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Finished work at 2.00 today and had a fantastic afternoon watching England play Crawley has been incredible and both Ali and Root have backed him up well. Australia look totally bewildered. Be great if Crawley can get another 26 runs for a double century. 

Brilliant stuff from England's 3 batters in this session.

Really hope so. Seems such a grounded player. 

Djok has been a great champ, but men's tennis had got very stale and Alcaraz looks to be the perfect tonic. He looks simply next level. If he stays healthy, he'll surely be the next outstanding player of his generation. Poor old Djok looked utterly bemused at times, but he lost little in defeat. 
Don't get the Murray hate. Bit pointless IMO.

Changing of the guard perhaps

Wimbledon Men's Final who will be the Champion Novak Djokovic or Carlos Alcaraz? Really want Alcaraz to win but I can't see Djokovic losing. 

Nasty flip flop injury from holiday

With no F1, motoGP on summer holidays and no British touring cars, your driving round in circles entertainment this week can be GT racing from missano (GT world challenge Europe) or Formula E from Rome with Saturday and Sunday races. Both of these are live on the YouTubes
There's also the Goodwood festival of speed, again, available on YouTube.
Or for something slightly slower than Nyck De Vries, the tour de France rumbles on.

I think this move probably ends Albon's chances of getting back into the red bull outfit, although he is making his case to he driving for a better team than Williams.
I think if he's consistently beating Tsunoda he also needs Perez to fluff being P2 in the championship, I don't think he'll get it just by doing well in the AT,but the warning shot to Checo has very clearly been sent.
I guess the headache is what if Danny does ok, Checo sorts himself out and Tsunoda can argue he's matching Danny Ric and there's not a clear case for who gets the seat (my guess is they'd give it Danny for Netflix reasons).
There's obviously little downside for red bull in doing this and having the honey badger back is good for the sport. I can't see him drowning like he did at McLaren against Tsunoda but Yuki has talent and is finally starting to grow up a bit - I'm almost more interested in seeing how Yuki does than Riccardo because he was just about on par with Gasly by the end of last year but it's hard to tell how good he's been against NDV and how much is the AT being turd.
I just hope this doesn't end up with one of Riccardo or Perez blocking Liam Lawson and Iwasa for getting a shot in the AT (or whatever they change the name to)
 

So happy to see Daniel Ricciardo driving in Formula1 again. I would love to see him drive for Red Bull next season but it will be interesting how he does against Yuki Tsunoda at Alpha Tauri. 

Reports are being made that Mad Marko's Pressure Cooker has burnt yet another driver with Nyck De Vries to be given the traditional Red bull "I don't recall saying good luck" exit and Danny Ricciardo will be in the Alpha tauri from Hungary onwards.
It's not been confirmed yet, but, I'm inclined to believe it.
It's of course interesting to Marko in particular as it will potentially give him fuel to burn both Yuki Tsunoda if he doesn't Lando Norris the ol' honey badger and Checo, who, let's face it, hasn't been doing the business for some time now.
And we know Dr Marko gets his rocks off on ending drivers careers.
But for Danny, the future looks full of hope again, as he can battle with Bottas and try to stay on the pace of his team mate once again.

Well, it wa exciting for a lap and a half at the start, then after the safety car as long you forget the max is cruising off at the front because that's just what it is.
So terrific from both McLaren drivers and so happy to have Lando and Lewis on the podium.
And good job from Alex Albon who I suspect is auditioning for a red bull return at the moment.
Terrible job by Ferrari.
Baby stroll ramming Gasly out of the race was pretty amateur.
Haas flambe basically saved the race as entertainment.
The team formerly known as Renault....wow, that sucked.
 

Nigel Pearson will probably play him at left back.

I'd have sooner sat in a waiting room at the dentist and had a tooth pulled without anaesthetic when watching that last hour, I was almost wavering and gave up...but hey 👍

The lack of any sort of batting discipline is astounding. So much time left, so few brain cells. 

Something needs to change with Bairstow. He can't justify his place as a batter or wicketkeeper at the moment. He doesn't seem capable of playing a proper test innings.

I'm going to watch the cricket today for my sins hopefully the rain might hold off and we can make a game of it. Might dip in and out of F! just to see how it's going. Enjoy. 

Having read some of the comments on the Conor Washington thread why don’t we swap him for Godden, Washington hasn’t even scored for us yet and seems to be a hybrid of Caskey,Greenwood &Hales 😀

That Peter Crouch film docu on Amazon Prime, well worth a watch, such a humble guy and Abby Clancys in it
 

I'll do my best.
I'll be honest, it's not that it's Max and Red bull that's turning people off, so much as we ended the Lewis/Mercedes domination in such a fantastic season in 2021 that I don't think anyone is ready for another stretch one driver/car being so dominant. At least between the Scumacher years and the Vettel years we had a few interesting seasons.
 

Very happy with this signing this is the one I have wanted to come to Derby ever since his been linked with us. Make him captain straight away. 

RadioactiveWaste I usually look froward to the British Grand Prix but with Lewis struggling in the Mercedes and the fact Verstappen will bore people to death winning I'm going to give it a miss for the 1st time in over 40 years. Hope you enjoy my friend. 

Probably 20 goals short of challenging top 2 last year ?.  Lost 25 since.  This guy may get 10.  Ward 5? Let's assume we're a bit more solid defensively.  Still 20-25 goals short of a top 2 challenge and less mobility in midfield if Knight goes.
A lot of work to do for Top 6 and we won't get it for free.

Good luck to the guy. Hope he does well - but also hope we sign another (better) striker.
I'm also beginning to wonder if we are putting to much weight on the fact players have 'experience of promotion'. I mean Ryan Smith and Jay McEveley had 'experience of promotion' to the Premier League. Jonathan Greening 'had experience of' winning the treble with Manchester United. 
Anyway, yeah, good luck. But if he'd signed for a promotion rival honestly I wouldn't have batted an eyelid.