John Holland

Possible and the QPR example shows that it can be done but it's an uphill task. Matches v Oxford, QPR and Watford are key. 7 points from those would be a minimum I suspect

We need to win 10 or 11 more games to stay up: Oxford twice, Pompey, Blackburn, Derby, Wednesday have to be won. Charlton, Swansea, Watford and Blades? Then draws in a number of other matches. I don't think we'll do it. 3 points from 11 games is tough to recover from

We could and should see improved results but the problem is we are already a low way behind. Win 10, lose 10 and draw the rest this season would only give us 50 points which might not be enough. I think it would be but this battle goes to the wire

I think we saw that the return of Kvistgarden gave us a bit more in attack. That was the best I've seen from Topic so maybe he is adjusting to the English game. The trouble is we already have to show top 12 form just to reach 50 points (31 games, win 10, lose 10 gives us a total of 50)

We stayed up in 07/08 because we were able to bring in 4 players in November. We have to wait until January before we can do so this year. A couple of key additions could still work in January.

Scorer of the first goal in the first league match that I saw back in 1970. Also scored against Luton in my second match a year later

I will be surprised if the Oxford match is played on a Saturday. It's FA Cup 4th Round day and even if we are knocked out meekly in the previous round, Oxford are often good cup fighters so it will be moved to a midweek in Feb or March

We tried to set up an ISA with NatWest but we had to go through some weird ID process in order to be able to pay money in. We could never get accepted so for a while we were getting statements for a non existent account

I'm struggling a bit, mainly because when dividing by zero we used to use the infinity symbol so I don't get the undefined bit. Can't remember needing to divide by zero very often and I took maths up to A level

It looks like nearly all the tickets have been sold so empty seats this time will suggest ST holders not attending. I'd guess it's more down to boredom rather than a protest against the regime though

We will see empty seats on Saturday, not always people choosing to stay away but ST holders who can't make the match and can't sell through buyback or find a friend who wants to go. Maybe casual tickets will not be sold but I guess Leicester will not return many tickets

A draw was the fair result and it looked like a League 1 match which it could well be next year

I'm not sure whether this is a global issue but that has an impact on the perspective of UK boomers who remember vibrant towns across the country. Unfortunately the blame goes to the wrong people

That brings up another difference. London is a far nicer place today but part of that is down to the transfer of jobs to London from the rest of the country. Jobs that were available to me when young have moved to London. Our generation lives in left behind towns as our kids have to work in London

I was at school through the 70s (started 1969, left 1983). I remember London as a bleak and violent place at the time, probably with lots of poorly designed inefficient heating, I was lucky to live in new housing. I remember school meals. Mass produced food for 1,000 meals all served within 1 hour

This all shows that it's difficult to give a global tag to a generation. USA is very different to UK but so is Europe especially Eastern Europe. I was in Berlin in 2024 and I was shocked to see memorials to people my age who died crossing the wall as well as the reminders of WW2

This culture does have an impact today. A poll issued yesterday showed 61% of over 65s intended to vote for our 2 RW parties, mainly for the party close to Trump. 13% of under 24s would vote for them. In 1983 44% of under 24s voted RW so it seems to reflect era of birth rather than age

So in the UK many boomers had that parental guidance. Also Film and TV glorified the war and that has affected boomers. There's a mocking comment that boomers ask us to respect their role in a war that was over before they were born. As someone born in the 60s I grew up in that culture

People born between 1945 and 1970 would have had parents who lived through the horrors of WW2 but also struggled to cope with new faces in their towns. Despite left wing financial opinions there was a degree of nationalism and racism there

Post war we had a shortage of working age people especially men, the increase in birthrate was welcome but we also needed working age people so invited people from Caribbean and South Asia to settle in the UK. Although they fought alongside us in WW2 they were not 100% welcomed

My uncle and my wife's grandmother both committed suicide in WW2 because of the trauma endured either by being on a ship taking food from USA/Canada to UK or by living in a town relentlessly bombed. That possibly gives an understanding of the generations born pre 1940

Society changed, a lot of men died in WW1 and a lot of people died in WW2. Many of those who survived never spoke of the horrors and others could only deal with them by talking about them. A lot of people from that generation (born pre 1940) had a long lasting resentment of Germany and Japan

I hear people from USA talk of the 1950s as a golden age whereas in the UK it was recovery and the 1960s is viewed as a golden age. Between 1945 and 1951 we had our most left wing govt ever because of a desire to build back better. This was the view of people who had fought in WW2

It's hard to fully understand the US election from a UK POV. I have/had family in Washington state and live in a part of UK that has American influence (oil and military) so I keep an eye on events. I suppose an additional difficulty Harris had was only having a short campaign

In USA I'm aware of right wing women (far right by our standards) Greene and Palin. It would be interesting to hear whether they face criticism from RW commentators in the US. If they don't then that suggests the same selective sexism we have in UK. Democrats would tend to oppose on policy I guess

The sexism in the UK is complex but also clear. Our media is very right wing, they are attacking the current govt but have a main focus on the women. When we have a right wing female leader they wouldn't attack her and the opponents on the left wouldn't oppose her just because she is a woman

Sunday morning? I'll have a guess about how many wheels his vehicles had

All these changes in policy but voters rarely changed who they voted for because they party identity mattered more than their opinions

I've noticed that for many a perceived identity influences their opinions rather than the other way round. In 1983 our RW party won by supporting close links to Europe, in 2019 they won by supporting fewer links to Europe. Our LW party moved from protectionist to globalist.

Overall it suggests that treating all people born in say 1960 as identical in culture and opinion on a global scale is flawed. It is simplistic