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But not sustained it

Were taking it to the next level all the time, if I'm not mistaken

Just as a counter point though, where Burnley and Dyche finish is arguably their ceiling, whereas our ceiling feels higher, we're just not realising it - yet

Two things - first - a linesmans call type thing for offsides, so a player has to be 'very' offside (however we want to define, but I would suggest no torso overlap) for the linesman to be overruled if he keeps his flag down, and second, the referee checks every single penalty or red card he...

What's the highest placed team in England that follows this model?

Hang on a moment. Are you saying I look like Peter Sutcliffe :censored: Just squint a bit and you'll get Keanu Reeves :thumbsup:

punish:

Cheer yourself up a bit. Remember McShane, Knockaert, Andone, Ulloa, Lopez. The football gods taketh away, but they giveth as well.

Are we hoping this becomes the next Ashley Barnes thread :) I do, but with us, not some other team taking advantage of his undoubted potential. I think people are being too harsh on him. We're not scoring and he's getting the blame at our striker. It's not totally misplaced blame of course, but...

She's a colleague, not really famous, perhaps niche famous you could say, quite famous in Denmark, Lone Droscher Nielson who you'd have seen if you ever watched Orangutan Diaries on the telly ten years or so back. Anyway the pair of us enjoyed entertaining Mr Ford for a few days in Borneo 7...

I'm on the left. Do I win? :moo: :)

You voted with two years of hindsight? :lolol:

Well you've summed it up yourself in two very prescient sentences. 1.the vaccine is effective at stopping known variants in the UK and 2. Viruses will always mutate. Put them together. The vaccine is putting severe selection pressures on our UK variants. That's what drives evolution. Viruses...

Selfish gene theory. The virus' genes just 'want' to reproduce. They don't 'care' about anything else. If the vaccine stops the virus reproducing then *any* mutation that allows it to reproduce will succeed. Survival of the fittest. If that same mutation causes incredibly high host mortality...

I wrote this earlier but you may have missed it. If we want to minimise risk of the vaccine not being effective we really really need to get control of the virus whilst we are rolling it out. If there are mutations that can allow the virus to get round the vaccine (and it seems there are...

Bounced but no new posts. How does that work then?

Exactly the point I was going to make. Between signing Ulloa for £1.6m in January 2013, in Poyets last season, and signing Hemed for £1.2m in July 2015, we only spent more than a million on Stephens, Baldock and Stockdale, while selling Bridcutt, Buckley and Ulloa, each for more than we spent...

It is a valid point. But although we can't control what other countries do, we can set an example and take the lead. We are ahead of most of the world in vaccine roll out after all. Just because an anti - vaccine variant might arise somewhere else in the world doesn't mean we should shrug our...

You're right there is no inevitability of a vaccine - busting variant and you're absolutely correct that the less virus there is, the easier it will be to contain new outbreaks of new variants. But what there is right now is heightened risk of successful new variants arising, and that will...

Yes, successful mutations will become more common when the original virus is doing badly, that's the basis of natural selection. But that's not about raw numbers, its about selection pressures. So the original virus did badly under the lockdown measures and a more transmissible variant arose...