Lighthouse

The sad thing about that is the number of innocent people trying to protect themselves he may have infected, walking around with Covid and no mask/SD. This is Darwinism at work.

You mean those fictional ones which no idiot in their right mind would dream of signing.

No doubt the loonies will described this as a whistle-blower being persecuted for telling the truth.

Maybe that's in the pipeline but I don't really like it. It's too 'jobs for the boys' for my liking. We should only be hiring people when and where they're needed based on their skill set. Not saying people can stick around because everyone likes them. I could be wrong but I'm far from convinced the likes of Kelvin and Radhi are revolutionary coaching gurus.

I certainly wouldn't offer him a 3 year deal, he's at the age where performance and fitness tends to drop off more often than not. Having spent the last two years trying to get players off the wage bill, it would naive to start stuffing it with aging players who contribute very little on the pitch. We've already made that mistake with Long, I'm hoping we don't repeat it with Bertrand and Walcott. People are quick to envy when another club signs an 'experienced pro', like Palace and Bournemouth with Cahill and Defoe respectively. The former has been fit 1/3 of the season and conceded 14 goals in 3 games, the latter spent two years of his three year deal being paid to go to Scotland.

By ambition, what you really mean is chucking large sums of money into a football club.

They were just a better team and with both fullbacks out it was an uphill struggle. In fact one could argue our first choice back four were all missing. Not something you’d expect a mid-table team to be able to overcome against a side playing that well.

We’re a 7th-12th team. Arsenal are a top 8 team who’ve been underperforming. It was always going to level out eventually.

Not even free (which it obviously would be) it would be a big slab of wage for relatively little in return. We’ve spent two years trying to shift players off the wage bill, let’s not undo it all now. Especially the way our finances look.

He’s the better of the two but I wouldn’t personally be signing Theo, aged 32 and our highest earner, based on his contribution so far.

We’ve had limited return from both of them this season.

Default Walcott.

I have an alibi for Tuesday so obviously I didn’t rob the bank on Wednesday.

Looked a bit tired running up to hit that, sub him off Ralph.

Kaboosh!

The stoppable force against the movable object.

You're only confirming my point - That no context statistics are inherently flawed.

The key word being, ‘related’. Most of them die from pneumonia, bronchitis or various forms of cancer.

The statistics also show that nobody ever dies from AIDS. It's quite clearly not just 'a bad flu' even if it does have similar pathology.

Just goes to highlight; this isn't a simple binary, live or die scenario.

Interesting, I didn't know that.

That in itself should tell you something. If we have a worse record than a government which spent a year telling their citizens to take dementia meds, inject themselves with Toilet Duck and crack on as normal, then clearly there is a lot more to it than simply who's in charge. The way we record deaths is another factor; if someone accidentally chokes themselves to death having a w*nk, 27 days after a positive COVID test, they end up on the statistics. I'm not sure how other countries record this exactly but we're not doing ourselves any favours there.

Well no, that’s not my point. It’s a combination of factors. It can’t be a coincidence that all the East Asian and Australasian governments are amazing but all the European governments are useless. I’m not defending our government’s handling of this but to say it’s primarily their fault is a fallacy.

No doubt they’ve dealt with it better, which I think comes from a few factors. Their governments are better organised. Their populations are better behaved and adhere to the rules They have experience from previous SARS outbreaks. They aren’t anywhere near as fat as we are.

Half the population, spread out across an area of land around 25 times the size and stuck in the bottom corner of the Indian Ocean, hundreds of miles from anyone. You can’t seriously compare Oz to the UK.