Jimmy_D

Looks like when the Russian flagship was told to go to hell at the start of the war, it was an accurate prediction.

Half of Chelsea’s goals came from the ball dropping to them after good saves. Like I said, Saints were poor and Chelsea were good, and well worth the win, but we were unlucky to lose so heavily.

Saints poor and unlucky, Chelsea good and lucky, ref poor. All ingredients for a fantastic day.

What makes you think possible Ukrainian warcrimes aren’t being condemned?

What point are you trying to make? No one is claiming that it’s impossible for Ukrainian soldiers to commit war crimes, or that they would be justified in doing so. There’s no indication that a blind eye is being turned to evidence of such incidents. One side does appear to be using war crimes, however, as part of their widespread deliberate tactics.

Just seen that. Russia obviously have incurred significant losses, but seeing a Russian official admit that was unexpected.

Wow. Russia suspended from the UN Human Rights Council in a vote. Probably largely symbolic, but it was still far from certain it’d go through, and it certainly sends a message as to how the World doesn’t share Russia’s ‘view’ of what’s happening.

The past 30 years have seen huge advances in renewables in the UK, and it’s still improving rapidly, enough that we’ve reduced coal use in the UK to almost nothing. At the end of last year the energy link to Norway was completed that’ll let our renewable capacity be used more of the time, due to their energy storage availability. Although it wouldn’t be ideal, a lot of that coal energy generating capacity is still there if there was no other choice. It’s only in recent years that renewable tech has gotten to the point where generating energy is competitive with fossil fuels. Millions of years of energy (all ultimately from the sun) and geologic processes have gone into creating an incredibly dense store of energy that’s been incredibly easy to access. Replacing that with tech that can capture and make available the same levels of energy more or less instantly without taking an incredibly long time to store it up isn’t so easy.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/soccer-predictions/premier-league/ The 538 sim still has Everton (marginally) more likely than not to stay up. They are more likely to go down than Burnley, and one of the three most likely to go down now though. Leeds still have a decent chance of going down and ruining any bet that’s hedged between Everton and Burnley.

Not in the slightest. I can see myself being slightly less annoyed than usual if we don’t get a result against them, however…

Not that I want Liverpool to, far from it, but if Liverpool win the quadruple and Everton get relegated, Anfield will probably be empty next season, they’ll have nothing left to hope for As annoying as it would be for the rest of us anywhere within a three county radius of a Liverpool fan, imagine what it’d be like for Everton fans if that happens…

I can see Burnley being 5-8 points clear of Everton at the end of April out of that lot.

There’s the relegation thread too

And the Champion’s League tonight, if on here is anything to go by.

I swear being a Saints fan must come with an addiction to the drama of relegation battles

What a game!

Brentford game will definitely be one Everton are targeting, but it looks far more difficult since the Eriksen signing. He’s given Brentford a huge boost.

Give over, that’s still the position you’re taking up today.

So because Russia are being destructive and committing war crimes… you’re saying the answer to that is to give Russia everything they want and hope they’re content to stop there?

Ukraine are fighting for their home, and Russia are fighting for a lie. The only way this is over any time soon is if Russia gives up.

Can more or less throw form out the window for the Burnley Everton game, huge relegation 6 pointer.

Not too bad considering the players could easily have been on the beach, especially after conceding early.

Yeah, there are a few things propping it up at the moment, all export earnings in Russia are now required to be converted to roubles, there’s the ban on buying Euros or Dollars, and Putin’s threats to make gas sales Rouble only. Basically it’s still as worthless as it was before in the areas that sanctions have hit, and Russia is using the areas where it’s still used and leaning on them to artificially inflate the value on paper.

Both sides are losing materiel faster than they can replace it, but Ukraine actually has more tanks now than it started with, and weapons supply to Ukraine has been significant. The most important factor in this conflict has possibly been real time Western intelligence provided to Ukraine. That appears to have been a huge force multiplier, and will also allow Ukraine to make accurate decisions on how much of their defence they can redeploy if Russia do start to fall back in some areas.

Except that those objectives are anything other than secure, and it's already cost them more than they would have counted on. Russia have been sanctioned more than anyone would believe, NATO are stronger than ever (especially on Russia's borders), and Russia's military capability has been severely diminished, not only through loss of materiel, but perception of ability as well.