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I worry about the thrusters being able to cope, if they take their benefits home in cash. All that extra weight. Rocket safely everyone!

It's been a while since I've seen anything about bluesky. My thoughts at the time were it had plenty of toxicity itself. Possibly starting from a different viewpoint, but still containing loads of horrible folk spouting their extremism. Was that inaccurate, or has it changed?

Give it a few days. Osvaldo will be posting a "9 out of 10 cars sold in the UK,are Musk rocket cars on the Motability scheme" article. 🙂

It's possible the looks up and down are related to working out Osvaldo's weight, for Elon's plan to put a person into orbit in under a second. 🙂

If he's representing the Beeb, then there's a balanced view to be presented. Sports, in practice, works a bit differently. Reporting is often an editorial taking a view in order to increase clicks and opinion. They are often written by people who have little, or no, understanding, of how a club, or any organisation, is run, coached or managed. It doesn't get much beyond winning = great while defeat=disaster, resulting in hyper-fawning or hyper-criticism on a weekly cycle. For me, his importance is stopping Jo Tessem drift into incomprehensible points that take a half to express. Beyond that, he's easily replaceable, as he goes off on plenty of tangents himself. I'd quickly get over any changes in the lineup. Blackmore lost any semblance of balance on Spygate. Generally his lines of questioning have that standard fawn/sports-critique cycle. A lot of managers are just so used to having to put up with it, they just offer a line and move on. When the questioners are called on a point, they show themselves to be ill informed, brittle and unable to show any kind of response. Blackmore is far from the first in the Beeb. Nigel Pearson broke one of their regional reporters with a single pushback, after a similar swell of opinion to get him sacked. The Beeb sent down someone more senior, who was just as useless. But Leicester's media team, and the club didn't want to rock any boats, and Pearson trotted out a few bland replies until it went away. Blackmore got called on his question, stumbled, tried fawning but then couldn't get away from all his other questions being tied to the first one. Why he did that, only he can say. In isolation, they were "he did well". But all phrased in a way that undermined Tonda's squad management. They all had "despite not playing for X amount of time" before Tonda shut that down, citing Black ore not getting his facts right. There was a nice pause after Blackmore stumbled over a "I guess that's why you're the manager." Was Tonda thinking of replying "No thanks to you." or "and that's why you're a hack without a clue." I guess his manager media training kicked in.

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Think of the hungry patriotic children at Christmas, with fewer chocolate coins. 😭

Didn't help himself with every question following why players had been brought in, with a question on each of them, and how long they'd not been picked for. Swatted away with the first answer, but kept on going. The Dobbin one was funny with Blackmore saying how long he's had to wait for a start, only for Tonda to tell him about an earlier start.

GDP doesn't do well against the cost of chocolate coins. The runaway increase shows clearly that labour have lost control.

Not too often you can shout "shoot!" at your own goalkeeper, with some confidence of it going in. 🙂

Security will catch you one day, trousers. 🙂

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Good subs from Tonda, swapping out the full backs. Deliberate to have a mix of 1st and 2nd choice for both halves (not sure what's happened to Mads). But Wellington is a very solid replacement and barely second choice. He works well with Edozie. Likewise, Bree with Matsuki. With Jander doing really well, our midfield controlled a lot of the play. But it was pretty fluid. Bree allowed Matsuki to go centrally. Dobbin was pushed centrally, but would drop back and support. While we could do with a better cutting edge, having so many players interchanging proved too much for Norwich, leading to Matsuki's goal. Makama looked as though he could cause us problems, as he's a Larin-type of player. Fortunately he got little support. When Field had a clear path, but turned back, the home support vented their frustration. Larin didn't get on the end of much, and Mubama only a few touches. But having 2 up stopped Norwich pushing us back, helping us keep that lead. Hopefully Downes is okay. Azaz looked a bit tired, after two games. We don't seem to have actually brought in support for him. But Dobbin did have a better game, and did get around the park. Into 7th (3rd not including the penalty).