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Several NFL players have tried to get around the sport's covid protocols with faked vaccination certificates, perhaps the Australians think Djokovic is doing the same.

If you want to enter Australia from a country with endemic Yellow Fever you need to show a valid vaccination certificate for that. Is that another sign of an oppressive regime ?

Bill

Terry Pratchett summing up my view of monarchies in general; "Royalty was like dandelions. No matter how many heads you chopped off, the roots were still there underground, waiting to spring up again.It seemed to be a chronic disease. It was as if even the most intelligent person had this little blank spot in their heads where someone had written: "Kings. What a good idea." Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw. It was its tendency to bend at the knees." "Royalty pollutes people’s minds, boy. honest men start bowing and bobbing just because someone’s granddad was a bigger murdering bastard than theirs was."

You could start an argument in an empty room.

It's the spurious "suitably experienced" U23s that muddies the waters where teams have not been using the junior members of their squads even as names on the subs bench. Better the EFL rule, any 13+1 from the combined first team and reserves without qualification.

I assume both teams get nothing from the game and get 48 points added to their points conceded.

I read different, but bow to your local knowledge.

Posted this is the Coronavirus thread; Super League are considering a rule whereby teams that cannot fulfil a fixture due to Covid forfeit it as 48-0.

Djokovic denied entry to Australia.

Polling suggests that there is a majority of the electorate in Australia that supports transition to a republic, and the Labour Party, Greens, and many Liberal politicians support it as well. It will happen.

I am saying that simply stripping out layers of the constitutional apparatus such that the PM is left without checks and balances to his/her power is a recipe for trouble. I am, and always have been, a republican, but the starting point for any reform has to be a consultation on a written constitution. After that reform the Lords into an elected second chamber, and remove any reliance on or influence from the Royals, ( without decapitating them ). At the same time get rid of FPTP in favour of a representative system that reflects proportionally the political demographic.

They aren't, there are many variations on the theme, including religious theocracy ( Afghanistan ) and military junta ( Myanmar ). What would your alternative be to granting the Prime Minister absolute control over our ( unwritten ) constitution ? I assume you want the Lords to be dissolved as well - replaced by what ? Following the Bolshevik policies of 1918, or the French in 1793, only creates more problems. It is easier for countries like Australia and Barbados to declare themselves a republic as their Monarch was only ever at arms length, and their constitutional apparatus is a far more modern design than ours.

Me as benevolent despot.

"Super League clubs are set to be ordered to forfeit matches, with their opponent given a 48-0 victory, if they are unable to fulfil a fixture because of a Covid outbreak" https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/59884125

Bit harsh, just stop the Civil List, remove all privilege, and make them pay their way. The big issue is what to replace them with; elected Presidencies generate their own form of corruption, patronage, and croneyism. Which would you prefer, King Charles III or our own version of Donald Trump ?

Not just his argument !

He used it in a reply to me, ( or is that I replied to myself ? )

Surely Dragan's personal wealth is irrelevant, it is what FFP permits as external investment that matters.

The tournament regulations say that players and staff must be vaccinated or produce a valid medical certificate of exemption. If he has no such certificate, he should not be allowed to play. Djokovic is a known anti-vaxxer, and his wife promotes the various conspiracy theories that claim to link 5G to the spread of Covid. There is also this https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-59873833

There is no way I could maintain Turkish as a persona. ( Pal ).

This one is for Warrior https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/59868823

13) people have been so severely affected by the social impact of the pandemic that in order to satisfy their psycological need for companionship and belonging, they create additional accounts then spend their time quoting and "liking" what are in reality their own posts.

Let alone teams having German, Italian, and especially Japanese players.

Something else we have learned, or at least had confirmed, during the pandemic; 1) People are more willing to believe totally fabricated nonsense from an anonymous source on social media than any number of people who specialise in a particular field of science giving them verified and reliable information. 2) Matt Le Tissier's brain is in his right foot, his head is only there to enable him to swivel his eyes to spot a pass.