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Fulham's players, I'm guessing, will have relegation wage drop clauses so will be keen to move. If Burnley players have the same, it's academic if they stay up. Nothing strange there. Non story.

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I'm not making excuses. You said he ain't a LB and I agreed. I'm also saying I think that he had a decent game. You disagree which is fine.

He isn't a full back, nobody is claiming that he is. He's a right sided CB doing a job at LB. Judging by the reactions to other people's posts compared to yours, it seems that the general view is that he did ok. There's not much to debate if your opinion is that he was shit.

For me, his best days are gone, but he started well for us and added something to the team. Although I thought he was our worst player against Liverpool, I think he's finding his way back after a spell out. The Long comparison is unfair. Very different players in their prime, and very different now. On balance, I'm happy that he'll be around the place next season.

Yep. He had a decent game. He kept Alexander-Arnold quiet, and Salah wasn't the threat he can be.

Indeed. Canning her, sending a remainer to a leave town, all shows either a) a party out of touch with its core, or b) a party trying to reinvent itself but being unclear about what it's doing. It's a mess.

Strong words, but impossible to follow where you're coming from on the Labour reshuffle. Rayner is everything to Labour's core vote that Starmer isn't. Seeing her job change in the aftermath of this election doesn't send any sort positive message that the party understands where it's going wrong...perhaps you can explain the positives of the reshuffle and particularly the Rayner situation.

My politics are very much left of centre (the "leftie" badge is silly) I agree with the article and it largely echoes what I posted above. Whoever is driving the labour policy machine has got it badly wrong. The labour party needs to understand who it represents and what it intends to do. At the moment I haven't got a clue who they are, and one problem they have is that this tory government are from "rightie" and have swallowed up the middle ground voters.

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Yep. I can't see a single benefit in highlighting it. I think it was Morgan Freeman who said something similar years ago and he probably knows a bit about the subject.

Thing is, the idiot who did it now knows he's got under his skin. Although this online racism shouldn't be happening, it'll only get worse the more the victims highlight it. I don't understand how people think that highlighting it helps.

Fuck me, this is tedious. I haven't got a clue what your point is and I don't think you do!! Yep, he changed the keeper. You say it made no difference to the result. It's therefore a non point. Let it go mate.

This is a thread about tonight's match. There's no point in waffling on about our change of keeper in tonight's match unless you're saying it was relevant to tonights match!! Jeez

This is a thread about tonight's match. There's no point in waffling on about our change of keeper in tonight's match unless you're saying it was relevant to tonights match!! Jeez.

Then your point in the context of tonights result is as pointless as SKD. Arguing for the sake of it.

Unless you're saying that Forster playing ahead of McCarthy made a difference to the result, the point you make is academic to tonights result.

Are you honestly saying that you think tonight will have gone better if McCarthy had played?

I'd hope so. £10 million plus in wages a year for those 3 keepers. Mental.

Being poor is a different point. You've been saying that changing keepers impacts the team. Man City and Chelsea change their defensive players every game. That's much more disruptive than changing keepers. Regardless, we wouldn't have won if McCarthy was playing so I'm not of the point you're making in the context of tonight's result.

Chelsea are arguably the best English club team on current form. They change their back 5 every game. We're keeping a settled back 4. I don't share the opinion (it's not a fact) that changing a keeper unsettles the defence in front of them.

I think its a bit of both. Give them both games to prove themselves to us and others, then make a decision on who to move on if/when offers come in.

You're struggling with the whole we all can have an opinion thing aren't you.

We didn't deserve that 2nd goal. Lots of positives from this game, and Liverpool didn't look good because we didn't let them.

Yep. He's absolutely what we've missed in the middle. He runs between the lines, makes space for others.