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For dissent - ITV covered it as part of The Big Match. I remember the red cards being aimed at Branfoot during the Port Vale FA Cup game right near the end of his time with us.

That’s still steep - it’s less than that here and this is quite an expensive part of the Cotswolds. Decent lager I grant you, but that’s the sort of price you pay at Deya in Cheltenham for top grade beer.

Hard to know if Biden thought he was helping her or getting revenge. I almost wonder if it was a bit of both….

Both sets of comments about Southport were a disgrace - the Speaker had to remind them to rein it in. Neither of them will make a PM as long as they have a hole in their arse. Keeping the seat lukewarm for a serious candidate like Andy Street if he wins a seat later in this Parliament.

The PA should play this as Saints come out onto pitch, to go with the Russball

Absolutely, politically what she’s chosen is more practical. Would have been a huge risk politically to rely on most employees realising that the NI cut was unfunded even with the dire and accurate IFS warnings. And to think the Tory right were demanding Hunt and Sunak did far more - they’ve learned nothing whatsoever from Truss.

I half agree in the sense that sacking Martin - which is so blatantly obvious to the point it no longer even needs to be said to anyone associated with English football as the club’s results must come first - will not be a panacea or anything like it. The person/people who appointed him, Nathan Jones and have had a mostly disastrous last 5 transfer windows are still there as co-owners of SR. Nor is SR’s structure working with the industry expertise and resources it has. Dragan basically needs to get a co-investor with a bit more industry know how, additional capital to spread the risk and the ability to see through Rasmus’s snake oil. Best way to do that is an expanded SR board where him and Kraft get outnumbered and outvoted. A good DoF - not someone in charge of an ECL club’s academy system but with real operational top leagues experience - would break the cycle you describe.

The NI employers increase is the biggest risk - not just to slightly bigger SMEs and larger firms, but also charities and universities. The extra cost for the latter will be £100m alone and will lead to further job losses in that sector. That said, Reeves was left an appalling situation, unacceptable, and indefensible, by a party that used to have a reputation for economic competence which was trashed by first Boris and then for generations by Liz Truss. Finally, as a Remainer, today’s situation wasn’t inevitable but Boris, Farage, Banks and Putin didn’t tell you this was the reality of losing several % of GDP through nearly the hardest possible Brexit. Worst of all, it has actually made taking back control of the UK’s borders harder, not easier.

Nathan Jones made the semi-finals and even beat Man City. Yet along with Pellegrino still widely considered our worst ever manager. Ian Branfoot couldn’t believe his luck.

Good job really as with amount of teenagers I knew in the pre-internet days who had copies of the Anarchists Cookbook there’d be a lot of anarchists around! That’d be considered prehistoric these days.

That’s what really struck me amongst a hilariously chaotic game which did keep me engaged (rare for Saints these days) - the level of fitness has sunk to the 2008 Dodd and Gorman days. Stoke reserves looked quicker and stronger even if the technical refinement wasn’t there after about 40 minutes. A few of the Saints players looked like they were really blowing out of their backsides. It’s a long way from the WGS side who scored late goals regularly, Poch double training and Ralph pressing. We did score a lot of late goals last season tbf, but the fitness seems to have dropped when we’ve gone up a division. Still, Kraft was too busy having a laugh with Russell to notice.

I think he meant we were lucky Bree saved his manager again, the one who won’t use him in the PL despite looking far more solid and focused than most of the other junk wearing red and white stripes.

I’m at the stage of laughing at it - some of the defensive errors, mis-controls, disorganisation and lack of fitness 😂

What was it Chelsea paid for him - £23m? For that, you’d expect a bit more than the turning circle and mobility of a supertanker and the first touch of a concrete mixer.

As predicted, pops up again just ahead of the US Presidential result to stir it up. PS everyone - if you must respond to him, can you not quote him? Only poster I have on ignore and want it to stay that way.

Think it is Henrik Kraft. One of the Rasmus set and a board member if it is him. Says it all.

Henrik Kraft? It is not Parsons or Bitcon.

I’ll give you a clue https://www.rasmusankersen.com/about/ If Rasmus and Russell were made of chocolate, they’d eat themselves.

I’m just at the stage of finding it highly amusing. Clueless manager who thinks tactics are mints, clueless players signed by an even more clueless SR ‘transfer guru’ based on data from computer games and spreadsheets.

We’ve told you before, you should say what you really think…

Sorry for your loss SNSUN. I’ve lost most of my interest in a league campaign over already bar the shouting but I’m watching tonight as a stand-alone game. Hopefully as per the Cardiff game we can see some goals and the ball moving quicker.

The possession of ricin is a very serious issue, what he actually did was horrific enough and heartbreaking, what he could’ve done doesn’t bear thinking about. Cannot be allowed to ever be released back into society IMHO at any age. His motive is still unclear though, you are right - good article here about the bad/mad dilemma for the system https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/17/terror-or-mental-illness-dividing-britains-judges/

I hate giving him airtime but as you asked https://x.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1851297898610507807?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^tweet&mx=2

Farage didn’t predict anything, any more than Robinson did (just jailed for telling complete lies) or Griffin going further back did. He just jumped onto a political bandwagon in spite of the fact the victims’ families asked to be allowed to grieve in peace.

The reports seem to indicate possession of an Al Qaeda training manual. He seems to have been so disturbed and hateful that it may be any ideology with a violent aspect would have sufficed. Of course, evidence may emerge during the trial that he was more involved in radical Islam online or in-person and that one presumes that will be reflected in the final charges laid. Either way, he will be watching his back for the rest of his incarcerated life. Farage’s comments are risible - the online disinformation about it being a) a migrant and b) arriving by boat 🚤 was still false and there to cite another form of extremism.