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A proper manager like Benitez would never like Rasmus or anyone else dictate formations to him. That’s what happens when someone is grateful for a job. Atmosphere will be so toxic Jones won’t last this season.

Worst first team keeper I’ve ever seen to play more than a few cameo games eg Keller, Woods etc. Nowhere near good enough for a promotion push even as a back up next season, we will need to sign an experienced keeper to compete with McCarthy. Loan Gavin out to a League two side next season to rebuild his career and resurrect any potential. I don’t think he’s even up to League One now with the confidence knock. Might get back to that level (League One) later in his career but I’m not convinced he will play for SFC again or that he’ll ever be SFC level.

Sir Rod Stewart phoning into Sky News to say the Tories time is up. And he’s always supported them over the years. JRM to have own show on GB News, it might last longer than Darren Grimes’s did. Mind you, variety of opinion on there my arse and independent channel ha!

Absolute shyster, and sickening overall in the last 5 years that Man City with all the petrol money have fleeced Saints for £25m+ on Bazanu/Gunn, £12m on a midfielder made of glass and £3m on a 12 year old left back we didn’t need. Jury out on Edozie, lively but light on assists and goals.

There are clubs that have spent less than SFC doing better but the decision making has been dreadful. And that’s being very generous. Bazanu, lack of 2 frontline strikers, Aribo, selling Oriol, the midget LB. Honestly, if Mandaric and John Westwood had bought the club, they couldn’t have dreamed of this much damage this fast. Get rid of Jones, Ankerson to his Turkish 3rd division toy, Semmens out, get Benitez in, best budget in the Champ and the club could bounce back quickly under SR.

It really is time for a home fans boycott now. Sell out away allocations to make our mark but make it clear to Dragan and Henrik that Semmens and especially Toby Steele, and his two Bob puppet from Millwall who has watched too much Green Street in his bedroom at his parents house, have to be sacked as a pre-condition for home attendances to return. Tens of thousands of empty seats on Sky for the rest of the season’s games (not as if the hapless players respond to support anyway) at least would embarrass the owners into parting company with the morons that have made our fans feel unwelcome and threatened in our own stadium, in the city that many of us were born or grew up in. Askham and Lowe were crap, but even they didn’t stoop this low. Can’t see our fanbase being coordinated enough to do it and force Steele and co out of their posts through financial pressure and the prospect of losing huge amounts of money in the Championship where home gates do matter.

It isn’t really funny in itself but I’ve got that stage now of just laughing at everything the club does. No wonder Tella has improved under Kompany in half a season in a fully professional environment. Albeit in the second tier but I can see Saints doing a Sunderland and dropping straight into L1 by 2024 if they don’t sort themselves out this summer and appoint some football and non-football executive leaders who know what the fuck they are doing and are capable of shaping some talented but callow players into an effective and organised unit.

Zahawi as well, Leave voter and very obvious now why that is. It’s why they all wanted on Vote Leave - freedom from scrutiny to avoid taxes offshore and launder huge sums of money. Criminal offences and corruption if you or I do it. If they’d been up front about what Brexit’s second objective - Singapore on Thames - they’d have picked up the Tory die hards and aspiring NF/BNP voters and that’s all. ‘Vote Leave and lose entitlement to paid annual leave’, bit different to ‘let’s give an extra £350m to the NHS per week’ lie they told. Remain should have pissed all over that but Cameron was too scared of Farage and Banks. https://www.lewissilkin.com/en/insights/what-might-the-brexit-freedoms-bill-mean-for-employment-law Bit of justice tbh that Sunak gave quite a bit of the levelling up spending to Tory marginals in the SE. Leave voting areas in the Midlands, North East, SW and East shouldn’t benefit from shooting themselves in both feet. NW did better but only part of the funding that Cameron stripped away 2010-15 to keep more Tory donors happy https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64321755

Motors.co.Uk had a better selection than Auto Trader I found. Had the same car for 11 years so bit out of practice in looking, when I bought mine Saab still made cars and no-one had heard of Tesla, or Cazoo. I’d still pay for a check if you use them or Cinch, was a bit on BBC about some lethal faults on delivery. It’s very poor value for second hand out there if you want good quality and FSH. Mine’s gearbox is packing up but repair/reconditioned still looking the best bet. Madness. Hopefully by this time next year the 2022 new purchases and part-exs ease supply and quality used prices drop to more sane levels so I can swoop. Miserly I know.

