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Because he did his ACL in 2023 and missed a huge amount of football - he's a regular in their squad when he's fit.

Fair enough. I think you're conflating two different things with the second part of your post - explaining the risks of something and hoping common sense does the rest is agreeing with the legalisation/decriminalisation option... you're not outlawing anything, but you're hoping with access to...

So far, decriminalisation, and to a lesser extent legalisation of drugs, has never lead to the sort of explosion in usage that is often predicted in these debates. People who want to use drugs already have access to them under the current status quo. There's lots of things which damage our...

Fair enough - I don't think Pino gave us much positive to focus on yesterday at all. I think that's hugely generous re the lob - he completed a pretty standard sprint for 5 yards to press the ball and then dreadfully executed a pretty simple finish.

By what metric is it working at all? A successful policy in this area would achieve things like: - Less drug-related deaths/overdoses - Lower transmission of HIV and other diseases from injections - Less drug-related criminality Our policy has not achieved anything like that.

You should try it - might calm you down a bit :)

I think the hypocrisy you talk of is entirely imagined - the part in bold is a not an argument made by anyone.

I haven't talked about 'stopping drug use' - that's obviously not a realistic outcome, but some sort of reduction is - you seem to be suggesting that our current expensive policy, of which you are yet to provide a single achievement, is working perfectly fine - I don't really understand the...

I disagree - the only people I ever see talk about someone catching a few flights or going on holiday once a year is in media like the Daily Mail trying to claim some sort of secondary school 'gotcha'. You'll see criticisms of things like private jet usage on the left, but no one gives a s***...

Ok but if you drastically increase the funding and focus on that enforcement, you'd expect to be able to point some achievements as a result. Instead, many drugs are decriminalised in all but name and more readily available than ever. The Greens are suggesting policies which have a better...

I don't think anyone is saying they don't hope it works out, but surely there's nothing wrong with acknowledging that 35 appearances into his Palace career, he's been incredibly underwhelming (and that's putting it kindly). Do we just pretend he's been good because he's relatively new to the...

Like any policy, you'd look at the impact it's had since it's inception - in the case of the war on drugs, you would consider things like; Has usage come down? Are drugs now less readily available? Do we see less societal issues as a result of drug usage and the associated criminality?

The catching a flight stuff is basically only a talking point on the right - there's no serious argument from sensible environmentalists that catching a few flights a year is problematic or worthy of criticism.

I don't know - probably not all, but certainly some.

I wasn't aware the Greens planned to ban flying or going on holiday - interesting policy.

Do you think our current drug policies are working well? How much have we spent on the 'war on drugs' over the last couple of decades, and what progress do we have to show for that investment?

Really struggle to understand how this is a player with nearly 20 caps for Spain.

Quality of opposition is also relevant there though - we were always going to have more possession in conference league games, as well as games against the bottom half domestically.

Yeah agree that’s the basis of the sentiment, but I just don’t buy the explanation personally. Like I said above, everyone knew what we were going to do tactically last season, but stopping it was another matter entirely. I think we have experienced to the extreme the pros and cons of a...

Surely in elite sport they were savvy to us a long time ago!? Completely agree it’s far from singular, but that feels one of the least convincing arguments to me.