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"After so much hype, the SDR is a damp squib," he said.

Kicking under the new format feels more like “shanking” a kickoff than doing a squib kick, as Dicker put it.

Plaid Cymru previously called the report a "damp squib".

But as the nerves grew and the visitors became bolder, what should have been Villa's big night turned into a damp squib.

But earlier this month, MPs on the Treasury Committee branded these measures - dubbed the Edinburgh Reforms - "a damp squib".