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Shit maths too

Ahh, but this is where Brucey has the most experience, have to play to our strengths.

Well that's a mighty shit way to end the half. Looks like Lascelles' man who headed it on. Quality finish from Ings.

Ings is working on one too. Cash is the bloke you're referring to, the wet weather doing nothing for his cut-price Grealish costume. Wasted a whole bunch of time earlier for a slightly twisted ankle, which I suppose is quite Grealishy.

Unfortunately this is just about the best lineup we have for playing it out - with the exception of Lascelles, sorry, TOT.

Bullshit yellow card there, Mings is all over him and he grabs back at him and cops a yellow for it.. Meanwhile Mings has had hands all over our players throughout...

Ashley young is a real prick.

Aye, ridiculous. I thought the refereeing had been good to that point.

ASM hands all over him every time he gets the ball.

Or ours

I'm putting it down to the Villa cries of a foul put him off. Looks as though it's going to be a pretty open match.

Wilson, shocking miss that.

Ritchie still playing in a defensive role

Fite!

He'll have 6 years to recover if he picks up a knock.

You may not have noticed at first, but that's a video taken during happy hour.

How many of the steady flow of deaths are of people who are vaccinated? I know the average age of those dying there is pushing 80, though there are still plenty that are under 60 also dying. Just considering what will happen here when we inevitably begin to ease restrictions once the vaccination levels reach 70 or 80%.

I don't know what's worse, the fact that our fan base have legitimately gone through stages of grief about his signing, or Joelinton.

BUT thanks.

Me too, it's tragic. We're still in triple digits for total deaths (probably not for long) with the vast majority of those coming from the Melbourne outbreak last year that ravaged some aged care locations. With these high numbers there will be a lag and then the deaths will start rising.

Don't forget Boris not caring about deaths if they're elderly. Pretty unfortunate to be burdened with a self obsessed leader who can't organise his own hair let alone the well-being of a nation during a global pandemic.

You lot have had it a hell of a lot worse, and that's an understatement, I've been following through this thread, google and (don't laugh) Gogglebox. Absolute joke how things have gone there, and yet the UK is now held up as an example for the freedoms we can expect with higher vaccinations. Meanwhile your cases are super high still, and there's what should be an unacceptable level of deaths. That's the unavoidable reality when it's out of control. Imagine the potential to devastate the medical system without as high a level of vaccinations... that's what we're staring down the barrel of. Combine that with the division of the nation along state and political lines and it's not fun.

That's a pretty accurate summary. As I mentioned earlier thankfully the vast majority of the elderly have been vaccinated so that should limit the deaths, otherwise it would be undoing all of the work that has been put in to this point. So close, if only there had been a hard and fast lockdown in Sydney when the non-vaccinated allegedly non-mask wearing limo driver who had been transporting international flight crews tested positive. That was 16th of June. That person had spread it in a large shopping centre and from there it spread to a large party further west. Initially there was a stay at home order for four local government areas issued on the 25th of June. More than a week after the initial case. That turned into the start of the actual lockdown the following day and here we are in the back half of August with record cases and no end to the lockdown in site.

Smashed the new record for cases in NSW today - 633 in a state population of 8.2 million. Big numbers getting vaccinated but there will be some rough times in the coming weeks and months. To put the 633 cases into context in total across the country there has been approx 41,000 cases. There's only been a couple of days nationally where the count has been higher - during the peak of the last wave/outbreak in Melbourne, and that was not delta. Melbourne are treading water but hopefully trending in the right direction bringing in a quick lockdown but having to work with morons in the community like those at a well to do engagement party where 70 people attended that has resulted in 7 cases to this point. In NSW our largest hospitals are scrambling to stand-up new covid wards as the existing ones have reached capacity. Elective surgeries are on hold both at public and private facilities so that there are adequate staffing levels for the anticipated caseload.

Good move. 8 weeks into our slow to act lockdown here with seemingly more ahead than behind us.