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Hopefully Fleming sorts England red ball out. Pakistan are so awful that even Hampshire might beat them. SA and Bangladesh away will be good winter tests of progress. The Aussie side is ageing and had to doctor a pitch to draw with Bangladesh. If the bowlers stay fit, we should beat them but need to play Rehan as a spinning all rounder in the winter.

He’s the worst keeper to play for our first team by miles - compared to his 92 games, I don’t believe that a 17 year old Keith Grainger or Alan Blayney or Ian Andrew’s can compare. Even middle aged Chris Woods with a broken leg was better. The mind boggles as to how bad a keeper would have to be to dislodge him in the worst ever Southampton XI. That said, if any owners will pursue that aim with grim determination, it’s SR. He’s not the worst ever actual goalkeeper I’ve seen live though (I don’t mean Colin Clarke or David Howells as outfield custodians. Although Kenwyne Jones was probably better!). That honour belongs to this chap, I was at a stag do in the Broads and as the groom is a Canary, we took in their home opener against local team Colchester. Let this sink in - world class former keeper Bryan Gunn signed him. Short term pain for long-term gain as Colchester manager Paul Lambert left them for Norwich and consecutive promotions and mid-table PL finish resulted. Norwich’s right back might look familiar.

It just typifies the lack of football knowledge and experience at the club since SR pitched up. As @RedArmy said, the Boro shellacking and his horrific part in that was too much even for SR but it was 92 games too late. I think the loan spell at Stoke really finished it off for him here though as they couldn’t write it off as being psychological in a Saints shirt AKA BBD. He was dreadful at Liege as well.

Look away Bazunu fans is the title of the video. Look away @pingpong

I thought to myself, ‘are these the worst ones?’. Then I had a flashback to Boxing Day at Oxford and Baz the Hologram (tm @L1Minus10j. Like @Sheaf Saint mine won’t embed either. But fair to say Baz loves giving at Christmas combined with the Brighton howler! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBoicPHGYF4

One aspect that’s been missed is that the boats have sailed the same route as Brittany Ferries. That’s 4-5 longer, and a lot more treacherous than from Calais to Dover. It shows how desperate the smugglers are and how little they value those on those little rafts. Can see a major sinking coming up if the forecast suddenly changed mid-sail which happens in early autumn on longer routes.

It’s a common theme with the BNP, sorry, I meant Raise the Colours lot https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxp2n3eqy7o One other member of that group pepper sprayed someone after wrongly accusing them of stealing his bicycle. Another has been inside for drug dealing and importation. Bridge himself has also had a 3 year football banning order.

Quite. Safety and preference are not the same thing. We’ll need some compromise for the partnership to work with France, Belgium, Netherlands and Germany, but I don’t give a toss if their relatives are here illegally already.

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It’s similar to when I saw Michael Howard and David Blunkett interviewed about their time as Home Secretary. Blunkett was asked about the successes in reducing anti-social behaviour offences but violent crime rising. Blunkett replied to say that you pull one lever and have some quantitative success but then another area of your brief creates a major headache. Howard added that he’d challenged civil servants when they said he’d have success in one category but another would get worse as resources shifted, as Blunkett had, but had to concede they were right in the end. It’s similar to small boats, government has squeezed them to the extent the number of ASs per boat has increased hugely and very difficult to get launched, engines seized, prison sentences here and France/Germany. Even if we create legal routes albeit with low success rates and make it automatic ban on cases for small boats arrival, the gangs will switch back to infiltration of large trucks. Small boats are one battle in an ongoing war. Win it but will be straight onto the next ones.

That’s five easily, without really trying. Plenty more we can dig up.

Yep, Suella Braverman was the main culprit behind the spike in small boats, which has now halved, by her cutting off legal routes to apply from overseas, and relying on the preposterous and expensive Rwanda fig leaf which would have made only 2-3% difference for an enormous outlay. Her Border Force cuts led to an unprecedented backlog of cases. What a fucking moron she is. Add in an automatic rejection for coming on a small boat (we know they’re economic migrants which aren’t in areas we need) and that will see a further decline in volumes and further cut off the smuggling gangs opportunities on top of the boat engine seizures, arrests and imprisonments.

I’ve got even better. Watch Lallana’s surprise as his powder puff header creeps in under Bazunu’s body. Then the nightmare at Portman Road https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/c98rrld22v4o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOgOZdCFQy4

Dexy’s furious at Farage using their song https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/reform-uks-nigel-farage-disgusts-34572917 Bob the Estate Agent also enjoying the violence shown to a heckler https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/boohoo-reform-uks-robert-jenrick-34576695

Agree with 95% of that but Lincoln had at least 3 very good headed chances from not far out, at least two they should have scored and at least worked Peretz on others. Schlott coped pretty well but Stephens gave Peretz a hospital backpass and is barely selectable. Hope Abbott is good to go Tuesday night.