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Because I can't say it particularly bothers me. I'm just surprised that people who are so concerned about the rights of Arab settlers apparently have no interest in this story.

I’m surprised that people are discussing Eurovision lyrics and nobody has mentioned this https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68945445 Knowing how passionately some of you feel about the rights of Arab villagers, having their settlements forcefully cleared, I’m surprised there’s not more outrage at this use of ‘lethal force’.

No. I’d focus on becoming a professional footballer and making first team appearances, the money will come flooding in when you start getting good. I’d rather be the next Rice, Bellingham or Grealish than the next Winston Bogarde or Terry Cooke.

Interesting team today. Turner and Abbas both in the 14 but don’t make the match day 11, looks like we’re going for the extra spin option of Organ.

Which is fine a ps a sentiment but doesn’t actually address the issue. Stewart is not fit enough to be starting, so the alternatives are Mara or moving AA out of position. I’d rather keep AA where he’s best and have at least one credible goal threat, so for me it’s Mara by process of elimination.

24 hour time out on this one, minus a solid page of posts there was absolutely no need for. Unless your name’s Brian and you’re being crucified, there’s no need to bring anyone’s wife into a thread about Israel.

If Adams isn’t fit it’ll almost certainly be Mara in his place and, as much as I don’t rate the latter, that’s the obvious and correct decision. Stewart’s return needs to be managed steadily. Best case; I could see him playing the last half hour, or at a stretch the second half, at Wembley, should we make it.

I quite like the City one. The sponsors logo doesn’t look like a piece of wrong coloured plastic which has been glued on at the last second like half of ours in the past. Also the space it’s one fits neatly into the stripes. Basically, look at Saints 2008-10 home shirt for everything I find dreadful about a football shirt. Edit: This year’s home kit is crap too. I said it’d just look half pink from any sort of distance and it does.

I doubt he prioritises being slightly more popular with some random strangers on an internet message board over PL football and the chance of being in the squad for a major international tournament. I'm a Saints fan, I'd have done exactly the same thing and would expect a fairly decent reception if I ever came back.

It’s an emotive topic but there’s no need for personal digs about people’s private life.

Don’t we? That’s news to me.

That makes no sense, it was all with West Ham and their squad, he wouldn’t have that here and even if he did it’s now in the past and they’re on a downwards trajectory. You could stick Pellegrino in charge of Man City, he’d probably finish about 7th and we could sit here and sarcastically so, “oooh 7th in the PL isn’t good enough, we’re too ambitious apparently!” For all the comments that we’d be harder to beat and more likely to stay up, Moyes has been on the wrong end of some absolute thumpings this season. 5-0 against Chelsea, 5-2 against Palace, 6-0 against Arsenal, 5-0 against Fulham, 5-1 against Liverpool, 4-1 against Villa.

TBH, I’d say no. He’s a hit and miss manager and there’s nothing about him that makes me think he’d definitely take us to a level beyond RM. West Ham are looking a consecutive bottom half finishes the way their results are going which is a bit ‘meh’ really.

One for the statisticians - have Man Utd ever finished a PL season on negative GD? Currently -3 on the live table.

That being said, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to score a few.

If you consider my post to be a ‘rant’ and ‘having a pop’ then I can’t really say anything to that. I was offering an insight as to why SOG regularly gets laughed at on this thread and addressing his (IMO deliberate) misconception that people are laughing directly at dead children and not his posts. If anyone finds that abrasive I’m not sure what else to say.

The problem you have is that you are very persistently outraged by any act of injustice committed by only one side of this conflict. When Iran launched a massive drone and missile strike at Israel, it could have killed thousands of innocent Israel men, women and children. Such a slaughter was only prevented by their own iron dome defence. Your response to such an attack was complete silence, not one word of indignation. You are approaching self-parody levels of bias and umbrage. The equivalent of someone saying, "I’m not racist but look at all these examples of tax fraud and fly tipping committed by only black people!" That’s why you’re attracting laughing emojis.

If only they could learn to be more like Hamas and their liberal acceptance of pro-Israeli media channels.

Lando Norris finally getting his first win and McLaren's first for three years.

It seems they wrote ‘Professional Football Team’ on some of the paperwork and are being prosecuted under the trades descriptions act.

TBH it doesn’t even need to go as far as sexual assault in order to be a serious issue. Even if 100% of trans women are completely harmless and respectful, there’s still an issue of privacy, dignity and consent. I’m not a sex offender, I don’t present any threat to women as such but that doesn’t give me the right to override their consent when it comes to nudity, regardless of how I ‘self identify’. It works both ways too. Egg mentioned how young boys would feel seeing a bloke in a dress getting changed; for me that’s not an issue. Far more of a problem would be if I was a teenage boy and a naked girl was stood next to me ‘self identifying’ as a man. All joking aside, how would you feel standing around naked with all the boys you knew at school, each with a stonking great horn. It’d be highly damaging to a young man’s psyche.

People always say this as if it's somehow unique to Saints but it's nonsense. Even Leicester lost to QPR and Plymouth.

We’re unbeaten against the rest of the playoff sides, with 14 points from six games. Even if you include Ipswich, 14 from 8 would be 81 points extrapolated over a full season, that’s a solid playoff points total by itself.

So the flat track bullies beat another crap team. Excellent performance and result, just what we needed to get back in gear for the playoffs. Leeds won’t be looking forward to Norwich.

Both teams have clearly taken their foot off the throttle, understandable really. Obviously the result won’t count for anything but having listened to Leeds fans call us the, "flat track bullies who only beat sh*t teams," all season, it would be hilarious to do the double over them.