Rayvin

Well. Skipped lunch and breakfast today because it was one of those days where the fun never stopped with work. Got to the end of it at 7pm, ordered in a curry, opened up a bottle of red while I wait. Half of one glass down. I'm already fucked It never used to be like this...

The more I see of Truss, the more she seems to be like an older version of that Grimes scrote that crawls around on Twitter. She's an ex-Lib Dem too right? Previously held a lot of opinions that we probably could have gotten on board with but then sold them all out once she realised which side her bread was buttered. She's deplorable and I hope they elect her.

You're such a troll

I will look forward to being de-radicalised.

You have to keep pushing the blame back to source then. Why did the members vote for Corbyn? Because the Remnants of the Empire New Labour were voting through austerity measures and trying to out Tory the Tories. That's 100% why I voted for him, and I stand by that vote because what Labour were doing at that point was condoning a political strategy that likely as not needlessly killed 120,000 British people over the decade that the Tories were running it as a consequence of the cuts to the NHS. And that's before we factor in what those cuts will have meant for our COVID readiness. They made a rod for their own backs and you fundamentally cannot stop with the blame at the membership. The politicians in Labour failed -miserably- at the moment of Corbyn's election.

I totally agree with you on this vis-a-vis Ukraine, that what he's effectively calling for is the surrender of the Ukrainian state, or part of it. This is not going to work with someone as psychotic as Putin. That said, I do understand that for someone with a human centric outlook, who probably is far less concerned with the value of "the nation state", this would make sense. And I don't think it makes him a bad person. Same as the people on here who have argued similar things are not propagandists for Russia just because they want to minimise human suffering, they just believe that the best solution comes at the lowest cost of human life, no matter what. So yes, on this, I find myself entirely at odds with Corbyn. I don't for a moment think he's in the same league as Farage though who doesn't believe a word he says and spouts it freely. Maybe deluded, sure, but I don't actually think Farage is fwiw. I think the latter knows damn well he's spouting shite. Corbyn is at least consistent to his principles. He's wrong though, on this. No one could broker this peace because, very simply, Putin has set about a genocide with the aim of restoring imperial Russia. There is no peaceful acceptance of that.

Agree with this - the detail, not the Wykiki baiting We got a perfectly reasonable midtable finish last season, we have improved considerably since then, and the plan probably isn't to qualify for Europe this time out. On that basis, it's a consolidation season and we have two senior strikers on the books already in a system that will only use one of them. We're fine if they can't get anyone else in.

I think you're right or they're close enough that it makes no difference. Other than that if we're going to be pushing Europe, and we're talking about two like for like keepers, it's always better to have the English one.

I admire the theorycraft in here at times Maybe though!

Game 1 of the season, just watch

Thanks for sharing this. Listened to the whole thing.

Could just be using us to drive up his wages mind. Would be mad for Leicester to let him go unless we start offering silly money.

Exactly where I am, with a particular emphasis on the part in bold - with the exception of the fact that neither do any of those on the part of the people attacking the club either, with the possible exception of amnesty international. No one commenting on this from within football gives a fuck about the actual realities of this. They don't care about Yemen, they don't care about treatment of women, they don't care about journalists and political dissidents. All they care about is that it didn't happen to their club. For my attempt at the mental gymnastics though, I have arrived at this: if I ever had to vote for this country to stop funding atrocities around the world through willfully co-operating with these sorts of regimes, I would. 100% guaranteed. But while that's not on the paper, I am not going to take one for the team and stop following my football club in an act that will achieve precisely fuck all, and which against a backdrop of complete lack of action on the real issues anywhere else, would only be handing benefit to other despotic, rich psychopaths who happen to back other football clubs. Given that this is presently an 'evil prevails' situation no matter which way the benefit goes, I'm just going to keep supporting my fucking football club.

I agree with this really. We look so much better than we did a year ago just closing out last season that I'm really very relaxed about the new season start. No chance we'll be bottom half, and that's really the only aim I would think.

The only justification to take it out though, is if it needs to be spent before it would have been earned anyway. So we're talking an intent to spend £140m this year, in some form. Could be what Polarboy says, depends on how much cash the business had available to it.

Well said IMO.

I'm not entirely sure what this proves mind you - his favourability rating amongst a subset of people who are pre-defined as intending to vote for him is quite high. All we can infer from that is that these presently pro-Labour people are also +57 pro Starmer. There's not enough information there to draw any other conclusions about his overall strategy as the totally number of 2019 Conservative voted who currently say they would vote Labour could be 25 people. The fact that he's viewed more favourably than Sunak and Truss is something.

It's possible that they've held off because, if getting better sponsorships in a years time is indeed going to be the intended outcome to all of this, they may well have been watching and appraising the business done by others (West Ham in particular for my money, I suspect that's who we're targeting position wise this season) in order to ensure we measure up. At this stage they should have a clear idea of where our squad is compared to everyone else, who we can get in, and what it will take. And honestly, the only real reason to take out an £80m loan like this in advance of earning it over the season, is if you intend to spend it pretty much immediately. The cost of the loan is what they're paying for speed.

Just putting it out there, but all sides could have known this was coming - he may have fallen on his sword to give Labour the opportunity to distance themselves from the issue before it kicks off. Could be that he fancies another role in government when the time comes. It certainly all happened very quickly.

That is indeed the problem, and the horse is already bolting - can they shut the stable doors quick enough? I think Renton is the canary in the coalmine for this tbh

I think that's a pretty reasonable stance.

Reaching a bit, but loans are generally against the run of play in Islam, no? I appreciate that it's more about making money out of the loan, but there may be enough here to muddy the water sufficiently that they'd simply prefer to use a bank. Other than that, I agree that it's about deferring sponsorship deals until we're in a stronger position. Skipping a year forward if it works.

I wanted to get into this but I've found that I'm oddly in the same boat as Wykiki. England's mens team has just killed international football for me over 25 years. I just can't make myself care. I was more enthused watching the highlights of the 4th tier NUFC women's team. I agree the standard looks decent tbh, they must be approaching lower league level in some senses now.

Mental stuff from the "Labour" party.