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Or have a quick one for the benefit of a raging psychopath with stated aims of expansion and no-one else.

Wasn't that what happened in Crimea. Do that and give Russia land give it a couple of years for Putin to stock back up and it all starts again, as it basically says if you invade another country you end up with more territory out of it. It'd be like giving a kid trying to steal a tray of cakes...

Exactly. The canals, railways and motorways had a massive impact on places which thrived and which didn't. You can take that back to the Romans and medieval periods. Where they built forts, roads and castles people moved there. Infrastructure could be a massive nudge. You install something like...

Yep, always felt he was never given a fair crack solely as a striker. Was never going to be the best player in the world but had a good work ethic and seemed to have a knack of knowing where the goal was. Always thought Aloisi was unlucky not to get more playing time with us.

But...but...isn't that what the US wants according to you? Long, protracted and expensive. So why would that weaken Western support?

Do you know what would have prevented the loss of life the most? Russia not invading Ukraine. And if they fucked off back into their own country the killing would pretty much go down to zero wouldn't it. So surely that should be what you want?

That sounds more to me like a team not playing with any set plan or a lack of discipline. Unless he means that a player running somewhere else counts as a new shape, in which case we can count the centre backs or Eccles covering a WB going forward as changing shape.

It should if the intention was ever to build a HS2 to the north. But it was intended to connect BHX to London and increase London's air passenger capacity. Though if it doesn't go into central London it's farce. When they proposed it and it didn't connect up to St Pancras and access to European...

Or we could do like with Wright and spend it all on one player who doesn't make the grade. I think we could've got a couple of players for £2-3m with a similar ability level and it gives us a bit of breathing space in case one doesn't work out then there's still the chance of the other. It...

I'd hope that if they went to watch another player and identified Sakamoto, you'd then restart the process with Saka as the main focus. Working out exactly what he does and how he fits in to how we play. At the moment it doesn't look like that was done and now we're looking at him trying to...

It was tongue in cheek. Though I guess I should have put 'commies' to make it a bit clearer.

I don't think 3 CB's is a massive issue. The problem is that we have WB's who we don't tend to push forward enough. The idea of the extra CB is that it gives the wide players a bit more freedom to push forward. We're not really doing it. Being forced into playing two very defensive minded CM's...

I'm hoping that's what it is, and that he can have an arm around the shoulder and be given time to settle in. I think if the more outgoing lads are trying to almost force him to join in as part of the group then that could be quite damaging. It's not ideal having your main striker and record...

Well, it's not. It's a serious injury and needs the proper time to heal and for him to get the repair built up to withstand the pressures of playing at such a high level. Just because you're a better player doesn't mean that happens quicker. And the situation seems very similar. We wanted...

Plan B - if in doubt refer to Plan A Plan C - if in doubt refer to Plan B

Because Russia has never treated the west as an enemy ever. Also a bit surprised at you thinking the UK and US should be friends with the commies.

We'll still be playing a makeshift RWB until probably December at least, so only having the one and a lot of makeshift back-ups is hardly some sort of master strategy.

I'd hope so, but with the set-ups in football these days you can never be sure. But my point was that if we're saying that both the scouting/recruitment dept and MR were responsible for the signings, I'd rather sack off the recruitment dept and let them take the rap for it than MR.

He's played a lot of minutes, including internationals on the other side of the world, plus he's one booking from a suspension I think.