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Oops, sorry! There were a few snorkeling tours around but we didn't do it. We had the option to but chose a few different excursions instead. If anyone ever goes Jamaica, Dunn's River Waterfalls is an absolute must. It's hard to put in to words just how good that experience is - you can climb the waterfalls with a tour guide and it's so worthwhile.

I don't have a problem with CM Punk winning to be honest. AEW needs to stop trying to impress Meltzer, PWI and all these marks and put on better weekly shows. They havent capitalised on the buzz they had in the summer.

Second tier club Wacker Innsbruck parted ways with investor Mikhail Ponomarev. It's indeed intriguing to see how his sports empire that once included KFC Uerdingen, and ice hockey clubs Düsseldorfer EG and Krefeld Penguins gets more and more dismantled.

Added $20 and if we fall short for the year, will contribute again later. Im unable to post much these days due to many things but I do enjoy reading the posts every now and then, Keep up the good work all the active members and admins.

Because life shouldn't be one big free market festival, where basically the wealthy decide what gets made. The BBC is an absolutely vital part of British culture. Does it have problems, yes. It will be sorely missed when it goes, as looks likely now. The Tories are doing this for purely ideological reasons.

Heard your 30s are like your 20s except with money. Seriously, I heard your 30s are the best decade of your life.

What do you reckon?

I've always taken this as a pretty strong indication that they aren't doing as bad of a job on impartiality as the noisy fringes would have you believe. The downside is, I do believe the noisy fringes have succeeded in castrating their news coverage to some extent as they aren't exactly bold in reporting on political issues, even when the facts are clear, in fear of political factions using it as ammunition against them. That aside, I agree they can do a better job and stuff like when they had that lawyer on who had links to Jeffrey Epstein to comment on the Ghislaine Maxwell verdict the other week was a poor effort. Some of their journalists, such as Ros Atkins and Lewis Goodall do some excellent investigative journalism still though. The other thing you haven't mentioned that I'd add is the educational value of the BBC. They put in a huge effort to put stuff in place at the start of the pandemic when the school's closed that helped a lot of people with the initial shock of home-schooling and the likes of Newsround (which is a real god-send, I'll tell you) gets used all over the country on a daily basis. BBC Bitesize seems to have regressed in value as better alternatives have become available but it's another example of what the BBC has offered as a service to the country in the past. Actually restructuring the way the BBC is funded isn't the worst idea ever. It feels a bit archaic these days that you have to pay the licence fee or get threatened with legal action. I don't know what the best solution is, but it's beside the point really, Nadine Dorries and this government have no interest in the best solution, they're just threatening and attacking the BBC because the right-wing fringe of the party wants them to report news in a more right-wing manner, and they need to stop those MPs from submitting no-confidence letters in Johnson. This will be accompanied by increased anti-migrant rhetoric and various other populist announcements over the coming weeks. They've even dubbed it "Operation Red Meat" in Downing Street which tells you all you need to know. The (hopefully) last mad gambit of a flailing, failing government. All they have left is to go back to the racist and authoritarian shtick dressed up as 'libertarianism', because that's all they've ever had to offer.

What a trilogy.

We had Leelah over at the weekend and she lost her first tooth..... Doubt she will be touching my laptop again for a while now..

Well, the options I've seen all have drawbacks but that's always going to be the case when you've been mismanaged for years and are struggling: Roberto Martinez - would probably only get it until the end of the season as I doubt he'll want to leave before the World Cup. Would be an embarrassing climbdown for Moshiri, if he didn't feel he was good enough then, why now? However, West Ham made an embarrassing climbdown on Moyes and their eating of humble pie worked out very well. I can't see it being long-term or working out but they might do it. Wayne Rooney - well, we're in the days where ex players who have done a lot less than Rooney has can get jobs at their old clubs so I can well see it. The job at Derby, under the circumstances, has been excellent and he won't go straight in with expectations of guaranteed CL qualification and trophies instantly unlike Solskjaer, Arteta and Lampard at the clubs where they are legends - although I use "legend" loosely in Arteta's case. Maybe he does deserve a chance in (comparatively) calmer waters but they might decide he's too inexperienced. Duncan Ferguson - I doubt it, would be the biggest risk of all. Frank Lampard - He'd take it if offered, I have no doubt of that. He'll get no bigger right now. An enigma of a manager - got Derby to the play-off final but didn't get them over the line, qualified for the CL in his first season with Chelsea under difficult circumstances but failed to win the FA Cup, collapsed in his final half a season but arguably set Tuchel up for success with the players he bought in and bought through - Tuchel clearly a better manager but still, Lampard deserves credit. Would he be the right fit? Million dollar question. Nuno Esperito Santo - maybe if he were coming straight from Wolves but really, the job he did with us has badly knocked his chances. Plays a similar type of football to Benitez and granted, would come to Everton without Benitez' baggage but looked utterly lost, exhausted and like he had no ideas whatsoever with us which would not be a good look. I think he needs a time out. Graham Potter - would be a fantastic appointment but I don't think he'll go. He'll hold on for a team in or immediately pushing for top 4 or possibly England. Sean Dyche - I don't see it simply as he's no longer flavour of the month, same with Hasenhuttl. Paulo Fonseca - well, he wants to come to England and I could see it if they want to take a punt on someone who's not managed in England. Our managerial hiring incompetence in the summer shouldn't put anyone else off.

