Lighthouse

I can’t tell if you’re being ironic or not.

In all seriousness it sounds like Gao is selling at a bit of a loss so… is he going to be executed?

I agree, he’s like a dog that farts, sh*ts on the carpet, can’t do any tricks and humps the vicars leg when he comes over for tea… but the family wouldn’t be the same without him.

It’s all a bit weird, a 19 year old demanding to leave a PL club for more game time, ending up in the Swiss league and still not getting picked. I can only assume some agent or adviser has him convinced he is far better than he actually is.

They’re not our youngsters and were both clearly quality when they arrived from Chelsea. I just don’t see any evidence of Long or Walcott offering anything special off the pitch. I don’t know in what way we’d be worse as a squad if they weren’t here. I’m sure they are model professionals, who try their best and the young players say nice things about them but I don’t see that translating into anything on the pitch.

One would be forgiven for thinking we aren't seeing the worst case scenario models which you have been obsessing over.

I’ve explained it in plain English as best I can, if you still can’t work it out I can’t help you. You, Turkish and Casey have been posting these ‘scare stories’ about worst case scenarios with quite persistent regularity, normally tagged with sarcastic captions about how we’re all doomed. Yet you’re also the same people loudly proclaiming you were right and that these same stories, which you chose to post of your own free will, are clearly bollocks. Carry on but I’m done.

You’re contradicting yourself within the space of the same paragraph. The numbers weren’t bollocks, they were a worst case scenario, those are two completely different things. What’s just strange here is that you and Brett seem to be under the impression that nobody else had any idea that this was the case and that you’ve somehow been proved right. Everybody knows these were worst case scenario models. Nobody was terrified that they were the most likely scenario to actually come true.

I have no idea what you mean by the word, "it". What was all scaremongering? The government asked SAGE to produce models for a variety of different scenarios, which were very hard to predict, including worst case scenarios of 3-5,000 deaths per day. Media outlets naturally ran with those scenarios because they make headlines and sell papers/online ad-space. Actual figures shouldn’t get anywhere near those numbers because we have taken precautions. All of that is fairly obvious to anyone with basic critical thinking and information processing skills. When the stewardess on a plane shows you your life jacket, that’s not scare mongering it’s a worst case scenario you’re better off being aware of.

You need to think more critically about phrases like, "could be," and, "as many as." Not to mention the turbo charged booster campaign and restrictions which HAVE been brought in, like compulsory masks and WFH.

They did what every other club does, only they got caught and were forced to pay a world record fee for a defender as a result. If pressed for an opinion, I'd say Virgil was a moody git, but other than that I'm over it.

Just out of interest, by show of hands, who on here was not actually aware that SAGE were asked to provide worst case scenario modeling, or that the media may take these projections and use them for clicks and scary headlines?

Watching West Brom - Cardiff, all kicking off after the final whistle. Two players red carded after F.T.

Bright ‘flash’ surely?

Without JWPs bizarre cross field pass in the 97th minute, Brighton would have been level on points with us an hour ago. He’s a decent mid-table manager, like Ralph, Hodgson, Nuno and Smith. Nothing more.

I'm not sure what you mean by that but the experience of Long and Walcott does not appear to be adding anything of value to the squad. If they are then I dread to think what we'd be like without them.

We’ve been crap for almost the entirety of 2021, none of our youngsters have made any impression on the first team. The likes of Obafemi and Jankewitz were dogged by rumours of poor motivation and an unprofessional attitude. We’ve been mentally weak, constantly shipping goals in injury time, throwing away leads and having lapses in concentration. If Long and Walcott are here to instal morale and a professional attitude in their teammates then I want my money back.

When I first saw the thread title, he did immediately leap to mind as the kind of bloke who makes the hens in Burnley stop laying. Actually it was my second thought after, "I guess Austin doesn’t count anymore."

Well, onto the next maybe fixture I guess. Swansea’s game against Fulham on Monday has already been called off due to covid cases in the South Wales camp.

I’d prefer to have a nice healthy gap to four sh*t teams at the bottom, before I start worrying about the ethics of who owns Newcastle. In other news, two decent West Ham goals. Defending a bit ropey for the second.

More to the point he’s 31 and Newcastle won’t be competing for anything for at least four or five years.

Everton’s new signing, Vitaliy Mykolenko, "I have seen the last few games at Goodison Park and they were unbelievable." Everton’s last five games at Goodison Arsenal - Won 2-1 Liverpool - Lost 1-4 Spurs - Drew 0-0 Watford - Lost 2-5 West Ham - Lost 0-1

Weirdly, it’s the people obsessively posting these articles every day who are also telling everyone else how scared we are.

It’s hard to hate any of them, they’re all the same bland, soulless PR exercise of some foreign, human rights abusing regime.