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His leaving Sky has nothing to do with covid. He left for the same reason Stelling is leaving, and Merse would have if he didn't need the money. I won't go into the reason, but it has nothing to do with this.

Forget all the science, that doesn't help your argument. Anyone who's not had a vaccine already has decided they're not having one. You're not convincing me that a decision will be influenced by Tiss. This is just about people like you enjoying a whinge.

Quite. I'm not sure why people are getting so irritated by it. It's hardly likely that someone wavering about the vaccine will log in to twitter and be swayed by the "advice" of Tiss. He's a man with opinions and spouts them as he's entitled to. Who gives a shit.

Now now, Jim is a nice bloke. Awful persona, but nice bloke.

xG is bollox. People talk about people overperforming or underperforming their xG, but don't stop to think that the xG was wrong to begin with. Take Telles from Man Utd. He's had 3 shots on goal since he's been back in the team. 2 have hit the woodwork from free kicks, 1 has been on target. On a stats basis he's had 2 off target efforts so his xG is shit. In the real world though, he's on free kicks, is bloody accurate, and one of those woodwork efforts will doubtless go in soon. If it does, some numpty will say he's overperforming on his xG. On the rest of it, nonsense. We didn't lose that game because of one player. We lost because we blew ourselves out after 20 mins, then got picked off with our naive zonal marking again being an issue. Our players are average, ditto our manager.

Tray

Sure will, hopefully it'll be all or most of the 1922 committee.

Yep. The youngsters at work are shitting themselves. Sad.

Yep, sure is. The panic in people since Boris's announcement is unbelievable. Christmas events being cancelled all over the place, and people looking like the world is ending. Gotta live with this and crack on with life.

I think it's inevitable that 3 jabs for a pass, and a pass to do most things, is coming.

Nitrate

So will you be declining your booster Del?

This keeps getting said. The vaccinated can also pass the virus on. The unvaccinated are putting themselves at risk, ditto the NHS, but aren't a greater risk to the vaccinated than the vaccinated are.

Stuffed

They'll have one on the team. I knew a lad who was in house counsel for a now disbanded team, he followed them everywhere.

Couldn't agree more. Max put himself behind several cars when putting and to have them cleared, and the gap eliminated is a disgrace.

Are the restrictions actually restrictive though? Ours aren't in reality, pop a mask on inside, but otherwise go where you want and do what you want. For now anyway.

Good post and agree with you. The zonal marking is appalling. Arsenal aren't so fluid that our players can't mark a man. The tactic is so easy to exploit its embarrassing, and as you say, the players haven't got a clue. The worst thing I hear from fans is that we can't get anyone better, so let's stick with what we have. What a load of bollocks - if I was in a shit relationship I'd get the hell out there regardless of whether I've got someone else lined. Sticking with it would be mental, just like sticking with Ralph is. He has to go.

Thank. You. I. Am. Grateful.

You're not wrong. We're done. Ralph was done last season but stayed and look at us now. Sure, we've got injuries everywhere, but those that we have look like they have no idea what's going on at the moment, and after 20 mins or so yesterday, looked like they didn't want to be out there. Staying up looks to be a challenge. I'm guessing it'll be Redmond up top with one of Tella, Long or Walcott over the next few games. Fuck. I'd like to see the lad Olaigbe given a go personally but can't see it happening.

Some people here are lined up for jab 4. My mum is. She has an underlying health issue so apparently needs it. Here's the thing though, there's no "ffs" about it. She's told that she needs it for the good of her health so she'll roll up her sleeve, take 10 mins out of her life, and give herself a better chance of fending off covid if/when she gets it. I'm accepting that covid is here to stay and I'll need boosters regularly. Not sure what the issue is.

Bar

That was dire. We're fucked.

Where's this herd immunity that you said we reached months ago?

We haven't got herd immunity...we're getting nearly 60k cases a day. Not your best post.