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Ramos-esque. Definitely should get a ban for a few games.

Traore has shown a lot more than Bailey on average over their appearances. Obviously Bailey hasn't had a lot of games, but Traore is pretty established as an effective Premier League winger for me while I still have doubts about Bailey. Bailey has to win a spot.

They signed him in January when we were in the Championship and they were in the Prem for about £18million + with a lot of add ons. We were linked with him as I remember, but we had no chance against a Prem team.

Losing the plot!

Just wanted to add to the praise, but I really enjoyed Hawkeye. There was some great writing (except for the dialogue in the prologue) and great directing for this kind of genre. It really hit the spot for me. This and Loki are the two top-tier Marvel shows for me. Wandavision was enjoyable too. They've done well expanding on the films with these shows. Even Falcon and the Winter Soldier had some good to it, though I think the dialogue was a bit forced especially in the first few episodes.

I agree with everything you say. They should have left him alone. He was so lame in the Mandalorian, and his arrival was the exact point the quality of the show took a massive nosedive, climaxing in the rubbish undercooked, badly written cameo at the end of the season.

Always?

I think he's joking.

They'll never hear about this anyway. It's not like they were ever exposed to the news in the first place.

I've talked about this a few times. In my experience in Spain we only ever had a lockdown for the first three months of the pandemic. Since then there's been face masks...and the results show that schools and unis have been open with normal classes, and the covid numbers have been nothing like in the UK. Again, just the one lockdown. Because we haven't needed it unlike the UK. The difference between the two countries, having spent all my time between the two seems blatant. I'm shocked at how difficult some people want to make the pandemic and it's really easy to draw conclusions that it's the cynical, moaning, ever complaining lot who are really making it drag on and worse for everyone. I'm not sure my point is clear: in Spain, we never pretended the pandemic finished. We have worn masks since the first summer. We've been able to get on with it, and the level of spoilt selfish moaning, refusing to wear masks, had been night and day. In the UK it seems like a massive proportion of the country behave like a bunch of spoilt children. And those spoilt children are making things worse. And then when things get worse they moan even more.

It's not. If you're not symptomatic or pre symptomatic the lateral flow test is about 40% accurate to my memory. The PCR is much higher.

I can imagine what it is, but maybe I have no idea. I've wanted to say for a while though, generally, I think Hawkeye is great. The first 10 minutes of the first episode was full of crap dialogue but since then it's been really enjoyable and high quality—good writing and some great moments and bits of direction.

Yeah but some players have great playing careers and don't make good managers. So having a good playing career doesn't make it a given that he'll be a good manager. So it's difficult to be 100% all in convinced by it. And it's also fair to say that Rangers are a massive club in a league dominated by Rangers themselves and Celtic, so it's also difficult to be 100% convinced by his success there either. I don't follow Scottish football myself, so it has little bearing on my thinking, and that's probably the same for a lot of people. It's not a mad thought that people might have needed to be convinced, or needed a bit of time to see what Gerrard was bringing to the table. I feel no shame at all about being a bit uncertain about the appointment—really I was kind of nervous/excited/intrigued tbh, and in fairness the more positive parts of that mix of feelings was because of his stature and from comments about his good job at Rangers. I'm loving it now though.

To jump into this discussion, isn't what you say a bit 'confirmation biasy'? There's nothing wrong with questioning whether Gerrard was the right choice. And there was nothing wrong with questioning his experience. And if people didn't appreciate that his job at Rangers was madly impressive and the sign of a true managerial master, then that's not a massive surprise either. Just because it looks good now doesn't mean anyone was mad to wonder if it would be the right appointment. You can pick out a few examples of where it went right, but there are plenty of examples the other way too. For me, I was really skeptical, but I've been really impressed. Now with hindsight, it all seems so obvious. But yeah, maybe some people have a better appreciation of his success in Scotland.

'In my opinion' ... 'so certainly a trust issue'. I'm not sure those two bits go together! Also, he was injured 90% of the time and Smith did play him!

I have questions about that fan's choices, but I fear the answer would be really unsatisfactory. Or maybe he just forgot his shirt. Or he gave his shirt to someone who was cold.

If only peeps hadn't pretended the pandemic was over in June. This is a rod made by the Tories for the country's own back I feel. Where I am right now, there's no panic, no rush for boosters. Anyway, I think I repeat myself too much on here.

Yep, he loves a bit of distraction tactics! OK thanks for the info. I don't know my NHS number, but I seem to be able to book an actual appointment, so maybe I'll go with that.

What info do you have to provide for a walk in out of interest? I'm coming over from Spain for Christmas next week, and I'm wondering if I'll be able to get the booster.

What evidence is that in favour of? And to which point? A while ago some people (how many—one person? Two? Three?) said West Ham would fall off in their subjective opinion, so now anyone else saying West Ham are good (it's a bit more objective now I'd say) somehow don't count? West Ham are good now.

We look like we can create chances (except for yesterday). We could easily have drawn with City and got more goals against Leicester. We played some really nice football the likes of which has been rare this season. These are early days, but we are doing positive things with the ball (obvs less so yesterday) as well as looking more solid—as you say. But because yesterday we had no shots and a few obvious posters have severe cases of recency bias, I'm sure a lot of that will go forgotten for a few days.

Why would they try and sign him for £50 million? We'd at best get our money back surely, more or less, and only if someone really wanted to push the boat out for him.

Such a dive. What impact by Mings makes him fall over? Nothing at all.

He held the ball up a lot. He might have had a lot of touches, but they often came off, even if he was fortunate once or twice. Tough game to play alone up front and he was fine imo.

His body being next to Salah's was enough for Salah to go down. It was a soft one imo.