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He was signed as back up, and was a safe bet for that role. If he'd initially signed as the main man, I'd agree.

The EFL disciplinary rules provided for the tribunal chair to shorten the appeal period, so I'm assuming that we agreed to something before it was imposed on us.

And before the end of time? I'd heard similar.

No idea what they'd be willing to live with mate.

Turn of phrase - privacy agreement, whatever, an agreement to keep things hush hush.

If it was felt reasonable, I'd imagine they'd live with it, but I don't think it'll be reasonable.

On a serious point, I think it's pretty likely that we are appealing a decision, and an NDA is locking down news in the interim.

I think you mean Mystic Beacon...

... sometime between 1 and 2? probably half way I'm guessing.

Nope. I just can't see it being sensible to have that news mixed with that atmosphere.

I don't see it being before the Pompey game. It'd be carnage if the bad news comes out before the match.

You stole my next point!! Sovereignty has become conflated with something very unpleasant.

How has sovereignty (or autonomy) helped us as a country? The issue is that we have the pain, but are we more or less likely to grow alone or as part of a collective? Given how our economy has shrunk (I assume you accept the Stanford paper) post vote/Brexit, and is barely treading water (and we're actually a bit fucked - on that you and I agree), how realistic is it that we'll feel a gain over the wider EU states? I just don't see it.

Have people not worked out that Ossie is enjoying the sport.

It hasn't been debunked. The Stanford paper is excellent, and as up to date as anything I've seen. The authors are all credible. One extract: "Figure 1 shows UK GDP compared to that of other countries since the Brexit referendum. Our analysis focuses on GDP per capita. This helps to account for any differences in population growth trends across countries. It illustrates that UK GDP was growing at a similar rate to other comparable countries in the period prior to the Brexit referendum, regardless of how those other countries are weighted together. Since the vote for Brexit in 2016 Q2, UK GDP has grown by less than other comparable countries. That is estimated to be the case across all of our different metrics for weighting other countries together, and it places the UK close to the bottom of the distribution we draw around the unweighted average, at around the 10th percentile. Depending on which comparator metric is used, UK GDP per capita is estimated to have grown by between 6% and 10% less than other similar countries between the Brexit referendum and the year to 2025 Q1, and it only rose by 4% in absolute terms. The smallest implied impact is from GDP/air distance weighting the comparator countries, which places a heavy weight on large, nearby Northern European countries that experienced relatively slow growth post 2016. In part, this could have been due to Brexit spillovers. The largest estimated impacts are from the synthetic control and unweighted estimates, as theseplace more weight on faster growing countries, in particular the US for the synthetic control. Taking the simple average across our five weighting approaches, UK GDP is estimated to have been 8% lower than other similar countries over the year to 2025 Q1. We use this average as our central estimate of the effect of Brexit from macroeconomic data". I'd like to see the contra evidence.