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* in the VFL.

Maybe, but you'd better buckle up, going to be a bumpy ride if that's the case.

One of Demonland's meaningless platitudes, trotted out every time we lose.

Classic, almost predictable inconsistency from what is still, in many respects, a young team. If this is happening when Petracca, Gawn, Brayshaw etc have 150 - 200 games under their belt, we can perhaps worry. Also, starting to get noticeable under-performance from the youngest players, Rivers and Jackson especially. You can only go to the well so many times at that age.

No change. Let the players take responsibility.

Not sure. AVB is more of a like-for-like replacement for Harmes. If it had been Fritsch or ANB go down, you'd think they would have preferred Melksham. Amongst all this, the other one that might have been taken is Jones, but he can hardly string 2 matches together now without picking up an injury.

Your assertion that "In Europe, for the most part, people are going about life as usual." is just that, not at all true. I live in France, and have travelled to Belgium and Germany recently. Masks at the ready and keep your distance. There are a LOT of rules in place, right across the EU.

Nothing to do with my word, what I sent are the official guidelines from the Italian government. It also covers restrictions on restaurants and bars, public transport (50% capacity and mask-wearing compulsory) etc. etc. It's a long list. It also depends where you are in Italy, some areas have more/less restrictions. As for quarantine, I got my sentence back to front so what I said was wrong - if you're coming from Schengen states, you need proof of vax or a negative Covid test. http://www.italia.it/en/useful-info/covid-19-updates-information-for-tourists.html

Cough.

Actually, that's not at all true: "Wearing a face mask is always mandatory in indoor public places throughout Italy. Masks are no longer mandatory outdoors, but you must always carry one with you and wear it if you find yourself in crowded conditions that do not allow the 1 metre safety distance to be maintained." As for quarantine, you only escape it if you're fully vaccinated, and even then, arrivals from some countries still have to do the negative test/quaratine routine. Same as for most European countries.

Maybe Melksham for Neil-Bullen? Melksham has been consistently decent and "a class above" at VFL level for a while now, while ANB is probably the least effective of the forwards. Equally, we'd lose some tackling intensity, but perhaps it's something they'd consider. At some point soon the selectors will be looking at bedding down the team to take us into/through the finals - is ANB in that team over Melksham (or Jones)? Similar conversation perhaps re VDB - he'd bring more pressure and agression than ANB, though he's a long way behind Melksham as a disposer. Yes I know, Melksham is a frustrating player, or has been over the past couple of seasons.

Better than nothing perhaps: “… a Canadian study that's still awaiting peer review found that a single dose of Pfizer's shot was 56 percent effective at preventing symptomatic infections caused by Delta after two weeks. That rate was 67 percent for AstraZeneca's shot and 72 percent for Moderna's.”

Big Tour de France night as well: bunch sprint into Nîmes, will Cavendish equal Eddy Merckx's record of 34 TDF wins? (Cavendish, now there's a story. Bigger comeback than Tom McDonald.)

Also the way to preserve businesses and the economy in the longer term.

Well, that's because there's a reason that these kinds of opinions are outside of the mainstream in the first place.

Hindsight bias in full swing.

Agree, but suspect they'll leave him there for a while, let him really build on the work he's doing.

Still feel we're a couple of years away from being a serious premiership contender, and today showed why. Inexperience gets you in the end.

Nothing to do with Ben Brown not being out there. Nothing.

Different approach in the UK ... they're now playing by their own rules. (Which is why you effectively can't travel from the UK to Europe unless you've been vaccinated.) In France you can't get into a football stadium without having been vaccinated, similar across most of Europe (more or less). Equally, it's summer, so apart from the UEFA matches, there's not much going on sport-wise.

I'm in France. We have a suppression, minimisation strategy. And 110K dead from Covid.

If it's for venous thrombosis, which is where the scare is, incidence is much lower than that. "The European Medicines Agency has estimated that the risk of cerebral venous thrombosis after the AstraZeneca vaccine is 5.0 (4.3 to 5.8) per million people." (https://www.bmj.com/content/373/bmj.n1005)

They've now corrected that section of the article. That you're quoting sources that are clearly wrong says it all. Confirmation bias on steroids.

Yes, what's being proposed ... in countries where Pfizer is widely available. (e.g. Canada). Interesting as well that Spain have gone the other way: given that incidence of TTS is almost non-existant with AZ second dose, they've opened up second doses of AZ to under 60's. So, Pfizer (or whatever) first, AZ second, to all age groups.

Did you even read the article? They're preferred because recent studies have shown that mixing vaccines can give increased protection. (Also because there's limited availability of AZ in North America, as production is centred in the UK and Europe.) “I wish to emphasize that people who received two doses of AstraZeneca/COVISHIELD vaccine should rest assured that the vaccine they received provides good protection against infection, and very good protection against severe disease and hospitalization.” and “We still know from the information that we’re seeing here in B.C., but also primarily in the U.K., where a lot of AstraZeneca has been used, that vaccine effectiveness is very good for both AstraZeneca and the mRNA vaccines,”