Lighthouse

When I last went I parked on the street about 20 mins walk away. That was in League 1 though, Adkins first win as I recall, so crowds probably a bit smaller than they’ll be next Friday.

Another post goes by with any definition of anything, this is the only thing anyone can come up with, "its, obviously different to biological sex." Fantastic, I’m bored with hearing what it’s not and what it’s different too, what is it? Give me a clear definition of gender, women and the non-biological social behaviours which apparently define them. Okay, so you agree with me then that there’s no need whatsoever for biological men to compete in women’s sports and use women’s changing rooms? Excellent. Unfortunately most people advocating for ‘trans rights’ don’t seem to share your view.

That argument holds no water at all. Firstly, gender is based on Latin, it’s existed as a word meaning the difference between men and women for centuries, long before anyone started identifying as things. I keep reading this argument about ‘behaviours and societal norms’ but everyone then chickens out of explaining what exactly these ‘woman behaviours’ are which constitute gender. Perhaps you can list some of them for me. The other, more sinister aspect of that argument is that the people saying it don’t believe it at all and have no intention of acknowledging the supposed difference between ‘biological sex’ and ‘social gender’. If they did genuinely believe that then none of these issues would exist. Trans woman can just compete in men’s sports and use women’s changing rooms, because they’re separated based on biological sex. So there’s no issue, right? People identify as a different gender to their birth sex and what do they do: attempt to change their biology using surgery and hormones, then ask for access to things designed for biological women. Finally, it’s not a diatribe. I’ve not said anything, unfair, irrational or hateful which I can’t back up with sound facts and logic. If you don’t like that, fine, but you’re going to need to answer a few basic questions first, like ‘what is a woman’ and what are these society behaviours you need to exhibit to define yourself as such?

I reckon we'll be about 5th. Start poorly with a side still lacking confidence from last year and come on stronger second half of the season.

Oh right, and how do women look, speak and act?

The physical process is nothing more than cosmetic surgery. A person who has developed from an embryo to have testicles and produce sperm cannot become a person who has developed as an embryo to have ovaries and produce eggs. That’s the literal, physical, factual definition of gender, a necessary truth you cannot change no matter how much you might want to. If you physically remove the genitalia of a man, you have not created a woman. I don’t know how to say any more plainly that that isn’t true. The person in this example has cut off some body parts and in their own mind is now identifying as their own personal idea of something. Their physical gender has not changed. All of this is like someone saying they’re trans-astrological, because they’re a Pisces but they choose to identify as Libra. Carry on, I don’t care, but if you need me to accept that you’ve physically changed your birth month from August to February as a truth, I can’t do that. That’s the big problem here, known truths are being willingly conflated with subjective personal identities, deliberately, to make it seem like the truths are up for debate. They aren’t.

You cannot transition physically, you can only ‘transition’ your own personal paradigm of gender in your mind. To that extent you can identify as whatever you want, but it’s of no relevance to the rest of society. If you want to identify as a non-binary woman, fine but you’re making up your own definitions for those words, to everyone else they are essentially meaningless.

Individually, no, but we’ve just collected far too many players. We’ve only managed to lose four so far and even that’s offset by our two signings. For example, realistically we’re going to have to shift three CBs before bringing one in. We’ve also got seven AMs and six FBs, when really we need four of each.

I’ve got a day off tomorrow, I was going to head over and watch for a few hours, weather permitting. I guess that’s not happening now.

We’ll ask JWP if he’s still got Poch’s number, ask him to stick in a cheeky £55m bid just to put the willies up the Scousers.

Good grief, there’s some sh*te on that list.

It’s not irrelevant, if you’re selling a house you look at what the other, similar houses in your neighbourhood are going for. Keita’s release clause just means there was a maximum Liverpool were obliged to pay in order to sign him. Without that clause his fee would have been higher. If we’re comparing the two, Lavia has already played for Belgium, which is a much tougher team to get into than Guinea, let’s be honest. One has played PL football, the other CL. I’d say the former was more important when signing a player, you want a player who’s going to perform domestically every week. I’d say we have every right to expect a similar fee.

Morgan is a contrarian who goes for the low hanging fruit by bringing a bunch of unhinged lunatics on the show who are easy to argue against. He’s the TV equivalent of the people who constantly need to tell everyone how shocked and disgusted they are by some nonsense they’ve read on Twitter, nothing more.

We need to get our wage bill down and bring in a bit of moneys we don’t need to sell our best players on the cheap. If we can offload a few more Diallos and Orsics we're under very little pressure to sell the likes of JWP and Lavia, unless we get a deal which suits us. £42.5 plus a few add ins sounds like a reasonable enough deal to me, although still less than they paid for Naby Keita.

Not as much as knocking Blackpool out of the cup and having pundits call it a ‘giant killing’.

Makes us look weaker if we don’t, as if we’re resigned to selling them.

As soon as I saw his name on the team sheet, I knew we weren’t getting any points tonight.

The whole point is that he is a proven PL quality player and we all know there’s an extra tax on home grown players. JWP isn’t some Richard Wright type signing filling up the quota on the reserves, he’s good enough (and fit enough) to play regularly for most teams in the bottom half. People are spending £30m plus on completely unproven players who’ve only ever performed in places like Austria or Belgium, JWP is clearly worth more than that.

So they want our captain, England international and one of the best free kick takers in the world for £10m less than they paid for Scamacca, or £5m less than Leicester paid for Daka. I needed a laugh today.

Then McCarthy came in and was even worse. Something like 17 conceded in 6 games. Also, we lost 1-0 in the league 9 times. Does that sound like a team who’s main problem is between the sticks?

Exactly what I said. Baz was substandard and if anyone wants to argue his mistakes cost us ten points, compared to a top level keeper, then so be it. My point is that even if you swap him for peak Niemi, we still get relegated. Therefore saying that he was the main reason we went down is nonsense.

So in other words, if we had a perfect keeper, who made no mistakes, we’d still have been relegated.

Yeah, all those games where Moi, AA, Che and Onuachu were slamming in goals but we lost 4-3 because of Baz really cost us.

My gut feeling is he’ll be our first choice this year, show a definite improvement on last season and overall be quite decent.