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Yeah just looking at the calendar it hits home how small the gap between seasons is. Think a bit more breathing space and time to build to the new season would be better. Then you see something like 4 rounds in May and it’s too much. Nothing feels important because you move straight to the...

Arsenal please

I could probably cop it more if the sport was struggling and it was either let them have a feeder team or have less cars on the grid. But the sport is flying and other parties have actively been trying to get into the category. It seems crazy to just let them run a B team.

No issue with players getting dropped, like you said most players are. Even Marnus is still young enough that if he got dropped now he isn’t done and should come back if he finds form. But it’s particularly harsh after 3 tests, against the toughest attack in the world he’ll have to face in a...

It’ll be exciting to see Konstas play. Probably the most exciting batting debut from a kid we’ve had since Phil Hughes. 100,000 at Boxing Day against the best bowler in the world is a hell of a way to do it. But can’t help but feel for McSweeney. Given just about an impossible job. Not sure how...

Liverpool please

Bottas surely becomes next seasons break glass in case of emergency driver for any teams looking to make a mid-season change.

True but it means a lot less if Australia are down 2-1 and not actually playing for the trophy. The test championship means there aren’t really dead rubbers at the moment anyway I guess. Do the selectors have the guts to pick him and stick til the end of the ashes no matter how he performs...

Wouldn’t be keen to give anyone a debut at Boxing Day. 100,000 crowd, up against Bumrah and one of our biggest matches in decades is a big ask for a kid. I’d be getting him in for Sydney if it’s a dead rubber and if not Sri Lanka though.

Looking at the radar not sure we see much more cricket but if it misses the ground this is seriously ballsy by Cummins

Have they got the math wrong? More rain coming but this is very chaseable if it doesn’t, especially down a bowler.

Great result for India. Go in to Melbourne and Sydney knowing one win keeps the trophy. Any more washouts work for them as well. Might be a blessing Australia didn’t get a chance to enforce the follow on though. More rain coming tomorrow and Cummins and Starc might’ve been working themselves in...

Think it’s best VAR stay out of those. Can understand Villa being annoyed it’s not given but Forest would have the exact same complaint if it was since Roger’s essentially did the same thing one second earlier.

Newcastle thanks

There were no premiers in the NRL. Slightly different though as you can’t be sure the team the Storm beat in the GF would have beaten the team the Storm eliminated in the preliminary final etc. I’d still think the PL would strip titles and not declare a winner rather than opening that can of...

They have spent a lot in that time and no doubt wasted some of it, but when you are starting from so far back you need to outspend the competition just to get back in the conversation. Spurs big problem is looking back to when they were close to winning things and at their best under Poch...

It seems crazy to appoint Ange, sign players and build a team designed to actually compete for trophies in the future instead of just hoping to get a champions league spot every couple of years, then at the first real tough phase talk about getting rid of him. On paper I wouldn’t put that squad...

Yeah the issue is McSweeney came in as basically the one who failed the least on the way into the test. Makes it near impossible to drop everyone who looks out of form. I’d give Usman the summer or until the series is gone and Smith as well because if he does find some touch his upside is so...

The match is gone but think tomorrow is still pretty important. Smith and one or two others find some runs and we make 300+ then there’s at least something to take from the game. Get rolled sub-150 again and it becomes a real mental blow especially knowing Rohit and Shami are coming back in for...

Bumrah could go close to cleaning this up by stumps if they get through this pair.

Ugly scorecard but to be fair to India this is one of the better first hours I’ve seen from an opposition attack in Australia.

He’s missed plenty of cricket but Bumrah is about as good as any international bowler to play here. This opening spell is as good as it gets. I hope Australia win but would love to see him have a big summer. Just electric to watch.

Having lived in Sydney and Brisbane I don’t think the AFL have ever actually spoken to real people in either city. There’s a big crossover between fans of both codes, especially in Brisbane. Every time someone from the AFL or a journo say something about how Aussie Rules is going to become the...

Wasn’t one of Musk’s big promises when he bought Twitter to end the bots? They’ve never been worse. Agree the ‘for you’ tab is a horror show. People farming for engagement is an awful experience and the way its setup encourages it. Getting extremist content shoved in your face when you don’t...

It doesn’t need to come from her or the party directly to have an impact. It’s been a narrative driven for a decade now by supporters and it’s done nothing to help the democrat cause. Just today social media has been full of white democrat voters directly telling minorities who voted for Trump...

And we come back to my original point that telling every person who voted for Trump they are either too dumb, racist or misogynistic to know what they are voting for might not be a great way to win people over or understand their views.

Trump supporters would say the exact same thing about him. Again I don’t like him and wouldn’t vote for him or the Republican Party if I was American. But if the next 4 years is spent telling people who either voted for Trump or just didn’t vote at all how dumb they are it’s gonna give the...

But they are always going to be judged by different standards because voting isn’t compulsory. The heavy lifting for the Harris campaign was to convince democrats to actually turn out and vote. Given the democrats have been on the nose themselves with a lot of left-leaning voters for years...

Not nearly well enough. Far too many sound bites from her and the whole party were aimed at how bad the opposition was. The election was always going to be won or lost on the economy and their messaging needed to distance herself from the Biden administration where possible and then make it...

I don’t like Trump or his policies at all but really the democrats in the US have to seriously change how they go about things. Just consistently telling everyone how bad the other guy is and how stupid people are for voting for him isn’t going to work. They just had to be much better at telling...