Will Briggs

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Agreed. That said I thought Justin was excellent last night.

Two egregiously bad calls from the refs

I would yes. I love Pascal and he is a great player to have around but little errors and lack of pace just get punished at this level. IMO should have done it over international break.

Context. Struijk had given the ball away. The whole team had to run back towards goal and try to reorganise. Stach found himself with three men so was being passed around. Yes could have been a little sharper but the majority of responsibility on this goal goes to Struijk and Ampadu who was nowhere

What are you blaming Stach for here?

Exactly this. Wonder if this is the game that triggers Bijol over Pascal too.

Stood out for Wales last night. Though the same.

Also be aware that they’ll use whatever they can to waste more time. Hurts the team. Idiots.

BlueSky should ban screenshots of X or sharing of X content on here. The whole point of moving here was to get away from that festering cess pit.

Perfect

Yes I know he wrote it.

Prince’s version of Nothing Compares to You is just incredible. The last verse is a tsunami of sound and emotion.

Been really impressed with him so far. Hard act to follow Caroline Lucas too but he is bang on message.

He is. If they developed that identity and story I think it doesn't matter who the leader is - could even still be Starmer perhaps. The only party on the left doing this well at the moment are the Greens, but they need help.

It's not nec. about 'leader' it's about the story. We have nothing to combat the far right anti immigration, anti woke crap that people are shovelling up. We need a clear narrative for the left (inc. centre) that people can believe in. Starmer is failing because he has no identity.

In the last 48 hours Israel has illegally bombed Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Qatar, and Palestine.

YouTube video by Garys Economics Refugee Riots – Salience and Storytelling

One of the most informative and bang on the nose 30 mins most of us could spend. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F4O...

Capitalism sucks the fun out of everything joyful. #redzone

Exactly that - this is an opportunity for someone to make a stake.

By his logic America has no cuisine...

Obviously it's the difference between investing in the club (ie stadium, facilities etc) or the team (players). The report says the stadium investment is the last investment in the club. They will invest in the team but over the next couple of years they expect it to become self sufficient.

Exactly. Breaking records with his stubbornness! Why did he need to adapt week in week out? We were the dominant team. And we did tweak (successfully) things when we played Leicester etc.

I know another manager who was stubborn, wouldn’t change his tactics and made questionable subs all the time…

Thought the same. Found it a very strange move all round.

Timing is interesting this year. Fixtures after Oct
Nov:
Brighton, Forest, Villa, Man City

Dec
Che, Liv, Brentford, Palace, Sun, Liv

Jan
Man U, Newc, Ful, Ev, Ars.

Feb isn't easy either. New manager would come into a club in turmoil, squad he didn't want and that fixture list. Oof.

Exactly this - I said to some family members the other day this feels like the first year/first months under Farke when the squad was in flux and the performances were (understandably) shit. If we are still playing terribly in Nov/Dec then we have a conversation.

Ref bought everything they were selling.

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