Jonesy7211

Now Dean has rightly blown up at the officials, and the offside incident completely waved away by all and sundry, my worry is that he's going to become a figure of fun in the media. Next time Dean complains about anything there'll be stories about his behavior rather than the incident, just like whenever Mourinho used to blow up. Mourinho historically acted like a clown to unify his squad (us and them mentality), but he did sometimes have a point. I fully expect other refs to pay more attention to Dean now, in the way that they're aware of who the play actors are and by admission will be more reluctant to hand out free kicks etc. I'm in no way criticizing our manager and agree with his reaction, however I can see it coming back to bite us in the future.

Off to take a look at RAWK, should be fun tonight.

The funny thing is the chairman's dad has stopped his money. They're skint.

The squad Sheff Weds have just didn't suit Pulisball. Couple of guys at work are Sheffield lads and big weds fans. Pulis promised the chairman he'd play attacking football when he was interviewed and when it never transpired there was a bitter split which resulted in him leaving. Fully expect them to overtake the scum should they get the right manager in.

How is Pickford England's number 1 over Pope? I really hope Pope has the shirt for the Euros. He's playing well again tonight.

Had a letter from the GP yesterday saying to expect my 1st dose in the next few weeks, and the 2nd by the end of May (I'm CEV). It sounds to me like the NHS know we need both doses, but the government and the Tory led media are trying to spin things to say everyone with the 1st dose is vaccinated and we can start reducing restrictions once the Top 4 most at risk groups have had the 1st dose, which will be in the next couple of months. Based on the clinical trial results, and the plan to distribute the vaccine, it appears to me that the decision to extend the time between vaccine doses is down to protecting the economy (those companies that donate to the Tory party anyway), and not in the interests of safeguarding the at risk.

He knows his time will be up unless he shithouses some results in the next few weeks. The pressure is on and he's coming out with his excuses. Absolute fraud. Disgusting to blame the players. If they were where we are he'd be crowing and taking all the credit.

I understand your point, but I think he was a victim of taking on more team responsibility after some quality players had left. I don't doubt that if he'd looked after himself better when he was younger he could have remained more explosive for longer, but his passing game really developed in Fergie's last few years and Rooney started to stay deeper.

Was never the same player after Fergie left utd. I think that could be said of a lot a players that either left utd whilst he was manager or those that stayed after Fergie retired. It's well know he never looked after himself off the field, but the game is littered with players like that. Just a shame we never got to see what he could have been.

That's my thinking. Adding an extremely unpopular person to an already unpopular and diminishing (pointless) party. It makes no sense.

Britain's Voice of Common Sense? Somebody sat down and decided they're really going with that? I can't imagine them going with "Britain's most well known celebrity racist and hate monger", but voice of common sense is a bit of a stretch. Seriously ridiculous even adding her to the party. She's not a popular person.

I wouldn't be surprised to see more zero hours contracts and and part time roles pushed into other industries after this. Rather than furlough, two senior members of a less busy team in the company I work for have been made part time, and they're effectively now job sharing. One works Mon, Tues, half day Weds, and the other works the remainder of the week. It's daft really as we work in IT and it's often difficult picking work up off other people without starting again.

These daily numbers are only going to get worse over the next few weeks until the effects of lockdown kick in. There really has never been a western government that has so abandoned its duty to protect the people. We've had hundreds more die in one day than Australia has during the entire pandemic.

He does not care that we know he's a liar. That's why he does it. All the time for years and years. Just like Cummings didn't care that we knew he was lying about his road trip. Just like Hancock lies continually over track and trace. He does not care. They're corrupt. Not incompetent.

Not sure if this should go in funny pics...

I don't understand why the rioters aren't being treated like the domestic terrorists they blatantly are. This goes far past patriotism. If this was a gathering of BLM supporters there would have been tanks by now.

