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I was confident when the draw was made but can see us getting beat in this one after our recent shit-shows. They have some decent players who will probably raise their games because this is massive for them, our lot will probably just see it as a week-off. Would be great to play at Wembley again but I even if some fans are allowed I doubt I will get a ticket, plus it looks like whoever wins will just face a stuffing anyway so not overly bothered, staying up is the priority now.

They are not in the EU so not sure what their political motives are for pausing.

Norway and Iceland?

You can’t blame VAR for players getting injured FFS.

God knows, I thought other countries had paused it as well, Thailand and Congo.

Why are some non EU countries doing the same then?

Agree with the above, this season is a freak so I would give Ralph the benefit of doubt for now. The schedule calms down a bit from now on so hopefully we will notice the difference.

Aren’t they just suspending it until they know more? As we’ve seen before, not every country has the expertise we do, so while they are probably wrong they have their own systems in place for checking.

I support how the Police dealt with yesterday's resulting protests, which is how Police in the Midlands dealt with a vigil similar to the Clapham one.

Wether they were holding candles, putting flowers down, crying or chanting the end result of what the plod did is more ill-feeling, more gatherings and more risk of spreading the virus. Why do you think the gatherings last night in response to the Clapham shit-show were Policed differently?

I don't agree with any protests during a pandemic, anyone who attends a mass gathering in the current situation is an idiot IMO. But as they were there holding their candles and crying or whatever they were doing the plod would have been better off just letting them get bored/cold and disperse naturally - as they were doing. All they have achieved through roughing up a bunch of emotional women is create more ill feeling and mass gatherings.

Which is what I have been saying all along. All the plod achieved by roughing up a bunch of women was trigger a second mass gathering last night (which they policed differently) causing more potential spreading.

He changed back to his preferred system after that Leicester game and we looked decent up until this bad run. Anyway we’re Saints, we are generally always shite, just in varying degrees.

I just think the crazy schedule and injuries has killed his high energy game and that’s all he knows. It’s a freak season so I would give him the benefit of doubt. As long as we can get a stronger squad in place we should do OK next year if we stay up.

Now thousands are gathering in Parliament Square in response to the police shit-show in Clapham- way to go plod.

The mental schedule has definitely had an effect, luckily the next month looks better fixtures wise.

We are looking like that classic side that gets sucked in to the battle at the end of the season. Should stumble over the line given the fixtures we’ve got.

Criminals need to be caught and case brought to court - that’s takes resources and how much you invest in the Police and CPS will have an effect. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/rape-prosecution-england-wales-victims-court-cps-police-a8885961.html

You don’t think convicting more sex offenders and locking them up for longer will change anything. Wow, Gammon intellect at it’s finest.

Can you not be a right wing feminist?

I expect longer sentences and higher conviction rate for sex crimes would be one thing. Hold in, isn't that a Tory policy?

It’s just a bunch of soppy Londoners and feminists.

Antifa?

I don’t think it’s right, just think it looks like it has been clumsily handled. As I said earlier, the actions of the plod probably made it more likely to be a spreading event than if they just let people to disperse naturally, as they were apparently already doing.

Apparently there was a similar vigil somewhere in the midlands recently where permission was denied and it went ahead anyway. The plod there didn’t do a thing, some people went, lit candles a few then went home an hour later.