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Nice touch by Ralph. Could've found a role for Stephens to give the pelters maximum options though.

I can only assume that all the moaning about Minamino don't understand our new tactics. We're playing a different style and the attacking width down the right comes from KWP, not a winger or 10. We've also had Armstrong driving foreward from the middle. Minamino allows KWP and Armstrong to do that by staying deep and/or pulling inside.

Blonde one is Shelley Kerr apparently.

If that's representative of the English men's football fan base I'm a unicorn. PC gone absolutely fucking nuts.

If you're less of an insufferable prick in the real world, perhaps be less of one on here. Normal grown ups don't need to create personna's.

Marine

So you're calling hoax cos you think Will can't pull a sleeve over his shoulder?

I thought that. Also, his delts look over developed in comparison to his traps so maybe it's a prosthetic arm.

No. Do tell oh wise one.

Lyrical

Wrong place for that with the ownership.

Pan

We didn't sign him for that, but now he's here, that seems to be where he fits. He's not physical enough as a 6 or creative enough as a 10. Someone like Delaney is needed at 6 to improve us there.

I'm not sure about Diallo. Tidy footballer, started well, but I'm not convinced that he's the answer. He's not always featured when he's available, and it could be that Diallo is the Diallo issue. This lad looks decent and would add some quality and depth to our squad.

Coat

Yep, she thinks herself special and different. Bless. The BBC article is weird, trying hard to pander to her wish to address her as "they" "them" "themselves" while she refers to "I" and "my". It's all bollocks. She's a she.

Ha! I'll call him up cos I can't make the numbers work...ice cube gnocchi all round is the future.

Yep, same experience for me. Getting on the ladder is significantly harder now. I bought my first house at 19 with no savings. Buying that house now, with the same salary but inflation adjusted, wouldn't be possible even with a 10-15% deposit. The situation is ridiculous and I cannot see how my kids will be able to buy without a huge handouts, and even then it'll be difficult.

Wig

Two years is too much. He's faded already this season for me, and at 32, he's only going one way. One year would have been more like it. That all said, he can offer something on the field, and seemingly a lot off it.

This keeps coming up. He has one.

So are you saying that only a defender can coach a defender, and only a winger can coach a winger? It's nonsense. Coaches can coach anyone. Goalkeepers spend their game watching the whole game and can offer loads as a coach. Indeed, on your Che Adams point, a keeper would have had the likes of Adams trying to finish past them which kind of helps when coaching the striker. Our coaches may or not be shit, but their playing position ain't the issue. Regardless, there's too many excuses given to Ralph. The other day it was the lack of investment, then the squad, now the coaches. It'll be the food in the canteen next. The buck stops with him.

First question. No. Just people from areas where the Indian variant was/is rife. We got there eventually, just too late albeit the Turkish corridor wasn't blocked, and the quarantine was/is a joke - people aren't bothering. Second question. Nobody has said the vaccines aren't working. They offer 80% efficacy, so they won't do the job for 1 in 5 people. Less cases = less chance of those people getting infected.

Yep, and it seems that the government are just keeping an eye on it which is fair enough. It'd be wrong to over react, and equally wrong to dismiss it as insignificant.

The number of unvaccinated people is going down, thus any increase in case numbers suggests a greater spread. If people choose not to get the vaccine and become infected, they won't get much sympathy from me, but if we're looking at 80% efficacy then more cases in circulation exposes more of the vaccinated people. That then exposes all of us to more restrictions which we need to see the back of for good. Had we been tighter on the borders, and properly enforced the quarantine, we wouldn't be having this discussion.