A credit to your club.

Hopefully the other clubs can follow your lead.

The rugby league and Super league knew this would be divisive, so I'd question why they went along with it. Was it purposely to cause division? Or was their hand forced by higher ups?

Quote The Ghost of '99="The Ghost of '99"Almost anyone who took any time to look at what that actually means in its American context would support it - it means removing from Police the budgets which require them to deal with mental health, opiods and reallocating that budget to people who can actually deal with them (like in the UK). It would also stop them wasting money on the sort of ridiculousely inappropriate military equipment that American police forces love to unveil - https://twitter.com/JBaker_WTOV/status/ ... 3510242308 In a UK context defund the Police is largely meaningless.'" BLM and taking the knee are largely meaningless. It’s a political organisation that has elected itself to represent black people and whites with a ‘white saviour, complex. It’s clearly anti white and anti Semitic when it should be purely pro black, there is big difference there. When I see an elected BLM leader with a genuine mandate then I might listen. In the meantime please enlighten us on who it’s leaders are, who elected them, who funds them, who monitors them and what their manifesto is? You can’t can can you and neither could the players. How lame and morally bankrupted must a person be to support an organisation they know nothing about purely to be trendy.

Quote The Ghost of '99="The Ghost of '99"Almost anyone who took any time to look at what that actually means in its American context would support it - it means removing from Police the budgets which require them to deal with mental health, opiods and reallocating that budget to people who can actually deal with them (like in the UK). It would also stop them wasting money on the sort of ridiculousely inappropriate military equipment that American police forces love to unveil - https://twitter.com/JBaker_WTOV/status/ ... 3510242308 In a UK context defund the Police is largely meaningless.'" BLM and taking the knee are largely meaningless. It’s a political organisation that has elected itself to represent black people and whites with a ‘white saviour, complex. It’s clearly anti white and anti Semitic when it should be purely pro black, there is big difference there. When I see an elected BLM leader with a genuine mandate then I might listen. In the meantime please enlighten us on who it’s leaders are, who elected them, who funds them, who monitors them and what their manifesto is? You can’t can can you and neither could the players. How lame and morally bankrupted must a person be to support an organisation they know nothing about purely to be trendy.

Quote The Ghost of '99="The Ghost of '99"Almost anyone who took any time to look at what that actually means in its American context would support it - it means removing from Police the budgets which require them to deal with mental health, opiods and reallocating that budget to people who can actually deal with them (like in the UK). It would also stop them wasting money on the sort of ridiculousely inappropriate military equipment that American police forces love to unveil - https://twitter.com/JBaker_WTOV/status/ ... 3510242308 In a UK context defund the Police is largely meaningless.'" OK chomp just like the UK and in the main most Police forces across the globe get the easure to deal with mental health issues that are clearly a matter for health authorities. Policing is 24/7 365 along with Fire and Ambulance sadly key support tends to be Monday to Friday. The Police in the UK waste so much time dealing with other agencies issues so don't make a sweeping statement that the correct authorities deal with there own problems they don't! Opioids may not be illegal in some parts but in the main they will be. Yes some people get help with rehab but in my experience the numbers getting off opiates are very low. To stereo type most opiate users are not wealthy and commit crime to fund habits this then drives serious and organised crime. America has a gun problem including automatic weapons drug gangs have serious weaponry along with the threat of terrorism. The police need to have the best equipment to respond. There is nothing wrong with APCs. If ever you have the terrible experience of such events I am sure you would be glad to see the good guys take on the bad I can't imagine society run otherwise can you?

