Holmes_and_Watson

Another brave, bold policy decision to do the right thing for his country, and his people. Favouring them over decades of financial institutions, companies and countries greedily unbalancing trade for their own benefits. It's a shame it looks so drastic, but this is due to how long it has been allowed to continue. No doubt there will be hysteria over the move. But if he stays the course, the rebalancing will show the strength of our special ally and the use of the popular mandate Trump has. His party has to remain strong, and not cave into short term concerns. - Liz Truss

Shame. I was hoping Veni, vidi, tesci would be I came, I saw, I shopped.

And how many for the second half's loss? 🙂

We are absolutely no better than the points we've got.

Invasion

We nearly got a home win. We weren't great by any measure. But we looked better because someone had an epiphany of putting players broadly into their favoured positions. It's a masterstroke, and if only we had the talent at the club to have given that a go earlier on. A similar genius might also start realising our tall forward, who is good in the air, might benefit from more deliveries like the one that gave us our goal. It was a good goal, but there's also been opportunities we've had to be implementing it for ages. We seemed to want to progressively weaken our side, the longer the game went on. Sule and TP were out the side for ages, and perhaps we're suffering for that now. Downes, who was on a yellow, was out for off field reasons, so also was subbed. Taking off Downes and Les removed our midfield. TP going off late on, removed our physical outlet. Dibling has played a lot of minutes, and is just not the same under IJ. Had they been able to last the course, and IJ not weakened us more with the other subs, we could well have held on. But we invited more pressure instead. The clearance for their goal wasn't a good one. That sent our defense out, leaving plenty of gaps, when a similar ball came right back in. We vacated all the space to try and make up for the first error. So better, but from such a self inflicted low bar.

There may have been teams who have gone into financial meltdown, who have had to build practically from scratch. "They only had 2 players on their books," sort of thing.

Yup. SR managed to ignore the multiple pile up of mistakes around them, and follow exactly the same path as before.

Sink

I think of my poor, Norwich supporting dad, who watched his team collapse towards the end of seasons, getting relegated with barely a whimper.

Tongs

I worry that, once it's confirmed, we have a slump in form. 🙂

It's my sad duty to let you know that your posting standards have slipped to my level. 🙂

Horror

We'll never score... oh concede? ... not a problem. 🙂