Guesty

Regime change is very complicated. There are no easy answers. History shows it rarely works out. Even if it does in the short-term, long-term if often backfires. Like for example in Iran in 1953. They had a leader who was progressive and wanted what was best for his people. To the point that he wanted his people to profit from all of Iran's oil reserves. So the UK and the US used MI6 and the CIA to launch a coup and overthrow him. The thing about people behind screens talking about regime change is: people who are negative/cautious tend to be consistent in most conflicts until it spills out into war in other countries. People who are pro: often change their tune depending on the regime. Putin isn't great to his own people; he sees Ukrainians as his people. You okay with sending our troops into Ukraine and Russia and bombing Moscow, St Petersburg and Crimea? If you're consistent fair play to you; but a lot won't be. Lot's of people behind screens are happy to cheer on regime change and missiles flying - until there's the remote chance the missiles might start flying back at them behind their screen and their loved ones.

I doubt he does care about the loss of life. But he probably cares if it makes him look weak. He changes his mind from one moment to the next entirely on how he's being viewed on US news channels like Fox News.

Right now there's a good chance Starmer is going to look a lot like Harold Wilson who (under a lot of pressure from LBJ) refused to send our troops into Vietnam. The fact that Rubio is on TV backtracking about what he said yesterday - and basically admitting they have no current plan on how to evacuate American's from the region shows they haven't planned this very well. And the US consulate in Dubai has just been bombed by a drone.

Bit worrying we've promoted from within for CEO. You can imagine them interviewing qualified people. Top getting all excited until it gets to the point in the interview where he goes: And do you have any questions for us? They're probably going ask relevant questions, then run a mile when they get the answers. Nobody with any actual experience or proper qualifications is coming here to carry the can for the idiot son.

I mean, I don't pay much attention to what he says anymore. So this could be out of context as I don't really watch his speeches. Or, this could be fake news as it's easy nowadays to be fooled, but MSN.com and Daily Express US have reported it. So if it is fake, I apologise. But they hacked Iranian state TV and he told them to. Saying things like: now is the time and this is the moment. This was around 20 hours ago and they haven't yet. So it's not unreasonable to think, maybe, that is what he really wanted.

But he had to say that after America's bases and allies started getting hit. It is possible he planned for this. Or, he thought they'd take out the leadership then the Iranian people would rise up. But they haven't, yet. When he bombed Venezuela he was saying something about this is nothing like a conflict in the middle east which is why he was doing it (can't remember his exact words). He changes what he says on a whim. It's one thing saying more soldiers will die, it's another thing when it actually starts happening. Regime change isn't a bad thing if it works. But the regime that comes after could be worse. America spent all that time, money and death in Afghanistan and replaced the Taliban with the Taliban. The last memory was a load of their soldiers being blown up at the airport as they left as quickly as possible. Iran has a lot of cheap missiles and drones. And all the defences America uses like Patriot missiles are a lot more expensive. That will start to add up, as will the economy and the price of oil. Iran could really drag this out.

Really? Iran aren't that strong. The US started a war it didn't need to and has no real end game. I've got American relatives. Some of which are Maga Republicans. None of them are happy. After over 20 years, thousands of dead servicemen, trillions of dollars - they finally got their troops out of the Middle East. Now they've already got dead servicemen, planes being shot out of the sky and they've bombed a girls elementary school. Trump probably thought this would just be like Venezuela (or the other countries he's recently bombed). Where he'd dip in and dip out. He didn't make any effort to get US citizens home from the region; it's like he didn't expect them all to be stranded. Their allies are now being bombed. Countries like UAE, Saudi, Qatar: I doubt their tourism will recover from this for a long time - if ever. They're not going to say it publicly, but they can't be happy over this. Then you've got all the unknown long-term consequences.

It's hard to really work out whats going on with all the fake news about. On X you can see US bases being bombed. Given the fact we and other European countries wanted nothing to do with this originally. Now we're letting them use our bases. I'm assuming it's not going as smoothly as America and Isreal leaders expected.

I do wonder how this plays out domestically for America long term. While you have the Maga Republicans who are just brainwashed hypocrites, sucking Trump's dick and whatever he says goes. There are a lot of Republicans and swing voters who voted for him because they wanted what he was campaigning on. A lot of Republicans are America First. They are true believers. They don't want any of this. They want their tax dollars spent at home. They don't want their soldiers dying in wars and then years later seeing their troops getting run out of town and achieving nothing. He basically campaigned on 3 main promises. Improve the economy, America first (no more foreign wars) and release the Epstein files. He's failed badly at all 3. Even Republicans are saying they won't vote Republican next time. I reckon we might see a Tory style wipeout. Though it won't be as damaging as it was here due to their tribalistic politics.