Quote The Ghost of '99="The Ghost of '99"Almost anyone who took any time to look at what that actually means in its American context would support it - it means removing from Police the budgets which require them to deal with mental health, opiods and reallocating that budget to people who can actually deal with them (like in the UK). It would also stop them wasting money on the sort of ridiculousely inappropriate military equipment that American police forces love to unveil - https://twitter.com/JBaker_WTOV/status/ ... 3510242308 In a UK context defund the Police is largely meaningless.'" OK chomp just like the UK and in the main most Police forces across the globe get the easure to deal with mental health issues that are clearly a matter for health authorities. Policing is 24/7 365 along with Fire and Ambulance sadly key support tends to be Monday to Friday. The Police in the UK waste so much time dealing with other agencies issues so don't make a sweeping statement that the correct authorities deal with there own problems they don't! Opioids may not be illegal in some parts but in the main they will be. Yes some people get help with rehab but in my experience the numbers getting off opiates are very low. To stereo type most opiate users are not wealthy and commit crime to fund habits this then drives serious and organised crime. America has a gun problem including automatic weapons drug gangs have serious weaponry along with the threat of terrorism. The police need to have the best equipment to respond. There is nothing wrong with APCs. If ever you have the terrible experience of such events I am sure you would be glad to see the good guys take on the bad I can't imagine society run otherwise can you?

This where we differ on this Vasty.
The Black Lives Matter may be an organisation and that group may have some people I don't like at all...... But BLM is first and foremost a campaign to stop unnecessary violence against black people. Started with just a hashtag.
It's been hijacked just the same as Union Flag and St George's Cross by the far right.
I am proud to wear them but I'm sometimes uncomfortable when I see people use them for different reasons..... Just like BLM.

I am very much behind the initiative by Sky but I have to say its being pushed so hard it will lose some of the point. The interviews before the game are excellent. The big flags everywhere and the badge near the score are a bit unnecessary imho.

So taking your argument then it makes sense at the next game for us all to wear Union Jack shirts with shaved heads etc etc but that wouldn’t be far right or racist It’s just about pride in our British roots ? Hmmm

As regards the 2013 tweet that was about violence against black Americans by. American police and had been politically hi jacked by the anarchists a long time before it ever appeared in Western Europe .

I think you’re being incredibly generous. How can you be sure? I be searched and the information is scant. BLM is at best an umbrella term under which a number of groups operate. For example there appears to be no substantive link between the original US group from a few years back and those operating in the U.K.

I can’t find an official committee just loose affiliations and alleged spokes persons. I can’t find any evidence of any elected bodies and thus I can’t find a mandate. By every definition of a democratic representative organisation they fail. The EDL is more transparent and democratic than BLM.

It is not a charity and it’s not registered with the electoral commission. It represents nobody as far as I can see, the U.K. version is nothing more than mouthpiece for a collection of dodgy radicals.

I’ve never seen our biased media ever ask what I would call an average black persons if BLM represents them, why not? Because they don’t most black people would prefer to achieve there political agendas through the existing political structure, yet again though that doesn’t fit the left wing narrative.

Would you be happy if Tommy Robinson claimed he represented you? By the logic of BLM he would be well within his rights to do so. You simply can’t argue that to the EDL white lives definitely matter.

Both groups represent the very worse of ghetto politics, why credit one with more validity than the other. Both are racist, both flirt with violence, both have no mandate and both skirt just above being illegal.

Is it the act of taking the knee that offends you or the reason. If it was for white or blue lives matters would you be similarly offended.

But that wouldn't happen, because if there was a White lives matter movement. it would be shut down immediately and branded as racist, by almost everybody.

I applauded when I saw them stood linking arms, well done to the group

I agree.

I think black lives Matter but don't agree with many of the methods of the group with the same name.
I agree we should make Britain the best it can be but I don't agree how Tommy Robinson wants to do it.
Neither are representative. They are extreme minorities who have used a popular opinion to market their own.

I don't think there should be a club directive on this issue one way or the other. Each individual player should carry out the action that he believes to be the correct one. Personally, I think that initially there was a bit of a "Kings New Clothes" syndrome regarding "the Kneel" and football, rugby players and even police officers thought it was something that had to be done to be seen to conform. I'm not particularly a fan of it myself.

Because what other motivation would there be for a white lives matter movement other than racial.