Quote Originally Posted by Mac76 View Post
in the last 15 games (which is basically since he began having regular starts this season) he's scored 8 goals and got 3 assists - that's more than a run but proof of a consistenly quality player - and while I dont know what his defenseive game is like, as a forward his job is mainly to score and get assists - not all teams are like Arsenal where Arteta expects everyone to track back etc



oh and on the Labour point, the conferences prove nothing as they aren't representative as it's people who can afford to take the time off and pay to go plus lots of industry lobbyists



which of course is far less evidence-based than thinking they know Arteta's mind from a heavily edited documentary...
Are you lying when you say you go to football matches, or are you partially sighted and as a result get seated in the disabled stands and simply go to games because it’s cheap. Because you give me the awful impression of not knowing a lot about the game if you think football is a binary of either defending or scoring goals. No you’d expect link up play from attackers, finding someone in space being able to read the game to sell dummies etc. All the things Salah can do as well as score goals and all the things Gakpo doesn’t….for someone with a reasonable amount of pace he can’t keep himself onside a lot of the time.


I use the Ramsey example a lot as that of a player who scored goals but largely lacked the attributes technically to make for a top footballer. Gakpo has the advantage over Ramsey of pace and strength but that’s it.

The point of being a Labour member as opposed to just a voter is to be politically active and attend local constituency meetings. I can guarantee you now that the conferences absolutely are representative of political membership. I’m not even singling Labour out, all party political membership holders are middle class….the working class are usually busy working or looking after their families….not spending evenings being political hobbyists and pretending that they are making a blind bit of difference to anything.

Though party membership tends to have hollered out, and the same middle class people have joined groups such as just stop oil or go on the pro Palestinian marches and pretend not to hear the same vile antisemitism on display (in fairness to them, the Met do exactly the same thing)