Jools

We're all pleased it wasn't a complete and utter rout 👍

Defence - and has been the last four to five seasons.

😲 Practise match for Liverpool.

Aye

You're not the only one, norfolkbroadslim 👆👆👆

Yep, Hanley 😬

LDC could always edit the thread title.

It goes without saying that I hope he plays a blinder 👍

Yes, but ahead of Hernandez & Roberts is a surprise -- and a start for Mclean? Still, manager knows best and all that... COME ON CITY!!

My confidence levels have risen dramatically and yes, we're good enough 😀

You're not alone 👍 No disrespect to Tettey & Trybull who will still play their parts this season, but the extra quality we required in a DMC was always going to be pivotal to our season. Just wish he'd had more time to bed in.

Read the following, Hermione 👇 There is a belief popular with some Remainiacs that Brexit backing financiers – particularly those who donate to Brexit causes – are doing so to profit. Somehow they will make a killing when Brexit goes disastrously wrong and that is the reason why they are funding Brexit causes. The latest manifestation of this is that Crispin Odey is short* £300 million of shares in British companies, proof that he stands to make a killing when Brexit collapses the economy. Literally caught short! Guido has not spoken to Odey for this article. It is however well known that he runs a long/short fund. A common strategy of such funds is to do pairs trades; a trader might go long Fed-Ex shares and short Royal Mail shares because he thinks Fed-Ex will do better than Royal Mail whether the general market goes up or down. If the market goes down he expects Royal Mail to go down more, if it goes up he expects Fed Ex to go up more. The difference between the moves – the spread – is where his profits or losses will be made. The difference in the shares’ relative performance. Both shares could go up, so long as Fed-Ex goes up more the trader profits. Sometimes long/short funds will short a stock versus the general market. If the market goes up more than the shorted stock, they profit. The reason the financial press knows Odey is short £300 million of shares is that funds have to make regulatory declarations of short interests. They do not have to declare their long interests. However we know that Odey has billions under management. It is therefore very likely that his firm is net long the UK stock market given he has only £300 million in declared shorts. Not a position you take if you expect disaster. Odey is often reported as having made millions from the referendum. Guido is sure Crispin is happy for potential investors to think that. However the facts are that his Swan Long/Short Equity fund lost 42.1% in 2016 and 21.8% in 2017. It has only just started clawing back losses by some 39.7% in 2018, leaving it well down since the referendum. So much for profiting from Brexit… *Shorting is when you borrow and sell shares in the hope of buying them back later at a lower price.

