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Reply | Andy Burnham
at 20:29 6 Nov 2026
They'll do their level best to arrest and jail anyone remotely suggesting it. They've had enough practice lately.
I admire your optimism but don't share it. |
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Reply | Andy Burnham
at 20:25 6 Nov 2026
He's already stripping away the differences. With a big enough majority behind him he'll do it. That's how these people operate and how we got dragged in in the first place. There was no referendum on the Maastricht Treaty, nor the Lisbon one. |
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Reply | Ten games until New Years Day
at 20:23 6 Nov 2026
I think we've got it in us if almost everyone is available. We can take some losses in certain positions, but too many injuries along with chopping and changing don't help consistency.
It's not Matos' fault when players get injured and he does deserve some leeway with that, but he does chop and change a bit much. I'd also question his insistence on playing the same way regardless. A coach should be adaptable and teams who can only play one way leave themselves wide open to being tactically countered. |
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Reply | Be prepared warning
at 19:05 6 Nov 2026
As a general rule I tend to keep about 3/4 days of non-perishable food at home (tins, noodles, rice etc) generally. I've also got a windup radio and a camping stove.
Nothing to do with current events. I just do it in case there's a storm and I lose power for a while. |
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Reply | Andy Burnham
at 19:02 6 Nov 2026
Burnham is bought and paid for.
When he calls the inevitable early general election millions of wasters who are dependent upon the state will vote him back into office. We'll go back into the EU without a referendum, and then we're completely f*cked.
It's looking more and more likely that there will be several civil wars in Europe within the next 50 years. Perhaps even a continent wide conflagration between the Nationalists and the Globalists.Tens of millions will die because those who have held the power for the last 30-40 years hate the idea of letting people choose for themselves how to live. |
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Reply | Ten games until New Years Day
at 18:57 6 Nov 2026
Whilst I generally agree I'm not sure it's a form issue. We played well enough against Blackburn and that was only last Saturday.
We've just not been good enough in general against the better teams this season and now we've having a run of fixtures against them results are suffering. Injuries aren't helping, but neither are certain other decisions made.
Matos will need to earn his coin now. We can't just keep doing what doesn't appear to be working and expect different results. |
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Reply | Was it better back then ?
at 11:33 4 Nov 2026
Got to be honest, the older I get the less I want my life to revolve around football. I'm quite happy to be able to.do.other things when we're away and have missed more home league games in the last two or three seasons than I did for about 15/20 years beforehand because other stuff came up. |
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Reply | Is Jay Fulton undroppable ?
at 18:31 2 Nov 2026
Widell in particular has made no secret about how much he looks up to Fulton.
Said it before, but I'd be very surprised if there's not a coaching job waiting here for him when he does decide to wind down his career. Club management respects him. Players he's played with in the past respect him. Players he's playing with now respect him.
Incidentally I only recently learned that hus dad is Steve Fulton, who I can remember as a player too. |
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Reply | Swans Scores this Season
at 13:46 1 Nov 2026
This is more like what we need. If Vipi, Idah and Stewart can eventually all get into double figures, another three or four players coming close would be a huge improvement and give us a bloody good shout of the playoffs.
Interestingly, Vipi is only two goals shy of Idah despite playing four hours less football, and most of that off the bench. |
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Reply | Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Match Thread
at 12:52 1 Nov 2026
The issue with Stamenic has been there all season. He's too slow on the ball. I think he's got it in his locker to play quicker, but it seems very much like a Grimes situation to me. He's got to be forced to do it.
Also similar to Grimes in that there are a lot of people who insist that he's one of the first names on the teamsheet when yesterday proved that we can manage quite nicely without him. Maybe are even improved by it.
The midfield balance was damn near perfect yesterday. Fulton snuffing out any issues defensively allowed Eustaquio the freedom to act as an offensive weapon. We moved the ball a lot faster and a lot smarter than we have for much of the season.
I'd still prefer a more out and out creative option to Widell as much as I rate basically everything else he does, but if we picked the same three again for Pompey I'd have no complaints. [Post edited 1 Nov 12:54]
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Reply | Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Match Thread
at 10:16 1 Nov 2026
One of the things that does make me wonder is why he's never had a Scotland call up. Not sure they've had the strength in depth over the last 10-15 years to reasonably ignore a player with nigh on 400+ career games, three quarters of which have come at either Premier League or Championship level. |
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Reply | Poland
at 10:09 1 Nov 2026
On their own terms.
Like I said, happy to be part of the EU, but disinterested in going the whole hog. Massively anti-migration, which I suspect would swing things the other way if a Tusk Government starts following Commission orders.
Poland represent an option that those in charge of the EU project would like to see erased. Willing to be part of a community of nations, but still very much their own country. There is a very obvious emphasis in Western European Governments particularly to shut down opposition to the Globalist approach by any means necessary. Tusk is very much part of that group. |
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Reply | Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Match Thread
at 10:00 1 Nov 2026
Fulton has always been a consistently decent player. Feels like I've spent a lot of time over the years making that argument. It's also absolutely not a coincidence that Leon and Joe recommended to Matos that he go straight into the team for VM's first game in charge. They knew the score.
This is just the first time since maybe the Cooper era where he's been a regular starter as opposed to someone dropped in for a game or two here and there. It also helps that he's no longer being blamed for what happened when he got paired with Grimes. |
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Reply | The changing income tax landscape
at 08:52 1 Nov 2026
The minimum wage is at least £3ph too high. Add in the additional costs of hiring someone and it's no real surprise that the job market for young people has been devastated. Why hire someone with no experience when they cost just the same as someone with plenty?
There is a strong economic argument for not having a minimum wage at all, but that's probably a step too far.
They should have a four or five year pause on increasing it and raise the personal allowance instead, but that won't happen because Labour voters need their handouts. |
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Reply | Poland
at 08:28 1 Nov 2026
Finished the last election as head of the second largest party, but leading a coalition of pro-EU/left wing/Globalist types.
To be honest, after spending much of the last several centuries as a puppet state of a larger entity (usually Russian) I'd expect most Poles to feel completely the opposite. |
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Reply | Goals ? The answer is staring Matos straight in the face
at 22:17 31 Oct 2026
Obvious issues with rustiness and a lack of match sharpness are being overlooked a little (his first touch was often a bit lacking), he's clearly a decent player and had a good game overall today.
I'm not sure however that he's a player we actually needed as he didn't contribute an awful lot more than a Vipotnik not starved of game time and chances would have.
Hopefully he'll remain injury free for a period and he can force himself into the conversation of first choice forward a bit more. |
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Reply | Poland
at 18:56 31 Oct 2026
From what I can gather (I know a couple of Poles) they don't mind being in the EU but on their terms, and are prepared to stick two fingers up if that's not an option. They're not interested all that much in open borders, surrendering the Zloty or enacting basically every dictat that comes from Brussels. A bit like we were really.
Tusk has been maneuvered back into power to break this deadlock and integrate the Poles more, and is trying to get rid of anyone that can stop him. |
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