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The young lad who scored for Blackburn has more goals in the last two games than our entire forward line this season combined, so says the Sky commentator

I mean he isn’t Firmino, but he is objectively by far the best presser of our striking options. He also moves, sometimes towards the goal, which is a novelty. I’ve seen Ayew literally sprint out of the box and away from the opposition goal whilst we are in possession multiple times 🤣

Disagree, he’s not a 9. He’s fine at 10. The only times we’ve played anything close to acceptable attacking football this season has been with Daka as a 9 making space for others, Ayew offers nothing from open play, worse actually, he actively harms the functioning of the rest of the team. Daka doesn’t score (none of them do) but he does make others play better with his pressing and movement.

Regular reminder than Daka offers far more than our other strikers

0 shots on target 0 big chances

Zero shots on target still

League One is not out of the question

Carranza is comfortably our worst striker

The deflected knock for the goal and lack of penalty being given for clear handball are both luck. We are also shit. Put the two together and there is no hope.

How are we so unlucky 🤣

That looked handball

Moronic stuff that, but we should be two up already, very positive start

The defence is probably about as good as we can field… which is depressing, but at least Faes and Thomas are out

If we lose 0-4 then Wrexham will go ahead of us; who needs a points deduction?

They may, but then at least you can deport people more easily if there is a legal route. At present you can claim you are legitimate applicant who had no option other than to use a small boat, regardless of whether or not that is true, then you sit in a hotel for 18 months with your needs paid for by the state whilst you make appeals etc. If there is a legitimate route, that argument effectively dies. Why did you use a human trafficker when you can just go to an embassy in the first safe country you arrived in? If your claim is legitimate it will be considered and accepted via that route. At that point, anyone in a small boat is illegal by definition as they would now be making the choice to avoid the legitimate route (which currently doesn’t exist), and I don’t think the majority of people would have any issue deporting everyone arriving via a small boat in those circumstances even if a law change is required to do so. TLDR; the process of removing people is complicated by the lack of legal route, it means legit asylum seekers get lumped in with illegal immigrants, all using the same methods to get here, because that is is the only method at present. If you make a legal route, it should make it easier to deport people not using it.

What are “proper channels” though? You can’t claim asylum without being in the UK, you have to get here to claim it in the first place. There are no legal routes to travel to the UK specifically to claim asylum, and no way to apply without being in the UK, hence why they use small boats or hide in Lorry’s etc. We have designed a system that plays directly into the hands of people smugglers, we built their industry with these rules. I personally don’t understand why we don’t allow people to make applications at any British embassy, we have them in almost every country. Surely that would be vastly cheaper, since they won’t be here and unable to work during the application process, and easier to control. It would also remove the incentive for legitimate asylum seekers to get on small boats, and therefore make it far easier to legally immediately remove anyone arriving via that route as it would be easier to demonstrate they did not follow the legal route. I am not right wing, I have no problem with immigration in general, I will never vote for a party like Reform. But we have an asylum seeker population larger than the entire city of Cambridge either waiting for their application or waiting for their appeal (some of whom will be taking the piss), that is clearly a problem and it’s absolutely crazy that we let ourselves get into that position (largely failures of the previous government), and it is a vastly expensive problem to fix.

Anyone able to post the goal?

We were good with 3 at the back before, not upset we are trying it again

I don’t think he’s been great, but our problems go far beyond the manager, doubt sacking him would solve anything

For all we have looked shite, I’m not convinced a new manager would fix anything, too many of our players are shite and/or don’t want to be here

We will never do it, but I’d ill like to see us try 3 at the back, without Thomas or VK.

Didn’t he go on loan to Sevilla and was a regular when they qualified for the champions league? And before he was with us was a regular in a Ligue 1 winning team… Might be us that are the problem here 😆

Does big Ange fancy another payout?

He’s out of his depth and we have too many players that don’t want to be here

Why can’t we play with this urgency at other times…