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Yes but it’s how much.

He has ability but Still and the coaches really need to work with him on positioning and awareness. Probably the best crosser of a football at the club having said that. Oh, and keep his hands/arms away from the ball!

We’re about to find out if they’re any good there either. On paper and by past record, yes, but I suspect in practice only with some better quality and mentality around them, especially after the 12 point disgrace. Sheff Utd did get 90 pts last season yes, Burnley went up, but Luton also went down (very unlikely unless we don’t replace Ramsdale, Dibling, Fernandes when they leave) At the moment, I rate them as worse than this point in 2023 (especially minus Adams - big ask for Downs to replicate his contribution) and Martin himself rated the squad last summer as weaker despite promotion (ignoring the fact he’d been a central part in that happening). We look like a classic play-offs outfit to me which goes out in the semis like we did in 06/07, need to replace all three of those above key figures with stand out players at this level whether permanent or loans to get top two.

A day-night pink ball test, which might explain some of it. Starc’s record when they use the pink ball is astonishing. Second Ashes Test at the Gabba 4-8 Dec will be day/night and pink ball (Perth unusually opens with the new Opus Stadium) At least Sabina Park saved on the floodlights bill https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/cdx5p4wy1zlo Hat-trick in there for Scott Boland which explains the slide from 26/6.

Strikes me as the type of bloke to see some of the local culture and be interested, bit like Romeu was with us, walking the city walls and doing bits of the SW Coast trail.

They will be play offs minimum but for top two it depends what Ipswich, Saints do, Leicester deduction or now etc. If Ramsdale goes and Saints don’t replace him then that’s a huge boost to them, Ipswich, Leicester etc as clean sheets will be as scarce at SMS as a run down and seedy Soho hotel. Ipswich signed a couple of Still’s ex-Reims players today who are solid but nothing to beat the bush about either. Hutchinson to Brentford could be disruptive. Us, them and Leicester still have time to sort the squads out and get some quality in the door.

They’ve been dropping back a bit recently, not loads but 30% is their peak. Unless places like Tiverton, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Cornwall have become hotbeds of Corbynism, which of course they haven’t, I wouldn’t take that poll remotely seriously. Corbyn et al might win the odd seat in North London but they’ll be useless outside of the M25. Think Kim Rose on Southampton ballot papers in the 90s and 00s. Lib Dem’s just won 70 seats last year and the Greens are polling around 10% in most recent polls and hold as many seats as Reform remember. But they don’t have the likes of Paul Marshall and Murdoch bankrolling them. These non-doms and toffs who run these stations are lunatics. See Rupert Lowe for example.

Good wages if true, three years of sunshine and can see KWP being curious about his surroundings. Good luck to the lad, all the best.

Similar to what we should be doing with Stewart where they are both capable of scoring but also quite brittle - aim for 15 or so starts, and 15-18 off the bench. Ain’t going to be starting or featuring in 46 games in the league. Ings at peak obviously miles beyond what Stewart could ever have been with a spotless injury record but I’m taking into account that Ross is four years younger than Danny and surprised me pleasantly in the tail end of last season. I call it the David Connolly 2011/12 cameo impact role.

11/6 now, Starc has 5 wickets for 6 off 3 overs. NZ’s 1955 record of 26 all out could go here.

7-5 for now. They’ve gone for result pitches at home, which from an English perspective shreds the confidence of their top order ahead of the Ashes but unfortunately for the Windies with the quality of their world class quicks, even if long in the tooth, has been too much for their even more brittle top order.

No chance that’s accurate, offshoot of GB News for a start. Lib Dem’s at 9% and Corbyn new party at 15%? Nah. We were getting more than that even post-tuition fees and with Swinney’s disasterous reign. Reform farvtoo high at 34%, been dropping towards mid-20s recently in most polls. Tories look about right at 17% if slightly high.

Agree, but the agent will want their pound of flesh.

No offence to Boro but that tells you how far Danny is off the level he was at Saints. A year ago he’d have been signing for a parachute payment side.

Agree with Benji on tv/culture/music - BBC, Sky News, Channel 4, even ITV with the PO scandal doc, Beatles, Pink Floyd, Who, Punk, Britpop, our festivals. Also Lighthouse on freedoms of speech and our democracy, which is why Trumpism must be fought at all costs domestically. I’ll add a couple of new ones: Cask ale. Other nations are trying variations of it but it’s uniquely British. The American craft beer revolution happened because the microbreweries of the late 1970s and beyond came to the UK and tried our cask ale, proving a road to Damascus moment. Some of many of the styles - Mild, Bitter, Pale, IPA, Porter - are intertwined with our history. First ever trademark was Bass Red Triangle. Science and engineering - other nations have great scientists and engineers too but the sheer volume and ingenuity for islands our size - Brunel, Telford etc.