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Be extremely worried if this lot turn their attention on Saints. The whole point of a SPAC, generally, is it's a shell company designed solely to take over an asset - any asset - and drive it hard towards a low-cost, lower regulated public offering. Once a hyped-up IPO is done, the investors are paid off and the acquired asset is left to sink or swim. Think of Lowe, only bigger and far worse. It would be a disaster for Saints.

This thread should be moved to the main board, and not sit here, where far fewer people will see it.

Plus the liability of a high-interest loan that will be difficult to pay down.

Well I'm excited by this old news. Also, quite good name for Scrabble points.

Come on you two, it's one or the other.

Your football ideas are about as old as some of your furniture Nick.

If Ederson sees Adams 50 meters out he'll be back on his line in a heartbeat.

Forster has a little bit of history when having to pull out all the stops, literally, against superior teams. Ask Barcelona.

You prefer a womxn?

Wait...what?

This is the question Brexiters never answer. So let's see what happens...

Dear god, this is stupid. A club historian defending the idea of 'whipping boy' is a new low.

If you want to torture yourself, fine. But the relationship between ethics, principles and action is rarely mechanical. For example, showing audiences video of the suffering of animals in slaughterhouses or in factory farming usually - so long as it's not an audience of psychopaths - evokes emotions of disgust and horror. The logical-seeming response is to convert wholesale to veganism. But that is unlikely to happen, and there are other ways to defend animal welfare standards, not least through public campaigns leading to legislative change. So there's a difference between giving up meat and campaigning for change - given that only a small minority is going to give up meat, by far the more effective action is to support better welfare standards. Similarly with Amazon. Is it better to stop shopping there, knowing everyone else will carry on, or to support things like unionisation of its workforce (Bezos is notoriously and aggressively anti-union, so even that's not an easy ask). Or, as today, instead of boycotting Uber, welcoming the Supreme Court's ruling against Uber and its horrifically exploitative practice of luring in drivers as 'contractors', hooking them up to punitive 'deals' on car ownership and insurance, then hitting them with successive pay cuts and increased costs? Oh, and it's evasion that's illegal, not avoidance. But today's avoidance can easily turn into tomorrow's evasion - it all depends on legal challenges and rulings.

Wow, an entire thread full of luxury beliefs - where you can have an opinion on something that has absolutely no effect on you.

Was KWP's original injury a hamstring? I didn't think it was. In any case, I dread when he's out of the team. Such a key player.

Oh god, no.

WTF? Subs!!

Interesting idea. How did Ramsey do? I can't bear to look.

Good question, with a bonkers answer.

He wasn't 'left-wing' anything really, except in some sort of accidental way. Knuckle-headed conspiracy theories were his thing. I remember he was so politically inept he wound up as a delegate at a far-left party conference that was considering whether ISIS was a 'progressive' force. But he also found time to jump into conspiracy theories common on the far-right. He was nothing more than a Marjorie Taylor Greene bot.

Do you know what Winston Smith's job is in Orwell's 1984?

You're in Derby. How much worse can it be?

I see that hyper-Trumpist lawyer L Lin Wood has just called on Twitter for the arrest and execution by firing squad of Mike Pence. Seems logical, from his deranged POV. BTW, an anagram of L Lin Wood is Wild Loon.

Wrong. It's not a passive thing of 'recording'. There are reasons why our numbers are so bad.

It sounds like we've already allowed the disease to run wild. The US today hit the grim milestone of having one in a thousand of its citizens die from coronavirus. Only four countries in the world have a worse record: Peru, Spain, Italy...and the UK. Somehow the Johnson cabal have managed to kill the most people for the most damage to the economy.