BenTheFox

It's not undemocratic to have another vote on EU membership. The British electorate have now had the opportunity to see what not being the European Union actually looks like. Additionally, the make-up of the electorate has changed drastically in the space of nine years. These are the reasons why we have a general election every 4/5 years. I was never in favour of a second referendum before we had officially left the EU. I would have considered that undemocratic. However, there comes a point where a democratic mandate wears off. I don't think it's at all unreasonable for these discussions to resurface coming up to 10 years after the vote.

I'm on the fence with this one, even though it would most likely benefit the type of politics that I broadly support. It's often mentioned how 16 and 17 year-olds can be susceptible to misinformation and manipulated into voting for policies without understanding them. I think there's some truth to this. However, older generations are certainly susceptible to misinformation on social media, added to the fact they will have experienced a decline in cognitive function. Even then, I'd never support the idea of a maximum voting age. Looking back I don't think I would have trusted myself to vote at 16/17, which is actually quite funny because I am actually considerably more left wing at the age of 31 than I was then. For me, the voter reform that I'd much rather see is a switch to a proportional representation system rather than first past the post. Make people's count equally and ensure a system where people are voting for policies they want rather tactically against policies they don't want.

Why are some people so confident in thinking that you agree with their bigoted opinions? I've spent the past few days on a job in Arbroath and the guy I was talking to on site was telling me that he's being moved to Portsmouth in a couple of months to work on a new hospital for immigrants. He said "if it was upto me I'd line them all up and shoot them". It was the last thing he said to me before I left too. It was really awkward.

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What I meant was that it was a freak goal to concede. I don't want to take anything away from the finish, it was a fantastic strike, but there was no systemic issue which led to us conceding it. I'm sure we've both watched enough football in our lives to have seen those shots end up anywhere other than the back of the net. I saw some good patterns of play from us in that first 45 minutes given that it's a second preseason game, we don't have a manager and most of us detest many of our players.

We were also well in control before they scored a freak goal from a mistake inside their half. I was quietly encouraged by the first 50 minutes or so.

Oh ffs

I think Winks has been brilliant. I know we've had our issues with him but at championship level he's still an asset. I'd definitely be hesitant to get rid of him.

Monga looks mustard

Wasn't Pearson to Ranieri like 2 weeks?

Is he actually THAT bad? He did keep Bournemouth in the Premier League in their first season back. Many thought that Scott Parker wouldn't have done that had he stayed, and he's a manager who has just been promoted for a third time, on this occasion with 100 points. Clearly Bournemouth felt that his ceiling wasn't very high and sacked him. Fair play to them, they got a better manager in and were fully vindicated. His first 6 or 7 months at Wolves were good until it went tits up. I'm not inspired by it at all, but I'm at east willing to entertain the possibility that we might just be overreacting, maybe just a little bit?

FoxesTalk is truly mental. Dyche's record in football management absolute pisses all over Wilder's. By pretty much every possible metric Sean Dyche is a better manager than Chris Wilder.

One criticism of Dyche that I really don't understand is 'he'll play the likes of Ayew and BDR'. So what? If he plays them and is able to get a tune out of them, isn't that a good thing? No one's taking them off us, so shouldn't we at least try and get something out of them?

I'm not sure I agree. I could see Mavididi, Ayew, Ndidi, Choudhury, Souttar, Nelson, Fatawu, McAteer and dare I say, even Daka being somewhat compatable with Dyche at Championship level. I'm not saying I neccessarily want him but a plus side is that I think he's got enough about to at least make sure we avoid a complete catastrophe. Even if he doesn't get us promoted this season I'm confident that we wouldn't be anywhere near relegation battle with him unless there's an enormous points deduction I.e greater than 15 points.

If that was to happen, I'd fundamentally disagree with the sentiment, but I'd defend their right to do it. Would I personally chant "Death to the IDF"? No, I wouldn't. At that point, I'm not sure how productive it is and think it may generally be detrimental to the cause. A lot of people think that showing public support for Palestine is a waste of time and that ultimately nothing will change. That may well be the case, but what if everyone had that attitude throughout history? What possible change would ever have been achieved?

I like many other are neither for or against. I see the rational behind it but it doesn't fill me with excitement. Of it happens though, then it really does make a mockery out of the idea that the board have a coherent plan for how they want the first team to play and for how club will progress in the longrun.

I think the idea that Dyche is anti-young players is perception rather than reality. I do think it's a bias brought out of his image as a no nonsense, old school english manager. A few examples of him playing young players: most notably Dwight McNeil, a Burnley academy graduate brought given his debut in the Premier League at the age of 18 and who quickly became a regular starter, Danny Ings became a regular starter under Dyche from the age of 21, he signed Michael Keane at the age of 21. If I'm being charitable, I can give him Jarrad Branthwaite, who had a few appearances under Ancelotti and Lampard but became a starter under Dyche at the age of 20. Admittedly, they did have an injury that forced his hand on that one. Iroegbunam was signed at Everton aged 20 and was given starts under Dyche too.

He was a signing that made a lot of sense at the time. He was a young CB that was very highly rated from his time at Celtic. There were even conparisons with VVD, which I know seems absurd looking back now.

People knock this, but it's very solid meal deal and one that doesn't let you down. I'd rather that thab a sickly sandwich or wrap drenched in mayonaise.

I'd argue Puel was very good for the Leicestershire hospitality industry. I don't have any quantifiable evidence to back this up. All I know is that myself and the people who I went to games with had never turned up to home games as consistently hammered as we did when he was manager just to get through it.

To be fair, I think similar things have happened at other football clubs. Dougie Freedman was sporting director at Palace for over 7 years. I agree though, I'd much rather we appoint a Director of Football with a proven track record than taking a punt on an average former manager.

Probably the most middle of the road manager we've ever had. He's nowhere near the top three best managers we've had in my lifetime, nor is he anywhere near being one of the worst three managers we're had in my lifetime. He didn't deserve anywhere near the level of vitriol that he got at the time, but let's not rewrite history, he ultimately couldn’t get anything close to the best out of the players he had. The one thing I liked about him is that was brave in giving academy graduates game time. He gave significant minutes to Chilwell, Choudhury and Barnes when he was recalled. I do think that Rodgers benefitted from some of the work that he did. Had Rodgers come in straight after Shakespeare, I think there would have been more teething problems. There is also no way that we would have finished fifth twice and won an FA cup under him though.

Murphy's is so much nicer than Guiness.

Would be a modern day Sol Campbell saga. Maybe a Rohl Campbell saga...

The fundamental issue with right wing populism is that the supposed elite that they are rallying against aren't actually the elite at all. In many cases, notably with someone like Farage, they're doing so to protect the interests of the actual elite. Reform spent months twerking for donations from literally the richest man on the earth whilst claiming to be anti-elite.