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Perfect summary.

This squad has ability. It just lacks desire. We showed more in that last 3 minutes than the previous 87 minutes ….

How have we not scored again! That run from Mavadidi

FFS ……. We do not deserve to win this at all.

Stolarkzyk is keeping us in this.

We really need to sell / release Choudhury.

Choudhury is not a left back. Please bring back Luke Thomas Why haven’t we gone three at the back is beyond me.

That team that got relegated to League 1 would beat this lot.

I’ve barely been watching as I’ve been instructed I need to start taking Christmas Trees down. What I have seen though, looks about as horrendous as usual.

Yep! In a league where we all get told it’s a dog fight and half the battle is grit, determination and graft. We then see stars like that ….

I’m surprised they think it’s in a condition where it can be moved! I heard the insurance amount was astronomical.

It’s all peacocking isn’t in reality? Crazy to think that has come from a government account though!

I think it’s safe to say, the Venezuela situation has divide the world in terms of should / shouldn’t the US got involved. Everyone will have a differing opinion on that. It has clearly been a well planned strategic operation that has minimised casualties, be that military or civilian. I’d also heard no Civilian casualties, which is remarkable if true. I guess religion can be a great source or belief for people, however it has also been used as a reason for violence, control and power as well too often. Every religion throughout history had has extremism I guess; be it the Islamic conquests, The Crusades, Catholics Vs Protestants, Hindu Vs Muslim etc. Religion of any type is too often used to justify war, enforce conformity, or dehumanise people. We should all call It out for what it is at times and it’s happened for eternity; which is a lust for power. We won’t change that. The media will never tell that story though. You get good, bad and indifferent in every walk of life. Peace is a utopia which will never be reached.

I think that would be a longer term challenge. I don’t think they could stop a single UK launch? All slightly irreverent if we are honesty, as the world ends the minute anyone launches one! Something we all should wish never happens. I’d like to think anyone we’d label as crazy, are still sensible enough to not do this.

He can do what he wants really. If he wanted to invade the United Kingdom, we’d be screwed. Nuclear technology is the only deterrent. Is anyone going to counter by dropping a bomb though. They’d be crazy to do that.

Of all the countries in the world though, we have larger issues than Venezuela. If it was as barren as the Sahara, he wouldn’t have touched it. The bloke in Venezuela is clearly a little dodgy; however the world has also framed various other leaders in a not-dissimilar light, Putin, Kim Jong-Un, JinPing, Lukashenko, Guelleh, Erdogan, Fattah El-Sisi, even Modi in India etc. Now you will have a certain amount of propaganda from various media outlets, so Venezuela is an easy target in reality. Not familiar with the seagull management analogy then? Flys in, makes a lot of noise, dumps a load of waste then leaves the team to pick up the mess and pieces after they leave. As for Afghanistan, my point remains as I’ve stated before. The world rolled in, never really sorted the issues and it’s as much as a mess now, as it was before. If females can’t get a good standard of education, you’ve got economic collapse, poverty etc, then it’s not exactly great. That’s not a Muslim thing at all, that’s Taliban. Which is an issue that was never really bottomed out. I’m not a religious person at all, so for me I’d just like everyone to actually get along with each other .

Exactly this! You’d like to think that recent history has taught us we need a follow through plan!

Hold on here, I was more referring to an example of running roughshot over a country then leaving it in a mess. Clearly Afghanistan and Venezuela are significantly different culturally. However if you allow mob rule it will collapse and become a mess. No different from a seagull coming in to **** on everything, steal Food then leaving. What has happened so far is the current president of Venezuela has basically been kidnapped after the US infiltrated foreign soil. Now, I don’t think it’s fair to call that an invasion personally as it’s clearly a strategic move, be it for the “drugs trafficking” as currently mentioned, or to increase US resources (whilst improving the country itself), by tapping into the vast natural resources that the country has. I’d imagine the world has far worse dictators than Venezuela! Trump is largely unpredictable and nothing is off the table in terms of force. Do I think he’ll roll into Greenland, “no”. I think he’s using it as propaganda to allow a movement to purchase it if I’m honest. I sort of semi agree it’s better off independent, or rather associated with the US from a logistics point of view. Then again, culturally it’s different. Then again, so is Alaska to New York, to Texas.

Yes, apologies, that’s how I should have worded that. You are correct.

I guess everyone is trying to 2nd guess what will happen next currently. For me, it has set a dangerous precedent and is a violation of the UN charter and international law. I guess what happens next with Venezuela will largely depend on the longer term plan. If the idea is just to get the natural resources flowing (oil) and they’ve removed the blocker, as long as they stabilise the government and allow the people of Venezuela to live a better standard of life, then it will be seen as a success. However if it descends into utter chaos, then it’s going to just like Afghanistan isn’t it? At what point does Trump become Hitler mark II if he starts rolling into countries? I mean, they could have done this with Putin and sorted Ukraine quicker …….. I don’t think they can control Iran either. It’s just too remote. That is surely to support Israel? Another point, I don’t think taking Cuba makes a lot of sense at this point, unless they want to fully Americanise it. The same could be said for Mexico, which would drive a massive refugee movement if they started a ground movement there. Then we have Greenland, which would be a direct attack on a NATO ally. Realistically it’s too far to defend easily and would fall quite quickly I’d imagine. The outcome of that would be all out civil war amongst NATO countries and it likely being very, very messy. I’m guessing they’ve war mapped most of this. The concern is, with Trump, nothing is off the table currently, as he’s a little unpredictable.

Leif Davies generated the most chances in a single season when we last got promoted with 125 and getting 21 assists? Which is the record I believe? Fatawu is good and did great things. Numbers wise though as your sort of expect, is output is slightly down per 90 minutes than in 23/24, as he’s having to do more himself plus he’s coming back off a bad injury. He’ll have a steady mid table Premier League level career I’d imagine, however If we get north of £35m I do think we will cash in.

I could see them taking Cuba by force if they had to.

Barnes was 21 in 2018 / 2019 season. That season he was on loan at West Brom and scored 9 goals in 26 games. I’d have taken Barnes at 21 over Fatawu. This is why football is a game of opinions though! Neither are bad options when they’re on form.

Those that shout loudest and project self interest tend to get media attention and get heard. So people like Trump get headlines as people want to know what “he’s done now”. We still have lots of good people, it’s just over inflated with this vision that the world is full of self indulgent pricks, as that’s what we see in social media or daily news on a daily basis. Those humble people in society don’t get airtime, as it isn’t done for a social media world.

Whilst I don’t condone this at all, as he’s a dictator in reality, Greenland is very different. If the United States tried anything like this in Greenland, Canada, Mexico, Cuba etc they’d face massive backlash as it would be an invasion in reality, not dissimilar to what Putin has done in Ukraine.