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Damn Danilo, we're going to have to be aware of the wide players dragging us around now. Good chance of Ronaldo getting free...

Very true. He was hilarious in the Netherlands friendly, I've seen 6 year olds with better positioning. But hey ho, he gives it his all and we need that against Ronny and co.

You are right, he didn't dominate because of Laursen but I loved those moments when Laursen went for a nibble but Zlatan just pulled it away. Similarly on other players. It's guess it's just how he keeps the play moving and not static. I hope he's able to bring some of his best for United.

For so many years we've gone into our shell. We really need Zielinski, Kapustka and Stepinski to come through. It'll give us some confidence in attack.

Zlatan in the Prem, can't wait. I remember seeing him against us in a friendly. We tried so hard but he still made life impossible for the defenders. Was a good job his teammates were terrible!

So annoying this tournament. Such a farce. Roy really was a disgrace, player selection was poor and tactics were absolutely shocking. All this FA nonsense about not coping late in the tournament is as much about player selection as about tactics. Two obvious title winners didn't go and another didn't play. Conte and Giaccherini prove what's wrong with England.

I think we're quite similar to Italy in terms of average players and central attacking talent. But that's where Conte is different. He's have played Kane and Vardy for sure and I don't think Sterling would get a chance playing as he did. I could've seen him taking a few very different and more tactically useful players. That's England real problem, we never take a team that fits a tactic. We as Villa fans know how stupid that is.

He's really not that good. He has good games but generally he has woeful positioning and is slow to follow the game. Quick to make up for his mistakes though. I worry for us tonight even if we really should win. We need a Lewandowski goal and things will change, it's been so nervous in attack.

Exactly. We should have had a proper reform debate and not leave argument.

Wow, now that's the sort of info we should be getting. Thanks so much for posting senor, straight to the research bookmarks! We needed some positive ones too, that might have helped us with proper and not token reform. I've been at Glasto (where my brexit opinion did not go down well) but I was bloody shocked we left, I really didn't see it coming. However after all the left wing nonsense this weekend it's become much easier to comprehend why we voted leave. Think I just read the article, I'm not surprised in the slightest. And even less surprised that nothing has changed, for desire or reducing bureaucracy.

Well if we look at energy many other EU countries are looking at on site energy generation but we won't, and being part of the EU seems to be our politicians excuse to not act. Two of UK's major EU funded clean energy projects have now shut (never got off the ground) and because the EU clean energy policy has failed entirely even the EU funding model is moving to a less risk strategy with big companies providing the innovation and investment. This means less potential funding for on site energy generation. This impacts Africa because if we left we could inwardly invest in LEDs for food production, on site energy and more versatile support for clean energy, such as more drillers to reduce the ludicrous cost of boreholes for ground source heating. African would directly improve if some nation, or state...EU I'm looking at you...had a flexible international strategy to solve the energy crisis, sadly the EU spreads itself too thin without a proper mechanism for change. We're not blameless, the green deal is an example of how poorly understood the energy industry is. All our govt's have failed renewables.

As I understand it below are a few issues, happy to be corrected. Unlike housebuilding I research, not work in agriculture. If you look at it from the price of milk you'll get some idea where the EU is impacting our farmers domestic and export powers. Since 2006 EU milk producers have more than halved, down 600,000 companies. Two years ago EU quotas for milk production were removed, a downturn in demand meant the gate price of milk dropped again which caused more businesses to close. The majority of these were local farmers who due to oversupply struggled to complete in the domestic market. Subsidies on land also frustrate. Many are historical which means the largest subsidies may go to land which now isn't being farmed, the subsidy can continue for letting the land go wild. Some farmers keep their land and subsidy and then share it with new farmers. The problem is, as with the UK (welfare to work as an example) there are far too many middle men taking a cut and too many regulations to allow that. The EU is trying to change things but France as a founder member has no interest in sharing a major funding stream to help new EU farmers. It won't reform in any wholly positive way. Then there are crop rotations and subsidy reliance. One tells farmers how to farm and the other tells farmers that they know their methods aren't working so they'll top them up. I find that a little perverse and confusing because as more countries join that subsidy will no doubt come under pressure. Our Govt said they will continue the subsidy if we left but farmers are cautious because they don't have a great relationship with the Government.

£350m is as factual as 'we'll be £4300 poorer if we leave'. Remain are the absolute worst for lies, scare and dishonesty. Remember the govt leaflet! Disgraceful. I hope the students bother to learn about both sides instead of simply worrying about their holidays. I don't care which way they vote after that, I just wish people bothered to think and not react. The same can be said for non-students who are voting on immigration.

I once applied as a position to be his parliamentary assistant. My application mentioned exactly that, in a very polite way. I got a really nice rejection letter

It's a good point, in some ways they need as much immigration as possible to encourage infrastructure investment. The question is where will the jobs come from and where will they go?

That might be true, in teaching he and his Government were pathetic, but in many cases it was simply continuing a Labour policy. But actually he did have a point, even if it he didn't realise it. We spend so much time deciding people are worthwhile because they're qualified that we preclude the naturally able from entering roles. In teaching this is imperative because not every teacher can teach, but every teacher has a qualification saying they can. It is also incredibly difficult to sack a bad teacher. It is a viscous circle. Opening up the access and getting more people into teaching because they can teach is sound logic, you can teach lesson planning etc. However the way they've done it is flawed. Proven by funding graduates with firsts to become teachers. It's no surprise to me that the loss of technical colleges who concentrated on delivering trained employees has now finally been replaced by UTC's and apprenticeships, even if neither are actually supported by an industrial strategy of any worth. Either from the EU or UK.