I used to watch him at Spurs and think what does this guy actually contribute. Offers nothing offensively and very little defensively - he's just sort of there. He's just a poundshop version of Harry Winks. Then we signed them both! I know people will read this and think, 'yeah, yeah'. But I swear it's true. They both need a stronger, more physical defensive midfielder next to them and don't offer enough offensively to make up for it. We've signed a squad full of players with massive weaknesses. Most recruitment teams then sign players to minimise those weaknesses. Yet, we've signed players who expose those weaknesses even more. The spine of our team is horrendous and why we're in the position we're in. The most frustrating thing is: even though he offers little defensively, it's more than every other midfielder. He's one of the few that will put a shift in and try and do the things he's not very good at. If our defenders are out of position he will at least try to cover for them.

Yeah, you're right. But we all knew Daka and Ayew were limited. I'm not sure how anyone thought we were getting promoted with those 2 up front. Anyone over 6ft who could head the ball I'd have been happy with. I think the fact he was free might have helped people accept it. The fact he cost money I can sort of understand why we didn't. Just anyone over 6ft with physical presence and I'd have been happy.

He did so much running on Tuesday night he might have struggled for energy today. He really did put in a shift on Tuesday night. Looked knackered at the end. Both him and Winks are so frustrating. As soon as you think they've turned a corner and might have a good run of games they have a stinker.

It's mad that the best striker we can give this guy is Daka. Hull signed f***ing Oliver McBurnie for free at the start of the year and he's the third highest scorer in the league with 13 goals.

I mean. Are we not over analysing this a little. Him and his team are out of work and bored so they went to watch his old team for something to do. He's probably just bored. And now he knows boredom at home is more entertaining than watching us play.

For as bats**t crazy and insane as she is. She isn't some cult member that changes her mind with whatever Trump says. She is consistent and a true believer. She genuinely believes in America First. It means leave Ukraine to fight it out, but also means leave Israel to it too. She also genuinely believes in releasing the Epstein Files. But she's still a crazy conspiracy theorist and was a Sandy Hook and Parkland denier.

It'll never happen but after today I'd quite like to see 3-4-3 given a go. Just to see what happens. No idea if it'll work and it's a risk. At least we'll know. Begovic/Jackub Okoli - Lascelles - Nelson Aluko - James - Skipp/Winks - Thomas Fatawu - Daka - Mukasa Just give the front 3 licence to attack. Tell the rest a clean sheet is a priority.

He hasn't played much in four years. He used to be deceptively quick, a bit like Wes Morgan. In 2021 he came 5th in the Newcastle squad for speed. But he was noticeably slow today. Could just be he's not match fit. We haven't really seen enough of him yet to judge.

Not a fan of chucking on kids in a relegation battle or playing players out of position. However, he's so bad currently and offers such little end product it really wouldn't hurt. He's absolutely done as a footballer.

It is relevant though. Cause people make excuses for him and over look his mistakes. Then Okoli gets all the blame. There's a reason after every game Okoli's thread has pages of posts but nobody posted in Nelson's thread for a month. Neither of them are good enough currently, which is why we've conceded too many goals. I agree Nelson is better. But they're not judged equally.

He is not much better. Currently he's part of a defence that concedes on average 2 goals a game and he doesn't stand out at all. Someone pulled up the stats in a different thread. For defensive headers, interceptions, blocks and other stats per 90 mins - Okoli is better statistically. Nelson is just lucky he's an academy graduate. A lot of people bigged him up earlier in the season and can't accept he isn't living up to it, so make excuses for him, or ignore his mistakes. Nelson is much better on the ball though. They both need an experienced defender to help them.

There's no way people are paying money for these lot. I don't fully understand PSR but you have to sell at a certain amount or it goes down as a negative. And even if they did meet our valuation, no one is matching the wages they're on. I don't understand how we sell some of this lot. I think we're stuck with them in League 1.

You can't reason with KPFC but it gets to the point where a chant of "careful what you wish for' constantly for the 15th and 16th minutes (league winning years) would be welcome. It almost needs to get a little toxic in there. It's simple, not too negative, but gets the point across. They've cheered this on for years, now they can own it.

He can't throw these weak characters under the bus too much publicly cause they'll down tools or throw their toys out their pram. But he's saying the right things here. Saying he expected more, we were out fought, didn't press enough, it wasn't good enough, we have to make things happen, etc.

I wish we'd stop doing this. Blaming a manager because he's not picking players who've never really played before. Our players are s**t. Aluko has done nothing to show he deserves to start. Everyone wanted Marti sacked cause he wasn't playing Nelson earlier. Nelson's come into a defence that ships on average 2 goals a game and doesn't stand out at all. We actually conceded less goals when we had Faes and JV back there. Our squad is s**t. It's just taken far too long for a lot of our fans to realise.

Makes me laugh on here Okoli makes a mistake and everyone's like: "he's s**t, get him off, sub him". Nelson makes a mistake and it's like: "Awww, poor baby, did you make a boo-boo. Come here, give us a hug." Okoli has better defensive stats than Nelson this year. I get Nelson's an academy graduate. But when are we going to have a proper conversation about him. He's part of one of the worst defences in the Championship and doesn't stand out at all.