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A few probably but not most. No amount of brainwashing is going to convince a person of how glorious it is to watch your family and friends be arrested, tortured and murdered, whilst you're starving and eating rats.

Interesting stat on his overall team play. Since he joined we've scored 3 goals from open play at St Mary's, when he's been on the pitch. 2 of them were his.

The World's End is just starting on Film4. Cracking film.

1st September, right one cue.

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Yeah but mainly down to playing with an incredibly safe mentality, which was always going to lead to a low goal tally for both teams, regardless of personnel. I would have liked to get in a decent attacker but I think our problems are largely based on mentality, rather than talent. Tadic, Redmond, Boufal, JWP, Gabbi and Austin SHOULD have enough firepower between them to do a decent job, it's just getting the performances out of them.

I'd go with: Forster Cedders - Yoshi - Hoot - Bertrand Romeu - Lemon Redmond - JWP - Tadic Gabbi

You can, it'll just be a lot shorter.

I'm going with 8/10 1 mark dropped each for not replacing Long and selling Gardos. Other than that

Overall I'm fairly happy with that for a window. We've achieved our 3 main objectives: 1) Keep Virgil 2) Replace Fonte 3) Find a partner for Romeu We've also moved on 3 players who were offered little to the squad and were just taking up wages. I'd have liked to have seen replaced by a Premier League standard player and Gardos is now well beyond being surplus but you can't have everything.

Always preferred Natalie personally, although I wouldn't kick Kirsty out of bed for eating crackers.

Perhaps Trumps should fly to North Korea and meet with Kim Jong Un, then he can come home, step off Air Force 1 holding a piece of paper and declare, "Peace in our time".

That's your problem, you're looking at this from the 'it must be our fault somehow' viewpoint people talk about whenever there is a terrorist attack. This isn't America looking for a regime change, they have no interest in their economy, natural resources or anything else; It's a sparsely populated mountainous wasteland. This is about a nutter trying to build a nuclear ICBM so he can aim it at Seattle or San Francisco.

Yes, because Russia, as unfriendly as they might be politically, at least has a sane government. As much as they like sending their 60 year old bombers and only aircraft carrier into the North Sea to try and appear relevant, they aren't actually interested in a fight other than localised skirmishes in Russian speaking parts of Ukraine.

There are plenty of regimes out there who the Americans don't like and do just that but NK have gone above and beyond. This is a regime who arrested an American student and tortured him to death for stealing a poster. They are every bit as bad as the Nazis and seem to have little interest in peace. I don't think a country which watches its entire population starve, whilst spending billions on a nuclear war head and firing missiles into Japanese airspace, has much interest in diplomacy.

That's why the US may go beyond the rhetoric in order to stop the regime. They may even come to some agreement, 'you can have a puppet/satellite Chinese/communist/dictatorial government when we're done but we're not putting up with these nutters any more.'

I think WW3 is a slightly pessimistic take on things, it should really be isolated to the Western Pacific. NK doesn't really have any allies other than China and they won't want to risk nuclear war with The US over some tin-pot next door neighbour who are, quite frankly, an embarrassment to them.

It's not about minutes he just hasn't looked good, apart from a few tricks and turns. We've scored one goal in the last 8 games when he's been on the pitch (that's Saints as a team, not him personally) and that was at Boro when he started, wasn't involved and got dragged off at half time. I'm not saying Tadic is good at the moment but he at least has been in the past, more so when played on the left.

No maybe about it. In their eyes they are the glorious and righteous nation and America is the evil, western aggressor. That is of course entirely incorrect to the rest of the sane world. This incident may not start a war in itself but it certainly escalates things. The assassination of Franz Ferdinand proved what can happen when a small spark is added to the correct fuel mixture.

He will likely go AND we wont recruit another CB. Virgil, Hoot, Yoshi, JS and Jan is already enough.

None of those players is going to accept a rotational role for Saints and we could never afford it.

There's a difference though, a line in the sand which they've now crossed. You can do whatever you want inside your own territory, Russia is forever maneuvering troops around on the Latvian border and into Kaliningrad etc. but actively firing a weapon into another countries airspace is another step up entirely. More to the point the US really aren't after a fight, they're only responding to the aggression against them and South Korea/Japan. Your viewpoint seems akin to your older brother walking into your bedroom and hitting you, you hit him back and your mum says "stop it, you're both as bad as each other." You aren't really, are you, there's a clear difference in intentions.

As far as I am aware, the US aren't firing missiles into North Korean aispace. Had there been some sort of fault and a missile had come down on the Japanese mainland, even away from built up areas, it really would have escalated the situation.

It's more a comment of his Saints career in general. The answer is apparently a man who has scored two goals in a year, against Sunderland reserves and Boro.