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Our 'first choice' 11 were not available.

As Nick G's excellent post ( above ) points out : Cork was benched to let Wanyama play - MoPo's preferred option Boruc would not have made any difference to the one goal we conceded - unlikely any keeper would have stopped it Fonte injured ( I see no reason to doubt the club's assessment, though some apparently do despite the pictures ) So the only one that possibly looks odd is JWP for Morgan - and he's played more games in the PL than most.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26261696 "However, the Bank's governor, Mark Carney, said the recovery so far had been 'neither balanced nor sustainable' and required continued support. Experts have raised concerns that improvements are too dependent on consumer spending." "Mr Osborne stressed that 'as well as reasons to be cheerful, there are also reasons to be careful". 'The recovery is not yet secure and our economy is still too unbalanced.'"

Pretty much this.

So, in summary, is this 'cost cutting', ( which to me implies external budgetry pressure ), or just choosing to stop spending on something we no longer need, ( allowing us to potentially direct the funds elsewhere ) ?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/26226975 Manager Mauricio Pochettino made six changes for the tie, but Shaw said the players were to blame for the 1-0 loss. "We're sorry to the fans who travelled all that way to see a disappointing display like that," he said. "The manager had faith to switch the team and the players should have done better." "I'm devastated. I wanted to win the FA Cup and so did every other player. " ""It is very disappointing. We wanted to win the FA Cup this year and thought we had a great chance, but that's cup football .." ( Sorry if this has been brought into the various other threads discussing the FA Cup exit )

Other people are allowed to have their own opinions, which may differ from yours - it's one of life's little freedoms.

Yet the Judith Curry article you linked to above supports the general hypothesis that there is human induced climate change, whilst questioning whether it is as predominant an influence as some others suggest.

So why did you start supporting Saints, and when ? Was it because 'I want some silverware' as you stated in post #54 ? If so, why not pick Man Utd or Chelsea ?

In the best tradition of cherry-picking quotes : "If all other things remain equal, it is clear that adding more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere will warm the planet." "It is difficult to untangle the relative roles of human-induced climate change versus natural variability in causing the Arctic sea ice decline." "These simulations suggest an important role for natural variability as well as for human-induced climate change; further clarification of their relative roles awaits improved capabilities of the climate models...." "While the direct forcing from greenhouse gases is well understood, possible problems are associated with the magnitudes of the water vapor feedback and the cloud feedback..." "So what is the evidence for, and against, a dominant role in the climate since the mid-20th century of increasing human-induced greenhouse gas concentrations, and what are the major uncertainties? Below is my summary interpretation of the available evidence. Evidence for: •Long-term trend of increasing surface temperatures, formore than a century. •Theoretical support for warming as greenhouse gas concentration increases. •Long-term trend of increasing ocean heat content, although the trend for the past 10 years has been small in the upper 700 m of the ocean. •Decline in Arctic sea ice since 1979, with record autumn minimum in 2012. •Sea level rise since 1961 , although multi-decadal variability and confounding factors such as coastal land use and geologic process hamper interpretation of these data. •Results from climate model simulations. Evidence against: •No significant increase in globally averaged temperature for the past 15 years. •Lack of a consistent and convincing attribution argument for the warming from 1910-1940 and the plateau from the 1940s to the 1970s. •Growing realization that multidecadal natural internal variability is of higher amplitude than previously accounted for in IPCC attribution analyses." Having read the whole thing, and looked at her website I don't think Dr Curry is a 'denier', she seems to be questioning whether the systems we currently operate are capable of reliably modelling and projecting to a level that future political policies can be safey built upon.

So why do fans of clubs like Rochdale, Barnsley, Accrington, or Doncaster bother to turn up to watch their teams ?

"This Outlook provides an indication of possible temperature and rainfall conditions over the next 3 months. It is part of a suite of forecasts designed for contingency planners. The Outlook should not be used in isolation but should be used with shorter-range and more detailed (30-day, 15-day and 1-to-5-day) forecasts and warnings available to the contingency planning community from the Met Office"

Rickie should have potted his chance, that would have given us the draw.

Has anybody got any proof that if we had played our 'strongest available' line up yesterday we would definitely have won the match ? As has been stated several times above, we created enough chances to win and failed to convert them. Sh!t happens.

So we are a smaller club than Bury, Burnley, Preston, Bolton, Huddersfield, Wanderers, and Old Etonians ?

Disappointed yes, but we had no divine right to win that game, and we might still have lost if Spiderman, Lovren, Fonte, Rodriguez, and Boruc were starters. From what little I have seen of the game, and from the last 20 or so minutes of commentary that I heard, it wasn't the selection that lost us the match, it was the SELECTED that blew it by underperforming.

I haven't worked out yet which player is tonight's scapegoat, which is particularly strange as Jos, Guly, and Kelvin all started. Or are we all blaming the manager ?

They have much more experience, and you're playing on their pitch.

"Barry Sanchez 16 - Happy Clappers 0" Could you please explain the scoring system for this game.

Went to IKEA today so missed watching a stream; having only listened to the last 20 minutes or so of radio commentary, I'm glad I didn't waste the day. That said, I am surprised that we seemed to put in such a weak performance, a team with Shaw, Clyne Wanyama, JWP, Davis, Lambert, and Lallana should have created more.

It would be one hell of a family reunion.

As you are the creator of so many, I'd expect you to recognise one.

Bafta

Win the FA Cup.