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.

Yes, fires from lithium ion batteries can be put out, albeit not with water. The danger has likely been overstated by the usual vested interests. All the same, it would be best to avoid lithium, and there are alternatives. He's not taken seriously on this as it's not his area of expertise. I'm a linguist, but I have nothing worthwhile to say about the Japanese language. Why do you value his opinion over those who have dedicated their lives to climate science? What have Germany's failings got to do with any of the above? Whataboutery.

The poster used the data for one particularly dark, non-windy day when the data for an entire year was available. How is this not misleading? It's like claiming that Notts don't score many because Sam Slocombe hasn't scored yet. Coal is imported from abroad. In 2022, the UK became a net exporter of electricity for the first time in 44 years (source: Statista). On top of that, the UK is a very windy country with a very long coastline. We could literally lead the world in wind power, reducing our dependency on dodgy foreign regimes for fossil fuels and giving us cleaner air. It will be cheaper in the long run too! It's worth noting that power bills surged in the first place because we were overly dependent on Russia for gas. The same regime that is already being courted by Donald Trump. If we want to reduce our exposure, we need to become truly energy independent. Here's another reminder that the pages you've been sharing are financed by foreign oil companies that want us to keep paying for their oil! Batteries exist. Look up energy storage systems. Some former coal power stations are being repurposed as giant batteries so we can use excess energy in lean periods. David Bellamy is a botanist. Would you go to a doctor of law if you had a broken leg?

You're all conflating two issues here. Firstly, there's climate change. Companies with a vested interest in fossil fuels dedicate a lot of resources to lobbying and attempting to influence public opinion as this helps shore up their business. Net Zero Watch, which has been quoted on this thread, goes to great lengths to hide the sources of its funding, but we do know it has connections to the US oil industry. On the other side you have climate scientists, who have to disclose their funding and publish their findings in full for public scrutiny. Who do you trust to provide you with accurate information that isn't framed in a misleading way? A good example of misleading information is the post by @Robbie showing the power sources for a single November day. We all know why November was chosen and not May or July. That day has been dishonestly cherry-picked to show the lowest possible share of renewables in power generation. Viewed over a whole year, renewable sources contribute over 30% of UK energy. Secondly, there's net zero and how we get there. If we care about energy security (and we should), we need to remember that fossil and nuclear fuels are imported. The UK does not have any significant uranium deposits. Renewables are the only game in town and they need to be planned sensibly. Instead of denying climate change or spreading false claims about renewables put out there by vested interests, we need to be pushing politicians to make sure that the financial burden of this change isn't borne by those who are least able to pay for it - again!

I've just looked at their website. They look at clubs' financial statements, meaning that they refer to the 22/23 season at the latest. Financial sustainability is a key criterion. The figures refer to our last season in the NL. A lot of our fans like to talk about sustainability, but there was nothing sustainable about how the club was run at that time as we were dependent on receiving a seven-figure sum from the brothers to cover costs. This was done in the form of loans, which will also have seen us marked down. As a sustainability index it might have some merit. None of this means we aren't a well-run club though, and equating the findings to this season for clickbait reasons is pointless. You're not comparing like for like. For example, Morecambe were two divisions higher than us in 22/23, which means they were receiving a lot of extra Football League and TV money. It's a lot easier to cover your costs with that coming in.

The predicting continues at 3pm on Saturday. Remember your jokers and good luck! Blackpool v Northampton Town Stockport County v Wrexham Accrington Stanley v Swindon Town Barrow v AFC Wimbledon Bromley v Carlisle United Braintree Town v AFC Fylde Hartlepool United v Eastleigh Yeovil Town v Halifax Town

As I discovered on the internet today (which we all know is never wrong), we have lost a total of 1,950 league games, which is more than any other club. Barnsley and Grimsby are next on the list with about 30 fewer, albeit from not as many FL seasons. Unfortunately, we've been a bit rubbish for a very long time. Perversely, I feel a bit of pride in this as it means we've A) been around for a very long time and B ) we've been punching above our weight for a fair part of it. What do we do if we hit 2,000 first? Have a party to drown our sorrows?

That's rather smug. In the Germany I live in, over 90% of the fire brigade is manned by volunteers.

All of a sudden I like him a lot better. He needs to be reinstated and officiating Florist matches forthwith.

@Wheelbarrow repair man Our first meeting with Villa after the war was in April 1920, when we were beaten 3-1. But in the return match at Meadow Lane just a week later we beat them 2-1, so Jack Miller was right!

What on earth does this have to do with anything? Some people just have to shoehorn in their agenda wherever they go.