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prawnsambo · 04-07-2018 04:42PM

Must have been a great game if we're still talking about it 24 hours later.

stephen_n · 04-07-2018 05:50PM

prawnsambo wrote: »

Must have been a great game if we're still talking about it 24 hours later.

Or it’s a really slow day and we miss rugby a lot!

swiwi_ · 04-07-2018 06:24PM

Buer wrote: »

England are low on quality but high on organisation and work ethic. They also have a striker who is in top form and a couple of other front guys who are capable of taking a half chance.

Most importantly, they absolutely work their socks off. It starts up top with their front players closing down anything and hassling the opposition into sloppy passes. They squeeze the life out of teams and play a far more traditioanlly English style game than more recent teams did. If they run out of legs, they can struggle and a team like Brazil who can keep the ball and slow it right down should be able to deal with them.

But they have absolutely nothing to fear from the other teams in their half of the draw even allowing for the form of Croatia.

You could just as easily apply much of this to Sweden tbh.

Neil3030 · 04-07-2018 08:13PM

So this thing in Germany is being covered over here (well, in New York), as potentially fatal to the EU. And on the face of it, it's hard to see how Germany can seal up the border with Austria, to prevent secondary migration, without either violating the core borderless principle of the EU, or enacting some pretty lamentable racial profiling. The practice would also very much copperfasten the idea that immigration is the mediterranean countries' problem, which will surely strengthen anti-EU sentiment in countries like Italy, Malta, Greece, etc.

irishbucsfan · 04-07-2018 08:26PM

https://twitter.com/MKarnitschnig/status/1014425120063082496

Neil3030 · 04-07-2018 08:31PM

irishbucsfan wrote: »

https://twitter.com/MKarnitschnig/status/1014425120063082496

Problem with handing the CSU a powerful symbol, is that you also hand anti-EU groups elsewhere in Europe the same symbol to undermine Germany's role in handling European migration.

irishbucsfan · 05-07-2018 08:08AM

Neil3030 wrote: »

Problem with handing the CSU a powerful symbol, is that you also hand anti-EU groups elsewhere in Europe the same symbol to undermine Germany's role in handling European migration.

I don't think that matters very much at all to the Christian Union parties, they value what their own electorate value.

This will pass and it's certainly no existential threat to the EU.

05-07-2018 10:28AM

Every time I refresh my podcast app, there is nothing new. Turns out I almost exclusively listen to Rugby podcasts.

05-07-2018 12:17PM

It's amazing how a humanitarian effort has been relabled a 'migrant crisis' and hijacked by political opportunists. Worst of all the UK who played a significant part in creating one of the primary root causes of the troubles in Syria are leveraging on the displaced population to further an isolationist agenda. The hypocrisy is mind blowing.

The rhetoric is picking up here too.

dregin · 05-07-2018 02:07PM

Couldn't give a ballox about the World Cup, but this is very nice - docker run -ti --rm -e TZ=Europe/London -e WITH_EMOJIS=0 cedricbl/world-cup-2018-cli-dashboard

irishbucsfan · 05-07-2018 02:13PM

Just need a Wimbledon one!

bilston · 05-07-2018 05:28PM

Buer wrote: »

bilston wrote: »

It was very nearly Jordan Henderson but he has dodged the bullet for now

Whilst his penalty was a nice height and he could have hit it with more pace, it wasn't even a bad penalty. The goalkeeper did very well to get to it.

Dier's penalty to send them through was the worst England penalty, I thought.

He was also pretty culpable on the Colombian goal which would have added to it.

Neil3030 · 05-07-2018 06:22PM

irishbucsfan wrote: »

I don't think that matters very much at all to the Christian Union parties, they value what their own electorate value.

This will pass and it's certainly no existential threat to the EU.

The CSU care about little outside of Bavaria, but Merkel should be wise to gob****es like Salvini using images of Germany blocking migrants at its border with a fellow EU state and how it will nourish anti-EU sentiment. One more member major state leaves and I reckon the EU is toast.

Zzippy · 05-07-2018 06:34PM

dregin wrote: »

Couldn't give a ballox about the World Cup, but this is very nice - docker run -ti --rm -e TZ=Europe/London -e WITH_EMOJIS=0 cedricbl/world-cup-2018-cli-dashboard

Ya wha'?!

Neil3030 · 05-07-2018 06:36PM

Zzippy wrote: »

Ya wha'?!

