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In the last year or so we’ve given contracts to Long and Walcott because they were ‘good lads to have in the dressing room’. Given our limited funds it would seem bizarre that they took priority over cover at fullback but that might be where we’re heading.

Sweet Caroline. I don’t know why every sporting event is trying to jump on the bandwagon of a crap, cheesy, dated Neil Diamond song. Even at the F1, the guy on the PA system was trying to get the crowd going with it on several occasions, to a somewhat tepid reception.

If you’re going to be substandard, you may as well be substandard in an area where we lack cover.

It ends when everyone is vaccinated. The virus needs a certain threshold of the population in order to sustain itself; a critical mass of people, if you like. Right now that mass is the 11% of people who refuse to get vaccinated. You are the minority of people keeping Covid 19 in circulation. Polio wasn't eradicated because that vaccine was 100% effective. It was eradicated because everyone realised how privileged they were to have a vaccine, took it, and the small percentage who weren't protected didn't matter. The threshold needed to keep it in circulation wasn't met and it died out; in other words, herd immunity. Basically it's up to you to answer your question. You can spend 10 minutes getting a free jab and we can end it completely in this country in 8 weeks, or you can not and we can keep arguing about masks, lockdowns and passports for the rest of our lives. 🤷‍♂️

Every man and his dog wants to sign someone like that. Finding someone who's any good is the tricky part and if we do they will cost an absolute fortune and be way out of our price range. Without serious investment we pretty much rely on scouting for the Bednareks, Salisus and Simeus of this world in the hope that they come good.

Me too. I can only assume it's just positive spiel for the sake of good PR. I can't imagine either party was ever sincere in that.

Supposing you were 19 and trying to get into a nightclub; the bouncer asks for i.d. Do you give it to him? Your name and date of birth is highly personal information, it applies only to you, so surely you can’t be happy being forced to disclose it in order to gain access to a business premises? Asking if you’re vaccinated is about the least personal question I can think of, all it does is narrow you down to someone within 90% of the adult population. It’s barely one step down from asking, ‘are you a homo sapien?’ In terms of how specific it is to you.

Perry would have been my shout, an exceptional reader of the game but perhaps we needed someone younger who’s still fit enough to play regular games at that level.

She clearly has a point. When people like you sincerely believe it’s, "a vaccine I don’t need for a virus I’m not going to die from," there is clearly far too much complacency and misinformation out there. No, because unlike anti-vaxxers we don’t have any choice in the matter. We’ve done our bit, if a small percentage refuse to get vaccinated, ever, our only alternative is to stay in our homes for the rest of our lives, over an issue we have no influence on. There’s no credible hypothesis for long term health problems. Contrary to some of the conspiracies, the vaccine doesn’t alter your DNA, you aren’t going to sprout an extra b*llock in 15 years. A hysterical straw-man, I can’t help you there.

Because I, or someone I care about, could be one of the people who is fully vaccinated but not protected by the vaccine. One of my loved ones could die because they’re stood next to someone like you at a football match, who made a ‘personal choice’ not to get vaccinated for no reason other than pure obstinance. Their health is more important to me than your so-called freedom. Yes, it’s a poor choice and poor choices have unfortunate consequences. Paranoia. Meaningless conjecture based on nothing but crackpot theories on the internet. There is no ‘next step’ nor any slippery slope. Vaccines were developed decades ago for polio, smallpox, MMR etc. People took them and the disease was near enough wiped out, end of story.

No, they stopped giving one of the jabs to U40s because they were being ultra-cautious in response to some evidence of very, very rare blood clots affecting 0.0006% of younger people. Most likely they didn’t want these cases being seized upon by anti-vaxxers in an attempt to put people off, like you’ve done with Lisa Shaw.

We’ve been through this. The government aren’t making you do anything, you have a choice, you’ve made a poor one and you may have to deal with the consequences to protect public health. Nobody forces you to get a drivers license - You do need one to drive a car Nobody forces you to get a passport - You do need one to get on a plane Nobody is forcing you to get vaccinated - You may need one to enter various public buildings and private premises.

What’s your point? The government are trying to reach out to the younger generation in ways which are relatable.

Aside from the fact that that’s purely anecdotal, it’s very simple to explain. As the percentage of people vaccinated increases, the proportion of people with Covid who had the vaccine will also increase. If the whole country had been fully vaccinated and 10 people died in the whole year, you would still be able to claim that, "100% of the people who died of Covid had been vaccinated, therefore the vaccines don’t work." It would be a completely false interpretation of the data, like saying "100% of people who died from cancer last year had heads, therefore having a head gives you cancer." Again anecdotal. People die of blood clots related to all sorts of issues, most of which are much, much more prevalent that the Covid vaccine. It’s strange how you worry about this but when otherwise healthy 30 year olds are dying on mechanical ventilation beds, you just pass it off as, "oh well but yeah, that won’t happen to me."

The difference being that last year there was no vaccine and we had no choice in the matter.

Nice and Lemina announced this two days ago. Starting to think I might be right.

Nilsson brings them down a bit too but Anders’ missus probably makes up for that.

Yes, bravo, you’ve finally got it!! They’re the reason YOU need to get vaccinated, because if you don’t you’re far more likely to put people like that in hospital. What about the people who wore seatbelts and still died in car crashes?

Tell that to all the outpatients who’ve had treatments delayed because doctors and nurses are too busy dealing with people who, "don’t need the vaccine, it’s my personal choice."

It’s an item of clothing usually worn when our home shirt clashes with that of another team, but that’s not important right now.

VAR check on the former. wiki lists him variously as Tajik, Ukrainian and Soviet Union and he was here across the period when the USSR collapsed.

We’ve got hospitals and graveyards full of people who said that and every medical professional of any credibility is saying anyone who is able should get the vaccine; medically vulnerable or otherwise. Saints fans are a minority compared to Man Utd fans. I’m fine with that and I’m fine with this. That evil government department, the DVLA, won’t let you onto public roads unless you obtain a drivers license. Very exclusive of people who can’t be bothered doing a driving test they don’t need… except it isn’t. Being excluded means you have literally no way of being included, like putting signs on pubs saying, "no blacks." Anything you could overcome in ten minutes, for free, at a walk in vaccination centre is not ‘exclusion’.

Argentina for me. Two absolute nightmares, in Osvaldo and Carrillo. Gazza was pretty crap and Sarmiento did naff all.

I was just about to post something like this but you’ve saved me the bother. I’m baffled by the number of people who don’t know the difference between ‘human rights’ and ‘terms and conditions’.

😆 You're refusing to spend ten minutes of your life receiving a free vaccine, a privilege many in the developing world would give their right arm for. You are not Rosa Parks.