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Definitely get him more involved. There's a chance we'll miss out on League 1 next season without him.

He has a proven record of promotion from the division with a recently relegated club. But this was actually my first thought too.

7 hours ago, @Sir Ralph said: So you think we are essentially far right. You really dont understand what far right is so I would recommend not using the term until you have read up on it and the history relating to far right regimes. Whilst I would not say you fall within the definition of far left because I understand what that means, you certainly are not a liberal with a small L. Just because we draw fire from liberals (or lefties as I call them) that doesnt mean we are far right, it means we disagree with some of the views that they have (this forum has a higher proportion of liberals). I dont call you far left even though I think some of your views are extreme. That's not how it works. You need to better understand what those terms mean before you call people that. The SaintsWeb political spectrum works a little differently. There's the extreme left through the left where it meets up with The Guardian headlines. SOG is led pretty much by that. Anything not aligning to any of that position (even if it has changed) is a far right, flag raising, Neanderthal, Brexit loving racist. In summary: Communist; Your Party; SOG; Reform/Robinson-Thug When a number of us checked out where we were on a political graph a while back, all bar one of us were in the same general area. Plenty of scope on how each of us ended up there, with various views balancing out to give a single point. But lots of room for respectful discussion. It's a good thing to see you take people as you find them. So, you can read the below and just continue to to do just that. I'd been a long time lurker before being more active of late. So, I'd dip in and out. And that was nearly always the main board. I'd check out the lounge very sporadically. I found my view of SOG change considerably from reading isolated parts, to seeing full discussions from scratch. I'd remembered some indecisive liberal positions. And I remember wondering why the response seemed heavy handed. Reading it from scratch, the individual posts didn't tie up with the loose liberal perspective. . And that's fine. Everyone is shaped by life events and experiences. No one expects flawless consistency. What I wasn't expecting, but the others had already been through was the nature of some of the comments. On one hand self styled, liberal champion of empathy, tolerance and intelligence. On the other was the poster most likely to use racist slurs. An anti Semite well before the latest Gaza conflict. Possibly the most intolerant to the thoughts of others poster we have. This is where all this Hopkins/Robinson stuff stems from. It's SOG's labelling of those who disagree. No one else had any interest in them. Decrying the lack of intelligence of others, leaning on a long career fighting knife crime, sexual assault and in journalism. Except he got caught out on the CPS own processes, showed a degree of victim disregard that would have got him transferred for his own personal safety and showed a willingness to believe or disbelieve legal outcomes as it suited. It turned out he had administrative rather than investigative duties. The crusading journalism? sales division, after clearly showing no journalistic investigative skills. And no one would have cared less, or thought less of views for them being from that perspective. But the condescension and disregard for other equally valid views put plenty of people off well before me. I leave you to discover the joys of Fantasy Mealtime, Nazi Belt Buckle Review and Distorted On The Buses Bantz. That political spectrum test showed us broadly where we were. SOGs the one who would fix his answers to the desired outcome, regardless of the actual opinions.

I'm a political atheist. I don't believe governments exist. I've been wondering what's being discussed since the opening post. 🙂

It's a little weird that you know SOG's Dear Diary opening for the day. 🙂

Apart from a cup final, I really remember him in his veteran years. Which must have been in his mid 30s at the start of those. One of those impressive stand outs, with a bit of everything. Good in midfield and in defence, a good leader and as tough as nails

Appointment

It's brave work from the evolutionary psychologists to show that when heads go far enough up their own rears regression also occurs. Are we not men? No! We are Devo(lutionary psychologists)! This was also toss. You've never missed an opportunity to portray yourself as the champion of empathy, and therefore right. All while expressing some of the worst, myopic, out dated, intolerance the board gets to see.

That he did all that endurance running, while having such a serious blood disorder, makes him even more of a legend in my eyes.

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Plenty of time for Downs to break back into the USA squad.

He's not back to being the total lump he was for quite a while, but Aribo is obviously a bit rusty and not as mobile as he could be. That said, the pace of that second half was very different. Everyone was a bit slower and more measured. Only Robinson having a few solo runs and AA's work rate strong, even when slower. Even then, Aribo's awareness closed things down without him having to bust a gut. He also took up at least one really good space only for no one to pass to him. That, and the off chance of getting some January pennies for him, and I can see why he's there.

If Tonda keeps giving us dull second Halfs, then he's got no chance of getting the job. 🙂 All done in the first half again. And again, the set up makes the most of our weaker areas, with lots of support for each other. AA roamed even more tonight to create space for the others. Scienza once again the beneficiary, along with Azaz. Scienza is able to disrupt defences with even the smallest opportunity and makes a massive difference. Initially Fellowes had to run from deeper than he'd have liked to. But he had his opponents well beaten, with one sentence off and the other lucky to escape cards. It's a shame we've no target man for his crosses. He had to adapt his delivery. With no Stephens THB was the one getting forward. And he did it well, in addition to the two headers. Manning becomes key to a lot of our set pieces. We need to be attacking, so that teams don't exploit us at full back. Quarshie is a lot rawer. But his presence put Leicester off and he did things well. Downes picked up his obligatory card, although he looked angry with himself for it. In truth, he should have got one a lot earlier. Bragg gets a start. Cameos for Robinson, who showed some direct runs, Aribo with more pluses than minuses and Downs who won a header, even if he decided not to aim towards the goal with it. All sensible switches from Tonda. The squad players know what they need to do, to start. This weekends game to come. But if it goes half decently, Tonda will get the job. Then not long until the window for Spors to rectify the centre forward issue.

Yours can't count because a) it's you and not him b) your example isn't being used to support a headline in the Guardian, without understanding the context and, importantly, c) your personal anecdotes are real ones. The closest SOG has personally come to a racial incident is the one he faked on here, when there were national incidents, and then blamed his wife.