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He's been an outfield player as a youth, so he's already tried that.🙂 'Growing up, Gavin Bazunu wanted to score goals, not save them. Shamrock Rovers forced his hand with Stephen Bradley to blame more than anyone else, having given Bazunu his debut against Bray Wanderers at age 16 in June 2018. By then, it was too late. “I hated it to be honest. I first went in goal at Shamrock Rovers when our goalie was sick. Drew the short straw and had to go in.” When was this, under-14? “I was eight or nine. Managed to fend it off for another four years before I had to go in permanently. I’d play anywhere else. After a season at Leicester Celtic, one half in goal, one half outfield, when I scored 10 goals, I returned to Rovers and realised if I wanted to go higher, goalkeeper was my best chance.” https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/2026/01/31/gavin-bazunu-the-performance-in-hungary-encapsulates-the-change-in-irish-football/

Awww. I was hoping to swill a beer past the chocs I was eating, while taking aim. But only one of the three (admittedly superb choices), is it?

Torn between getting to only land-locked countries for holidays and having to fly over a coast to get to them. What if I see the RNLI helping the invasion force from the plane?!

Pauses mid citizenship application...🙂

Which was appalling. And typical of baying mobs, their targets are doing nothing of the sort. The RNLI are not setting immigration policy or enforcing it.

"Fortune's death was the third incident in Mississippi in less than a year where police found someone dead and hanged from a tree. The other two bodies - one black male, one white - were discovered in September 2025, on the exact same day. Both were ruled a suicide, though the mother of one of the deceased - Trey Reed - contests those findings." If there's any hint of murder in this case, it looks like the previous ones will be reopened. I'm sure we all trust law enforcement in the deep south to get to the bottom of it.

I laughed at suggestions of "naming and shaming" the RNLI guys. Even when Balaclava wearers, who definitely don't want to be named and shamed, enter the sea, the RNLI will be there to save them, regardless of the conditions.

Well, they should stop faking call outs, so they can run a migrant invasion service from France. As soon as I heard, I removed all the things I'd bought from their shop, and anything with a nautical theme, just to be safe. No one in my Patriot group will have any suspicions using my bathroom after the next meeting. We're also looking to move inland, in protest too.

Always a class act. I'd be curious about him funding a group behind getting his building to be the tallest. But we'd have known about it, from terror organisations targeting Trump to make good on the bounced cheques.

After drinking 2 bottles in the shower, I'm not surprised you didn't bother about hair. 🙂

Bad news Sue Your sense of humour has dipped dangerously close to mine. 🙂

I saw a beeb headline saying they were getting in primary school teachers to teach the secondary school children basic reading skills. Although, if they bring in the same primary teachers who didn't help them read in the first place...

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Greek golden passports have been around for over a decade. Incredibly desperate for any kind of investment. And not at all fussed about who they are or the source of the funds. I'd guess with his funds, he won't be relying on the systems the regular citizens depend on. Although he may need to use a private helicopter if the bridges collapse. Just to wish your sheep sculptures all the best in their upcoming move to be closer to @Hamilton Saint.

He was probably one of those scumbags who tried to claim compensation, but was nowhere near it. He'd previously said he watched it from his window/ on TV.

Adjusting position of home office furniture. Move monitor safely away a few feet. Go to put it back in position, and the screen has a crack. Grrrr.

He's never a winger. 🙂

I think we do well against Swansea as they like to play an open game. Leo certainly thrived. After some debate on taking players off, due to data, I felt Tonda kept our best on, until it was done. That allowed Mubama to play a little more to his strengths, with his pace, as Swansea pushed to get back into it. It's good we use the squad. It's better when the changes fit tne game at tne time. Lots of good performances, with a squad that isn't far from the top already, despite tbe -4. No shadows on the horizon either...oh.

An excellent half. 2 goals to the good, with a fair bit of variation in our attack. They've had the ball, and some attacks, but we've been solid.

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Have Bromley and Exeter fans done something wrong? From his perspective, he said the club, and he, knew they were very probably going straight back down. That seemed to be due to resources and recruitment in progress as part of the project. Part of the buy in to what a tremendous amount of scar tissue and embedding the process is getting everyone to believe how impossible it all is in the PL. Until Sunderland do well, or Hull start a season well. I, like Dragan's foot against a chair, remember that Spurs game. After the first half drubbing under his style, he told the players just not to make it embarrassing. Sorry, more embarrassing. They were much better second half, not completely beholden to his style. An small indicator of how better the season could have been with some pragmatism. Probably my first post on the hint of his arrival was about his time at Norwich. As captain, or club captain, when things were going wrong, he would do the post match interviews. In every one, he was taking part in a game that must have just happened in a parallel universe. Absolutely no bearing on what had just happened. regardless of the underlying system or process Norwich were reaching for. But in his head, even then, he was seeing his dream team playing what's now an outmoded system. That they were a million miles from it, didn't stop him trying to convince people that the steps to get there were small ones. He's been consistent, if nothing else. He, and his employers just don't realise that it might not be worth the effort of trying to get it working, considering the time it might take (and it's only a might), how little players and fans like a lot of it, and how unsuccessful it can be in a results driven business. Agreed. If you are in a position for an overhaul, at least have a scouting system that knows exactly what type of players you're going to need. FoxesTalk has plenty of posts about the club's possession based obsession, and Martin being something they've been after for years. So, it's not as though they couldn't have been set up for it. To have that opportunity, end up with a squad that looks lost, and then blame them falls on him, and the disjointed club that allowed it. But pretty much him. Had they got him last season, at least he would have had a higher level of quality players to paper over things, while he got some of his other ideas into place. But then, the club was probably a sinking basket case even then. It's increasingly unlikely. But I'd like to see the system work somewhere. Just out of curiosity. Little RussDrones, resetting after every move, ignoring the momentum of the match and the atmosphere. 🙂 Obviously following that accurate piece of advice, one of the Beeb's stat people came out with a new manager at most making the difference of 7 points or something. He was ridiculed for it. But then Alex Ferguson called in and apologised for being a charlatan. I didn't even know Sir Alex was into Britpop. 🙂