The really crazy thing on the table is the Victorian Undertakers’ Brexit Sunset Bill. It will stop basic protections on paid annual leave, TUPE which impact workers in all sectors and a raft of other specialist issues such as movement of animals which shaft SMEs right left and centre. CBI, think tanks (including normally Conservative ones), unions and even growing numbers of the ERG such as David Davis today are saying the UK should take until 2026 to pick and choose which bits of legislation to prioritise. Not a small number of ideologically crazed Brexiteer ministers and their SPADs. The bureaucracy will fuck SMEs royally not to mention the vast burden of implementation on an already crisis stricken civil service where the work will be done. Also fur flying within the Tory party about overseas students and dependents - big part of the economy esp in Red Wall areas. Braverman the loon wants them in her arbitrary and mental net migration targets, Hunt, Keegan and others with a brain do not. Thatcher expanded overseas student numbers in the 1980s as a pathway to more of a market system - if this lot claim to love Thatcher and neoliberalism so much why are they going totally against her policies, as well as her Single Market?

Thanks for posting. Clubs always deride cup success by rivals when it happens, had the same with Portsmouth and the JPT in 2010 Carlisle. You broke that attendance record in 2019 but at the time it was ‘Micky mouse’ and when they won it it was pictures with the cup etc. As for Newcastle, any success they have us going to always have the question mark about the Saudi funding and be a bit grubby. Got nothing against their fans or City which I’ve spent time in for work and Howe has done a great job there. Our record up there is rubbish so we will need a decent lead from the first leg. It’s a bonus for SFC to be there after the worst 12 months of performances in our top flight history, whereas they are expected to win with all of the noise from media and their fans. That atmosphere, entitlement and expectation can turn against them as we saw at Goodison on Saturday. PS - thanks a heap for knocking them out of the POs at their place when they had their best chance for years of getting back into the Champ under Kenny Jackett. I hope Luke O’Nien didn’t contract any infectious diseases on encountering a member of the Leigh Park ‘community’.

She really is as thick as the proverbial poo from the largest pig in Britain. Look at this as well https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/modern-slavery-watchdog-braverman-migrants-b2258937.html What she is proposing wouldn’t be effective anyway https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/child-migrants-xray-age-checks-b2259476.html but it might appeal to angry older voters hanging out around JDW in failed towns who always wanted to vote BNP but couldn’t quite find the bottle. Now they don’t have to. As for Grant Shapps, is he Shapps or Michael Green the get rich phoney today? https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/03/eight-weirdest-things-we-know-about-grant-shapps

Agree that diversity and inclusion needs full reflection and incorporation to business objectives, mission and delivery/targets. Otherwise it’s just CSR by another name. You can also have well-meaning staff networks which are OK to start with but unless they have a direct route to policy-makers and front line ops the influence is very limited. The justification for keeping diversity specialism in a small central unit might be that it can be impartial but also challenge organisational leaderships to reform and modernise ways of working and systems to increase profitability for new customer groups or service delivery in the public sector. HR functions rarely challenge leaderships in that way. You could have the EDI element as a % of a leadership roles aligned to different parts of a business to help build it in better.

