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Doesn't bode well for the playoffs that must win games we show little urgency and in fact look more likely to concede.

Who was the Wilcox replacement at city? Maybe just get him in.

Good oppostunirty for some new ideas next year. Either we stay down in which case a refresh may be a good thing, otherwise a new man with the financial muscle in the prem. Wilcow talked a good game and did a good job in some areas but he's always going to jump when a team like united come knocking.

There haven't really been any recent performances to speak of. Besides, this is a step below where he was. Plenty of players look a fair bit better when they take a step down (look at Vestergaard and Hoedt for example.)

Time for Alex to actually earn some of his obscene wages. Chance for him to leave the club as a little bit of a hero.

Bazunu not being great doesn't make our backup keepers any better.

It was this graph:

Probably. It's mainly to do with the motivation being a political or religious ideology which to be fair you could argue is any killing except accidental.

I was genuinely surprised by that figure. If I had to guess I would say stuff like antifa violence and I remember a few shootings in America but not much in the UK.

I was genuinely surprised by that figure. If I had to guess I would say stuff like antifa violence and I remember a few shootings in America but not much in the UK.

No: "the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims." Indiscriminate killing of multiple people in heavily populated civillian areas is one type of terrorism and the majority of high profile cases of this in the past decade or two is Islamist in nature with the odd right wing and left wing scumbag thrown in.

TBF he didn't say terrorism he said "attacks like this" ie indiscriminate killing in heavily populated civillian areas. The vast majority of the time in recent years that tends to be an Islamist nutter.

There was the bloke who killed the MP but I'm not sure murdering one person is quite the same- as horrible as it is.

TBF this is a couple of years old but it looks like Far left terror was the major cause of terrorist incidents and deaths although Islamic groups are the largest groups who commit terrorism which is maybe why they are so easily brought to mind when incidents like this occur: Global Terrorism Index 2022: Key findings in 6 Charts - ISD (isdglobal.org)

To be fair I think that speaks more to the fact that the quality in the league this year is particularly strong rather than our players lacking quality. You could make a case for THB, Downes and Armstrong at least alongside KWP obviously.

I expect his point is that in the 80s lots of bombings were committed by the IRA so if there had been a bombing incident it wouldn't have been outlandish to make an assumption about who was behind it. Just because it subsequently turns out not to be them doesn't make the original assumption a racist one. I personally tend to avoid speculation about the perpetrators before facts are known nowadays but everybody thinks about what it could be because often it is someone shouting Allahu Akbar.

So you equate the actions of Hamas to Nelson Mandela? Their actions are justified?

Yeah that's what that Labour trade union member said. He was wrong too. There's no ambiguity that Hamas are a terrorist organisation.

That's what part of the discussions would focus on I'd imagine.

Where did I say that? Absolutely huge jump from that to supporting raping, murdering and kidnapping of hostages.

Like I have said repeatedly, once the hostages have been returned and Hamas has been dismantled for a generation there will hopefully then be an opportunity for negotiation to work towards a process for peace that will hopefully involve both sides being free from violence and this will of course mean compromise and change on both sides. The hope would be that those doing the negotiating are not ideologically captured by fantasy religion and want to work towards a real solution.

Whilst Israel occupy the West Bank they should support the holding of innocent hostages and the raping and murdering of Hamas?

Yes.

If Palestinians openly opposed Hamas, supported the return of hostages and publicly stated their desire to work towards peace whilst recognising Israel's right to exist then I would 100% agree with those calling for a solution and for Israel to sort this out. But this will never happen because there's no evidence that they believe or will do any of these things.

Right so it was a quick and dirty solution and you probably wouldn't have supported the formation of the Israeli state. Thanks for answering the question.