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True. But his decision making once he has got in behind is still highly questionable. There was one moment in the second half last night where he got into a good position and had two players unmarked on the edge of the box, but attempted (and, predictably, fluffed) a worldie instead. He needs to engage his brain more, and only then will the rewards come.

But still no goals and no assists. All counts for nowt if there is no end product.

Lots of people saying Redmond was very good, and he caused them problems I grant you, but yet again he comes away with no goals, no shots on target and no assists. He looks more lively this season since Hughes has let him off the leash that MoPe had him on, but he's still just a fancy Dan with no end product.

He didn't get his subs right tonight, and he left it far too late to react to Brighton's upsurge after HT. But overall I think he has had a positive effect. He has definitely got us playing better attacking football than the last two managers. The problem seems to be the mentality of the players. Yes you can argue that is the manager's responsibility, but the ones who have been here since the Puel days all seem to have the same hangover and just panic whenever we have a lead to protect. I doubt there are many managers (certainly not ones that we could afford to hire anyway) who could reverse that very easily.

Yeah this. Bertrand is far too casual and quiet to be captain and I have never been happy with him in the role. I thought Hughes would give it to Yoshi after the WC, but despite playing really well for Japan there he can't even get in the team. Of the regular starters right now, I would give it to Vestergard.

Agreed. One or two posters on here seem to have a strange vendetta against Hoedt. He wasn't to blame for tonight's result.

Same. Can't remember the last time I really enjoyed watching a game. It might have been the 4-1 against Everton last season, but they were laughably bad that day.

Why have you singled him out especially? I don't think he was particularly bad tonight, it was a poor team effort overall that led to the result. Hoedt may not be top class but I don't remember him doing anything so wrong that it stood out against the rest, and I have seen far worse players at CB for us over the years.

Gonna be a long hard season. 2-0 up against a team as poor as Brighton were tonight, and still we manage to find a way to chuck away the points. So predictable.

Time for some fresh legs methinks.

Redmond has looked very good so far, but there's still no end product from him. Pace, trickery and fancy play mean nothing if it never leads to any goals or assists.

I don't. Brighton will undoubtedly commit more men forward looking for an equaliser and he is the right man to leave up top when they do.

Brighton have woken up. Need to keep our concentration here and not let them back in it.

What a hit that is! Channeling the spirit of Martina there. Go on son. Beauty!

Decent chance for Mo there. Should have at least got it on target. Really need to press home our advantage here and get a goal soon. Brighton are poor and there for the taking.

WTF was that Moi?

We kept possession though!

This is what it is all about isn't it. You, along with just about every other person with a predisposition towards anti-Labour/anti-Corbyn have been trying as hard as you can to hammer home this point, but it simply doesn't reflect the facts, which are... Instances of antisemitism in the Labour party have gone down since he became leader. The amount of time taken to deal with complaints of antisemitism has reduced since he became leader. Antisemitic views are still more prevalent in the Conservatives and other right wing parties than they are in Labour. So despite all of the howling of the government and the mass media over recent months, I am still yet to see any convincing evidence which supports this claim. If you have some then please share it with us. The fact that there has been near silence in the media about the Tories's support for Orban shows, without a shadow of a doubt, that the whole thing has been an agenda-driven side show rather than a genuine effort to combat antisemitism. To further prove this point, you only have to look at the furore about Labour adopting all 11 of the IHRA definitions. Throughout the whole 'debate' (I use the word loosely in this context) in recent weeks/months, why has nobody at the BBC or any other media outlet highlighted the fact that the Tories haven't even adopted one of them? So I repeat - if anybody who has been tirelessly hammering Corbyn over AS recently (as you have) can happily remain completely silent over it on the other side of the house and even try and defend it (as you have), then you don't really care about antisemitism at all and you are, in fact, just a c*nt who would happily use an issue like this as a political weapon.

And he wasn't "questioning their Englishness". He was simply pointing out that a foreign diplomat showed a better sense of English irony than they did. Once again, it was a massive storm in a teacup that his critics jumped on but which proved nothing.

Yes, I'm satisfied that the Russians are talking a load of utter b*llocks - the acting skills of the two suspects in that interview would appear to be consistent with their abilities as hitmen, and there can be no doubt that they were acting under the direction of a higher power in Russia, otherwise they would have thrown them under the bus already rather than concoct such a ridiculous cover story. I said all along that I accepted it probably was the Russians, and all I ever wanted was some convincing evidence. When the story first broke there were a lot of holes in it, and when the most untrustworthy government in living memory comes out with the line "we know it was the Russians because, well.. they are bad and it must have been them, so there" it was less than persuasive, especially when Johnson was shown to have told an untruth about it in that TV interview. Like I said before, the trail leading to Russian involvement was so obvious that you couldn't rule out the possibility it was another party wanting it to look like it was them without more concrete evidence. I fully acknowledge that governments can't release all their evidence for fear of compromising intelligence sources, but they weren't even claiming that to start with. Their whole line of reasoning was based on the notion that only Russia could possibly have manufactured the Novichok, which was quite easily disproven. Stands to reason this would lead to speculation about who was responsible. But yeah, it's pretty obvious now that Putin just didn't care if we knew it was them or not. He clearly sent a couple of inept, expendable agents to do the job and was quite happy for them to leave such an obvious trail behind them.

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2018/09/14/skripal-poisoning-suspects-passport-data-shows-link-security-services/ Not quite sequential. There were two other passports issued in between, which also look highly suspicious.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-reaction/white-house-manafort-plea-is-unrelated-to-trumps-2016-victory-idUSKCN1LU28N?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=twitter So Manafort has entered a plea bargain and is cooperating with Mueller in the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. But as far as the White House are concerned, this has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with Trump's victory. Uh-uhh, no sir. Not connected at all. Nothing to see here. Move along.

I've followed a little about this story. What amazes me is how a trained police officer can enter someone else's apartment without immediately recognising it was not her own, and then indiscriminately shoot the occupant. How stupid do they think the public are if they think they can get away with such a crap story as that?

And there we have it. Replace 'Soros' with 'Israel' in that sentence, and you have basically just used exactly the same defence that Corbyn supporters have been trying to get across ever since this media storm erupted. Edit: and BTW, that quote of Orban's wasn't aimed solely at Soros. So is anybody here going to try and concoct an argument that what he said isn't antisemitic?

I wonder why there has been no march on the Tory HQ, and this hasn't been splashed all over the front page of the Daily Mail for 3 days running. The double standards on display is nauseating. Anybody who has been relentlessly attacking Corbyn over AS but remains silent about this is nothing more than a vile hypocrite.