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One decent pass but looked disinterested. Outmuscled multiple times. Gave the ball away in very dangerous positions at least twice.

We were poor, Wolves were terrible. Worst game of football I've seen a while. But we're through to the next round.

Just as you say that, Trez cuts and lays the ball on a platter for Henri Lansbury. Should have been a goal.

AEG is a bit of a horse. Little bit harsh on him, but I mean he's a strong, fast runner down the wing. Trez is clever. More cut inside and lay a pass off, like a better Jota. As an aside, this is one of the worst football matches ever. Shocking stuff. Can't believe we're not winning 5-0.

I rate him as more potential than AEG, think he'll come good.

Having a shocker tonight.

"This level" is against the Wolves reserves. No it's not.

He just doesn't look a threat when he picks the ball up on the edge of the box. Am I the only one noticing that?

Should start against Wolves.

He is such a good footballer. We are so much better with him in the team.

This will be controversial, but I think we should drop him for a match. He's been off form. Needs a rest. And I reckon is the sort of player who would come roaring back to hold his place.

Mings is a bit of a Hollywood player. Is there for the dramatic last ditch clearance and crossfield pass that gets on MOTD but can be quite sloppy at times. A slightly cooler head and we'll concede less. That's at least twice (today, Arsenal) where him being a bit lazy cost us. Just clear the ball, Tyrone. Still a very good defender, but the defence is not as solid as our record indicates. We turn off in the second half. If that starts to open in the first half, we are in trouble. I expect he will tidy it up, but the sooner the better.

We were 1-0 against Spurs with twenty minutes to go. Spurs ended up winning it and fair play they deserved to it but imagine had we taken the three points. Spurs would be one point outside the relegation zone, and we'd be in 6th. You're completely right.

Harry Maguire deserves to be at a club competing for European spots, a club that has won the league in the past five years. Not sure why he left Leicester.

It's awful, an absolute embarrassment, looks like a Libyan Spiderman costume. We'll see it featured in those "Worst Kits Ever" articles ten years down the line.

Need to be defensively solid to have any chance here. I'd start with five at the back, and two in goal.

I disagree with you there. The people just need to be informed and interested in the matter. I'll give you an example. Ireland has proportional representation (PR). In 1959 de Valera, knowing full well that his party would benefit from UK-style First Past the Post elections, held a referendum to scrap PR. The people went to the polls and did two things: elected de Valera as President, and voted to keep PR. They were able to like him personally but not want to change the electoral system to suit his party. That shows an impressive level of political understanding, and Ireland in 1959 was not as well educated as the UK in 2019. For it to work you just need to get past the lies and propaganda and divisiveness. It works fine once you have a mature conversation about it, though I grant you mature conversation is harder in the Twitter age.

Dribbling it inside our own box is absolutely mental. We do that against Man City and it won't be pretty. SJM, Jack, El Ghazi etc need to provide outlets 40 yards out so defenders aren't just hoofing it to opposing midfielders. We are so poor defensively in general. Set pieces are muck. You could see them lining up for their goal before the free kick was taken. Tyrone Mings should hang his head for that one. We'd eat Neil Taylor alive if it was him. Why do we always drop off after 60 minutes? Is it fitness? Glad to see Deano making changes though. VAR has been a disgrace to us. Conor Hourihane would break your heart. Does nothing, then fires an absolute belter into the top corner. That should have stood, and he'd have (I think?) three goals in his last four games. I want to drop him, but you just can't on that form. Maupay is some player, nice to see him making the step up. He wouldn't look out of place for Spurs. Aaron Connolly should have buried us. If Jack Grealish doesn't get a cap for that performance, we'll take him back in Dublin. We played muck and got an injury time winner. That almost never happens. One point a game is roughly where the relegation places are. We're three points clear but can't expect anything from the next two games, so we may well be right back in the poo in a month. Crucially important that we took the three points here. Love to see it.

Correct! Treason, pure and simple. Roger Casement was hanged for importing arms into Ireland. The UVF boys? Some of them got knighthoods...

Ah, ardent unionists: so dedicated to NI's position in the UK that they will use physical force against Parliament if necessary. Loyal to the Crown as long as the Crown protects their interests. Fun fact: it was the UVF who introduced guns into twentieth century Irish politics, secretly importing 25,000 rifles when Parliament passed the Home Rule Act. Some things never change.

Those saying the backstop is gone are correct. Ireland/the EU has agreed to sacrifice the backstop in exchange for the permission of a majority of a functioning NI executive to withdraw from the deal. The key is functioning. Sinn Fein can collapse the Assembly whenever they want, and then NI are stuck in. So Boris "Churchill" Johnson has just handed a huge power card to SF, whose principal aim is create unity between NI and the Republic. Why would Sinn Fein of all parties ever ever ever ever agree to a hard border in Ireland? Yeah, we'll take that compromise

Yes. I've always said the immediate impact of Brexit is the lesser of the impacts. You might (or might not) have a sharp recession for a year. What I think it a bigger problem for your country is decades of slightly slower growth than what you'd otherwise have. I know people speak of Global Britain and trade deals with the US and so on, but the reality is Brexit will likely lead to less competition for British firms from European firms, and that will slow growth. Over a decade or two, you might find yourself really lagging behind. This is part of the reason ye asked the join in the first place, way back when. The first six countries were growing faster than everyone else, and the UK (and Ireland, and Denmark, and so on) all wanted a bit of the action. This is a bigger issue (imho) than a six-month recession. Good question as ever, Tony. The best way to do this is called the "synthetic control method". So you've 27 countries but not all are equal and you might want to use Germany and France as more comparable to the UK than Estonia and Malta. The synthetic control method finds you weights (more weight to France, less to Estonia) that gives you the best comparison group, a doppelganger. If you do that, the graph still looks rouhgly the same:

We’ll trade you the DUP for access to the BBC iPlayer.

The Employment Act of 1947 required English people needed work permits to move to Northern Ireland. Please remind any and all DUPes that this economic border in the Irish Sea existed until the 1970s. Removed, ironically, because the UK joined the EEC.

One controversial thing I will say is that if we do go down this year, selling Mings, McGinn and Grealish would cover the £100m+ shortfall. Obviously the team would be gutted, but we're well stocked in defence and Marvellous and Luiz would still tear up the Championship.