Lighthouse

I don't think I was too far off with the 'donut formation'. If anything I'd say it was more of the 'Big Les Bukake' formation. Bednarek Bree Aribo KWP Ugochukwu Welington Dibling Fernandes Archer Sully

Surely she remembers Lothar Matthaus' hit single, 'The Fog on the Rhine'?

Actually there isn't, only seven home games left including today.

You mean the one ten yards out seen through a crowd of legs? This determination from a number of people to hate Bazunu is a bit weird, especially compared to a fair few goals Ramsdale seems to get off scot free for. The guy is just back from a nine-month injury, he's gone to Liege to get some match practice and sharpness.

And that'll achieve what, exactly?

Probably should have stayed on his line for the second but you can't take anything away from an excellent cross and run. I'd be more critical of that #17 at 58 seconds in.

Burnley have made it all the way through January and February without conceding a league goal. Not let one in since Christmas in fact.

Ahhhh, they're bringing Vestergaard on, no way they lose 9-0 at home on a Friday night with him on the pitch.

Such a shame to see this happen to a player as likeable as Vardy.

Overtaking a lorry at 58mph about half a mile from your exit off a dual-carriageway and you're stuck behind somebody doing 59mph in the right hand lane. 'Annoy' might be an understatement, it's a special kind of hatred like no other.

If you’re every struggling to figure out your opinion on an issue, just check out what Beverly Turner has to say and go with the opposite of that, you won’t go far wrong.

Well, we’ve got Aussie all rounder Jack Edward’s for the first couple of months. Looks like he won’t be around for the Blast though.

The problem with that though is that United did give us room, because they’re sh*t. Everyone is winning at OT apart from them and Saints and it’s easy to see why. You can’t really bank on a strategy which is dependent on the opponent playing very badly. It’d be like saying we need to replicate what we did at Portman Road, if the keeper spills a couple of easy shots.

Don’t forget him being brought on in the 87th minute against Brentford, where his calming influence and leadership helped us to concede only two more goals in injury time.

Since we haven’t got a decent central midfield anyway, let’s just play the doughnut formation. Ramsdale Benarek THB Bree Wood KWP Welington Dibling Fernandes TP Sully

Just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse, some prat goes and unleashes an ancient curse upon all civilisation. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ym30v356po

Mad as a March hare.

Impoverished 😆 Russia is going cap in hand to Iran and North Korea and Iran for weapons. They have a combined GDP of less than half a trillion dollars. Britain alone has an economic output nearly seven times that. Look, I know some of you want to pretend that we’re all a bunch of rabbits running from the great Russian bear but it’s not 1965 any more.

A chance to lose at home on three consecutive Saturdays, which should be a first but knowing us probably not. Another bog standard 1-3 incoming.

All of our players, bar four, would have difficulty securing a place in any other PL team, so that’s a much broader statement than you were perhaps intending.

There’s very little motivation to do any kind of deal on the terms being discussed at the moment. They won’t cede land without security guarantees from NATO and Lavrov says that’s out of the question. Europe won’t struggle to support them, if there is a concerted effort towards it from all countries involved. Russia is dependent on countries like Iran and North Korea for military support, if we wanted to we could easily out supply them in terms of quality and quantity of hardware.

I thought of that exact same comparison yesterday. Essentially you have a useless buffoon thinking he’s negotiating his way to the Nobel peace prize by giving a brutal dictator everything he wants, in exchange for a piece of paper saying, “I promise to stop being naughty.” We’re at the, “let them have the Sudetenland, we don’t want a war,” phase of proceedings.

If it was that simple that you could just ‘gear your economy’ for war indefinitely and not suffer any consequences, then everyone would do it all the time. I’m not an economist, so I couldn’t begin to tell you the ins and outs of all these sanctions, their long terms effects and the sustainability of Russian countermeasures but a war of this scale is not something that either they or Ukraine can keep up forever.

Alcaraz has one game where he scored and got an assist, that doesn’t necessarily mean he played a blinder and the jury is still very much out. If we couldn’t get a tune out of him, neither could Juve and they know a thing or two about decent footballers. Brooks came to us to try and rebuild match fitness after 18 months out being treated for lukemia, so hardly a surprise he’s showing improvement a year later. Rothwell scored a handful of decent enough goals for us and was generally okay, whereas I’ve yet to hear pundits raving about him at Leeds. Charles is the best player at a midtable team, last year he struggled to make an impact at one chasing promotion, seems logical enough to me. Sully has done very little for three different managers now (four if you include Jones), it’ll take more than his first league goal in 18 months to change my mind. Archer scored four goals for United last season, which is pretty much on par with his record this year. So overall, no I don’t agree that it’s our fault for not playing to the players strengths. I think they’re generally speaking playing as well for us as they have at any other club in their careers. That being said, I don’t think the scouting is the issue either, it’s more the recruitment strategy. It’d be a hell of a coincidence if all the players our scouts identify just happen to be cheap bargains who fall into our very low target price range. I think it’s more likely that they’re identifying far better talent but are being left frustrated by the actual decision makers looking at their work and saying, "yeah we’ll get that £7m bloke who just went down with Sheff Utd."

I’d say most military analysts would disagree with that, Russia has nothing that can compete in air to air combat with any NATO Typhoon or F35 for example. Even many of the older F16s and FA18s have more advanced avionics than their Russian counterparts, many of which are far from airworthy condition. It’s a similar story when you start comparing the WW2 era tanks Russia has been dragging out of storage to modern Leopards and Challengers. We’ve been complacent for too long in terms of troop numbers and defence spending but collectively Europe has the stronger military. It’s just a question of will power.