I'll get pelters for this but Sean Dyche. Burnley are on the wane now and I don't put that on him - I think they're about to crash and burn personally. I think he'd come, whilst Potter wouldn't. I'm not even saying this for "he'll keep you up every season" because that's way less than you should be aiming for and that 'ambition' is what would eventually relegate a club, but he's managed that at a club with a consistently weaker squad and a substantially poorer budget. Can totally understand turning the nose up at him but I think his ceiling is a bit higher than simply survival. It's intrigue as much as anything, I'd be very interested to see him at a bigger club. In another way the more I think about it I think you're just fucked and you're going to repetitively do this until Moshiri goes. You've tried all types of managers, all types of players, spent a lot in order to do so, but worst of all in my opinion you brought in the football 'brain', didn't utilise it what so ever, let a manager who blatantly had no long term future there get rid of him and then sacked that manager a month later anyway. What hope has literally any manager got in that situation? Even more so given you've spent a lot of the money now and you're having to go for the cheaper players anyway. Dyche, Potter, Martinez, Allardyce, it's irrelevant until the clown at the top learns from his errors and there are no signs of it. You need to get him out first and foremost because I fear this kind of season will become your norm otherwise.

Could answer my question above if you’re bored?

Yes when an an opposition player grabs you have some time to grapple out and run bak

Don't go back home, problem solved

Superb

A genuinely decent man. There aren't that many in the world.

It’s sad to see someone with the iconic status that Djoković has end up being someone that entertains absolute nonsense and then makes a worldwide fool of himself. The fact there are nutters that either believe in that codswallop around the world demonstrating in his defence or those in his country that feel this is an afront to their national identity is something that can be ignored. Those specimens were there kicking up dust before this even occurred on other issues that they cared to care about. I didn’t expect this.

Everton hire a manager who was toxic with their fans from the start, allow him full control, sack their medical head at his behest, sack their DOF and sell one of their better performers and first choice left back as well as letting him buy two other full backs, sack him three days later and now the rumour is that they are trying to get back the man Moshiri originally sacked when he took over. That's pretty shambolic.

I totally get your point, fair in the examples that you give and there's nothing to suggest that wouldn't work at Everton going down the same route. My reasons for Dyche though is that I think your club is absolutely toxic right now and he is the kind of personality that would bring you together. It's amazing the difference we see in players when they are happy. DCL is a big example of that when Ferguson first stepped in a while back and got him scoring. I also feel Dyche has a bit of a stigma attached to him from managing at Burnley. I agree, his job there is safety first but he plays within their means. He knows they are underdogs every year and accepts that. Would it be a tad unfair to assume he'll be like this at Everton? Burnley can play football when they want to. With a better calibre of player, I'm actually curious as to what he would do at a higher rated club with better resources but at the moment, i completely get its hypothetical. When he speaks, he certainly makes a lot of sense though. Very hard to judge him when it's primarily what he's done at Burnley and seems I'm alone on this thought but I wouldn't write him off. Can you imagine him and Klopp in the derby? That would be box office to me

If I'm Graham Potter, I'd see absolutely nothing appealing about joining Everton. Bigger club than Brighton, 100% yes. Better team/squad? Hmm, probably not. Better financially equipped? Nope, not anymore by the looks of it. He'll feel he's building something decent at Brighton and if he is to leave, it's got to be for something a bit more worthwhile than Everton you'd think. Just pure, hard facts. Sounds massively harsh towards Everton Football Club and who knows, I might be wrong and he might relish the challenge but I don't see it as a realistic appointment myself. Sean Dyche would be a good appointment for me. He won't leave Burnley mid season I'm sure but that's someone who I feel would go a long way to uniting the club. I think as a man manager, players like him and would bust a gut for him, especially after having Ancelotti and Benitez. Players seem to have a lot of good things to say about Dyche as a person. I like his character. Might not be the most glamorous name but for where Everton are at this moment in time, I think he'd be a brilliant candidate and he deserves a chance somewhere bigger.

Funnily enough, I posted something like this in the Football League section not that long ago.

Australia be like

BW is 20 years older than boomers, prehistoric even

That doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be brought up and addressed. It is par the course of things happening and Morrison taking the credit while actually doing nothing. The point being is that they don’t care about the actual rules and if the popular idea was to let Novax in, they would. The people that are running the show are the exact same people as Djokovic, rich, entitled people that think the rules don’t apply to them. It is an absolute mess of a situation and he should have been turned away day one, but they have made a meal from it and let it get out of control.

For them though, they are two very good signings, enough to push them on. Villa have no excuses for me now, they should be finishing 8th with what they have invested into personnel the last three seasons. Forget Grealish and £100m they recouped for a minute. £140m the first season up, £90m the second season and now currently this season, they have spent £116m. So we are talking best part of a £350m rebuild. Ok, Grealish has paid for £100m of that but factor in wages also and they really, really should be pushing on now and pushing past your Wolves, Brighton's etc.

Ha thanks but I'm not back, was just told about this and wanted to help out Coma. So, with Augsburg, the IBAN is an international bank number. For Augsburg, they provided me with their account numbers, and I was able to just set up a wire transfer directly into their accoutn with my Mitiglied # .

Arrived here late last night mate. Just having breakfast now. It's absolute bliss. This is our view while we eat...