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The boos have started

“Cardiff got on the front foot” that was meant to be us

Absolute crap I’m afraid

I’m trying to stay enthusiastic, but this is really poor. TC and Mehmeti warming up.

Pronounced “Ung”, or my mate with that surname pronounces it that way, though ironically his nickname is “N.G.”

Knight having some joy taking the ball forward and drawing fouls, need more of that

Lovely work on the right by wells to win a corner

A few corners in succession, handball claims waved away after it hit the defenders knee then bounced up on to his hand.

Yes the last two games were dreadful in every way, but I’m quite confident we can get at least a point today

0% win record at Ashton Gate

Boris Johnson…sorry if you forgot he exists but he’s still in my brain

The “For You” tab actually generates content that goes against your “grain”. If you’re a massive BoJo fan (more fool you) you’ll get content in the “For You” tab praising Caroline Lucas or tweets from James O’Brien pushing his latest book. It’s designed to take out of a bubble but actually just ends up being a bit of baked-in antagonism.

I agree but I didn’t mention the media in the U.K., although there’s always Ch4 and the Guardian, though they have their own issues. The media in the US though is in a league of their own, see attached image that tickled me today. Absolutely agree on the Trump/Biden “wicked problem”, and the Trump/Clinton one before it. Surely the US could find two better candidates in a three person bus queue.

Wish me luck seeing it here in Nepal, at least the time difference means it’ll be on at a more appropriate hour

I do think a derby game is ideal for LM. If the players aren’t up for it then there can’t be any excuse, and I don’t think Cardiff fans would accept their side playing for the draw, so hopefully it will be the sort of game that suits us and we can get back to winning ways.

He’s as good as gone. We need to start planning for life without him next season, how depressing.

Given the left in the USA used their media dominance and an army of online activists (and Wikipedia) to redefine the term “recession” to protect Biden from criticism (no such luck for right-wing Rishi Sunak when our own two consecutive quarters of negative growth came along) and organisations like Mermaids in the U.K. are trying to paint anyone who objects to kids having their tits cut off in the name of gender ideology as bigots, I’d suggest the left aren’t shy of a bit of cultural warfare either. Steven Pinker did a decent job in the early 2000s of outing scientists and left-wing academics that were putting politics ahead of facts, and you could argue it goes even further back to the emergence of particular branches of social science and psychology (dominated by the left both then and to this day) in the 1970s. As a political centrist with leanings to both left and right on particular issues it’s certainly a topic I find fascinating and horrifying in equal measure, as you can probably tell!

I think on the whole he’s done a poor job (with the occasional flash of brilliance such as the Saints game) in not particularly trying circumstances, and it was obvious from the start that he’d need time and money, neither of which we had or have.

If you think that’s daft, some of us were dreaming of a play-off charge this season.

The right wing didn’t start the culture war, but absolutely agree. This is a global issue that goes well beyond football.

What does Matt Withers think of LM now?

Ultimately I think the decision point should come at the end of the season, not in November (unless we’re rooted to the foot of the table). We can’t afford half-measures this summer; if we’re sticking with him then we need to back him properly, not give him £200k to play with while selling TC and Cam Pring. With his own team he might do well, we’ve seen in the saints and Watford games that he can get decent results with performances to match, but he’s clearly not able to get any more out of the current squad than NP was able to, and that’s with much better player availability. Never dull is it? Well maybe the last two games were.

Perhaps Premier League winner Andy King just isn’t up to learning anything…

Eh?! It’s what Gavin Marshall said in his ITV interview after NP was sacked!

See you in the Prem!