Lighthouse

Liverpool only on 40 points, teams have gone down with 42 before. I'd be a bit worried if I was a Scouser, can't see them scoring another point all season.

I think it’ll be like a tap, they’ll keep gradually turning on and waiting for the water level to stabilise. The deciding factor will be what they think the NHS can cope with long term. I think we’ll get to a point where 99% of fatalities were on their way out this year anyway. If anything this might actually help reduce hospital loads in the long term. If people who would have otherwise needed months of chemo and surgery for lung cancer instead drop dead after a week in a Covid ward, we might see a shift in our treatment of the elderly.

Personally I decided Dubai in April is unlikely, going to go for an early booking for October and see what happens.

I do love a bit of irony. The people I know who are the most anti-Tory (not just on this thread) appear to be the most aggrieved that they haven’t instructed them on exactly how to live their lives. It’d make a great phone in question for the BBC’s daily briefings; "prime minister, what will the infection rates be like in Faliraki between 19-26 August?"

Tempted to try Vest and Sally together at the back as I think they could end up being the best pairing eventually. Otherwise agree.

He's gone from the Ghanaian Vegard Forren to the Ghanaian Ian Pearce. Let's hope he can progress to the Ghanaian Chris Lucketti and eventually the Ghanaian Claus Lundekvam.

You can book whatever you want, just don’t start crying about the government if it gets cancelled or you’re unable to travel when it comes to D-day.

People tagging each other on a "List of guys/girls who...." - Followed by a list of about 50 of the most popular names in circulation, on Facebook.

It was 37 years ago. Yes you do.

That’s not your opinion, that’s just obvious and it’s a straw man argument. Nobody wants that, if we do spend £20m we want to sign somebody good.

1001 deaths reported today, nearly half the 1820 reported on Tuesday, typically the worst day, three weeks ago. Lowest positive tests since mid October too.

Poll added, multiple choice.

11 years yesterday we beat MK Dons to reach the JPT final.

I think it’s more the fact that the Kent strain is more transmissible, combined with Christmas being a giant, super spreader event. The deaths seem reasonably in proportion with the number of admissions, compared to April. Hospital admissions were 30% higher at their peak this time but the spike was also significantly wider. I believe somebody said the Kent strain raised the R number by around 0.7 compared to the classic version, which looks plausible given the data we’ve seen. Has anyone got any data for deaths per hospitalisation on both spikes? Obviously deaths per case would be the ideal ratio but with so little testing last April that’s pretty much impossible.

They won’t be selling too many DVDs of this game.

The joke’s starting to wear a bit thin, I’ll give you that. I keep looking in the news for any hope of change. 1049 deaths today, down 1/3 on last Monday so that’s something, I guess.

And I’d be astonished if he was on anywhere near £200k back then either. Even today it’s nothing compared to a top lawyer, banker or medical consultant.

Two women are on a girls night out and whilst walking home they desperately need to p*ss. They sneak into a nearby cemetery and crouch down behind a tombstone but suddenly realise they have nothing to wipe with. One woman thinks, ‘sod it I’ll just use my knickers and leave them here’. The second grabs the wreath for the grave she’s crouching on and uses that. The next day one of their husbands texts the other and says, "no more girls’ nights out, my wife came home last night with no knickers on!" The other guy replies, "think you’ve got problems? My wife had a card in her crack saying, ‘from all the guys down at the fire station, we’ll never forget you!’"

David Nugent is an England international. McCarthy has one cap, Forster hasn’t been in the squad for about five years now. I don’t care what they’ve got an eye on, both are a noticeable weakness in our team.

I’d look to offload both in summer if I’m completely honest, I’ve never thought either were anything special.

There was a Kenyan bloke on here a while back who, wouldn’t you know it, just so happened to have lots of inside information from connections within the club. It’s a privilege to have access to this forum, it really is.

He’s not a left back though, just filling in there. The only chance we’d have would be if City went and bought a decent LB, told OZ he wouldn’t get any game time at all and we promised him regular game time playing AM. It’s still unlikely but I’d much prefer that to signing Walcott permanently.

Our squad is no smaller than Man City. Obviously we have nowhere near the depth and quality but we could do a fair bit better if we could finally offload the dross accumulated by Reed and Wilson. If we can offload Forster, Lemina, Hoedt, Moi, Long (what were they thinking) and don’t keep Walcott we’ve suddenly got some wiggle room on the wage bill. Easily enough for a couple of half decent fullbacks and an attacker, possibly Minamino. Do that and half a dozen Europa League games suddenly looks plausible.

That’s a honeymoon if you live in Tipner.

Why on Earth would Zinchenko come to us? He’s playing regularly for the league leaders.