Gloucester Saint

Lettuce be a lesson to us all.

None of the MAGA lot ever graduated from life’s finishing school did they? Table manners not a strong point of Vance’s let global diplomacy.

Hope they win that and Derby to carry on their revival in the weekend 6 pointer….

It used to be said that US Bonds were one of the safest investments you could make. Shows you how far the GOP and MAGA have economically shat the bed. And people were concerned about slightly higher inflation under Biden!

The GOP are headed for a political wilderness unless their Senate grows more backbone and teeth rapidly. Congress is too junior and in the grip of a cult. Once they’ve lost both next Houses in Nove,bed next year, Trump is boxed in and gets impeached but the damage could last decades if allowed to go on that long, he’s totally insane. I think the corporate backers and likes of the Kochs need to invest in the Lincoln Project to build a new centre right pro market and business party over there to overtake the GOP as MAGA has made it too toxic to continue as a major force.

I’d say typically £30m but not always eg Semenyo at Bournemouth. Theirs and Brighton’s squads aren’t all £30m a player but they know when to push the boat out. They’ll have a couple of bad windows at some stage like us and Leicester, Brighton had a ropey one but they fixed in the next. That is what Saints and Leicester didn’t do. After the Fonte debacle cost us a trophy plus VVD’s injury, Reed bought Wesley fucking Hoedt, fringe player at Lazio for £17m, £30m today. Never a PL defender, too slow, and didn’t look that great for Watford in the league below bar one fluke goal. Dreadful attitude to cap it all off. Needed to be a £25m tower of pace from the VVD funds. Instead, that flopped and ended up with Bednarek as cover becoming first choice, Vestergaard, a half-arsed Salisu and regressing as far as Lyanco.

Rosenior, completely different football style apart, is not going to leave Strasbourg and potential European football, for this job. Too much to lose. Feels like a smoke screen. Unless he really has to come back to the UK for family reasons but he could probably get the Rangers job if that was the case. Rohl and you would hope out of common sense, Steve Cooper.

If Sheff Utd blow promotion, unlikely they’ll spend £10m on BBD. Spors has some striker issues - AA will get his game head on next season but not sure Archer or BBD can or will, judging by the latter’s poor recent run at Sheff Utd, and Stewart is Mr Injury. Onachu will be off but as with every other department, a great deal to do in very little time.

Good if we are going with a possession obsessed manager but wouldn’t suit Rohl’s style We need more of a Wanyama type when he was at Beerschot pre-Celtic to go with/rotate with Charles. And definitely attacking midfielders!

Looks like BBD coming back then?

Archer with a better attitude could be very effective and AA doesn’t have too much of a market on his wages, and is a prolific second tier forward if used properly, one thing I will give RM credit for. I think Archer wants out though. Whether after two shit seasons in the PL someone in our division will pay what Saints want is another matter. Onachu is the most likely to have a market and don’t get the impression he wants to play in the Champ. Like him but 46 game season? Probably not.

Wouldn’t go that far but Bazanu in goal isn’t top 6 stuff and without Martinball not much rationale for him to be first choice. Release Lumley if his contract is up, take the hit on Alex as third choice assuming Baz has improved on loan enough to be second choice. Only AA will be here from the strikers, maybe Archer if the club won’t take a significant loss on the £15m paid, wouldn’t be too devastated if he stayed with a better attitude. Plus Rohl’s style of play would actually suit him better than Martin or Juric. Onachu will have buyers, done alright when had the opportunity.

More rural regret at voting populist. You’d have thought Brexit was a clue from the other side of the Atlantic, but no

Possible, he was at the game apparently. Probably easier to be incognito on the Tube as our fans wouldn’t expect him to be on there nor would many probably recognise him in person.

I’m not but he’s got the potential to become the Cummings to Trump’s Boris. Hints that his 120 spell in DOGE is coming to an end early and his businesses are tanking rapidly. The tariff madness is certainly not helping him one iota either. Didn’t realise Musk had a pop about the ‘Ron Vara’ imaginary expert. Navarro is an election denier, 6 Jan participant or at refusing to testify on who was behind it and jailbird. And he’s making trade decisions impacting the whole world 🤦‍♂️

Cooper did get Forest up from the Champ relegation zone to a miraculous promotion and then kept them up with 90% of a new squad and a little bit to spare. Rohl at least has an advantage on Martin by having been Ralph’s deputy and seeing the physicality, focus and relentlessness of the PL first hand. I prefer Cooper out of the two but happy with either. I appreciate your positivity about SR and along with MLG you are providing a counter point to the majority on here, me included. However, I’d advise not saying that people on here are ‘weeping and wailing’ when the club has been relegated well before Easter and is still yet to pass Derby’s low points record. Some contrition from SR would be a good idea, but the best idea of all would be to borrow the Birmingham template for League One this season and the similar one Wolves had under Nuno https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/clyqj2r1rn0o They wouldn’t be able to do it to quite the same extent if it were next season with the rule changes but it’s good value because those key signings are already worth more when they go up tonight than they paid. Blow the league out of water with the quality we sign, big home victories, high tempo football, full houses - this season can be a memory quite quickly but Dragan is going to spend within the restrictions - we have more headroom than 2023 - plus what we bring in to achieve it. Our fanbase and SR wouldn’t half feel better.

Blackmore interesting comments on the Solent BBC Sounds piece. Saying Jason Wilcox didn’t have full autonomy, has it at Man U. Urging SR to let Spors to get on with reporting direct to Solak on football and Parsons on business. Implication that Rasmus interfering and fear he will carry on doing so, creating layers of reporting. Given Rasmus was at the Spurs game I’d say he hasn’t given up the ‘recruitment by committee’ Blackmore refers to.

Rickie is not wrong on Pep football being dire to watch and ending up not wanting to watch it. And the frustration at Onachu sat there under Martin and not utilised to change it up. Interesting that Cortese trying to enforce playing out from the back in the PL and the players rebelled against it as it wasn’t working, and although the results picked up, Adkins got sacked despite trying to implement what Cortese wanted. Emphasising strength of characters back then and difference to now. Don’t agree with him that Rusk and Lallana will carry over but both will probably get roles next season at the club.

We’d reach our goal of 17th in the PL.

Keith Self is from Texas quelle surprise. A place where they don’t like the socialism in national socialism but otherwise liked Hitler’s regime.

LeG is probably the genuine ITK left on here.

In your Birmingham Slums, In your Birmingham Slums, You look in the dustbin for something to eat You find a dead rat and you think it’s a treat

Although no longer from his former favourite source the Heritage Foundation who are spitting chips at the tariffs and his economic tsunami overall. DT is a rudderless, Trump/Truss backing mess, leaking money like a colander. Senility comes free with a subscription to that tabloid.

Now threatening extra retaliation to China and having a pop at Japan. He’s totally lost it, he might need to have a ‘medical emergency’ for a few weeks whilst any adults left in his party sort this chaos out. 60% of Americans are getting hit by the stock market crash. However racist his rural heartland voters might be, when they discover what he’s done to the cost of their pick up trucks, mobile phones, food, energy, and so much more on an everyday level they’ve taken for granted, there will be a backlash however much the other policies are white supremacist and the GOP will panic at losing both Houses in 2026, with the Wisconsin SC race being a preview. Musk literally couldn’t even buy votes there.

Yep, I’ve got no issues with Juric, inherited an impossible situation, Spors ditto, some mess Rasmus et al has left behind.