Happy Friday troops.
Listen, it’s another defeat, at home and ultimately we’re very poor at the back. I will once again revert to the fact I feel we’re missing 3 key players at the back. Julien got a lot of unwarranted criticism after the game against Killie but he’s been a massive miss, he organises the back line and he’s very rarely beaten in the air.
Let’s also address the elephant in the room, Shane Duffy. Awful, just an awful start for him. He was poor against Rangers and he was poor last night. He looks short of confidence, nowhere near the player I’ve seen play for Ireland or even in the Premiership. I’m hoping once Biton, Julien and El Hammed are back he’ll settle down as he’s hopeless bringing the ball out from the back.
But and this is what impressed me last night. I didn’t see a team not playing for the manager, a team lacking in energy, ideas or quality. I watched a Celtic side get their head out their erse and play some right flucking good football against the side top of Seria A, whilst still missing key players.
Tom Rogic and Ryan Christie were a breath of fresh air when they came on but Diego Laxalt gets the MOTM for me, terrific display and he’s going to be a terrific signing. I can see why Milan didn’t want to let us have an option to buy.
Anyway, into Sunday with a bit of confidence now.
Team for me would be what we finished with, minus Greg Taylor.
Barkas
Frimpong
Duffy
Ajer
Laxalt
Ntcham
McGregor
Christie
Rogic
Elyounoussi
Ajeti.
Edouard and Griffiths off the bench.
Send it on troops.
Encouraging signs at least
posted on 23/10/20
comment by Silver (U6112)
posted 2 minutes ago
No comment but a piece that landed in my inbox.
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The notion that each human life has a financial value is, to many, barbaric. But valuing life is crucial in policy-making, nowhere more so than in determining healthcare spending and safety regulations. For example, in 1972, a US taskforce set up to help regulate the automobile industry put a life’s worth at $885,000. That figure prompted the US Department of Transportation to reject regulation to install bars at the rear of lorries to prevent passenger vehicles from sliding underneath them in a collision – they reasoned it would not be cost effective, as the price of installation would have exceeded the value of lives saved. The bars became a legal requirement in 1998 when the Department of Transportation’s value of a life reached $2.5m.
In the UK, the life value assigned by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) is slightly more nuanced. Nice values human life based on life years, rather than lives saved and – prior to coronavirus – approved treatments if the cost per life year saved was less than £20,000. That means that older people who have already enjoyed more of their life should be lower priority for treatment approvals than sick children who have most of their life still to come. The policy also acknowledges the important and often overlooked concept that life-saving is only ever temporary and healthcare interventions should be about prolonging life rather than saving it.
But Covid-19 seems to have thrown Nice’s decision-making out of the water. Estimates suggest that the government’s extra expenditure during the pandemic and the average age of patients who have needed the most treatment means the value of each British life per year has rocketed to £180,000 in 2020. That kind of expenditure would have been justified if the UK had faced roughly 20m life years lost. But it has not. Indeed, the mean age of death for the disease is 85 years – four years more than the average life expectancy of the UK.
The expenditure seems all the more excessive when compared with treatment approvals for other illnesses, for which Nice has stuck to its threshold. For example, the organisation recently rejected funding for asthma medicine Dupixent – which has been proved to reduce asthma exacerbations for patients aged 12 years or older – on the grounds that it is too expensive.
There’s a certain irony in that decision-making. Chronic respiratory illness is a major risk factor for coronavirus and asthma exacerbations can lead to severe respiratory complications and hospitalisation. Should we not be helping keep as many asthma sufferers out of hospital by providing them with the medicine that will reduce the likelihood of an attack?
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I’ve mentioned this before where the “value” of a life was at a “maximum” of £35k and drops depending on age and life expectancy after treatment.
posted on 23/10/20
I wouldn’t play N’tcham against Aberdeen. I would rather either Turnbull or Soro were given a chance.
posted on 23/10/20
Grim.
posted on 23/10/20
Rudey Giuliani is some whanker btw
posted on 23/10/20
comment by MaHeed'sNippin aka I’m the competent Wullie Collum (U3633)
posted 6 minutes ago
I wouldn’t play N’tcham against Aberdeen. I would rather either Turnbull or Soro were given a chance.
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Good to know
I think Ntcham was one of our best players last night
Especially after brown departed
posted on 23/10/20
I think a bed emergency is when they need beds but they’re all full.
But I’m just guessing.
posted on 23/10/20
comment by BB⁷ (U13430)
posted 6 minutes ago
Rudey Giuliani is some whanker btw
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Watching that tonight. Very excited about it.
As I am about the movie.
posted on 23/10/20
https://twitter.com/BoratSagdiyev/status/1319431436550561792?s=20
posted on 23/10/20
comment by PointyBirds (U21890)
posted 8 minutes ago
I think a bed emergency is when they need beds but they’re all full.
But I’m just guessing.
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Thought it was when they had ran out of bed pans.
Order the she-wee.
posted on 23/10/20
comment by My POV (U10636)
posted 7 minutes ago
comment by PointyBirds (U21890)
posted 8 minutes ago
I think a bed emergency is when they need beds but they’re all full.
But I’m just guessing.