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"No Weston. The bottle of whisky isn't to help with your pain. We find being blind drunk helps with the surgeon's guilt. Now, let the sawbones do her work."

Thanks @Kenilworthy1959, that's really helpful. I'm not looking to make any money from them at all - just want to give them to a fan who will get more out of them than me. I'll try the avenues you suggest 👍🏼

Not sure I'd want my surgeon to have just completed their apprenticeship - although I suppose they do to a certain extent after five years of further study!

Possibly, but you look at the unbeaten run we went on this year and he was captain for most of the games. I also think THB and Stephens are our best centre back pairing this year and want both of them playing for us.

A skate?

I always thought he was a little blue man living under a bridge.

That is a good point (both the teacher and the not really thinking about it). A long time ago I used to work with my father, and I really disliked the way (and tone) he talked to me when we were in certain work situations. I never confronted him about this at the time, as you just don't talk about shit with your dad when you are of a certian generation. Fast forward a few years, and I cought myself talking in the exact same way to others in similar situations. It really blew my mid, hearing myself like that, because I never intended any of the things I inferred in my fathers tone/way of speaking. The problem was not him, it was me. I put context to the situation that he did not intend. There was supposed to be a moral, or something here, but I think it got lost along the way 😄

I think you could look at this more generically - there have been numerous times where Stephens has lost his head and he often gets into pointless arguments with officials rather than trying to galvanise others around him. He's also been known to point the finger at others around him when he is the one who has made a mistake. All in all, he sets a poor example to others and might be a great bloke in the dressing room, but doesn't lead where it matters the most.

I agree with you. The sum of a good CB partnership is often greater than the sum of its parts, and I think that is true for THB and Stephens. I don't rate Stephens too highly on his own, and would like to have seen him be replaced, but the way they played together makes me not want to break them up...

My sister-in-law is a teacher and she also struggles to converse 'normally' in adult-only environments, instead resorting to a default teacher-pupil dynamic. I don't think she's aware that she does it, and it's not a big deal at the end of the day, but it does help explain why MLG posts in the style that he does (given I believe he's previously stated that he's a teacher?)

Anyone got their order in? Jeesh just when I thought 50/50 scarves were the worst thing

A degree merely shows that someone finished some studies, and is likely to be at least moderately intelligent. I love the push for vocational studies. I'd also like to see a huge push on apprenticeships.

Time for UEFA to say it's our ball and we're going home

Terry Gennoe

Absolutely and I’d add those to the good core list @iansums gave earlier, especially in the era of AI where they’re essential to stand out in the market. I’d further add: Modern Languages (you need to understand Russian well beyond translation to really understand which Baltic state Putin’s generals are eyeing up. Or to seal that complex export supply contract with the Japanese) Quantitive social sciences and methods (especially statistical analysis) - impossible to make evidence-based decisions on healthcare and economic resources without these skills in the building as an underpinning. I think universities might become more horses for courses in terms of education and research offer.

The WC is nothing without European teams people won’t watch a cup with Brazil, dirty argies with no Messi and Morocco.

I can see uefa getting to the point of asking European fas to threaten to pull out of the WC to stop him. This is too far - this is where commercial interests will (if they don’t already) start threatening the independence of sporting decisions. I imagine this could have been what influenced some of the dodgy decisions during the WC https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c8xng9894z0o

They used to be, look at the adulation of IBK Brunel and his structures (eg the marvellous Tamar Bridge). Even a university in his name. Architects are well known in the public real pm but it doesn’t work without engineers.

We could start with his needless sending off for hair pulling. There are many other reasons but it is too hot to get into it now As for certain players and their feelings that they might be entitled to a crack at the EPL after last seasons efforts. I wonder if they would feel equally entitled if we had failed to make the play offs? You can’t blame players for wanting to better themselves but at the same time you can’t blame clubs for expecting players to honour more than one year of their contracts.

That’s nothing more than my guess at what might be considered a ‘reasonable’ punishment whereby we can just get on with it and suck it up. I have zero idea whatsoever what the FA are likely to hand down. Nor do I know what the club are likely to do even with a slap on the wrists, they may decide they’re fighting everything. We’ll see. But I agree with the sentiment others have expressed, the club has backed Tonda so they’ve now got to go all guns blazing should the penalty be severe. A protracted appeal, then appeal to CAS, whatever else can be done to draw it out. The FA could have charged Tonda within days but they chose to take weeks instead, so we owe them nothing in terms of hurrying things along.

Bit disappointed with this digital ticket app which says the tickets aren't transferable. Appreciate you don't want touts scooping up loads of tickets, but is that really a problem for Southampton FC? Every year, I go to about a dozen away games. When we were in the premier league the time before last, as a Saints member not season ticket holder, I could usually get tickets for away games including London games like Watford & Chelsea. Then away tickets got harder to get so some mates who are season tickets holders got away tickets for me. With this App, tickets can't be transferred among mates (you could pass each other's login details but technically that's not allowed). Appreciate some away games coming up will be paper tickets, but this will probably become rarer as time goes on. There must be a way SFC will allow tickets to be passed among fans. Either they allow tickets to be transferred among friends or they link every ticket with a dedicated phone number to stop people passing around each other's details illegally.

What about Harwood-Bellis and Max Alleyne? I'm not sure if the Alleyne rumour will come to much, but would make sense to get him back on loan to the Championship, and to us. He'd be an upgrade on Wood, who I don't mind, but doesn't seem as natural on the ball as some.

Indeed. Absolutely should not be asking for any sort of expedited appeals process if the punishment is too draconian.

If he has not been told what it is, then we need to drag it out as long as possible (Man City Defense). Is there an appeal option if we choose the quicker hearing w/o our participation and get screwed again? If not, that is a suicidal option.

Not sure about that. I’ve never been Stephens biggest fan but there was a noticeable difference in our ability to keep teams out when he got injured last year. THB and Stephens is one of the best CB pairings in the league.