Lighthouse

Not so much opening the door as refusing to nail it shut when asked a leading question. It's his home country, he's hardly going to say, "f**k that place I'm never going back!"

Is it really the west's fault though? We have to take some of the blame for the situation we created in Iraq but apart from that I don't think we've done much wrong tbh. Look at Afghanistan and what happened when we failed to intervene and let the Taliban get on with it. That lead to a completely rogue state, terrorist training camps and eventually 9/11. We haven't been to war in Egypt, Yemen, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Libya or Syria (you can't count the air strikes against the last 2) and yet thats where most of these ideologies are festering.

These people aren't joining ISIS because of headlines in the Sun, Soggy. This kind of mentality comes from decades of indoctrination, sinister Imams with extremist views brainwashing suggestible young Muslims. Sadly these people are beyond help or negotiation. The only way to stop this is to wipe out the leadership. That unfortunately means going in and killing the brain washers, radical clerics and bomb-makers so they can't recruit vulnerable young men. It's a cult and basically no different to the Waco siege in it's mentality. Nobody has joined the Branch Davidians since the siege ended because David Koresh is dead, he can't preach and there is nobody to recruit and brainwash more followers. It's the same principal being played out on a much larger scale.

Oh it's easy. We just let them kill every last man on Earth who doesn't confirm to their insane religious fantasy, then they should be happy and stop killing people. Actually they probably wont because Al Quaeda and ISIS have been killing each other despite having similar ideology but it's worth a try.

For about the 50th time; what is it that Isis want which you think we should offer them, in return for peace?

There can be no negotiation with these people. It's that simple. They are not the IRA, they don't have a sane political agenda. You can't negotiate with people who want world wide mutual annihilation, a judgement day where every man on Earth is brought before Allah, Jihadist are glorified in paradise and receive 72 virgins, whilst all no-believers are cast into the fires of hell for eternity.

That's like going to a Hollywood film producer and saying, "I've got this great title for a movie, all I need is a story line and a script to go with it." What is your peace process? That's just a phrase, a political buzzword to reassure the masses. What specific actions would you take to bring about peace in the middle East? What would you offer ISIS in exchange for a ceasefire on their behalf? What is it that they want, which you are prepared to give them?

How is this conversation going to go exactly. If you were the negotiator, what do you offer them?

And you would be wrong.

The big question IMO - Is it now time for ground forces to go into Syria and Iraq?

Just like everyone knew the Oklahoma City bombing was Muslims and so was the Oslo bombing. Don't give a sh*t if I'm the 'good guy'. The people who did this are utter scum and I wish we lived in a world where Islam didn't exist. Sadly we don't but I prefer to wait until I actually know something before deciding who to blame.

None of you knew anything other than a mass shooting had taken place. Could quite easily have been a bunch of white supremacists unhappy about the number of foreigners in Paris. It wasn't but leaping to conclusions like that doesn't help matters.

Madness. Utter, utter, madness. Some people are just beyond sick; a bunch on complete animals. RIP to all those involved. Such a ridiculous, pointless waste of life.

People said that about the Breivik massacre. How about waiting for some details before blaming the Muslims?

Hardly anyone is 'for sale' but everyone has their price. I think £30m is a reasonable enough price for Mané, who will by then have 2 years left on his contract. The club wont want to let him get to the final year of his deal and end up like Clyne.

Swansea haven't historically been a big club though. It's not like when we came back up to the Prem and all the fair weather fans came flooding back. Also it is fairly isolated. The Swansea metropolitan area is reasonable enough but there really is bugger all outside it. Just water and mountains, you'd have to go to Cardiff to find the next decent sized town and they've got their own club. They can't pull in fans from Basingstoke, Winchester, Bournemouth, Salisbury etc. like we can. Plus rugby is pretty big over there and I'd imagine the Osprey's take up a fair bit of local interest.

They lack the resources really to compete long term. A club that size can have a couple of decent seasons if they're well managed, have a good team spirit and a couple of players like Bony and Michu. Beyond that though, I don't think they have the financial clout to bring in a team of VvD, Wanyama, Mané etc. Their third most expensive signing is Hernandez for £5.5m, which kind of illustrates their limitations. Plus Swansea is miles away from pretty much everywhere.

Somewhat contradictory. First you're saying he is the definition of an 'impact sub' then you say he's not been given a chance; despite making 53 appearances, mainly as a sub. I don't wish he'd seen out his career here as we'd have been paying a big chunk of wages to someone who is no longer good enough. We'd have ended up in a similar boat to the one we're in with Kelvin, clinging on to a player who is well past it largely for nostalgic reasons.

Actually I came to that opinion by having a season ticket and watching Lambert look increasingly off the pace as the season went on. The stand by strikers for that WC squad were Carroll, who'd spent half the year injured and scored 2 goals, and Defoe, who wasn't wanted by Spurs and buggered off to play in the Canadian League. He was hardly keeping Shearer out of the squad.

I'm fairly sure Utd wont be giving us Vardy in part ex.

You mean that one header, from a corner, against a team ranked just below Iran in World football? I was delighted for Rickie, that was probably my favourite ever moment watching England but 4 goals (1 was a pen) in 51 appearances since he left would suggest he has made little impact. Infact we've had a similar return from Yoshida in the same time span.

Apart from pretty much every player in our team you mean? Pelle, Fonte, K Davis and S Davis will all need replacing in the next couple of years, as well as Mané. TV money will provide some of that but a large amount of what we've sold in the past has been reinvested. The money from Morgan and Clyne went on Romeu, Virgil, Clasie, Cedric, Martina, Caulker, Stek and Juanmi.

Yes, I see no reason why we should sell in January either but when he does go it wont be for £50m.

Alright, calm down. Guys, I think we've got a badass here.

The England debut was completely down to his form in our first Prem season, that Scotland game came before the Prem even kicked off. Let's be honest, he only went to the World Cup because there was pretty much nobody else. He was James Beattie if there was no Emile Heskey.