The Kraken

My memory of it is that Romeu wasn’t all that prominent in pre-season and, while he started on opening day with JWP and Lavia, he was then benched for every league game with us until he was sold. Ralph certainly seemed to have a plan that didn’t involve Romeu and I definitely believed that his intention for Lavia was as a direct replacement for Romeu (I seem to recall that at the time I, like a few others, thought we were best off with a midfield 3 that included Romeu).

🤣 great excuse. The terrible thing is that nobody should be surprised in the slightest at the absolute weaponry going on daily in the Conservative Party. Incompetence, immorality and corruption have become the norm and we’ve got to wait another 18 months before the voting public get a chance to hold them to account for it.

Again, how can it be investigated if the BBC’s response to the family gained no reply? The original email went out a day after the initial complain was made by the family. Their phone call 2-3 weeks later got no reply. The family went to the Sun to spill their story, but you’ll excuse me if I withhold my feelings on them for now until a couple of things get resolved. 1) Why did they happen to go to the Sun in the first place, a paper who are a fucking disgrace but who coincidentally pay the most for stories from the public? 2) Why have the family (allegedly) nowsigned up to TalkTV, the sister TV station of The Sun, in a financial deal that is due to net them a nice financial reward? 3) Why, in the first instance, is all this going on when the original complainant contacted the Sun before they first printed and denied the whole back story? It’s all a bit fishy, and a lot of the facts aren’t there yet. But you seem to be ignoring some of the actual facts that are out there. When you say the case was ‘not properly investigated’, what more did you expect? The BBC tried to get in contact twice and got no response. Or do you think it’s right that, instead of getting back in contact with the bbc, the family went to The Sun instead?

The bbc emailed the family and got no response. They telephoned as well, 2-3 weeks later, also no response. There is no ‘of course the BBC said….’, this is factual and on record. As I said, you could argue that the BBC should have done more than in response to such a major allegation. In mitigation, the BBC get thousands of complaints every year about their presenters, and not far off one a day that are considered ‘major’ (source, The Spectator). So hopefully that gives you a bit more information than it appears you had originally.

Out of interest, have you actually fact checked what you’ve said there? It’s a lot of words to then repeat yourself in saying the BBC did “nothing” when they actually did do something. Twice, in fact. There’s evidence to show that they responded to the family by email and by telephone. You could argue they should have done more than that, but I’d suggest they have met their minimum requirements at the very least.

Struggling to find many players who offered more than a 5 or 6 out of ten from that game. Lavia is a cut above although not his best game but offered so much more when he came on. Alcaraz got the goal, looked pretty rusty but a threat. The wee nipper was very bright but shouldn’t be rushed. Other than that, not much.

He absolutely mullered that at her.

Agreed, haven’t seen much from him to suggest he’s knocking on the door. Great run there from the wee lad.

Alcatraz and Lavia in the middle is a monumental step up.

Beckham did one for England too.

First touch goal, lovely.

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Very soft.

‘Lyanco is getting himself into trouble’. Ffs.

Our logo is annoying me, it ruins a nice shirt. Absolutely no need to have that whopping chunk of white on it.

Hope they’re not watching this game, it would put them right off. He’s having a stinker.

Yep, just checked and it’s 34 degrees. Would’ve been much better playing at Goztepe’s ground, it’s 26 there.

Well that was a tough watch. Kind of reminds me of the start of last seasons pre-season.

KWP seems to be doing the Zinchenko role.

It’s a slightly worrying trend that’s continuing from last season. That and being suspect to errors at the back. This isn’t too far away from our strongest XI either.

We’re getting rinsed down the right hand side.

Good job that was offside Che Adams, dear me.

Just noticed there’s a Draper Tools sponsor on the back of the shirt.

Started off a bit vulnerable to the turnover.