Lighthouse

No worries, we’ll tell him to stand near Brighton's penalty spot, facing the goal and try to control it.

Christ, how long was Welbeck unmarked then?!

What a pointless yellow in the 11th minute, Welbeck was in his own half for crying out loud.

The fact that we’re talking about a man who, in half a season, has managed 0 goals, 2 assists, the mobility of a P&O ferry and can barely stay fit for half a game, just shows how pathetic the rest of our options are.

Russ on Sky confirming it is an injury for McC.

Can I just point out that losing Adam, "a top professional and great lad to have in the dressing room," Lallana doesn’t seem to have hampered Brighton in any way whatsoever, to the same extent it hasn’t helped us either. Perhaps we can finally put this myth to bed and stop coming up with such nonsense reasons for signing players.

Wasn’t McC playing with a slight knock last time? Perhaps he’s aggravated at some point in the last five days, hence Lumley.

Pleased to read this. A long way to go obviously but this is a bill which will help the most desparately suffering members of society.

It is that bad. Premier League teams have a Premier League team and Premier League players on the bench to change things if needed. We just about put out half a Premier League team, the rest is Championship level filler.

I never said that he would.

Correct. We had the talent to take the lead but the mistakes made by the likes of Downes, Suga and threw away those games. Trying to guess points totals is a mugs game but I was expecting to be comfortably bottom based on our squad and if someone had told me 4 points after 12 games, I wouldn’t have been the least bit surprised.

What are you on about? I was disagreeing with somebody who was literally saying our squad is good. It isn’t. As to the rest of your post, teams with no fight about them don’t lead Arsenal and Liverpool with an hour on the clock, they’re usually 3-0 down by half time. The team is clearly trying, they just lack talent.

What’s your point? You’ve just named two clubs who were either relegated or are also in the relegation zone. Are squad is not a good one. Any side who gets promoted and gives contracts to Wood, McCarthy, Fraser and Brereton Diaz is not aiming high.

So no medical diagnosis of terminal illness then, a made up scare story which conveniently skips the massive safeguard of a judge having to sign off on two independent doctors diagnosis.

No, a ‘greedy sod’ is someone who takes three slices of cake when it’s someone’s birthday in the office. If your mother gets told she has terminal cancer and has 4 months to live, if your reaction to that is, "no mum, you need to die right now!" You’re not a greedy sod, you’re literally a soulless psychopath. The situations you’re talking about basically involve someone’s entire family being cold blooded killers and the doctors being completely oblivious. You’re deliberately trivialising the issue to make a very specific and unlikely set of circumstances seem like a mundane occurrence which will happen every week. The argument doesn’t miss the point at all, if you’re talking about the kind of coercion that risks a lengthy prison sentence, there really is no motivation to kill someone who’s terminally ill anyway.

The squad is not good. Five, maybe six players are good enough to play in his league. The rest are Championship players.

This social media post aged like a prawn sandwich.

Basically you would need someone who is medically diagnosed as terminally ill AND all their living relatives are literal psychopaths AND they are collectively able to mislead all medical authorities AND the patient involved has to be completely complicit and not raise any flags during consultation with their doctors. It's a very rare set of circumstances which would be very hard to orchestrate for a family who, as you pointed out, is going to get all the money in a few months anyway. That risk doesn’t come close to outweighing the suffering of thousands which will be eased by this bill.

Phil Taylor getting drunk and a bit lairy again.

I've no idea if this device would be legally approved in the UK if the bill passes but it seems decent in principle to me. Hypoxia is probably about the most painless and humane way to go, with the least associated risk of side effects or complications. Certainly most of the aviation accidents attributed to hypoxia have basically involved everyone onboard falling asleep and never waking up, like the Helios accident and the one which killed Payne Stewart.

There’s no reason at all to think that sacking a manager in December is in any way relevant to the following season. That’s just nonsense that you keep bringing up for no apparent reason. I’ve no idea why you keep coming up with these weird scenarios and asking me if they’re true, as if they’re somehow my opinions, but it’s getting boring now.

I’m not trying to make any kind of connection between replacing a manager in December any form the following season. Sheaf claimed that we’d struggle at the start of next season if we still had the same manager who’d achieved very poor results this season. That isn’t necessarily true, Sheff U are a very good current example of why not.

Probably the same cuckoo land as the over 31,000 fans who’ve attended every game at St Mary’s this season, despite RM being here and losing every week. If we go back to winning most weeks in the Championship, the crowds will remain pretty healthy, regardless of what happens this season.

If we go down with Martin we will be amongst the favourites to get promoted. If you can arrange a ‘definitely guaranteed to get us promoted’ manager, that’d be wonderful too but ultimately the squad we’re likely to have left, with Martin will be one of the favourites. We might win the Championship, we might not. We don’t even know which other teams are doing up or down with us yet. I can’t get my head around the mental gymnastics you’re trying to do with Wilder. His team was utterly abysmal for the latter 2/3 of the season but now they’re top of the league. The difference between them and Luton is nothing to do with that. After Wilder was appointed, Luton outscored Sheff U 17 points to 11 in the remainder of the season, so how does that work?

A wonderfully constructed argument, I know when I’m beaten. Goodnight.