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Only if they stick to the rules.

You don't know that.

Is getting a top half finish with Lens really a great achievement?

This. Would be a weird appointment, has he actually achieved anything?

I guess it depends on what Saints can offer compared to Coventry, if it's a massive difference in terms of salary and money to spend on the squad he might see it as a good opportunity. He's got a patchy record but Coventry played some decent stuff last night, looked like a well coached outfit. Plus I think having a 'name' might be a benefit us in our current situation.

Except "Every single election in my lifetime has been decided based on personalities. "

Except elections are 100% a popularity contest.

No strikers and 5 shit defenders at the back, this could get really messy.

I’m in. I’d rather my tax went to asylum seekers than scrounging, entitled northerners. Even if they are economic migrants, which most are not, at least they are showing a bit of get-up and go instead of blaming all life’s ills on people who don’t look like them.

I dunno, I think it was more to do with Labour in general looking like the more competent party. I expect they could have wheeled out almost anyone as leader and still won. Starmer’s lack of personality probably cost them votes.

Because there was no problem with small boats until after Brexit, before that we could just send them back to the first EU country they arrived at.

And is now a very good tourist attraction which I expect actually makes money. Went there a few years ago and was impressed with how they made an interesting experience out of something that is not even that old. The bloke is just a complete loon.

If they were that concerned about small boats they should have asked him when and why the small boat problem started.

Agree with this. Surely if a club our size is going to copy a playing style it should look at the Leicester side that won the league as an example of how to punch above your weight in this league. They never had a lot of possession and were strong on the counter attack. We were the perfect storm of shit players playing an open style, probably made worse by the fact that all the other clubs have spent years facing Man City so when we try and do the same thing with Smallbone n co, playing against us was the easiest thing in the world.

I dunno, taking off Fernandes who is probably our only outfield Prem quality player and replacing him with Smallbone deserves criticism.

Man City, Arsenal and Everton away - we could easily concede more than 12 in those.

Smallbone surely?

What sort of cunt takes off Fernandes for Smallbone?

Agree with this, though the oldies winter payments thing was handled badly. I get why they wanted to make the unpopular decisions early but doing it so soon after the election just made them look too dishonest. I guess only time will tell if it was the right decision, being unpopular now doesn’t matter, it’s only what people think in four years time that counts.

To be fair they have spent money, just not done it very well. This could very much be out of the frying pan into the fire.

I disagree. If you are fleeing war or persecution you are a refugee regardless of where you decide to seek asylum. That is just a fact. How you get somewhere and wether it is legal or not also doesn’t change that fact IMO.

The 1951 Refugee Convention does not require a person to claim asylum in the first safe country they reach so you are just talking shite as usual.

I agree that economic migrants arriving here illegally should be sent back, absolutely. The fact that they are mainly young males doesn’t necessarily mean they are all economic migrants though, could just be because they are more able and willing to make what is a difficult and dangerous journey.

You can want asylum seekers to be treated humanely and fairly without wanting to share your home with strangers. I don’t have a problem with my tax being used to pay for an asylum system that is fit for purpose, I don’t expect anyone to have to give up rooms in their own home. Is that pious enough?

Cooper makes the most sense to me. Leeds and Burnley both hired managers with experience of promotion out of the Championship and it worked for them.