revolution saint

He does, and there's a few others who seem to know what they're talking about. Personally I have no experience in this so I find it really useful and interesting. I feel we're missing a golden opportunity for Alexei to inform us about catering logistics in a military setting so would be good if he can fill that void.

Apparently he sounded much better if you were there in person but I agree he didn’t sound so great on TV.

The other thing, and this is just me speculating, is that those troops that followed Prigozhin are sick of the war and sick of dying. They don't want to go back. I'd imagine a fair percentage of those regular and Wagner who stayed in Ukraine felt the same and today would have given them a bit of hope that maybe things might change. Probably me projecting but morale can't be good right now and it wouldn't take much to break a fractured army in a war they can't win, in a country that doesn't want them.

Will be fascinating to see how this plays out. I bet there's loads who'll be looking to take advantage of the situation. If there's an anti-Putin/anti-war movement then now is the time to make a move and come out demonstrating. Similarly the far flung regions that have been disproportionately affected by conscription, mothers of dead soldiers etc. Any political actors could be considering a move and the same goes for elements of the army. If you're a conscripted Russian soldier do you take this opportunity to get the fuck out of Dodge? Putin looks weak now and I hope the vultures are circling.

Gotta be honest, bit underwhelmed by Arctic Monkeys. I wouldn't class myself as a massive fan but I've got "Whatever...." and "AM" on the jukebox and love them. Also got a copy of Last of the Shadow Puppets kicking around but the later stuff feels like too much like lounge music. All subjective (obviously) but not that impressed so far.

Would obviously have some effect but what is it now, something like only 30% of households actually have a mortgage so it's effects aren't going to be as big as they once were and the people they affect are probably not the ones fuelling a consumer based boom (if there even is one). In fact, if you look at something like state pensions then it's a massive slap in the face for anyone working with a mortgage - you get to fund an inflation matching pay rise and then told you can't have one yourself and by the way here's a hike in your mortgage. Raising interest rates is becoming an increasingly blunt instrument, especially when the situation hasn't been caused by consumer spending but supply side issues and energy prices.

I expect August and September to be a mixed bag due to new manager, uncertainties over who stays, who goes and both new and existing players getting used to how Martin wants us to play. That'd be the same for any new manager coming to us at this time though. By the end of the season I'd be really disappointed if we weren't at least in the play off positions.

So you're getting worked up over how you think people will respond, rather than what's actually happening? And you have the cheek to talk about meltdowns?

If JWP wants to be a craven cottager then there's not much we can do to stop him.

My big problem with Russell Martin is him being a Buddhist and believing in reincarnation. He probably thinks he can have a go and if it goes wrong he can fix it in the next life. There's clear difference between his philosophy and that of Eminem who subscribed to the "You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blowThis opportunity comes once in a lifetime" mantra. I think we should have got Eminem instead. Or Frank Sinatra.

Sorry, completely missed May. That's a shame - could be an important one too.

Yeah, televised first game, tough September, two home games over Christmas including boxing day and a home game for the last game of season.

Jason Puncheon coming back?

Ah OK, I would have thought that it would be a case of next year, if Man City want him, they can trigger the buyback for 40M (of which we get 32M) and there's nothing we can do regardless of any other higher bids coming in. If they don't want him then it's irrelevant and highest bidder wins. This year it should be a case of highest bidder wins regardless. Who knows though. A release clause would obviously be different but the buyback only relates to Man City and next year. Anyway, apparently we have Russell Martin and only a fool would leave such an upwardly mobile club as ours. I fully expect Lavia to remain forever and get a job doing car parking for the club once he eventually retires from playing at the ripe old age of 64.

Is there a gay buyback then? How does that work? Joking aside I'm not sure I catch your drift but I haven't really been paying attention to all of this thread. Seems pretty simple to me - in a bidding war clubs will outbid each other until we accept a bid. Once we've done that then yeah, no other club is going to go over that.

If they're the only show in town then no, no one would bid more. If there's a bidding war then the buy back clause is largely irrelevant. Obviously that's assuming Lavia doesn't dig his heels in and decides there's only one club for him (which is probably what would happen).

I'm going for tomorrow. Fixture list comes out and Russell Martin gets unveiled.

I bumped into Russell Martin the other day. Twat should look where he's going.

Thread killer.

Couldn't care less where he goes as long as we get the most we possibly can for him. If Chelsea offered 50M last year for him then I wouldn't be looking for anything less than that. It's got to be one of the easiest sells we'll ever have - all the top six should be looking at him.

Fair enough, they can fuck off now then.

Cheers, not a massive fan of the Denmark style but not the worst it could be. Hope they get a few old favourites back in the retro range, always regretted not getting the rank xerox home and away amongst others.

Agree with that. You could probably add Adams in as well. I know he's not great but he'll probably be a better than average striker in the Championship. Of them I'd say Alcaraz, Sulemana and Tella are the ones we have the most realistic chance of keeping. Alcaraz and Sulemana because they only arrived in January so they'd have known relegation was a realistic possibility. I don't see many clubs offering us our money back on Sulemana anyway and with Tella it really depends on whether Burnley will risk 20M. August isn't going to be much fun - suspect at least half of that lot will still be here and we'll be waiting on bids before we know whether or not we need to replace them.

Apparently the Daily Mail gig is just the first of a few jobs he's lined up. Due to be a contestant on "The Great British Bake Off" and the new host of "Would I lie to you".

Seems like Boris doesn't want his allies voting against the report findings on Monday: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65930011 Theory behind this is that it would expose the lack of support he actually has which would heap more embarrassment on him.