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Message: [QUOTE="rnabokov, post: 3202040, member: 1847"] Sorry for the late reply. Been a bit unwell, and still a bit antsy. I take on board what you say, and I also value & appreciate your well thought out, intelligent and well argued contributions, except this time, for your rather disingenuous comments above on agendas, mine in particular, mainly because IMO you have one, but fail to acknowledge it that I can see, yet criticise me for mine. You criticise Milford (yet again), and for mine, unnecessarily so (it's been done to death). The plethora of criticisms of Milford are mostly on point and I agree and respect them, but here, I do not respect or appreciate what I see as your patronizing, self righteous indignation in your criticism of me, about my agenda when you ignore yours. Consistently throughout your posts on Milford, you, like everyone else on here with the same caustic agenda against Milford, perpetuate the Milford the Maccas Man, the burger king (sorry about the franchise fracture), the poke-the-pudge trope, which IS for mine both trope and agenda. This buries any positives he has under a fusillade of french fried flippancy, focused on and always on, his negatives. To me, and I stress that, [B]to me[/B], that is an agenda. Now I don't have a problem with agendas. I have hundreds, but I (hope) I don't hide behind mine, under some veneer of virtue that attaches to being allegedly agenda free as I see you doing. Further proof, again [B]for me[/B], of your tropic agenda against Milford is that, after a relative lull in the Milford belly-god, babblative trope, as soon as I post something positive about Milford, you immediately leap out from a bush behind the golden arches and post yet more negatives. That is my point here. Milf just can't take a trick. It seems you just can't help yourself. It's like, how dare anyone say something positive about the belly-cheer burger king. You even descend to parody him further by reducing his game to what is for me, a facile kick-per-dollar assessment. So mate, if that is not evidence of an agenda, I don't know what is. And the fat, sorry, fact, that you patronise me with your virtuous "I expected better from you" comment is just a little bit too much special sauce. Virtue needs no additives, unless it's needed to make its posturing palatable. I am a great one for context, yet another of my agendas. Your post in reply to mine, was as I see it, underpinned by, and repeated the Milf-the-fat Maccas Man trope. My posts were a simple response to [USER=8294]@winslow_wong[/USER]'s about the Broncos going to kicking college. I simply wanted to highlight that for all his considerable flaws and failures, Milford at least tried his best to lift his game - that part of his game, kicking, which is so important for an effective primary kicker. So he also went to the Lions, yes, back in 2018, but the same kicking college as the one reported above, and, on his days off, to lift his game which of course doesn't fit the Milf-is-a-fat-lazy-turd narrative, the nasty little trope infecting these threads. Unfortunately, tropes alter the way people see the world. A trope may start out as a convenient tool for a lazy writer, but it soon becomes a form of propaganda. I for one don't want to see Milford and our perceptions of him, buried in propaganda - in burgers of blather. I don't want to see him degraded and diminished to the extent that all he becomes is a caricature of a very special player who has clearly faltered, yet may well, under Walters, regain his best form largely eroded by Seibold. The same applies to almost everyone in the Broncos of 2020. We need Milford at his very best. I am just trying to remind us that his very best is very good indeed and to not lose sight of that fact. Peace be with you mate. Like I said, I'm a bit unwell, a bit antsy, and no malice intended. [/QUOTE]

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