Gloucester Saint

Recommended post-match reading https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bogey-Who-Wanted-Picked-Mischiefstories/dp/1794038167

That bogey is beckoning to be picked, would be so satisfying. 4-1.

Ignore Mr Cut and Paste, GM’s apprentice.

Has our defence on a piece of string.

Maybe they shared a pizza pre-match?

Vasquez will be delighted Brum held on at Derby - one of the worst sitters I’ve ever seen missed.

Pleased he still exists.

Locally, Jake Evans has been superb on loan for Cheltenham from Leicester. Why Martin thought he couldn’t play in L1 this year is surprising. Probably too direct and wants to assist and shoot at goal, run at players. Not a Martin type player.

Good for him, well done.

Can we swap her and her family for a family of normal Democrats or non-MAGA Republicans please? https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/gb-news-pride-caroline-farrow-b3030920.html

When people start comparing sectors, and generalising, you know the evolutionary barrel is being scraped. Hard for Ossie to imagine, but the public sector has millions of people who fix infrastructure and do identical work to the trades. Similar work to what BT Openreach did in our street this week who are private sector. Nobody cares about the labels as long as the work’s good quality and they get paid on time. When I worked in the brewing industry, we used spreadsheets for everything to profit and loss, to computers with sensors on the brewing kit to ensure consistency, to tracking dray deliveries in the region. We held meetings too. And managers, team leaders, Directors and CEOs meet their staff regularly to review progress v objectives in all sectors. Same for Oracle in Reading say, Hampshire CC, Southampton FC, national charities (a huge economic sector he seems to have zero awareness of) etc.

There’s a 40-year old that probably would, formerly of Cheshire and Devon via Washington and the East Midlands.

Ralph was a bit a dick on keeping Bazunu young and struggling in the side, which I rarely said as I liked him, going along with SR because he’d fallen out with McCarthy after the Brighton home game the previous season. Plus the stupid salary Martin Semmens had put Alex on. The phrase which came to mind with Gavin that he didn’t look like a natural goalkeeper at any stage. Compare to a young Tim Flowers when he joined. Raw, made mistakes but made some fantastic saves in equal measure. Chris Nicholl could see that he needed to learn from a quality keeper (albeit mad as a box of frogs) at the other end of his career - John Burridge. Tim could say he’d been scarred by Wolves’s straight drop through all 4 divisions but the natural positional ability was always there to build on with a more organised and knowledgable grounding in top level English football.

Corbyn got more votes than Starmer did, but they were piled up in certain seats and insufficient spread 2019 vs 2024. Reform are heading the same way and tactical voting will do them in even if the bungs and sleaze don’t. Net result - clusters of big majorities but large geographical areas where there’s no Reform MP. Plus the Reform councils have been a disaster so far with huge tax rises, walkouts, defections and expulsions, as evidenced by this today’s piece on Durham by Sky News. I don’t think most people would see AB as ‘Hug an Illegal’ realistically. Starmer - different story. Earlier in his career he’d been a human right lawyer and that’s why the daft ‘Island of Strangers’ comment rang so hollow. Burnham is also northern. I suspect that demographic won’t vote for Lowe in huge numbers, although enough to hurt Reform, nor a Tory party with the current leader. If the Tories go for a different leader, that demographic might move back in a larger numbers, but the data shows Badenoch is actually well ahead of her own party’s ratings, as Burnham is for Labour’s, and their core membership which is strongly SE/Home Counties/E Mids/Anglia/SW peninsula by and large seem very content with her. And that core membership is geographically, socially and educationally at odds with the people we are talking about who left them. Not dissimilar to what’s happened with Labour.