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Indeed! It says very clearly in the Bible that chocolate at Easter is a very Christian tradition!

I realise you didn't intend to offend - maybe I overreacted a little there... However I still think it's stretching it. Yes, it was written the Bible however many years ago, but was that really the first time it was written down? Did civilisations older than the Bible really have no laws? I...

While I do actually agree with much of your post, the bit in bold I absolutely disagree with and find more than a little bit offensive. I am atheist and am quite capable of having morals, thank you very much, as is the rest of the human race. To imply that were there no religion then murder...

'Religion' may not be able to, but 'The Church' can, if solely because of the way it protected the guilty priests from prosecution, merely moving them on to the next place to start all over again. Any other institution would, I like to think, have booted them out instantly. And without religion...

Genuinely surprised at the poll results at the time I'm posting this (9 Yes, 2 Maybe, 3 No), given that it's 10.15 on Easter Sunday. Shouldn't you all be in church if you believe in the resurrection?

Brezovan Mattock El-Abd Greer Reyes Navarro Dicker Vicente Lua Lua Barnes Mackail-Smith

If we start with two wingers and two forwards I can see Reading dominating the middle of the park and scoring about 4, even if we do score 3 ourselves. Hopefully we'll play one winger though - and let the Vicente/Lua Lua combination create the chances while not being overrun in the middle.

Birmingham will finish fourth - I don't think that's even slightly in doubt, certainly not for me! Let them go*, and fight Middlesbrough & Cardiff for 6th (maybe drag Blackpool into it for fifth as well). Also this way you get to laugh at Palace. (* except when we meet at the Amex, obviously...)

There's quite a difference between not accepting it and going completely over the top about it. A lot of people here are doing the latter.

But that's just that any two numbers are on there isn't it? We need them specifically to be the first two numbers when written in numerical order... which I think is a whole another thing?

Every combination of 5 numbers has exactly the same chance of coming out - but when you write the numbers on the ticket, they are in numerical order. To give the extreme cases as an example - there are more combinations of 1 2 X X X (any other numbers can fill the Xs) than there are of 46 47 X X...

No, sadly not that simple. In practice probably slightly more likely than that as this includes combinations like 40 41 X X X which are far less likely than 1 2 X X X - this completely skews the answer Another example - if you take the first line as drawn with 2 11 X X X (like your example)...

:nono:

There are roughly 1,175 possible different combinations of the first two numbers (1,225 ways of picking 2 numbers from 50, but some aren't possible as they don't leave enough numbers left to fill the remaining three, given that they're in numerical order). On that basis, the chance of three...

I think the Euromillions goes 1-50. UK lottery is 1-49?

Edit - deleted my answer as it's completely wrong. Sorry, ignore me. Nothing to see here.

I'm pretty sure that we are guaranteed to be out of the top 6 this time tomorrow, as whatever the result is, one of Boro or Cardiff will leapfrog us. Other than that I agree with the gist of your message - we can still do this.

Saying we are 6th is slightly dishonest - it's solely timing as we are guaranteed to be 7th tomorrow whatever the Boro v Cardiff result. Having said that, I'm far from a pessimist/moaner, and think it is far from over. Reading took 84 minutes to score against 10 Leeds men earlier this afternoon...

Bollocks.

Away win - because it HAS to be.