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1 minute ago, Marka Ragnos said:

Are Valencia showing us how Emeryball gets stopped? Somehow not clicking today. What are they doing differently to us?

Not really, there are some quite simple passes going astray that have nothing to do with Valencia

Bailey doesn't lack talent but sometimes I think he believes he lacks talent

Torres has been a bit dodgy on the ball so far

Just now, Delphinho123 said:

No surprise Buendia is dropped given his insipid performances pre season. I expect this will be our team next week unless something drastic happens. 

Wasn't he MotM v Newcastle?

5 hours ago, romavillan said:

The whole point is that our backup keeper will be getting a lot more time on the pitch this season.

 

How about Meslier from Leeds?

Scared little boy goal keeper? No thanks, I'd rather keep Olsen

Cup for me as it's been such along time since I felt that buzz

CL qualification would be exciting but wouldn't give the heady thrill of a dopamine rush

I think, more than anything, watching McGinn play as well as he has ever done gives me the warm tingles

4 minutes ago, Demitri_C said:

I mean ive been a harsh critic of olsen but the guys done nothing wrong so far tbh

Well he did pass directly to one of their players on the edge of the box..

1 hour ago, withes_shin said:

Seen a few alive.

Seen more dead, like you say in the side of the road. What you'll notice is that they have very little damage to their bodies or blood around them, this is because the farmers gas them and lay them at the side of the road so it looks like they've been hit by a car.

Sadly it's a well known practice. The area my brother in law lives in Wales suddenly saw a spike in badger 'roadkill'. It was in fact just badger baiters getting rid of the bodies

3 minutes ago, useless said:

No way we will sell not even for twice that much, out of all our youngsters he's probably the last one we would want to sell.

Yep, Archer grabbed the headlines at Boro but Ramsey was a class above. It was noticeable that Boro's form dropped off dramatically once he got injured.

No sale, this guy is going to be at least as good as Jacob

22 minutes ago, wishywashy said:

The Villa fanbase always has to be unbelievably toxic towards 2-3 players. It's embarassing. Now that we're a good team it's clearly becoming quite difficult, given how the target is now the backup keeper.

In fairness that is the nature of every fan base, not just Villa. Every fan I know, no matter who they support, will tell you two or three of their players are shit

21 minutes ago, Vive_La_Villa said:

That was Messi! 

Don't trust anyone with numbers at the end of their name...

19 minutes ago, JoshVilla said:

Not sure if this has already been posted, but:

I was having a look at this SkyBet "Fan Central" thing that keeps popping up on twitter. Essentially, they've polled 1400 PL fans for their thoughts on the upcoming season. One of the questions is where do they rank the other managers in the league from best the worst. According to the 1400 fans polled, Unai Emery is ranked, on average:

 

The 13th best manager in the league.

 

Seriously!? He's below the likes of Thomas Frank, Vincent Kompany, Roy Hodgson, Rob Edwards & Steve Cooper. I swear that there's a huge number of football fans that try to be controversial for the sake of it.

They're not being controversial, just stupid. They read their websites etc. and are told what to think rather than actually look at the facts.

I wouldn't worry about it though, we have one of the best managers in the league and we know it.

1 hour ago, rjw63 said:

I still can’t see the difference 

This man can count to six on one hand...

11 minutes ago, Delphinho123 said:

Bumped into my brother in law again yesterday (nose), and he’s convinced they’re going up this season under the new owners. When I say convinced, I mean, convinced. 

In fairness I've seen a few non blues websites tipping them for the top six so it's no wonder the fans are starting to believe. I know so little about their squad that I couldn't tell you whether their belief is misplaced or not.

2 hours ago, The_Steve said:

 

'Hello darkness, my old friend..'

6 minutes ago, sidcow said:

I've been wondering about this. 

Just because things are plant based doesn’t automatically make them healthy though you would assume so. 

However I DO love some good processed shit so I would assume plant based processed shit is probably still better than meat based processed shit. 

It's quite possible to be a very unhealthy, junk food vegan!

As it's the preserving additives that are the real nasties in processed food I would guess that processed meat is worse but neither are good.

Have a veg curry/ Bolognese instead. You'll be surprised how quickly you don't miss either meat or meat alternative

1 minute ago, sidcow said:

I will say this is one sacrifice I'm not willing to make though I don't actually eat that much meat anyway.  I do eat it but in small portions. I've been experimenting with plant based alternatives but I just don't think they are there yet. 

Yep, meat alternatives are probably not yet at a point where it could replace meat for those who don't want to go veg/ vegan but want to do more to help the environment. However, the more people choosing to go sans meat, at least in part, the more money, scientific endeavour and research will go into producing alternatives. Even in the last few years it has become much better. Personally, I don't eat many of the meat alternatives as they are so processed.

I managed to convince two of my friends to drop their meat eating in half by suggesting they spend the same amount of money on half the amount of meat, this buying higher quality and less processed crap. It's a step

7 minutes ago, CVByrne said:

So a mix of things there.

Some good advice for everyone like walking or using public transport more. I've never owned a car and have always walked mainly to get from a to b or use public transport. Don't be as wasteful with your energy consumption, so turning off lights, not filling a kettle too much to make a cup of tea. All very good sensible advice.

Then there's choices with consequences, eating less meat harms farmers livelihoods, "spending less" (buying less or flying less) also would impact peoples jobs and the economy (people spending less is what causes recessions). 

Then there's costly upfront changes you can make (getting a new electric car, home battery, switching a heating system from gas) which are good to do. 

That is what I mean by 'putting in the hard yards'. It's making those choices that you know will benefit others in the long run even though it may hurt in the short. Hopefully, you have a socially conscious government that helps the worst affected so that those changes can be made

It's the difference between doing what's easy and what's right

Just now, CVByrne said:

But individual people can't change how green our energy on any realistic level beyond solar panels on your home. Governments need to drive the tansition to green energy at national levels (and in Europe we're doing that). 78% of Europeans are concerned about climate change so that means it'll be a key issue for all our Governments to solve.

Can you give me some examples of things you think individual people should be doing?

Easy. Massively cut down on their meat consumption. People eat way too much meat, for both their own health and the health of the planet. 

Would this be enough on its own to solve the issues facing the planet? No, but making changes as individuals puts pressure on governments to follow suit which then puts pressure on science to come up with alternatives more in keeping with current thinking. It can change the whole out look of the political landscape.

If individuals look like they don't care and are unwilling to put in the hard yards then governments will simply push the problems down the line

1 minute ago, CVByrne said:

What do you think people need to do in their personal lives exactly? This is a complex global issue that needs governments and scientific breakthroughs to solve.

Yes, but governments and science are only driven by people putting pressure on them to change direction, without that they will do what ever is cheapest and easiest

17 minutes ago, CVByrne said:

78% of the EU population are concerned about Climate Change. Can we stop caring about climate deniers we won't convince everyone and we don't need to. I'm sick of this view that the Climate Change problem we face is a problem of people who don't believe in it. 

 

 

Yeah, the problem isn't those that deny it but those that acknowledge it but are unwilling to change anything in the personal lives in order to do something about it

Enjoying these guys at the moment. Only a couple of songs out so far, but they're playing at Green Man festival so I shall give them a watch next month