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A nearly one for Forest there. McCarthy holds onto it.

Adams needing to take that touch...

Do they test out the little stick thing on him before hand?! It would be a bit awkward in front of the watching billions if, on the day, the little stick thing told the archbishop that Chuck wasn't the chosen one by a god. Mind you, there would definitely be a TV show to find the actual chosen one. And once found, they'd have to ascend to the throne in the traditional way, by slaughtering all their opponents.

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Evidence

wow. I wish I had one of those TVs that sees into a parallel universe. 🙂

We can perform badly? hopelessly? uselessly? cluelessly? definitely a missing word in there. 🙂

I swa GS first and thought Gordon Strachan. Currently technical director at a club who are already topping the Championship! Well, Dundee in the Scottsh Championship, but still... 🙂

Selles has shown that cliches like tracksuit managers are a thing of the past. He brings versatility while still providing consistency; a potent combination. Whether it's long coat, tracksuit, jacket or suit, Selles manages to deliver defeat. I will be disapointed if our future manager does not utilise an extensive wardrobe on the touchline. 🙂

Such a good thread. Such an appalling team that's being tracked by it. >sigh<

Rasmus: Now, I am the master. Les: Only a master of powerpoint, Rasmus. Rasmus: The power cable into your Black Box is weak old man. Les: Yet still able to run a decent game of Football Manager, which we based our recruitment on. Rasmus: You should not have come back. My xG is much higher than yours. Just let me know when shooting starts... no, the series, the series...! 🙂

The power of a spreadsheet against the mystery of The Black Box!

Les Reed is now 70. Club connections, and following his time with Charlton, will have a point to prove, passing the Rasmus Test. 🙂

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I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek there. 🙂 I'm sure the club will depserately try to offload him, as they've been no doubt trying for quite a while. I imagine his wages will drop significantly with relegation, and with a year left, will be a more attractive purchase for another club. If that club were to be one in the Premier League, and he's first choice, it doesn't say much about our decision making/ team selection this season when he's been fit. He could go and sit on a bench somewhere of course. Other than that, even with the % deduction, he's still going to be well paid, so could easily see out his contract, just as Fraser did.

Something I thought Forster brought right from his arrival.

Whew! We'll still have McCarthy for next season, so that's taken care of. 🙂

As we get quite a few Guardian links here, I was a little surprised to see the details from the Spectator, as I'd already read something from the Guardian on it. One that, of the artist, "Rowson says that Sharp’s Jewishness was not in his mind" and "however unthinkingly." It's a piece looking to find some balance. The article, which surely couldn't have been missed by avid Guardian readers... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/01/richard-sharp-guardian-martin-rowson-cartoon-antisemitism includes... "All of which makes it unfathomable that anyone would be so unfamiliar with this anti-Jewish visual lexicon that they would draw and publish a cartoon that depicted Sharp, or any other Jew in public life, in this way: but here we are. All the component parts were there: the large nose, the lips, the Fagin-like sneer, and, of course, what appears to be money. It’s a racialised depiction of a Jew, and incidentally is another reminder, if Diane Abbott is still wondering, that antisemitism can indeed be a form of racism." For anyone interested in the artist's view of it, it's on the front page of his website https://www.martinrowson.com/

Trick

Gatherer

Although, now you mention them, I'd not say no to either until the end of the season. 🙂

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You must remember this When the football is so piss Waving the top league 'bye Next season's hopes are always high As time goes by

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@sadoldgitsaid “Nothing better to do?” I do a fair bit of posting while I’m cooking. A bit of multi tasking. Instead of testing the water for a personal shot, you could have asked yourself why someone who isn’t normally active in this part of the forum taking the time to point things out? Could it be you? “I am not going to bore the readers of this thread any more by responding…” or to paraphrase this fallacy, you don’t have a leg to stand on, so you’re appealing to what you consider an audience you’ve not asked to want. If people are bored, there’s the block function I believe you can tell them about. “…you seem determine to misrepresent what I say…” and “Only a very stupid or deliberately obtuse person would misinterpret what I had said.” I couldn’t have gone out of my way more to use your quotes. Your posts misinterpret themselves. When it looks like you have got it, you back peddle in defence. The personal slight there was a classy touch, considering your stance on other posters’ attitudes. “I said I didn’t think that her words in that letter were anti-Semitic. It was my opinion and we are all entitled to that.” You also initially suggested that there really was a hierarchy of racism and that Abbott was somehow being brave, and deliberately so, in redefining racism for the rest of us. I think you’ve at least read the article that her letter was in response to, which does include specific groups that Abbott feels should be lower down her structure of discrimination. You’ve said it’s not anti-semetic because she’d have to mention it specifically, or the Holocaust, for it to really count. All in your quotes in my previous post. Even despite any number of people, impacted by this, saying that the comments were anti-semitic. Even when your own research tells you that Jewish people “can be subjected to racism.” Even if there’s doubt, you just ignore all that and consider the comments not to be. I’ve not misinterpreted a thing here. Trying to justify your opinion because Keir Starmer, who you were praising for quick, decisive action isn’t clear on what he’s being quick and decisive about is weak. Even if he was sure, you’d still be disagreeing with him apparently. “I certainly did not spend all day try to prove that Jewish people are not a race.” This is true. You “spent much of today” doing that, and followed it up with a number of phone-ins, that you may well have been multi tasking while listening to. “Sadly you made the big mistake of quoting Turkish. Anyone reading this forum for any length of time will know that he is a WUM and is not worth bothering with. The best definition of being woke that I have found so far is “not being an a-hole”.” I used @Turkish quote quite deliberately, as I knew it would be a trigger. It looks like I should have picked out what I thought was the clear message, given what’s being talked about. Here it is:- “…desperate to jump on any perceived racism every opportunity they get both in their own way defending Abbots comments, denying any anti-semitism whist even the leader of their party has condemned them. Soggy has spent all day trying to prove Jews aren’t a race …" Now clearly, that should have been “much of a day” in there, just for accuracy. But you’ve ignored all the points in the quote that relate to the topic at hand. Trying to following up your time spent defending anti-semitism through semantics with your time spent finding the definition of wokeness wasn’t the issue. It was the bits about racism and anti-semitism. Hopefully, that’s clearer and you do take it on board, rather than just dismiss it along with a group of posters who you’ve said “I don’t bother to read their posts” and at least one of which is “not worth bothering with.” Like the opening paragraph in this post, what you could have been asking yourself is why someone who doesn’t post much in this part of the forum thinks you sound exactly like someone whose views you completely dismiss and dislike thinks? That’s partly what I was going for there. Helpful Hint (I noticed on a thread while I was typing): You’ll notice I didn’t describe a section of other posters as “they.” These are words, bearing in mind the sensitive topics, that are divisive and dismissive going all the way to dehumanising. It’s another racism issue that you’ve somehow wandered into, although it couldn’t possibly be anything to do with you. Could it?