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I personally think the way forward for America is to clamp down hard on high powered assault rifles and machine guns. I really don't see any need for any civilian to own or use one.

Maybe quite a few. But then again, i'd imagine that quite a lot of people didn't write him messages like "...in one of his glorious homes he likes to share with his friends (yum yum)" or repeadedly call him his "best pal" all while trying to claim that he didn't ever see any illegal or suspicious activity of a paedophile and sex trafficker. I think there will be people that are falsely accused because of a loose connection with Epstein but it appears to me that Mandelson was right in the thick of it.

Loving Marti's attitude towards the academy. Obviously it's early doors and I wouldn't want to get ahead of myself but this is a manager we should employ for the long term regardless of results (to a degree). Rebuilding that trust between academy and first team is massively important. I think we might already be there but we need to capitalise on Seagrave and ensure we're the number one place to be for young footballers in the midlands.

I saw that video. I'd imagine that the person that made it was sure to cut the opinions of those who condemned it but still. It's scary just how many young people think that it's acceptable. The same for the amount of people that were devastated that Trump survived the attempt on his life. Social media is awash with people that don't think.

What I would say is that he generally debated naturally divisive topics (I assume because those farmed the most social media interactions). The problem with that is that if you plant your feet on one side of debates like the war in Gaza, abortion, gun control etc you're always going to abhor the other side of that debate. But a society is strong when people war with their words. When two sides debate and listen to each other, that is surely for the betterment of mankind? (That's a rhetorical question, not aimed at you Stan) It's why debate must never be silenced and people like Kirk being shot down for voicing their opinion is extremely dangerous for everyone's freedom. That said, I would point out that not all of Kirk's rallies/debates were there for good structured debates and they generally boiled down to him tying an unexperienced college student into knots by shifting the focus of their argument and claiming it as "owning the libs".

Some of the stuff I have read on twitter this morning and last night is insane. Thousands laughing at the situation, thousands calling for a "war against the libs", thousands sharing graphic videos of the situation etc...

Have now seen the video and it's worse than I imagined.

I've seen a video from quite far away and with the way his head snaps back it looks like he was shot in the head. It's been reported as him being shot in the neck and being in critical condition but it looks absolutely awful. Surely he's not survived it? We think we've got problems over here but at least we don't have deranged lunatics walking around with rifles. How can any American feel safe or free? Truly horrible situation they have over there.

I'm interested to see how big of a gap the enhanced games can get ahead of clean sport. Always wondered how fast a man can really run or swim.

I think a lot of times kicking your leg out won't result in a penalty with VAR. But IMO if a defender lunges for the ball and doesn't get it a striker is well within his rights to fall over their leg.

Same with a lot of extremely talented youth players. Very tight control and fast feet means you get fouled a lot.

That wasn't the best Arsenal side you'll see but we wiped the floor with them that night and it wasn't a case of them turning up and not trying or losing their heads etc. We were just far too good for them on the night. A really great night at the KP that one was. The atmosphere was electric and we were so good. Just had a look at where we were in the league after that. It put us 2nd with 26 points from 12 games and a +24 goal difference. More points that we managed in all of last season. I think that the 2019 Leicester side was easily the best team I've seen us have. It really should have gone on to do so much more than it did. Youth, talent and exuberance in Maddison, Ndidi, Tielemans, Chilwell, Soyuncu, Ricardo and Barnes led by the experience of Evans, Schmeichel and one of the best strikers in the world at the time.

Surprised Forest didn't rush to rehire him. Given how much of a terrible mistake we'd apparently made by sacking him you'd have thought they'd have been eager to snap him up.

Maybe yeah. I just think that James might be the one that is the most match fit. It doesn't look like Carranza has even been on Feyernoord's bench this season.

I think Carranza is the least likely to start. I would say James is most likely, followed by Ramsey and then Carranza.

"In Postecoglou, Marinakis believes he has a manager in his own image". Ange is a big lad but steady on.

He was fine as a number 2. Played early rounds of the cups and generally did well for us. The problem was when we sold our number 1 (Kasper) we didn't replace him and expected Ward to be the number 1. He couldn't deal with the pressure of that and crumbled. The first choice keeper should be made to feel comfortable in his position.

I think it'll be the total opposite I don't think they start well at all. No pre-season is a killer for a club wanting to completely shift their way of playing. They definitely need to make serious changes into their defence and midfield. Plus Sels is the wrong goalkeeper for a manager that wants to play an expansive game. If he's given time I think he'd get a club like Forest (much less pressure externally or from fans) playing some decent stuff. But this season will almost definitely be absolutely horrible for them (or comparatively horrible).

This would be the one major worry Forest fans would have. Milenkovic and Murillo defending on the half way line is a recipe for disaster.

I think if Souttar was looking close to being fit again then Faes would have been off. I could see him moving in January for that reason. Daka won't leave unless someone offers daft money. It's only him and Carranza that are genuine strikers in the squad.

It helps them that their team is pretty much all tied up for a few years so they don't have to worry about offering daft contracts to keep players but a few might want to move on in the next year or two. Especially if they're not being paid like Gibbs-White is. It'll be interesting to see how they choose to keep players happy. Clear downgrades like Elanga to Ndoye/Hutchinson will continue to happen over the next few years.

I just don't see how they've improved. Spent well over 200m as well. Feels like they've had the same sort of summer that we did in 2021 where we spent loads but bought horrendously (Soumare, Vestergaard, Daka, Bertrand)

I don't really see how Forest could be in a position to turn their nose up at Ange.

Little use worrying about it all to be honest. PSR meant we had to sell our best player the last time we went up. Just enjoy what we have when we have them. PSR keeps clubs like us in line.

The rumour is that it's all a big argument with agents. Nuno is Jorge Mendes whereas Edu (Forest's new DoF) is Kia Joorabchian. Nuno didn't want Omari Hutchinson (a Joorabchian client) and it's all kicked off as a result.