My wife is a social worker. There are loads of reasons why vulnerable kids need school access unfortunately, none of them positive. I've purposely not gone into this with specific detail as it makes me too angry and upset. For what it's worth I think schools do a great job of assisting social care with managing vulnerable children. The wider point about more keyworker kids in school, I don't know about everywhere else but my kids schools have called us to ask us what we do and identified for themselves that we're both keyworkers. I wonder if this is happening in other areas where there has been an increase in numbers of kids staying in school?

I think this is a key point. Hancock has been especially evasive on dealing with questions about the vaccine rollout timeline. He's already started mutterings about not knowing how quickly and in what volumes the Oxford vaccine can be produced. If we do go into lockdown all resources must be provided by the government to assist the manufacturer. Surely there's ways to assist? Resource, manpower, technology? Surely?

Absolutely not, perhaps my point isn't clear. I think the whole framework of "acceptable" is wrong, and it bothers me greatly that anyone could use that in an argument against saving lives. I think the use is entirely wrong and is used by people such as her to play down the number of deaths in the face of financial loss. What I do hope for is that we change this to an understandable level of deaths, as I believe the government would come in for far greater criticism. They are simply not doing enough to reduce the number of deaths to a more understandable level, in my opinion. Ideally there would be no deaths, and no pain of losing a loved one to this awful virus for anyone else. However that simply won't happen, but what we can do is try to prevent the number of deaths being so high by making it the highest priority, and not financial gains for a corrupt and greedy shower of MP's currently occupying government.

I think the term for the level of deaths shouldn't be acceptable, but understandable. For example, a lot of elderly die each year from the flu, and the levels of death are never acceptable but are rather more understandable when we consider other factors associated with the deaths including age, underlying health conditions etc. It's the same with driving. I don't think anyone gets into a car with the intention of having a serious accident, but deaths relating to driving are more understandable when we consider speed of the vehicle, condition of the driver, condition of the vehicle etc. Certainly the number of deaths in relation to these things become a lot less scary when we understand there are other factors. What the Tory MP said about acceptable levels of death is abhorrent and shows just how little she values life. There should never be an acceptable level of death, even with Covid. However there will always be an understandable level of death so long as those in charge are doing all they can to manage the situation.

I think most sensible Villa fans realise we're performing way above expectations at the minute. We very nearly went down and it's like watching a different team this season. Like most, i was hoping not to be in a relegation scrap this season, and to carry on improving year on year. I'm still sticking to that as we're only a couple of injuries away from a crisis, like we experienced last year. Anything else is a bonus and another reason to be proud of the club. I'd argue the fans on twitter probably aren't as invested as the majority of sensible villa fans, and should stick to winning the league this season firmly on FIFA or football manager.

Goal from Andy Carroll

I hope things are different now. I'm generally a cynic, but teachers are already exhausted because they're already covering for staff shortages when another teacher has to isolate; they're being asked to test potentially infected children and further risk themselves; and people now know more about the relationship/cronyism between the press and the government.

I don't think even the Torygraph or Daily Heil would run negative headlines against teachers and their unions for demanding information that has influenced a decision that could cause so much harm. Even before the 1st lockdown parents were removing children from schools because we had no information. I would fully support the teachers against the government, as would so many other people. This government is so out of touch with the country every decision over the last 9 months has been greeted with derision and suspicion. The papers know this, even the Heil. We should have been moving to remote learning as soon as the new strain was discovered. Typical tory mess, we'll probably do it in two weeks when thousands more will have died and the figures keep getting worse. We're nowhere near getting the vaccine to all those who want or need it. The fear people have along with the contempt they have for the tools in charge means the teachers will be backed. Look at the outrage over the way the NHS has been treated. If there's any outpouring of positivity for teachers in public in the next few weeks I fully expect Boris Johnson to jump on the bandwagon...

With Barkley missing so many games I also worry about his motivation for us once he's fit. When he came there was talk about his main driver being making the England squad for the Euros. The more games he misses the less likely it is he'll be included. I may be underestimating him but I wonder if we'll see the same player when he does return. I agree that we shouldn't be signing him based on his current injury record with us. Our squad does not have enough quality to cover frequent absences.