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Thread | Tyler Morton
at 18:31 3 Feb 2025
Could be off to Boro. Sort of player I thought we could possibly go in for. |
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Thread | Farage is a far right loon
at 08:18 22 Jun 2024
Stating the obvious, I know, but there's been a few people on here who have scoffed at the idea that Farage is far right so it's worth restating. The takeaways from his interview last night are here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cldd44zv3kpo
The line about protecting our culture, values, and identity from migrants - very much suggesting they are a threat to our way out of life - is straight out of the 1920s and 30s fascist playbook. It's also boll0cks. What Farage considers to be our culture, values, and identity looks very different from what most Brits would consider to be our values, culture, and identity.
He explained why he said he admired Putin, and it's basically because Putin has successfully seized power and become a de facto dictator. That's right, he thinks being a dictator makes someone an admirable politician. He admires the political savvy of someone whose political opponents end up dead or in jail.
Related to the above, he's parroted Putin's defence for invading Ukraine. He will happily side with authoritarian leaders he sympathises with overseas over his own country and its allies. Anyone who thinks this guy wouldn't have had a swastika up in his living room in the 1930s is kidding themselves.
Then there's the climate denialism, the disavowal of any responsibility for his party attracting candidates who are openly racist, supporting candidates who have said openly racist things (including some rank antisemitism in the last day or so).
He's a vile scumbag with very dangerous views that he barely masks beneath a veneer of being an 'old school' Englishman who just loves a pint and a joke about darkies and poofs, and where's the harm in that? The harm is all around us from the last time this grifter was given a platform over and over again despite being a liar and unfit for public life. Now we're giving him oxygen to play to people's base fears and prejudices all over again. [Post edited 22 Jun 2024 8:27]
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Thread | Reverting to the culture wars
at 08:03 3 Jun 2024
After a pretty terrible start to their election campaign, it seems the Tories are retreating to their safe space of culture war nonsense: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0kkvkkejgno
Depressing how trans people, asylum seekers, and those on benefits matter so little to people in power that they are happy to use them for nothing other than to try and score political points. |
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Thread | Gnonto, Summerville, Rutter, Piroe
at 21:41 16 May 2024
Pause a moment and consider the quality of Leeds' attacking four tonight, then the likes of Dan James on the bench as well. What a fantastic achievement it was from us to see this Leeds team off after 46 games, despite effectively giving them a 6 point headstart on us. Incredible feat from the boys. |
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Thread | Article on Omari in The Athletic this morning
at 08:02 8 May 2024
Potted highlights:
- He's already back at Chelsea so they can take a look, and likely to go on their preseason tour in July (booooo).
- He has genuine affection for the club and loves McKenna which could go in our favour but is no guarantee.
- He already has other loan suitors from the Prem.
- Although Chelsea need to raise funds they think it's unlikely they'll sell when his potential is so high, although may depend on whether a new deal can be agreed (12 months left with an option for a further 12 months).
- Has a lot of traffic ahead of him at Chelsea and for England which may influence his decision making, not likely to want to be a squad player or bench warmer after the season he's had.
Not necessarily loads that we didn't know there. Does feel like one where Omari himself potentially has a fair bit of influence, if he isn't interested in a new deal at Chelsea as he doesn't see a path to the first team there then it almost forces them to sell, or at least consider offers. I imagine if he's out on loan again, he'll get to choose the destination and that could work in our favour. |
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Thread | That run of 9 wins from 10
at 08:52 5 May 2024
Think that ultimately broke Leeds and Southampton. I remember back when we had our blip and Leeds and Saints were in insane runs many people were talking about us missing out on the top 6 and settling for the play offs at best. I was saying that it had taken monumental runs from Leeds and Saints, in both cases largely against some of the weaker teams, to catch us up and it would be hard to sustain.
When we responded to our own poor run by winning 9 out of 10 games, capped off by beating Saints at PR, I genuinely think that broke Leeds and Southampton. This was alluded to slightly by Russell Martin yesterday when he spoke about the runs they and Leeds had gone on and it still wasn't enough. Imagine doing what those two sides did over a period of 3 or 4 months of insane form and still finding yourself behind us because we refused to lay down and die. Psychologically and physically sustaining that form indefinitely wasn't possible for either of them and that enabled us to come out on top.
Big shout out to the platform we built up to mid December of course, it was because of that we were very hard to catch, but that bounce back from us in February and March was what really finished the other contenders off.
Love this team, love our manager and his staff. Uppa Towen. |
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Thread | Chambo
at 08:17 15 Apr 2024
Good to see him get some recognition at the EFL awards last night for his services to the EFL. As he said himself, he captained every side he played for. Natural leader who made the most of the ability he had and gave 100% for the team and the club. Top lad. |
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Thread | Anyone know.....
at 14:33 29 Mar 2024
.....what happened in the Leicester game? Can't see any mention of it on here. |
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Thread | Any normal season
at 11:50 18 Mar 2024
And 4 wins from our last 8 games would see us finishing very comfortably in 2nd place (likely with a game or two to spare) and in with a sniff of the title. This season is nuts. We may have ended the banter era, but we still don't half have some ropey luck. |
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Thread | Keep the faith
at 16:13 18 Feb 2024
I've seen a lot of people comment when last season's epic run in is mentioned that doing it at this level will be really, really tough, and that is of course correct. Worth noting though that our first 14 games this season yielded 11 wins, 2 draws, and 1 defeat for a total of 35 points. Match that again at the end of the season and we'll finish on 101 points and I'd be staggered if that's not enough for second place. It's going to be hard, we've got some tricky fixtures to come, but our experience of going on extended runs to close out the season coupled with the confidence that we can do so at this level will be a huge plus psychologically over the coming months. |
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Thread | Hull
at 11:00 2 Feb 2024
How are they not going to fall foul of FFP? They've gone pretty big in both the summer and January windows, they are bottom half for average attendances and they don't have parachute payments. Unless there is some highly creative accounting going on, I can't see how they are going to get within the permitted losses. |
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