Winnersaint

Shows how important Downes is. Thinking back to September after his raw chicken livers.

At least we’ll see what they’re made of. If they’re not up for a comeback at home against a team in the lower reaches of the league then it doesn’t augur well for a tense promotion run in.

It’s not form though is it? It’s a poor half I’ll give you that.

I presume you posted this widely on here before the game started, otherwise it’s just an infantile knee jerk reaction to us getting beaten.

Possibly because it’s an obvious default from where we are. We took 13 points out of 30 from teams 1-10 at start of today. That may well be our downfall. Second half still to come though.

Saints most famous fan might just have a dropped the biggest bollock at PMQs. Trying to make a crass transgender joke in response to Starmer 90 seconds after the latter had mentioned that the mother of Brianna Ghey was in the gallery. Oh dear!

Ah! February in the Maldives, best time of year to go.

Tried to watch the first series as my niece was working on the series for the Beeb but couldn’t get into it. Gave season 2 a miss.

4-0 now.

Getting messy at Bramall Lane now

Holgate’s debut going well

Said it all season, play offs for us. No day out at Wembley. West Brom beat Hull with Leeds and Leicester autos. Not based on anything other than Saints doing Saintly stuff. Hope I’m shit at predictions.

I suppose if they can grow flowers in the Netherlands winter they out grow them here. Maybe that’s the cunning plan to get UK farmers to start growing them? Trouble is our growers would stymied by energy costs. I’m sure they could grow them in say Australia and ship them here! 😂

This w⚓ pissed me off the moment he opened his gob

I don't know what I’d do in transfer windows if it weren’t for the CoT. Chapeau!

Just kicked off there! 82 minutes and game stopped.

When I started teaching in 1980 it was unheard of. Gradually through a 40+ year career it became a thing. Partly through my role working in academic inclusion it became more evident after 2000. This coincided with greater awareness of ASD/ADHD in schools and in society so as Egg has pointed out you’d expect a spike. What I do find interesting is the whole loss of structure idea through lockdown. There is plenty of anecdotal evidence that neuro-diverse kids have found adjustment back into formal education more difficult. This is aided and abetted in some cases by one size fits all behaviour policies. These are often based on the principles outlined by Doug Lemov in Teach Like a Champion which has become omnipotent in many Charter Schools and school districts in the USA and is increasingly popping up in the UK in multi-academy trusts. The rigidity of these often means that kids that are neuro-diverse fall foul of behaviour expectations which they’d struggle to comply with anyway, negativity with school increases, attendance drops, along with achievement. Some critics say that they are draconian; for most it shouldn’t be a problem but for kids with ASD/ADHD they haven’t got a hope in hell.

Our education system has got a lot to answer for. PE lessons are time crunched to fit in the rest of the curriculum. It is a taught lesson to a far higher degree than in the past, so less time is probably spent running around letting off steam. Lunch breaks are shortened giving little or no time to do more than eat, (25 mins not unusual). Just discussed this over a coffee with my neighbour. I was in secondary school in Hampshire at the end of the 60s into the 70s, he in Wigan in the early 90s. The similarities between our school days out of the classroom given the time and geographical differences were striking. Get to school, get a football match going, maybe for at least half an hour, carry on at break (25 mins not unusual) possibly not even starting a new game, continued on for around 50 minutes at lunch and then add into the mix more PE lessons walking/ cycling to school etc.

I think you're right here and about the toughness of the league. We will not be above Leicester at any point this season. Leeds GD could be akin to an extra point particularly if we go in to the final game 3 points ahead and the idea that Ipswich will fade away is for the birds. So where does that leave us? Play offs definitely, automatic promotion, at best, in the lap of the gods, at worst unlikely given our fixtures. Just a nagging suspicion that if it is the play offs we won't see the inside of Wembley. That would be such a 'Saintsy' thing to do. Then we morph into Stoke, Swansea, Blackburn, Watford et al over the following seasons

Yeah that’s always good use of time along with randomly asking Alexa to play something from the vaults. My wife was a a fan of The Bangles so I had some of that in tribute to her and in honour of Susanna Hoffs 65th birthday this week.

The same Cam-moron who didn’t have the balls to face down Farage and the Kippers in the early 20 teens?

Here in my blue wall constituency we already have them in a hotel not a mile away from where I am now. Genuinely, I was surprised when I was told this

Nothing wrong with Zone 2, as long as you combine with other zones.

The fragrant Ms Coffey being an absolute clown. FFS. Can yoiu imagine the uproar if Diane Abbott had said this?

On my 16th birthday we beat Everton at the Dell to go fourth. Champions League position today. Then we endured the first part of 74. It all went tits up. Wexham in the cup, David Smallman and all that. Trevor Francis and Bob Hatton in March at the Dell. Only drawing with Man U the following month.