hypochondriac

I noticed you have ignored my previous post about your daughter. You may have missed it so thought I'd double check.

No a man can't be a woman. There's no semantic or linguistic tricks. A woman is an adult human female. You can hold any piece of paper you like but it doesn't suddenly make you a woman. Men with mental health issues need support and possibly therapy not operation to chop off their genetalia. The practical solution is men not invading women's spaces.

Looks like you're right. More fool me for thinking we'd have a semi sensible discussion.

Would be good to get an answer to this @aintforever

Or get changed in the disabled loos or something if it bothers you that much? Women shouldn't have to acquiesce and alter their lives in order to appease the feeling of a few men in dresses. If its no big deal as aintforever says then it shouldn't be a problem to simply clarify the law. If you've got a dick then you can't enter.

Disability access isn't a huge issue for me but I can imagine it would be a massive issue for some. Just because it doesn't affect me doesn't mean I think that nothing should be done about it.

There's no such thing as a woman with a penis.

So let's imagine she's a little bit older, she's changing or showering in a public swimming pool and a man walks in and starts changing. You're not fussed? Even if it intimidates or upsets her.

So because they don't want to be stared at they're happy to go and intimidate and potentially upset women in a women only space? Biological men should understand who and what they are and stay out of women's spaces. That might mean that they experience a bit of discomfort when changing with other biological men but that doesn't mean they can just override women's rights.

It's about enforcing a social stigma. If you've got a penis and you're changing in the women's changing rooms then you should feel shame and be wary in case you're openly challenged and told to leave. Yes there maybe some borderline cases but that's better than some situations now where blokes in a dress are openly intimidating women.

Obviously it wouldn't be on your list of priorities but then you're a man and probably not a father to a young girl I would assume.

Yes I'm pretty sure his contract was leaked. Whatever it was it was obscene considering our financial situation at the time.

I'm happy to lay a significant bet that we won't be getting relegated.

Even if that were true which it isn't, we shouldn't have too much trouble recruiting more than enough quality for the division we are now in. Our main issue last season was a lack of experience in the squad and a confused style of play along with some players who didn't suit how we wanted to play. We actually had quite a lot of quality individuals (hence why so many are in demand) we just had little squad depth and we couldn't fashion the players we did haveinto a successful team. With Martin we should have a recognised style of play from the start and hopefully enough financial resources to purchase players who suit that style. It should be much more cohesive at the very least even if it ultimately isn't successful.

Because our resources are tiny for the prem and it's a much smaller pool of players who can do a job in the top league. We could most likely buy almost any player from the 2nd and 3rd divisions if we really wanted to. You'd have to really fail to not make the playoffs.

We had Jason euell on 15k a week.

Sounds like we pretty much agree. I don't think we should leave it to the third year either but we do have to at least entertain the possibility that we don't manage promotion in the first two years. We can't just go mental banking on promotion by year 2.

He's definitely going.

It would be terrible planning to blow our wad this year in an effort to go up. Far more likely that we will have a two or three year plan for promotion where we aim for it in the first year but keep a fair bit in reserve for subsequent efforts.

I'd love it if he stayed. Would probably be the best on his position I the championship or certainly up there.

I think it's a reasonable fee to receive under the circumstances we are in when a team in the Champions league comes calling. Reportedly now we want 30 and they've bid 15. It won't shock me in the slightest if he goes for the number I said.

Yep and it's been reported in a few other places as well. So people are shitting themselves over nothing really. He will almost certainly go to Newcastle if they really want him but he's not going to go for a pittance. Hopefully not with Ryan fraser either...

Seems like a good bloke. Was crap for us though. Maybe league one will be his level and give him a chance with more of a blank slate. He will get abuse at fratton for sure.

We won't be selling everyone, I said that loads of times yesterday. I do think we will sell quite a few for the simple fact that they will want to go and we need to sell some due to the revenue drop and maybe if they don't suit the style we want to play.

Again, where has it been reported that we are going to sell him for 12 million? 20-25 million is probably about right for a club in our situation. We would have got more had we stayed up but that's life.