Assuming Palmer and Lats are good for nothing but filling out the bench:
Wilson
Thomas Fadz Kitching
MvE Eccles Sheaf Dasilva
Ayari
Simms Wright
S: Collins, Binks, Bidwell, Sakamoto, Kelly, Godden, Obikwu, Palmer, Latibeaudiere
They’ve admitted that’s exactly what they’d do. It’s an incredibly naive take even if it were true that Ukraine hadn’t retaken any ground. Which is obviously not true.
You either back them to the point where serious negotiations can happen or you embolden Russia. The idea the wests objectives...
Mental there’s no deals though. Surely they couldnoffer one off games with no service or anything beyond the seats at a knockdown price? Are they the ones that are hotel suites too? Some kind of deal must be possible or it’s just wasted space.
And for you the way to get great concessions isn’t to buy them when they’re great, but to pay through the nose for sub par quality and service because you’re trapped there? Not to offer something people want? And then, what? Just hope for them to make things better out of the goodness of their...
It’s basically @Philosorapter’s system AFAICT. So take with a pinch of salt I guess, useful for knowing how we’ve started against teams with different starts.