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Goa way.

#gashlikeleminade

I think letting the relationship with Fonte sour and not replacing him adequately has been our biggest single mistake. We will never pay enough to keep Van Dijks and Manes around long-term but Fonte was a leader, an experienced pro and had risen up through the divisions with us. He "got it". We needed to abandon our model of resale-value obsession and bring in someone who could play the same role. Instead we have tried Gardos, Hoedt, Vestergaard, Bednarek, Stephens..... all young guys who we presumably hoped we could sell on. There's nothing wrong with that model but it needs to be balanced. Our success to that point was built on mixing youth (Shaw, Lallana, Schneiderlin, Cork, Jay Rod) with experienced stalwarts (Fonte, Lambert, Jaidi, Hammond, Butterfield etc) We got arrogant and extreme and it's ****ed us over. Now, unfortunately, I don't think anyone at the club knows how to fix it.

It's just announcing a new coach or DOF. It's not something that needs careful PR and internal management. Frankly, no one will give two ****s unless they have a previous relationship with the people appointed.

Why do you need to wait for the players to come back? It hasn't been announced because there's nothing to announce and we continue to drift aimlessly.

Basically, letting Lemina leave without a replacement was criminal.

3-1 to the Arse.

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Incidentally, if Going for Gold was still on, would it be impacted by Brexit? Denmark, yer playin catchup. Wouldyer play or paaaass?

Yeah, it was a joke. But the basic point about ITV stands. Very tacky. Although I think Rylan is doing a great job with Super Market Sweep. He could be the new Dale Winton / Graham Norton / Matthew Kelly.

Yes, but the ITV crowd is very low-brow and poor/simple so they would be likely to favour the class-warrior.

Such a shame we've gone to **** as there are European places up for grabs this season!

That Twitter masquerade by the Conservatives is shameful.

You say we are "massively worse". I'm not sure that's true. Last season under Ralph we lost to Cardiff twice and failed to beat Huddersfield at home. We also failed to beat Bournemouth at home and went out of the cup to Derby. We got a completely flukey three points against Spurs when we should have been buried by half time. I can't really recall a match where we have played well for 90 minutes for about three seasons. We were crap last year but Cardiff, Fulham and Huddersfield were crapper. The reality is that we have keepers no other team would want, centre backs no other team would want, thread-bare options at full-back, zero depth in centre midfield. I'm not sure if he's a good manager or just injected some energy and fight at the right time (like Hughes in the previous season). I am sure that our squad is a big problem though.

Yeah, Ralph is well hyped for the new season, there's a great plan in place and things are looking up.

What's pointless about it? It's worth it simply to have your say, if nothing else. You can quietly get mugged off if you like.

Back when I was at sixth form we used to get decent bands at the Guildhall. Saw Placebo, Supergrass, Foo Fighters, Terrorvision there. And Bush, which I apologize for.

Hi Paul, sorry you didn’t get it. Best of luck though!

No, it isn't "basic" discrimination, it's merit-based discrimination. It's because women take more career breaks, more time off and generally make different choices to men which often put them at a career disadvantage. If you can find me a company which systematically pays a man more than a woman for the same entry-level job I would be astonished.

They also support McDonalds workers striking for £15 an hour.

When they are mainland-based and their company has just been subject to a hostile takeover by the state and they weren’t allowed to take their own cash out of the country, I think it’s fair to assume there is a level of government scrutiny here. I doubt they were too chuffed about a pretty nondescript businessman with limited financial clout owning such a high-profile asset overseas.

Marxists don’t normally cede power with quite that level of lubrication.

That's harder to draw though, mush!

Well, no one knows anything about that company or its accounts.