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Reply		War in the Middle East
at 22:47 28 Feb 2026

Yep. If the Americans had taken any serious hits it would be all over the news or social media by now.

There's not really an awful lot that the Iranians are likely to be capable of that can hurt them in any meaningful way. Their military budget is bigger than something like the next ten nations combined. In much the same way as football, the biggest spenders tend to have the best capability.
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Reply		War in the Middle East
at 22:22 28 Feb 2026

Most Iranians I've come into contact with have all been Christians and would be opening up a bottle of something tasty to celebrate Khameni's demise. They've all been "genuine" refugees based on what I know about them.
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Reply		War in the Middle East
at 22:20 28 Feb 2026

I would be very surprised if the US forces have taken anything more than the odd scratch.
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Reply		War in the Middle East
at 21:37 28 Feb 2026

All for naught if there isn't an uprising. The timing still seems off to me. I know they have to move resources into place, but surely that could have been done last month?

There are also reports that the Iranian Govt is trying to close the Strait of Hormuz, although I'm not sure how they plan to do that. Any military attempt to do so would be quickly ended by one of the two carrier strike groups that the US has in the region.
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Reply		Ipswich Town v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 18:21 28 Feb 2026

"No player is hated"
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Reply		War in the Middle East
at 17:58 28 Feb 2026

First one or second one?

In the first the US encouraged certain groups to rise up against Saddam and then completely failed to back them so most got exterminated. In the second their biggest mistake was to disband the Iraqi army and various elite units in a rushed effort to "de Baathify" the country.

All that achieved was to spread their own troops too thin to keep order and generate a large number of unemployed locals with military training and a grudge against the occupying forces.
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Reply		Ipswich Town v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 16:17 28 Feb 2026

I remain unconvinced about using Stamenic as the deep lying midfield fulcrum too. He's good at a number of things, but he's just not quick enough on the ball, either passing it or running forward himself for me.

It's related to the Galbraith situation and our midfield in general really. We've struggled to get the mix right.
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Reply		Ipswich Town v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 16:07 28 Feb 2026

Didn't work Tuesday. Isn't working today.

Matos needs to rethink.
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Reply		Ipswich Town v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 15:46 28 Feb 2026

Both goals have come down our right hand side.

We lose more playing EG out of position and not where he can be effective than we risk by putting Key back in.
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Reply		Ipswich Town v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 15:05 28 Feb 2026

Decent finish. Piss poor clearance by Cabango.
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Reply		Ipswich Town v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 14:56 28 Feb 2026

Was hoping that the team starting the second half on Tue would start today.

Stamenic has waltzed straight back into the team and I'm far from sure that pushing Galbraith back into his natural position wasn't a better option.
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Reply		Ipswich Town v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 14:30 28 Feb 2026

We're going to have to manage Vipi's minutes until Idah is fit again so as little as I rate Cullen I can understand that call as necessary now and again.

Yalcouye has earned a start. Likewise Nunes. Widell is becoming increasingly valuable to the starting XI. Still think Key has probably earned enough trust for us to put Galbraith into midfield. Perhaps my only quibble.
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Reply		War in the Middle East
at 14:25 28 Feb 2026

You do have to wonder if the opportunity has been missed. Surely the best time to have done this was when the protests were at their height and before the Mullahs executed tens of thousands of people who might have contributed to a successful uprising?
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Reply		Cardiff City with big losses declared
at 06:50 27 Feb 2026

If it wasn't for Tan they'd have long ceased to exist.
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Reply		Swansea City v Preston North End : Match day thread
at 20:09 25 Feb 2026

I just think we got the midfield mix wrong. Fulton and Franco are both very good at what they do, but neither of them are really the kind of player to drive things forward. That left us with a massive gap between the midfield and the forward three (four if you include Walta) so he kept dropping deep to try and get some possession, which meant for the most part he wasn't where he needed to be when we actually did get forward.

I'd like to see him teamed up with Galbraith and Yalcouye. Second half we might have seen more from him.
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Reply		Preston North End and that Cullen header
at 15:02 25 Feb 2026

As OTT in its praise of Cullen as it is in it's criticism of Cabango and Burgess to be honest.

It was a decent flick header, but World Class Moment?

It was what Cullen is sometimes good at. Nicking a late goal. Shame about the rest of his game really.
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Reply		Swansea City v Preston North End : Match day thread
at 11:47 25 Feb 2026

Like most players at this level Viggy has weaknesses that mean he's not likely to be top level. As good as most people thought DeVries was the last time we went up there were weaknesses in his game that made him someone we'd have probably upgraded on whether he'd stayed or not. LV is in a similar category for me.

Good enough for us at the moment though. His attributes outweigh his weaknesses by some distance.
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Reply		Swansea City v Preston North End : Match day thread
at 10:10 25 Feb 2026

Agree on Eom's set pieces. Put several lovely balls over.

The stats are doing him a disservice.
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Reply		Swansea City v Preston North End : Match day thread
at 22:23 24 Feb 2026

That first half performance left us with too much to do.

Yalcouye and Nunes need to be starting. Key at RB too. Galbraith is wasted and a borderline risk there. Not sure what we wanted Walta to do and he didn't appear to know either. Wasn't nearly advanced enough if he was supposed to be the AM.

Much better second half though and just about deserved a draw overall.
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Reply		Snoop Dog
at 17:33 23 Feb 2026

Yep.

FWIW I don't think we'll get anything like that for front of shirt sponsorship, but even £2-3m would probably be a four fold increase on what we're getting now. Maybe more.
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