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EastStandUpper @eaststandupper.bsky.social · 3h

Aye, but that was well known...

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EastStandUpper @eaststandupper.bsky.social · 5h

And we need to keep Harrison on the bench to come on for Okafor... who, as we know, isn't yet able to complete a 90.

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EastStandUpper @eaststandupper.bsky.social · 5h

I thought the Pamela Gross revelations were more damning, honestly. A senior producer at CNN *raising funds* for another nation's military?

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EastStandUpper @eaststandupper.bsky.social · 5h

My issue with that is you're compromising two positions... Bogle is our best RB so, if he's fit, we have to play him at RB! Otherwise it's an okay RM + okay RB.

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EastStandUpper @eaststandupper.bsky.social · 6h

Maybe... although all the talk in the summer was of not finding affordable wingers better than James, Gnonto and Harrison. That suggests he high up in the pecking order. If Aaronson is consistently picked ahead of him, then it's worth the debate... but now, we literally have no one else!

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EastStandUpper @eaststandupper.bsky.social · 6h

The Aaronson conversations are a bit odd to me... he's playing because we literally have no other viable options for RM/RW. If Farke is still picking him when James and Gnonto are fit, then it's a discussion point. Right now, he's a functional stop-gap. Nothing more. #lufc

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EastStandUpper @eaststandupper.bsky.social · 7h

Yeah, probably, but it does seem to have been reborn among critics/connoisseurs "best ofs" in recent years... it's definitely only recently that I've been aware of its status as a "classic".

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EastStandUpper @eaststandupper.bsky.social · 9h

Yeah, and the summer that followed, with Monk as boss and Ayling, Pablo and Pontus joining = the start of it all.

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EastStandUpper @eaststandupper.bsky.social · 9h

Wood and Dallas joined that summer, too.

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EastStandUpper @eaststandupper.bsky.social · 9h

Couple of years later, I think... 2015/16?

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EastStandUpper @eaststandupper.bsky.social · 13h

In a world set to be dominated by AI, surely the humanities will be the only degrees worth taking...?

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EastStandUpper @eaststandupper.bsky.social · 1d

Stuff around the matches is fair enough... and I don't get dragged into arguments with trolls or grandstanders, which started to predominate on Twitter. Maybe I'm just pleased to be on social media less!!

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EastStandUpper @eaststandupper.bsky.social · 1d

I absolutely loved (pre-"the") Verve, so I don't take much pleasure in his artistic decline, but it's staggering he thinks there's a market for his plodding Radio 2 ruminations on love and life.

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EastStandUpper @eaststandupper.bsky.social · 1d

I can't go back, mate...! It's a swamp! Lots of decent Leeds chat on here these days, thankfully.

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EastStandUpper @eaststandupper.bsky.social · 1d

Did he know/grow up/go to school with Terry Cooper? Same part of the world.

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EastStandUpper @eaststandupper.bsky.social · 1d

I had *no idea* he’d made that many solo albums… thought he’d packed it in after Keys to the World.

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EastStandUpper @eaststandupper.bsky.social · 1d

It's just reductive political sloganeering with very little nuance, doubt or basic contextual understanding... he's also very slippery. Whenever he gets caught, which is often, he reframes the argument to suit a binary "well, you can't be against that, surely" position.

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EastStandUpper @eaststandupper.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, Brianha Joy Gray takes him to the cleaners on pretty much every point...

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EastStandUpper @eaststandupper.bsky.social · 1d

It's always useful to remind ourselves that, as horrific and as abhorrent as his murder was, Charlie Kirk was a fucking idiot...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTsw...