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Well, Earl has been very good at 8, certainly the best we've had there for quite a while. Daly pretty poor and Marcus at 15 a bit of a shot in the dark - but at least it was adventurous. He doesn't select the players I would, but he has, at least, started to move in the right direction. He's really...

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Uh-huh. And what you advocating for in actual implemenation? Rather than wishful magic wand waving for instance. I don't need to, I wasn't stupid enough to run for the job. But there is a big problem with the court lurching to the right for many people starting even to the right of Biden, and he ha...

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There's obviously a trade off when choosing a Lock in the backrow - but maybe someone that has done so much coaching of elite forwards, knows, better than us, what is needed for the upcoming game. And what about all the other examples I gave? :lol: Well, Earl has been very good at 8, certainly the ...

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And what happens when somebody even worse than Trump gets in? You create an extraordinary precedent where every president can meddle with the Supreme Court to their whims. Besides that it's an almost certain vote loser. As it is plenty of the Haley supporters will vote for Biden, they may well woul...

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And what happens when somebody even worse than Trump gets in? You create an extraordinary precedent where every president can meddle with the Supreme Court to their whims. Besides that it's an almost certain vote loser. As it is plenty of the Haley supporters will vote for Biden, they may well woul...

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How should Biden have addressed the power balance of the Supreme Court? I don't know if I'd have gone with increasing the numbers, but for sure I wouldn't have left them judging their own (corrupt) behaviour. In any event what Biden has done is nothing, and that's not good given it's now controlled...

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And yet he's done nothing about the balance of power on the Supreme Court in 4 years, nothing about the corruption shown by those sitting on the courts. So it's all very well telling them where to go, but actually do something would you please. The only thing going for Biden is he's not Trump, clea...

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And yet he's done nothing about the balance of power on the Supreme Court in 4 years, nothing about the corruption shown by those sitting on the courts. So it's all very well telling them where to go, but actually do something would you please. The only thing going for Biden is he's not Trump, clear...

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I would give the Tories some leeway on attacking the financial crash in '07 as being Labour's fault if I thought the Tories would have acted more strongly on banking regulation, but somehow I have my doubts. As is it's more stuff that happened when Labour happened to be in power, and what one gets t...

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:thumbup: People only think they want a presidential candidate jailed in an election year. It would be catastrophic. I don't want him jailed, I want him dead. But jail will do in the interim, and either we have jail as a punishment or we don't, we can't have it and then not use it for some, that's ...

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I suggest you listen to most recent edition's of The Ruck & Rugby Pod where clear from what respected commentators well Warburton at least are saying attack is clearly not being coached so handling the ball is absent which is unforgiveable. If the players need England coaches to teach them to pass ...

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Haley might as well stick it out now to see if there's slim chance the DoJ manages a modicum of competence and puts Trump in jail The DoJ are very competent, if too conservative for some, but are unlikely to get to a sentencing before Election Day. Even if they did, he wouldn’t be imprisoned pendin...

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Haley might as well stick it out now to see if there's slim chance the DoJ manages a modicum of competence and puts Trump in jail

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Marcus, otherwise he would be at 15. All fantasy of course, Borthwick is way out of his depth surrounded by idiots. :thumbup: I'm not up to speed on who's who in England these days. You are Felix Jones, I collect my £5. I was thinking more along the lines of why bother to be up to speed with Englan...

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Lack of social housing means councils pay private landlords billions each year to house people. The private houses being rented by councils means they are not available to people not eligible for social housing forcing up rental rates due to a lack of available rental stock This then prices people ...

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It's a valid point as the game becomes increasingly professional and very little separates the players themselves. Perhaps or perhaps it's just using stats to prove a point you want to make? Sam Warburton was discussing the same thing a week or two OK and reckons it's not a valid point, the Lions m...

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I mean, does it actually matter who we pick at left winger when we’ve had evidence that the backs touched the ball once in training during a session? Yes, if only because speed is needed to scramble when our blitz is breached. And whilst we don't care about attack, or so go certain claims, the blit...

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soak tackles went out in the 90s maybe Not according to the saint of referees, Wayne Barnes you still see them, but there aren't many sides looking/hoping to make soak tackles and get men over the ball, it's much more about winning collision now, more even than about making a tackle in many ways, j...

