Sir Ralph

I know £17m is an opener but it’s a bit of a Michael take when we purchased him for £20m. £30m absolute minimum - I doubt they will stretch that far

According to Wiki he was born in Poole but Chelsea took him but then he joined Saints at a young age as the commute was too much. So essentially a local lad Chelsea knabbed from the area originally. Agree on Amo-Ameyaw but I think the difference is Saints offered him a better pathway to first team football. My humble opinion is that stock piling talent is harmful to development so if a young player moves to city or Chelsea for £ or status that is potentially harmful. If they move for greater opportunity that’s a different matter

Agree - they just take on as much talent as possible now as the costs are relatively low for the potential rewards. They dont care if for every 10 that fail one makes it but I wonder whether more would if they stuck to their original clubs. Jimmy Jay Morgan is a good example - left us and went to Chelsea, did nothing now succeding at WBA. Probably should have stayed with us

Frankly this is all waffle that makes some posters feel good. I probably wouldn’t vote for Reform but out of interest, what was the objective in the past 7 posts?

Your hatred for others isn’t healthy for you.

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He can’t lead a line - lack of physical dominance and never comes short to offer an option. my mate who I went to the world cup with is a derby ST holder. He said they should buy him as a left winger. We don’t need him there. Sell.

Got through. Sell Diaz buy another target man. Bragg looked good - has always looked class and in my opinion will go onto achieve big things

I always prefer to see two, rather than one

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Diaz is absolutely terrible. Get him off

Peretz bloody brilliant

Reminds me of a very very very shite zidane the way he meanders around the pitch

What a ball. Diaz thinking about what he’s having for dinner again

Fair enough. It seems as though the system is broken. My wife knows people who don’t need the money claiming money for their kids having ADHD (and they don’t). Having quotas for decisions is wrong too if people genuinely are struggling. The problem it appears is that it’s easy for people to make things up about MH as it’s not visually apparent. That harms those in genuine need. Question is how do you address a system where people can make things up and get away with it as it’s not visually obvious. I don’t think the status quo works but not sure what the answer is. Many of us have had MH issues with work stress (I would say a decent of people that I know have or still do). However we carry on so I struggle to reconcile why many people are booked off. It does seem that the system needs to be tougher

Point is there are tonnes of people milking the system and the system allows it as it’s too soft. GPs just sign people off as it’s the easy thing to do.

Mental health is impacted by different things. It says a lot that I focused on how employment can help and you focused on how people can’t work. In which post did I say it was a sole solution? Please point this out to me. Some people will be impacted by a lack of purpose in life, including younger people who are unemployed, and that will impact their mental health. Good to see the usual gang backing one another even though one of their own is talking utter tripe. I’m waiting for the evidence which confirms I’m wrong. You won’t be able to so apology accepted #leftwingpartisanechochamber https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jun/12/young-people-fear-long-term-unemployment-work

Not really is it. You’ve essentially said that statement is clueless if it concludes that if people are in employment it has no improvement in terms of their mental health - really???!!! Pesky evidence below (there is tonnes of it). Provide me with evidence that contradicts my comment and supports your view. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7681163/ https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/employment-dosage https://deconstructingstigma.org/latest/benefits-working

If we worked harder on getting people into work we would have fewer mental health issues

…you forgot the Ugandan boxers

Questions, questions - you are very good at asking lots of them (four in that one). I answered rounds 1-17 but by 18 I got bored. There isn’t much point responding as you just come back with more and it goes in a never ending circle. Your tactic is pretty clear. I’ve seen it with other posters you don’t agree with. Any chance you could put me on ignore would be appreciated. The part of you that is amusing is the way you subtly attempt to mention your own perceived success now and again on a forum to strangers. For clarity the above are statements not questions.

I thought you were putting me on ignore.

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Ditto - comic genius of the highest standard 😂

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