CB Fry

If you're going to dismiss Trevor Phillips as someone with an "agenda to promote" (equality of opportunity/social cohesion/the end of racial discrimination - how awful) then I heartily look forward to the next spokesman/representative you lean on or quote here.

Trevor Phillips has a long and proud record fighting racial hatred and inequality driven by racial discrimination so I'm happy to have him on my side of the debate, whatever that is. I bet he's been to a nativity play or two as well. Sent from my GT-I9505 using Tapatalk

That's a no, then.

What's "my side of the argument"? The fact that you need someone on a web forum to confirm a number you've already seen is the odd thing. That survey has a sample comparable to any survey run by any research agency and used a face-to-face interview methodology so is as representative amd thorough as you'll get for any survey on anything outside of the census or an election which of course are themselves narrow in scope. But because it doesn't spoonfeed your opinions straight back to you, you've already sneerily dismissed the sample as 'mere'. Try opening your mind a little and steering clear of the obvious kneejerk, would be my advice.

Pick a news report about the survey in your paper of choice - from The Guardian and the Independent to the Express and the Mail, or the BBC website if you like - and the information is there. You think all those various news agencies reporting a simple figure is "notoriously unreliable" then gawd knows how you even get out of bed in the morning. The fact that you've already said the number makes the fact you are "asking a question" even more weird.

Why do I need to confirm or deny anything about the survey. You've clearly been reading about it too, so find out for yourself.

I can confirm that Trevor Phillips, the production team at Channel Four and the editorial team at the Sunday Times have all been seen eating Easter Eggs over the last couple of weeks, which makes them, unquestionably, Christians. Christians, I tell you, Christians. You'd think they'd stop after the Nazis what they definitely done but now this.

I'd recommend you try and read his analysis of the report that was in the Sunday Times yesterday, it goes some way of kibosh in the idea that it us just the old folk who don't integrate and there is no sign that the next generation are necessarily going to assimilate. It is, unfortunately, appearing to be more complicated than that. Unfortunately it doesn't go into pages and pages of detail about every bad thing every Christian has ever done in the history of the earth so I imagine the entire piece of work will be dismissed by you and the other idiot on here.

There is not a box big enough for these frogs. Absolutely mental.

If Everton lose away at Palace mid-week, they'll be bottom five come Saturday. I'd imagine the crowd may not be best pleased with their current standing, so if we get off to a good start we could properly rachet up the pressure on Martinez. And rightly so - where they are now is atrocious for a team with a thirty million quid striker on the books. He needs a decent end to the season or he is out the door - he's been "given time" to use the magic phrase and they've got worse and worse.

Imagine telling an Arsenal fan in August that they would be above City, United, Chelsea and Liverpool in mid-April. They'd be over the moon.

But it doesn't really make any difference. If Manchester United lose every single match from now until the end of the season then Liverpool and West Ham and Chelsea and Stoke can all be in contention for 6/7th too. We need to worry about what we do. We haven't been close to being good enough to be above Man U (or to finish sixth) all season - we need to improve, not aimlessly hope that everyone around us loses every match they play.

Liverpool are pretty certain to end the season on a good run to send the scousers (and the media) into hype-factor 1000 for next season. I'd love us to do it but I think they will overtake us with those extra games.

And just to prove I am a hypocrite, I am delighted by Stoke getting stuffed as it helps us in our mission to achieve our first objective of top eight.

Us finishing sixth will require us to go on an unbelievable run between now and the end of the season - with that in mind it's a bit of a waste of time just wishing for the likes of Man U to lose all the time because obviously they aren't going to. We'll need to earn sixth under our own steam. No one is going to give it to us.

That reads like a wind up to me.

Ah, fair enough - if it was Palace then yes they would have only just come up, they'd never managed to retain a Premier League until Pulis kept them up last year.

Yes. It has definitely happened in the Premier League era, and I think I might be right in saying it happened when we went down. Why? I would like Leicester to win the League so quite happy if Man United won today.

I think you didn't actually read my post. I'm quite aware what "to some extent" means, as my reply, which you quoted and didn't read makes very clear. Attacking players will get closed down, marked, stopped, hassled, deprived of space and all the rest of it by better defenders in the Premier League than in the Championship. That's kinda how it works. The rest is fiction in your head. I'd take a team with the strongest central defenders and defensive midfielders from the top flight and you build one from the Championship. My first, second, third, fourth and fifth choice line ups would still be stronger, more agreessive, a quicker and better than the creme de la creme of the Championship. That's what "to no extent" means. Did you read it in my post? As for your musings and thoughts, only a total idiot muses that we would only win one game between January and season end. It obviously wasn't going to happen, it was a utterly moronic thing to even muse but at the time you were adamant it was a possibility. It's only now, now the supreme obviousness of your rank stupidity is evident, and you're trying to play it off as a mere thought. My advice is to listen to me more, I can point out where you are clueless and you can take the opportunity to learn something.

This guy knew what he was talking about three and a half years ago.

How is it "to some extent it is tougher playing in the rough and tumble of the Championship" -entirely your words. Let me make it really easy for you. At no level, to no extent, on no scale, on no measure, on no metric is the Championship "tougher" than the Premier League. Not at all, for any style of football, for any given team, for any match. It ain't difficult to comprehend that you don't have a fu cking clue. But in January you were musing we'd only win one more game and as a result Newcastle could finish above us. Laughable. If you don't want to be seen as clueless, don't write the utter guff you do.

I thought the horsesh it about how "the Championship is, like, actually harder than the Premier League when you, like, think about it" was dead and buried several seasons ago but it's great to see some utter dins on this forum still parroting it.

"Excuses" for what? It's the Gastonettes who continually make excuses for him. He has proven, conclusively, that he is not good enough for us. Not good enough.

The club and Koeman will resolve the situation. The club won't just sit on their hands and do nothing because that's what Ronald did at other clubs so lets just let him do whatever he wants.

Just remind me how many of those managers had a year-long farewell tour. No.