Rayvin

We're they good? I never saw them live.

Absolutely gutted by that one... RIP Chester.

I know that nobody cares, but Vince Cable is the new leader of the Lib Dems. I had a lot of time for him once, but it turns out there are indeed unforgivable sins.

Kind of a bizarre thing to say actually. What did Darlow ever do wrong? He was fine last season.

That's encouraging if moralising is the reason this is happening, but May certainly appears to be more generally cracking down on the internet...

The problem is, I could actually see Labour doing something similar to this - their ideological position would be broadly in line with it if you took 'protecting children' and replaced/appended it with 'protecting women'. We need to kill off ideologies - why we can't just have a rational decision making apparatus with a fact based approach to policy is absolutely beyond me.

I don't (believe it or not) watch porn all that often myself. I'm just repulsed by the idea of the government interfering in people's lives under the guise of 'save the children'. If it lessens the need to procreate, it's a net positive IMO, though. Aye, fair enough.

And the prevailing wisdom is that the kids smart enough to 'get around' parental controls won't be able to bypass this nonsense? I get what you're saying, but this is coming from a government that is also now advocating for cracking down on 'extremist' thought on the internet, and has already banned, pointlessly, the depiction of certain sexual activities between consenting adults. This whole policy is a shambles IMO. I'm genuinely going to be fascinated to see if they're going to kick 2 million kids off Tumblr and probably more from Reddit, when this goes through.

I'm very libertardian Why is porn a net negative for society in your view?

Why can't you use parental controls? Why are they being dismissed? My perception is that the root cause of our problem here is that some parents aren't using them.

We'd very likely stay up on the back of that though

It's not healthy to hold back

Despite this being an illiberal action, and the Guardian professing to be a liberal newspaper, they've put out this article suggesting that the ban is a good thing not just because it "protects" children, but also because it will help to stop men looking at porn. Which needs to be accomplished just because. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/20/porn-warps-culture-credit-card-footprint

Don't have kids so it's the latter for me. I really don't understand why parents can't just be responsible for what their children do, but there we go. Also, this is doomed to fail for all the usual reasons. Proxies being the key one. As a final point, you can get porn on Tumblr. They gonna paywall/ban Tumblr? Reddit?

It's not that we don't need a striker, it's this sense that we should just buy buy buy with reckless abandon and a total failure to acknowledge the realities of our situation. Don't we have too many players full stop? We need to shift some. If we can't, of course we're going to have to make do with what we've got. To be perfectly honest though, I would have fancied the current team to avoid relegation from the prem last year. We'd have been in the thick of it, but I doubt we'd have gone down. We're still a better side than Brighton and Huddersfield, so we really only need to be better than one Prem team. We probably already are.

Which should surely tell you that we are in fact looking to bring someone in, and that the constraint is selling what we have first. If we don't manage to sell Mitro, we won't replace him - but I'm still not convinced that's a huge problem.

This.

Barely arsed at all about pensions. Just another excuse to vacuum up money from the young to give to the old.

Problem with Sturridge for me is that his named was ruined by people who refer to him as Studge. That's now all I see when I read his name

Bas Dost was £60m mind

Not a bad shout that actually. Injury prone but beggars can't be choosers.

Aye, someone will pick him up in January. Not us. Don't really see why we can't persevere with what we have, but there we go. Maybe if we sold Mitro, we'd have enough money to buy someone better than him though. i.e. if they've got £15m kicking around for a striker already, and get another £15m for Mitro, we might get to spend £30m. Not that we'd get anyone amazing for that, but still.

Aye but we had to be on the front foot more last season. We won't be doing that this year, so bursting counter attacks should be more effective.

It's just one season. We consolidate this year then we're on basically an even footing with the bottom 12 next season - which means we can push for top 10. Beyond that who knows, maybe top ten is about as good as it gets under Ashley - but Rafa can certainly get us that far, and in two years it would be a fairly speedy achievement.

As in they've bid for him, or we're just chucking him under the nose of anyone we think might be remotely interested?