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As someone has already said elsewhere, it is going to take 2 to 3 transfer windows to sort out the squad, but this has been a good start.

I really dont give a stuff about the others but am slightly surprised that Sheffield United are not nailed on to go straight back down.

Alex Crook has confirmed on TalkSport that Austin could be on his way to WBA and not to expect anymore in. The club are getting stick for not moving players on earlier, but what about their agents? Isnt that their job?

To be fair OS, in the 53 years that I have been supporting the club staying up has usually been the main aim (with the hope of a good cup run to spice things up).

Perhaps they hadn't been able to find a targeted CB that was available so they pushed on with other targets? It is very easy to point a finger but none of us knows what goes on behind the scenes and the assumption that they haven't prioritised finding a CB is ridiculous given how everyone on the planet knows that we are weak in that area.

I agree. They could start with automatic and semi-automatic weapons though. It will not be easy but they need to make a start and send a message that things are changing.

You say a CB should have been our no 1 priority. How do you know it wasn’t? It is possible that the people identified either weren’t available or didn’t want to come. Would you have us sign someone just for the sake of it? God knows we have enough deadwood as it is. There doesn’t seem to be an awful lot of quick, technically gifted and young CB’s around at the moment - certainly not in our price range.

Yep. If only people pretending to be ITK would stop spreading rumours eh!

It is all very well Trump, the NRA and gun lobbyists saying that guns aren’t the problem, people are but they are deliberately ignoring the point that it is a lot easier to kill people with guns (as the Americans demonstrate with monotonous regularity). These shootings will not stop until they do something substantial about gun control. Trump had the temerity to have a pop at Kahn regarding knife crime in London the other day. Yes, we have a problem, but is nothing in comparison to the regular carnage in shopping malls and schools in the USA. Grow a pair Donald. Stop sucking up to the NRA and do something about your ridiculous obsession with gun ownership.

You’re quite right. It isn’t rocket science. Odd how some play down Trump’s part in the emboldening of the many psychopaths in the US. His rallies often feature violence directed at those who oppose his views and the “send them back” chants should chill anyone with a modicum of social awareness with fear.

Trump is quick to condemn Kahn for the knife crime in London (ignoring the same problem in the rest of the UK) but doesn't address the problem he has with heavily armed White Supremacists in his own country.

Agreed. Assuming he is a quality player surely it is better to have him on loan for a year than another duffer on the books for another 3 years or so. I assume that the club has struggled to find the right player at the right price. No harm in finding a short term solution but as has been said, this guy needs to be good enough to step in straight away. There is always the chance that we could end up buying him if he is any good and Barcelona want to sell eventually.

Agreed. Assuming he is a quality player surely it is better to have him on loan for a year than another duffer on the books for another 3 years or so. I assume that the club has struggled to find the right player at the right price. No harm in finding a short term solution but as has been said, this guy needs to be good enough to step in straight away.

Given that you gave the decision about the leader of the Conservative Party and our next PM a great deal of thought and decided to cast your vote for Boris Johnson, I think you have blown any vestige of credibility you may have had Duckie. In words you will understand, you and those like you have dumped on us a pony, 9 pinter PM. You must be very proud of yourself. More and more people seem to be waking up to the reality that they have been lied to. Johnson himself made a very successful career in publishing pony articles slagging off the EU. Even his recent stunt with the kipper was utter pony but just like the meatheads in the States swallowing Trumps bull**** hook line and sinker, so you swallow Johnson’s bull****. If you are so sure that you are right about Brexit why do you have a problem with another referendum? If it really what the country want surely they will vote for it again, unless of course they realise that they have been hoodwinked.

Little ray of sunshine, as ever.

Does it really matter where the news comes from? We find out a lot of things via the media before clubs make the news official.

“The fit Kendall bird.” What with your Retro language that even Jacob Rees Mogg would disprove of and your very public support of Boris Johnson for PM you are a real catch Duckie. You do realise that these “fit birds” wouldn’t touch you with one of Boris’s kippers?

I get £149 per week state pension. I have a few others as well but they don’t add up to what we need. The joys of being taken to the cleaners by my first wife in the divorce settlement. Any system should be means tested. This system isn’t. I know everyone assumes that people take the benefits system for a ride, but after our experience it is hard to see how anyway gets enough to support them. It has been a sobering experience going through this process. At no time have we felt supported. It is a soulless and almost faceless process which reduces you to a bunch of numbers in a computer system. I have sat and listened to a number of people who have come into the office and it really is a tick box exercise. At least my wife is employable and has been able to find another job, but you see people coming through the doors who look less able to find work and you have to wonder how their lives will be stuck in this dreadful system.

My wife is 53. She has always worked and wishes to continue to work. She has found another job but we are thousands of pounds in debt for the period when she was looking for work. I am retired but we cannot live on my pension alone and I am doing part time work to help pay the bills. We would have been entitled to £498 a month ( hardly a Kings ransom) but because it is income based and I have a pension we are not entitled to anything. Long gone are the days when you as a couple could live on one wage, but they don’t consider that. Nor are they interested in your mortgage repayments yet they will cover rent?

As if you would even get the opportunity.

Or TUI eh TCM?

And Farage said he would have continued to fight for Brexit if the referendum had gone the other way. EU membership is clearly something a issue which has divided the nation and goes way beyond the democratic vote process. Whatever the outcome people will either want to stay or leave and they aren’t going to suck it up if they don’t get their own way.

Helpful. Hardly free if you have been paying NI contributions all of your life.

It comes to something when Jeremy Hunt is the best option out if a choice of two. We now have two ****s in the most powerful positions in the world. God help us.