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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.

It'll be double that. Those 3 will be costing us £200k PW, or £10m a year in other words. Although the Forster contract extension was mental, the purchase of Gunn was really silly with the others on the payroll. I can't see who'd buy any of them.

Yep, he's decent.

Decent half. Neat and tidy everywhere. Good shift from Walcott, but we don't look threatening from out wide. Not sure why Ings has been benched, hard to see that it's a footballing decision unless he's carrying a knock.

That I do. I've been at work for months, seeing clients face to face, mixing with family and friends. Life's very much back to normal for me. On the rest of it, the numbers you posted showed an increase week on week. Subsequent lockdown easing is irrelevant to that - that increase happened during a period when rules hadn't changed. Sure, the tickle upwards may have been due to increased testing, but it's an indisputable fact that in a week when more people were vaccinated, more people tested positive. It's obvious why that would concern the government.

Weston's post referred to a week on week increase...no idea if he's right, but that's what he wrote. Assuming he's right, it ain't going in the right direction - it's pretty obvious that increased vaccinations should equate to reduced cases.