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Eurgh, no.

Love conquers all. Float like a butterfly sting like a bee.

The public learn from the quality of political debate in the House of Commons where you should see "professionals" at it. Both Labour and Conservative MPs and ministers will look at ten things the other side say, choose the worst sounding one, reword it so that it sounds even worse and then shout that from the hilltops 50 times louder than any of the good things they have to say about what their own party is doing. If that's how real politicians act that's how a sad majority of the public will act when they want to have their say in a debate about politics and government. Everyone wants to talk about what the other people are doing wrong rather than talking up their alternative in a positive manner though I suppose that's a pretty general British trait in itself.

At least it wasn't because of the wind .

Rules I'm sure we all know this by now, but here are the rules for the Last Man Standing League with some details on the format: - For the rest of this post, when I refer to a "Round" I'm referring to a full competition, e.g. the Premier League round or the Serie A round. When talking about individual sets of fixtures within a round, I will use the term "gameweek". - In a Last Man Standing competition, you choose one team to win in each gameweek. If your team wins, you "survive" until the next gameweek. If your team loses or draws, you are eliminated from the current round of the competition. You can not use the same team more than once, unless you achieve the impossible of surviving 20 rounds (or however many it takes) without failing to pick a winner and have therefore used every team, but LOL if that happens. - With the league format, you will receive a score each round, and they will be added to create a running total at the end of each round. Scoring is explained later on in the post. - You can obviously choose to compete in just one round if you prefer, I will include you in the league table for the full season but you will obviously score no points in the rounds that you do not take part. Scoring Having had some time to think about it and considered general feedback, I have settled on what I hope will be a very simple scoring system for the most part. I'm aiming to reward those who consistently survive a decent number of gameweeks, whilst also rewarding those who actually win or come close to winning individual rounds with some bonus points. - Basic Score - This is simply how many gameweeks you survive. If your pick lets you down in the first gameweek, you will score 0 points. If you successfully survive four gameweeks then get knocked out in the fifth gameweek, you will score 4 points. Etc. - Bonus Score - Bonus points will be rewarded to the top three finishers in each round. The actual winner of the round will receive 3 bonus points, the person or people who finish 2nd will receive 2 bonus points and the 3rd place finisher(s) will receive 1 bonus point. I'm personally not arsed about having ties for 2nd and 3rd that see more than one person receive 1 or 2 bonus points, but I do want to make sure there is a distinct "winner" in each round (it is a Last Man Standing after all), so there will be one possible instance where I might do things slightly differently. - Special Case - In a situation where all remaining players are eliminated and there is no clear winner of the round, the remaining players will enter "sudden death" to determine who gets the bonus points. Their Basic Score will be fixed at this point so that if it takes another 3-4 gameweeks to separate the winner from the rest, they will not be credited with 3-4 extra points in their Basic Score because they did not originally survive that many gameweeks. An example might be the best way to explain this: The round begins with six players, Player A, Player B, Player C, Player D, Player E and Player F. Players E and F both fail to choose a winner in Gameweek 1 - Players E and F both score 0 points. Players A, B, C and D survive this gameweek. Players C and D both fail to choose a winner in Gameweek 2 - Players C and D both score 2 points (1 from their Basic Score of surviving one gameweek, and 1 Bonus Score for being joint 3rd). Players A and B survive this gameweek. Players A and B both fail to choose a winner in Gameweek 3 - Players A and B both now have their Basic Score fixed at 2 points having survived 2 gameweeks, but must enter Sudden Death to determine who gets the 3 Bonus Points and who is left with 2 Bonus Points. Player A choose a winner in Gameweek 4 while Player B does not - Player A receives the 3 Bonus Points and finishes the round with 5 points overall. Player B receives the 2 Bonus Points and finishes the round with 4 points overall. Final Points Tally for the round: Player A = 5 points (Basic Score 2, Bonus Score 3) Player B = 4 points (Basic Score 2, Bonus Score 2) Player C = 2 points (Basic Score 1, Bonus Score 1) Player D = 2 points (Basic Score 1, Bonus Score 1) Player E = 0 points (Basic Score 0, Bonus Score 0) Player F = 0 points (Basic Score 0, Bonus Score 0) Hopefully that all makes relative sense, it should become more clear when we've played the first round. Rounds That pretty much sums it up. Please see the [Poll] topic to vote which rounds you'd like to see follow the Premier League round. I will use this thread to post updated tables after each round so keep your eyes out for that. If someone could stick this to the top of the sub-forum I'd appreciate that. Hope everyone has fun! Any questions about the scoring system are welcome.

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How many more chances is Luke Shaw going to be given? Especially under Mourinho who just seems to throw him in completely at random and blast him for playing like shit even if he was only average. I don't rate the lad as if he had the drive and determination to make something of himself he'd have got out of there at the first opportunity but he'd have a much better chance under a different manager.

End of the day the Stroll family are putting loads of money into F1 which is good for us as spectators and the lad will get nothing out of it other than 3 or 4 years of mediocrity before he gets bored. It is good that they've helped Williams stay afloat for a bit and now they're going to bail out the Force India team. Good old financially sustainable F1 tho.

You can tell things are bad when you can see Everton fan pages and general fans calling out the small minority of Liverpool fans on Twitter who are posting stupid shit like "imagine the day when Karius finally dies" or whatever the one I saw earlier was. Some people really do have problems. It's also pre-season for fuck's sake, who gives a shit how many footballs he wants to throw into his own net.

Here's a question - should someone have to demonstrate a certain understanding of what they're voting for before they are allowed to cast their vote? I'm not calling for that to be the case. I'm of the opinion that it is firmly the responsibility of the candidates and campaigners, along with the media to an extent, to educate the electorate accurately ahead of a general election or a referendum. I've said many times in the past that we don't do enough in schools to educate young people about the importance of politics and the impact it has on their lives, and that is part of the problem. I've also heard some people mutter half seriously that you should have to pass a sort of aptitude test before you vote to make sure that you actually understand a thing or two about your options rather than just voting for the better public speaker or what will lead to a reduction in evil immigrants in your neighbourhood. I think that's draconian and a violation of free speech myself though an ill informed electorate is clearly a problem for a country, and it's probably similar in the majority of democratic countries across the world. What is the solution? And is an apathetic section of the electorate part of the same problem or an entirely different problem altogether?

Could probably do with a season on loan back in Germany in my opinion.

Fuck sake, can't believe there's only six more weeks left before I have to go back to work .

Yeah we looked pretty rubbish in the second half. Obviously Gylfi will add some spark to that midfield but we have a lot of work to do.

If we play this high line with Jagielka and Keane as our centre backs we actually will be fighting relegation this year .

I only said your comment was pretty immature or something but yeah that was just you've had a dig and I had a dig back. What followed (from me at least) wasn't to do with that specific comment but my honest appraisal of how I interpret people's attitudes towards Everton as that was where the discussion moved to. Don't think that threads awkward really, for me it was just a debate but some people may have come across a bit touchy or sensitive I guess.

Me? Please elaborate?

Bottas told to hold position. Could still rain again .

Celebrating retirements is for wankers isn't it.

Hahahaha! Drama. What the fuck are they doing on Bottas car!?!?

Toro Rosso going full wet .

Hamilton doing a great job to stay in touch on those tyres. Ferrari took a risk giving Kimi that long ahead of Vettel.

Let's have some showers please Germany.

Credit to him for admitting it. Certain other managers will never backtrack or admit they've been hypocritical and instead just build up a portfolio of arse covering half-truths.

50% chance of rain apparently.

Thats all I care about