Jimmy_D

Get in! Amazing effort to drag ourselves through that!

Think she was expecting the ball out wide and took a small step ready to cover the cross, then Stanway spotted her slightly off balance and took the shot.

What a hit! What a goal!

Kept ourselves in it, feels like we’ve just about got the edge now with Spain dropping off a tad, but ‘tis knockout football…

Gerrrrrrrrrin! What a huge goal that is!

Daly does play fullback as well, but obviously not having a good game tonight, and there’ll be questions with her not actually playing there regularly.

Heck of a save there, keeps us in it.

I’d be surprised if Spain manage to keep that intensity up for the whole match, feels like they needed to score to make that effort count. Expecting to see England come more into the match as it goes on.

So now apparently Russia are blaming the failure to take Kyiv on Ukranian supersoldiers created in US run biolabs in Ukraine… … … I mean, aside from conveniently forgetting that they were claiming that Kyiv was just a feint, I’m not sure the best way to motivate their troops is to make them think they’re up against supersoldiers, especially with the increasing issues they’re getting with deserters.

Do they still get the money for a Lada if they’re shot down by their own side? Reports a SU-34 was shot down by Russia’s own air defence. That’s one of their newest multi role fighters. They don’t have many and they can’t currently replace them either. The success of Ukraine’s rocket artillery may well have played a part in this. For Russia’s AA operators, between the stress of facing a weapon that’s almost impossible for them to stop, as well as being a high priority target, and it’s easy to see how that stress could lead to incidents like this. On top of that, with the way the Russian army operates, that stress is probably being exacerbated by being blamed for the success of HIMARS and M270 strikes.

We were waaay ahead of them on what happened lol

Dammit, I’m actually tempted to get this now

No run out recorded by the look of it, so can only assume the umpire had called a dead ball when the keeper had taken the bails off and Lancashire had stopped running.

Is there anything better in sport than a narrow win in a final?

Bloody hell! What a match!

Reports that Ukraine have received the first of the newer M270 units from the UK and Norway. (M270 is an older platform than HIMARS, but newer ones have updated fire-control computers, among other improvements) These fire the same rockets as HIMARS, and can fire twice as many at once if needed. It’s not as fast as HIMARS, but it can cover rougher terrain. It probably won’t be risked as close to the front line as HIMARS, so in effect shorter range, but it’s definitely a massive boost to what Ukraine can do, and will be able to reach some places that HIMARS can’t, especially if the reports that they’re going to get access to longer range rockets (300km vs the current 80km) turn out to be accurate.

Did what we needed to do to keep momentum going but bigger challenges ahead. We’re more than a match for any team in the tournament though.

Cracking goal!

But unlucky for NI there but can see the difference in confidence breaking the deadlock has made

Oooh, nice finish!

Difficult to read too much into a dead rubber group game against a team making themselves difficult to break down, but we certainly don’t look anywhere near as ruthless so far.

Indeed, not sure the handball itself would have been overturned but the earlier handball made it easy.

Oof, that seems harsh… think that’ll be overturned?

Really cool to see Rafferty in the starting line up for tonight’s game. She gets to play at St Marys for her country in a major tournament, and against England as well.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-parliament-passes-sweeping-wartime-economic-controls-2022-07-06/ Seems obvious this is an attempt to reduce the effect of some of the sanctions that have been affecting Russia. It might help them in some areas, for a while at least, but obviously won’t help where Russia simply doesn’t have access to resources and components they need. Taking their time off away from people is only going to lead to resentment, poor morale, and and poor quality work if it carries on for any length of time. Depends on the exact specifics of which companies will be affected, but I can see another wave of companies being triggered to pull out of Russia rather than risk being dragged into directly supporting Russia’s war effort.