Jimmy_D

Not sure why you’d think that.

The Rouble has now fallen to its lowest level since the start of the war, when emergency measures (which are still in place) were put in place to artificially prop up the currency. There’s not too many levers left that they can pull to arrest it this time.

Effective safeguards like the Minsk agreements? Russia is demanding no NATO involvement in Ukraine, what other 'strong enforcement' is possible? Russia don't want negotiations, they just want to be able to do what they're doing with weaker opposition.

Any agreement to anything by Russia is utterly worthless. Getting around a table certainly wouldn't end it.

The main miss in that is just how unbelievably unsustainable Russia's tactics are. North Korean troops buy them roughly a couple of extra weeks of assaults at the level they've been throwing troops away. Russia are still slowly gaining territory, but Ukraine are making them pay for it with an astonishingly massive number of troops.

What a moment that is for him!

At least 8 points we’ve been cheated out of by referees this season, unless we come back into this one.

Absolutely disgraceful refereeing. Again.

Perfect set of results considering the fixtures this weekend!

GERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIINNNNN!

A win! Cracking finish to score the winning goal by Bree.

At least we kept ourselves in the game. Always a chance of nicking something in a game when you keep it close, which is more than I expected against City.

If we ever see Taylor refereeing us again it’ll be too soon.

That was fun to watch!

Damn. Gave it a bloody good go today.

Cheated out of that by a bunch of worthless cheating ****s and a woeful ref.

A weapons store only built in 2018, supposedly to a standard that could withstand nuclear weapons, one of the biggest they had. Russia are now claiming that it wasn’t enough to protect the stored munitions (including ballistic missiles) from debris from shot down drones(!) Unconfirmed, but reports suggesting that Russia were using it to store and refurbish expired missiles, and that correct storage protocols weren’t being followed. In any case, it sounds counterintuitive, but weapon stores are generally extremely difficult to cause to completely go up like that (assuming they’ve been correctly designed, built, and used.) It wouldn’t be a surprise though, if corners have been cut and corruption has affected every stage of that.

Gerrin!

By far the better team the first half until the missed penalty and then conceding from the set piece, that just killed us. Man Utd are a bunch of worthless cheating ****s.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/gigabit-broadband-voucher-scheme-information/gigabit-broadband-voucher-scheme-information This might be worth looking into. Not sure if it’s available where you are though (or if there are any similar available schemes possibly.)

Whether it’ll ultimately be enough remains to be seen, the Premier League is nuts these days, but difficult to see how we could have done much better this window. Now to make use of those players!

Well that was fun to watch! They were having a Goal of the Season competition out there! Really good for the new players to get off the mark.

being this disappointed with a 1-0 loss away at Newcastle is probably a decent sign for the rest of the season, decent performance at a ground where we have one of our worst records.

Another possible aspect is that overnight, this caused all the calls from Russian shills for the conflict to be frozen according to ‘the reality on the ground’ to dry up completely. Reports seem to suggest Ukraine has met minimal resistance so far, mostly untrained conscripts that have surrendered en masse, which if nothing else should allow Ukraine to exchange to get some PoWs back.

One aspect that’s becoming clearer, Ukraine being able to go this far and this quick into Russian territory, and Russia’s continuing lack of ability to effectively respond to that, suggests Russia’s resources are stretched even thinner than anyone thought. They’ve obviously been throwing thousands of troops onto Ukraine’s defences for minimal gain in Ukraine, but it appears they’ve been completely compromising Russia’s own security to do so, throwing absolutely everything they have at it. Even if Russia believed that Ukraine invading was completely impossible, a country with the supposed military resources of Russia leaving a border with a country they’re at war with without any form of adequate defence defies belief.