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You didn't like Rooney, fair enough, its your opinion. You made that clear but the truth is that he was a brilliant leader in our worst ever period. 
He galvanised the players and fans and was instrumental in keeping our club alive.
 

Free pass mate. Win or lose do the next league game. You deserve it and I'll sort any Mod out who thinks differently.
 
The other mods are more intelligent than me but I'm a bit harder so they won't argue. ?

What if we lose on penalties, does it count as a loss, asking for a friend ?

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Raising kids as I always,say is the most imortant "job" any adult will ever have, yet there is no training for it. The world we live in, social media, woke, so many variations of gender etc. has made it even more difficult i think. My kids are now yound adults so the job is done (I think?) but reading through this and "trying" to keep up with the worId makes me realise that parenting is not going to get any easier any time soon.
Anybody tried to ask ChatGPT? ?

Same here mate.
 
Although it finished my fledging teaching career.

Much of it is just all part of growing up. The next generation will probably have different issues, as my generation had different issues. If children are brought up to be respectful and Kind, and parents are prepared to answer questions rather than avoid them all will probably be well. 

My own thoughts are that it’s great that schools are teaching children that there are lots of different cultures and ways of thinking and feeling. Children, like adults, should be respectful of others’ individuality but should also feel free to tread their own path. 
They should neither force others or feel forced themselves when making their choices.
I think that’s about as far as it should go. There are so many sources of information for those children who want to understand more. They should be encouraged to follow their hearts and should learn that masculinity and femininity don’t equate to strength and weakness.
Kids today seem to work things out pretty well. 
 
I grew up in an atmosphere of ignorance in which there was little tolerance of minorities. I wouldn’t wish that on any child.
 

Well I think it is even confusing us adults never mind the kids. I'm not saying it is wrong but I understand people of whatever age confused of all the changes in their lives. I actually think kids can adapt a lot of issues better than us adults.

So hoping to avoid twitter like "get woke/go broke" Vs "You're all homophobic" arguments where there's no chance of an agreement. 
So there's a strong push through media and social media and various what some call stunts and others call diversity to open everyone's mind. Netflix are doing it, twitter is talking about it, Hollywood is obsessed with it.... and that's just that. 
But a few months back my daughter (11) came home to say she had a girlfriend. We were a bit surprised as she obviously had a crush on a boy. So after giving her a chat about how it's fine and we are glad she was fine to tell us some things didn't make sense to me and the wife. So after a conversation that was very hard to navigate so as not to twist her mind or whatever, she came back a few days later saying that she doesn't like girls in the same way she likes boys. (We did say you can like both). 
She said that she wasn't sure because she does like girls in much the same way that her girlfriend does. Add to this her girlfriend is now identifying as a boy. 
(Kids being kids they have now "stopped dating")
Then Ofsted came to the school and as my daughter is the student president she was interviewed. (Coincidentally the teachers have been extra nice lately). 
She then came home to tell us she'd been asked about any boys approaching her or being inappropriate to her or anyone else? Does she know what transexual is? Bisexual? Pansexual? Transgender? (She knows it all but I didn't know that she knew)
Now she's 11 and she's probably more naive than some of her friends who's parents seem to have no rules. But it seems to me that being 11 is a billion times harder and more complicated now. 
When I grew up, a lad couldn't just be gay. Not without abuse. I mean, it wasn't always ok to have different skin! I certainly don't want to go back to that.
But are we overloading them with information here? I'm not trying to spark an argument or anything. But she's a smart kid and I don't want to start shielding her from being able to make decisions. At the same time it feels everything is designed to make her question her gender and sexuality. In theory that's great. She can see the choices and be who she wants. I don't want to remove all the access her friends have and protect her from something she perhaps doesn't need protection from.
But is there not a danger that she follows trends and goes on someone else's journey? Case in point the girlfriend that's not her girlfriend but if she was then it would be her boyfriend? 
Does it even do any harm? 
I feel like identity politics is in everything now and it's pushed in the media to create outrage and arguments to get more clicks on Twitter and likes on TikTok. BLM was hijacked. COVID panic paid the bills. This seems to be the current thing to get the mob infighting. 
If anyone has any advice I'd appreciate it. I don't care what she is so long as she's what she wants to be. I dunno if I have a right to be annoyed that inspectors chose to go into school to put this all on kids? It's bloody adults that create any barriers! Initially it's made me angry that they approached her with this stuff in Year 6. 

If only one  then Tomori all the way for me. Classy player and I cannot understand how Southgate keeps omitting him from his England squads.
But I have a soft spot for most ex-Rams and would love to see how some of the ex-academy players like Whitaker and Ebiowei would fare in this team.
 

Festy 17 minutes of Serie A football.
Ebiowei 31 minutes of Premier League football.
Such a waste of their development.

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Our season was well and truly brought out of it's slumber by a combination of them both.
To quote the late, great George Michael...
'Wake Me Up B4 you Diego...'
 
 
I'll fetch my coat.

He's trying to look American 

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The difference is on the manager's philosophy. In a recent interview Max Bird said that Warne was encouraging them to paly their natural game, and I think that is the difference. So instead of receiving the ball, then looking up the appropriate section in the Rosenior Method of Football Theory manual, our lads are now doing what comes naturally. Add in the fact that the squad is now fitter than a butcher's dog and i think we have the difference.
It is not as though Warne has turned us into a hoofball team, even though he had us play longer in both our matches against Bolton. Liam's teams were lovely to watch as they skimmed the ball around the first two-thirds of the pitch, but our play is just as nice on the eye, although we have to be more attentive as the play is now so much faster and more decisive, and it's further up the pitch as well.
The difference between the two regimes is incalculable, even though it's the same players! It is very similar to when Steve Maclaren took over from Nigel Clough. IIRC when Steve landed at Pride Park, we went 3 - 0 down in the first half, then he breezed into the changing room and we ended up at 3 - 3, and the season turned around from then on. We went from fear and caution to belief in what we can do, and freedom to do it!

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