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Didn't notice this as I was skimming past all the nonsense. Congratulations, a lack of sleep is more than made up for by the good stuff.

Agreed. These lads need proper competitive football, under lights on cold autumn / winter nights. Who cares if they win, they're learning their trade and are playing to develop and gain experience.

Ha!! It's a fair cop!

Cheers, nice response. As you say, we see it differently but other than touch and turn, the one fundamental that separates a good player from a very good player, is the speed of mind and how quickly they move the ball on. JWP takes far too long for a top level player. Systems or managers don't determine that, it's raw ability. He's a decent player though, and his stamina and fitness are undeniable - on that front few can touch him. For me though, I don't see him as international class, and I understand why Southgate preferred to pack his squad with full backs than take him, and why others are picked ahead of him. Where we definitely agree is that his dead ball delivery is superb, and that he wouldn't have bottled a pen at the Euros...but you've got to be good enough to be on the pitch to be able to take one!

Charles

Are you serious?! You're expecting me to find a website to say that Phillips is a better player than JWP?! Behave. You stattos who don't understand the game get on my tits. Phillips is the better player.

Try watching them both play Phillips has a better range of passing in open play, better movement, quicker speed of releasing the ball, better tackling, better aerial ability, he's faster, he reads the game better. Pretty much everything is better bar his dead ball delivery. I like JWP, but let's not kid ourselves he's the better player of the two, and making an assessment on one game is laughable.

I'm staggered that anyone seriously thinks JWP is a better player than Phillips. Sure, his dead balls are on another level, but Phillips is a better footballer. That said, I'm delighted JWP has been called up.

Cheers. On the plus side, Smallbone is back. Interesting if this is correct and we're playing 3 at the back.

Six

Cheers, good constrictive response. On the last point, what we describe this bloke as doesn't really matter - he's a vile piece of shit and the important thing is that lessons are learned to reduce the prospect of anything like this happening again.

Cheers, I've not read that and I keep meaning to take a look. His overspending was outrageous though, I was privy to some facts and figures from back then. The overspend on staplewood was outrageous, enough to buy a PL player even now. We'd have never survived of he'd stayed. That all said, his balls and spending got us back up the leagues and gave me some of my best years as a fan.

Yep. People never think to ask why he was let go.

What do you say should be the advice given a lone woman if approached by a lone copper? I ask that with appreciation that lone women should have absolute faith in our police, but alas there'll always be bad apples, so what should Dick have said instead? I won't get into funding or May - this is about Cresida Dick.

Awful, but please remind us what Cresida Dick should have done to prevent this wrong un from being a wrong un.

Yep. Sure the contact was minimal, and matey went down like he'd been shot, but it was late and reckless.

Watch it without your red and white specs on. He arrived late and took both his legs. No malice, but bloody dangerous. A red all day long. As I say, we'll agree to differ.

I'm missing nothing. Var felt it was worth another look, and as a result the yellow became the red it should have been. Its not a complicated thing, or the vendetta that some people seem to think.

We'll agree to differ. If that tackle was the other way around, we'd all have been calling for a red.

He gave a man a red card for a red card offence. It's not even a one man vendetta.

I think people are suggesting it's a wider conspiracy and Dean is the agent of destruction. Or some other mental nonsense.

What are you on about? Saints asking the PL to do something and them saying no isn't a conspiracy theory!! As Duck says above, why would he give a shit about us?

I think you misunderstand what a conspiracy theory is. Saints asked. The PL said no. That's not a conspiracy theory.

Yep. Conspiracy theory nonsense.

It was nothing like Chilwell’s tackle. JWP was about half an hour late, and went into both of mateys legs. There may have been no malice, but it was reckless and deserved a red.