hypochondriac

I agree. Still doesn't excuse stomping on someone's head. The policeman is a cunt and needs locking up for his actions but equally the bloke is a bellend for resisting.

TBF the stabbing would have probably attracted more attention if there had been video footage. The shocking nature of the head kicking is what has made it go viral. Unless there is some footage of the stabbing that I haven't seen.

Isn't the correct pronunciation "I've got a trans as a mate?" Maybe he should have asked the trans mate how he should be addressing them. If he had taken the time to educate himself then he would have avoided displaying his ignorance on a public forum.

Who has written off Smallbone?

Nope your responses have never changed. You've been exactly the same for years and no one else forces you to react the way you do. Absolutely no one attacks you for being liberal, they attack you for your pomposity, for being unable to apologise when wrong, for your hypocrisy, your tendency towards personal attacks on others, because you label those you disagree with as far right, because you lie and exagerrate to make claims about other posters that are untrue and because you've used disgusting slurs against people like racist and rape apologist and never apologised. I'm sure there's other examples but someone else can point them out.

Badenoch is a black so I'm not sure she will be popular with the wider electorate.

No trans people refer to themselves as "a trans" just like a person of colour would not refer to themselves as "a black." Not sure why you find this difficult. Would have been easier to hase apologised rather than prolonging the offence by trying to justify it.

That's fine as long as we end up signing him. Let's hope so.

Possibly. I am happy for Will to play his way into the team and get chances to see if he's good enough. It's just the prem is a rather different kettle of fish to the championship and I would like to have other decent options so that he doesn't have to play if he gets shown up. If you'd asked me at the start of the summer I'd have said that his position is one where we would need an upgrade if possible. I accept we have lots of other areas to improve also.

So was McCarthy. I don't want him in the starting 11 either.

I agree. Seems the majority opinion is that Smallbone is good enough to be a starter. I disagree, I'd prefer him in the squad without any pressure to perform.

Where did I say I didn't think he would be starting? I actually said the opposite.

Couldn't disagree more. Smallbone is fine in the squad but being in our starting 11 in the premiership will make it more likely that we get relegated imo. Smallbone was good sometimes but also underwhelming on a number of occasions last season.

I'm also nervous about the noises coming out from the club that we are going to try and put Smallbone in the starting eleven.

If we are talking about keepers, I noticed that Chelsea are close to buying another keeper. What about looking into signing Robert sanchez?

TBF I did say that at the start of this page.

I agree.

He isn't worth more because Atalanta have bid. He is worth more because there has been interest from big teams, because he is the standout player in the league, because he had a great number of goals and assists and because he is an equivalent of a VVD, Wanyama etc in terms of quality for that league and finances are different from when we paid the market rate for players like that.

I didn't say that that alone did make him worth more.

Then I'm not sure why you responded to my post about Athletico Madrid and Atalanta which was a response to why I thought he was worth more than 14 million. I'm aware we offered slightly more than Atalanta, that's not particularly relevant to getting the player since Celtic were never going to accept that.

I was asked why I thought he was worth MORE than 14 million. Not hard to grasp this really.

The point was someone saying they wouldn't offer more than 14 million.

Which was immediately rejected.

Patrick Stewart would be more sprightly up top than Ross Stewart.

Because he's had bids from athletic Madrid and Atalanta, he has a lot of goals and assists last year and the market is markedly different from when we were bidding a similar amount for the likes of Wanyama, vvd etc.