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Give it a few days. Osvaldo will be posting a "9 out of 10 cars sold in the UK,are Musk rocket cars on the Motability scheme" article. 🙂

It's possible the looks up and down are related to working out Osvaldo's weight, for Elon's plan to put a person into orbit in under a second. 🙂

If he's representing the Beeb, then there's a balanced view to be presented. Sports, in practice, works a bit differently. Reporting is often an editorial taking a view in order to increase clicks and opinion. They are often written by people who have little, or no, understanding, of how a club, or any organisation, is run, coached or managed. It doesn't get much beyond winning = great while defeat=disaster, resulting in hyper-fawning or hyper-criticism on a weekly cycle. For me, his importance is stopping Jo Tessem drift into incomprehensible points that take a half to express. Beyond that, he's easily replaceable, as he goes off on plenty of tangents himself. I'd quickly get over any changes in the lineup. Blackmore lost any semblance of balance on Spygate. Generally his lines of questioning have that standard fawn/sports-critique cycle. A lot of managers are just so used to having to put up with it, they just offer a line and move on. When the questioners are called on a point, they show themselves to be ill informed, brittle and unable to show any kind of response. Blackmore is far from the first in the Beeb. Nigel Pearson broke one of their regional reporters with a single pushback, after a similar swell of opinion to get him sacked. The Beeb sent down someone more senior, who was just as useless. But Leicester's media team, and the club didn't want to rock any boats, and Pearson trotted out a few bland replies until it went away. Blackmore got called on his question, stumbled, tried fawning but then couldn't get away from all his other questions being tied to the first one. Why he did that, only he can say. In isolation, they were "he did well". But all phrased in a way that undermined Tonda's squad management. They all had "despite not playing for X amount of time" before Tonda shut that down, citing Black ore not getting his facts right. There was a nice pause after Blackmore stumbled over a "I guess that's why you're the manager." Was Tonda thinking of replying "No thanks to you." or "and that's why you're a hack without a clue." I guess his manager media training kicked in.

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Think of the hungry patriotic children at Christmas, with fewer chocolate coins. 😭

Didn't help himself with every question following why players had been brought in, with a question on each of them, and how long they'd not been picked for. Swatted away with the first answer, but kept on going. The Dobbin one was funny with Blackmore saying how long he's had to wait for a start, only for Tonda to tell him about an earlier start.

GDP doesn't do well against the cost of chocolate coins. The runaway increase shows clearly that labour have lost control.

Not too often you can shout "shoot!" at your own goalkeeper, with some confidence of it going in. 🙂

Security will catch you one day, trousers. 🙂

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Good subs from Tonda, swapping out the full backs. Deliberate to have a mix of 1st and 2nd choice for both halves (not sure what's happened to Mads). But Wellington is a very solid replacement and barely second choice. He works well with Edozie. Likewise, Bree with Matsuki. With Jander doing really well, our midfield controlled a lot of the play. But it was pretty fluid. Bree allowed Matsuki to go centrally. Dobbin was pushed centrally, but would drop back and support. While we could do with a better cutting edge, having so many players interchanging proved too much for Norwich, leading to Matsuki's goal. Makama looked as though he could cause us problems, as he's a Larin-type of player. Fortunately he got little support. When Field had a clear path, but turned back, the home support vented their frustration. Larin didn't get on the end of much, and Mubama only a few touches. But having 2 up stopped Norwich pushing us back, helping us keep that lead. Hopefully Downes is okay. Azaz looked a bit tired, after two games. We don't seem to have actually brought in support for him. But Dobbin did have a better game, and did get around the park. Into 7th (3rd not including the penalty).

We look a bit disjointed in places, due to the changes. Abbott is clearly a centre half, while Dobbin hasn't done anything to show he's a striker. If Mubama hasn't a knock, then it's a bit telling how he's rated currently. Neither offer what Larin does, and if we wanted to play differently, we had Archer. Edozie had a good shot blocked, but like a lot of the team, hasn't linked up too much. Matsuki is better at that, keen to get into a central supporting role. When Abbott has used the space left to him, he's delivered a couple of good balls. After Norwich had their spell on top, it was some crisp passing that pushed, and kept them back. Shame to see Downes going off, but Jander back so we should be fine there. Azaz is probably the most likely for us. Or he'll set up Matsuki. We could do with some natural finishing up top.

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Mail article: https://archive.is/20261013164944/https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16205879/Just-one-five-new-jobs-created-past-decade-went-Britons-new-report-reveals-vast-majority-taken-migrant-workers-outside-EU.html Centre for social justice source: https://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/newsroom/just-one-in-five-added-payroll-jobs-since-2014-went-to-british-nationals Report Source:https://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/library/state-of-dependency Despite being a leftist, I've been hired as Osvaldo's PA. 🙂

Remember: Downward trending fiats can be dangerous.

Martinez feeling the pressure of Wilcox demanding more passes across the back. 🙂

Such a good idea. It's well known that visiting fans considerably outspend legacy fans. That's the simple bottom line for any club trying to increase it's revenue. Therefore clubs have to walk a line between supporting tradition, history and those fans while having a stadium with facilities, and yes spend points, for the far travelling fan. Engaging with overseas fans directly would not only bring those fans closer to feeling part of the club (which they are), but would increase the chances they will visit and spend for a great experience. An outreach programme, based on direct FAB, experience could even look at improving the Saints watching facilities around the world. From New York Saints bars, through plush middle eastern hotels to the Yoshida Club's viewing patterns. It's fitting that the FAB gets an International Rescue role.

Thanks for posting this. Tours and launch parties allow FAB access to as many different environments, areas, and at different times as possible. FANS may also find themselves in those environments too. If so, they have the comfort of knowing that FAB have assessed, and optimised it, for them. It's not in the minutes but FAB try out any toilets that have been repaired, and taste test everything available in the stadium. They DEMAND it, for the FANS. Clearly the 'boro game will have some additional edge to it. And edges are just what protective bubbles are there to stop. Well done FAB for ensuring the atmosphere, and security, is maintained for all FANS.

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Someone has to make those hard decisions. We shouldn't underestimate the impact it has on the brave, patriotic reform politicians. I just hope that they don't find themselves in a position where they can't find work, because they've cut all of the benefits for the mental health issues they are suffering from. "Looking at your claim form Mr Jenrick, I see that you claim to be suffering from PTSD, as a result of machine gunning immigrants in the English Channel. Also, anxiety leaving the house to face all those you cut the benefits of, including those impacted by reimposing the two child benefit cap. I'm sorry to say..."

The beeb report was keen to point out that he was alone, despite online reports, and that police had asked for the videos not to be shared.

Couldn't agree more. A sad incident, and upsetting for the man's family. But pleased that the tiger, unsurprisingly acting like a tiger, is not being put down because of the man going in there.