Looks like a bash script. Paste it into your terminal and let me know if you're computer explodes so I can then try it.

irishbucsfan · 05-07-2018 06:36PM

Neil3030 wrote: »

The CSU care about little outside of Bavaria, but Merkel should be wise to gob****es like Salvini using images of Germany blocking migrants at its border with a fellow EU state and how it will nourish anti-EU sentiment. One more member major state leaves and I reckon the EU is toast.

No major states have left the EU yet!

May wait for one of them to actually go before claiming one more would make a difference!

Unless Germany or France leave, I can't see there being a problem.

Neil3030 · 05-07-2018 06:52PM

irishbucsfan wrote: »

No major states have left the EU yet!

May wait for one of them to actually go before claiming one more would make a difference!

Unless Germany or France leave, I can't see there being a problem.

I lived in Germany for most of last year and spend a lot of time in Belgium as that's where my o/h is from. Any time the topic of the EU has come up in either country, the growing consensus is that one more major departure will tip the scale. Though the EU project may still make sense politically, economically or whatever else, it will ultimately be the electorate that decide they want into a system that they trust, and that benefits them. And I just can't see EU leaders preventing a chain reaction of populist panic and euroskepticism in the event that another country opts out.

That said, it would need to be a major player, and to your list I'd add Italy and Spain; backwards as many people may perceive these countries to be, they are both major components of the European identity, and will be contributing approx 15% and 10% respectively to EU GDP once the UK leaves.

05-07-2018 06:57PM

Neil3030 wrote: »

I lived in Germany for most of last year and spend a lot of time in Belgium as that's where my o/h is from. Any time the topic of the EU has come up in either country, the growing consensus is that one more major departure will tip the scale. Though the EU project may still make sense politically, economically or whatever else, it will ultimately be the electorate that decide they want into a system that they trust, and that benefits them. And I just can't see EU leaders preventing a chain reaction of populist panic and euroskepticism in the event that another country opts out.

That said, it would need to be a major player, and to your list I'd add Italy and Spain; backwards as many people may perceive these countries to be, they are both major components of the European identity, and will be contributing approx 15% and 10% respectively to EU GDP once the UK leaves.

If the EU breaks up over populist stupidity I have no faith at all that humanity has a long term future.

Neil3030 · 05-07-2018 07:02PM

Deleted User wrote: »

If the EU breaks up over populist stupidity I have no faith at all that humanity has a long term future.

It's too good a system to fall victim to anything else, I reckon.

Zzippy · 05-07-2018 09:46PM

Neil3030 wrote: »

Looks like a bash script. Paste it into your terminal and let me know if you're computer explodes so I can then try it.

Nah, still "wha'?"

AKA I have no idea what you're talking about...

Neil3030 · 05-07-2018 10:13PM

Zzippy wrote: »

Nah, still "wha'?"

AKA I have no idea what you're talking about...

Are you mac or Windows?

Zzippy · 05-07-2018 10:38PM

Neil3030 wrote: »

Are you mac or Windows?

How'd you know my nickname?!!! :eek:

Stheno · 05-07-2018 10:45PM

Zzippy wrote: »

How'd you know my nickname?!!! :eek:

awec told us in his monthly update

Dubinusa · 07-07-2018 03:24AM

Delighted for Neymar!!! G'wan Belgium

swiwi_ · 07-07-2018 10:46AM

Saw this on the guardian

My mate has been given two tickets for the England vs Sweden game. He’s getting married today and can’t go. If you’re interested and want to go instead of him, it’s at 3 pm at St Mary’s in Bromley and her name’s Sarah.

07-07-2018 03:16PM

Farmers getting very, very worried about the ongoing weather.

CatFromHue · 07-07-2018 03:55PM

They should be, the country's turning yellow!

awec · 07-07-2018 05:28PM

England are going to win it lads.

umop episdn · 07-07-2018 05:29PM

awec wrote: »

England are going to win it lads.

They've a damn good chance... think their semifinal is the biggun

Zzippy · 07-07-2018 05:48PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Farmers getting very, very worried about the ongoing weather.

A lot of farmers have been encouraged, and indeed funded, to expand their operations beyond what is sustainable - deregulation of milk quotas, government policy to intensify production, etc. A lot of dairy farmers especially now have herds that can barely be sustained by the land in a good year. We already had one fodder crisis this year, there will be another one soon as many farms won't get a second cut of hay/silage with the weather. They are right to be worried, but in all honesty, many have only themselves to blame.

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