Lighthouse

This isn’t NFL. We can’t just bring a kicker onto the pitch every time we want to kick for a field goal.

I think you need to send my post back to Bletchley Park and ask them to try again. Anyway, today’s games could be interesting. You’d imagine Austria and Ukraine would both take a draw and go through in second/third with four points. If the Danes beat Russia, there will be a three way tie for second in the other group. As it happens I don’t think they will but it could all come down to GD and last minute goals. Anyone remember the Sweden, Denmark and Italy group from Euro 2004?

I can’t argue with that. Want to meet up behind the bike sheds?

TBH I’ve long since lost interest in anything Collin has to say. This brand of crackpottery isn’t particularly interesting.

The one year of reduced testosterone levels is just an arbitrary line drawn in the sand because the IOC are scared of offending anyone. They don’t want to upset trans people by not letting them compete but they don’t want to upset women by letting them get their arses kicked by biological men.

Agreed. England need a Steven Davis type midfielder to link defence to attack.

I think we’ve jumped the shark on this one. For anyone interested, photos of other women are also available on the internet.

TBH what I meant was what I actually wrote, with the words and structured sentences and all that stuff. Any particular word giving you trouble from that post of mine you highlighted?

Now that is a can of worms. So basically anything involving a crucifix is out. Players making the sign of the cross when they run on the pitch or score.

So yeah, Scholes went to the World Cup…

Good grief, it’s like watching a Puel team.

Scuffed it!

Wow, this is Saints all over. Just pedestrian, passing it around without desire or intensity.

Rickie puts that in.

Never in a million years is that a penalty but it’s Lovren so 🤣🤣🤣

Nearly goal of the tournament there from Isak.

Ironically, I’d agree with that on pretty much every issue other than this one. It’s quite hard to back that up when Long was terrible in basically every appearance last season, was loaned out to the Championship 6 months into a 2 year contract and to top it all even Bournemouth didn’t rate him playing at that level. Anyway, it’s happened and we can’t change the past. I just wish we weren’t wasting money repeating the same mistakes.

He started so many games because we were short in genuine quality up front. If our analysts, coaches and Ralph actually rated him as being worthy of a place in a Premier League squad then I have serious worries about how low we’re aiming.

I can assure you that none of that was said with a modicum of hindsight on my part. No variation in Adams form would have made Long worth keeping. If he hadn’t kicked in later in the season then we’d simply have had two substandard players on the books. This argument is the football equivalent of trying to get out of detention by saying, "yes but the other boy was doing it too!" It was a mistake, which we’ve repeated with Walcott this year and tried to double down on by offering Bertrand a new contract.

Again you’re conflating two separate points. Racism existing and the country having a race problem. People get murdered in Luxembourg. Luxembourg does not have a murder problem.

Surely if people like Farage were the norm, he wouldn’t get any publicity? The very fact that he is such a controversial character with such niche support, indicates that his views aren’t exactly mainstream and that the majority of the country disagree with him. He certainly isn’t a patch on Trump, Berlusconi, Orban, Putin, Lukashenko or Le Pen (the French equivalent of the BNP regularly get c.20% of the vote at general elections)

Bagpuss is out of a job. He single handedly took them to the Champions League before, has never been relegated and spotted Ronaldo and Messi as embryos but the chairman refused to sign them.

If the club genuinely didn’t know that a 33 year old player would be in the decline, I worry about them. He wasn’t and has never been on a cliff either. His form fell off a sandcastle. We should have let him go. Even before Walcott signed we had Ings, Adams, Obi, N’Lundulu and at a push Redmond who call all play up front. Long added nothing to that. Of course Ings is going to say nice things about his team mate, which the clubs media dept. Can put a positive spin on, that graphic means sod all. Ings scored goals because Ings is good. He has been every bit as good when partnered with Adams, his form two years ago had very little to do with Long.