Matt

Could be about anything present or past - players, sponsorships, owners, pies, anything.

19 hours ago, deyres42 said:

No relegations will be confirmed tomorrow my friend.

The cumulative effect of not winning is something that must be avoided.

13 hours ago, Shrek said:

Not sure there is much of a funding jump from North to The Premier Binmans.

 

 

I think there will be, and it will definately be increased if they want to push straight through the league into L2 to match their ambition.

35 minutes ago, Shrek said:

 

We don't want any big clubs in the league as they tend to have decent spending power.

Fylde will have spending power.

16 hours ago, boiled_owl said:

Done at 50 quid.  Today's win has left me feeling more generous than usual..  Good to be back as it's been a couple of years. 

Thanks, that's very generous. 

10 minutes ago, Clifford said:

Happens to us all old bean.

That's your answer? Okay.

12 hours ago, Clifford said:

 

Says more about the people fawning over the cockney Mo Lemsagam 

You're just not adding anything to the conversation.

1 hour ago, disjointed said:

Bit over the top Matt, there has been no violent threats, but I get the point you are trying to make. 

I'm sorry to say it happens. We hide a load of threats, and we are extremely lenient.

21st century internets; start a passing conversation, usually an opinion, about something (makes it better if the topic is posted on a single focus forum like, oh I don't know, a football teams messageboard where everyone is supposed to be on the same side), then snipe and threaten to knock fuck out of each other because we can't sway other peoples opinion. 

20 hours ago, BP1960 said:

After a call from the club thanks to @adamoafc

I'll be assisting the club with scouting on a voluntary basis and going to a match on Saturday to check on a player. I obviously cannot give player names anymore due to confidentiality, but welcome any tips to follow up on players fans recommend like those above.

Let's hope we can spot a gem or 2.

 

Congratulations, good luck with your new role!

8 hours ago, IanMarshall's Mullet said:

Nothing weird about it at all. I was bored with it by that time and he seemed to have a bee in his bonnet........

 

Apparently on the internet when a comment mentions 'that's my last word on the matter' or words to that effect, nobody else can talk about it. 

12 hours ago, IanMarshall's Mullet said:

 

I know you said subjective and I agree he's done his virtue signalling. He isn't going to change anyone's mind about anything in politics by his antics but he thinks in his head he's shown what a good, righteous, morally correct person he is. No doubt he will get a nice warm glow from that - that's what virtue signallers thrive on.

 

Anyway I'm bored with this now - how do you think we'll get on tomorrow Matt?

 

I didn't say he was virtue signalling, which is a phrase that's wracked with problem in itself - it's a lazy put-down. I think Mullin expressed a geniune conviction in response to the Tories fucking us, over and over. I also think that the boot was not to change anyones mind, but it's was to show solidarity in a way that many of us cannot. Support the Miners/Dockers/Strikes etc would have been similar a tone back in the 80's, albeit with less swears - but I get his idea, and I support it.

History repeats itself.

I said earlier that the poppy was a similar thing to your understanding of Virtue Signalling, or Only Saying That To Make Yourself Look Good. I said the poppy, not wearing of the poppy. The T-shirts, van stickers, caravan decals, painting of walls, decorations etc are almost certainly used To Make Yourself Look Good. Wearing a poppy should be a symbol of remembrance - should be and indeed was, but in recent decades has been politicised and commercialised and hijacked to become somthing to Make Yourself Look Good.

3 hours ago, IanMarshall's Mullet said:

 

I think that's partially correct but would change it to as below:-

 

The act of bringing to public attention those who do not display a sufficient level of expected support to something that you think is the right moral viewpoint and that by publicly displaying this it shows to the public what a good, righteous person you think you are.

I already said that though, I did say 'subjective'...

Anyway, Mullins has achieved what he wanted to say - he's shown the boots to the world, he doesn't need to wear them - when he scores all he has to do is point at the messageless boots - everyone who knows, will know what he means. His job is done, I guess, and the mental gymnastics the free speech crowd are making will continue.

9 hours ago, IanMarshall's Mullet said:

Virtue signalling is generally accepted as making a declaration in a social or political context and as far as I'm aware wearing a poppy doesn't have any political connotations attached to it.

I should've been more specific, perhaps the signalling of people who are not wearing a poppy on TV - or maybe those poppy orientated decals that people stick to the back of the caravans.

I think virtue signalling is also the act of bringing to public attention those who do not display a suffiencient level of expected (subjective) support to something. 

22 hours ago, IanMarshall's Mullet said:

Mullen was just virtue signalling......

 

Virtue Signalling - the action or practice of publicly expressing opinions or sentiments intended to demonstrate one's good character or the moral correctness of one's position on a particular issue.

Like wearing a poppy?

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11 minutes ago, LaticMark said:

By the way, it was a good podcast this week!

Precisely. There's a topic in here somewhere, if we could have some respect for the author of the cast and the thread, can we keep it together for this at least? Cheers