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Is Lingard not on crazy money tho? Ie he'd get nowhere near it if he did move..

His contract is up next summer, that should be the main concern for him and his agent. Especially as his next deal will likely be the last big one of his career.

He either goes and gets that next contract now, or he does so after another 12 months of benchwarming. I'd be jumping now, the way things have been shaping up for him.

I think it shows how much England were hyped up during the 2018 World Cup, and how poor their opponents were. Lingard was a regular in that team, and even looked good, and scored a couple if I recall.

When you also think who else was hyped up beyond madness in that team: Trippier, Young, Pickford, Maguire, Stones, Alli - all have been poor since.

Even Southgate was being tipped to take over at one of the top teams. Madness.

Lingard was very good in 2018. He scored 13 goals for United that season, and another 4 for England. It did really look like a breakthrough for him. But it was really just an outlier.

He's almost 28 now, and there isn't another year anything like 2018 on his CV. His level is clearly lower half of the table, maybe even Championship. It would be in everyone's best interests if he moved on in the next few weeks.

Looking at the photos of both funerals there seems to be virtually nobody wearing masks. When I walk around outside here in Brooklyn most people would be wearing masks. Is mask wearing that rare in Ireland at the moment?

Very rare.

But sure you couldn't be seen wearing one when no one else is. You'd be the talk of the town!

Sure it's only a severe cold some said

https://m.independent.ie/life/health-wellbeing/breathing-difficulties-pain-and-intense-fatigue-the-long-tail-of-covid-19-39319034.html

Something overlooked with the absolute focus on death numbers. Many stories of 'survivors' suffering lasting damage that will permanently affect their quality of life. It's difficult not to feel that a lot of the analysis of the impact of this pandemic has been very oversimplified.

How about a shift to memorialising the deed or cause rather than the person or people involved?

People have always been too complex and flawed to idolise in their totality. Most that we choose to elevate played parts in collective efforts anyway.

This is fantastic

We've laid out the ground rules (or at least J70 has)

If a member of the public, or a member of another GAA club,  finds the name of your Team, Pitch, Cup or Crest offensive, they should petition Croke Park with a view to forcing you to change it

If after input from all interested parties, GAA HQ orders you to change it and you don't, you will no longer qualify for any grant money from Croke Park. In addition the broader population should Be encouraged to boycott your sponsors to "persuade "them to stop sponsoring you

Are you on the drink??

Apparently all my posts get attributed to you now.

Both of you lay out your positions please....I'm having a hard time distinguishing

Fairly clear what their positions are if you bothered your hole trying to read them.

It's a very special sort of clown that takes all day to figure out with whom he's actually arguing.

Why the hate for ung Stokes lads? Cant honestly mind much overall was the dad a pub owner and a bit of a republican if i recall? Or was it drugs. Fill me in hi

Ah, do a bit of googling. Not too hard to dig up his track record. Also a boy that, when he was briefly good enough, never seemed too bothered about playing for his country.

Vague memory of the 82 World Cup. Clear memory of Francein 1984. 84/85 season then and RTE were showing the odd live game on a Saturday. I'd plumped for Arsenal for no real reason. Relatively unsuccessful and dour under Don Howe. RTE showed them beating Hereford 6-1 in the cup and I thought I was onto a winner. York City turfed them out in the next round. Stuck with them and the 87 Littlewoods final was the first exhilarating moment. Since then it's been a trophy every 2-4 years although a bit barren after 05 for a while.

Arsenal had a big Irish influence early 80s but fairly dwindled. Eddie McGoldrick the last?

Graham Barrett is the last Irish player to tog out for Arsenal in 1999/2000.

This ballbag got a few minutes since then:

[especially when it's pretty obvious that a lot of the measures are all but being ignored in many cases.]

Brilliant to see the virus receding, especially when it's pretty obvious that a lot of the measures are all but being ignored in many cases.

What is the rationale behind the rates dropping so consistently?  Even in England, they are seeing their 7-day average death rate coming down pretty consistently.

Have they got the principal mode of transmission wrong?  Is it spread by skin-skin contact?  Because that is the one thing that I think almost everyone is still avoiding (and/or sanitising hands well).  Or has the virus mutated into something more benign?

RadioGAAGAA, what are your thoughts on this?

With all the pictures of beaches and protests it might seem like the everyone has given up on things, but are these people really representative of the entire population or just a very visible minority?

There's little doubt many people are taking chances that they wouldn't have a couple of months ago, but perhaps there's still a large unseen majority keeping things pretty tight. That would go a way to explaining the numbers falling even with the antics of those that can't seem to resist the pull of a crowd.

landslide in Norway carries several decent looking houses into the sea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxFKg5Np8L0

Wow!

It says it happened on the Arctic coast. I wonder is permafrost melting a factor? If so, could be a growing problem in those regions as polar temperatures continue to rise.

Melting permafrost a factor in this too it seems:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-52941845

Perhaps understandable, but a shame that the environmental disaster is so quickly bumped from the public conscience when something else big crops up. I remember the financial crisis of the 00's killing much of the momentum the issue had built during that decade. Of course people will always but more worried about immediate concerns, but it's sad that it'll likely take years of Attenborough documentaries and attention grabbing social media campaigns and school kid lead protests to reestablish anything like the same public profile for the issue.

