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Yeah I realise it's a little ambiguous. I guess what I meant was players that have become important to the way we play; fans' favourites who we would be very sad to see leave. There are very few players in our current squad who I would actually be upset or annoyed about being sold/replaced.

Who is doing that?

Yes, I do. Well spotted

Yep. The table doesn't lie. After 7 games they have almost twice as many points as we do.

...that went on to be a real success? Our recruitment over the last few seasons has been so poor that it's hard to identify a single player in the current squad who has noticeably improved on who we had before and has reached "first name on the team sheet" status. My own thought is that it has to be McCarthy. But that in itself is pretty shocking as he wasn't even signed to be a regular starter - he was recruited to be back up to Forster.

I was wondering about this myself today. After the WC everyone was expecting Yoshi to become the lynchpin of our defence, yet he has been completely frozen out and the journos don't even bother asking about it in the pre-match press conferences. There's definitely something more going on that is being kept quiet.

This is what I don't understand though. How can a manager with MH's experience possibly rate Hoedt higher than Yoshi? It's bewildering. I'm not saying MY is amazing, and I also don't believe Hoedt is quite as terrible as some people like to make out. But anybody who knows anything about football can see that Maya is a far better CB, as well as being a strong character with leadership qualities that we sorely lack right now. There has to be something more to it than MH not rating him. He's by far the most experienced and accomplished CB at the club, but he can't get a place in a starting 11 that is leaking goals like a sieve leaking water. I think the fans deserve an explanation.

Possibly.

Apparently he was, but it was all done through a proxy so that he could deny any interest if/when it ended up not happening. At the time this was all going on, I was a briefly a mod on this board and was privy to certain information that wasn't made public at the time. One of the board admins had a private meeting with a very well-respected director at the club, who informed him that the interest was indeed from a party representing Paul Allen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6ll_sO27Vw Outstanding album from Max Cooper.

I'm sure this has already been answered somewhere else, but why is our game being played a week later than all the other ties?

You're being incredibly disingenuous here. The unions haven't in any way 'banged some sense into the conference programme', and you know that full well. Your original post was trying to make out that the CLP had their priorities all wrong, but the union ballot is carried out first and the result is already known to the CLP before they undertake their vote. So it would be utterly pointless for them to vote for anything that was already in the unions top four if they are already guaranteed to be debated anyway. If there was no union vote and it was all on the CLP, then I am 100% confident that their priorities would have been very different and actually more reflective of the final list.

This doesn't take into account that the Unions have already voted and their top four are guaranteed a debate... https://twitter.com/220_d_92_20/status/1043900569138724864 Trade Union and Affiliate priorities ballot results Brexit 1,878,501 An Economy for the Many 1,848,812 Government Contracts 1,845,256 In-Work Poverty 1,845,084 Housing 39,479 The NHS 35,445 Justice for the Windrush generation 29,622 Social Care 9,642 Schools System 7,697 CLP priorities ballot results Housing 297,032 Schools System 233,883 Justice for the Windrush generation 212,612 Palestine 188,019 Brexit 149,172 The NHS 121,487 Welfare System 89,861 Climate Change and Fracking 72,890 Local Government Funding 68,473 Social Care 64,569 So the final list looks like this... 1. Brexit 1,878,501 2. An Economy for the Many 1,848,812 3. Government Contracts 1,845,256 4. In-Work Poverty 1,845,084 5. Housing 297,032 6. Schools System 233,883 7. Justice for the Windrush generation 212,612 8. Palestine 188,019.

Where are you getting that from Verbal?

Isn't that what Leave.eu did?

https://twitter.com/nick_gutteridge/status/1042840033030561793 So, the Tories' support for Orban's government in order to curry favour for a better Brexit deal has backfired. I mean, who could possibly have predicted that voting against the majority of the EU was going to p*ss them off more than impress them?

Those 'funny little statistics' show that Redmond is nothing but a show pony. It all counts for nothing if there is no end product and his 'artistry' does not translate to goals and results.

You think? May is in such a weak position now. She gambled everything on her Chequers deal and now it's (pretty much) been rejected, she's a dead woman walking. No way the extremist Brexiters in her party are going to let her stay in post now. She has ruled out a second referendum, so her only hope of clinging to power now is to call another GE.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45586010 So it's "no deal" then. Anybody still think this is a good idea?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/sep/19/shell-and-exxons-secret-1980s-climate-change-warnings Hey deniers... why don't you tell us all again how the theory of AGW is just a massive conspiracy.

Sh*t mate, that's awful. But good on you for coming on here - a football forum of all places - and being open about it. That takes courage in itself. I'm pleased to see this scumbag has been brought to justice for his actions. It won't change what happened of course, but it must be a sense of relief for you. Good to see you back on the board.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/tony-blair-emerges-shock-contender-13270908 A match made in heaven. Or hell, depending on which way you look at it I guess.

Are you referring to the one from Bertrand's free kick? I thought he made a massive meal of it and made it look far more dramatic than it actually was. The shot was nowhere near the corner and it was a bread and butter save for any competent keeper (although Forster would probably have let it in).

Who does? I haven't seen a single poster make such a claim. If there is one thing about which this forum is in near total agreement it is that there are glaring weaknesses in our squad, and that not even the most talented manager could get them competing with the top six.

Since the start of this year, I'd say it is probably both.