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We're talking about how it was viewed at the time, not with the benefit of hindsight. At the time he was sold, were Liverpool fans dancing in the streets, happy that they were really going to be pushing on by selling their best player?

How is selling Grealish a sign of ambition? Has anyone on here ever described us selling our best players as a sign of ambition? 🤣

I'm sure that you pride yourself on being a contrary c*nt (you certainly regularly come across that way), so congratulations on your consistency. If you're actually interested (which I strongly doubt, but hey, I might as well use my last post of the day up for sh*ts and giggles), when I paid the deposit at the end of May case numbers were significantly lower, and I still held some hope that the Government would finally not f*ck up some part of this pandemic. Their removing all restrictions yesterday, despite the increasing case numbers and the ~1.1 million people with long Covid, seems to have put that hope in its place. I was happy to renew last season to support the club, knowing that government restrictions would reflect the risk, so I'd get a refund if the ground was still closed. Now, that appears to no longer be the case. So, whilst I don't expect you to agree with my views, I hope that you can at least understand the logic of it, and see that perhaps it isn't the cut-and-dried situation your glib reply insinuated.

Hey, that's a perfectly valid view to have, I get where you're coming from, even though I couldn't (politely) disagree with it more. I've been fully vaccinated, so I'm not particularly concerned about myself (until we finally succeed in generating a variant that renders the vaccine useless). My kids, however, are a different matter. They've lost out on enough over the last 18 months that I don't want to increase their chances of getting long Covid over that of having to play Covid Roulette at school. To be honest, I haven't completely decided yet, but making decisions like this is part of the joy of parenthood!

Has anyone spoken to the Ticket Office about cancelling their season tickets after paying the deposit? I assume that I'd lose the deposit, or is there a chance that they understand the reluctance to sit in a crowded stadium during another Covid wave (regardless of what this incompetent government say about it). I've tried phoning, but no answer.

I have the Sky Sports pass on Now TV, and the app is adamant that I need the Entertainment pass to watch it. As is their support team.

Their support have said that I need to by the Entertainment pass. So I've asked for my Sports pass to be refunded, seeing as I only paid it a few days ago for this match.

Anyone else trying to watch the match on Now TV, only to find that they've moved it to Sky One and the Sports subscription doesn't cover that?

Wanting racism ended is Marxist now, is it?

Oh! I can't say that I can recall ever being emailed the voucher (I do recall an email about the store voucher, but that was a different voucher than the shirt personalisation one). Cheers for the answer.

On a separate note, did anyone ever receive the voucher for free shirt personalisation for buying a season ticket? I went to buy the kids shirts in the sale Friday, and whilst they were £15 each. it was £16 each to put names and numbers on them, at which point I remembered that mythical voucher.

The question to ask here is "How many years does that cover?". It's like the points lost when winning stat; I wish that they would show how many games we've actually gone ahead in as well, as that shows quite a different narrative: Premier League - Points after taking lead 20/21 | Transfermarkt You can see that there are only 5 clubs who have gone ahead in more matches than us. Ok, I'm not saying that losing four games from a winning position is great, but I think that it provides some much needed context.

I mean, way to not address a single point from my post! So why are so many teams not buying anyone in this window? Is that a massive coincidence, has the entire league decided to move to a sustainable financial model? Oh no, we had to sell our back-up left back, who wanted to leave for first team football, and very few people had a problem with leaving. And I hardly see waiting until your £50k a week right back has moved on before bringing in his replacement. What if that had fallen through? We'd have been paying him to sit on the bench, and we are not rich enough to be doing things like that, are we? It's not something that *can* be called sustainable, it *is* sustainable. What we have now is an unprecedented injury crisis, and I can't think of a club anywhere near our size that would be able to cope with it. If you want to argue that it's had nothing to do with the pandemic, knock yourself out. Don't get me wrong, I'm as frustrated as you are about what the injuries have done to our season. I genuinely believe that we had a shot of sneaking in to the top four if we'd kept everyone fit. But I don't expect the club to have the squad to be able to cope with that.

Do you not think, when you look at how little transfers have happened this window, that maybe no one has the money to bring new players in? What we have at the moment is an injury crisis, we aren't a big enough club to spend our way out of it. But we are attempting to get some cover in at full back, but I can see this being damn hard to achieve today, given the bigger clubs aren't bringing players in, they're mostly going to be reluctant to let anyone go out, even on loan (see Williams at Man Utd).

I thought the stat was that we're the first club to beat all seven premier league champions a season after they've won it.

Well, I, for one, am particularly enjoying a bunch of white blokes decide what is and isn't racist. Good work, everyone, if you could now sort out poverty, it'd be much appreciated.

I've not finished reading this book yet (it deserves reading properly), but I have read The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis (who wrote Moneyball), which is about a lot of the work that Kahneman and Tversky did on how useless gut feeling is, and how easy it is to manipulate (which they show using cold, hard statistics). Well worth a read. Though it may leaving you feel that we're doomed as a species, as we are so easily manipulated (see Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, etc...)

I offer this as a counterpoint: PolitiFact | Is Black Lives Matter a Marxist movement?

Er, I'm saying that everything O'Neil says is deliberately provocative, and has nothing to do with facts or evidence. I didn't think my post was that obtuse that you couldn't work that out, so I can only apologise for that.

Brendan O'Neil is very much a grifter, a professional contrarian who will hold whatever view he needs to to make some money. Ironically, given that people here are accusing BLM of being Marxist, he is one of those grifters, like Clare Fox, who started life off as members of The Revolutionary Communist Party, then wrote for Living Marxism, which turned in to LM, which is now known as Spiked.

I mean, you could just subscribe, then you can read as many of their articles as you want.

Unless the player scores with their head or shoulder, at which point they come in to play, no?

Isn't that a separate discount voucher? It's what I said I wanted to receive, had an email this week to say that I would still be receiving it (presumably once the shirts are available to order again), but I could use the retail voucher they erroneously sent me this week.

Dev 1: "What are relational databases good at then?" Dev 2: "Er, relational data?" Dev 3: "Shall we set up the relations in the database then?" Dev 1: "Nah, f*ck it, can't be arsed." And by dev, I mean cowboy... 😒

Is that not more likely that as you're not logged in, it's going to query the database a lot less when you come to the site, as it's not getting the data to show if there are unread posts in each thread, whether you've posted in any threads? From what Steve has said, this just sounds like thoroughly shite software. The lack of database indexes alone is, frankly, unbelievable. That gives me little confidence that the new version of the software will be much better, unless they've got some new people on board who actually have the slightest clue how to design and code a low-to-middling performing website. If the Lounge is still struggling, is it worth attempting to add some database indexes? I know that they can take days to add, but it could solve all the performance issues.