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Good team, great manager, just hitting form. I don't think we have that much of a chance here but stranger things have happened. GK (Not much between them) Tino Bednarek Salisu KWP Romeu JWP Redmond Tella Armstrong Broja is the team for me. Bring on Adams and Stu for Tella and Broja if we need a goal and Adams/Diallo for Tella/Armstrong if we want to hold a lead (unlikely!) Prediction 3-1 spurs.

It's not about writing him off. He is playing behind two of our best players. I have been impressed by Perraud, but he has stiff competition. Regarding KWP on the left, I too have quite liked him on the left. I think he attacks just as well on the left as he does on the right. Inverted wingers/wingbacks/fullbacks are pretty common nowadays. Players like Cancelo and Maehle arguably have their best games on the other side to their foot. We are not really a team that relies on crossing particularly heavily (Tino is a poor crosser too) so I don't think it is such a big deal he can't go outside and whip in crosses.

Armstrong will be fine. He has great natural ability and pace as well as superb dribbling and two footedness. He had a slower start, as a lot of players do in a new team and league, but he has talent. The injury came at a poor time when he was starting to find his feet. I have no worries about him whatsoever.

They are giving him a silly wage as well as the silly fee they paid for him. Doubt he is too bothered raking in the cash, if he had genuine ambition he would have gone to a decent side and not Villa. I think looking back on it selling Ings and Vestergaard for £45m will look like some of the best business of the summer, coupled with bringing in Tino, Armstrong, and Broja (albeit on loan). Perraud seems like decent depth too.

He really put off the opposition in our prime conceding minutes with his hairdo and scottish accent. Class game management from the gaffer.

Still haven't won without him playing in years, too reliant.

Happy days lads! Great end to a great Christmas!

Easy to say in hindsight 😉

Gives the other team a competitive advantage for little gain to them. Broja Walcott is a dramatically different style of front line to Adams Armstrong so makes little sense to give anything away.

To cut back is to partially avoid. If you don't avoid any interactions, how can you be said to cut back?

https://www.itv.com/news/2021-12-15/deprioritise-social-interactions-ahead-of-christmas-chris-whitty-urges https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/chris-whitty-christmas-party-tory-mp-b1977266.html

The experts definitely did say to avoid Christmas parties

Do you think that makes future advice as valuable as yours? Some guy on a forum?

It really is though.

So if you don't make every prediction perfectly your less credible than some random who hasn't even been to uni? Despite years of experience and qualifications?

Just do what the experts advise, it's really as simple as that. We have organisations like the WHO and NHS advice for a reason. The the experts advise arse sitting then do some arse sitting, and don't cry about it. If they say avoid gatherings like christmas parties like they have this year then maybe do that too. If they say its fine to have a pint, do that if you fancy it

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You know we already ban the spread of dangerous views, right? Like it's illegal to incite violence or spread racial hatred etc.

So isolation is good then? Glad we are on the same page, earlier you seemed to imply sitting on ones arse and watching netflix isn't objectively the best way to stop the virus, but since we both agree it is (unless you have a few years experience in scientific research) then I guess we agree. Watching tiger king with a frozen pizza = good Going to the pub and crying all about your "freedom" whist not following guidelines = bad

The woke schools from the 70s and 80s? As from my observations the vast majority of antivax nutters are 45 and up.

It's because people shouldn't be poor or war kills a lot of innocents are much simpler concepts than the efficacy of a COVID vaccine. It doesn't take a genius to say "people starving is bad" but I don't trust MLT to understand how vaccines effect peoples cardiac health.

What do you think made these idiots make the decision not to have the vaccine in the first place? People like MLT. The idiots who thought the vaccine would lead to mass death are being disproven pretty easily, so eventually the fervent anti-vaxxers will slowly move across to getting it after a few of their mates get the virus and they realise its actually very unpleasant. People like MLT slow that embarrassing waddle back to the side of science by pinning random unrelated deaths on the vaccine. Thus reducing vaccine uptake and endangering lives.

It's because some people regurgitate facts fed to them completely uncritically regardless of source and it convinces them to do stupid bullshit like going into work while infected. I'm not worried that MLT will influence me, I'm worried he'll influence a bunch of idiots and they will keep spreading the disease, giving it opportunities to mutate, and keeping things super dangerous for the immunocompromised.

"Grandad, you went to work while infected with a disease that is potentially fatal to people with a compromised immune system just so you could get an extra couple of days of work in? Explain to me how that helped anyone get back to normal more than isolating, and why it was worth it to potentially kill your fellow citizens?"