The Kraken

I think I agree with you. But I also read that the photos are of people he knew, former fellow athletes. Also the poppy in itself is a symbol of remembrance that is positively encouraged at sporting events. So maybe not quite so cut and dry.

Always said that Dineage was wrongun.

He’s giving his opinion on whether we’ll make it or not. Everyone knows it’s feasible, the question is whether you think we’ll make top six or not. Personally I don’t, I think there’s too many clubs in between us and we’re not quite good enough to go on the run I think we’ll need.

Not a bad first touch.

Some genuine excitement there for a second or two.

What? The Times commissioned a poll, and reported on the results of it. What on earth else are you reading in to it? Carry on, I’m off to bed. Ridiculous conversation.

Your initial post said that the times commissioned the polls. If you don’t think that is having a part of story then fair enough.

Sorry, what? Johnson was part of the last Conservative government wasn’t he? Or at least the last elected one. So that’s entirely what they were saying.

Johnson didn’t take very long at all to live up to expectations. Both him and Keith very far from impressive but I struggle to come around to the notion that there is a more useless and corrupt person than Johnson, no matter what The Times suggest.

It also depends on which “last Conservative government” we’re talking about. Johnson oversaw enormous corruption and sleaze, Starmer’s lot don’t come close to that. Dim Lizzy was just thick and terrible for a couple of months. Sunak was perhaps less corrupt and dealt a shit hand but ultimately a wet flannel who bended to the bigger boys who really ran the party by then, and not far from contempt. People have got short memories if they think this current lot are worse than Johnson. They’re proving to be a bit useless but have got a long way to go catch up Boris, who should be in jail, the cunt.

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Yet more evidence that the fuckwits on here who regularly throw out terms like “leftie” and “far right” really don’t understand what they’re talking about.

I don’t think anybody does, do they? I certainly voted for Labour on the basis that Starmer was bland and a bit boring but might steady the ship, cut out the weekly crises, and bring some normality to politics. Oh sweet summer child….

Good luck to him. I hope he doesn't, but it would be nice if didn't get booed when he plays at St Marys. Always seems a bit tin pot when we do it for someone like that.

The best we can hope for (by far) at this stage is that the Armstrong deal falls through and so does Downs Mk II.

Seems like (by Twitter comments) that the Canuck is joining us because he’s been told he’ll get plenty of game time. Which is probably true once the LND again does himself a mischief. 10/10 window again for Sport Republic. Spors proving that you don’t need to be new to still be shit.

Don’t be an arse, hardly anyone was saying that formation alone was our problem. It was a fundamental problem but not the only one, we have a few others that need fixing yet.

Thats exactly what I just said. The formation helps a lot, it’s the building blocks of what we are. Mentioning Edwards is 🤣, well done on that one.

Pretty much nobody is saying that. You’re painting yourself into a Fabrice29 shaped corner if that is your default. Quite frankly it’s a piss poor statement of inaccuracy. The formation was a clear and obvious shit show going on. Playing 4 at the back does many things to improve us, most of them obvious. It’s not the only thing we were bad at, but it’s a foundation that needed to change. As evidenced against Hull, we’re a long way away from being a decent side and changing to 4 at the back alone isn’t going to change it overnight. But it’s a bloody good step in the right direction and plays to more of our strengths all over the pitch. we did need to play 4 at the back. We also need to do many other things in other areas. Mist normal people can recognise that.

Family dinners must be an absolute flipping hoot around the oldgit household, with the children only being fed once they verbally renounce any potential future affiliation with designated political parties. Yes dad we promise, now can you just pass us the parsnips please, you monumentally weird man?

I noticed this very thing last week. Tbf they also had plenty of other Colgate variants that were 2 or 3 quid so I just got one of them instead. 7 quid is a joke though.

It’s an interesting question tbf. Of all the dregs that have reverted to reform, it definitely would be interesting to hear why someone would say “that’s a shame, I really like their politics”. What is it about Bobby Jenrick and Suella that makes people like Ian want to vote for them? At least say it out loud as to why, Ian.

Just because you see them it doesn’t mean they’re real outside of your own inflated ego.

Technically, yes. Realistically, absolutely not in the majority of cases. You would have to be really engaged in local politics to know what your local MP is all about and how they’ll go about it. Given how much the main parties whip their MPs to just vote per party policies, there’s not too many Dennis Skinners around any more who vote with their principles first. I’d not trust any MP aligned to a major party to vote their own wishes first, they’ll get booted out before that. It would be great if every single vote in parliament were down to the MP but it’s a sad reality that we are miles away from that, and have been for ages. I’m ok with it only in that I can’t do much about it.

An extremely simplistic response would be…..If you voluntarily leave the party, it’s a by election. If you get the whip taken away, you can stay put as an MP but only as an independent. Granted, if the “independent” does a Jenrick and gets themself sacked then they’re just going to follow the line of the party they want to join, so it’s a bit of a worthless move. So I’ll just remain being Peter O’hanrahanrahan, I don’t like it but I’ll have to go along with it.