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His long throws were sh*t. He clearly refined his technique at Stoke but for us they were almost always is to clear. The best one I remember was for Tessem to score a winner against Sunderland.

I’d say it was a very high percentage, personally, including the majority of our current squad.

Tadic is probably the third best player I've seen play for Saints, after Virgil and Tiss, he was also a key player in the best two seasons I can remember. It'd say we definitely got the best out of him, at least under Koeman, Ajax just gave him the chance to play CL football and a domestic league which Steve De Ridder tore to shreds. Lemina... well he's miraculously below us in the table, let's see if he has another tantrum and downs tools for Wolves too. Hojbjerg is Hojbjerg. Mr 7/10, an industrious ball recycler in any shirt. My personal answer to this question would be Gabbiadini. I know he's not uprooted any trees anywhere else but there were times when he looked like a hell of a player for us. I can't help but wonder how he might have done in a Koeman team, if we'd had him on the bench instead of Long.

Having someone strong leading the line is completely different from playing a ‘knock it long for the big man’ style of football. Pelle was surrounded by excellent ball players, who played it in and off him. All of last season we were notably weaker without Adams leading the line.

It’d help if we didn’t keep signing it. Despite being terrible, we have this weird habit of signing players who can’t even make our match day squad.

For the price of travel and a match ticket at the Etihad, you could fly to actual Poznan and have a much, much nicer weekend.

That's not how we played with Pelle.

Who is selling reliable, clinical PL standard #9s for anywhere close to our budget? TP, Archer, Stewart and BBD can all lead the front line with varying degrees of success but better than them gets expensive.

Muslims ≠ Arabs

Feels like yesterday I was getting called an idiot by quite a few people for suggesting maybe we shouldn’t ’just pay whatever it takes’ to get him in. There have been more than enough precautionary tales across various clubs in January to know to keep our powder dry. Andy Carroll has to be the most hilarious. £35m in 2011 is probably £90m in todays prices.

Shhh, we don’t mention that bit. The slave trade was every white person capturing and selling Africans, end of discussion. Also Arabs have never been involved at all.

Another case of people choosing the exact interpretation of the exact moment in history which they feel they’re the victim of. As has been pointed out we can reasonably demand reparations from many European nations, not to mention the Catholic Church, so where does it all end? If we can trace homosapiens back to east Africa, are they ultimately responsible for the whole worlds colonialism?

Can’t really see us spending anything, January is notoriously poor value and we’re not going to sign anyone who’s going to make any difference in terms of staying up. I don’t think we’ll need to do much in summer either, we already have a massive squad of Championship players. Me might sell a couple, possibly TP, KWP or ABK.

Knock it up to the big man and get runners to feed off the knock downs doesn’t really cut it in the PL in 2024.

No system is flawlessly fair and equal but you get a red card for a challenge like that nineteen times out of twenty, with VAR.

That’s not our only hope though, is it. People get carried away predicting double figures when we play anyone in the top six and it’s never happened. Most recently it was Arsenal and we were leading after an hour or so.

Utterly astonishing that anyone in the, "traumatised black community," would choose this as a hill to die on. The total denial of the fact that Kaba was quite clearly a dreadful person and the reason he was shot had nothing to do with skin colour is just amazing.

We’ve tried that.

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I disagree. The handful of cases you’ve highlighted (going purely by media articles and without having the information or expertise to give them an accurate medical assessment) do not negate the right of thousands of people every year do have their pain and suffering ended quickly and with dignity. Even that is assuming all your fears about mission creep are realised and dubious cases start to creep through the net, which at the moment there is no suggestion will happen.

We can cross that bridge if and when we come to it, for what is currently being proposed I see no reasonable cause for concern. As Weston said, more information would be needed for that specific case and whether or not two doctors would sign him off as being terminally ill.

Durkin always seemed fair, my main memory of him is sending off Sol Campbell for a foul on Delgado in a 3-2 win over Arsenal.

There are many valid criticisms of Mike Dean but this isn’t one of them. It was an absolutely ridiculous challenge by Jankewitz, young or not, and as blatant a red as you’ll see.

Okay, I get our concerns death of loved ones is never a pleasant topic to discuss and if you start adding a choice into equation it starts to get pretty heavy. The criteria of this bill are pretty clear and definitive to me: https://bills.parliament.uk/publications/55997/documents/4980 It states quite clearly the need for multiple safeguards against the issues people are concerned about. All of the arguments were taken into account when the bill was drafted, hence the need for a clear informed decision, signed by an independent witness, who cannot stand to profit from the will. That’s as well as a sound, independent medical diagnosis of terminal illness, and a certified second opinion from a doctor who cannot be a colleague of the original doctor. People with disabilities and mental illness are specifically mentioned as being excluded.

First point, stuff like that was said by many people to try and discredit many issues they disagreed with. If you don’t want to accept that people say that kind of thing but we’re talking about a much higher level of hysteria here, literally Nazi levels of social cleansing were the elderly and disable are being coerced into unnecessary euthanasia as a matter of public convenience. You and hypo have repeatedly ignored the same point throughout this discussion; this law will need to be based on medical sound diagnosis’ of a terminal illness. It’s not something you can just pop into Boots for on your lunch break, you will need a doctor (with a second opinion) to sign off on the fact that you are terminally ill and/or of seriously degraded quality of life. If you’re 83, fit as a fiddle and tell a doctor, "well I want my grandkids to have a deposit for a house," your application is going to be rejected. Anyway, I’ve made my point, we’ll see what gets said in parliament. It’s just a shame that if it does get defeated, people in unbearable pain will have to go through the discomfort of travelling abroad to end their life humanely.