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Which is on Starmer and Rayner tbh. Neither wanted him anywhere near Westminster as he'd end up in the top job. The labour party needs to get it's house in order... The Tories look to be done, and the lib Dems look to be utterly uninterested in entering government...

You think Muslim voters supported legalising prostitution and sex work because it's the "safe option" 😅. They've voted on sectarian lines because of Gaza, which has absolutely nothing to do with domestic politics or Manchester's local issues.

Yeah, it does seem to be that way, but those frictions will have to come home to roost at some point. Really not a fan of them tbh, they've got so many polices i think would be disastrous - Legalising class A drugs and the sex trade, and their stance on open borders and nato/defence (i.e., leaving nato and expelling Nato/US forces from british bases - does Polanski work for russia / china?!) Labour need to get their house in order or they're going to get consumed by the far left, and we'll be left with a choice between two ideologically very opposed parties in the greens and reform, with the centerground completely abandoned - i.e., the country will start to become ungovernable. Anyway, maybe you'll be right and Labour see them off.

Reckon the Greens will win it after their impressive efforts in swaying the Muslim vote away from Labour. Another example of Starmer's weakness and poor decision making as it really wouldn't have taken that much for Labour to hold the seat... and people can say what you want about Zacky P, anyone who can get a large portion of the muslim vote of an area to side with a party promoting LGBQ+ rights and legalising sex work is a formidable politician - uneasy alliance maybe, but thats future PM material 🤣.

Teams won't go bankrupt provided someone is prepared to buy up their debts - which is why it comes down to worth and why Leicester could be in real trouble if they get relegated to League 1 (poorer squad, loss of income - ticket sales, merch, tv monies) etc. At a certain point, clubs are no longer worth enough to buy them out and pay off / service debts, and thats when they go to the wall.

Start strong, sub after its won. No excuses.

I fear this will quickly morph from "who did the ball come off of last", to "was XYZ offside" or "was there a foul/handball etc in the build up". Its bad enough pausing the game for controversy over a goal/offside/penalty/red card... now we're moving towards inflating the ego of video refs everytime the ball goes out of play... Like fucking hell, imagine being in a crowd and for every corner there is a pause for VAR checks.... Those moments in games where a team can pile on the pressure and barrage a defence with 4-5corners in a row... that will be over and done with, they'll get loads of extra time to compose themselves and reset in between each one.... the more frantic the action on a given corner, the longer the pause... they're killing the game with stuff like this i fear. Maybe i'm overreacting and they'll limit this to a 10second review of who it came off - but i bloody doubt it.

Think Stephens has been very good recently, seems a lot more calm and composed in defence, is acting as a leader on the pitch, and has struck up a very effective partnership with THB. I feel very relaxed with him at CB now...

Absolutely a must win game, and to be blunt, we need to be ruthless if we can be. They're newly relegated, which will have a weird effect on them and their pride has been badly stung, so we need to be ready for a reaction... but we simply have to go for it. Edit - i do fear that the recent relegation at their bitter rivals (and the shame of being relegated in Feb) will make this a harder game than we'd like.

He was very good this evening, absolutely deserved his goal, did loads of work which pinned the defenders and created space for azaz and sceinza behind, and was ready for square pass tap ins on at least 2 occasions.

More likely that our game away at Wrexham will be critical. But yes, not ideal, equally though, they'll all have dropped points at some point... end of the day, we've just got to get more points than they do... and that means that the Charlton result really was a dropped bollock when you consider we have much tougher games vs Ipswich and Norwich at home, and Coventry away - all in the not too distance future. We cannot afford to drop any points vs the likes of Wednesday or WBA.

Fantastic result, and fair play to Eckert for going 4-2-2 and pushing for more at the end. Shame about the other results and Charlton on the weekend, but keep going over the next few matches and its on...

If i were QPR (🤣), i would not want fellows and edozie coming on. Christ. With Stewart and archer as an attacking 2....

Results not gone our way at all tonight sadly. Shame about that Charlton cock up on the weekend.

Archer kills an attack with an overhit hopeful through ball... I badly want him to get some confidence... but he's got to be better than this.

Classic RB worldie. Its one of those nights 🤣

May not have been rewarded by a goal, but really good game by Larin tonight.

There are a lot of tired legs on this pitch already. QPR have put a lot of work in with their pressing, tracking, and direct attacks/runs. With their injuries, you'd like to think that will favour us with more mistakes creeping in. Also, wasn't Larin meant to have an awful touch (according to youtube)? 😅

On topic - i would have said Lyon (before the recent troubles), Lisbon / cascais, Porto, Valencia, Seville, and i really enjoyed Madrid and Budapest (history/spas/ruin bars all great) recently - all great choices tbh. Depends what you're after really, and how mobile you are / you're comfortable being.

Wrong thread!

The QPR gameplan can be summed up by... target manning... Most of their attacks are aimed down his side, often direct/long balls, and also targetting the space in between him and the CB. Jander having to do a lot of covering across.

People seem oblivious as to how precarious the current position is imo. Its like society is under a constant misinformation war these days - or at least online. With the current rate of AI advances alone, it could be anywhere between another few months and maybe 2 years before the overwhelming majority of the population will be unable to tell if the videos we're all watching are genuine or not. The way its being used is already akin to Psychological warfare doctrines, i.e., using misinformation to polarise a population along easy dividing lines (race, religion, political ideologies) to essentially drive people apart and make compromise/harmony nearly impossible to achieve. As well as targeting erosion of civil intuitions - MSM, elections/politics, free press, free speech, the police/law etc. And its just building on measures that were being operated before AI - like BLM and Covid - setting people against each other and spreading division and misinformation. Are we blindly and randomly doing it to ourselves as some randomised collective? Where does it end up if we don't get a handle on it? And can we even get a handle on it at this point? Not like we can turn off the internet or opt out of AI.

Hull are in free fall, so it isn't just Wrexham we're chasing. Has the feel of our first season in League 1 to me though. Just have to keep going and win our own games. The teams above us are having wobbles - so win our games and we'll get into it.

Azaz's finishing leaves a lot to be desired.

Suspect they've cottoned on to that one.