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Can't see anything other than a bournemouth win by 3 or 4.

My line would be somewhere below gay cakes and above genocide promotion, but then my beliefs are not based on a centuries old work of fiction. My point was not that the law is wrong, more that the winners of the court battle are a bunch of homophbic arse holes. The guy who sued them is probably also a bit of a nob as Turkish suggests but maybe he’s just fed up of homophobic attitudes and was just trying to make a point.

I have no respect for homophobic views, wether they are religious or not. The bakers were not being asked to support gay marriage, they were providing a service for a person for a cost. It would have been supporting the cause if they did it for free or were asked to put their logo next to the message. The cake, and the message on the cake was Mr Lee's. I have worked in the creative industry my whole career. I have worked on many things I have not agreed with and certainly don't support. Advertising campaigns, websites or brochures for political parties, campaigns, businesses and religious I dislike or don't agree with. **** me I have even done work for Portsmouth FC - I guess that makes me a Portsmouth supporter? I my opinion the bakers showed a lack of respect to the customer and they were happy to do that because they are homophobic. Whilst the legal decision was correct (nobody should be forced to print a message they dislike) I find sad that in this day and age it needed to come to this.

I agree that legally it is correct but I don’t see why a victory for a bunch of homophobic nut jobs is cause for celebration.

If someone wanting a cake supporting Sharia law or the death penalty the bakers should just respect the fact that people have different views and bake the ****ing cake. As long as there is nothing offensive or illegal on there what’s the issue? They are not being asked to agree with any cause just to bake a cake. The religious idiots should just chill out. Jesus would have baked the guys cake - good will to all men, love thy neighbour and all that.

As a point of law it’s correct but I can’t see what’s worth celebrating about it. Bunch of backward religious bigots get to alienate a section of the community - great. I don’t get the issue, if you don’t agree with gay marriage - don’t marry a gay. Not sure how other gay people marrying effects them in any way whatsoever. I find the homophobia in Christianity disgusting.

Not sure what it’s a victory for, religious bigots? Just bake the gay’s cake FFS.

It’s no necessarily the amount of money, it’s just this “strategy” we have that stops us getting players that AFC Bournemouth can get. The aim every summer should be to have the best players as possible within the budget for the start of that season, sure, ideally you want players who will increase in value and make a profit on but that shouldn’t be the aim.

And there you have it, the reason we are sh!t, in a nutshell.

I'd give Hughes until the next international break. We've got Bournemouth and Man City away, Watford and Newcastle at home. Need to be getting 5-6 points from those or give him the shove. I'm not convinced anyone will be able to do very much better with our squad but there comes a point when it's worth a roll of the dice - the last thing we need to do is leave it too late like last year's shambles. We need an inspired appointment plus serious action in the January window IMO.

But at the Mayflower the chances of being entertained are pretty good.

This says it all, we survived by the skin of our teeth last season yet Ings aside have just made the team worse by flogging Tadic.

True but that was just because we got rid of the PLC and fell on our feet with Marcus. Get relegated now and we go from being a Prem club with a sh!t owner to being a skint championship club with a sh!t owner.

COULD... IF.... Surely that's only news if they actually find grounds to apply sanctions. Otherwise it's just a non-story to make people like you p!ss their pants because the words 'Corbyn' and 'Hamas" are in the same sentence.

I did hear a rumour that Bruce was a target a while ago during one of our previous manager searches, was told he is good friends with Reed. Have no idea wether it’s true or not.

I don’t get all the hatred for the workshy, sure it’s irritating that some people don’t pull their weight but I just pity them, it seems like a right sh!tty existence to me. Those who are comparatively well off who get really angry at them just come across as people who hate their jobs. All they have to look forward to is their pay cheque at the end of the month so their blood boils when the see the money out in the tax column. Most benefits get paid to people who need them and any one of us might need to fall back on them one day, I doubt there are that many on the take. Not enough to effect my life, certainly not enough to get angry about or vote for a party who makes life harder for most vulnerable.

The Tories have made a complete mess of the whole thing, it took them 2 years to come up with Chequers and they still can't agree on it. Their internal politics could cause a right mess for the country.

To be fair "associated with", "once talked to", "sat next to", "laid a wreath quite near" are all supposedly incriminating when laying the boot into Corbyn.

Yeah but he was sniffing about for quite a while before he actually became owner, failing the fit and proper test etc. NO doubt it created uncertainty and hindered investment.

It has all gone pear shaped since Gao got involved. Unless something changes at the top it's a case of when not if we get relegated. Not sure if protesting will make any difference though.

No chance of him leaving Bournemouth for us whilst they are in the Prem.

I doubt he would want to come here, not with our owner situation.

I think personel wise we are. Two good keepers plus Lurch if there is a crisis, decent full backs with OK cover, 4 OK centre backs to choose from plus Hoot. Defensive midfield is not that weak. With a bit of organisation what we have should easily be enough to keep us up - Puel went half a season with Stephens and Yoshida at the back and kept us defensively sound - those two can't even make the team.

Can’t agree with that, our squad is a mess. Defensively we’re OK but we are so short of creativity going forward. We were poor in that area last season and all we have done is get rid of Tadic and Boufal and replaced them with poorer alternatives. We havn’t even stood still, we’ve gone backwards, and that’s a dangerous game to play when you’ve stayed up by the skin of your teeth.

We desperately lacked creativity last year so what did we go and do? Flog our most creative player. Armstrong looks way out of his depth, if he was Prem standard he would have looked like Messi playing for Celtic in their league. Mo might turn out to be decent but looks like he will take time to get used to the Prem. **** knows what options we will have if Redmond gets injured, Davis? JWP? Niether of them have the pace or skills to cause problems at this level. Reed needs to go, to end up within the creative options we have after the money he has had to play with is criminal. How much exactly did we waste on Boufal and Carrillo? Clubs our size can’t afford to **** that sort of money away.