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Fair enough.... the obvious question to ask them then is: "What 'undue influence' did you observe?"... has anyone asked them yet? If so, what was the answer...?

Maybe the best way forward here would be to invent a word to describe "People that dislike / criticise certain aspects of Islam" (if such a word doesn't already exist) and reduce the defintion of 'Islamaphobia' down to simply "Prejudice / Hatred against Islamism".... that would clear things up a tad, wouldn't it?

Fair question... I don't know... you'd have to ask the people that reported it, rather than some weirdo fence-sitter on Saintsweb...

Lets say, for arguments sake, that the dictionary definition is incorrect / out-dated, what word would be more appropriate to use than 'Islamaphobia' for people that simply dislike the Islam religion? Asking for a friend

What if any acts of "undue influence" take place before they get to the polling station...?

Simply disliking Islam appears to fit the dictionary definition, which I wouldn't have thought is the crime of the century...?

If "undue influence" is being applied, not only is it a 'perversion of the electoral process' its outright illegal under the Elections Act 2022... https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/37/part/1/crossheading/undue-influence I guess the issue here though is, how do you prove that someone has been "unduly influenced"...?

@Matthew Le God has an aversion to all religions, so does that make him islamaphobic (as well as christianophobic, hinduphobic, buddisaphobic, etc...)?

Depends if there's any coercion involved, I guess? My son supports Saints because I do, but I didn't force him to (well, if you discount the amount of Saints merch I bought him as a baby / toddler...!) Isn't the accusations behind this "family voting" malarkey that some family members are intimidated to vote a certain way? I've no idea, but I thought that was the ascertain here.

I guess without first hand evidence, we'll never know...

Confirmation bias, per chance...?

How would the chief election official know whether said family members were subject to "undue influence" or not? (Undue influence being illegal of course)

Isn't a phobia an irrational fear of something? What if someone's 'fear' of Islam is rational, what's the name for that?

Reading through this thread, I think confirmation bias is the true winner of the day

So far, Tonda's tenure can be divided into three 7 match chunks... - An excellent first 7 - A poor next 7 - An excellent last 7 Here's hoping he can break that cycle over the next 7 games...

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Good summary IMO 👍🏻

It baffles me why he was effectively dropped for half the season after playing well and scoring a worldie vs Norwich in the cup. Glad to see him now getting the playing time he deserves.

Yep, fair play to Tonda for turning things around (hopefully permanently). He quite rightly attracted flak during his mid-season 7 match spell in the league without a win, and is now quite rightly attracting praise for a 7 match spell in the league without a defeat. Consistently do badly, get criticised. Consistently do well, get praised. Who knew...?

I've always thought he should play a more central roll, but what do I know...? 😉

"Dominated" is possibly too strong a word, but we certainly didn't play well in the 20 minutes or so after we scored. Whether that was down to QPR playing well or us going off the boil, who knows...

It's almost as if fans reacted negatively when he went on a 7 match run without a win and then react positively when he subsequently goes on an 8 match run without a defeat... That pesky human nature, eh... People reacting to what they see at the time, whatever next...?

I don't wish to be negative after such a great result, but it pisses me off big time that it took Sport Republic so f***ing long to wake up to the need for a proper powerful / strong / experienced striker in the mould of Lambert, Pelle, etc. so bleedin' obvious...

Larin would have been my MotM... Think he played an instrumental part in all of the goals he was on the pitch for?