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The best available as in, the best we can get within our budget. We may not have the budget of the supposed Super League clubs but by virtue of simply being in the PL we've got more financial clout than the likes of Ajax, Celtic, Copenhagen, Anderlecht and a bunch of other European giants.

He wasn’t. The point is that we haven’t gone out to try and find the best coach possible, we’ve appointed someone who’s already here out of convenience and it’s most definitely ‘jobs for the boys’. It seems to be part of a culture of giving jobs to people who are supposedly popular in the dressing room, like Long and Walcott, which I’m not a fan of.

I think it's naive, wishful and probably a little arrogant to think you can influence somebody's entire philosophy on life just with some simple slogans and gestures. They only have the meaning which you give them. Just look at the debate SKD has been involved in on this thread. He's quite unequivocally opposed to the knee, so there's one of two possible things going on here: He's a raging racist. Well, you've clearly done nothing whatsoever to change his mind despite years of endless gesturing and slogans. Unless you believe he's suddenly about to flip and see the error of his ways upon seeing the knee for the 47th time against West Ham, I think we can file this under 'Not Working'. He's not a racist, in which case all this has achieved is a load of pointless bickering and people who were never the problem to begin with are now the target of the campaign. I'd like to think it's option 2. Obviously there are people with racial prejudices out there but it's not my place to fling accusations around. Whatever you believe personally, you'd have to agree that in either case, it isn't working. Regardless of what you might want to believe about getting the message out there and making people confront their prejudices, that's clearly not the case.

Do I have any idea what Kelvin Davis brings to the training ground? No. Do I find it just a little bit convenient that one of the best available coaches in Europe just happened to be a goalkeeper who'd been here 10 years already? Yes. Is it a bit of a coincidence that we needed to hire another coach at exactly the same moment that Kelvin retired from playing? Also yes. Do I think he's a major reason for our current problems? Probably not.

Not happy with this, personally. I don't think he's done anywhere near enough to warrant another contract here and haven't rated him for years. Odd how he's, "one of our own," when there're no better offers on the table but when Everton came in and trumped our bid with a bit more money three years ago he was one of someone else's. Anyway, fingers crossed a 32 year old has a sudden upturn in form and fitness I guess.

I think the most impartial explanation I can think of as to why the whole BLM issue is so divisive is this: Supposing we flipped it from being a predominantly left wing movement to a right wing one; A bunch of white guys set up a movement called, ‘No more paedos’ and begin actively promoting it. Slowly it gathers public support, they set up a website which casually includes a ‘Brexit means Brexit’ logo. It starts getting celebrity support... Trump, Farage, Morgan, Hopkins, Robinson... all the usual favourites. Trump suggests building another camp where they can lock up Mexican paedos trying to cross the border. Farage suggests that over 10,000 have come in legally from the EU. Hopkins advocates sending all those ‘brown’ paedos back to the country they came from. All lovely stuff, with exactly the same arguments and counter arguments. "Just because we’re taking a knee for NMP doesn’t mean we support Trump," "people keep saying we’re fascist but they’re too thick to even know what that means," "we’re supporting the message of NMP, not the organisation NMP, FFS!" Clearly, if you’re of any kind of liberal persuasion you aren’t going to support ‘NMP’ but does that mean you think it’s okay to abuse children? Of course not. I think that’s the crux of the matter; you can’t simply label yourself as something and then demand public support. Not when factions of your movement, under banners bearing the exact same acronym, are displaying such undesirable, sometimes extremist, attitudes. The Premier League would have been so much better of just sticking to ‘Kick it Out’, IMO.

Has there ever been a more boring promotion than Norwich, Watford and B’mouth/Swansea? You can bet your arse it’ll be West Brom, Fulham and whichever team loses the playoff final coming up next year, too.

Pissing me right off. Has it been above 15 degrees yet in 2021?

That interview is pretty famous and a wonderful example of how to debate someone with a toxic ‘woke’ agenda, without falling into the traps they set to try and make you out to be a villain. Cathy ‘So you’re saying...’ Newman was clearly out to get him and he had a calm, well thought out answer for everything.

Not that I’d support booing it but just to correct this point; the players aren’t doing it to support equality. They’re doing it because they’re afraid to not do it and end up being branded a racist.

Your holiness and his excellency.

Wolves have to be a realistic target for us. Everton away and Man Utd at home left for them, they’ll get nothing playing like that.

We’re 21 points off Chelsea in 4th, not 10-12.

I have to say, I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone using a 4-0 home defeat to attempt to prove a manager’s prowess before. I can’t see this as anything other than a bad day at work for all concerned and a rather insipid reflection of where they are in the table.

Stu, JWP, Rom, KWP for me.

Good old fashioned 3-1. Lambert, Lallana and Hammond on the scoresheet.

Seriously? He’s a defensive midfielder who’s been on the pitch 9 minutes.

Great run and touch there from Tella

Fucking tackle that was!

Tella is on. Dejenepo has been here two years and hardly needs ‘looking at’. Obafemi is an odd shape. Don’t see the problem, personally.

It won’t rain in the second half.

Your take on it is based on the assumption that Ralph shares your view that TM is useless, which clearly isn’t the case. He’s not great but I’d rather start him than Walcott.

Odd that someone would believe something like this. I can only assume we're making a serious consideration to sign him permanently and want to see more of him. That or Ralph simply rates him above anyone else on the bench.

Sounds very much like Klopp trying to talk up his price a tad. Minamino won’t be getting regular game time for them next season and I’m sure they’d consider a reasonable offer from someone. If TM plays the last three this season, you’d have to assume we’re at least interested in him.

What a goal that is.