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Good than Alves, Braybrooke and Joseph play from the start. Feel for Aluko but it’s just a shame both he and Joseph are right sided as if one was left footed that’d have been ideal. Would have liked to see McFarlane for Thomas but sounds like he has had a knock, hopefully he will be integrated over a short time. BDR up front is crap but we weren’t expecting Bristvic to start days after joining were we. Midfield is really good for this level. I don’t find Skipp offensive, other than the finances involved in him coming/being here. But Skipp, Braybrooke, Burns, Cullen and Alves should be plenty good. I’m not sure we are looking at what will be a settled centre back pairing with the transfer window still open and not convinced by McCarthy.

It just attracts the dregs of society doesn’t it. I always just think it is important to remember that it does not reflect the wider population. If it did then we’d be in serious trouble!

Yeah, perfectly happy if this is him peaking and he fizzles out into a lower league player. Don’t like this predatory behaviour (yes I know we will do the same to clubs lower down) but the players and their families need to take some responsibility for knowingly shafting the lower clubs down the chain who have nurtured them. Yes the rules allow it so it’s their prerogative but as it is ours to hope that after chasing the money at the age he is that his future would be making a good honest living in L1 or L2.

Yet still every article you see on social media about it has tonnes of people putting laughing emojis and commenting ‘it’s called summer’, ‘1976’, ‘it’s a money making scheme’ etc etc. Whilst vasts amounts of the county and worlds populations are so thick and/or in denial and unwilling to even accept any of this is an issue, we will get nowhere.

I’m not convinced there’s any risk for £10 million. Players get inflated reputations just by being on the books of a Man City or Man Utd. They will get loaned out and many in Man City’s case are sold on for profit. Even if they don’t do particularly well, clubs will still dash to sign them based on big 6 reputation. The only way it could be a problem at all, would be if they signed Page, and he had a number of loans where he flopped so badly that nobody signed him (unlikely) and his contact ended. Even in that worst case, they can fall back on being a big 6 club who aren’t held to the same financial rules as the rest so it doesn’t matter.

Most definitely twats on both sides. I’d say pretty much anybody who is extreme either way fits that description to be fair. My point was about smashing up our streets and attacking Police officers etc which most definitely stems from one of those extremes. The poster I quoted, 123, is being pure daft anyway. They say they campaigned and everyone was lovely apart from far left. If they were campaigning for a right wing party and pushing far right narratives then this would be why, without it being ok. Same as if someone representing a left wing party come into contact with Reform voters, they will get the hate and bile. You’re not going to get hate from those with the same beliefs as you are you? So them trying to use that as an example to accuse right wing voters of being lovely whilst left wing aren’t is as I say, daft to put it nicely.

That’s the f***er! Takes away a bit from a chilled afternoon on the beach

Remind me who it is out on the streets smashing up our towns and cities regularly again?

That’s the one. Right effort back up! Shame as the town beach was a bit far over the coastal path with a little one so we drove into Perranporth. But the town beach was really good with the pools under the cliffs and the natural pool in the rocks. Definitely envious of you living down there!

Apparently it’s a TicTok challenge….

So who have we still got that is getting in the way of a ready made Brexit FC for Sean Dyche to come into when Martin gets the boot Faes, Stolarcryk, Coulobaly, Okoli. Obviously Bristvic. Not counting Souttar as he’d be Dyche approved! We have gone very home grown with our signings!

So if we can get Mavididi out, LW - Watson/Alves AM - Cullen/Chaplin/Reid RW - Burns/Howell With some flexibility that Alves could be central or right and Cullen could play further ahead. But now we need to stop with the attacking midfielders, we have a range of options now. We still don’t know how Bristric will do so a further striker would be welcome. Full back seems fine but centre back is a concern. Too much ingrained stench of failure. That’s not easily turned round regardless of a drop in level as we saw last season.

Stoke and Pershore in Worcestershire as well…

Ah right, we were in Perranporth last year at Perran Sands Haven. The way up and down to the beach was a let down (hence going to Hayle this time) but Perranporth town beach was lovely. I saw they had the World Cup games showing on the beach there. Did you go down there at all for them? It always seems to feel nicely cooler down there though, being a fairly thin strip between the Atlantic and English Channel.

Where in Cornwall are you? We were down there in June, had nice weather in Bude, went down to Hayle for a few days and it was just grey and rainy. We had picked the site for beach proximity but never really got on. Then went up to Devon and it was lovely. Meanwhile back home it was 20+ and sunny…

I agree, and maybe it wasn’t clear what I meant. I mean arrogance as in thinking the game is won on paper, that we just have to show up. We might be the biggest club and have the best squad but we still have to respect the league in that we have to turn up and play and show we are the best on the pitch. That’s what I mean when I say what could be our downfall. The ‘we’ll be fine’ attitude. I agree that people who call us little old Leicester and belittle our achievements are irritating. The whole back where we belong crap.

Ironically, over confidence with unfounded arrogance! Not that I am predicating we specifically won’t win the league or get promoted, just that if we don’t, I think it will be down to a mentality of us just needed to turn up and teams will roll over for us which won’t happen.

And again, if people like Trump and all those who respond to anything related to illness with little emojis of syringes, look at all the absolute crap that goes into most of the food and drinks stocked on our supermarket shelves, the true reason for more issues involving poor health and probably things like autism (additives and E-numbers in things) would be clear….

‘Sliding towards irrelevance’ To quote @AKCJ, ‘life under Aiyawatt’

Really annoying. You just know as well, the same people who mock climate change will be the ones having a meltdown about the boats and ‘Muslims will take over the country’. And yet, any percentage shift in demographics in this country is as much driven by lower birth rates. So full circle, do these people ask themselves why the birth rates are down? Obviously affordability. But the other reasons people give are political instability (invariably caused by right wing/authoritarian leaders who have no regard for the planet) and climate change itself. So kind of ironic they can’t see the link.

It all feels quite uncomfortable and a bit predatory.

That’s absolutely awful business by Sheffield United! They literally had him there when he was injured and out for a year. Wilder has been good for them but they are deteriorating their squad year on year and getting further bogged down as an average Championship club. But every time they try and move on from him they end up rooted to the bottom of the league and having to go back! Good business for us though.

It’s a good move for Evans and to play with Otchere as well. My concern, with both, is that if we get promoted this season, and they both stay at Cheltenham/L2 like Braybrooke last season, we won’t see them in the first team next season as there’s no way we essentially promoted them 2 divisions, bypassing L1 given the clubs mistrust in youth. Which them would mean contracts running down again and the chance of losing them.

Hmm, I’m as anti-Rudkin and KP as they come but a 4 year deal for a 23 year old striker is not like the 3 years for over 30 year olds. The fee and wages should be comparatively now to enable us to move him on if it doesn’t work out. The poster was right that it works both ways and conversely we could end up seeing him doing really well and run down his contract.

I work with a Blackpool fan. Just asked what he knows about this guy. The answer…nothing really. Loving the vote of confidence!