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Come on Verbal - play the ball, not the man. Can you dispute the findings of the report? http://www.mediareform.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Labour-antisemitism-and-the-news-FINAL-CORRECTED.pdf

Well, well, isn't this interesting... http://www.mediareform.org.uk/blog/new-mrc-research-finds-inaccuracies-and-distortions-in-media-coverage-of-antisemitism-and-the-labour-party So a comprehensive study into the media reporting of the antisemitism 'crisis' in Labour has shown beyond doubt what those of us with an objective viewpoint could see quite clearly all along: that Corbyn has been the target of a relentless disinformation campaign by the corporate media and the BBC. Who would have thought it eh?

OK, fair point - he made no direct reference to it being a majority. But the overall tone of his post seemed to imply that the only people who would be happy to see a Labour government are people who expect something for nothing. I can assure you and OldNick this is not the case. And as I alluded to in my previous post, my own personal experience of the kind of people he was referring to is that they also tend towards the sort of right-wing, patriotic, anti-immigration rhetoric you would normally associate with UKIP or the BNP. If you were to go door-knocking round the high-rise towers of Millbrook and Weston on a weekday afternoon to ask people about their political opinions, I very much doubt you would find a lot of support for the current Labour party.

Agreed. Benefit fraud only accounts for a very tiny fraction of the government's budget, and a life on benefits is no life at all. There may be some people who have no intention of ever working and are happy to live of meagre handouts, but they represent a very tiny minority and the cost of their benefits to the taxpayer is insignificant in real terms, and is dwarfed by the cost to the treasury of corporate tax avoidance. The vast majority of benefits are paid to people already in work. But there is certainly a stereotype about 'benefit scroungers'. I know they exist because I knew a few in my younger days, but Oldnick appears to have fallen foul of the belief that these people make up the majority of Labour supporters. He couldn't be more wrong. The kind of people you associate with this demographic are far more likely to vote UKIP in my experience.

But still no PL goals or assists yet. For an attacking player, that is all that matters. Pace and trickery counts for nothing if it doesn't produce goals.

Sky News are "leftie Remoaners"?

I guarantee he wouldn't have that record this season if he was still here. He needed a clean break to get his confidence back, and playing in a decent team does wonders for that.

Yep, fair point. I guess the way the season has gone so far it's understandable that people will to try and find the negatives. I'm usually a pretty optimistic supporter, but I'm obviously not immune to that myself.

Remind me how many goals and assists he has so far this season please? He's just a show pony. Looks dangerous on the ball when he wants to, but offers absolutely nothing in the way of end product.

I know he messed up his last one, and his all round game has been dogsh*t recently, I grant you. But in a one-shot chance from 12 yards, I would still rather he was taking it than anyone else in the squad, except maybe Bertrand.

Not at that level, sure. But who else in the starting 11 and subs bench tonight would you have more confidence with in a shootout?

Happy we won, obviously, but sweet Jesus what was MH thinking? Takes off Gabbi and replaces him with Davis who has surely proven to everyone that he is not the right man to bring on when you are trying to defend a lead. Then goes into a penalty shootout having only made one sub and with Austin and JWP still on the bench. Bonkers.

Did our best to throw it away though

Well at least Tadic isn't still here to take one.

I stuck a fiver on them to qualify at 4/1 around 70 mins. Starting to wish I had taken the 25/1 offer of them winning in normal time now though. Can see it happening.

Inevitable wasn't it.

So Yoshida back in but no Vestegaard?

Makes me sad looking at that and thinking what could have been. That team would be challenging for the PL title.

It's purely because of his advocacy of Brexit and the perceived effect it will have on immigration.

Paul Golding - the illustrious leader of Britain First, convicted racist agitator and spud-faced coward who runs and hides behind police lines when confronted on demos - released a video stating his unwavering support for JRM and threatened anybody who criticised him with the full force of his regiment of knuckle-dragging morons. It's very telling how JRM remained completely silent and didn't even attempt to distance himself from it afterwards.

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.