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Just now, NashVillan said:

Can someone remind me again why Green doesn't play? He was easily the best LM/LW we've had all season. This game is crying out for a quick winger. 

I genuinely couldn't think of any reasonable argument why he wouldn't at least be on the bench for a game like this. 

1 minute ago, KSV said:

Not even half time but im bored and i figured id get going on my rant.

1. This team is shit

2. We cant pass. Why? Our back 5 keep long balling it to the front two who both cant win headers or keep hold of the ball ala Benteke did to bring the midfield in attack

3. Bacuna and Gardner are not good enough. Very poor in possession. 

4. Lansbury Hogan and Hourihane are great players.. and i think i can count on one hand how many touches they have had. 

5. Kodjia is a hog. Another chance to put Hogan through and he shot from an impossible angle. 

Pathetic really. Dont know how Bruce plans on changing this next season..

A lot of this stuff, should be fixed in training with some decent coaching, and the rest with team selection.

Just now, LakotaDakota said:

FFs Johnstone, why start saving things now...

Wants a contract next season.

When was the last time we worked on pass and move in training? Must be years. 

13 minutes ago, DaveAV1 said:

I've had a whinge in the premature thread about this. Bruce hasn't selected a single academy player for the match day squad, not even on the bench. This is a dead rubber for us, surely an opportunity missed to have a look at future prospects. We're on the road to nowhere with this mentality. 

Was talking to someone yesterday about how we're not going down, but are miles away from the play offs, and they said "at least you can give the kids a run out."

I replied without pause, that there was absolutely no chance that Bruce would play any younger players. 

It's just not in his thinking as a manager, does anyone really think he'll ever nurture young players fully into the team?

If he'd have done a speech at a school and picked another minority and said they were dangerous to society he'd be getting in serious trouble (imagine if he'd have said Asians are a danger to society, or Jew's etc.) That he gets away talking prejudice bull about homosexuality, by hiding behind religion, is the problem. 

1 hour ago, dAVe80 said:

Why doesn't J C, produce mutton headed mugwump?

In an interview Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson says the government could bomb Syria without the approval of MP's. 

The thing everyone fixates on from that interview is that he calls Corbyn a mugwump. Classic Johnson distraction achieved. 

10 hours ago, sharkyvilla said:

Haha I hadn't thought of that.  To be fair Norwich South voted remain and he has a big majority over the Lib Dems in second, so he should be ok.

Sorry, are Labour meant to appeal to remain voters, or to leave voters?

I thought they were worried about losing heavily remain seats.

Two points, is there any evidence whatsoever that postal voting causes "stealing votes" by minority communties?

And secondly the most aggravating factor of any "grooming gang" is the grooming and the paedophilia. It should be a long sentence whatever the races involved.  

50 minutes ago, sharkyvilla said:

Are you automatically still registered to vote if you voted in the referendum last year?

As long as you haven't moved house, you should still be on the electoral register and get your polling card through the post. 

I'm putting it out there, I couldn't actually give a toss about Birmingham City.

30 minutes ago, Chindie said:

Not even far right. Seems to be a scheme to short shares in Dortmund.

Always didn't add up IMO.

Bloody Capitalists, lock 'em all up! Ban the three piece suit!

19 hours ago, sne said:

I do love me a good dystopian story.

You should probably just watch the news then. 

So is the only party leader that's not a word removed Leanne Wood? Or is it just no-one really knows anything about her. (or cares)

My constituency is a choice of Plaid or the Lib Dems.

Democracy is the worst. 

I would be interested to see the figures of where people actually get their news nowadays. 

I think it would be largely online, and this is one of the ways Trump managed to win the American election. His campaign spent millions manipulating the flow of online news. I wouldn't completely disregard the influence of traditional media, but I certainly would pay more attention to online sources. 

20 minutes ago, tonyh29 said:

by who ... Corbyn the Brexit supporter  ?

I think she's not doing it, because she's more concerned about when they throw in audience questions, rather than anything any of the other candidates would say. 

8 hours ago, HanoiVillan said:

#mediacriticism

 

Daily Mail quoting Lenin, LOL.

We're through the rabbit hole now. 

54 minutes ago, snowychap said:

Was it a grand pledge when Osborne committed the Tory party to target it?

 

Yes.

Islington North voted remain by76%. Hayes and Harlington was 59% remain. If I were the Lib Dems I would be going to town on those constituencies. 

43 minutes ago, Davkaus said:

http://www.labour.org.uk/index.php/10-pledges

 

I'm not sure there's anything I massively disagree with there.

 

This highlights one of the biggest problems with Corbyn, you can't particularly argue with the aspirations of many of these policies. But you have to ask, how the hell are you going to actually afford this and bring it to fruition? It's like he knows he'll never get elected so he can make grand pledges like full employment and universal childcare because he'll never actually have to deliver it.

12 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said:

The FTPA was created simply and only to prevent the Lib Dems holding a gun to the head of the 2010-2015 coalition by threatening a vote of no confidence and flashing their knickers at Labour instead. Its creation was every bit as cynical as its death, and I for one won't miss it (while it may remain on the statute books, it died as a relevant concept today). 

Are you trying to say the Tories enacted a major constitutional change purely because it would benefit themselves in short term electioneering?

They'd never do something that cynical and foolish, surely?

Will be interesting to see the stance of Jeremy Corbyn being a popular electable leader, after the local elections results, and leading in to the GE.

My money's on, everyone loves Jeremy it's the media conspiracy to blame for no-one voting for him.