Good sensible post in amongst all of the frothing at the mouth. Why anyone takes Darren Grimes Twitter account seriously is beyond reason. There’s a warning for kids if you don’t apply yourself at your education or training, you become an uninformed dropout spewing endless bile online. A useful idiot for certain media outlets and political figures although even GB News saw through him and cancelled his show within a few weeks/months. So not even that useful and a waste of a life. There’s also the need to ensure that your workforce represents on the frontline the communities you serve eg Blackburn or Oldham General Hospital for example. There is the public sector duty set down by this government but also many multi-nationals have similar posts. There is a clinical element of inequality which we saw through Covid eg oxygen sensors set on a way less likely to help BME patients recover. On salaries, if there were 800 people doing the same work on £77k then you’d need to look at the VFM but beyond the headlines it’s probably a dozen at that level in the UK’s biggest employer and mainly £30k project managers and £25k admins.

Yep, it’s wrong-headed and a lazy, uncosted throwaway that boomers in the Mail lapped up. Bigger issue is that keeping kids with dyscalculia in Maths longer holds the scientists, programmers, coders, and statisticians of the future back. Even when I was at University mid-90s, some science degrees were going to 4 years because the freshers were behind on maths compared to previous generations. Better to have a foundation qualification at 14 which covers the basics so you know what is in your pay packet, mortgage statement which helps your trades of the future and kids gifted in other areas intellectually. The algebra and trig can be accelerated towards a much more advanced Maths qualification nearer a A Level or T Level for the kids stronger in maths and numbers and the basic qualification taken well before 14. So that would generate the generation Sunak says he wants for the economy, engineering, top level IT, science and academia, but doesn’t generate cheap headlines so it won’t happen.

Judging by the staggering level of turnover in football-facing leadership, coaching and administrative positions since the summer, I predict an April 2023 departure.

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No chance, Forest have proper supporters. Saints fans haven’t had any guts since the Lowe protests 15 years ago. Those of us starting chants to get rid of Pellegrino were shouted down. Compliant little mice and not fit to lace the boots of the Branfoot generation of fans.

Main song at home games for rest of the season: Get out of our club Get out of our club Sports Republic Get out of our club Second song We want Jones out

Where’s the links to Ings?

Orsic and he can create some chances for our horseshit strikers to put away (not). Type of player that could make an impact and good to see a player linked who isn’t practically out of school.

It’s good stuff isn’t it? Manuel mentioned Adnams Ghost Ship 0.5 which is another good option. If people on the thread want to be totally 0 then I recommend Leffe - very tasty and refreshing. Brooklyn is 0.4 and tastes good, quite hoppy. Brewdog Nanny State even more so. I can’t have it as Lactose intolerant but Big Drop Milk Stout supposed to be excellent. Have had their Pine Trail and that’s good at 0.5. Can’t get hold of Harvey’s Old Ale 0.5 easily but supposed to be one of the best. Local store has Doom Bar 0.5 so will try that. Sam Smith’s AF Brown Ale is good, have had that quite a bit. One I couldn’t get on with despite good reviews was Thornbridge - tasted like washing up liquid to me.

If there was an option for a ‘like x10’ I’d have added it. S Clarke - agree with most of your post about Brighton’s scouting purple patch and same could be applied to Leicester a couple of years ago. However, there’s no way SFC’s scouting has gone up at all - Djenepo for £14m, two wonder goals, 3 years of falling over/barely playing and gets a new 3 year contract. Lavia also made of glass, Aribo a couple of goals but barely noticed otherwise, Lyanco need I say more. Perraud so so. Adam Armstrong cost similar to Eduardo. Not a roaring success either but doesn’t look like an Evostick League player. ABK and DCC are good, when they actually play them. Salisu not bad and will turn a profit but not lived up to the hype. I think he might be sold, unite DCC and ABK and sort out the DMC position with a fully grown adult who wants to start games, make tackles, win possession and turn it over eg not Lavia or Diallo. Diallo is one of the worst top flight SFC players I’ve ever seen in four decades.

Have you come up with those Brexit benefits yet Will? Tick tock.

Tangible benefits of Brexit? Floor is yours.