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soak tackles went out in the 90s maybe

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I wonder would it have anything to do with the fact that loads of Tories are landlords... That and nimbyism. There is a big downside to my line of thinking that over time would see property lose value, that's not issue free All depends in how you build the social housing. Building loads of poorly c...

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Very, very lazy (and stupid) from Barrett

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One can see with one of the biggest player spends in the world Racing are already nearly winning 50% of their games.

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Piquant Well yes. Then the government spend on renting private housing would be massively reduced, and all those additional homes private landlords are currently renting would likely see some shift back onto the property market. And we'd be closing off what until recently was the biggest annual fra...

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I mean, does it actually matter who we pick at left winger when we’ve had evidence that the backs touched the ball once in training during a session? Yes, if only because speed is needed to scramble when our blitz is breached. And whilst we don't care about attack, or so go certain claims, the blit...

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Social housing for the middle class? No, houses. Who mentioned social housing? Unless you think the middle classes design their houses bespoke? Piquant Well yes. Then the government spend on renting private housing would be massively reduced, and all those additional homes private landlords are cur...

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by the time you're employing serious 'bankers' I don't think you're really too worried about minimum working requirements/legislation

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Options would be picking someone out of position and hoping they ape Daly of 2016-19 or so. Or picking Thorley or OHC, the latter would make more sense, but they both have some speed, and size actually, even if neither took to test rugby like ducks to water. And then for mine at least there'd be the...

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I'm not against dropping Daly and picking a winger, just on that basis I wouldn't pick Murley.

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The UK has a birth rate around 1.7 per personage formerly known as a woman. Something around 2.1 is stagnancy. So, absent immigration someone needs a good idea. (actually in an age of growing awareness of consumption and climate change we need some ideas anyway, just now it's of material importance ...

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The pendulum isn't swinging, the clock has stopped, it's a dead clock.

Some claim you can't stop the clock, but Aphrodite is at the waterhole, come on

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We'd do better building some houses. Ideally not building them on flood plains and more generally rather more with net zero/climate change in mind, and we'd do better growing not shrinking the social housing stock I suppose we could build a wall, and then lean some awnings against it and claim we've...

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Does Radwan play left wing? I'm not saying I would pick Daly and I wouldn't pick Radwan, although I might be between Radwan and Feyi-Waboso for the 14 shirt, but Daly actually being used to playing 11 is a sane argument for Daly. What? No its not. He's shit. We have plenty of wingers who normally p...

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I have said before on here recently i feel like i'm a bit 'at the end of the road' with england rugby- borth is safe to the next rwc. There's no sane argument for Daly over Radwan for example unless you flat out don't like rugby. I like watching ireland or scotland play, but i'm just not getting en...

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That performance against Argentina was a real cup performance. I expect England to put in a cup performance again next Saturday. I'm also expecting we'll deal with it Stephen Jones is going for the "they don't like it up 'em" approach. He seems to think that Billy V and Manu will make Ireland quail...

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The notion one of your studies seems worth perusing seems a nonsense. If they were based on the last 10-15 years there would be something in it, rather a lot in many ways, but over the last 70 years? Nope, not buying. I'm afraid I'm not behind the high reputable Pew research center. So it's not "my...

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The notion one of your studies seems worth perusing seems a nonsense.

If they were based on the last 10-15 years there would be something in it, rather a lot in many ways, but over the last 70 years? Nope, not buying.

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You'd have to be fecking fruit loops not to heed the 1980s explosion in the services industry and what that meant for the middle classes. Yes there are some much more recent struggles around house prices, around jobs being short-term, but it's not a regression back to the 1950s. And it hasn't wiped ...

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I don’t think Jack Smith can be criticized too much in the speed at which he has worked. He was appointed relatively late in the election cycle. Bragg and Willis deserve all the criticism that they get. A lot of people will point the finger at Garland not appointing Smith earlier but he was being t...

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Looks like it's simply part of the delay strategy. Of course why on earth the various prosecutors waited so long is also perplexing, but with this corrupt supremes stepping up to the fray and the Cannon able to set a date, and then push that back, an awful lot could grind to a halt soon. I don’t th...

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