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Always bugs me as if we slip into the playoffs and get to Wembley they'll be first on the phone for a ticket. I really hope if that happens we have categories for seat distribution based on tickets bought as well as memberships acquired as opposed to merely doing Season Tickets and then a free for all.

Don't get me wrong I'm not disputing those things. But I think given we know how it feels we all should unite against the club killer that is Couhig.

Maybe it's just me but I think we should all unite against the club killer that is Couhig tbh.

I was going to say when we go to Wycombe could fans perhaps get a couple of banners and coordinate with reading to show some solidarity? This is Wycombe once again acting as potential club killers....

I liked Gayle as a signing and have always liked him as a player. At this level I knew he'd be a cut above tbh. We should give him a 1 year extension as he could probably still muster between 10-12 goals in the championship if he played regularly.

Couhig is just an amoral scumbag. He's a blight on football and represents everything that we should as fans of the game all despise. Him and his club should be made absolute pariahs in the football pyramid if they go through with this.

On the game we dominated Reading and thoroughly deserved the win. Yes the referee and linesmen made bad calls but we've had those issues for the past 3 years. Eventually we'll get a rub of the green which the play deserved. I don't necessarily blame Reading for what they're doing, after-all, they've got a job to do and if that's how they win games then fair enough. But we really needed that win to at least slightly ease the pressure on the Bolton game.

I don't think many people who have watched or seen many of these marches really think they're simply calling for peace in a pleasant manner. I've seen marches where I have witnessed speakers valorise Hezbollah and Hamas. The rise in anti-Semitic incidents alone (600% I believe) is staggering and speaks to something darker and more dangerous in politics. Galloway's election in rochdale speaks to the uglyness and hypocrisy of so many who believe in 'freedom for Palestine' tbh too. Willingly voting for a man who sucked up to Saddam Hussein and Bashar Al-Assad just says it all really. On the ceasefire there should be one but without a broader strategy for peace it's simply a stop the clock situation. Ocotber 7th has unleashed Israeli public opinion against the idea of a Palestine at all and has opened the floodgates to a maelstrom of violence and destruction. The region is in a disastrous state with authoritarianism surviving the Arab Springs and the regions only real democratic player now certainly guilty of war crimes if not genocide. It's ugly and no-one has an answer beyond trying to make it stop which is no real solution at all.

Tend to think that's equally simplistic overall. Conflicts can have roots in a variety of places- whether that is ideology, identity, revenge, wealth, or a desire for greater territory to name just a few.

A lot of that literature on inter-generational trauma and epigenetics i think has come into question. I might be wrong and it used to be very popular though.

Thanks Carl! 🙂

Mine is a monograph of my PhD discussing Carl Schmitt's exceptional sovereignty in relation to Iran and Syria 🙂 It's called "Carl Schmitt in the Middle East: Unstable Decisionism and the Failure of Political Orders". I'm trying to make it easily readable and am talking to the publisher to make it reasonably priced so it might shift a few copies 🙂

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looking for a northampton ticket as i'm just an away member so they won't get to my category

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Great review! Sounds very interesting 🙂 hope it sells well for you! I feel the pain on writing, writing a book myself, albeit not with such a prestigious publisher and it's definitely hard going haha.

haha well that's always good! 🙂

got a few on the go atm. Mixing it up between IN ASCENSION by Martin Macinnes, Cold Peace by Michael Doyle and Making the Arab World by Fawaz Gerges. Not long finished The Bee Sting by Paul Murray which I thought was much better than the eventual winner of the Booker Prophet Song which I found very underwhelming. I'd also recommend Wellness by Nathan Hill who has only written one other novel and anything by Brandon Taylor I've really enjoyed recently too.

set up 4-2-3-1 and go at them. They must be fragile confidence wise so high tempo, high press and get men in the box. They're a shambles and we need to take advantage.

I watched the game last night and I thought first half was fine. We generally kept the ball well but made some terrible decisions once we got into the final third. We had more pace but the way we played didn't really suite Gayle. It will take some adapting to so we can make the most of his qualities i think. The second half was poor. We never really got going and didn't look confident. Wildsmith is a keeper I've rarely been sure of. He flatters to deceive by making a great save now and again but in the middle makes a host of blunders. Last season he probably cost us around a dozen points with all his mistakes. I think this season he's going the same way. But that doesn't excuse the lack of shape from the squad. The substitutions did more harm than good and we had so little in the middle of the park. We'll get in the playoffs which is an improvement but I can't see us picking up an automatic slot unless something changes. If we spend another year in the division it will be much harder for us to leave it with key players such as Bird leaving. It will require another facelift in terms of personnel. If it is the playoffs there is no one that really scares me as such except for ourselves. When we do play well we can beat anyone in this league but those days are too few and far between at the moment.

Yeah it was very odd. I'd say based on what I saw it wouldn't surprise me if we beat them again 3-0 at home if we got them in the playoffs. Definitely potential for it to happen but we'd need to be on our game a little more than we were on saturday.

I remember seeing a 16k crowd when we played Huddersfield first game of the administration season and going by what I've seen on the highlights there looked like a fair few more there than that game. The numbers the exec has cited just don't sound particularly realistic to me. Your source may not have been lying necessarily but he may also have either misunderstood some information or just been exaggerating. It happens and a lot of people do that, especially if they are frustrated in their work life.

Thanks Crewton 🙂

Agree with this. Given how Nyambie played when he came on, absolutely dominated that side of the pitch, it's hard to see how Warne didn't pick him.