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"What could be more left field than a completely unexpected traditional hire?" cackles Joker Rasmus, trying to find Gotham on a map. 🙂

More chance with "Only Rwandan Magic Beans can save us now!"

Play-off hopes rising Yet will posession football Secure victory?

We've also had loads of good starts to games this season. No fears of hanging on and sneaking a goal. We know we can start and be all over opponents.

I thought it was an ins-pie-ring call to arms. 🙂

I caught that one. It wasn't it's intent, but I thought it also provided an excellent view of why lots of people would vote for Trump. Not the folk that get the air time. But the normal folks, who look at where their money is funnelled to, and just how little their voice matters. Scaramucci made the point that, as horrid as Trump is, there's a whole system of parallel endemic corruption that didn't invite him in. Getting shot of some of that was a Trump headliner promise, and undoubtedly popular.

We have the quality. We've done well against them so far this season. We finished with an uptick of confidence. We are missing Baz and Stu, but have some cover. Form guide in last 6 is a couple of points better than theirs. We've every chance.

I was wondering if Russ won't know which formation to prepare for now. 🙂 Memories of Stu being subbed on by Nathan, and turning to ask him what it was he wanted him to do, as our manager shifted it 4 times already that game.

The old loan one, get two free release clause we were all worried about getting triggered. 🙂

The Price of Football podcast has been a decent way of following the utter shambles they find themselves in. From their loan applications, breaching of rules, bloating their covid losses, lost russian revenue and early warning alarms regarding 777.

Yup, the further they go to the right to get that 15% back, if they are not tied solidly into centrist territory, then the more votes they ship on the other side. People look at the obsession over some issues, look at the lack of effort on others, and make their choices. Power lies with those that can keep their group of back stabbing vermin, with their own agendas, as broad as possible, without wrecking it. When it falls apart, all those agendas think they were right and it was everyone else in the party that brought them down. Cue years of searching for an identity, which would be obvious to anyone not in the bubble. Mind you, the lack of self awareness is something you can see in a lot of things. If votes/decisions don't go their way, it's the other side full of the absolute worst of people all conspiring to overcome the "right" side.

They look at the voters going to the likes of reform, as their lost voters. It gives strength to those at the top with sympathies there to want to reach out to bring them back on board. But it has to be done along with enough good things to keep others on board. They've not had a stellar record on that, and also failed to get their more extreme policies over the line either. On the other side, while it's an ongoing internal battle, Starmer has dragged his party back from the side of his party that was closer to it's extremes. While there have been lots of u turns, the approach of saying as little as possible while the other side implodes, is going to be more than enough. That also has the bonus of attracting those in the centre, making the likes of Braverman even keener to lurch to the right to establish what she considers a clear party identity to be.

We'll need to see after the play offs. Being top of the SR group should provide even more motivation for the team. 🙂

The new DoF come in and promptly tells RM to ditch his possession game. Saints do a manager swap with Man Utd. 🙂

A new DoF would be short term, as the Rasmus AI will soon be released, using data analytics (adjusted for left-fieldness) and the transfer tombola across every facet of SR. 🙂

He missed a good chance (getting into a good position for it), wasn't as smart or physical as Adams. But, made some decent runs, we looked to pick him out, playing more central relies less on him taking on players and delivery than in pace and attack. Something to work on, and makes us more versatile.

Surprising set up, interesting personnel in it and looking to get different things from Russ's philosophy. At it's best before we had lots of possession, created chances through creating space. But we struggled to convert and keep teams out. Today, we gave up the possession, strengthened the midfield, still used our passing game, but more decisively and getting it forward earlier. We got to see some different strengths from our team, as a result. Russ gave key players minutes, removing them progressively. Che took a knock, which is hopefully nothing. Fraser was probably the most wasted, having to defend as a Manning replacement. Downes is our most important player. Today, freed from so much passing around, made that even clearer. Adams, AA and KWP not far behind. Borderline cards from the ref, which created some interesting moments later as tougher challenges went in. Farke was annoyed Manning stayed on first half, but the ref could have handed cards out to Leeds in the second. Strong performances from Aribo, Smallbone and the others too. There's a little bit of wondering how things would have turned out if we had been a bit more flexible earlier in the season. But it's more lack of in game changes that have cost us. We looked controlled today in large part due to all that short passing we've being doing. We look much more comfortable on the ball than others. Good to see a central cameo for Sule and Stewart. Even if the game had closed a lot by those points. Sule had an excellent chance, while Stewart was a foul away from taking the ball into the box. Nice to go into the playoffs with a win. We've nothing to fear from any of the others.

Rothwell looks knacked. Much like his first game.

Free kick impacted off the wall like a failed Death Star attack run.🙂

Nonsense free kick.

It would have taken quite a swerve for Will's FK there. Rothwell the better option. Just noticed he was still on.

3 bookable tackles from Leeds as we moved through them. Grrr.

Good work from Aribo, but he just couldn't get it under control for ages there.

A little, late cotton wool for AA and KWP. Most getting some minutes.

Bree and Stewart!