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American

None of that addresses the point that you were replying to, namely that Martin's way of playing is costing us points.

Do we know if we have managed to get him into our official EFL squad list? He wasn't in the original published list for some reason.

Yep. If Leeds were willing to pay similar money to us, there was never any realistic prospect if Swansea selling the lad to us.

It began Saturday. The disgraceful Hamas actions have given the Israeli government the opportunity to flatten Gaza and force it's people out. They've been told to leave (go where?) and Netanyahu has said he'll turn Gaza into an 'isolated desert' of 'rubble' (not that you'll find the BBC reporting that).

Hamas can't get any further than they've got, and their incursion will be squashed quickly enough. It's no war - the issue is how much punishment Israel choose to give Gaza/the West Bank, and whether they decide to occupy Gaza.

Tie

Yep. It's a massive own goal politically, but the whole thing looked doomed from the off. A G7 country unable to finish building a train line because they can't manage the budget, or figure out how to fund it ain't a great look.

None of the countries are rich - Paraguay, Uruguay, Morocco and Argentina are far from it. That said, 6 host countries from 3 continents is just weird.

He did well this day. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44046850 Proper man management - he motivated the players and kept us up. His track record, on the whole, is decent.

So we only the game because someone scored a goal? That's kind of the point.

I've not seen anything of Abu to have an opinion. If he's around the match day squad, I'd imagine that means KWP at left back, with Abu giving alternative cover. SAA has loads of promise, but realistically he isn't getting on the pitch ahead of Fraser, Edozie or AA (whether he should is another matter though!). I suspect Fraser is on a typical PL to EFL loan, ie we pay more of his wages if he doesn't play. It's a shame for SAA, but he'll develop more playing for the u21's than sitting on the bench. His time will come - we've got a gem there.

Navy

Indeed...as he says "The biggest number I look for is how many wins we've got and how many goals we're scoring." All other stats are irrelevant bollox.

Abu has apparently been training with the first team and isn't in the u21 squad tonight.

Spinning

Yep, and very underrated... that scene in the cafe too. Brutal.

Great actor, one of my all time favourites Loved his little role in layer cake, especially when he said this to Daniel Craig's character: "You're born, you take shit. You get out in the world, you take more shit. You climb a little higher, you take less shit. Till one day you're up in the rarefied atmosphere and you've forgotten what shit even looks like. Welcome to the layer cake son".

That's a very confused statement. If the people arriving aren't doing anything wrong in your eyes, then it must follow that the gangs helping them arrive aren't doing anything wrong. Conversely, if the gangs helping the people arrive are "criminal gangs" then it must follow that the people are doing something illegal.

County

Candy

I get that, but the test is whether it's in the interests of justice to prosecute. The chances of a conviction are just one consideration. She'll never see the light of day again, so more guilty verdicts, all while giving that odious woman airtime, seems unnecessary to me.

None. I can't see how it's in the interests of justice to prosecute.

(Alicia) Silverstone

None of that is "turning on him". I said way back on page 4 or so of the thread that I thought he'd be crap, and that his track record suggested that he couldn't set a team up to defend, and that we'd play a dull brand of possession football. That was me expressing what was, frankly, bloody obvious, but it wasn't me "turning on him". I'm disappointed that I was right.