Brexit Party Ramps up the Pressure on Boris Johnson, Announces New Parliament Candidates A Brexit Party MEP has reacted with anger to the suggestion that now Boris Johnson is Prime Minister the party should stand aside, insisting that the British people still need to hold politicians to account over the promised withdrawal from the European Union which still hasn’t happened. Claire Fox, a new member of the European Parliament and, as a former member of the Revolutionary Communist Party a key example of the broad political coalition for Brexit Nigel Farage has built, reacted to the suggestion that the Brexit Party could now be merely dismissed by the government as the party announced 50 new candidates ready for a snap election. The Brexit Party has announced its first Westminster parliamentary candidates — here are their names https://t.co/jk6mqayJrT — Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) August 2, 2019 As @Fox_Claire says, it is arrogant for the @Conservatives to say we should stand aside. They are the very reason we exist. We simply do not trust them to deliver. pic.twitter.com/J2prt6f8m5 — Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) August 4, 2019 Talks of a potential electoral pact between the Brexit Party and the Conservatives have intensified in recent weeks, and as the candidate lists published by the Brexit Party themselves showed they would be standing against even Conservative Brexiteers. Reacting to the dismissive attitude towards the Brexit Party exhibited by some in the Conservative Party that now nominal Brexiteer Boris Johnson was leading the country they could wind up operations, MEP Fox said: “I think there’s something really quite offensive about having a party that says ‘OK Brexit Party, you can stand down now, we’ve now got a Conservative Party that’s talking the good talk on Brexit’.” UKIP, the party formerly led by Nigel Farage and the official leave campaigns in 2016 that all played significant roles in delivering a successful vote to take the United Kingdom out of the European Union in 2016 to some extent made the same mistake that the Brexit Party is being called upon to do now, by letting their collective guards down when Prime Minister Theresa May promised to deliver Brexit. The Brexit Party was founded nearly three years later in response to the fact those promises had been broken. Pointing out the Brexit Party’s already key role in holding the establishment’s feet to the fire over respecting democracy, and perhaps going some way to explain why that same establishment would be glad to see them stand aside, Fox continued: “If the Brexit Party didn’t exist, Theresa May would still be running the Conservative Party… Brexit was more or less thwarted, and over. The role of the Brexit Party continues to be to argue for a clean Brexit, to continue arguing for democracy. You have to remember that Brexit was almost thwarted, Brexit voters were being traduced. “…the idea that anyone treats the Brexit Party as a kind of junior wing of the Conservative Party that can be dismissed because we’ve done our job doesn’t understand there is something much more profound happening in British politics today.” Poll: Brexit Party Would Win More Votes than Tories If BoJo Delays Brexit https://t.co/gJ1oOUaQCA — Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) August 2, 2019 The growing list of Parliamentary seats ready to be challenged by the Brexit Party will inevitably keep the pressure on Boris Johnson’s Conservative government to keep its word and deliver Brexit, as many of the candidates to stand could deprive sitting Conservatives of their seats. Brexit Party Chairman Richard Tice said today: “Today we release the names of 50 more high-calibre Prospective Parliamentary Candidates who stand ready to shake up Westminster, deliver a proper Brexit and help Change Politics for Good. “The high quality, diversity, integrity, and resolve of the people putting themselves forward are exceptional. The Brexit Party will keep the pressure on the political establishment until it listens to and respects the will of British people.” The new Parliamentary candidates include a former organiser for the Anti **** League Alaric Bamping, comedian and author Dominic Frisby, and the author grandson of Evelyn Wauge, Alexander Waugh. It isn’t just the Conservatives that watch the Brexit Party with concern. Polling and the European Union parliament vote show the Party is picking up large numbers of voters in Labour’s northern former heartlands, areas in which many from working-class communities favour Brexit and feel alienated by Labour’s metropolitan, north-London centric leadership. The Brexit Party fired a warning shot across the bow of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn Monday morning by also announcing a candidate in his Islington North constituency. Delingpole: Watch – the Best Ever Song About Brexit… https://t.co/3xYnvfnLHR — Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) March 6, 2019 The irony won’t be lost on Mr Corbyn himself, who has been a long-standing critic of the European Union but was apparently forced to drop his views after becoming the leader of the Labour Party. James Heartfield will stand for the Brexit Party in Corbyn’s constituency and said of being selected: “I’ve lived in Islington since the 1980s, working in the Council and now as a history teacher… Seeing the way the EU forced vicious austerity policies on Greece and Portugal convinced me we had to get out. “Free from the EU Britain can make its own decisions about what kind of country it wants to be. I’ve been a Brexit Party supporter since it launched and urge anyone who believes in freedom and in democracy to join us.” Following the first 50 announced last week, the Brexit party announced another 50 today. Had your area been revealed yet? Aberdeen North – Diane Elliott Aylesbury – Allison Wild Bath – Adefolajimi Adekanmi Ogunnusi Beckenham – Dr Chidi Ngwaba Birmingham, Erdington – Wendy Garcarz Bolsover – Kevin Brendan Harper Bridgwater and West Somerset – Alexander Evelyn Michael Waugh Broadland – Alex Hayes Bromsgrove – Mandy Childs Broxbourne – Maximilian James Jackson Bury North – Alan McCarthy Charnwood – Sadhana Stokes Dartford – Alaric Bamping Doncaster North – Andrew Stewart Ealing Central and Acton – Samir Alsoodani East Devon – Michael John Amor Eddisbury – Nicholas William Sean Goulding Folkestone and Hythe – Matthew Patten Grantham and Stamford – Jessica Swift Hastings and Rye – Tom Bewick Havant – Christopher Ellis Hertsmere – Graham Barry Shore Huntingdon – David Blake Isle of Wight – Peter Wiltshire Islington North – James Heartfield Leeds East – Sarah Wass Mid Sussex – David Banks Newcastle-under-Lyme – Jason Crawford Cooper North Durham – Peter Telford Norwich South – Graham Roberts-Phelps Old Bexley and Sidcup – Dominic Frisby Portsmouth North – Angela Hancock Portsmouth South – Susan Lloyd Runnymede and Weybridge – Lorna Rowland Skipton and Ripon – Charlotte Kozlow Slough – Vishal Khatri Stafford – Anne Elizabeth Grahamslaw Staffordshire Moorlands – Richard Watkin Stourbridge – Aaron Hudson The Cotswolds – Peter Udale Truro and Falmouth – Paul Christopher Wood Tunbridge Wells – Christopher Pendleton Wantage – Sally Ann Rainbow-Ockwell Warrington South – Dennis Rogers Washington and Sunderland West – Howard Brown Watford – William Berry Welwyn Hatfield – Keith Adams West Dorset – Rosie Darkin-Miller Workington – Philip Walling Ynys Môn – Helen Jenner Farage Predicts General Election, Urges Boris to Embrace Tory-Brexit Party Pact https://t.co/2IyER6LzYF — Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) August 3, 2019

👍👇 Fans of Brexit-themed music videos will be delighted with the news that Libertarian Comedian Dominic Frisby – singer of the #1 smash hit “17 Million F**k O**s” – is standing as a Brexit Party candidate. Frisby will be bringing his musical comedy and standup, along with some very sound views on Brexit and monetary policy, to the South-East London constituency of Old Bexley and Sidcup. The song is more than worth another listen… James Brokenshire has a 15,000 majority but the constituency voted a whopping 62.4% Leave. He won’t be laughing if Frisby makes it to number one again… 👍

My confidence levels will rise dramatically if we sign that elusive, quality DMC 👍

Many happy returns, Nigel x You do good things 👍

He is proving to be a competent CB, but his potential as a high calibre DMC will not have gone unnoticed by coaches both here and abroad. I don't think Godfrey will be at City long enough to fulfill said role.

I can assure you that Godfrey will be playing as a DMC long before his career is out.

Godfrey has the makings of a quality DMC -- His physicality and reading of the game is outstanding for a 21-year-old -- Ready for such a task in the Premier? Possibly not, but his development in said position will be on any decent coaches to-do list.

We need a commanding DMC at the heart of the team who can hold everything together -- One that the back four can feel confident behind. I'd also prefer an additional CB.

I'm not a brain surgeon. 😀

I always said Billock should be on the stage... And that there's one leaving town at 9.30 😀

I drove past Cromer cemetery earlier and said to the missus "People are dying to get in there".

Strawberry picking? 😀