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Based off what i saw last night, the american players who had him as coach before I'm coming round to the view that Jesse Marsch might be the north american Roberto Martinez.

Yeah honestly im watching most of these games purely for the banter though. Brazil tonight will be good tho

There are a couple of interesting games. Brazil Morroco might bé alright.

@trousersWould they have been allowed to though?

Let's be honest, this first round is a waste of time.

Sorry to see Stewart leave, best of luck to him. Can see both sides, at his age he needs to get the best deal he can. Saints understandably hedged their bets, I assume had we been promoted we wouldn't have made an offer, hence the lateness of the offer. Hopefully he ends up in the Scottish Prem rather than another Championship club.

Ah, I should have been more specific. I should have stated the leaked version doing the rounds on DHGate! 😆 Also Saints normally leave the shirt till late. I guess this year they have even more reason to do so.

Yep, agreed. On paper that is a decent to strong group. Definitely need Edozie and Robinson to be on it to help supplement the team.

It was only brought in to bring pensions back up to the level they would have been had the Government not broken the link with earnings in 1980. When it was set up, nobody said then it was “unaffordable”, and had the pension remained linked to earnings it would be slightly higher than it is now. It was not some sort of bribe, or bung to people who vote in large numbers, it was a specific policy to address a specific issue. I used to buy this “unaffordable “ line, but when you look into it, that’s too simplistic. The present generation are paying more pension benefit, because in the last 46 years not enough was paid in. We are correcting that 1980 decision and the fact that until the coalition, subsequent Governments didn’t correct it. It’s now getting into the area where it is where it was intended to be, so a time ale should be set to abolish the triple lock and go back to the original link to earrings. It is now being used as an inter generational football, with pensioners being portrayed as rich and entitled. Some are, most aren’t. The most important thing is the principle of the old age pension remain. It should be universal, with rich people getting it as well. This is to encourage everyone to save in a private pension themselves, to build on the foundation of a basic state pension. If you start means testing it, I might as well piss money against the wall each year, rather than put it in a pension. If you’re taking 12k off me a year, because I’m drawing down 12k a year, why bother building that pot up.

Cracking game for the peak Saturday tv night slot - Qatar v Switzerland. I suppose could have a nap and then be awake for the Jocks

Far better than I gave them crédit for. Mind you i've only got to half time so far. Dest has surprised me, along with the other centre back (not Ream). Balogun I knew about, seen him with Monaco. Nice shirts...

I just don’t get why so many get so personal about our players and managers. Is a little different if they leave us but Will Still was obviously trying to do his best but failed miserably - I’m sure our posters have never done anything but excelled in every role they have ever had. So I have no animosity towards him and weird some keep harking back as he if somehow deliberately sabotaged us and are still angry. Hope he does well with Auxerre.

What happens if over the summer he saves four children and a kitten from a burning building?

Latest FAB minutes from 11th May... That's 4 days after the 'spygate' story broke and, according to the minutes, there were no discussions about it at all...? Hmm, ok then... https://assets.ctfassets.net/qtmbc4zcgkle/173jxlne0vXdNAM1z1nerE/aede4bcd30cc733cb0e2a03281d7835e/Final_FAB_Minutes_11.5.26.pdf

It was a tidy finish at the right end if memory serves! Might even have been WC before last

The idea that our new manager in July 2025 is announced as the former Barnsley assistant manager and everyone including the players are all fine with it, and off we fly into top 2.

I know this is stating the obvious but unless he has a blinding WC to my mind it's difficult to see who will take a chance on him given his track record of injuries.

Thats a good point. The Championship is a long hard slog for players, especially if you happen to have a bit of a cup run in either competition thrown in for good measure. Maybe he realises his body just isn't up to it. In which case he's virtually nailed on to go back to Scotland to finish his career. Anyone who hpoes he gets injured needs to take a look at themselves ffs.

there are way too many assumptions in here for this to be true. If we started well would we of got peretz and larin in ?

I'd be surprised if we offered him a contract again. No doubt we were very surprised he went the didn't meet the option to renew route on a technicality due to our appeal. If hes that mercenary we can be just as ruthless.

gonna give the 2am kick off a swerve tonight, no one wants to watch 2 impoverished 3rd world nations play terrible football all as an excuse to gain entry into the us 🤣

not an own goal 🤣 I jest

I thought he was one of the better shot stoppers we had. His downfall, IMHO, was the introduction of the new sport of Extreme Fannying Around In Your Own Penalty Area Thereby Allowing Other Teams To Come And Steal The Ball....to be played at all costs and in every situation. That he definitely wasn't good at.

thanks bro 👍