jon_c

Every American I've known that has come to  the UK, has their mind blown by the NHS. They were led to believe by their politicians that universal health care is the devil. And they come here and realise how f**king amazing it is (despite the NHS not being perfect), that if you need medical you can get it, without having to worry about being able to pay for it. 

12 minutes ago, Stevo985 said:

I've said this until I'm blue in the face.

If bruce plays horrible, long ball, direct football all next season and we win the Championship, no **** will be complaining

Probably not, but no team will win the Championship playing horrible, long ball, direct football. There's too many managers out there now, that can set up a team to counteract that style. 

I'm ignoring the Oscars this year because Julian Dennison did not win Best Supporting Actor for Hunt for the Wilderpeople.

Whatever you feel about Corbyn, I will tell you this. Labour will definitely never win an election with John McDonnell as Shadow Chancellor.

It amazes me how many pundits are shocked that Leicester are struggling so this year. I called it last year and got mocked for it. 

Any team that doesn't have the huge squads of the sky four, have always struggled in league when competing in Europe. The demands of the extra games and the travel, would clearly take demands on a Leicester squad that was incredibly lucky with injuries last season. Couple that with the draining high tempo they played, it was always going to be a struggle. 

Added to this, losing players, and heads turned by bigger clubs. It was never with the best will in the world going to be anywhere near a repeat season for Leceister. Many, considered successful, premier league managers have lost their jobs in their first year of European football. No professional pundit should be surprised that this one happened either. 

23 minutes ago, mikeyp102 said:

First theee episodes of Legion... Jesus it's bonkers, that kid from the book 

Really needs to shift the plot along a bit now, though.

I saw an advert for this on the telly earlier (the switch 1-2 game) and it looked so bad I actually thought it was a parody. I think it was the part with a mini game of shaking up coke bottles, that did it. 

Just now, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said:

Seems we have resorted to paying refs off, I don't care. lol

So Bruce has learnt something from all those years with Ferguson.

1 minute ago, foreveryoung said:

What for that amazing Brucey team talk??

"Good game, good game"

Three wide midfielders and two fullbacks, again no idea how we're going to set up.

1 hour ago, mykeyb said:

When was the last time in open play we actually got a central midfielder inside the oppositions box?

Ian Taylor?

If UKIP can't win a by-election in Brexit Britain in the constituency that vote the most for Brexit, then what is the point of them?

I can't see there is any way Xia won't go for a 'name'. If he wants to be building himself a profile in China, he is not going to be appointing someone as low profile as Dean Smith.

8 hours ago, Kuwabatake Sanjuro said:

Apologies if posted before but is very relevant.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2011/nov/30/steve-bruce-sunderland-sacked

Over 5 years later and he hasn't improved. Mike Phelan was the main reason Hull got promoted last season in my view.

 

Everytime that article got posted before he was appointed it drew huge criticism, but it is almost a direct description of all the problems he's having here. 

2 hours ago, Rodders said:

This is so disturbing. That rally 

 

But there was only 9000 people, more than that turn up to watch Villa every week. If Villa can get a better turn out than Trump, what does that tell you.

5 minutes ago, Demitri_C said:

Is he performing better than Bruce? Answer that?

Setting that bar, the only person doing worse at the moment is Claudio Ranieri.

3 hours ago, DaveAV1 said:

If Tim Sherwood and Paul Lambert had a love child it would be Steve Bruce. Tactically inept and a new plan every other game. Desperate. 

2 hours ago, sne said:

But you'd always suspect that the milkman, sorry McLeish was actually the father.

Maybe it was like the movie Twins, but we got the Danny Devito.

Opposition manager : "seriously lads, just punt everything down the left wing."

Hutton is a better fullback than Micah Richards. 

That is actually how bad Richards is. 

If Richards plays, we will not win. 

6 minutes ago, DCJonah said:

 

We need stability, but that stability has to be given to the right man and the right kind of manager. When Bruce was appointed I thought we were the right club for a manager like Bruce to be given time with. But I was wrong, we are not that club. We require more than just an experienced man who can organise and motivate the team. We need someone to come and build an identity, a style, through coaching and tactics and build something from the ground up. I don't think Steve Bruce is that man. 

 

That'd be a nice start though. 

55 minutes ago, villaglint said:

I think when interpreting this guy that Zaphod Beeblebrox is as good a place to start as any.

Zaphod was twice the president Trump is. 

25 minutes ago, Straggler said:

 

What really goes on to boggle my mind is that Trump has an approval rating of around 40%.  Whilst that is setting a record for the worst approval rating for any president ever at this early a stage of the term, it still suggests that 40% of America thinks that what he has done so far is A ok with them.  I guess some people never reach a tipping point, 25% of Americans still approved of Nixon during and after the Watergate scandal....

How anyone can watch the Trump press call and not worry about his capacity to do the job is beyond me.

 

There is a serious problem in America with educational standards and mental health care. That is all I can conclude from this and just browsing through the social media linked with Pro-Trump. People absolutely 100% that he has not lied about anything, even the Electoral college figures, despite complete empirical evidence to the contrary.

But whilst on education, Trump went to Kew-Forest private school, it charges fees of up to $37000, how can you look at Trump and send your kids there? Let alone pay for that education. 

I thought it was supposed to be a whimper? 

This press conference is basically the political version of letting Father Dougal do a funeral.