Gloucester Saint

As much as I like Augusta National golf course and the Masters tournament, Georgia as a state deserves to be nuked to oblivion for voting her into Congress. You have to be a knuckle-dragging confederate piece of shit with no table or social manners to vote for someone like that.

Black and other ethnic minorities who voted for Trump and got him over the line, looked what you voted for eg Jim Crow laws https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/03/18/nx-s1-5326118/segregation-federal-contracts-far-regulation-trump Guess they won’t be getting the few dollars more a month they made the excuse of? Remember, Trump and MAGA isn’t racist….

You’d think so with £100m on the line but when did SR do the logical thing?

Typically they were trying to disperse peaceful protests by force.

That’s not like you Whelk, you normally love a good thick cunt.

They don’t go wrong as often but when they do, it’s a lot more eye watering https://warrantysolutionsgroup.co.uk/electric-vehicles-what-used-car-dealers-need-to-know-about-repair-costs/#:~:text=As electric vehicles (EVs) gain,combustion engine (ICE) counterparts and https://www.motortrader.com/motor-trader-news/automotive-news/evs-50-expensive-repair-ice-03-10-2024 These would be your friend if you had a crunch https://www.evparts.co.uk https://www.evbreakers.com Servicing is a bit cheaper on the positive side. I’ll ask my brothers in law who are in the trade what they think. It’s probably like an automatic, look after it on the button as it gets older and it should do at least as good a mileage. But having that bit of luck as well with the battery.

We’ve got unisex toilets in our building and it’s alright, probably the air freshening cans are a reminder to civilise things post-Donald Trump, Jimmy Choo or Eartha Kitt. Not throughout the organisation mind, where the buildings are much older, but ours was purpose built last year. Personally I’m more concerned about the lift hardly working in such a new building for folks with limited mobility, but disabilities seem to receiving collective punishment along with transgender, LGBT and ethnicity at the moment.

At 50% I reckon they will go. This government needs to cut waiting lists before the next GE, and they will be paying a shedload in VR/redundancy payments so a few ET cases won’t faze them unduly. What will happen I suspect if that you’ll get people who are asked to take it on discretionally as a ‘development opportunity’ on top of operational roles at mid-senior levels. Whether having lost half of their colleagues and none of the work, allied to what I’ve no doubt are horrific processes and systems, anyone will want to do extra is another matter.

If Musk gets thrown off by the Tesla board, it could be good business as the brand detoxifies, although the lack of focus on the firm over the last few months would make me worried about quality. If Musk stays, the depreciation could be quite sharp but he wants to own it for several years and needs it for work, that’s less of an issue. Longer-term if they go kaput or get rescued, I do wonder if it might be a Saab situation - interesting and were once very good cars but can you get spare parts easily and without a second mortgage? Gamble, but could pay off.

Not any more with the huge cuts coming and abolition of NHS England. EDI posts will be some of the first to go. Unfortunately these type of restructures mean posts we do actually need for frontline delivery will go as well as the senior turkeys never vote for Xmas, despite what Streeting says. Glad I never worked for them but feel sorry for many that do. Never got into the pronouns on emails thing (happens in some large commercial and charitable settings too) as I’m a bloke and obviously a bloke but happy to work with anyone good at their job, trans or not.

I was in that Archers that night and can see my younger self on some of the goal celebrations. Great night.

This popped up on YouTube, just to prove politicians were idiots in the past as well. As soon as he opens his mouth, he’s jinxed it…

Barely an IQ in double digits on that thread. If Trump wanted to be the smartest person in the room, then he certainly selected his country’s thickest politicians to ensure it. Vance and Hegseth are thickest of the lot. And yes, they probably don’t see it. Anyone who buys a new Tesla after Musk’s behaviour is a wanker anyway.

Hypocrites with all the shit they threw at Hilary Clinton as well.

