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Liam Scales has looked pretty good, very composed on the ball. What's your opinion on him?

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2023/10/24/internal-wix-chat-encouraged-staff-to-support-israels-narrative-in-hamas-conflict/ One message in an internal company discussion, set up by a manager in the days after the Hamas attack in southern Israel, encouraged employees to “show Westernity” in social media posts backing Israel, as “unlike the Gazans, we look and live like Europeans or Americans”, it said.

Copenhagen playing much the better stuff so far. Flukey Yernited win incoming.

There's a few interesting theories on this one. One is they planned to not check the box for the jury trial deliberately so there could be grounds to file an appeal for ineffectual counsel post conviction. Another is that Trump deliberately opted out of a jury trial so he could continue to pin all the adversarial rulings solely on the judge. Conviction by a jury of his 'peers' would be a very bad look for him, at least in his mind. I think these are both more than probable theories. Now he is at the sole mercy of the judge whereas with a jury trial, you could maybe count on sneaking one or two MAGA loons onto the jury to mess things up. With this gag order, he's now very limited, if not completely constrained, in his PR campaign against the judge. If he breaks the gag order, a wilful judge could easily find him in contempt of court and jail him for a small period of time. He's fucked himself. And it looks like he's toast in Georgia with two of his main advisors on January 6th flipping in exchange for very lenient sentencing. They are going to start flipping everybody, just like a RICO Mafia case, until Trump is the one left holding the bag. Crucially, this is a state case, so there is no possibility of a federal pardon. Ta ra, Donnie.

Some balls on this Ireland team.

Barnes and our own botched line outs costing us.

This lad is a proper player. Fluminense play sensational football and he is at the heart of most of it. He's an ideal fit for this side imho.

The Picture of Dorian Gray. Despite being aware of the premise, I found it lives up to the hype. A cutting, eloquent satire on amoral sophistry, dilettantism and vanity. It's a masterpiece. 9.5/10

This game shows a lot of our threat lays in being able to deploy high calibre attacking options off the bench around the late stages of the game. Jota and Gakpo each could have made the difference today, Diaz was really out of sorts.

How dare anyone suggest there is something untoward going on! Corruption only happens in dem forrin places innit?

Brighton fans are bad Talksports bellends.

MO!!! Finally put something together and we score

Virgil might as well be in his slippers here, even his passes are non-arsed.

Looks like March is playing left back with Estupinian out injured. We could get a lot of joy if we isolate Mo and Diaz against him and Veltman on the other side.

It's a possibility but I think this Irish team are particularly fit and well conditioned. I would be more worried about injuries to key players and how that might affect things, but first priority is to get past the QFs and the worry. We have to finally get to the semi finals and take that QF hoodoo off our back, anything less is a major disappointment.

We beat them at their place a few months back with no hooker and Van Der Flier throwing in at line outs, I don't know where all this Scottish bravado was coming from. Last night was the order of things, it's a mediocre Scotland side and this Irish team are really special. I always felt with Irish teams in the past, even the best ones, that they would find a way to lose. This team always finds a way to win. QF against the All-Blacks will be the true test of them though, it should be a brilliant game.

Good shout. He gives me the creeps, I'd say he has more non-disclosure agreements behind him than your average Fortune 500 company.

It was Barney Ronay in the Guardian. It's up there with him comparing Fellaini chasing a loose ball to a cartoon dandelion.

'Who made Gary Neville the Prime Minster of football?" Neville did, in his own head. A total moron who mistakes his turd opinions for nuggets of gold.

Busybody traffic warden cunts ruining another game.

Their most important player by far.

Watkins is destroying them. Darwin could easily ruin this Brighton defence in a week's time.

Villa are smashing Brighton really. We totally dominated Villa. It's encouraging.