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Given our injury situation this year I think trimming the squad isn't necessarily a great thing. Sure, I want quality over quantity but we also need to have the numbers to allow for eventualities. We had a few players this season who I think looked they could do with a rest and we couldn't give...

Nah, he'd slowly jog in backwards before letting the team get away from him.

Agree with that other than he improved as season went on. he improved after he missed a few games and could probably have done with that rest earlier.

Probably not but the way things are going may as well give it a try, esp in the old 'red wall'

Given that our first choice L(W)B was a loanee you'd have thought having the two competing to step up would've been beneficial for both and us. At this stage I can't imagine MR is planning on utilising Mason

Could be do the extension then got time to discuss a new deal or look to sell if he declines. At the very least it gives us another largely capable body in the defence which is looking a bit bare on number at the moment (obv pre-signings)

Given how badly they're doing it might reduce the number of people being parachuted into 'safe seats' (because there won't be many) and so it'll become more local activists involved who will know people in those areas and their issues.

Not arguing with any of that, but the 'brand' Green is on the up. Probably some of the stuff resonates with the very young but their priorities will change as they age and probably migrate away if they don't get a handle on their more mad positions.

Surprised Wilson had an extension as he still had a year to run, and also that Bremang was retained with the option given Newton was released. Assume N'Gandu, Burroughs etc were one year options. Just Rowe, Howley and Lafferty I've no idea on contract length (though Lafferty may be included in...

All the best Max. I'm sure you'll find a new club soon enough.

Grendel - Isn't one of your big things about how beholden to the Union's Labour are and thus the influence they have over them and their policies? But you think it's fine to have a PM who is seemingly broke and thus the potential for interference and influence by almost anybody with money, be...

That is exactly my point. Whereas most things could have some small residual value even as scrap this is one where you know without question it has a value of zero. One they are out of contract you no longer have any commercial rights over them. EDIT: Apart from those that you may be due a...

Going back to Grendel's thing earlier about brand perception, it does seem Labour's brand is now poison. So is the Lib Dem's after the coalition after choosing the wrong hill to die on, which is unfortunate (or Tories coming up lucky yet again) as given the state of the Labour party 10 years ago...

It's this that makes me so annoyed at the 'the public aren't interested' spiel the spokespeople always go into. The man who is First Lord of the Treasury says he needs 10 times the average wage of a British worker just to get by each year, a lot of that due to his own inability to control...

This is another where the answer offered is the complete opposite of another person, both of whom appear to be non-Labour voters and thus the party must be looking to appeal to. You're saying the party has moved right whereas their base hasn't, but just a page or two ago there was someone...

The thing from watching that is given we got some many good finishes from distance, how the hell did we manage to miss so many clearcut chances?

That surely can't be allowed can it? If the player leaves at the end of the contract that has to be classed as an asset disposal and so the calculations on the disposal would negate the residual value? Esp given the millions of pounds we're looking at. Such significant purchases surely wouldn't...

But literally a few pages ago we had others saying the problem is that they're too far left and not focusing enough on the middle class under a Blairite strategy. So which is it? Are they too entrenched as a middle class party and ignoring the man on the street or are they not doing enough to...

Yes it can equal the truth. But you yourself gave an example which proved it's not necessarily the case. So as you apparently work for Jag why have you not learnt from your mistakes and rectified them? To which your, justifiable, reply, would be we have. But the perception among the public is...

Exactly. The perception does not equal the truth. I've not been paying attention over the last few years but I know in reliability surveys Jag were one of the top rated brands but amongst the general public it still had that 'will it break down?' mentality towards it, as had any British name due...