The Kraken

Penalty all day long. The reaction of the defender, Hall, said it all, he was devastated with himself.

I’ve put The Martian on. With Goodfellas, definitely my favourite 2 films.

When I was younger I never really rated the Godfather films too much, but I’ve really enjoyed watching them over the last 5-10 years or so. I used to think Godfather III was quite terrible in comparison, but I’ve found I’ve got much more time for it these days. Other films that I’d happily watch if on TV: The Prestige Inception The Matrix (not the subsequent ones though) Interstellar Se7en Silence of the lambs; and also Red Dragon, plus Manhunter which preceded it The departed American History X

Yeah, it’s so hard to pick just one. As egg says, is a mood thing. Goodfellas probably would get the nod from me if absolutely pushed. But also: Godfather I and II The Martian Star Wars IV A New Hope Shawshank Redemption Most of those on Turkish’s list.

Disagree. Nobody is saying it adds a huge amount, but it definitely adds something.

Yep, I said the same earlier. And his stock must have surely risen last term given the audience of a cup semi final and another promotion push. Fingers crossed we’ll find that the actual fee is much higher than that reported.

Not sure why Bragg has fallen a little out of favour. I can’t remember a scenario last season where Bragg was overlooked for Matsuki, but it’s happened at least a couple of times this term.

I find it very odd that both Benfica and Villa have been linked with initial offers lower than the figure reported we initially paid for THB. Hopefully the club display again that they know what they’re doing when negotiating fees in. I really do think that anything less than the Shea Charles fee would be too low.

Agree with some of the above, anything less than £25m plus add ons seems under valued to me. Bought by us for £20m, has since played for England and had a great season last season. Transfer fees for PL clubs are constantly on the rise too. He’s got a couple of years on his contract, I believe, so no worries there. Even £25M plus £5M add ons seems a little generous. But I guess being a championship club puts a glass ceiling on it. But it seems we might let him go for less than we got for Shea Charles, which doesn’t seem like a brilliant deal. I also read that Man City have a 25% clause. Saw someone suggest the fee may be low so as to offset a Dobbin payment and so keep the headline fee lower, which could be true I suppose.

Sorry, I thought I was being clear. Quite simply, yes. It’s a very significant problem that it makes it completely ridiculous that it needs a government-approved poster to point it out.

I’ve said before. I don’t think I’ve seen anyone say before that illegal and mass immigration, which adds to a growing UK population without our own resources growing at the same rate, isn’t a problem. I just think people see the solution in different ways. Anyone who says immigration isn’t a problem is an idiot, anyone who tries to attribute it entirely to political leanings falls into the same category as far as I’m concerned.

No, you got it, the poster thing is IMO a complete failure that identifies a very significant problem. Putting something like that out to try to ‘solve’ a problem makes a mockery of it imo.

It’s your point. It’s not the point. You can justify the conservatives as not knowingly bringing in policy all you like. It’s a simple fact that they did it, it was all under their watch. Unlike you, I don’t entirely blame “the right”, as that’s as frankly a pathetic distinction as blaming “the left”. The immigration failure is a complete failure from both sides and needs fixing properly with genuinely real solutions, not the idiotic and ridiculously expensive schemes you lament that wouldn’t make any genuine impact on numbers, scuppered or not by those pesky lefties who you love to shout at.

I can point to consecutive Conservative governments who enabled Brexit (some actively encouraged it) and thus enabled the vast numbers of illegal immigration we have these days. So, yes, I can point at large C and small c conservatives as being the root cause. After that it becomes a bit irrelevant, the Rwanda scheme and the Bibby Stockholm scheme you so admire wouldn’t have made much of a dent.

It’s a stupid mess, is what it is. And makes a charade of a very serious and obvious problem.