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Merry Christmas Hypo. Genuinely x

You're a sad individual MLG. It's Christmas, a Christian festival, the birth of christ. Anyone celebrating today is celebrating that. Anyone who says they're not is full of shite. Happy Christmas 🎄🙏

He's OK on the ball, but not in a ping it about like Vestergaard type way. I have no idea who I'd prefer to play - having seen nothing of Salisu I don't know how anyone can say that they'd prefer one over the other.

They will have tried for 4 years, but we had to take what were given or face wto terms. The reality of this will bite hard, although someone will come along and tell you that we can look forward to unspecified trade with unspecified trading blocks.

It was that or wto mate. Lesser of two evils.

A friend had a call last week asking if he'd like a vaccine as they had some about to expire. 65m + people and we allow vaccines to expire because we can't organise things.

So who will this be then? What can we give this new and thriving trading block that the collective economies of the EU can't? Genuine questions as I keep being told that the world is now our oyster, but haven't heard anything more than noise.

Indeed. The Japan deal is the tip of the iceberg, but you'd have to be pretty special to believe that our little nation has the ability to negotiate free trade deals with the rest of the world on better terms than the 27 EU countries collectively. In truth, we don't have much to negotiate with, and as pathetic as it seemed that the EU deal was held up by a few fish, it highlights what little we have to bargain with. The USA deal in particular won't be pretty.

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Yep. I'm in Rownhams (tier 4). There are less cases here than in Totton (tier 3). That in itself makes no sense. If I worked in Totton I could go to work, but couldn't go to Asda in my lunch break. All a bit mental.

Anecdotally I've found it much higher than that. I only know a handful of leave voters amongst many many people who still believe leave is the right thing to do. Most, myself included, now see it as a mistake. That said, we (I)voted for it and whilst it's easy to blame the spin etc, we are where we are. Hopefully we can avoid WTO terms as the tariffs and the inevitable inflation increase will hit our economy hard. Putting aside the merits of leaving, it's been badly handled. It was obvious from day 1 that a deal wouldn't be easy, and it's come down to the best card up Boris's sleeve being access to our waters / fish. Brinkmanship on that point is daft, particularly as we don't have the industry and infrastructure to catch more fish, and without a deal with the EU, no market for selling it anyway.

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What a daft question. They've gone backwards from where they were, ie they have regressed as players rather than progressed. Whether they were first team players is irrelevant to the question of whether they've improved under Ralph, which they haven't. Slattery has (had) loads of potential but can't make a 9 man bench. Vokins hasn't kicked on. Ditto Valery.

Yep. Slattery and Valery have gone backwards too. Vokins arguably as well.

Shit. Hopefully not long. N'Lundulu or Tella please.

Many times. Inside into a tight space. Backwards. Anywhere than Djenepo unless there's no other option. It completely nullifies our left side.

Bertrand has no faith in Djenepo. Plays it to anyone apart from him.

Yep. He'd offer much more than Djenepo on the left.

He's having a good game. Our main threat.

There's nothing "spurious" about the political issue. Regardless of what players be saying is their motivation, the knee and the phrase Black Lives Matter are both associated with BLM. That's a hideous political organisation and it's understandable that right minded people do not agree with public displays which are associated with BLM. If you could dismount your high horse for long enough to read and understand what people are saying, you would understand the above. Moreover, you'd understand that not one person on here who objects to the knee and/or the BLM association, is against the message of equality and social justice. The irony is that BLM does not seek those things. Say no to racism. Kick it out. Etc. These are all great messages. They are non political. They are not controversial. Use something like this and there'll be no objection. However, use something that's linked to the black version of the EDL, and objection will grow and more people of limited understanding will wrongly shout racism.

Agreed re Armstrong. He plays his role well and is vital for us. What are you basing your opinion on Diallo on? It's equally possible that he'll thrive.

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Great track. I love this... https://g.co/kgs/aE87uj