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You're comparing apples with kebabs mate.

Edit. Just realised this was a BBC thread.

What's confusing SoG? Is France a dangerous place mate?

That's why she ticks every box.

The fact that they are safe before they make an unsafe journey to get here tells me that they are not coming here to seek asylum/safety.

You misunderstand the concept of asylum SOG. It is different to illegal economic migration.

Being around family is not a safety issue. Having better financial prospects (I think that's what you meant) is not a safety issue. Any migrant who is in France is safe from anything they left their home country to escape. Not one of them needs to travel any further... wanting to is not need.

They are rich enough to pay people smugglers... that's how they end up on the boats of people smugglers. Isn't putting the money they'd give to the people smugglers better used on starting a life in one of the other safe countries they've passed through?

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Ship

Yep. I'm staggered that we've had people on here focusing on his potential. What we need is a keeper capable of keeping the ball out of the net now. Bazunu just isn't good enough. I'm with you on McCarthy - he's far from perfect - but even at his worst for us he's no worse than Bazunu, and at his best, he's a hell of a lot better.

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Not sure I follow you on this one Del, or understand the point you're trying to make. Many people criticised the government, and most people could see that there were different options. Whatever you choose to say now, it's been obvious throughout that the government were caught between rocks and hard places, and that people with the opposite opinion would have whined (and did) about every decision they made.

Hurricane

Most of us had certain views on what the government should and shouldn't do. That doesn't alter that the government were damned whatever they chose to do.

Blimey.

Which of our other 10's have offered more this season than Walcott has since he's been back in the team? On recent form, like him as a player or not, he's our best option in that position at the moment.

I'm not going to look back and assess what people said... that'd be applying hindsight. Turn your view 180 degrees...seems that we're getting smug comments from someone who wanted less and now feels vindicated with the benefit of hindsight. The bottom line is that some people were cautious and others weren't. I have no appetite to over analyse it...as I've said, different countries made different decisions at different times. Some decisions were correct, others were shockers, but the sheer number of different approaches tells anyone with an open mind that there was never a right or wrong approach.

Bizarre that you suggest that I "hate" Baz. I just think he's a poor keeper. Bednarek was solid defensively yesterday and marshalled that back 4. My only issue with his performance was hitting touch when a welly upfield was the better option BUT having Baz behind him undoubtedly impacted his judgement.