Holmes_and_Watson

Nige is wearing the 3 lions. Everyone else in Starmer's picture is wearing 3 lions. Starmer is not wearing the 3 lions. Clearly embarrassed about his country and a betrayer of it's values. 🙂

Weird quoting the quote your last post quoted from you...ow...head hurts... 🙂 In tournament mind, that's a heck of a risk. What if just having the 1 DM means England go behind? Southgate would have to rely on one of the best attacking line ups in world football, to try and claw his way back into the game. 🙂

🙂 I did start a line about it not exactly being unknown elsewhere, but cut it. I was going to make the point that smaller parties in particular have to allocate funding carefully, so there's a bit more of a gap in the before or after document, as producing the manifesto comes with a cost. Being larger Labour don't have the same issue. Their version control issues come from keeping track of u-turns, editing put any old pledges and trying as best they can to cost things, after economic mismanagement. It's still interesting to see the before pictures. A glimpse into what parties are willing to get for support against what they do to get elected.

Exactly. Moaning about not having a replacement and not playing the replacement.

Another year or so, and he'll be at the age to join us as a stepping stone to a promising career. 🙂

As he drivelled on failing to understand what was goin on in front of him, I was thinking about how rubbish his own managerial record was. 5 points from 24.

Southgate: "We know it’s an experiment and we know that we don’t have a natural replacement for Kalvin Phillips." As he dips into the twix family pack at home, spare a thought for Kalvin. Had he had even a half decent season, there was a place there, just waiting for him. If Southgate required that role, then he should be picking players to fit it. His team's have rarely transitioned well, and link up play is often iffy. So suddenly telling Rice and Bellingham to adjust to try and accommodate TAA is foolish. We saw how disjointed it made the team. If he picked Mainoo to do that job, then play him. If he has to tell Rice to focus only on that, then do it and bring in another proper midfielder. That would seem to be Gallagher. Or play Wharton. 3 options that he's got available, but backed off of to accommodate TAA. You can't bemoan the lack of a specialist in the role, when there were opportunities to pick others, and when the option is there to play those that did make the squad. He has to pick the players best suitable for that role. That's not TAA and it's not Gallagher.

I guess their manifesto writers looked at the available texts as they created each page. "Nope, we're not putting that in. Nope, nor that..."

Southgate, before the match: "My focus is to get qualified from the group,..." Which he's now achieved. BBC after it, pointing out that we're all wrong about Trent:"No player created more chances (3) or played more line-breaking passes in the final third (5) for England against Denmark than Trent Alexander-Arnold, despite him being subbed off in the 54th minute."

On centre backs, ABK, DCC and Lyanco are back, possibly negating the need for a signing there. I thought Sule might be used more centrally last season. In initial games, he'd use pace but with little end product from wide. When defenders dropped a little more off him, they were able to get back more. So there were some games he didn't get clear enough. Similarly little end product from wide. In those games, he'd try to draw players in, then burst past them. With mixed success, and little end product. Like Alcaraz, simplifying it for him centrally to be the guy looking to run into space, seemed like a possibility. But I'd expect us to be recruiting to not have to rely on that being tried. So, a sale may be good all round.

The overall purpose turned out to be as expected, with overall the sort of match as well. In that, tournament manager Southgate ensures a point, effectively taking England into the next round. That's his deliverable, as it's been in the last couple of tournaments. A 2nd group game cautious, defensively structured game should come as no surprise. Underneath that, we've just seen a lot of disappointing performances, with that approach nullifying a lot of the players better qualities. TAA and Foden with the same issues as before. Foden did come in centrally occasionally. DM is an issue. Bellingham and Rice were impacted covering for TAA, while being limited by their instructions. Lots of poor passing. Lots of unforced errors. Lots of possession needlessly conceded. Individually poor.

- Ensure there are no strong contenders for the position. Who gave Phillips his gateway mars bar? Who told Henderson that the LGBT community would be fine with his move? Now you know. - Establish yourself in an attacking role, in an attacking team. The media love an attacking full back - Make the attacking team one that the media fawns over for 50 years. - Even better if managed by bestest manager ever. Who could doubt his tactical genius? - With the above in place, when you're found out in your original position, it's hard to be dropped. Suggest a move to an injury ridden part of the team.

I can't begin to imagine having your sleep linked with Southampton having a safe pair of gloves in goal. You poor person. My thoughts are with you. 🙂

I was looking at it, off the back of a previous post (honest gov) "Net Zero is pushing up bills, damaging British industries like steel, and making us less secure. We can protect our environment with more tree planting, more recycling and less single use plastics. New technology will help, but we must not impoverish ourselves in pursuit of unaffordable, unachievable global CO2 target." Headlines- scrap net zero and renewable subsidies; grant North sea licenses and later invest in modular reactors.

Could we instead help them embody their stance? Say take everything they own, such as clothes, devices(including screens), transportation, exterior/interiors of homes and paint them a permanent orange? Help them live their protest? I can't believe I didn't spot Farage behind all those climate summits, while pulling the strings of every major government, industry and financial hub since the industrial revolution. There was me going to question calls to assault someone.

Fresh

SOG's only making plans for Nigel He only wants what's best for him SOG's views are the only right ones Nigel just needs a helping hand But if that Nigel says he's happy He can't be happy Because SOG's views are the only ones that work

Is that the rumour having legs, or can we be optimistic that Lallana still has some? 🙂

Second half much like the first. He puts in a shift, but is a bit isolated. A support striker looking for a partner. Gunn, Ralston, Hanley and Henry all have a massive error waiting to happen. Put them together... He was covering for someone else's error at the time too. Blighted with injuries, and hope he recovers soon.

I was never going to pass that one up. 😀

Ralston, who normally looks as though he has a mistake in him, gifts the chance for a Swiss equaliser. Adams hasn't had much of the ball, but is showing some decent movement.

Well remembered.

He was Portuguese. https://www.skysports.com/football/news/2384162/saints-seal-pele-deal 🙂

I guess Sunak's plan must be to bring back the lost Reform votes and move a little less to the right, once they're back. After all, if you believe some folk, Starmer worked his way through an antisemitic Labour party he really wanted to distance himself from as far as possible, so he could move them from their extremes. Or is this yet another example of it being fine if it's the side being agreed with, and horrid if it's the side that isn't agreed with? 🙂