Gerry Daly

Needs a big dollop of horseradish sauce surely

1 hour ago, Eddie said:

Agreed.

It's the only thing the government have got right.

I think they got the furlough scheme and support for jobs and the economy and mass testing right as well(not test and trace). So those two plus vaccinations are 3 big chunks. I think you need to wait for the outcome of a proper, academically rigorous and thorough public inquiry before drawing conclusions   

14 minutes ago, Stive Pesley said:

Read some stuff about the Brazil P1 variant - and it sounds like they are in big trouble. Variant even more transmissable than the UK/Kent variant, and younger people being more seriously affected. Hospitals running out of anaesthetic to intubate people, having to commandeer supplies from Veterinary practices...

And it's already spreading in the US...

From what I've read though its the Kent variant that's running rife in Europe with some South African. Also its thought that whilst the current vaccines are possibly less effective against the South African and Brazilian, they still provide some protection. I think that in UK we can be reasonably confident that a 4th wave based on new variants can be held at bay or largely mitigated until we get amended vaccines for booster shots in the Autumn. I'm not so confident about the EU zone though, it looks really dicey. Figures in France for example are going up alarmingly and the Germans are following not far behind  

Its really starting to take off in mainland Europe now

1 hour ago, Sith Happens said:

What i dont get is why they have slammed the brakes on so quick on AZ.  But when deaths were reported with the Pfizer vaccine there was no pausing.

https://www.newsweek.com/pfizer-biontech-covid-vaccine-deaths-eu-medicines-agency-1565405

Yes the Regulator came out after investigating and said no link, but they didnt pause that while they waited on the investigation.

 

Politics

1 hour ago, Unlucky Alf said:

Do they?, Just because they played the game doesn't make them more knowledgable than you or I, They had the where withall to get to this stage, They'll have agents working for them, Their names can tick boxes, There's plenty of posters on here that have talked a good game, With setting how they would set their team out, Who they'd have taken off, Who'd they have put on, Jiggle with the formation.

Don't be clouded by their history of very good players, There's plenty of players that have become Managers once their carreers had finished, And quite a few that had bitten off more than they could chew.

Well I think anyone who works professionally in a field knows a lot more about it than a lay person. I'm going to see my dentist in a bit and I'm glad she knows a lot more about it than I do! I know football is a bit different, people have watched loads of it, played the game at a lower level and so on but I still think the analogy holds

The thing is Rooney and his coaches see him every day. They also know a lot more about football than any of us. If Sibley was good enough right now he would be in the side, simple as that. That's not writing him off though, I'm sure he will come good   

My concern is that it could affect take up here. 

I wouldn't worry about jumping the queue, it won't let you book if you aren't qualified to have it. As other posters have said, there really does seem to have been a number of efforts to discredit the AZ vaccine. Could it be because its so relatively cheap? There was also a lot of silly politics as well i.e. Macron's idiotic comments  

One of the things Rooney is clearly looking to do is bring in height and power to the squad. Thats what you need at this level