Lighthouse

If there’s anything I’d want removing from the roads it’s horses. Between the dung and the extreme caution you have to take not to spook them, they’re a nuisance.

Yes. JWP’s fitness and free kicks are to be admired. That aside, he’s really nothing incredible. Vest had period of good form last year before his injury, that aside he’s been thoroughly mediocre. £25m each on decent replacements and £15m for a LB, suddenly we’re a better team than last year. Recruitment has to be on point though.

They had moments where it looked like they might have potential and could be worth persevering with. Dan… nothing.

Quick? He’s 22 and has made no impact whatsoever on the first team. He’s the kind of substandard squad filler we’d be well rid of if we want to recruit better.

Turkey playing Australia this afternoon.

Looks like another Finnish opponent is off to hospital.

I paid him £30 to say Coronavirus is real and he can’t wait to get vaccinated. Worth every penny.

If we didn’t sack Ralph after losing 15 out of 21, or whatever it was, I doubt we’ll do it for not winning 5 or 8. Anyway, look on the bright side, we never win our opening fixture or our trip to Goodison. Now we’ve managed to consolidate the two into one convenient defeat, it frees up another game we might get a draw from.

A combination of high vaccination rate, a more cavalier president, (probably) much lower prominence of the Indian variant and, going by that BBC chart, a much lower BAME population.

Sounds good to me, although we’ll probably still end up about 16th 👍 I’d prefer the tough run to be right at the start. There’re always a couple who have indifferent starts to the campaign, I’d rather catch them before they get their rhythm. Remember the start we had when we first came up? We were a combined 20 minutes or so away from beating both United and City. A Koeman or Poch team would have seen those two off relatively comfortably and probably got a routine 2-0 win over Wigan in between.

It sounds counter intuitive but when you think about it, it actually makes sense. The ratio will continue to look worse and worse, the more people that get vaccinated. We will reach a point we’re something like 85% of the people dying have been fully vaccinated. The antivaxxers will look upon this with triumph as look, "see we told you they don’t work, you’re all brainless sheep!" They will completely fail to understand that 15% of fatalities coming from 3% of the population is actually terrible for them.* *figures pulled straight out the hole in my arse but you get the principle.

You're looking at it the wrong way. Taking those figures at face value and supposing for simplicity's sake that AZ is 92% effective against death (ignoring hospital admissions) - 12 people is 8% of the people who would have died with no vaccine. In other words 12/8x100 = 150, plus the other 30 unvaccinated people. In other words, roughly speaking, the jab is the reason we had 42 deaths instead of 180.

Ah but is he a great lad in the dressing room? I'll pass thanks.

Just so long as our run in is tolerable. I wouldn’t want to be in a relegation scrap and needing points from our last four games again City, Everton, Leeds and Chelsea.

This isn't aimed at you but there's plenty of evidence out there for anyone willing to read it and when people already have their minds made up, you can lead a horse to water... I don't want to trigger another religious argument on this thread, but it's a bit like trying to disprove somebody's god. If there's no evidence for something then it's very hard to debunk.

The vaccine myths are completely, utterly, totally, unequivocally debunked. Some people however are just beyond help. Anyone wittering on about Bill Gates, 5G and ‘the great global reset’ whereby the masses stop er… going to nightclubs for a bit?? … is clearly devoid of all logic, reason and commonsense.

It’s a fair question but I would argue that in turning down the vaccine you’ve already refused treatment, so what right do you have then demanding much more prolonged and resource consuming treatment. There’s a difference between people with unhealthy lifestyles and what I would consider to be passive self-harming. If people refuse the vaccine I would ‘defer’ their treatment until we’ve caught up with all the cancer patients who don’t have any choice. It you have to wait six months for a ventilator, well that’s a shame, isn’t it.

It would be nice if we were allowed to refuse treatment for anyone who chooses not to get vaccinated but apparently that’s not ethical.

Never understood players ‘taking one for the team’ when they’re in their own half, with two defenders covering and 70 yards to run to the goal. Doesn’t seem worth getting booked on the off chance some random Slovakian midfielder might pull off an Owen vs. Argentina.

Wouldn’t mind if our scouts had been keeping an eye on Yaremchuk as a possible Ings replacement. Goal and assist tonight, decent scoring rate in Belgium. Probably out of our price range, having said that.

Yeah but they usually get cocky and start pushing their luck. That’s when you nail them with the Mr Sheen.

Just for reference, today we reported 7490 cases and increasing. The last time we had roughly that many and increasing was September 24th. Back then this coincided with 422 admissions and 40 deaths. Today it coincided with 187 admissions and 8 deaths. It’s a crude analysis but the ratio across all three is undoubtedly much higher, so that’s promising.

As things are, there doesn’t seem to be anything to be alarmed about. Cases have been increasing for around a month but so far patients in hospital have only gone up by around 200 from their minimum of 869 back in May. Nobody is arguing that we can’t stay as we are, it’s all about what the models predict will happen to the R number if we end all restrictions and infections start to climb at a much faster rate than they are currently.

“Sterling involved in deadly London Shooting” - The Sun

Yes. 9 months of lock down to save one life is exactly what I'm hoping for.