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no its not. the fact that it upsets weirdo's is the reason it needs to be done.

When Mason B was scoring early season I said I had my doubts about him, but whilst he was scoring looked harsh. That day he missed a sitter at Northampton, not really done anywhere near enough to think he could be an effective starter at a higher level. This is first season in ages we will be starting a season needing to improve to even hold our own. We need better players. Burstow for me is not a bad player but equally is not really good at anything, not tricky, not that fast, does not hold up the ball that well. He is young but next season I think we need experience or players that can be effective starters from day one.

It's not political, it's just a statement that we show respect to everyone regardless of their gender, sexuality, ethnicity , religion , age , disability . I see nothing wrong with that , I applaud it .

Not sure anyone is saying these things are not happening but the anger and reaction is whipped and multiplied by social media. Take Southport as the prime example, everyone knows it was horrific. But the riots that followed were driven by rhetoric and lies on social media. The vast majority of people do not get involved but those that do see reminders every few seconds about how angry they should be and how the infamous MSM are covering everything up. There are some people who still think he was a recently arrived immigrant. More recently the Southampton case, yesterday lads were sent to prison for rioting. The responses initially from bots but then from actual people tell us all that it is two tier policing. When the two brothers from Manchester Airport got off totally free. One bloke put a link to an article that proved they were released. The article actually said one of them gave evidence in the second trial from prison FFS ! I left Twitter because it is horrible, it gives people with nothing to say somewhere to shout about stuff. At first I tried to use it to understand other people’s views, but a couple of clicks later and my feed became a torrent of hate and conspiracy theories. People like Tommy are making a fortune from it, Farage uses it to light the blue touch paper , keeps his words just the right side of legal and lets the bots and his followers do the rest. Those of us who grew up in the 70s will remember National Front marches and everything that came with them. But now you have 000s of accounts supporting similar views with zero control. It not just politics, look at Andrew Tate and the Manosphere. You are right the problems exist but does the fact net migration is down significantly and small boat numbers are down get the same coverage ? Especially if news is being fed by social media since you have ‘realised’ that MSM is so unreliable ? The fact all other media is controlled by billionaires pushing their own agenda is just ignored. People are being controlled like never before and it ain’t Governments that are doing it.

We all know fuck all. Not all of us know we know fuck all.

Fancy singing a player with more championship experience than the rest of our team put together.

Burstow would be a no from me, seen enough to suggest he's just a OK league 1 player

Unless we've got long term investment coming in - I would be taking as few risks as possible unfortunately

What a sportsman ,incredible captain and all round brilliant human being ! I doff my cap , one of this countries finest ever gentlemen !

I don't think back up striker is a genuine thing, if they are in the 1st team squad they tend to get rotated - due to loss of form, injuries, mixing it up when losing etc. Very different to defenders where GJ played every minute he was available, and Toal not much further behind, then Forino once established. They don't just get rotated and substituted like midfielders and forwards. For me, our strikers are absolutely crucial, and we can't afford to carry any. Dalby isn't going to play 90 minutes every week (there will be games he can't get a kick for half an hour), we simply need something better than Burstow. The way Sidebe caused us constant problems with pace and direct running and power and finishing ability (both games), shows the difference a genuine striker can make (a year earlier it was Olaofe doing the same). I'm not saying sign them for the championship, but we need better than Burstow, simple as that.

I keep stuff like whipped up narrative, algorithms and social media brainwashing folk in to thinking certain ways and vote for people. It's as if these incidents aren't actually happening. It's as if there hasn't actually been Aslyum seekers trying to behead folk in the street or rafts of sexual assault and rape cases by men and boys from Afghanistan all over the country. It's as if what the seems old news of Pakistani Muslim grooming gangs across the county haven't happened and this Nowark kid wasn't left to die in handcuffs after being stabbed by a man that was allowed to wander round with a ceremonial machete. It's as if there isn't boats upon boat load of migrants being housed all over the country in HMOs, Hotels and housing schemes putting yet more strain on services. You don't need algorithms and Tommy Robinson twitter accounts or GB News to see that these problems are happening in every day life. Of course your Reforms and Restores will jump all over anything but that's how politicians work. They wouldn't exist if the problems weren't allowed to sprial out of control by our two main parties over decades anyway.

Hopefully turns out to be a solid Mike Whitlow type we had in the past. Underrated, unsung, solid pro that every side needs.

Canterbury Pride today, was all very lovely as it always is. Going to Herne Bay Pride in a few weeks. My eldest came out to us last week (we weren't massively surpirised) so we're going to see if she meet some nice lesbians down here 😀

That’s a disgrace and it just shows the abysmal standards of many of today’s owners and how lucky we are. FV may not have the deepest pockets but at least treat people respectfully. I just can’t understand any sensible owner sacking a genuinely well acknowledged and experienced manager and replacing him with an untried, inexperienced foreigner who knows nothing about our game and especially how difficult and competitive the championship is. I can only wish the Wanderers 2 a dreadful and unsuccessful season.

He's free. He's experienced at this level. He plays in a position we need strengthening and cover. He's not our marquee signing. Have a Solero and shut the f**k up will ya.

He's only 22. Bags of potential if we can get him at a cut price.

