Lighthouse

My only criticism would be the big white circle at the start of the sponsors logo. Why that could have been empty to allow the red stripe to be unbroken I don’t understand.

So six players, more than half a team, who’ve just been relegated would walk into our team but Ralph is doing a terrible job?

Nope. Not a Scooby what this one means, sorry. Germany had one or two things on their mind in the nineties. A couple of small issues which kinda took priority in a post-Soviet, relatively peaceful Europe.

That’s two completely made up ‘what if’s which, which have basically zero chance of happening. They haven’t fired first, nobody ever has in the history of MAD, that’s the whole point. What you’re basically saying is, "if they decide to end the world as we know it…" Russia doesn’t have that capability. They have nowhere near the finance nor the expertise to build such a weapon and if they did the Americans would be ten steps ahead of them. Russia can’t even win a conventional war against Ukraine, partly because they can’t even put functioning tyres on their military equipment.

The attack does show an increasingly desperate urge to lash out and cause terror by any means possible, from Russia. There’s a whiff of the V1 and V2 attacks on London, striking at civilians targets well out of reach of his armies, for no strategic reason.

Firstly, whilst we clearly had the capability, we’re clearly not going to nuke Buenos Aires for the sake of a few penguins. Secondly, Islam isn’t a country, you can’t just nuke a concept and if you could the people carrying out those attacks would welcome mutual destruction. Thirdly, Putin would be a heck of a lot more brave himself in all of this if NATO didn’t have their own nuclear weapons.

How many nuclear capable countries have actually been invaded or attacked? Not including remote archipelagos, 8,000 miles away.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-61961871 Americans will be horrified when they realise that all those people are former embryos.

You can’t just ‘have oil’ and everything is fine. For a start the amount they produce per capita is relatively low. Certainly nowhere near any of the big Gulf producers, or even Canada and Norway. Secondly they are subject to big sanctions and just don’t have anywhere near a diverse enough economy to stand up alone. They just don’t produce the things they need in house. Take aviation as an example, their soviet era Tupolevs and Ilyushins are all gone and they rely almost entirely on western aircraft, which they now can’t acquire or get parts for. As a result they’re just going to have to keep cannibalising planes until they run out. The only thing they do make is a small regional jet and even that has engines built in France.

But they would be able to pull out and declare themselves as the saviours of Russia’s economy, or some guff along those lines.

I’m afraid as part of the great population reset, I’ve been ordered to lock this thread. Every word kev has posted is completely true and we can’t risk any more classified information being leaked.

That’s an incredibly skewed take on it. You basically assumed we have no other money for transfer OR wages other than what we get for selling Prowsey. Taking your 3x £100k wages as a given, JWP is probably on that himself and FF wouldn’t have been far off. If we can offload any of Long, Djenepo, Bednarek etc. that’d be at least £50k each, so with bad coming in we’re basically even. Essentially you’re talking about spending £35m on agents fees for two Adam Armstrongs and a Svanberg, which would just be madness.

If you're going to assume a worst case scenario, I'll say; what if JWP does his ACL 10 minutes into the game at the THS? Les and Ross aren't here any more and the signings made since they left have, overall, looked at least competent despite an incredibly limited budget up until now.

Another decent performance, looking forward to next Friday’s return game.

16 other clubs have managed to avoid relegation without JWP, I don’t see why we couldn’t if we invested £100m even semi-competently and that’s on top of the money we are able to spend anyway.

Just mental, they honestly do more to protect an embryonic collection of cells than a child at school.

What if we had a £25m striker, midfielder and centre half in those games and won them comfortably, as well as the Watford, Newcastle and Brentford games? That last sentence makes no sense, you’re basically saying what if we sold him and spent zero on any players, which would obviously be daft. I would say yes, definitely, for £75m.

The fact that Katie Price could go on a Jihadi rampage through west London and still get a suspended sentence and 100 hours community service.

I thought they were getting that Alvarez lad from Argentina, as well as Haaland? It would seem that if anything, there will be fewer opportunities up front, even if Jesus leaves.

Fair point, post it again. Sorry, I can’t undelete it.

It wasn’t removed because of the word, if you feel the need to use or reference it in the right context then carry on. However, I don’t think there’s much point or taste in discussing, "is Gary Lineker a Paki," even in a thread as low brow as this.

From 167-2 to 194-9 in 4 overs.

We’ve suddenly remembered how to bowl. That was done and dusted after 14 overs. Wow!

Different gravy. Need to keep this tight in case it rains and goes to DLS.

Somehow, some people never seem to see this coming, over and over and over again. Sturridge, Defoe, Walcott, Bertrand… this summer it’s Bale and Phil Jones who you’d be mad not to want to sign, apparently.