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My point, after 40 years of watching Hampshire and England at home/Barmy Army, is that Joe Weatherall is only averaging 24 FC when he’s had seasons earlier career averaging over 30 so at the age he should be in his prime (29/30) he’s probably averaged 12-18 FC over the last 2-3 seasons. Orr’s shot selection is a concern but right now he’s an average of 11 better and that’s a huge difference over a season. He can be coached to tighten up if he wants to listen but his average indicates he has some defence to go with attack. I’m not sure there’s a lot more development in a top order player averaging 24 nearing 30 years of age by contrast.

Hence the fulsome praise, and it’s exactly what Farage would do here, as Richard Tice is doing a pretty good job of highlighting, with the odd assist from corrupt Bob.

Good first impressions of Magyar, rooting out mass corruption of Orban and his cronies, using their EU membership to help rebuild and reinvest and clean up their corrupt media and press (latter urgently needed in the UK to clean up the newspapers owned by non-doms) so there’s a proper free press. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8dll93j7d5o But despite a Mount Everest of evidence, JD Trump thinks Orban did a brilliant job and is a great guy despite robbing his own country blind to fund himself and his cronies, whilst suspending a fully functioning democracy. Let’s hope the idiots in Brexit parts of England and other countries where the populists have been doing well (East Germany) can read and learn from the Orban experience.

Nasty injury and if it isn’t fully healed probably out of the WC as well https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c98mqrpz50vo Take a risk too early and could be out 12 months instead.

Great win for Leeds. With the easiest run in and better GD, they should be OK from here. Farke doing a great job. 1 from three out of Spurs, West Ham and Forest.

Not even that thinly veiled either https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd9vgw2g3w2o Reform: on the side of the working man https://taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/04/13/richard-tice-questions-unanswered-120k-tax/ 😂😂😂

Best he stays away from Martinez, or Jack, if Saints go up. Too much temptation.

But defenders know it’s a red card now and doesn’t need to do it. Is it a red card offence? Probably not. Quite painful when someone does it when you’re running full pelt.

Lisandro Martinez has a Jack Stephens vs Cucarella moment and red carded. That should help see Leeds home now.

Yeah, Leeds have got Wolves and Burnley at home, plus Brighton. They’ll have a major say either way as visiting Spurs, and West Ham final day. Forest have Burnley at home next, Sunderland away, a fading Newcastle home, Man U away and Bournemouth home final day. Spurs must beat Brighton next week or too much to do. If they can, they go to Wolves, Villa Park a toughie, but then Leeds home, Chelsea away and finishing Everton home. Hammers, Palace away, Everton home, Brentford away, Arsenal home, Newcastle away and finish with Leeds home. West Ham probably have the worst run-in but not by a lot.

Leeds run-in is at least comparable to Spurs, West Ham or Forest so if they do win tonight then can’t see them dropping realistically with 36 on the board. Forest should get at least two more wins and a draw so it looks like a London head to head. Pity they’ve both played each other already.

Orr was better, FC average of 35 vs Weatherall’s 24 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Orr Fletcha average 28, 24 now and a big year for him if he’s going to progress https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletcha_Middleton Toby Albert more of a white ball player - FC average 25, more comparable to Joe Weatherall but much younger at 23 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toby_Albert

Me too, Forest have picked up and are better sides than Spurs or West Ham, Leeds win or even a point tonight really puts those two under the pump. It’d destroy them financially if they went down. Spurs with the stadium debt/wages and West Ham owe £100m plus in owed transfer fees this summer alone.

It didn’t work out well for either party going to Everton yes, it was a needless mistake. Claude Puel wasn’t the puppet Les thought he’d easily control either - the Forster contract extension against the manager’s wishes caused a rift allegedly. The 2016 end of season fans forum and the Les Reed comment about Ronald ‘doing alright’ when he steered us to top 6 for the first time since Lawrie fully warranted the nervous laughter in the audience. Les lost my trust from that point. Also, the response to the Guido Carrillo question in the 2018 forum was also priceless. Rather than just say the player wasn’t suited, he went into a speech about how he’d be a great asset over time. The laughter was deafening. We’d all seen him marked out of the FA Cup game by Wigan’s centre backs. The Fonte transfer window mess was awful and cost us a trophy. Les was fine with an experienced manager but not the brains of the operation.

D2 batting line ups and helpful wickets - Jimmy will cut through those like a hot knife through butter. 5 day Tests on the flat wickets of the India series last summer - different story. I’ve met Jimmy, great bowler and bloke, maybe the best ever, but he struggled in his last couple of Test series.