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Awol, I'm disappointed but not surprised. "Herd immunity" is a correct answer to the wrong question. I am certain you have seen the "flatten the curve" appeals. Both curves in these appeals have the same fraction of the population catching the virus at some stage, the difference is at what time they catch it. Herd immunity over a long horizon instead of everyone catching it at once has two crucial advantages: 1. It gives the NHS a fighting chance to stay within capacity. 2. We'll have a better understanding of this beast in six days, nevermind six weeks or six months. Flattening the curve gives time for more research into how this disease spreads, which treatments work best and, one day, maybe a vaccine. If I am going to catch it, I want it when I know there's a bed in ICU and doctors have experience on how to deal with this, based on solid international evidence. That will come with time. Everyone knows the ultimate outcome here is herd immunity. That's not the critique of HMG's response. It's the failure to control the herd immunity that people like Jareth critique.

Keep the chin up SGC, don’t be like that. I might not agree with you 100% on footballing matters but you seem like a good skin. I don’t think anyone here is laughing at you.

There comes a time when you leave your details with a member of the public, grab that other slipper, and just walk away.

It clearly hasn’t worked out, but it can’t have been much of a financial hit. A million or two. Compare to the ten or twenty we lost on McCormack.

This will be all over by Christmas (...one for those of you who like the war analogies.)

Link??

That if you’re Callum’s age and not yet playing for the first team, ie still playing for the under-23s, you’re probably not good enough.

I’m an economist. Got a PhD in it, about to go lecture undergrads (via Zoom). Everyone choosing to stay at home playing board games rather than risk dying is terrible for the economy, and will cause maybe the largest drop in GDP ever recorded. It’s also the right decision.

Completely breaking the rules, but: Given Staunton McGrath Dunne Stevens Whelan Houghton Townsend Grealish Keane Cascarino (had to shoe-horn Staunton into a right back, and Grealish has played more internationals in green than white.)

Kiraly for Marshall, Curcic for Dawkins, Sylla for D2, Balaban for Helenius. Micah Richards and Charlie Insomnia need inclusion in there somewhere. Taylor is a bit harsh.

Dossiers of advice against the consensus of European neighbours, the UK’s approach to COVID–19 reminds me of Tony Blair and Iraq.

GK: Bosnich RB: Delaney CB: Laursen CB: Mellberg LB: Stevens RM: Solano CM: Petrov CM: McGinn LM: Ginola ST: Waring ST: Yorke

What a useless hand to be dealt. Very sorry to hear this, lads. As scant consolation as it might be, maybe you’re just getting a head start on everyone else for the job search.

The “first come, first served” approach neglects that my 74 year-old mother with a bad hip can’t walk to 15 pharmacies.

UK and Ireland excluded. Probably a Trumpian nod to Brexit, and included Ireland because of the CTA? Strange decision in any case.

Was so clear he needed replacing, and we even had a right back already on the pitch. Maybe the worst performance by a Villa player all season? Btw, whoscored.com taking the absolute piss giving him a 6.5 out of 10. Joke website.

I think that’s what he’s going for.

I’d like us to play a little bit more hoofball tbh.

40 for Mings, 25 for McGinn, 60 for Grealish. I’d say. Am I wrong?

Heaton Guilbert Engels Tuanzebe Targett Nakamba Snodgrass Luiz El-Ghazi Sammy Wes with Nyland, Konsa, Elmo, Hourihane, Trez, Davis on the bench would put us up there in contention without spending a penny. Obviously I’m just using Tuanzebe and Snodgrass as examples of the sort of player we know for a fact would come. “Do you want to be the next Tammy Abraham?” would work well on a lot of players.

Abraham, Mings, Snodgrass, Tuanzebe... we’ve had some excellent loans in recent years. I tend to agree with Rob182 IF we get a couple loans.

He’d have been the crucial difference in two or three matches so 14th or thereabouts I’d say.

Massive VT syndrome here. Between Douglas Luiz, Wesley, Marvellous, El Ghazi and Davis, I would rank Davis last in terms of who best player overall. Which means of our regular midfielders and attackers, I think Davis is only better than Trez.

Lingua Anglica.