While that might be true we have many regular red tape reviews which in practice have made things much worse for a fair few industries. In fact the government is encouraging industry change which once again gives big business the edge. That's definitely a domestic fault but does our tie to a single market encourage us to follow EU regulation? It would appear that in construction it definitely does, so how do we, as EU regulation obsessives, untangle ourselves from policy which hinders British business from being competitive domestically? Since the 90's we've dismantled the states desire to deliver a flexible economy while allowing the EU to fund communities the single market has failed. We definitely could've done more, but would we if we stayed in the EU?

Doubtful, though I have seen some interesting debates on how it could be mitigated which gives me hope we could manage a Brexit...though our govts aren't so good at policy in practice so would they even listen? As you said it's up to domestic politicans and leave aren't the Government so we can't really expect them to have all the answers. It's frustrating and they probably should've used some of their budget to employ a face of trade negotiation. I think if people thought they'd have more domestic opportunities because a politican fought for either in or out of the EU on those grounds, they would and should use that as a voting tool. Which model delivers, or could deliver a more supportive local economy? For whatever reason, bad domestic policy or prohibitive EU regulation is impacting our local and regional economy. For example any publicly owned HCA site which can deliver 29 houses+ goes to EU tender. We set 29, the EU sets a contract value. If I believed any of the remain guys had a fight and answer against Europe's failure I'd be swayed but it's an appalling campaign of despair and scare. More so than leave, who have a genuine though divisive message that unfortunately has been delivered with blunt ignorance. We wasted our renegotiation chance and now, assuming we remain (which I think we will), we'll have to wait for another nation to stamp their feet until we can stamp ours. Good job Poland and Hungary are!

Yah, loved the issue he had. It was a boring race so we needed some action. Plus there's nothing more exciting that seeing an interesting Championship contest in a really stagnant sport. Managers direct a team against another team, that's why they should advise. In F1 too many opponents are on the same team because it's not really competitive anymore. Why would you want to make it even less competitive? I'm sure a manager would be very happy to flick a switch and get more performance rather than the player figuring out themselves how to beat/tackle a man.

I loved it. Hamilton has the best car because it has the best engineering. That's one part of the team. The other part is the driver. The team employ someone who can understand the engineering, if he can't he suffers. It was a more exciting race because Hamilton had a bran fade. It didn't really impact him that heavily.

Having completed a poll for a trade federation and spoken with others, many have a brexit majority. Regulation and market access is generally cited as the reason. The general rule was 'we want out' but 'out is bad for the national economy'. SME exports to the EU are fairly well spread across all industries, and exporting SMEs use Europe more than non-EU markets. Is our domestic market strong enough to support any losses? On average (export/import surplus) our SMEs do much better exporting to non-EU markets, by the amount of £285k. Though stats, stats, stats, eh. They can prove anything! That's why I want someone from remain to come out and say, 'Because of CAP subsidies we propose getting new farmers into the market like this' 'Because EU frameworks support transient employment we can impose these regulations to assist local and regional businesses' 'Because our EU funded energy projects have failed and new EU contracts are aimed at large companies we propose a UK industrial strategy funded by' The list goes on. And that's what really frustrates me, nobody is willing to dig deep and the majority of remainers have as little clue about reform as brexiters have about leaving. At least I feel the brexiters have had the conversation even if many answers have been largely worthless.

I'm still undecided and the video above just made me further question experts. Not at any point did he mention small and medium business (SMEs) or the local economy and that should be 'the job of someone like' him. Cheers for posting though, I learnt one or two things. I've also watched heard/seen interviews with trade deal negotiators and they feel 2-5 years is the minimum to get an outline. 7-10 for a full agreement. My main concern is how SMEs have been impacted by the EU regulation and framework. They are our majority employers/trainers. SME milk producers for example have halved in the EU and nations like Poland and Hungary who did not take the Euro are now pushing national industry in spite of EU warnings/regulation. There was an interesting radio 4 programme about Greenland leaving the EU. It made me think we don't do enough to support British business, but it's also interesting that they now want back in. We of course could probably find better ways to better support British business, like they do in Italy and France, but we don't and I fear we never will if we're in the EU. It's just such a shame that this conversation has barely mentioned the local economy and concentrated on immigration. We need the local economy conversation in the UK as much as we need it in Europe. The whole 'debate' has been an embarrassment.

Ha, this is what I typed earlier but never posted, it was autosaved. 'Surely there has to be more than what I've read.....sigh, sure it'll come out when he goes.' Seems there is.

Sadly I agree with you there. Another board failure....I'd love to be a fly on the wall in interviews....bloody shambles.

Hanoi has collated my thoughts exactly. Makes me really mad that after 5 god awful years we might finally get our club back, only for its final sound at the top to be a whimper. Black really is clueless, following a script written by thousands of failed managers and doing exactly what the recent failures have done. It shows he's a coach and not a manager. A good manager inspires the youth to raise their game and learn from mistakes, they don't assume they're not good enough. What is saying after the game, 'Joleon, you need to do this and that.' He knows, he doesn't care.There is no forward. A worthwhile kid will always think forward, but you don't know who they are unless you bloody play them and see how they react. It's not Blacks fault, well not entirely, once again we must 'clap, clap' the board. When I think back to all those years we cried for Albrighton to play it just cements the fact that it's never been the players who are not good enough, it's always been the managers. Subsequent comments from players and coaches show exactly where blame should be placed even if this year it's been mainly League 2 performances.