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Genuine question - what would you be concerned about, and why?

I don't remember the riots mate.

What's that got to do with Alcaraz not being good enough with the ball when he has it?!

Are people opposed to mass immigration of white people, or is it just the brown ones? I get the impression that they're ok with the Aussies and Germans, but not the Syrians and Sudanese. Racism is at the core of this imo.

It doesn't matter what we think of ABK. Sounds like Martin and the players think he's a bit of a cock, and for that reason alone, he has to go. As for Alcaraz, I agree with Blackmore. He's decent running with the ball, busy with his running off the ball, pretty poor with the ball, and lacking in discipline. In a possession based team, that's no good, so he may as well go.

In principle, that's sensible. What do you have in mind?

As I say, at times like this, people show their true colours.

That's a hornets nest badger! I'm not going there - this place is already too much about posters rather than the posts and the issues.

Any chance of staying on topic Del rather than dredging up some random shite from years ago that everyone else had forgotten about, and couldn't give two shiny shits about in 2024.

SoG's back on the payroll so they're up to speed. (Sorry SoG, couldn't resist).

It wouldn't surprise me to see changes to statute and process to fast track where possible, but trial of either way or indictable offences without jury would need a revolutionary change to our legal system that I don't see happening. That said, there are a lot of part time judges out there who could be ticketed to here cases outside of their usual remit, so if nothing else its possible to push more people through the system with some thought and ingenuity. Starmer knows the system well, and has a very astute DPP, so let's see what happens.

Yep. Conflation is an easy tool for tools who ain't the sharpest tools. Stupid people, on here and out there, are showing themselves at the moment. Sad times.

I don't care what they believe they're good at, I judge them (and the players, and managers) on what they actually do. SR cannot be criticised for not putting money into the club. They went hell for leather at trying to keep us up. The problem is that the people they trusted to spend money wisely, spent it on absolute dross. No disrespect intended, but I'm not interested in VA FC.

Arson with intent carries a very long stretch, and should. The interesting thing is going to be whether the attitudes of the jurors trying these muppets is aligned to said muppets, or of normal people.

There's something in that. The bloke is dangerous and needs moderation.

Times like this are a great opportunity to cull social media "friends" and followers. The amount of people who I thought were decent have shown themselves to be proper eejits. One lass today posted that this is all justified because we don't want our country overrun by rapists and terrorists, whilst people like her old dad have to sit in the cold. A wee bit of conflation going on there. Apparently Farage will sort it out in five minutes. And that's the more sensible end of the posting spectrum.

Sure, Ralph may have done better with better players, but my point was that if we had better players available to another manager after Ralph's sacking, then we'd probably had better managers wanting the gig. That recruitment failure is on the people hired by SR to buy players. Where SR can't be blamed is their willingness to put money in - they pumped shed loads in during that Jan window and for that (if not the choice of players) they deserve credit.

I get that, but had the player recruitment been better, but Ralph still failed, we may have been able to attract a better manager. Sure, Jones was a disaster, but player recruitment has been our biggest disaster imo.

Had their scouts done a better job with the cash they'd thrown at them would you take the same view? Their issue has been recruitment, but as owners they can't be expected to know a good player from a bad one. They've been let down by their employees decisions and judgement - that doesn't make them bad owners.

He's not. He's 6ft 2 (1.89m in new money), and solid enough. Similar height and build of Michael Carrick and Busquets, and they hardly got/get pushed around.

Yes, in the DM role, but O'Riley would be one of a midfield 3, and Carvalho would probably play wide. I'd be delighted with both of them.

Brewing

What do you expect the PM to say to rioters, "crack on folks, we're fucked off too"? Jesus fucking wept.

Not everyday for months, no.

Amen to all of that.