Like going down on your sister; tastes the same, but isnt quite right

nobody needs to be a billionaire you can't spend it it's just numbers on a screen or paper and to get there you've more than likely done everything you can to avoid paying your way fair and square it just becomes a numbers game and fuck everyone else

Slow day at work, so reflecting on last season. My lad wont kick a size 5 until preseason starts on 06 July. In the 25/26 season we've done well over 4000 miles in away games for his club and trials- add home games, training and county games... could be pushing 5000. He has trials with clubs in every division from Champions League to National League North. He's had rejections from most, offers from some and just ghosted by others. He's smashed it and told no, had a stinker and told yes... I have discovered nepotism is rife and disappointingly very close to home; I also know you need to keep going, that as one door closes another may open. He will take that lesson from this season if nothing else. This weekend is the first I have no football as a coach, parent or fan since June 2025. I am knackered- physically and mentally. I will post details of his next team when its all finalised... at that will be me done as a parent in kids football after 16 years with two of my kids.

Go up to a doghead and whisper 'McGinlay, Kelly' to him, and watch him foam at the mouth. Theres an entire genration that know nothing other than pure hatred towards us. As it should be.

I mentioned a beheading attempt by a white person. I never suggested it was for balance. I was pointing out that abhorrent crimes can be and are committed by all races. Not desperate, just factual.

Two tier tweeting.

If people actually listened to what was being said by Fergal and the club, that would help as well. This phase of our transfer activity is about picking up the out of contract players that are on the market e.g. Davies and Wilson. Then we move on to negotiating for players who command a fee and then signing loan platyers. That's not to say all that happens in a linear fashion/sequentially, but that's the broad timing. On fee transfers most managers, etc are on holiday including ours presumably. Hundreds of players are also at the World cup and probably every agent, the rest are on holiday. Most teams want to keep players available for loan through pre season just in case they don't get their main targets. We all need to be patient, even though it's frustrating. But let's keep gossiping about it otherwise we will all get bored 😄.

apparently if you scan it at self service checkouts it comes up with Newcastle Brown

Fueled by the internet linking up all the pubs mad bastard's. Back in the day Mental Brian in the Hare and Hounds would chat shit and folk would nod and smile and pretty much ignore him now all the Mental Brian's from every pub can connect and convince each other that their mental bollocks is based in reality. Egged on by grifters and foreign based bots so you end up with folk in England flags taking the knee in police stations wearing body cams for their 'auditor' internet profiles.

That's where I'm at. If we're signing a striker, it has to be one better than what we had in L1.

If only you had a brain instead of just always having to prove yourself a dipstick? In fact half a brain would do.

Don’t worry we will back to back promotion, USA investors take over and we get back into Europe. COYWM!! It’s happening.

I don't think it is the best we can afford. I think its more a case of a completely misjudged transfer and contract.

Can you all stop talking about finance in the transfer thread, people don't want to read that shit!!! (or so they keep telling me).

...we don't even know if he's good enough for the championship.

I agree with the view that loan, we have a chance, buy we don’t. Just using it as an example though, it’s where the world of second tier football becomes a massive gamble. We won’t break even without profit on players and frankly, £1m here and there won’t do it either. Say Brighton would sell for £5-6m with a nice sell on clause - I don’t think we have the capital backing to stump it up at this point, but if we did and the shareholders saw the opportunity, do you find the £5m on the gamble that he has a wonder season either this year or next in the championship and suddenly you can sell for £10-15m? He’s the kind of player that could have that season, he’s the kind of player that would catch the attention, but then again he could have another season like he did at Rovers and there goes your £5m. Glad it’s not me making those decisions (again, I don’t think we’re in a place at the mo to be making such big ones but maybe at the £2-3m mark we are).

He’ll have sprained his wrist signing his contract and be out for 10 weeks.

Who decides who should and shouldn't be given a platform? Lots and lots of nastiness on it, but leave those bits alone. However, at what point is the "moral outrage" simply a tool to be used by those who don't want their narrative challenging? The very essence of why the country is where it is currently.

More likely given Restore a boost, which will fuck Reform up. Hopefully

I declare this transfer window: OPEN 😃

Davies is an interesting one. It all depends on something none of us can predict - will he remain fit enough to contribute in the majority of games? If SS/FH think he can then that’s good enough for me. Burstow, for me, would only be a yes if he was was a lot lot less than the £2m Hull paid (completely fished from thin air but £500k or less) and on the basis of him being a squad player. I still think he could be a useful sub, with time also (as a 22 yr old) to develop and better himself. He’s not up there with Kenny as to someone who I think could be signed as a primary striker for the championship.

It's your generation that are clogging it up. Old duffers being kept alive beyond their natural demise, in order to give them enough energy to spend their final years screaming about "young, fighting age foreigners" who inexplicably also require constant medical treatment.

Then they would be 'asylum seekers', not "illegal immigrants", and they'd be processed accordingly. If you voted Leave thinking it would end these basic human rights (for some nonsensical reason), whilst also owning a property in the EU, you fell for the propaganda and properly fucked up. I'm sorry, but complaining about the added obstacles after voting to bring them in is fucking hilarious.

So its 2026 - its been 30 years since Euro 96. Which means we are now equidistant from the song Three Lions since when we won the world cup.

I pity your Mrs then. And yours! (only joking before WWIII breaks out!)

Let’s hope folk protest properly and don’t jsut randomly attack asylum centres. The one here is finally full of families, last thing we need it bellends trashing it all and threatening them. Especially when the ones who will be doing it are generally scum also

If only he might have some form of electronic/battery-powered device that could store statistics,data and possibly even some kind of motion picture containing possible targets.

Think the clue is in the title of the thread pal…

Having a rough time of it at the moment, Danny Kelly. Come on lad you got this. Viva Trans Europe Express.

Pendantically the original statement doesn't ask that they did

Who said its the best we could afford? Who said he won't be offloaded and someone better bought in?