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I’m airballing this now, but our record with Simms is actually probably better than without.

Better non-penalty goal MPG.

He also brought on a lot to defend leads/draws so was brought on as an extra big in the box. Which he is good at ironically, as people cry about our set-piece defending. That wasn’t a touch, it was a first time pass but yeah it was rubbish. I have and in 23/24 he scored more open play goals...

6 goals in 26-27 games is good. It’s better than some of the alternatives people put forward like Moore and Morris etc. Of course 9, 10 minute appearances equates to 90m but it’s not the same as playing 60-70 minutes in a game.

The total minutes worked out to around 26 or 27 games last season.

It will be down minutes. The one good productive spell for BTA and Simms last year is when they both started upfront in a 5-3-2. He’s been a non-factor in the league and he was shit against Millwall. The supporting cast was also just as bad. I wouldn’t give up on him yet, people gave up on BTA...

The middle class ‘liberal lefties’ on this thread just don’t really get that this mantra of ‘British jobs for British workers’ cuts through. If there’s a housing crisis, importing 400-500k people per year doesn’t seem like a good idea to me. Quick side note on that, Labour are currently...

That was more any old player to be fair. If Haji is playing 70 minutes minimum, what do we expect from this new, unnamed striker. If he scores 2-3 goals in 20-30 sub appearances, will people consider him rubbish? Probably.

There you go. My honest view is that the issues we face on immigration is not a left v right issue. There are good left wing arguments for restricting the free movement of labour and trade unions have historically been wary of this. Hence, in the USA, some trade unions are affiliating with the...

What are your expectations from a player coming off the bench? There won’t be many players who get to 5 goals as a sub. It’s an exercise of priority. Is Simms or BTA a worse sub than Rapha? If not, wingers need to prioritised. Lampard has said we don’t have CBs or wingers given that our...

It’s another stupid argument the liberal-left continues to make. 2% of Farage and Zia have not manipulated the media. The demand is there for their policies, after all, David Cameron and May were elected on pledges to get net migration to 100k. This is your fundamental misunderstanding of the...

Like in Jan-Feb last year when BTA and Simms scored game winning goals? We did this to death in preseason. BTA and Simms have decent goal scoring records in the championship, they are capable of filling in for Haji. The same Haji Wright you and many others wanted to play LW and continued to...

We’ve started the league season with 2 wins and a draw… why are talking about Ellis Simms? It’s v odd. This season, he’s started 2 games and scored 1. In the meantime, Haji has scored 3 goals and BTA has 2.

Certainly not me. That was a point you yourself seemed to concede. It may reduce the ‘visibility’ of the problem but if an increased amount of arrivals (or even the same amount), that doesn’t actually solve the problem that this country is having with migration as a whole. Only 15% of voters...

In practice, people advocating for ‘safe routes’ actually mean they want to rubber stamp all arrivals. Which would exacerbate the problem further so the issue still remains. You run the risk of being overwhelmed because if hundreds of thousands of people make the journey using unsafe routes, it...

You’re comfortable stating the demographic fact that men are more violent than women but uncomfortable making the links to nationalities/regions. The fact the small boat crossings are 70% + men is why people want this to end. In places like Nuneaton and Epping, the specific concerns for women’s...

The same patterns are repeated elsewhere in Europe and countries all over the EU are realising their empathy is being taken advantage of. In all seriousness Pete, how does this credibly reduce the numbers of asylum seekers or legal migrants? You’re smart enough to realise that it would do the...

Say we opened up a safe route between France and the UK to stop the small boat crossings… How does that reduce illegal/legal migration? It doesn’t and actually creates a massive incentive for human traffickers getting people to Europe in the first place. Likewise, ‘safe routes’ to Europe only...

How did we pay for the stadium? Transfers these days are rarely stumped upfront.

By definition, enforcing your borders and being selective with who you admit will be exclusionary to some degree. There are national/ethnic groups of migrants where, frankly, they’re economically a net drain and/or overrepresented in crime statistics. As general principle, these people...