[2 metres = 1.3%1 metre = 2.6%No social distancing = 13%]

Thousands in Dublin marching yesterday which got the go ahead from the government.
Hundreds upon hundreds of youngsters gathering at beaches beauty spots yesterday in the north.
Now this is the reason that we need to get kids back to school and people back to work. To many people lying around doing nothing. A local park near me was bunged yesterday.
And suppose I'm contradicting myself here but the chances of getting Covid outside is as follows
2 metres = 1.3%
1 metre = 2.6%
No social distancing = 13%

Where did you get these figures?

I'd be interested in this too. If not accurate, spreading this sort of misinformation is a very dangerous thing to be at right now.

Look at the level of competitiveness in the 1970s and early 80s.  Ulster and Connaught not at the races and apart from Offaly it was all about Dublin and Kerry. 

For my money the golden era started with Meath in 87.  Then you had a succession of new and different winners and every province was competitive. Meath, Cork, Down, Donegal, Derry, Dublin, Kerry, Galway, Armagh and Tyrone all won all-irelands in that 15-20 year period.  During that time, Monaghan, Clare, Offaly, Kildare, Laois, Westmeath, Roscommon, Mayo, Sligo and Leitrim all won provincial titles.  The closest thing to that in the past was probably the 60s. 

Domination of one or two teams has been the norm and that 20 year period was the exception.  We are now back to complete domination by Dublin, and while the technical quality of the football and players' fitness has never been better, there is less left to chance and the old addage of "it's all on the day" has gone and part of the charm and spectacle has gone with it.

Agree with all this.

To go further, I've seen little evidence to suggest that football has ever been much of a spectacle. So that chat about the styles and rules and that sort of stuff seems like a distraction from the real issues with the game today.

The competitiveness, the tribalism, the fever that rises in an area when a team is going well. These are the things that get the blood pumping.

Monopolies are what slows the blood and drains the life out of the sport, and that's what we have now. If we want to drive more interest and get some of the magic back then this is the issue we have to tackle.

[Coronavirus: Why did Dominic Cummings say he predicted it?]

Coronavirus: Why did Dominic Cummings say he predicted it?

The internet archive Wayback Machine, which tracks the changing versions of publicly available websites, shows that the blog was edited some time between 9 April and 3 May this year (after the pandemic started) to insert the reference to coronavirus and Chinese labs. This was first pointed out by a data scientist Jens Wiechers on social media, and can be seen here.

It is in the form of a new quote from an article already linked to in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. It was not in the original blog.

And the sitemap of Mr Cumming's blog corroborates this, showing that this post was indeed edited at 20:55:20 on the evening of 14 April this year, still available here. This happens to be the day Mr Cummings returned to work from his Durham trip.

It is a mystery why he felt the need to burnish his credentials as a coronavirus sage so much that he pointed to having explicitly warned about something that was only added to his blog after the event.

There is no other reference to coronavirus or Sars or Mers on his blog. There is a page on the mathematics of pandemic modelling and "herd immunity" in a long essay written on the education system in 2013, but no references to coronaviruses.

It is difficult to see why editing a year-old personal blog would have been on any list of priorities for any No 10 official on a day like that - in the middle of the period where hospital deaths had peaked the previous week, but care home deaths were still mounting.

But Mr Cummings clearly felt the need on Monday to point to examples of prescience on this specific issue.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52808059

Full house of sociopathy and egomania. How is this guy not just an actual politician?

Weird shit fit happening in this thread today. A stream of boys not liking any critique of their entitled opinions.

If your opinion is worth a shite you should have no issue with others challenging and dissecting its merits. Then come back and defend it with solid rationale and evidence (hi, Smurfy). That's a discussion, a debate.

Don't just have a wee cry about what you think you're 'entitled' to.

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Smurf is right while everyone else is wrong.
He's getting his facts straight from Karen.

I don't understand this. It's a discussion board. What would you suggest he do? Agree with everyone? If you don't like or even understand the concept then you can leave.

Discussion involves at least a minimal attempt to entertain and dissect the merits of all arguments put forward. There is little evidence of that from Smurfy and a few like minded types on this thread over the last few months.

Instead, their approach seems to have been to avoid any genuine deliberation on ideas or information, in favour of a scattergun volley of misunderstood and misrepresented stats and titbits gleaned from a multitude of less than reliable sources.

It's all in very bad faith, and very like the climate change or anti-vaxxer 'debate'. Ignore discussion of core issues, because the evidence is overwhelmingly against them in this area, and instead throw out tangential trivia until you hit on something that can not be immediately explained. The failure to immediately explain away this usually inconsequential detail is then used as justification to rubbish the entire body of understanding of an issue, and a weird sort of victory is claimed.

The recent mentions of COVID-19 case incidence in Georgia, or of cancer death rates are both prime examples. Misunderstood, misrepresented, and tangential (or just completely irrelevant) to what was being discussed.