acceptable in any way. He's gone.

They already put the bridge out of action for a few days. That alone will cost Russia a lot on the southern front where logistics are already stretched to breaking point. On top of that there was a fuel tanker burning on top of that bridge for hours. That reinforced concrete there is severely weakened. They won’t be able to run full weight trains over it. That one attack was an enormous hit to everything Russia are trying to do militarily. Most plausible explanation for this is still long range rocket artillery. Ukraine can likely hit it again once Russia have wasted resources trying to repair it.