DangerousSausage

Luton Town 0-1 Hull City West Bromwich Albion 2-2 Norwich City Huddersfield Town 2-1 Charlton Athletic Peterborough United 1-1 Reading AFC Wimbledon 2-1 Walsall (joker) Chesterfield 1-1 Barrow Boston United 0-1 Braintree Town Tamworth 1-2 Dagenham & Redbridge

Time to dust off your crystal balls - these matches all kick off at 3pm on Saturday, and you get a joker each. Good luck! Luton Town v Hull City West Bromwich Albion v Norwich City Huddersfield Town v Charlton Athletic Peterborough United v Reading AFC Wimbledon v Walsall Chesterfield v Barrow Boston United v Braintree Town Tamworth v Dagenham & Redbridge

Ladies and gentlemen, the results: Blackpool 0-0 Northampton Town Stockport County 1-0 Wrexham Accrington Stanley 2-2 Swindon Town Barrow 1-3 AFC Wimbledon Bromley 1-1 Carlisle United Braintree Town 1-0 AFC Fylde Hartlepool United 0-0 Eastleigh Yeovil Town 0-1 Halifax Town --- Here are this round's scores. Congratulations to @Megan_Elizax for winning the round and @CliftonMagpie on being the only player to land their joker on the Stockport - Wrexham match! --- In our leaderboard, @ARLukomski and @thommo chip away at @super_ram's lead, while @Megan_Elizax jumps three places... --- The next round is on Saturday, so the fixtures for that should be online on Wednesday as usual. Thanks for playing and let the banter begin!

If the Daily Express warns of the incoming apocalypse, this usually means it'll be a bit cold for a few days so don't wear your shorts. It's staying below 3 degrees for a few days though, so we could well see some snow.

If any of you have any tips, I'm all ears! I usually buy them at Morrison's for convenience. I usually bring a pack home with me, but last year I made my own for the first time. My work colleague provided the filling, but I made the pastry myself and it was incredible, absolutely perfect. A complete fluke as I had no idea what I was doing. As if to tempt fate, I'll try again this year. So any tips as to good ready-made mince pie filling would be appreciated too! Can I have yours?

A disappointing day. I don't think we played badly, but we rarely looked like scoring. The injury list really hurt us today. It's annoying to concede from our own corner. The penalty wasn't one - Bogle couldn't decide whether he was going to have a shot or try to dink it around Platt and ended up tripping himself up. Platt just stood his ground. It was quite clear it wasn't a foul even watching it first time, and the referee was in the perfect position. It gave us a real uphill struggle in a phase in which we were struggling to create chances anyway. Crewe certainly weren't anything special, but they were hard working and well organised off the ball and took their chances when they came. Sometimes that's all you need.

He should have let him past rather than playing 87 minutes on a yellow. Feels like an accident waiting to happen.

Keep doing this @Fan of Big Tone. I've just noticed that the post now has more than 500 views, so don't think that nobody cares! My gran died recently and I have other family members with severe health issues, so I've lacked the mental and emotional capacity for football and PON this week. But I'm feeling OK today and looking forward to watching the match later on, PiesPlayer permitting! I'm also visiting the UK from next Thursday but won't be at the Newport match as I'd originally hoped. Apart from that stuff, I've been spending more time on Stardew Valley as it's so soothing. Does anyone else here keep a farm? Get well soon @super_ram. A friend of mine was off work for a long time with the brain fog, but it does get better eventually. Just don't rush yourself. @Robbie and @Chris, I've noticed how much UK stamps cost now. Bonkers. I think it might be because Royal Mail's (declining) letter business was split off from their (highly profitable and booming) parcel business and is struggling to pay for itself. A stamp costs 85 cents here depending on the size of the letter, so that's half the price. It might even arrive if you're lucky! Parcels here cost the same as in the UK, but in the UK you can frank them online and save money. But anyway, I'm going to buy a heap of charity cards next week and hand them out in person, as I'm too tight to pay for stamps!

This is going to be a tough test. We've drawn three of our last five and so have Crewe, so I could imagine the honours being shared again today.

Got another one. - Smoke bombs and pyrotechnics in football grounds. Chucking smoke bombs on the pitch is chavvy behaviour and it's about time that trend died a death. - Related to that, pyro. In Germany, pyrotechnics aren't allowed in football grounds. This has led to a kind of arms race among ultra groups, which try to outdo each other with ever bigger fireworks displays, costing their clubs hundreds of thousands of euros in fines. As well as being dangerous and expensive, lighting up bengalos is lame and low-effort compared to the tifos and displays ultras became known for. - Related to that, ultras (or at least most of them). The good ones that make an effort to get the rest of the crowd going can stay. The ones that spend all game droning through an obscure song to the tune of Big Big Girl while the rest of the crowd looks on in bored silence can go. You're not the greatest fans just because you're waving flags.

If people called me by my user name, I'd be tempted to rename myself DangerousSausagecanIbuyyouadrink

Good decision, he needs game time at this stage of his career and we've got a lot of competition in midfield this season. He sounds very promising by all accounts. Hope he manages to kick on and put himself in contention for a first 11 spot with us.

Blackpool 1-1 Northampton Town Stockport County 1-2 Wrexham Accrington Stanley 2-0 Swindon Town (joker) Barrow 1-3 AFC Wimbledon Bromley 1-1 Carlisle United Braintree Town 0-1 AFC Fylde Hartlepool United 1-0 Eastleigh Yeovil Town 2-1 Halifax Town

This is what I mean by dishonest cherry-picking. Day-ahead prices vary widely even within a single day. This makes it very easy to find a chart that fits your agenda. On 29 September this year, day-ahead electricity prices in the UK ranged from €55 to €139 per MWh (source), nowhere near the €200+ shown on that chart. The prices were at the level shown only briefly on 29 September 2023 and for nearly all of 29 September 2022, so that chart is at least a year old, more likely two given the heading. If wholesale prices are falling year-on-year, this also doesn't support the claim that prices are spiking. There's nothing wrong with the graph itself. However, the spike in prices happened in 2022, which we all know had nothing to do with renewables. It is also missing the crucial context that it shows a brief snapshot within a single day probably two years ago. I'm not going to address the claims by known climate change denier Andrew Neil, but it's telling that the voices telling us that climate change is a conspiracy and we should just belch loads of CO2 into the atmosphere like there's no tomorrow are idealogues and/or are mysteriously funded, Tufton Street-based organisations with their strings pulled by the fossil fuel industry. I'm bowing out of this now before someone quotes Donald Trump or somebody. But here's one last thought: there is loads and loads of information on this topic, from impartial sources that tell you where their data is from. Why rely on the Daily Mail to tell you what to think?

He made his ill-founded comments in 2005. I remember him being on TV constantly in the 1980s and 90s, but he continued to get gigs in 2009, when he was pushing 80. David Bellamy lectures were held at Buckingham Palace in 2013 and 2014, when his denialist views were well known. A real thorn in the side of the establishment then. It is absolutely a failing. Germany (and communist East Germany before it) has been mining this stuff for decades, not as a response to recent events. It is notoriously polluting and inefficient, with a much lower energy density than bituminous coal, meaning you need much more coal to get the same amount of energy. A few companies make a lot of money out of mining it though. Germany was highly exposed by the loss of Russian gas due to the complacency of the previous CDU government and had to take emergency measures. That's not the same as a long-term strategy. Regarding that link, the Daily Sceptic is a conspiracy platform with alleged ties to the fossil fuel industry and that became well known for spreading lies about covid. They are trying to con you. Accurate and transparent information is there if you wish to find it.