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I don’t think so. Tice and Farage have been flirting with left wing ideas around nationalisation and reindustrialisation. Instinctively, they’re both obviously Thatcherites but can clearly see that Reform’s base has many voters/potential voters who are economically left-populist. Let’s see...

Did you forget that Labour were in power for 1997-2010? Mass migration from the EU was an issue going into the 2010 election. Hence ‘bigotgate’ with Brown on the campaign trail.

There’s no point electioneering at this point to be fair. ‘The Left’ in this country deserve to feel as aghast at the state of this Labour government in the same way ‘The Right’ felt about 14 years of Tories. Distrust in the established parties is rife all over the Continent and we’ve done...

Both players are obviously a lot better Simms that was never a serious point of contention 😂 If you’re going to say ‘x’ stat makes you ‘the worst striker’ in the league and arguably our best striker ever had similar stats… either the statement is untrue or you’re not measuring players equally...

Many Tories felt like this going into 2024 and believed people would be deterred for voting for Reform because of the prospect of a Labour government. Well, we know that didn’t happen. Despite this only happening last year, the same people in Labour circles believe people won’t vote for a...

There is a demand and the fact that Reform and Conservatives are polling around 40-45% should tell you something. 85% of those polled want net migration below 100k. 65% of even Green voters (the lowest % btw) want to deport foreign sex offenders. 2 Tory governments elected to deliver this...

Then clearly that metric in of itself does not make you a bad striker. I’m pretty sure Haaland leads the prem in big chances missed and his conversion rate quite low.

No, but I know someone who does @Earlsdon_Skyblue1. You said we look better without Simms so you’d expect a marked difference. There isn’t and it’s potentially the opposite.

Vik has the highest big chances missed and a low % conversion rate. Does that apply him too? Actually, Simms out performed his xG in 23/24 whereas Haji didn’t. 24/25 was obviously bad season for Simms which again, is why he gets this season to make an impact before we move him on. Idk if you...

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...