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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!

This is all just a bad dream. I refuse to accept that this is going to happen until I see a video of him at the training ground, with hands waved in front of his face. It's just a massive wind up. Has to be.

We hit rock bottom a while back. Unfortunately we kept digging and continue to do so.

I can't believe this thread has made it to 4 pages!

I suspect that there are more than a few variables that need sorting out before any kind of accurate prediction as to what a plausible outcome would be and I'm certainly not qualified to venture into such an area. What I would say though, is this: I sleep OK at night knowing that there are people who are qualified to deal with such scenarios and they care passionately about it so that it allows me to sleep OK at night. I also strongly suspect that the better funded they are, the better they can perform at their job and that on a macro scale, more funding for defence = less chance of a war breaking out in the first place, less funding = greater chance of war breaking out, and a much harder fight to come out the other end without pressing the master switch.