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Reply | Keno's solution to the UK's problems
at 13:52 18 Sep 2025
Technocracies don’t work. The idea that some sort of neutral path exists that can be divined by a set of “leading lights” is basically what we’ve had for the last 40-50 years anyway. Or is all this despite industry leaders and “sensible” politicians.
Who gets to choose which politicians, industry leaders etc? It’s a centrist fantasy. |
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Thread | Has Jens got a clause in his contract
at 08:53 13 Sep 2025
Where he has to demonstrate a piece of skill that is 5 levels above the other players at least once per match? A ROLLS ROYCE.
Other observations from last night:
I think Hirst is getting a bit of unfair criticism. He was a PITA for the SU defenders all match, held the ball up well and showed a lovely bit of skill for his goal (as well as a blatant handball tbf, but f*** VAR).
Matusiwa is like having an extra player on the pitch, who tackles as well as any other defender.
Furlong can defend.
Jack Clarke is very good at chesting the ball. Having him and Philogene as leftsided options is frighteningly good.
Nunez is great fun and a hard b***ard. Would have gone crazy if the freekick had gone in.
Leif is quietly playing well.
Philogene is going to terrorise the league.
The Norwegian lad (as he is officially known) has some shot on him.
The central defence looks a bit – I don’t know: out of step? We’re also struggling to play out from the back still. Greaves does a good left winger impression though.
Thought SU were actually good, but watching the highlights their defending was somewhat sub-par. Fans kept going as well.
Ben Godfrey lolz.
Philogene’s fist pump after a win to the North Stand routine is a lot sweeter than Harry Clark’s. |
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Reply | Trump’s Oval Office speech after Charlie’s Kirk death is I’m afraid poor
at 11:21 11 Sep 2025
I couldn’t really care less what a supporter of a neo-Nazi considers a valid criticism of them. You’re not going to win them over in a discussion.
I do object to euphemistic phrases such as “effectively promoted an anti-progressive philosophy” though. He was a neo-Nazi. |
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Reply | Democracy in action?
at 18:37 9 Sep 2025
They’re now structured in such a way that it’ll be difficult to change.
The Labour Party is doing a politics that simply doesn’t exist now. It’s not just that things are moving rightward (or even leftward); I don’t think anyone really wants TINA and a government which basically says you can’t have nice things and government can’t do anything.
It’ll go the way of the Tories and other centre right parties. It’ll be one of the last to go as it’s propped up by FPTP. |
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Reply | Dear me... ive just seen some of the performers
at 09:56 8 Sep 2025
Beat me to it :-)
Writer of Ipswich, Get that Goal. Colin Viljoen arranged it (the recording, not the actual song) I believe. They're both South Africans.
Mutt Lange (what a spoonerific name!) went on to marry and divorce Shania Twain. |
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Reply | Reform v The Greens
at 13:43 7 Sep 2025
Agree with a lot of that, but think it’s unfair on young people.
Their family/traditional political choices have failed them completely, so it’s unsurprising they may look elsewhere,
It’s the older folk in Facebook groups who are responding to politicians lacking a moral compass.
Starmer’s Labour is more than happy to try and do soundbites and personalities. It’s just not very good at it. |
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Reply | Andy Burnham
at 09:37 6 Sep 2025
He’s done well as mayor in a strongly anti-Tory area – there are some good, local commonsense policies. For example, he recently he set low transport fares for teenagers. This is good, as anyone with a kid getting across town to college in Ipswich knows.
Manchester itself is like everywhere else, though. Beholden to huge business interests, gentrified in some areas, unchanged or decaying in others. Reform on the rise.
Another essentially centrist politician is not the answer to Labour’s problems. Although I’ll concede he’d be an improvement on Starmer, who has been an utter disaster. |
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Reply | 3 big challenges for McKenna
at 09:21 3 Sep 2025
1. I think it worked with Philogene out wide in the second half v Southampton, but yeah, Clarke is better cutting in from the left, and was effective against Derby.
2. Depends on whether it's Nunez or SS. I think we have enough trickery and linkupability elsewhere (Cajuste or one of JP or JC coming inside) for SS or the Norwegian lad to play there.
3. Ben Johnson is the standout for me, and has enough versalitlity to come inside if needs be.
But I guess it's good to have choices. Maybe KM will rotate a lot and mix it up more. |
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Reply | 3 consecutive seasons of promotion/relegation
at 20:11 1 Sep 2025
Yeah, that was some team, wasn’t it? We’ll always have the memories – I doubt Southampton at home will be bettered in my lifetime.
The new lot seem a nice enough bunch, tbf. |
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Thread | 3 consecutive seasons of promotion/relegation
at 20:05 1 Sep 2025
Obscene amounts of money in the PL and a couple of our younger players having a good season = a lot of churn – inevitably, I think.
Don’t get me wrong, I’d rather we had a core that had stayed more or less the same, but I think this is how most PL/yoyo teams operate now. Guess fans stay happy if the results follow. |
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Reply | Jack taylor
at 19:51 1 Sep 2025
We had 40,000 attacking midfielders and only 4 senior central midfielders, I guess.
I don’t think he’s played badly. Can play either role (or neither, depending how you look at it). |
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Reply | More Expressive Uppies and Downies
at 16:23 26 Aug 2025
As a fellow website manager, I couldn’t agree more with this. We’ve seen recently on here how posters can get stressed at the number of down votes they get, and only racist posters deserve that.
I guess if you really want to allow immediate feedback, a positive only option is one approach. So just thumbs up. |
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Reply | MAGA coming here.. perhaps it was inevitable
at 07:46 26 Aug 2025
The only thing I disagree with in that is about the Dems leaning “too left”. They were more “left” (and that’s very relative these days – part of the problem) in 2020, and won.
As we can see in the UK, trying to out-fascists fascists does not work. They start with marginalised groups – you don’t cede a thing a to them. |
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Reply | I don’t like our formation and never did.
at 15:45 19 Aug 2025
Dunno, served us pretty well over the years. Demoting Clarke and Philogene especially to subs to make room for Chaplin is certainly an interesting approach.
Looks like not-playing-433 (or 4312 or a formation where we’re allowed to field an extra player) will be the stick to beat KM with. Also expect it’ll be forgotten when we start winning.
Some PL teams play 4231 and seem to cope [shrug] |
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