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  1. Though isn't the perceived increase derived from a combination of; The significant increase in the global population and therefore an increase in the number of flights undertaken The underlying tension within capitalism of spending money (reducing the profit margin) vs human safety Increased numbers of carriers in poorer countries with older flying stock and safety conditions Increased number of severe weather events effecting flights The instant and widespread reportage of plane crashes which previously may have had reports only residing in regional or continental news outlets
  2. I wonder how much of the space given to Evertonian merchandise is solely on the basis of the owners/staff attempting to not get abused for having virtually nothing of theirs out.
  3. Fair enough, I'm assuming there is also an attempt to distance themselves from the blowback of their prior reporting on the issue.
  4. Is there a specific reason why there seems to have been a bit of a sea change in the way this being reported? BBC seem to have gotten onto the Israeli's case a bit recently in comparison with their previous deflection/diminishment.
  5. Jesus, any opportunity to move workplaces? Being around that would be seriously grim.
  6. Agreed we've been abysmal for months with only really the Spurs game being a great performance.
  7. I think the thing that is most frustrating about this transfer is had we got it right again and got in a exceptional midfielder (which could have been achieved with the outlay) it may have enabled us to pip the oil cheats and Real Madrid more frequently. Enabling one of our greatest managers to have a more commensurate trophy haul. I remember seeing him a couple of times for Salzburg before he signed and being distinctly unimpressed and wondering why others were getting themselves in such a frenzy about the signing. His backers always seem to head towards data outputs as an indication of how effective he is and there were a few YouYube highlights reels knocking about of blammed goals, so it may have been that. I agree with others in the thread that Alonso and Stirling were real nadirs due to the reflection of the status of the club and obvious weakening of the team. I would add Suarez and the lack of effective replacement to that list in terms of situations where you know the first team is getting substantially diminished in ability.
  8. So the only team they've beaten recently with 11 men on the pitch are Leicester City?
  9. It's a piece of art, quite possibly the greatest post in the forums history.
  10. Great to win and fantastic work from our captain! Virg sorting it. Slot really needs to have a think whether not rotating and telling the team to not press for huge chunks of the game is a great idea, it's completely antithetical to how we play as a club. It's notable how often the crowd tries to raise the teams performance and nothing happens because of our style of play.
  11. The Long Blondes- Lust in Movies Edie Sedgwick, American actress Arlene Dahl & French actress Anna Karina https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e2X4fDS73U
  12. Thought the pod was excellent and why it's content so consistently outstrips others in the field (i.e. contributors put forward constructive criticism instead of shying away and happy clapping). Agree with Antynwa's post above there is something really weird about the high likelihood of us winning the league, while having played poorly for a good couple of months, looking knackered, making odd team selections and having major squad issues hanging over us going into the summer (the contracts). One thing that needs to be added on the contracts point is that players will often play out of their skin towards the start/midpoint of a contract expiry year, but then will start to become more reticent towards the very end of the contract as they look to avoid injury (so that they are not injured while looking for a new club). This might be what is happening with Salah to an extent, though he has trailed off towards the back end of seasons in previous years too. It feels like (with the exception of Brentford) we've had very few games where we have scored late on to rescue points, this could be a recency bias thing, but again comes back to the overall look of tiredness/lack of match sharpness and rotation. My long term concern about this derives from the ownership/club hierarchies deep aversion to investment in the team outwith circumstances where we get unexpected windfalls (Barcelona's farcical Coutinho bid, the Saudi acquisition of Henderson and Fabinho). Having a manager who may throw young players under the bus (Quansha), maligns/excludes squad players (Elliott, Endo, Chiesa), doesn't rotate to a great extent and seems dismissive of the notion combined with a potential* lack of recruitment of his particular purloined first team players looks like it might not be a great mix in the future. It would be interesting to know what the recruitment team think of the Chiesa situation given the recent comments by Ian Graham about Brendan Rodgers reticence to play certain players that had been recruited to specific roles by the team. *Being very catastrophist there
  13. Shut up you tedious twerp, we're going to win the league, but if you can't see that this squad has major issues, then your head is further up your lower intestine than I previously thought. We've been extremely fortunate that City have fallen off a cliff this year.
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