The Kraken

Completely disagree. The national pension is something that we all have to pay into from the day we starting earning. We don’t get a choice in the matter. You’d be asking the bigger contributors to the fund to take less/none of it. I can very much get on board with the notion that higher earners pay more tax therefore more money for the same public services that everybody enjoys. But to say you have to pay more, and then get less/none at the end? Absolutely not.

This Baird of the land chap seems terribly keen to be upset and angry about policies that haven’t even been devised yet.

After the Phil Parsons “sorry, yeah not sorry LOL” omnishambles, I think Solak’s lawyers will be thoroughly invested in the process of what Eckert portrays as what he does or did/didn’t believe. So I’m not considering a problem as such. Much more the problem is what the club and Tonda admitted before, and how that somehow gets mitigated. The FA are also abiding by their rules and not the EFL’s. Similarities for sure, but not identical.

That’s nothing more than my guess at what might be considered a ‘reasonable’ punishment whereby we can just get on with it and suck it up. I have zero idea whatsoever what the FA are likely to hand down. Nor do I know what the club are likely to do even with a slap on the wrists, they may decide they’re fighting everything. We’ll see. But I agree with the sentiment others have expressed, the club has backed Tonda so they’ve now got to go all guns blazing should the penalty be severe. A protracted appeal, then appeal to CAS, whatever else can be done to draw it out. The FA could have charged Tonda within days but they chose to take weeks instead, so we owe them nothing in terms of hurrying things along.

Good signing by Blackburn tbf.

Yep, our best hope IMO is that the FA have communicated their expected sanction, and it’s deemed reasonable. I somehow doubt that is the case. Solak seemed like he was lawyered up at his last public utterance, so just got to hope there’s no need for that and the FA’s line for punishment isn’t too strong. 4-6 match touchline ban seems like a bit of a hope, for me. Longer term full ban I reckon brings the lawyers in, and not sure what that then does if we appeal it straight away (in terms of Tonda’a availability until an appeal is heard).

I enjoyed that 🙏

This thread is hilarious. Well done. I didn’t realise that actors with dark skin playing entirely made up characters like elves, dwarves and whatever else could be so infuriating. My eyes opened.

Yeah bring back poll tax, that was much better.

For all of Damo’s faults (and there do seem to be quite a few) we need to remember that his style is nothing like Larin or Stewart. Despite his size he’s not a hold up man, he’s always looking to get in behind defenders instead of bringing others into play by being a focal point. He did himself no favours at all with his performances, but Will Still did himself no favours either by asking him to play a role he just can’t do. Whether he should be able to do it is a different matter, but it’s not clever playing a young lad newly in a foreign country and asking him to do something he’s crap at. I don’t think he can ever really fit into a 4231 / 433 akin to what we saw mostly from us with Larin / Stewart last season. So I’m not sure where we go with him, especially as his loan spell at Hamburg seemed equally disastrous as his time with us. So if we’re not really going to play that sort of striker, we’ve probably just got to cut our losses and put it down to poor recruitment.

Fairly standard these days that players maintain fitness throughout summer. Back in the day it was properly on the beach, players turning up for pre season overweight and unfit. Year round fitness is monitored much more now.

Much more like a late post-season.

Your original stats were incorrect. He started 21 league games and was sub in 10. In our final 10 league games of the a season, he started 6 times. That was when he was largely over his injury. Over the season, started in approximately 2 in 3 games he played in. Missed 15 league games largely due to injury. I like Charles a lot. But there’s nothing wrong with saying that by the end of the season, him Jander and Downes were pretty much a rotating three between two positions. Bragg also to a lesser extent. I’d prefer to keep Charles, but the idea that he started almost every game he played is off beam.

‘The left’ 🤣 it’s akin to Soggy calling anyone to the right of Zack Polanski a Tommy Robinson supporter. Political categorisation for the terminally thick.

Ange has always been a bit of a liability to Labour. Shes pretty gobby, not all that bright, and by various counts wasn’t ever that much of a great local MP. Never saw the appeal of her being so high up other than that she was obviously working class, making a success despite an impoverished upbringing. Would still love a go, mind.