Mr.Carrow

Not only that, but an excellent chance of screwing up our fierce rivals renaissance and keeping the upper hand over them. Seems this doesn't matter to the morons.

Well being on about the best run of form in the division doesn't seem to be enough. Seems he has to be a cross between Mother Teresa and Alex Ferguson to pacify the arrogant clowns in our fanbase. He is right, they are wrong. And they really can't take it.

Yeah but Wagner is useless and doesn't know what he's doing apparently (last night without our top scorer too). There appears to be some kind of collective insanity going on.

Is this a parody?! We're one of the top form teams in the league after a terrible run of injuries and just beaten play off rivals convincingly. Any nuetral reading this would conclude you've gone nuts.

The point is obvious. We got Sainz on a free and he's twice the player we can get £8m for. Yes Tzolis was a gamble which didn't pay off and you have to mark that as a negative against the club. Sainz is a big positive though.

We broke you.

Because being part of the group and maybe coming on if we're two goals up is part of his education/integration. Look, i actually think the energy he would've brought to the pitch would've outweighed his naivety, so i think Wagner made a mistake (although his subs vs Cov were superb, so.....). I was just pointing out that things are not as simple as the post i was replying to suggested.

I think the subs were a mistake but this isn't true. We have no idea of Hoijdonk's sharpness or otherwise behind the scenes, nor his integration in terms of tactics/positioning etc. People forget that even Buendia took months to settle in and establish himself and we're currently seeing similar with Sainz.

Come on, have some heart. Just think how much it has cheered eeyore up having something negative to post.

The pressure will be all on them when we play them and they will be cr@pping themselves over the thought of Sargent, Rowe, Sainz and Sara running at them. They know it and we know it.

All our best players are attacking players except Gunn. Our defence is average at best. Some have posited that our uber defensive "hit em on the counter" tactics coincided with Knapper's analytic approach. If so (whatever City fans opinions) it was brilliant and it's worked. Confidence is surging now and i still think we can go up a level.

Earlier in the season people were saying we were basically a one man team (Sara), yet through this amazing run of excellent form he probably isn't in our top 5 form players. Yet still the other players are "useless", Webber's recruitment was rubbish, Wagner doesn't know what he's doing yada yada. It beggars belief. Are these people going to be actively p!ssed off if we make the play offs? As for Sara at no.10, I've said before when he plays deeper he spends most of the game facing forwards, at 10 he is often showing for the ball with his back to goal which isn't really his game.

Gunn was initially "why waste £5m on a keeper rejected by the Premier league", now rated about the best keeper in the division. Nunez starting to really look the part. Even Tzolis doing very well in Germany. The main issue was that we tried to sign "oven ready" players for much less than most Prem clubs pay and they weren't. Lots of exciting talents coming good though.

I saw the Sainz and he opened up my eyes yes I saw Borja Sainz. He is outstanding, never just grandstanding....

I saw the Sainz and he opened up my eyes yes I saw Borja Sainz. He is outstanding, never just grandstanding....

Isn't that an orc from Lord of the rings?

So do you think comparing people to pigs is the equivalent of a nuetral collective noun used to define an authoritarian political movement?

The gammon thing was in the run up to Brexit. I'd never heard the word Woke then.

https://theconversation.com/the-uk-now-ranks-as-one-of-the-most-socially-liberal-countries-in-europe-new-research-201509

And you clearly haven't looked at the statistics. Not surprising.

I appreciate that you at least listen to the other side of the argument. As ever, when discussing things like post modernism you end up needing to write an essay just to define terms and concepts. In terms of the culture war i think the most important distinction to make is between the original thinkers and what was defined in Cynical Theories as "reified postmodernism"- also referred to as applied postmodernism or weaponised postmodernism, which is essentially the academic Left using the powerful insights of that branch of thought to manipulate culture (explicitly written about by the Frankfurt school, the Intersectionalists, Judith Butler, Critical Theorists etc).IMO Peterson's interviews went viral because he articulated something very obviously sinister that people experienced in their everyday lives, yet couldn't quite pin down. But here we are: to come out as a racist or fascist in Britain is basically the same as coming out as a murderer or paedophile, whereas to come out as a Marxist/Communist is perfectly socially acceptable and even applauded in many circles, yet mainstream orthodoxy has everyone convinced that only the former pose a threat. Again, it just goes to show that many of those thinkers were right about how easy it is to socially manipulate people. On your last paragraph, Communism has always had a focus on "getting em young" from Mao setting up Communist youth groups to snitch on family members (essentially murdering them), to Pol Pots child soldiers who came to my girlfriend's village and smashed babies heads against trees in front of their parents before they too were dispatched. All this due to concepts such as "unearned privilege" and "systemic bourgeois oppression"....Sound familiar? Now look at the behaviour of the Woke: dehumanization as "gammons", putting anyone with even mild or factually accurate disagreements in the worst possible human category (all the "ists" and "phobes"), dismissing people as irrelevant due to immutable characteristics ("You're just a straight white male"). It doesn't take much imagination to figure out what cultural cancellation presages.

No, we've actually become statistically more Liberal, open and tolerant since 2016. Why do you think that is?

Why do you think that Britain is statistically the 5th most Liberal, open and tolerant country in the world?

Many of those reforms were enacted under Tory governments, which underlines the fact that Liberalism isn't a Left/Right issue. The Woke Left are expressly anti Liberal a, because it's worked imperfectly but well in conjunction with a Capitalist system and b, because realistic Liberalism logically leads to Conservatism in that if you're not a Utopian there has to be a point where society is Liberal enough and further attempts to create complete equality require coercion at the very least (which is de facto illiberal). So your point about people being pretty happy in a Liberal culture is correct There is no great drive to turn back the clock, there are no far right political partie, journalists, academics, public thinkers or business tycoons in the UK whereas there are so many openly Marxist or frame culture in Marxist concepts (oppressor/oppressed, institutional oppression, blank slate Utopianism etc) that people are increasingly fearful of offering any alternative viewpoint unless they have their lives destroyed and/or are labelled "far right". Freedom of speech and expression are now regarded as right wing talking points. Politics is downstream of culture, right? What percentage of culture is far right?

At risk of sounding boastful I've done all the things you list. I've probably travelled and read as much as anyone on these boards. Thing is, when you do this you don't necessarily come to the conclusions everyone expects. As Pinker wrote in the "Blank Slate", it's perfectly possible to be a kind, open hearted Liberal whilst being wary of the flaws and dangers of evolved human nature (in the modern world often caused by evolutionary mismatch). People really are wary of the "other" (particularly if they look different) for the same reason people are wary of snakes and spiders. This is a feature rather than a bug of humanity and rather than constantly self flagellating that racism still exists in Britain, perhaps we should reflect on how and why we have way less of it than the rest of the world (anyone who doesn't understand this hasn't travelled, and we are statistically the 5th most Liberal and tolerant country in the world ). Amidst all the furore over Rwanda, nobody mentions that two ethnic groups who look almost identical to us decided to slaughter each other only a couple of decades ago. The Woke/Identity politics Left are simply wrong on virtually every level and represent a far bigger threat to a genuinely inclusive Liberal democracy than a far right who were utterly delegitimised by the second world war.