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Kemi Badenoch following in the footsteps of William Hague, Iain Duncan-Smith, and Michael Howard, leading the Tories through the wilderness years of opposition.

Shark

See what happens when you go forward with a bit of pace.

Has Pickford made a save yet?

Commentator "Everton now playing like Southampton" Mrs Badger "What, crap ?"

''Ramsdale looking anxious". Behind our defence I'm not surprised.

As an advert for the Premier League that was crap.

If you are using the rope you shouldn't need to consider drowning as well.

FTSE and the pound are up this morning on early trading.

Perfection is an insult to Allah.

Area

FTSE dropped over 230 points after the Truss/Kwarteng mini-budget.

Xis If you pick the correct scaling for the Y axis you can make stepping off a dropped kerb look like falling off Mount Everest.

" I've decided to hang up my keyboard and depart this champagne socialist, craft beer swigging, public sector employed hotbed of Saints fans." GM realising he has made a mistake;

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The Kuenssberg virus is spreading through the BBC news department.

Does the creation of an "Office for Value For Money" actually provide VFM ?

Good luck explaining that to Russ.

Does posession of a PDF document apparently originating with Al Quaeeda automatically make you an Islamic terrorist ? Does having a copy of Das Kapital make you a marxist, or a copy of Mein Kampf make you a Nazi ? No right minded person would have that document, but projection and supposition are dangerous, as we saw in the summer.

How many years late would they be for WW3 ?

I thought you had fucked off from the forum.

And people say we will be stronger in the Championship than last time and be coming straight back up.

I think we are weaker in the striker department compared to last season, in "Championship standard" terms, with Che having left, as neither Archer nor BBD are as good. ( IMO ). Defensively we will have the same group that conceded so many goals last time around, less the best defender, ( KWP ). As for other players leaving, that depends on the players' opinions of themselves, ( "I'm too good to go down" ), whether there is interest from the promoted teams, ( THB ?, Taylor ?, Archer ? ),or how creative their agents are, but I think that there will be first team players that do not want to go down again. Some may want to leave simply to try to get away from the memory of the disaster that seems to be unfolding. I can certainly see Aribo going. We will also be 'weaker' tactically because teams will know exactly how to play against us, rather than seeing something "new" or "innovative" and having to work out how to stop us.

"Championship quality" can mean pushing for the playoffs, just about keeping clear of the relegation battle, or somewhere in between. I am not sure we have a squad packed with the former, rather the latter.

1) I disagree that the team will be better next time. I think that, as well as the obvious departures - Ramsdale, KWP, Dibling, etc, that several others that we retained last time won't want to stay for another slog in the Championship. 2) We will go down as by far the weakest of the three relegated teams, and will probably be inferior to teams such as Leeds, so at best 4th or 5th strongest in the division, but I think we would fall short in a highly competitive fight for the payoff places. 3) Russ was pretty much found out last season, the unbeaten run hid a number of flaws and weaknesses that will be open to exploitation again. We will continue to fanny about at the back and teams will simply press high and early and overrun our midfield. Another season of over 60 goals conceded, par for the course with Russ.