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I don't think anyone should have an issue with allowing those with disabilities or disadvantages from having interviews or giving them opportunities where their disability or disadvantage has no impact on their job. That certainly hasn't been how those policies have been interpreted in some cases though. Plenty of examples of different ethnicities or sexualities being prioritised over others and some seeking equality of outcome rather than equality of opportunity.

Damn I miss that guy. He should be great for them. If they keep Rohl next year I'd give them a chance of promotion.

I understand that and it also doesn't seem appropriate to start bringing this up in the immediate aftermath of a disaster but the idea that standards have been lowered in order to cater to DEI initiatives isn't such an outlandish proposition. I haven't seen a suggestion yet that the air traffic controller was at fault but I would certainly disagree with DEI initiatives favouring individuals based on immutable characteristics.

Given his subsequent laughing emojis and the tone of his previous posts that's clearly not the case.

Unfortunately I'm not sure we can blame the club for failing to sign anyone of note this window. Who on earth would want to come here at the moment? Much better off keeping our powder dry for next year.

Just uncalled for really. Thankfully most people on here aren't like that.

The last relegation came on the back of ridiculous January spending that we haven't had this year. Selling Sulemana, ABK, Aribo and Onuachu albeit for smallish fees and then maybe one of THB or Fernandes should be more than enough, particularly because Dibling will be pure profit from an FFP perspective.

How can you possibly tell from that screenshot? We have no idea how much money is involved. Worth remembering that we were incredibly lucky that Dibling decided to come back after he left the first time.

That's not the only reason. A newly relegated club like us is never going to turn down the amount of money we will likely get for him. It may allow us to hold on to others like THB or Fernandes.

Wow you're a bit of a prick. Useful to know as I've literally never seen noticed your posts before.

Amusingly I did. He said "no idea". He's a bit young for him now as he retired a few years ago.

We will likely have to sign three strikers next summer along with a Dibling replacement and maybe even Fernandes, Lallana, Aribo and Sulemana. Bedding in all those attacking players is going to make our job that much harder.

I'm sorry but that's ridiculous. We will have zero strikers for next season abd he'd likely be a real asset next year.

Is this the lowest net approval rating ever? Starmer still losing the PR war.

Bin off Stewart and get Wilson in on a pay as you play. Simples.

"Probably bollocks but interesting to discuss the possibility:" Oh dear you've never had problems with reading and comprehension before.

Great contribution. Worth mentioning also that he's injury prone, will be 33 in a month and his contract expires in the summer. If none of the newly promoted teams want him then I'd say we'd have a very good chance.

Better scouting as well obviously. Also got us Ings, livramento, Lavia, Ramsdale and the equivalent got us the likes of VVD. Spending money isn't a guarantee of success but £25 million in a number of areas of the pitch is going to give us a much better chance of success.

Has barely played this year and need game time. He's also getting on a bit. Probably bollocks but interesting to discuss the possibility:

Agreed. We should be spending 20-25 million for 4-5 players that are starters every week. 80-100 million minimum. Personally I'd try for 150 million and get 6 or 7 starters. Should be achievable really.

Be brought it on himself with his brain dead actions getting himself sent off in games when he's supposed to be setting an example.

I definitely think we could do with a couple of older prem heads. That could be Callum Wilson, maybe Cresswell at the back and we need a Stewart Armstrong replacement in the middle of the park when Oguchukwu goes. Not sure who that could be. Would Antonio be a good option up top? Or Welbeck?

Theoretically we will be in a much stronger position at the end of this season than last year. A fair bit less crap that we can't offload on long contracts, greater spending power having not spunked it all this year and a good chance of keeping some of our best players who will be great in the championship but less in demand given they've failed in the prem. If we can sign a creative player, a new striker, a winger, goalkeeper and full back and let's say we lose Fernandes, Ramsdale kwp, Dibling, Aribo, Sulemana, Onuachu and THB then we should be right up there and have a fun season.

I'm not sure what you're suggesting we do. Very few players good enough for the prem will sign for us in the championship. We can cross our fingers that the likes of our young cbs or Amo Ameyew suddenly develop into those type of players but other than that, the only real way to maybe survive our first prem season is to spend ten of millions net on the majority of areas of the team. We will only be able to do that once we have been promoted and the reality is that we will have to junk three quarters of the team minimum if we back in the prem.

Whelk called them 'their leaders.' That's factually accurate. Kin Jong un is the leader of North Korea but that doesn't mean he was democratically elected (Hamas were but it was a long time ago.)