Lichfield Dean

We are 10 points from last place and 10 points from 6th. The pack are closing on us as it stands.

Yeah, fingers crossed! The next four games will tell us a lot I think.

Interesting that he makes the point that we score an early goal and then appear to hope that the rest of the 90 minutes passes quickly without anything else happening. I've felt that for a long time and it's often why we just cannot capitalise on going ahead.

I'd include Stevenage in that too. The common theme is that in all of these games we let a number of soft goals in when we were in a position where we could have won (the City one is less of a clear cut example but we could still potentially have gotten a result from that imo). I'm concerned about it becoming a theme. If we don't pick up a couple of wins soon I worry that we might find it difficult to get back out of that "collapse" mindset and find ourselves drifting down the table.

It isn't even about playing the ball forward. The rules explicitly say you cannot be offside from a corner, so even if you did position the ball to the edge of the corner arc and knock it forwards to a player it still can't be offside.

Can't be offside from a corner, if that's what this guy is claiming.

Fantastic news

Maybe. Still, could be exciting to watch if those two are on it.

Coutinho AND Buendia? Brave.

Well, it was a strong opening episode for Picard S3. Lots of sequences nicked from The Motion Picture and Wrath Of Khan, but at least it was relatively subtle and nicely done. And the use of music cues from the films was nice to hear. Hopefully the series can sustain this through its run. The first two seasons started out well I thought and look how those turned out.

Make sure you describe the sidepods/no sidepods/weird things where sidepods should be to us

Hopefully he's going to be cooped up for a long time https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-64640596 Man who stole 200,000 Cadbury Creme Eggs convicted A man who stole 200,000 Cadbury Creme Eggs, causing a police panic about Easter, has been convicted in court. Joby Pool was surrounded by a mountain of the foil-wrapped chocolate when police caught up with him at the weekend. Recognising he was foiled too, he surrendered to officers with his hands up, prosecutors said. He is due to be sentenced in Crown Court next month. Pool, 32, used a stolen lorry with false plates to snatch a trailer containing the eggs from an industrial unit in Telford on Saturday, Kidderminster Magistrates' Court heard.

Wow. What a pair of tweets. The last sentence of the second tweet is something else....

This is eggstremely distressing https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-64627829 Police hunt 200,000 Creme Eggs stolen in Telford The theft of 200,000 Cadbury's Creme Eggs from an industrial estate nearly threw Easter into doubt, according to police. The West Mercia force said they had been hunting individuals "presumably purporting to be the Easter bunny". The spring-time, choc treats vanished - along with their gooey fondant centres - from a unit in Telford on Saturday. But the eggs were found when police stopped a vehicle on the M42 motorway, the force said. It added officers had "saved Easter for Creme Egg fans" in the recovery of confectionery valued at about £40,000. Police said other chocolate varieties were taken from the site in Stafford Park but the force appeared to flake on those details. A 32-year-old man of no fixed abode has been charged with criminal damage and two counts of theft.

Kim Jong-Un is chuckling to himself over the utter chaos his balloons are causing.

Uh oh

Remaining is very different to rejoining, you're right. If we'd remained, we'd have kept our seat at the top table, kept the rebate, kept a bunch of stuff that was a really good deal for us. Leaving and then rejoining, well, we're unlikely to get any of that back as we'd probably end up rejoining on the EU's terms. I think you're right that reconnecting to the important parts (single market etc.) is a good idea, but fully rejoining now.... I can't help but feel we've forever thrown that away as a good option. (Edit: one caveat to this is the assumption that this government is replaced by a semi-reasonable government at least - one of the major issues of leaving the EU has been giving this bunch of chancers free reign)

At The Heart Of Wintervale by Twilight Force. The best way to describe this is probably "Disney Metal" or "Tolkien Rock" or something. If you like your music with integrity, grit, reality and social commentary I suggest you run far away.

Probably because the description of a silver cylindrical car-sized object with no obvious means of propulsion seems peculiar. It wasn't at the same sort of altitude as the balloon though (12km I think) so I suppose it wouldn't need to be the sort of scale of the first balloon they shot down.

I think Statman Dave should rename himself to just Dave

Lol, it's just a remake of Supper's Ready.

Their argument is that it isn't a right wing protest but that it's just concerned locals protecting their children. I assume therefore that there is plenty of evidence that the immigrants housed in the hotel have been attacking local children.

It really was. "There's a darkness", "We will have our revenge" and other bland overused lines that sound like they came from a 12 year old are all through the trailer. And why does it always have to be an existential threat against Star Fleet? Why can't they go out and discover something new? It's always got to be some kind of simple good vs evil Star Wars nonsense these days. Star Trek was always about more than that. Anyway, I'll reserve judgement just in case it is good (there have been enough positive reviews to still give me hope). I mean, Wrath Of Khan was dark and had a villain out to get Kirk and it was all kinds of incredible, so ... well let's see.

For balance, Engadget have slated it for all the reasons that bothered me about the trailer... https://www.engadget.com/star-trek-picard-season-three-paramount-plus-preview-review-080010650.html Don’t watch ‘Star Trek: Picard’ season three, it’ll only encourage them The third season is yet another misguided waste of everyone’s time. ... Maybe that’s why I feel so annoyed by Picard, because all of the things that are wrong with the show, and its kin, are examples of amateurishness. Amateurish plotting, amateurish dialogue, a lack of thoughtfulness about the material, what it says, or what it’s doing. Just an endless parade of big, dumb, brash, po-faced melodrama used in place of some sort of maturity or integrity. I don’t expect Star Trek to be brilliant all the damn time, but I do expect a minimum standard of something to be upheld. And this falls so far below it, it’s hard to call it Star Trek. Some people will call that gatekeeping, but Star Trek can be anything it damn well wants to be, so long as it's competently made and halfway entertaining.

Is it a time and space machine or just a time machine? Because otherwise the Earth wouldn't be there whenever you went to so you'd just end up in empty space. I feel we need more Red Dwarf...