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3 minutes ago, bickster said:

Doesn't actually stand up to any scrutiny that claim

I mean it wasn't an entriely serious point, but wasn't it founded by Nadhim Zahawi?

I bet Starmer is loving the idea of PR now

There's got to be some **** going on there though. Tory-leaning YouGov must be trying to put pressure on Truss, that can't be close to reality?

Edit - Putting the numbers into Electoral Calculus, that gives Labour a 496 seat majority and reduces the Tories to 1 seat hahahahahahaha

Edit 2 - sorry I used the old boundaries, they would get 2 seats 

1 minute ago, ml1dch said:

Blimey Charlie.

 

 

Ah, so that''s the poll they were hinting at, not the 20 points ahead at the upper end of the margin of error Redfield & Wilton poll.

So the answer to who will be the MCU's Wolverine is... the same guy again. At least for one film.

39 minutes ago, Stoobs said:

Has Grealish not got a bird. Wonder why he wasn’t called as a witness. 

By the sounds of it he'd be a useless witness as one of the girls statements said he was passed out and one of the alleged rapes happened in Mendys friends car.

28 minutes ago, Rds1983 said:

Going completely off topic but why is Grealish sleeping with a 23 year old a story when he's only 27 himself?

Because it came out during the Benjamin Mendy rape trial that it happened at one of his parties and the woman has accused Mendy's friend of raping her later that same night. The Grealish part was consensual supposedly and doesn't really seem relevant to the trial, but the papers lead with it anyway.

Still boggles my mind that Rayner had to apologise for calling this lot scum.

9 hours ago, Mark Albrighton said:

“the most important event the world will ever see”

Ok, it’s live telly so he may have misspoke and to be fair it’s not like speaking is something he has to be good at for his job. 

What I love about this is that it so mental that even Victoria Newman next to him, the editor of the Sun, has a brief glance of "wtf?" 

23 minutes ago, Davkaus said:

And as has been discussed so many times, without the royals living in the palaces, they could be more open to the public and potentially raise even more.

We wouldn't make much more, it's only 20x the amount of visitors that Versailles gets compared to Buckingham Palace. Just 4x all the Royal Estates combined...

That £500m per year to have them closed all the time is totally worth it.

2 minutes ago, fightoffyour said:

You do know the internet isn’t something that gets delivered in a box right? You can just connect to it whenever you want through cables or even the air.

The modem does though 

Also my service won't be activated until that date too, so don't think I could connect before then anyway.

3 minutes ago, Demitri_C said:

The media are reporting funeral is expected to be monday 19th September 

I highly doubt it will be on a sunday

That boris reign finished her off

Oh **** off, that's the day my internet had been rearranged to be delivered in my new house, the **** will probably move the date again now!

3 minutes ago, Mozzavfc said:

Extra bank holidays though 

I'm pretty sure I read before that whilst there will be days of national mourning, they won't be bank holidays.

10 hours ago, avfc1982am said:

Milly Alcock who plays Rhaenyra is by far the most convincing at the moment and is very much carrying the show. Ifan's role seems so familiar and not original or convincing, just like a theatre character baddy. Matt Smith playing Deamon is good, although I find his character lacking dialogue. Paddy Considine plays Viserys well but not the most convincing of Kings. 

 

Maybe I've misread your intent with this bit, but I don't see how Paddy Considine/Viserys being an unconvincing king is a criticism? He's supposed to be weak, it's what his cuts from the Iron Throne are symbolising. The Throne was built by Aegon the Conqueror from the swords surrended by his enemies and is intended to be uncomfortable as "a king should never sit easy" (This version is far closer to the monstrosity described in the books than the GoT version) and it is said in the novels that being cut by the Throne is akin to the Throne rejecting the King, one early King, Maegor the Cruel, was even killed on/by the Throne with slashes down his arms and a blade protruding out under his chin from the back of his neck.

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 the CGI which is also pretty dreadful and more cartoony than GOT, to the Dragons which look elongated and weird

This is intentional. Caraxes, Daemon's dragon, is described as being red, huge and lean, and is also nicknamed "the Blood Wyrm". It's supposed to be this funky looking thing compared to the other dragons, which to me have looked fine in the show so far.

1 hour ago, maqroll said:

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There is something sort of irritating that the bad guys are just randos with weapons far away from Kings Landing. Why even bother with them? There needs to be something more critical than these crab fellas. They clearly aren't the existential threat that the White Walkers were, or the Dothraki, for that matter. 

 

Without giving away too much (I'll put it in a spoiler even though I'm not sure how much it spoils)

If they do it justification (and with GRRM involved I'm sure they will) it will be a slow burner but with a big pay off.

Dougie's pass needed a NSFW tag there

2 minutes ago, MotoMkali said:

No we don't Ludwig is a lb

2 minutes ago, jim said:

Who?

Calum Chambers has over 100 appearances at RB in his career.

Edit - He's actually played there more often than CB...

You have a RB on the bench Steven, why the **** are you bringing on Young!?

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We're looking good so far so I'm gonna throw out my hot take. For all his qualities, Ramsey is not suited to CM, especially the way we play. He's still young and I'm sure he will become a much better CM in time, but he needs to mature as a player to play there imo.

He doesn't have the positional discipline, consistency in passing ability or defensive abiliy to operate effectively in that role, the first two I think McGinn shares too, so when the two play in midfield we look far too open and without options in build up. We need someone like Luiz to play otherwise Kamara ends up far too isolated far too often.

I think he'd be much better suited to playing further up the pitch where he can utilise his dribbling and close control that he excels at, without risking too much defensively in the midfield. He's still only 21, I think he just needs a couple more seasons to mature as a player before consistently starting in the midfield.

Ramsey at LW, Stevie's been reading my posts!

Hopefully he read my one in the team shape thread on how what he's trying to do should look.

Frankly, signing a 3rd/4th choice CB with over 100 Premier League appearances and 40+ international caps on loan as short term cover for our star CB signing's 6-9 month injury is all the proof I need to tell me that everyone from manager level up is trying to burn down the club.

Would've been funnier if it was how they announced they were done for the evening and it was no signing.

Just now, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said:

 

             Luiz 

Kamara       Dendonker     

Would be a solid midfield which could pass.

Shame it probably won't happen

Or Dendoncker with Kamara and Luiz ahead of him as Kamara can play 8 and has the skills to play there.

2 minutes ago, Hev said:

What's the representative for Wellingborough mean?

It's a word filter referring to Peter Bone MP who has particularly knobheady views, so you can probably guess what the four letter word it replaces is.