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Hold on so the press gave Blair an easy ride because he pretended to be a tory? Is that what you're saying?

Great reply.

One of the world's leading mass murderers of Muslims, killing almost entirely for political reasons and yet not a terrorist?

If the media has such a massive effect, why did Tony Blair win by a landslide not so long ago?

It's not a definition I came up with, it's the dictionary definition. Not all military foreign policies involve illegal acts of violence against usually civilian populations. If you like you can give a narrower definition- you can only be labelled a terrorist if you instruct groups of armed men to shoot and kill unarmed civilians in cold blood. Does that make someone a terrorist? It's not whole units, it's the person almost solely in charge of various militia and armed groups commiting murders under his instruction. No man in the world involved in more death in more countries and yet you don't consider him a terrorist?

Interesting isn't it. Its not often you find a player that goes downhill at such a young age as 28. It's an affliction which I've seen from some other East African players too. They also tend to be unbelievable for the youth teams too. Curious.

What's that got to do with anything? I asked how Solemani was not a terrorist considering he clearly meets the definition. Your response was something irrelevant about being high up in the Iranian regime. Victims of Solemani are incredibly thankful and definitely consider him to be a terrorist, I reckon they'd be in a good position to know.

Threatening to destroy something isn't the same as doing it. If trump deliberately destroys cultural sights then fair enough but he hasn't. You're now changing the parameters, he very clearly meets the definition of a terrorist and to pretend otherwise simply because he was an important figure in Iran is bizarre. Many experts on the matter don't believe its weakened the US position, many are suggesting it has badly weakened Iran and they have few options because they aren't mad enough to start a war. My main worry is that Trump doesn't really have a wider plan, but I'm certainly not upset that this terrorist has been dealt with, and the thousands of families who have been victimised by him are currently celebrating.

"A person who uses unlawful violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims." He fits the definition exactly.

Corbyn deserved everything he got. Almost all the criticism he got for things like supporting terrorists or inaction with regards to antisemitism is of his own making.

How was Solemani not a terrorist?

"28"

Superb posts Gordon. Of course it will be dismissed because they weren't official club sources but anyone with half a brain knows exactly what is going on and as you say, it stinks and has done for a good few years now.

That may well be true but that's still the image he has to sell well because that isn't how he currently comes accross.

No it didn't. The tactic worked perfectly at the time. It placated loads of the fans who instead of being rightly angry at the pitiful transfer window efforts, either shrugged and said at least we tried or in some cases praised the club for showing ambition even if it didn't come off. Do you seriously think that had we not employed those tactics and simple stayed quiet and not signed anyone that that would have been a better pr move for the club? It's not something I like but I totally understand why they do it because it works very well. In hindsight people can talk about how poor the window was, but why would the club give two ****s about the views of a few fans about a season three years ago? It's about having the most positive mindset from the largest number of fans about the current situation.

I think it is pretty relevant when you think that one of his main jobs is to come across cross as relatable to the working class. I'm sure the team around him and Starmer himself will be considering it relevant and one obstacle he will have to overcome.

I'm not suggesting this is the reason at all, but there have been other players out with mystery viruses or other illnesses and sometimes they are serving bans for a variety of reasons. Clyne springs to mind...

A timely bump of this thread. Illustrates perfectly what many of us were saying about pr tactics and being linked to tons of players that we were never realistically going to sign. Absolutely spunked the vvd cash up the wall the following summer.

Nandy is absolutely the best out of the ones standing. She has zero chance though.

Indeed and if you have hardly any money to spend what's the smarter move? Sit on your hands and make it obvious that you can't afford anything? Or get busy linking yourself to deals that don't quite come off, shifting the story from one where sfc have a relatively small amount of cash that they aren't spending to a narrative where ambitious saints have just been unlucky in their January dealings and just missed out on big money signings on a technicality. Think about which story is going to benefit the club the most. It's not rocket science but it's amazing how many people it hoodwinks. Basic PR.

That's another example of club pr. Quincy promes supposedly signing him in the summer- never happened. A load of cbs and we got that guy in a panic after the transfer window shut, carillo last minute after a host of links to other people, numerous articles from that pet journo we feed pr stories to so we have plausible deniability, maybe we should go through some of those old articles and catalogue the mistruths and falsehoods. According to some on here it's all just made up by the journos involved.

And the answer is because it placate a section of the fanbase who are happier with the "attempt" than seemingly doing very little.

And that's fine but many people do believe it and are calmer than they would be had we been linked with very little because that would give more of an insight into the reality which is that we actually have very little money to spend and aren't going to spend anything like the amount that we pretend we will.

Are you saying there aren't a ton of people on here but also in real life who don't take the attitude of oh well at least we gave it our best shot? I'm not saying that every name isn't someone we haven't tried to sign, but clearly we fairly regularly leak names out of players we would maybe like to sign but have little realistic chance of getting because it gives the impression that we are lore ambitious thsn we actually are.

You clearly have a rudimentary understanding of how pr works. It doesn't really matter if you think it's a negative thing, loads of clubs do it and I know for an absolute fact that we also do it. What do you think that piece in the paper immediately after the Leicester game was about? Coincidental timing? Do you consider it a coincidence that the same handful of journalists get inside scoops from saints? We have a marketing and or department for a reason.