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Yes but that was largely due to ings scoring and creating.

TBF I think that now ings has gone we are weakest in attack now.

We will get a vestergaard replacement. I can't see us getting two new cbs, we may get a dm who can also provide cover at the back possibly?

I think Armstrong and this other guy would give us some more options which is a positive thing. If we got a last minute loan like Ox then we would be stronger overall imo.

We haven't signed anyone yet so nothing has changed. Like always I make assessments as things changed.

As I said "I'm confident that not all networks will be charging and then consumers will have a choice."

I'll just highlight my previous post on the subject from June for those who are hard of thinking.

That's Vodafone.

Do you reckon every single player wants to kneel before every game? Or do you think there's a diversity of opinion but some players just want to keep their heads down for a quiet life? What do you reckon? (bearing in mind I know for a fact that the latter is true.)

I find it interesting that you lament all the division but then support the gestures that are the cause of said division.

What about the BAME people who don't agree that it's like you describe? How do we know which ones to just listen and believe?

You do contingency planning.

It's changeable though isn't it. I'm not feeling positive about the club at the moment but of course that can change if we bring in some decent players. You can only react to the current situation.

Is it that surprising? Lost probably our best player whose basically kept us up for two seasons and haven't replaced him as yet. Of course there's going to be some negativity we look likely candidates for relegation at this stage.

Indeed but it's still not great is it.

"we are lectured because there are people in society who need to be lectured" so which is it? Are we being lectured because some people need to be or are we not being lectured to because it's just a short amount of time at the syary of the game?

I said at the end of last season that I predicted relegation next season for the first time. Now we've lost ings I think that's even more likely. Hopefully I'm wrong.

And as I said, there's some evidence to suggest that it's made things worse not better. There's major disagreement about the seriousness and extent of this issue and continually getting it discussed has harmed race relations and isn't preferable to alternatives.

So are we hoping for another glorious playoff failure this year?

First time this summer where I've genuinely thought we may be going down.

Regardless of the context or anything else I simply cannot believe we are going into our least game before the season starts with Long as a starter up front.

I don't need a lecture about how murder and rape are wrong either. Would you be out murdering and raping people if you weren't given a lecture about how they were wrong beforehand? These are things people learn when they are in primary school or just know instinctively is wrong. The sorts of people who commit these crimes are the type of people that aren't going to give a toss about a so called lecture about it being right or wrong and it's just going to breed resentment in everyone else who has never engaged in any of these things anyway.

Because in reality for many it's not about "solving racism" it's about continuing a culture war and trying to upset as many people who disagree with them as possible because they view them as thick racist idiots.

I think a valid point worth remembering as well is that for some who dislike the gesture politics it breeds resentment that their views are ignored or misrepresented. I reckon that's a net negative for race relations even if some people think it's a positive thing to have the issue continually raised.

It might make things worse. There's a bit of evidence to suggest that's the case.