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It's rife up here, i've got it at the moment, wife and in laws last week, loads of people in my office. Son was meant to be at a Harrogate Town football camp this week did two days but now we are all in isolation after my positive test. Was meant to be a players day there on thursday which has now been cancelled due to the players having it.

ah shit have they? Thought the game had just been postponed, like the other two they're due to play in the next week. - Updated their facebook page last night with the info - missed it.

Be careful what you wish for. When Puel went for a more defensive set up due to our crap keeper and two crap centre backs he was hounded out of the club.

When did this hatrick against Arsenal happen? He scored 2 when we beat them 4-0 but Martina and Fonte scored other two. Cant remember him ever scoring a hatrick. As well as holding the record for fastest goal he also set Mane up twice for his record breaking hatrick against Villa, then scored an amazing 35 yard goal later on.

I think my favourite Long moment was against Chelsea at home i think under Hughes. A cross came in and he was at a really tight angle, on first view it looked like he'd done an amazing bit of skill to somehow slide in, loop it up and over the Chelsea keeper, from the tightest of angles, onto the crossbar, really unlucky not to score a great goal. Replays showed as he slipped, mishitting the ball hitting it onto his standing leg and spinning it up into the air, for what would have been a piece of ridiculous luck if it had gone in.

Harrogate away please 🙂

Zero tolerance is not the same as zero incidents though is it. People want to believe that if we applaud all this stuff that eventually Darren, 45 from Thornhill and people like him will stop screaming "get up you poof" when a player is laying on the ground. Is that homophobic abuse or just someone using language which is now not considered acceptable but was common place when Darren was 25? We all know how this will be reported. Should a gay person be offended or feel threatened because they heard someone they dont know 50 yards away shout "get up you poof" at someone else they dont know 100 yards away? I would imagine this is the majority of the homophobia that is reported about, not people being directly abused because of their sexuality. There also needs to be some perspective. If you think that in 60m people you will never, ever find people who are racist, homophobic etc then you are going to be disappointed. You are dealing with imperfect humans not robots who can be programmed to think a way because that is what society tells them. The problem is that isn't what people want to hear.

If there was a problem ,yo I’ll solve it…..

I’d say even after that. He was was awful last season and He’s a very limited player but he’s always given 100%, reliable and you know what you’re going to get from him. It looks like time is catching up with him now and in reality it probably at best mid table championship level but fans have short memories, he’s been here seven years and given us a good service. He also gave us one of our best moments at anfield one feezing January night.

he’ll score all night thinks pompeys shite, Armando hes fast and strong, Better than Shane !ong, Armando Though he’s only here on loan there’s no regret Hes Our Albania star via the M4 Armando Abba - Fernando

He’s obviously seen how many followers saints have on twitter

Have I personally experienced abuse? That depends on what your definition of abuse is. I’ve had p1ss taking about different things, outside a gig in Leeds a few years back a group of lads started singing “Ross Kemp on gangs” at me because I have a slight resemblance to him. Is that abuse or people having a laugh? Perspective, sticks and stones, like I said. Some might have got angry and kicked off, I thought it a was quite funny and gave it back. A number of years ago when out in a group we were set upon by a large group of teenage kids because they thought one of us were gay. (He isnt) it could have been a very nasty situation but with a bit of common sense and not being intimidated the situation was dealt with. A couple of those kids won’t make the same mistake again, put it that way. my sister and cousin are both gay so I do have some experience of all this by the way. They were both worried about “coming out” but it became so bleeding obvious they didn’t have to and were a bit surprised when they found out we already knew and it was only an issue in their heads. My sister has been a season ticket holder for years and I don’t think she ever experienced anything first hand but then again like me she’s got thick skin and can turn a blind eye to a comment or two and realises that not everyone is as nice as we would like them to be and doesn’t let it stop her living her life the she wants. so my view on this is I guess influenced by that, why let a few big mouths who you don’t care if they’re alive or dead tomorrow let you stop living your life? Of course physical violence is a different thing altogether but like i said it reality that’s very, very rare. Sadly you will never rid the world of the odd person making comments, so what you going to do, lock yourself away forever because you get upset or get on with your life? and BTW I responded to you like I did because you seem a decent fella who has a bit of real life experience not screaming from your keyboard how everyone is thick and right wing, tommy Robinson fanatics who hate gays are all over this forum, because they’re offended for others. unlike some on here as this thread have proven.

He’s become a bit of a joke figure the last 3-4 years and whilst he does pick up a lot of knocks and has been out for a year he’s still a decent player to have. Only 29 too and like you say will add experience and leadership which we lack.

I think I see Diallo as more of a replacement for Ward Prowse than Romeu. Good at picking all lose balls and then using the ball. Like you say when Romeu Isn’t there we really lack a physical presence and get exposed.

In all seriousness on our budget we could do a lot worse

It was question today on the chase, a traditional centre forward shirt number was number 7, 9 or another one they got it wrong 🙄

It always used to irritate me that Yoshida wore number 3. Thats a left backs number

Can’t see it personally. Romeu is good and would cost a lot to improve on, Diallo is our young hungry and guaranteed to Improve player and JWP is captain and probably first name on the team sheet. Can’t see is bringing in anyone better than those 3 so expect it’ll be another youngster or what was called a utility player in old money.

Everyone keeps on about him but has there been any recent links? I seem to remember a vague kink months ago and that’s it.

In an ideal world there would be no victims of any sort of crime. Sadly we don’t live in an ideal world. Personally I have a view that if 9/10 people are going to matches without any problems then we have a good foundation to build on with huge progress being made. I guess you can look at it two ways, either isn’t it terrible that a small amount of people suffer a form of discrimination, or the other way that a huge majority can go to football with out any problems and for those unfortunate one who do experience problems there are plenty of ways to highlight and deal with the issue. Physical violence is thankfully very rare But there has to be an element of sticks and stones may break my bones (I’m not talking about blatant homophobic hate abuse here). We live in a offended culture where everyone wants to be offended all the time often looking, dare I say it hoping in some cases, to find something to be offended about, often on behalf of other people. I’m sure there are some very naive people out there who want the world to be full of rainbows and dancing with everyone applauding each other but it happens, some people aren’t very nice.

Is Calvert Lewis fit? He absolutely bullied Salisu in the last game up there. Hope Salisu can be a bit stronger with him on Saturday

LOL, I knew there would be a question about moving the away fans to the corner too 🤣🤣

They already are and can can’t they? No one is stopping them.

What did they say? has anyone asked about expanding the stadium yet?

Why is there a need to celebrate anything? Part of this discussion has been about people not being comfortable attending football Because they are LGBT, it sounds like they just want to left alone to attend a match to the pub or do whatever they want in peace without anyone going on about their sexual orientation. What are we to celebrate? What do they want people to say?