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How wishy washy. We agree on the universal suffrage part. I just happen to be in the majority of people who believe that ID laws are a reasonable requirement to vote as ID requirements is normal for many ordinary things. With rights, come responsibility and if you don’t have any form of ID...

Yeah, pretty much. Kicking up a fuss over 4% of voters without ID seems a drop in the ocean when voter turnout was 58.5% in the last election and in steady decline.

So the point is it’s not suppressing voters if the demographics don’t typically vote. Seriously, to not have any form of ID in a modern society, you’re pretty checked out of society. I’ve long stopped being ID’d for booze and in the summer was refused entry into a London pub (Challenge 25)…...

… and unlikely to vote in any case.

In the same way that not everyone who is eligible to get a driving license gets one. We accept that to reduce risk, we put in certain controls. In this case, Again, focusing on the people who actually were turned away from voting, there was probably a good reason they weren’t given their ballot.

No and that wasn’t what I was saying. Most players do need to stick to the proscribed structure otherwise they’ll be out of the team. Looking at tactical ideas, under Robins was more we preferred crosses from the byline. For EMC’s goal, Sakamoto crossed it from the edge of the box and without...

No, trust in the democratic process is so low in the USA, it’s clearly a problem. Not only did Trump claim the 2020 election was ‘stolen’, you had the Democrats call the legitimacy of the 2016 election into question too. Both parties are at it. I’m a bit more relaxed about voter ID in the UK...

Is there any data on this point specifically? This point gets parroted a lot without any data backing it up. In the US there’s a real issue with election integrity and California banning the use of ID is a massive red flag. As a basic principle, you need ID to buy certain goods, drive a car...

It’s more likely the coaching hasn’t been good enough. As people have mentioned, the touchline during games there were many inputs from different coaches, how would players respond to contradictory instructions, for example. Look at BTA, he was solid championship striker last year and looks...

Great effort from the SBA!

He was consistently excellent from New Year’s to the end of the season. This season his form, in my view, is down to being in and out of the team. For example, he scored against Watford and was dropped for the next game to be brought back for the Leeds, then back out. Compared that with Haji...

The way the game is reffed nowadays, whenever he is aggressive, it gets called a foul! Defenders and goalkeepers are overprotected by the refs now imo.

More faith should’ve been put in Simms at the start of the season. He came big in important matches for us, Man U, Leeds and Wolves to name a few. Tinkering with BTA and Bassette hasn’t helped imo.

Agreed. Its not the same issue exactly, but last pre-season at Bayern Munich, Tuchel wanted a different profile of midfielder as Goretzka and Kimmich as a partnership would struggle to break down certain types of teams. Both CMs are top class but it’s about picking and recruiting the best...

Clearly an upgrade then. The only stat that COH outperforms Rudoni significantly is the amount he’s been fouled…

Great effort considering a good 3 hours journey on coach/train!

Cheer up, it’s nearly Xmas Shmmeee!

Last I’ve heard/seen, Wright will be back in the new year so there’s a good block of 6/7 games without him. In that time, we need to be getting some form in the players so we can ease Wright back in a bit. I’d quite like to see Wright upfront for a stretch if EMC and Sakamoto are in form. In...

Rhys Carr’s tenure would very much be a continuation of Robins’ ideas and tactics. Lampard and his team to make some changes and that’ll take a few weeks. Given the ‘diffculty’ of fixtures, we need to picking up points right away and by Jan the team should be well integrated into FL’s tactics...

I didn’t realise Joe Edwards worked under Tuchel and the best part is that he left to rejoin Lampard at Everton. Which means Tuchel certainly rated him as his number 2. The players will surely respond to such high level coaches.