AlexLaw76

you assume we will continue this record breaking run/form....right into the hardest set of fixtures of the all the top 6 sides.... Lets see.

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2024/1/31/why-does-the-imf-predict-strong-russian-growth-despite-sanctions

very true. Huddersfield next week marks the end of the easiest group of fixtures of all the top sides...thankfully, we have made the most of it

You don't save them

Getting battered here

Sanction the shit out of them, they said...

I thought Leicester were not all that?

Good for Tella

Geddon!!!

Great save by their keeper...

Brilliant goal, lovely through ball, brilliant run by fraser and a great touch to Arma for a lovely finish...

Whittaker scores again for Plymouth - Premier League bound player, if there ever was one outside of the top sides

FFS, hit the post

Fair play to the ref there, let play continue as their Rotherham forward fell to the ground

good battling by Adams down the left...we are killing them that side of the pitch

Fraser is murdering them at the mo

Game Over!!!!

Look at the 2 line ups, got to be a win...3-0 to Saints

But leaving the ECHR would probably bring down a government, or close to it...

Are you saying James O'Brien has not lost listeners?

I would have hoped that upon the initial bid* to stay, he would have been immediately deported. But of course, that is not the UK we live in *and the requirements to remain are reviewed and toughened up by some measure.

Yep. They were routinely losing some/all power at sea. Just floating around. The first T45 is about half way through its 'life', and all 6 have still not completed the much needed propulsion upgrade https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/what-is-the-status-of-the-type-45-destroyer-engine-repairs/

the very much shortened, but incredibly accurate, version

I hope the attacker get the support he needs, clearly got mental health issues. Probably needs a nice house, free money and just a kick start to life...

T45s were ordered well within the good times of the mid-noughties. The initial scope of the project was for 12 (to replace the 12x T42s left from the Falklands conflict), it was cut to 8, then 6. That is just an example of cuts that happened during the Blair years. Of course, this class requires/required entirely new propulsion systems, which are still being fitted out today up north. That is why we only have 1, maybe 2 available at any time. Just for further context, the 1998 SDSRn(and the 2005 installment) 'they' retired a number of frigates early....35 escorts to 25, 12 attack SMs to 10. T45 order was cut from 12 to 8 (now 6). During this time (due to cuts away from the front line), the 'Fleet' availability dropped from 90%-ish to 60%-ish. with 6000 sailors cut. Of course, i refer to the Sea Harrier, a decision made during the good years to cut it from service. The RN have only very recently stood up a fixed-wing sqn, which of course, it posturing as the F35s are effectively owned by the RAF - https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200102/cmselect/cmdfence/779/77908.htm Much of that was to make way for a new carrier enabled power projection capability, that was due around 2012 (already retired the 3x invincible class). To be fair, what the RN delivers against the £ should put the other forces to shame, but lets not suggest that Blair/labour were any more of a friend to the forces than any other government.