Where I can see the most benefits is probably the scenario we’ve got coming up after where Spors has prioritised buying and selling core players, the ones coming in for pace and strength we lack, and maximising the price for the assets we’d least want to sell. Then we’ve got the likes of Aribo who did well in the Champ, but might not want to again. For for a club who are lacking a bit of creativity to add to a decent spine, we could leverage say £10m in the room plus a higher earner off the books, and that gets re-invested directly in a rising prospect with pace and physical power in central midfield from say the Belgium or Netherlands leagues who isn’t quite at PL level yet, but could be in a few months in a more robust league. Fraser based on the play off final was probably someone who was felt could cover the wings and wing-backs. Unfortunately, we saw how that panned out in the Leicester home game….

Maybe they need to re-frame it? It’s what I’d do.

Trouble is, China also has the most clout to drive towards carbon neutral where it wants to as well https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/01/why-china-matters-to-the-worlds-green-transition/ In short, they can hedge their bets. They will take a longer-term view than the buffoons the American public have elected to the WH and Capitol Hill. The UK only has a certain amount of dead scrolls left in the North Sea, even with new licences. And they are getting even more expensive and difficult to access and be commercially viable. We are over-reliant on gas, why do you think despite all of the populist rhetoric in real life Rupert Lowe is flogging heat pumps at scale? Securing our energy supply, reducing exposure to global political turbulence, being able to export where appropriate allied with deals with neighbours eg Norway and newer partners eg Canada is far better than a future in the reliant crosshairs of LNG supplied by a volatile post-NATO America or even worse, the Russian pipeline. Germany can tell you how that ends.

Thanks for sharing. It wouldn’t surprise me entirely, I suspect that sort of networking probably helps recycle players on the fringes of the biggest club’s books as THB was at City. A bit about TR here https://www.transferroom.com/company/about-us It’s not a bad innovation in itself, it just strikes me as being a more effective and successful tool when clubs know what types of players, physique and technical attributes they are looking for to suit how their first XI will generally set up. This has been Saints Achilles Heel - no shortage of deals but not thinking about building and maintaining a spine, which might not always be the same as a ‘loan THB for a season with a £20m obligation to buy and sell for £40m after his England debut’. You can have the odd deal like that but only if it fits the overall approach and needs aligning with some managerial stability with the right head coach for the level you are competing at.

The club would probably prefer to sell if he’s not going to sign a new contract though, a year in the Champ would be better for his development I agree but if Newcastle, Spurs, Bayern or Borussia are waving £50-90k p/w plus a chunky signing on fee for a 5/6 year deal, that will be sorely tempting.

It shouls be more than that, Sulemana was £22m with less big league experience without the English premium in the PL. Tyler has a higher ceiling. Prices have gone up over the last 2 years as well plus Newcastle are rumoured to be very interested and can blow Levy out of the water. And the two German giants as well.

Nice. Easy to see how the CJD crisis came about. On the payments to kids, the more things change in football, in some ways the more they stay the same.

I remembered it from Fergie’s autobiography and was huge news at the time. His father Louis was subject to a World in Action episode at the start of 1980 alleging shady practices in both his food business and recruitment of young players for Man Utd. Didn’t realise Peter Lorimer who ended up at Leeds was caught up seemingly in the latter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Edwards

I can’t remember anything about that and whilst he was an arrogant disaster as a Chairman, I doubt he’d have done anything like that whilst at the club. Happy to take large scale furlough payments of £100k whilst his firm made a £8m profit during Covid, and a total hypocrite over net zero and selling heat pumps https://www.desmog.com/2024/08/27/reform-mp-rupert-lowe-great-yarmouth-owns-green-tech-company-heat-pumps-nigel-farage-climate-change/ but I can’t recall nor envisage him doing that.

Martin Edwards type behaviour https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Edwards

Astonishing that Juric is still there after that debacle. The weed must still be going strong in the SR boardroom. At the Wolves game, our fanbase en masse and all of the pundits and media were saying WTF??!! on the selections and formation. What is SR uniquely not seeing that no-one else connected with the football industry in this country is seeing clear as day? Probably what they saw when appointing Nathan Jones.