MATCHWATCH : Barnsley (a)

[stealthpapes]

There was nearly a fight at Charlton over the exact average age of our players.

This has a permanent spot in my head. Just the single funniest thing I saw that season.

[Mid Sussex Royal]

"Political" chanting seems to be on the rise nationally, not just Reading fans; heard a Tommy Robinson chant at the south coast derby yesterday on Sky and there are regular Starmer songs at England games. This is all being stoked by certain high profile individuals on social media which sadly is bringing people like Robinson into the mainstream.

[Hound]

Sadly Farage and ‘Tommy Robinson’ and co are very adept at using the likes of TikTok and Twitter and this is where the younger generations are consuming a huge amount of their info.

They see these short unscrutinised videos and think they want a part of it

[Millsy]

Away, against a team at the top, after no defeats in 3.

Exactly. Anyone can see we came into this season without a full squad, loss of key players, and would be struggling. Still don’t have full squad we want.

Yet despite this the trend of our performances and results has been positive. Before this game our form was draw draw win. Not far off a draw here too.

Hunt may well be rubbish, time will tell, but to use a narrow away defeat against a top 6 side (by only 1 penalty goal) to make that argument is a bit bizarre.

Give it time, and we‘ll see. Anything else at this point is pretty much the definition of bed wetting.

So anyone who doesn’t share your opinion, despite offering a sober and coherent argument against is Bedwetting? Ok then.

Of course. Didn't you know?

No you're alright I do get what you're saying and if this continues much longer I may flip myself especially as I was never keen on Hunt in the first place. I just think it is far too early to be worrying and if I can use my favourite term ever it's now, so I'm capitalising on it while I can!

[Clyde1998]

"Political" chanting seems to be on the rise nationally, not just Reading fans; heard a Tommy Robinson chant at the south coast derby yesterday on Sky and there are regular Starmer songs at England games. This is all being stoked by certain high profile individuals on social media which sadly is bringing people like Robinson into the mainstream.

Sadly Farage and ‘Tommy Robinson’ and co are very adept at using the likes of TikTok and Twitter and this is where the younger generations are consuming a huge amount of their info.

They see these short unscrutinised videos and think they want a part of it

I think this is the thing. A lot of people are viewing their content which has been curated specifically to win over that demographic; haven't been taught to think critically about anything; view a social media feed which tailors everything to what you've previously viewed, so people believe everyone agrees with them. A lot of it is funded by the American right, along with certain other states who wish to destabilise the country.

It doesn't help how journalism is dying as an industry, replaced by simply getting as much attention to generate the most money - so certain figures don't really get properly challenged in any serious way.

[stealthpapes]

there are regular Starmer songs at England games

Brave.
They'll get five years for that.

[Sutekh]

there are regular Starmer songs at England games

Brave.
They'll get five years for that.

Given the mess he’s in at the moment he’ll have to move quick to get them their 5 years.

[stealthpapes]

yes, because that's how the justice system works