Chindie

Anyway... I've watched the usual news channel coverage of this today and it's all as unsavoury as usual. Desperate for pictures of the latest victim, tossing themselves of every time they can say the death toll has gone up, and my personal favourite, rushing to get pictures of a bus full of distressed, injured, shocked people leaving the airport. Rubber necking writ large. There's barely any real information or content. Just voyeurism.

Do you not think comparing people, whether they are women and children or young fit men, to insects and rats and parasites of other types, is wrong? Actually, I know you don't, never mind. All the people coming from Syria are jihadist locusts waiting to suck good Christian Europe dry and infest it with dirty Muslims. I've seen the error of my ways.

A minor point, but drawing an allegory between humans fleeing an horrific conflict and rats is really poor form. I thought we got past the 'swarm' references when toddlers started washing up on beaches.

The mastermind behind Paris had been dead for ages. The guy they were after was the logistics man who at the last minute decided not to blow himself up and went on the run. He didn't go very far though - he holed up in the same borough he was from, which also was connected to many of his accomplices, and it took them 4 months to find him.

Combination of things. Belgium is a small country, large parts of it are quite poor by expected standards, and it has developed ghetto-ised areas as it has historically had a fair amount of migration. That's a melting pot for extremism to grow, poor disenfranchised young men remote from wider society. It also has easy connections to France and Germany, the former of which has its own problems of a similar sort to Belgium (and combines that with its history in North Africa and elements of the Middle East) which don't end at the border, which makes Belgium an easy staging point. Then you add that the Belgian security forces aren't as good as some other nations, and it's a mess. This will get worse before it gets better.

Double figure fatalities at the airport, 2 check in desks targeted and some reports shots fired beforehand. The Metro system is completely shutdown as well now.

Interview lined up with the guys I turned down to go to the other lot last year despite them pushing to get me. Might be awkward. Oh well... Fingers crossed

Khazri has done alright for Sunderland.

Someone needs to take whoever started peddling nation state finances in terms and character you'd associate with personal or household finances and budgeting outside and give them a good shoeing. It's this nonsense that had Osborne able to convince people we'd be the next Greece and we needed to start shitting on the poor lest we collapse to anarchy. If the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is currently bankrupt, most of the planet has been for decades. We've run a surplus a handful of times in the last 50 years - I don't recall reading about any IMF bailiffs knocking Westminster's doors and taking Big Ben in lieu of payment.

If they did turn up they could be the only big deal at E3 this year. It'd be headline news on a good year, but with the drop outs this year they'd walk it just by appearing on one of the big 2s events to say they're making it.

We'll end up looking for the new Mick McCarthy. Solid at Championship level, capable of promotion and used to working with a shoestring budget.

Yes. As I've said a few times, I understand the dissenting positions. I think everyone does. I've no desire to change anyone's mind. I'm just outlining a position and going against a misrepresentation. So there's no point continuing it.

I disagree, but I don't have any intention of arguing with you. I understand your position. I don't agree with it.

I've answered this already. And I'm not alone in feeling there has been some improvement, so whilst you might not agree, it isn't bollocks. But I don't want to change your mind.

You won't let that personalities thing go will you? It isn't about that. If you want some evidence, I was a big fan of O'Neill. He is quite different to Garde. In both cases I saw benefits to the club in them. O'Neill obviously had far more success but Garde has shown he could be good for us as well, in my view. He won't be now because it's been obvious for weeks he's done here, but he could have been. And it isn't because I like his personality, so stop it please.

And you're welcome to that position and as I said before I understand it. But accept people are seeing better elements of play under Garde. And accept that people that would like to see him stay, are not saying that 'because he isn't Sherwood', or 'its personality'. That's misrepresenting what people's opinions are based on, and it's frustrating.

You're welcome to that position and I understand it. The results have been bollocks. And I'm not trying to persuade anyone otherwise. I'm just fed up of 'oh is because he's not Sherwood' or 'it's just personalities'. It isn't. People are seeing more in Garde than results suggest, and I'm tired of that being dismissed and people's views being misrepresented.

It isn't personalities. I know it isn't because I'm sat here telling you quite honestly what my position is on Garde. To repeat myself for the final time hopefully, and for reference I know you won't agree so save me the same argument back, I've seen with some of the performances under the current manager a far more professional, considered style of play than we ever saw under Sherwood, who didn't know what he was doing so is a bit a surprise. The midfield plays with more of a brain, more like you would expect of a 'big' club target than the smash and grab crap you expect of a lower league side on a cup tie. Unfortunately it's completely undermined by the standard of players, they seem incapable of taking the next step, and have been for years. The team doesn't score enough goals under Garde, but they haven't scored enough goals for season on season - without Benteke we'd have been down long before now. And the defence is riddled with moronic individual errors that I genuinely don't think you can 'manage' out of them, and then loses their head the moment one goes in. So, whilst the results haven't improved over all, there's enough hints from Garde that, given time and importantly given resource to overhaul this side, we'd benefit. Whereas Tim clearly was flailing around without a clue and seemed to just throw a team out and say 'play'. He didn't have any game plan, and by the end was looking like he was about to have a breakdown (his final few post match interviews he looked like he'd slept in a ditch and didn't seem to have the faintest idea what to do - he wasn't coping). His style of coaching was clearly all about adrenaline and emotion, which doesn't last. But he was liked by the team and when a different style arrived in Garde they've not bothered because he isn't their best buddy Tim and the wheels fell off even harder. You disagree and that's fine. But accept it isn't about personalities, please. I see more in Garde than I do in Tim Sherwood. And that will be reflected in their careers, I believe, away from Villa Park.

Conversely I think he'll be happy to bide his time and wait for a decent opportunity somewhere. The only way I see him taking this job now is if he was destitute. Which to my knowledge he isn't. I wouldn't touch this job in his position, he needs a stable platform he can walk into and quietly succeed for a bit after a couple of perceived failures. This job is a come in and try to fix a mess with your hands tied poisoned chalice. He'd be a moron to take it.

I'd question how gettable Moyes is in current circumstances I think. He's out of work, but he rates himself higher than Championship clubs and he must realise the car crash he'd walk into here would be a bigger hassle than it's worth. Unfortunately I think we're fishing in a pond we'd rather not be. But even that shouldn't prevent us from ignoring the likes of Nigel Pearson. Even a beggar can have his standards.

People have explained time and again that they see more in Garde than Sherwood, because there have been improvements, however small, in our play. It's more than personalities - nobody is that stupid, everyone would be delighted if we had the best manager on the planet even if they happened to be a complete tosser. Now you can reject that, as no doubt you will because he isn't Ron **** Saunders, but have some more respect for your fellow fan to spout this bollocks that Garde is only liked because he seems nice or isn't Tim bastard Sherwood. Garde won't be here much longer whether he's sacked or walks so it won't matter shortly, but for pities same can we cut the bollocks?

He couldn't be further away from it, as people have explained time and again.

Pearson is an unhinged embarrassment. He can't act like a grown man let alone someone in the spotlight. He shouldn't be anywhere near this club.

That's the same name and details given in the article DK82 posted. All jumping on the bandwagon of the original source I suspect. Agree that subtitle is atrocious though. If there's any truth in this, that has to be a working title. I also would expect another 'R' name.