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Ahem, Breaking news. Tory approved Egg Tory non-approved Egg

The bloke's feet aren't there (admittedly hard to do) but aside from that, the highest, leftmost "shadow" is all wrong - the bit directly above "the bus". 5/10 WNB (would not board)

There will be a GE, with about 75% likelihood, I’d say. What the tories are doing is pretending to go for a no deal Brexit in order to twist the EU’s arm to reopen negotiations. If they are prevented from no deal, there will 100% be an election. If they somehow mess up so badly that no deal happens, or is imminent it’s still extremely likely there will be one, because they will lose parliamentary majority completely.

He had a contract which ran out at the end of June. He knew that, the club knew that. It would be highly unusual for both GW and AV to not, either of them, have any idea that "you know what. this contract runs out in a week or so, let's just sit here and not mention it to each other, and then act all surprised. So basically, for him to have not been told, he'd also to have not asked directly or via his agent "er, new contract at all?" I agree that if the club were to have somehow avoided telling him that the contract was not going to be renewed, if he had not asked, if his agent had not asked, then that's poor communication by all concerned, but I don't buy it that he was in the dark because of some club (in)action. It would be nice to think that he and the club (manager, CEO) would have talked, just to say thanks and 'bye, but I don't at all accept he was accidentally or deliberately kept in the dark.

In that single case, to whose advantage, exactly? Absolutely no-one's.

If you have a bird on it, is that allowed? My outback bathroom, a bit ago.

Is it such a black and white er, issue?

Ultra pedantically - It's not in the book, is it? At least it's not in my book.

Oh it is recent. All the evidence suggest Tony didn't have a mind of his own in the past.

That's not a screenshot of his (or anyone else's) inbox. It's a screenshot of someone's Draft e mithers folder. Here's one from mine

They’re losing members at a heck of a rate, too.

Yeah, the first tweet is a dumpster fire, the second not so much. The first one is cringe, because he’s linking two completely unconnected things at two different times, to try and make himself look good to US voters. The second one is absolutely fine and common sense.

Oh yes!

Add Palace and Bournemouth into that list, Watford at a stretch and I’d say they’re the ones we might have a chance of finishing above. I doubt we’ll be better than all of them, but hopefully at least 3 of them. Newcastle, Palace and Burnley to go down, Villa 15th.

That’s what beer is for.

It was announced, as it had to be by law, to Companies House earlier today. PDF and https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/10176070/officers

They were, you're right. I think my comment is that he either through instinct or coaching got himself into those positions to tap in. Kienan less so. It was stark for example at Bolton away, when TA went off and KD came on. Lots of good play, and with better positioning, he could have had about 4 or 5 chances to finish, but he just didn't make the moves. It's not his fault, and he can and should get better, with coaching. You're right as well that as long as we score, it doesn't matter who - and also DS's style of play is one which is not all focused on getting the bal to a deadly striker to finish, it's much more about creating opportunities for whoever /anyone to score. The difference in the Prem, as mentioned already is that defences are generally stronger and less prone to positional and individual errors, so we'll not pick up as many goals from gifts, as we got in the EFL.

I don't want to spoil the mood, but from the limited amount I've seen, scoring and finishing doesn't look like a strong suit for Wesley either. Sorry.

Definitely the way I've seen it too. It's not that his finishing is terrible, it's that he often doesn't actually get into the position to have a chance to finish. If he can be coached to see the moves he needs to make, to learn where to go, not just for holding the ball up or playing in a team mate, but also to get on the end of potential chances to score, then he'll be an excellent player. Right now, he's like a recipe for a really good meal, but with just one key ingredient missing.

meeoww.

There's actually 10 jokes in there. (maybe I flatter myself)

Well, statistically, though not hard to spot, it doesn't happen - looking at over a thousand dogs, all are binary - e.g. 1001 Dalmations

You’re welcome Mike.

If you’re saying what I wrote won’t happen then I beg to differ. Chances are I’ll be wrong, because my run of luck in working out what will happen can’t last.

There’s 2 angles to this. Firstly, you’re right, the UK red lines, set by May’s personal preferences and nothing more, effectively limit the scope of what could be offered for negotiation. There’s no motivation whatsoever for the EU to change that stance. But the other aspect is that a deal is better than no deal, for both sides. The current (thrice rejected) deal is not acceptable to the UK parliament, even though the then UK PM signed off on it. So right now there’s no deal. A deal is needed by both sides. The May deal won’t be changed IMO, as per angle 1, above. So the wording around what comes next, how the two sides arrange things after we have left, which can be changed, will have to satisfy both parties. Trouble is, it’s not legally binding....But it’s the easiest thing by far to alter and allow both sides to settle down. This whole 3 year period is the easy bit. The harder, by far, part is the detail of the future relationship between the EU and UK. There’s another decade of all this to come. We’ll be 4 governments in before it’s remotely sorted.