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This is the big one. Preventing serious illness is obviously great, but without preventing infection/transmission it becomes a bit of a slog. One vaccine is one serious illness or death prevented at best. With this, it has the multiplicitive effect that every vaccination is a chain of transmission broken and a boost on our road to re-emergence A lot of people assumed this was the case anyway, which is fair enough as it turns out, but having it confirmed is obviously great news.

Matip is a brilliant defender and anyone that says otherwise needs their eyes checked. He's quietly consistently excellent, you rarely ever get a shit performance out of him. The only issue with Matip really is how unbelievably injury prone he is. But even then, it's not like he'd do the Lovren thing and need to be played back into form and put in a few horror shows after coming back from injury - he comes back after a lengthy layoff and just slots back in to being an excellent defender. If he didn't get injured constantly, I think he'd be considered one of the best defenders in Europe.

He was one of the most respectful kids in skool when he was younger - despite the decision by mum to send him to 'council' school and his bro to a private one. Never a moments problem and was always ready to listen - sure that made him a real mate to the other kids in the team and later with S04. I was told that his best time so far was being in Brazil when he was one of 5 from the same school and 4 of them played in the Cup winning side - that has to be a record which no other school will ever beat!

Probably your best post to date.

I had better steer clear just in case...

He has been nothing short of spectacular at CB, if we are going to retain the title though we need him back where he is best though in midfield.

There are many different opinions of Joel's style of play, but here's some food for thought! How many centre backs - particularly experienced ones - do you see regularly playing the ball sideways and backwards when they are under pressure. How many seem lost as to know what to do with the ball or where to send it. Now watch Joel and see how many times he looks forward and actually finds a team-mate to advance the attack or even with the help of young Trent who then stays back to let him take it forward himself. His biggest arguments used to be with young Draxler who sometimes seemed to forget which way he was actually playing - still does sometimes - but often the German kids used his first name to describe his game - 'Job done'! I know Virgil changed that to 'Matop' which he liked - particularly as it came from a man for whom he has the greatest respect after Kloppy aka Kloppo. I'm sure he still has the same sense of dry humour which he developed with Benny Howedes and sometimes they would let a ball through after one or the other had said something which left each unable to concentrate from laughing together but he was always the tallest on the pitch and hated by other defences - particularly from corners. If you are on the other side just beware when his lowers his head and smiles at you - it's his version of the Rocky theme - the smile and the eye of the tiger! Great guy and still has lots to offer!

Tempted to change your name to Mystic Mouse with insight like that

I do agree and seeing his history is a clear indicator of how reliable he really is when it comes to injuries. However, he is one of our more experienced CBs and to have him out doesn't automatically allow Fab to move into midfield and just swap in the two new CBs. It's going to take time and I believe Matip will be with us next season because we've got other players that need to be offloaded too like Origi as an example. I also think this has just been freakishly bad luck because having Virgil out then Gomes and now Matip really isn't something anyone could have foreseen based on last season's performances.

If he was after white people it’d just be British with hot weather

I watched the most of it. On this day....I didn’t see clearly.....I was absolutely shattered The botch in the Reigns - Owens match ruined what was a decent match. It was cringey at the end with the botch and the ref just stopped counting.

@Dr. Gonzo: pico de gallo was perfect! Made a huge bowl earlier today and it's all gone already Went with parlsey instead of cilantro as I couldn't find any at the store, but it was still very good.

I'd rather lose it to a hard working northern club than some plastic southern one.

Same outcome as SN8... Successful hop, crash on landing. Engine 2 seems to have failed to fire on landing burn.

Not saying...

Fire started 24 hours ago east of Perth. Now raging towards heavily populated areas. I am one street away from a watch and act area. 7000 hectares burnt and continuing. Not good.