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mrD66M

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  1. It's a very unfair comparison, this season vs '19. We were spoiled with Farkeball. At the moment there are a lot of things in flux and not defined in the club, SD, ownership, but overall it's the inconsistency, the poor communication from the management, the lack of character, the streaky patterns of good results/performances turning to mush like last Wednesday. Can't really blame paying fans who do their best to support the club at a really tough time financially for many, yet feel they're not getting the connection - that isn't built just on results, it's putting the fans at the heart of everything the club does. Wagner ain't Farke, Knapper ain't Webber, Sainz ain't Emi but we ain't no mugs. We want desire, ambition, vision, intent, so NCFC needs to either s#it or get off the pot. The club needs to value the fans, bring them on board to press forward in whatever direction is chosen by the powers that be, then clearly communicate coherence of intent in every action.
  2. No way you missed Sara's volley?? 🙄🙃
  3. We can keep the cheese thread going. Norwich defo gave Rotherham a Tunworth today.. are you on board?
  4. Home form has been good this season, away form has been abysmal.
  5. Sainz really put a complete performance today. Is this the best he's played for us?
  6. I only started to watch 2nd half, it feels really strange to be 4 up by half time. At this point clean sheet, no cards and no injuries I'll be very happy with the result. OTBC 🔰
  7. That depends on how skilled, efficient and competent an individual politician / political party / system is. For politicians that are not very good at what they are meant to do, like the current govt iteration, they will focus on the "wedge" issues, not with a view to improve society for everyone, but to radicalise their base, appealing, by their rhetoric, to some of their worst instincts. A political party that is competent and forward-looking will focus instead on the best instincts and values of its citizens to forge a positive path forward. Why should a leader, erm, follow its followers' ?
  8. As stated originally, it was through work.. I have no interest in meeting such people.
  9. Where did you live, and what did you learn that broadened or narrowed your perspective? Where were your assumptions challenged, and confirmed? What do you carry with you to this day? Pros and cons of each country? Where did you integrate better, and why? If you went and lived abroad, were you expected to integrate into the culture, speak the language etc? If not, then how can you demand that people who move to the UK do that - unless for you it's merely about following the laws of the country? If you lived in 10 countries yet talked the bare minimum with locals, didn't participant in the local customs/culture, etc, what did you learn? It is possible to live in different places and still be very insular... it takes a degree of openness and courage, a willingness to contribute (more than in just material terms ie work, taxes, etc), to integrate successfully. Opinions aren't inherently wrong - until we start lumping ours on other people and refuse to allow our opinions to be challenged, refuse to think we are above logical flaws / rationalisation / getting emotionally tangled up. Since this debate is on immigration... No country can support a massive and sustained increase in population - logically correct Where this increase is from migration, controlling migration by lawful and humane means is not only desirable but essential - logically correct Asylum seeking is illegal - logically incorrect Rwanda is humane - logically incorrect
  10. Fish rots from the head. Leader sets the tone, not only by what he says, moreso by what he does but also by what he condones. IMO it was antisemitic - just ambiguous enough to shrug off most accusations until the EHRC report. When any party purges its most moderate members, without a very strong, valid reason but instead mostly on purely ideological terms, it will easily spiral into some form of extremism. Corbyn did it in 2017, Johnson did it 2 years later. Only difference is that the latter became PM and trashed any semblance of standards or accountability in government. I did not say Lineker's words carry more weight, but they will carry further. Why you should listen, no idea. I'll tell you why I do.. Not because he's wealthy. Not because he's a football legend. But because he's travelled to many places, experienced other cultures, talked/worked with people from many different cultures and backgrounds. Because he is from a different era, where people did things differently/treated each other differently - for good and bad. These are the kinds of people that I learn from. These are the things that add dimension and an overall more rounded perspective in life generally... and yes, it's still possible to do the above and remain a narrow minded a&&#ole. Just less likely. Someone who for example never travelled abroad, who worked/studied with mostly people from the same background may have learned about other cultures, other viewpoints in school etc, whilst valid, it is a fairly restricted perspective.
  11. Your rhetorical question does not impress anyone... the answers are clearly made up in your mind. You can ask as many times as you like. My opinion on this does not matter; as I'm not a British citizen I don't have a vote in such things. Why the f**k would you listen to a word I say anyway? So many other voices you could listen to, yet choose not to - Gary Lineker is a Brit with a much better standing and profile than myself. Previous PMs - and Tory ones at that -have said the Rwanda Bill is racist. As was the Windrush Scandal. I've been in a few countries before, but I don't think it is a coincidence that only in Norfolk I've seen people - plural - (admittedly through work) who have shrines to Nazi ideology in their homes, or display their tattooed hakenkreuz in the company of strangers. Friends close, enemies closer? Blood and soil, yeah?
  12. You'd have to empathise with, and walk a mile in an average (not handpicked - random) migrant's shoes to even BEGIN to see... ..but don't fret, no one is expecting you to be able to do either of those things. Look beyond the facade. Thought experiment - if I were to claim that I am an advocate of animal welfare rights, just because I contribute to a charity, yet my kids mistreat and abuse animals under my roof AND with my knowledge, what would that make me?
  13. In a nutshell.. I'm sure you can see these far right parties like to point at <scapegoat> and stir up hatred on their rhetoric - see, these are the kinds of people that turn up when democratic standards / accountability in governments fail. They are not interested in being competent, accountable, compromising or working effectively with others; if they actually went towards solving the issue they would become redundant. It is more useful for them to keep their supporter base angry so their strategy is akin to a person whose only tool is a hammer and sees everything as a nail - or arsonists who burn down woods to buy land on the cheap.
  14. There is a lot to be said in this perennial discussion. 1st things 1st - stop looking for simple solutions. THERE IS NO SIMPLE SOLUTION to immigration. write it down. There never was, and there never will be. You written it down yet? 2nd - There is a massive confluence of factors which got us to this point. Globalist economics (more growth, more consumption, ad infinitum). Ageing populations in Europe, booming demographics in Africa / Asia, climate change, wars, the anti-colonial/anti-western feeling in countries like India, Brazil etc, and a "longing for the great Empire days" in others (UK, US, Moskovia) 3rd - one thing that crops up time and time again, especially when talking with older people, is the pace of social change, it's next to humanly impossible to adapt or keep up (even for those of us that are more receptive to the idea of change, all depending on how it's implemented - gradual change IMO is much better than radical change) 4th - this needs repeating - the profound, sheer hypocrisy of nations who used to be great colonial powers, who pillaged, raped and enslaved half the world for centuries, and continuously instigate wars in those parts of the world with a view to scavenge and profit off the remains.. what gall, to then say "we don't want migrants here" when your nation brought them there as slaves in the 1st place. Probably much more could be said but these are my main points.
  15. Some 5/6 years ago.. Simon Lappin telling me that my works van is blocking his driveway. I didn't twig it was him until my workmate told me. Somewhere round Hingham.
  16. Maybe you should try telling that to Delia, that she should leave NCFC and stick to her pies? In person would probably work better.
  17. You come across, in most of your posts, as an 'old school' sort of guy who doesn't rate women's opinion in most things, football in particular.. but since I don't know you, that may be either just a facade, or my perception.
  18. Farke was awful at PL with us. Dean was awful with us full stop.
  19. This has echoes of Webber's comments about divorcees in the snake pit, etc etc. Unbecoming of someone in any prominent role at a football club.
  20. Hope for your sakes you found the oiks who pelted an old lady's car with beer cans.
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