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Of course though, it's not that easy. It's a lucrative business and not dissimilar to the international drugs trade industry. You take the guy at the top out and guess what? You still have a drugs problem. Either someone a bit further down the command chain steps up and continues the operation, or a rival gang moves into the space and carries on the operation. I don't know what the answer is. Make it easier for people to come here in the first place? How exactly? Grant "Asylum Visas" and allow them to board a plane straight into Heathrow? What then? Form an orderly queue to be told yes or no? What do you do with those that you refuse entry, assuming we couldn't send them back to the persecution they're fleeing? How many do you say "Yes" to? 10,000 per year? 20,000? 100,000? 10million? What happens to the person in the queue who breaches the quota? It's such a multi-layered, complex issue, there just isn't one magic bullet that will sort it out. All measures can have some level of success, but nothing seems to have worked.

Has a manager ever been sacked before their first game? Would love Fuchs here, but not with RM. I don't see how they can work together - personalities and football philosophy are poles apart.

i actually think there's a disconnect between manager and player acquisition. It feels like the scouts and deal makers have a strategy to stick to and actually, the manager has very little input into the individuals that get signed. Sure, they might have some big picture input, but I don't think they are an active participant in signing players. Maybe it's the same at other clubs - I'll admit I don't pay particular close attention to everybody else's signings, but I can't get my head around just how many players we sign who don't play more than a handful of games for the club and end up as unused substitutes. Surely if we were signing players that the manager actively wanted, they'd play?

He's here. He's in charge. He works with a dysfunctional set of players in a dysfunctional organisation. He's got enough on his plate without the fans writing him off from the off. He has to be given a fair crack at it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy8dy2pr8ymt Reports of a train crash on the London to Leicester line. Hopefully not as bad as it potentially could be. Thoughts to those involved.

Can't wait for this.

I think that his mum went to prison when she was 14 for murder, but was actually 38 when she had him, but yeah, sounds like an extremely dysfunctional family unit so the child was taken into care at 5 days old. Horrifying that wholly unsuitable people are able to dupe the authorities into handing vulnerable children into their care.

Calling out the board might be the best thing he's done since signing. Fair play.

Football is an unimaginable mess.

Have you read Google's Privacy Policy? You do realise they probably already know an awful lot about you?

I don't think there's much that's levelled at him on a personal level. I have nothing against him as a man. I don't really see hatred here, mostly deep frustration. The vast majority of the negativity is aimed at the club's leadership because in 5 years, through a series of terrible decisions, they've taken us from a solid Premier League team who had just won the FA Cup to a club in absolute freefall. We've reached League One now, but who knows where this fall from grace will end? A good chunk of the perceived reason why this has happened (not the only reason by a long shot) is that we have this insane obsession with playing a style of football that we've never had the players for, is boring to watch and is being tactically undone in the wider game. Yet we persist. Now we've suffered a double relegation, this is the time for a major reset. Top even did a video last year hinting that things were going to change. McCarron was brought in as the extra help that Rudkin clearly needed, yet here we are appointing a manager that has a footballing philosophy firmly aligned to this failed experiment. Nothing has changed. What's worse is that it's clear we've courted RM for a number of years which means this is an appointment by design, rather than through desperation. What's worse still is that all the fans have a good grasp of his CV which shows no evidence whatsoever of notable success and, in fact, with the level of recent failure makes the appointment even more questionable.

Brave call at this early stage.

It's starting to become clear that McCarron has been brought in as some sort of "Yes" man who will do as he's told and when it all goes wrong, Top will be able to say "There, there Rudders, it's not your fault, we'll blame this guy instead and the fans will hate him now, not you. It's not your fault, buttercup".

Looks like AI to me. Still not convinced it's happening

I refuse to believe this. It's just the most stupid thing ever. It's all a smokescreen, it must be. Announce Dyche!

All decent suggestions. Maybe something like this will come later on. I suspect the measures announced today could be the start of more regulation to come. Unregulated social media is bad. In the early days it was OK, but time and technology have made it a hotbed for narcissists, liars and idiots. Something has to change. Who knows... 20 or 30 years from now it might be under some sort of control, but there's certainly no easy fix.

Ok, yeah I missed the bit about about 16-17 year olds with a curfew. Seems like a social media "lite" experiment - we'll have to see how it works out. As for getting around it, of course kids will. I think in Australia it's around 50% have managed to find a way? But if it is effective for 50% then that's better than what we have now. Better to start now and get perfect later, than wait for a perfect solution that will likely never exist.

Yes, people of all ages struggle with it but eventually you have to let adults stand on their own two feet. We're talking here about protecting children, and actually, the adults who struggle with it are quite possibly of a generation of young adults who have grown up with unfiltered access to all of this stuff. Personally, I don't think it goes far enough, this is a bit of a halfway house, but it's a step in the right direction.

But they're not banning 16 year olds. It's kids under 16. Very impressionable, sometimes very young brains that: - Are susceptible to the harms that bad people do to them online (you were probably told not to talk to strangers, but it's very different now) - Become over reliant on online relationships and lose key interpersonal skills and they are growing up to be young adults who, in times of difficulty, reach for the virtual world instead of real world relationships. - Can't handle the effects of dopamine that flood their system. It's the same chemical that drug addicts and alcoholics get from their vices and their are plenty of controls in place to protect children from them.

Except that playing for Leicester City in League One under Russell Martin with the players we have will, in now way whatsoever, prepare anyone for playing for Man City in the Premier League and Champions League under Enzo with the players they have.

This 100%. @kenny for PM.

£5m for this player in our current situation would be outstanding business.

They absolutely should. I'm not saying they should allow the fans to pick the manager. There has to be an objective process that scores the candidate against a number of criteria - from playing style and philosophy to bringing through youth players and performance in the transfer market. One of those criteria must be consideration of the relationship with the fans. This club is broken. It needs the board, the manager, the coaches, the players AND the fans to pull in the same direction. I've never known such resistance to a managerial appointment before the bloke has stepped through the door. The club are in full self-destruct mode and need the fans to get behind the decision making.

I watched his final interview when at Rangers on the BBC site. It's actually really insightful. He obviously has a very good football brain and knows A LOT about the technical aspects to the game, he was talking about: 1. The need to score more goals 2. The need to concede fewer goals 3. That wins are better than draws, and they need more wins. Genius. Nothing to worry about here.

Please come back Gary, all is forgiven!