| Forum Reply | Truss plays her Trump card in the USA at 11:37 29 Feb 2024
The feeling’s mutual Jelly, but I’ll take lessons in naivety from you when you’ve emerged from your rabbit hole. There was no anti-semitic slur, and I’m not accusing you of anti-semitism. However, your ignorance of the history of anti-sensitise means you’re not alive to the way in which comments about evil ‘bankers’ or other financiers have so often been used as veiled hatred of jews. It’s a clear anti-semitic trope which you’d do well to recognise. |
| Forum Reply | 8 Changes - worrying line-up against Liverpool at 22:54 28 Feb 2024
Edozie was our only attacking threat when he was taken off. The team at the end was all over the place and never going to score in a million years. Mara on the wing is pointless - we saw that in the first half against Watford in the last round. In tbe middle he has a chance, but the way Danns took his opportunities compared to us says it all. Smallbone...he's OK if everything is going well. Reads the game well, gets in good positions, links up the play. But he's only got that one mode and when the pressure in one from the other team it's not what we need - summed up by his awful pass for the second goal. And there's something odd about his expressionless face. Never see him smile. Never see him get agitated or frustrated. Or angry. Maybe if you're Pirlo, you can play the game in a state of relaxed contentment. But he ain't Pirlo. |
| Forum Reply | Truss plays her Trump card in the USA at 16:38 28 Feb 2024
I don't disagree with any of that. I wasn't trying to suggest that capitalism is working efficiently and, yes, I agree that something has gone wrong in terms of the concentration of capital in too few hands while others are barely getting by on the income they earn. My only point was that, while people might make money selling arms and other supplies to warring parties, trading and peace are far more profitable. So the idea that 'bankers' are behind every war is just nonsense. I suspect this idea is very tightly tied to ant-semitic tropes about the same. |
| Forum Reply | Truss plays her Trump card in the USA at 09:56 28 Feb 2024
Of course people profit from war. War needs a lot of stuff and people need to make and sell it. But Western capitalism relies on functioning markets so people can trade and consume and that, more obviously, requires peace. Your 'theories' are not thought through. |
| Forum Reply | Truss plays her Trump card in the USA at 20:51 27 Feb 2024
It's quite difficult for you to understand Jelly because you don't see any moral distinction between 'the West' and autocracies like Russia. How is the West's involvement in Ukraine a banker's war? Putin invaded with the objective of trying to obliterate the country, get control of the grain and the Black Sea. The Ukrainians fought back against his naked aggression and Western democracies are helping them do so. Or are you saying that were it not for the damn bankers, the Ukrainians would have sensibly let the tanks roll in? And do Sweden and Finland want to join NATO so they can attack Russia? |
| Forum Reply | Truss plays her Trump card in the USA at 10:25 26 Feb 2024
Many Prime Ministers have involved the UK in wars - rightly or wrongly - but by and large they've tended to be serious people. Truss was/is a joke. She's got some kind of personality disorder. You could see it before she became PM with all the ridiculous cosplaying she did as foreign sec, and her inability to take responsibility for her own almighty f*ck up as PM and to now blame the 'deep state' or whatever lunacy she wakes up thinking about just confirms it. |
| Forum Reply | Truss plays her Trump card in the USA at 20:57 25 Feb 2024
She was the worse PM ever and for one of shortest periods. Not content to carry the shame of that, she's determined to become a laughing stock too. She's clearly got some sort of screw loose, but good luck to her if she wants to dig a bigger hole for herself. The bigger the better. |
| Forum Reply | Sulemana at 13:06 21 Feb 2024
Seriously annoyed me the way he was pIssing about with the ball in midfield when we were 2-0 up against WBA. Have a run on goal, or take it to the corner if you don't want to take any risks, but make a positive decision. I wasn't at the Liverpool game last year so I've seen very little to understand what all the fuss was about. |
| Forum Thread | Liverpool Ticket at 14:34 19 Feb 2024
I've got a spare U21 Liverpool ticket if anyone wants it. No charge as it'll only go to waste otherwise. |
| Forum Reply | VAR at 14:15 19 Feb 2024
The 'offside is offside' statement might seem obvious but it's not. Two points: 1. In every format of the game that doesn't involve VAR, the position of players necessarily has to be judged by the linesman and the ref. They cannot possibly be expected to judge fingernails, elbows and big toes, and never have done. VAR introduced a level of precision which was new and completely unnecessary. 2. The offside rules some years ago introduced a new rule that level is onside. It was designed to give the attacking player the benefit of the doubt and to make the game more attractive. The concept of being 'level' is not defined in the rules and VAR takes absolutely no note of it. The sillouettes of attacker and defender are NEVER going to perfectly overlap so being level is therefore always going to be something of a judgement call - and again it's a judgement call that can only be made by linesman and referree from their positions on the field. The practical effect of VAR has been to completely knock out the 'level is onside' rule, and the vast majority of stupid offside decisions have been where players who are clearly 'level' in the normally understood sense are deemed offside because one of their knackers or whatever it slightly protruding. So, offside when VAR is in play is not offside as understood in any other form of the game. It makes the game worse. If two players are broadly level, a nose, ear or fat arse is not going to give them any meaningful advantage. |
| Forum Reply | Will we be promoted? at 14:15 18 Feb 2024
We have been playing consistently well and we got straight back to winning ways after the Bristol game. Getting up and out of this league is all about consistency because there's always someone snapping at your heels. I think we''ll continue to play really well and it'll be about who drops fewer points, us or Leeds. Team and manager are flying at the moment. That's all we can ask for. |
| Forum Reply | Bristol City Game Matchday Thread at 13:31 14 Feb 2024
What was worrying for me was that we weren't really able to respond to the warning we got on Saturday in the first half. This game had the same feel of low energy, lack of ideas and complacency. It'll be really interesting to see if we can respond on Friday. Team selection is going to be absolutely key. |
| Forum Reply | Charlie gone at 11:03 31 Jan 2024
He makes a lot of stupid decisions. And I'm talking about his attempts at distribution not his penalties. Yes, probably not suited to the tight disciplined style of play we now have. Good luck to him though, he seems like a good lad. |
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