Winnersaint

Weston has done a great job, I follow him on Strava. Impressive stuff you’re doing as well and pleased you are seeing progression. Hoping by the time next July comes around I’ll be hauling south of 75kg up Alpe d’Huez rather than around 80 but it’s not easy. I think people have a tendency to over estimate what they burn in relation to what they perceive they put in. Take yesterday, Strava estimates my 32k virtual ride burnt 424 calories. That’s a donut and a half or a couple of pints of lager. Sometimes it’s the little things that make a difference. I do a very very modest weight and core circuit each morning concentrating on form over volume. Don’t do much leg work apart from stretches as I can’t lunge or squat due to a dodgy left knee, but as cyclists generally have the upper body strength of a fish working the core and upper body is beginning to pay dividends on the bike. I PBd the ride yesterday by 4 minutes (that’s unheard of over that sort of distance without really blowing out of your arse. Hope we all keep it going. arse

Duckie points out that the Tories need to appeal to him as a potential floating voter, likewise as someone whose voting preference is not set in stone they need to appeal to people like me. They can no longer appeal to both of us and that is where their dilemma lies. In shire county constituencies it is hard to see the likes of Honest Bob or Kemikazi will gain any traction. In 5 years time a whole load of potential Tory voters in these constituencies will not be with us and it may well be that the Lib Dumbs as he so poetically refers to them have a firm foothold. Interesting times.

People with their own YouTube Channels claiming to have heard (Band X) the first time and reacting to it on said channels. Live versions of Sultans of Swing in particular seem to be commonly used in this way. It usually starts with, "Hi I'm a guitarist and I came across this track for the first time." Yeah right, a guitarist who's never heard of Mark Knopfler kind of stretches the boundaries a bit. Also Americans putting stuff up about how different things are in the UK compared to America when they travel to or live in this country. No shit Sherlock!

At least he has god on his side.😂

Kirk Cousins seems to have carved out a decent career as a QB too.

Nice to know that Leo Tolstoy is still alive and posting on this message board.

Can't help feeling sometimes that if he were made of chocolate he'd eat himself.

Pompey giving us a good laugh this season.

Premier League scoring record goes this weekend, well outdo ourselves.

Like you I saw all them play for Saints, but it doesn't help in the here and now, in a world where instant gratification reigns supreme

In some ways I feel sorry for him. The fact he’s been left with a young inexperienced squad and is a young inexperienced manager. Not a league where those two characteristics point to success.

We’ve got a better squad than either of those. If Burnley, SU and Luton were in EPL this year we’d stay up. Sadly we’ve been promoted from a brutal Championship into a very strong EPL. We have had no chance since the first ball was kicked this season.

RM overthought it. He’s guilty of that as charged.

Perspective and all that. We were never going to be competitive this season. Getting cross about will change fuck all.

There may well be plenty more things in life to be infuriated and depressed about than Saints losing at Bompey.

The thing that amazes me is that anyone thought it was going to be better.

Players have lost it. No confidence in the system, and many know they’re neither good enough or experienced enough at this level.

We’re just not very good, are we?

I said a few weeks back their £40m fella would break his duck against us. Gotta happen.

We're probably the only EPL team that's made them like world beaters.

United are atrocious. Ten Hag for the chop.

Reports suggest that it’s like we play just with better players

I think Bournemouth is crucial for RM. With a potential free hit the following game against Arsenal if SR were going to look at things differently (not saying they should, but there are press rumblings) then with the second international break it could be an opportune moment to make a switch.

Nothing better than a draw, probable defeat. I've always thought we were capable of giving the certain teams a game at home, you know, the likes of; Fulham, Palace, Bournemouth, Brentford, Forest, Leicester, Ipswich, Everton and possibly West Ham. Win your home games against those and there's 24 points in the bag even if you lose one at home. Failure to beat Forest and Ipswich has already knackered that and even now I feel we are already needing snookers, so we'll need to pick up away points also. Never been our strength.

I agree, once RM does get a team playing as a cohesive unit as last seen season from October onwards it works, however I think you are right in your assumption that there is insufficient time to allow this to happen in this brutal league.