The Kraken

Don’t be an arse, hardly anyone was saying that formation alone was our problem. It was a fundamental problem but not the only one, we have a few others that need fixing yet.

Thats exactly what I just said. The formation helps a lot, it’s the building blocks of what we are. Mentioning Edwards is 🤣, well done on that one.

Pretty much nobody is saying that. You’re painting yourself into a Fabrice29 shaped corner if that is your default. Quite frankly it’s a piss poor statement of inaccuracy. The formation was a clear and obvious shit show going on. Playing 4 at the back does many things to improve us, most of them obvious. It’s not the only thing we were bad at, but it’s a foundation that needed to change. As evidenced against Hull, we’re a long way away from being a decent side and changing to 4 at the back alone isn’t going to change it overnight. But it’s a bloody good step in the right direction and plays to more of our strengths all over the pitch. we did need to play 4 at the back. We also need to do many other things in other areas. Mist normal people can recognise that.

Family dinners must be an absolute flipping hoot around the oldgit household, with the children only being fed once they verbally renounce any potential future affiliation with designated political parties. Yes dad we promise, now can you just pass us the parsnips please, you monumentally weird man?

I noticed this very thing last week. Tbf they also had plenty of other Colgate variants that were 2 or 3 quid so I just got one of them instead. 7 quid is a joke though.

It’s an interesting question tbf. Of all the dregs that have reverted to reform, it definitely would be interesting to hear why someone would say “that’s a shame, I really like their politics”. What is it about Bobby Jenrick and Suella that makes people like Ian want to vote for them? At least say it out loud as to why, Ian.

Just because you see them it doesn’t mean they’re real outside of your own inflated ego.

Technically, yes. Realistically, absolutely not in the majority of cases. You would have to be really engaged in local politics to know what your local MP is all about and how they’ll go about it. Given how much the main parties whip their MPs to just vote per party policies, there’s not too many Dennis Skinners around any more who vote with their principles first. I’d not trust any MP aligned to a major party to vote their own wishes first, they’ll get booted out before that. It would be great if every single vote in parliament were down to the MP but it’s a sad reality that we are miles away from that, and have been for ages. I’m ok with it only in that I can’t do much about it.

An extremely simplistic response would be…..If you voluntarily leave the party, it’s a by election. If you get the whip taken away, you can stay put as an MP but only as an independent. Granted, if the “independent” does a Jenrick and gets themself sacked then they’re just going to follow the line of the party they want to join, so it’s a bit of a worthless move. So I’ll just remain being Peter O’hanrahanrahan, I don’t like it but I’ll have to go along with it.

In general I agree with you. Duck makes a reasonable point though, it’s not quite that cut and dried. But I do believe that if you voluntarily leave the party to defect to another then it should trigger a by-election. But I’m sure there would still be more loopholes to be found.

I had a quick skim of their forum, they largely reckon have zero chance of affording him unless they get promoted. It also relies on what their injured keeper does when he gets back, they seem to really rate him but think he might be destined for a higher level one way or the other.

Ok, must have both been in injury time, I checked just before the 90 were up and it was zero at that point.

It’s only qpr but Stoke didn’t allow a shot on target until injury time. Thats the type of defence Baz needs to play behind.

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Call me old fashioned if you will, but I’ll probably wait another 3 years until deciding where my vote goes in the general. The locals are very different and are often used to protest at something. In the local elections of 2023 the greens got a candidate elected in Portswood when a Labour clean sweep was expected, a major factor of that was a protest against the disastrous bus gate where Labour were perceived to have done very little to serve the wishes of local residents affected.