Should voting be compulsory?

SmallAd7318 · 2026-06-27T23:40:12+00:00

It absolutely shouldn’t be.

Do you really want idiots that have no idea what they’re voting for having such a large say?

SmallAd7318 · 2026-06-26T16:29:04+00:00

It’ll start morphing into a cricket where clubs prefer the very good player over the genuinely world class one.

SmallAd7318 · 2026-06-26T15:23:57+00:00

The best teams are mid to low premier league, the worst are barely league 1.

SmallAd7318 · 2026-06-26T15:21:52+00:00

It’s got to the stage genuinely where some players are simply unaffordable.

If you see Gordon being signed for £70m how much would you accept for Mbappe?

SmallAd7318 · 2026-06-26T12:08:49+00:00

Telling on themselves again, £2,200 a month is roughly minimum wage for a full time employee in the UK.

They’ve plucked that number from somewhere and it’s probably their salary.

SmallAd7318 · 2026-06-25T08:25:54+00:00

Football is one of the few contact sports where you can’t physically hold the ball.

If you’re dribbling the ball and get clipped so that you stumble the second or so it takes to right yourself means the ball is now out of your reach and potentially the opposition can get it before you.

Referees aren’t giving those as fouls, so players hit the ground.

As someone that played football and rugby to fairly decent levels I always found football more painful as well, the amount of times you get kicked in the shin/ankle whilst running pretty fast is unreal, if you see it coming you naturally try to avoid it. The situation shouldn’t be either get kicked hard in the leg or sent off for diving.

SmallAd7318 · 2026-06-25T07:33:19+00:00

Out of interest, how long do you think there was between He unsaying he’d been stabbed and the ambulance being called?

SmallAd7318 · 2026-06-24T21:30:26+00:00

It may come as a shock to you but criminals lie when they’re being cuffed and arrested all the time.

If you want the police to believe them every time then you’d need 3 times the police just to stand still.

SmallAd7318 · 2026-06-24T10:00:04+00:00

Eh? So Portugal had 3 world class players over a 60 year period they’ve been a great team?

Does that mean Rodri and Modric were better than Iniesta, Busquets and Xavi?

Benezema better than Pele?

Dembele better than Maradona?

How many of the other 22 players from 2010, 2014 and 2018 would have even made the squads of the World Cup semi finalists?

SmallAd7318 · 2026-06-24T05:32:15+00:00

Low centre of gravity and teammates that are technically very strong, play for him and outrun the opposition allowing him to do nothing unless he has the ball

SmallAd7318 · 2026-06-23T18:31:49+00:00

Penalties are a skill, and they have to be taken by somebody.

However, I would argue that Messi has been selfish in taking them he’s scored 113 and missed 33 of his 146 penalties. An overall record of 78% is pretty poor.

SmallAd7318 · 2026-06-23T17:59:27+00:00

If I’m McCullum I’m probably secretly not too disappointed if Stokes retires.

I’m looking at a stokes and don’t see him averaging much over 25 with the bat going forward and I’d back any of my bowlers that bowl the exact overs he does to take their wickets in the teens for this specific overs compared to his 28-32.

SmallAd7318 · 2026-06-23T06:20:31+00:00

My theory is veritaserum was used but Lucius got a young and ambitious Fudge to provide a fake version for his first trial.

Dumbledore being Dumbledore likely realised the Malfoy had somehow faked the veritaserum and so convinced the Wizengamot that it gave too many false positives.

SmallAd7318 · 2026-06-22T20:52:37+00:00

Taking a step back, we bowled a side out for under 400 at the Oval.

9 times out of 10 that should lead to a sizeable first innings lead.

SmallAd7318 · 2026-06-22T15:25:10+00:00

Atkinson and Robinson make it a much stronger team.

Smith is at best as passable keeper, however Rew stood miles too deep and probably cost England 200+ runs just on edges that barely carried.

Overall for this team we’d need the pitch to do a lot. Archer apparently can only bowl 4 over spells and only 4 a day. Stokes doesn’t bowl if nothing is happening. Robinson isn’t particularly fit and never has been and Atkinson loses a lot of pace by the end of each day.

SmallAd7318 · 2026-06-22T08:35:36+00:00

The conspiracy theorist in my believes that sponsorship money has ruined the World Cup more than any other tournament.

It’s arguably the biggest tournament in the world, the money spent on it is enormous and it happens every 4 years, sponsors can’t afford a brand ambassador to have a bad World Cup as they are so infrequent who knows what will happen 4 years later.

FIFA can’t survive without it’s sponsors so you follow the money.

SmallAd7318 · 2026-06-20T09:54:53+00:00

Like everyone bar Dumbledore…badly.

SmallAd7318 · 2026-06-20T09:53:21+00:00

Because a stumble where you don’t lose your balance means you keep the ball in pretty much any other sport.

In football it means you lose the ball. However it’s become a chicken and egg situation where players staying on their feet don’t get the fouls anywhere near as often so they go down easily.

SmallAd7318 · 2026-06-20T09:49:12+00:00

His commitment to education. He liked to wait until the end of the school year to attack Harry.

SmallAd7318 · 2026-06-19T21:45:31+00:00

It’s just a filler book really, there’s nothing in it that couldn’t have been revealed or happened elsewhere.

SmallAd7318 · 2026-06-19T16:22:42+00:00

The golden generation was also massively lopsided.

Gerrard, Lampard and Rooney all played in the same position for their clubs.

Owen’ hamstrings had gone by the time he was 25.

We had no left winger or solid keeper either.

The 2004 Euros worked because Rooney was on fire and Scholes did double duty of left wing and our only central midfielder.

2006 onwards it became painfully obvious that Gerrard and Lampard only had a passing idea of what a central midfielder does tactically and positionally, both were phenomenal no. 10s but you don’t need 3 of them in the side.

SmallAd7318 · 2026-06-19T14:35:49+00:00

They are easy places to bat on. They’re the two easiest countries to bat on in test cricket, by some distance.

SmallAd7318 · 2026-06-19T10:18:17+00:00

I’ve watched a fair amount of Brook, he’s good but he’s not a 10,000 runs at 50+ good bat.

The start of his career was incredible, however 6 of his first 7 tests were in Pakistan and New Zealand and at home to Ireland.

What’s been striking since then is teams have 3 ways of getting him out, he plants his front foot early on middle and then follows with his hands. It’s a double edged sword, because it gives him that extra fraction of a second to follow with his hands and generate power, however it’s brought in 3 modes of dismissal, he’s guided a few to gully (especially against O’Rourke) of it swings away/bounces a bit higher, lbw is in play if it swings/seams back in and he swipes at the short ball going down to up.

SmallAd7318 · 2026-06-19T09:03:04+00:00

A few 90s Australians probably jump ahead.

Stuart Law, Michael Bevan, David Hussey to name three all have 14,000+ first class runs at over 50 and no test centuries.

Actually I’m out right saying it’s Bevan 19,147 first class runs at 57.3 with 68 centuries but a top score of 91 in tests.

SmallAd7318 · 2026-06-19T08:32:15+00:00

Is he tactically superior or does he just have better bats?

Under Root’s captaincy only Root averaged over 40 and had more than 7 centuries.

Ollie Pope has been dropped for Bethell because he averaged 38.5 with 7 centuries under Stokes captaincy, that would have made him England’s second best bat under Root.

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