badgerx16

So whilst it is not Ralph's 'preferred' system, it is the one he has decided must be used without strengthening the DM position, which we don't look like doing before the summer. Consequently we have to use wing backs, and having Valery as #1 with Ramsey as cover weakens the squad, ( IMO ).

In the 10 games from Cardiff onwards we have played a back 4 in 4 of them, starting with the Cardiff game and including the 2 matches against Derby, and a back 5 in the other 6.

However, he also seems to have determined that our CBs aren't good enough to play a flat back 4.

I sure hope RH isn't receiving some 'guidance' on squad management from the Board.

I don't care how much 'negotiation' takes place, you stay well clear or it's the badger's teeth and claws for you.

Seeing as earlier in the thread he self identified as a 'moron', don't take it as an insult.

Sums the whole thing up perfectly.

Couldn't really accuse Jon Moss of any Liverpool bias after he sent off one of his former school pupils - James Milner.

Folland

"She had better tread carefully", does not say "she should surrender sovereignty". Why do you always look for arguments ?

Did I say that ? Teresa May is desperately casting around for a way to make her completely unpalatable mess of an ugly duckling, overwhelmingly rejected by Parliament, into a graceful swan. If she tries to achieve this by rewriting elements of the GFA, she will need to be very well advised, very clear as to what she is, or more importantly is not, saying, and certain that she isn't selling the progress made in NI down the river purely for her own ego and vanity.

Considering that a car bomb was set off in (London)Derry on Saturday, she had better tread carefully around that potential powder keg.

Would that be Top Billing, or would we settle for Second Billng ?

He likes to dish it out, generally with his elbows, but wilts like a delicate flower if the opposition stand up to him.

It doesn't help when the refs add so much extra time - the 4th official was getting earache a-plenty from Ralph and Kelvin.

What happens to us once we've gone 2-0 up ?

Yoshi as well.

Not sure that McCarthy playing the ball short to Vestergaard is doing us favours - Vest likes to play with the ball at his feet, which is fine at the halfway line, but he seems to dally for a second too long when 6 yards outside our area.

Oddity

#ProjectFear #RemoanerBS ( #HeadsInSand )

The DUP have earned their 30 pieces of silver.

The EU do not want a 'no deal' Brexit, precisely because of the NI border issues.

Post #9122 ;"The WTO trade rules would not require a 'hard' border, but the EU Single Market almost certainly would." #9126 ;"Without an agreement the EU will have to impose strict border controls, the Single Market necessitates this. Without it, for instance, what is to stop somebody importing goods into NI from elsewhere under WTO tariffs that are lower than those of the EU, and then simply shipping these goods across a 'soft' border into Eire. One of the main criticisms of the 'smart' customs solutions is that they cannot 'see inside sealed trucks'."

Isn't the £39Bn primarily to satisfy the UK's binding responsibilities for payments into such things as EU pensions for UK MEPs and (British) EU civil servants ? I'm sure Nigel Farage isn't willing to have the UK Government renege on his £150K payoff.

All I can think of is this