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SR's perfect recruit. He gets more successful, resisted every step of the way by SR's policies. The perfect balance.

They're no Pat Nevin, are they?

"Top Bins!" shouted the successful sperm, already sure of the life waiting ahead.

The idea isn't posession for the sake of it, though. The idea is to shift the ball, either attracting players vertically or moving them even slightly out of shape horizontally. Then it's to use that space to move it through them. An example was just in the last couple of fixtures. The ball was getting passed around for the fourth time, when we got that space, it went up the flank and we got a chance. I pressed backspace on my comment. 🙂 There are arguments against doing that at all. Or that it shouldn't take as long. Or that constantly doing it saps momentum from our play. We've certainly had games where we've not managed to create with our possession (others went fine) and certainly that all that possession doesn't stop us conceding. Martin is usually frustrated at us not getting it forward as quickly as he'd like. That just raises more counter arguments about why that is, right enough. He's been happy with the possession stats. But, I've never thought it was that and an off chance of getting a goal. There's always been more to it.

Delay

Steady stream of defectors > Labour majority > Labour torpedoed by all it's new members doing horrible things and destabilising party > Electorate upset by dysfunctional Labour > election announced > Conservatives squeak majority with it's new less weird group of MPs. A plan so cunning, your candidate should be Mr Fox... although possibly not Lawrence... 🙂

How can there be time to practice penalties, when we don't give them the ball until a Friday afternoon, to keep 'em hungry? 🙂

Same opening post... Glass half full gag... Glass half empty gag... 🙂

Cause

Not unexpected.

In other conflicts, Hamas has agreed to a ceasefire. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-middle-east-68963839 Details sketchy, so far too early to see what one side has agreed to and if it's acceptable to the government of Israel.

Welcome to the Saints, Mr Goalie! 🙂

Lamping things with our feet signals a suprise return of Nathan?

A really pleasant surprise, and hopefully Downes will be agreeable. He'd be good in any team, but critical for ours.

Fortunately, your dream ended before their second half come back, when we gave up our midfield. 🙂 It's okay, we work to the whistle, with Fraser getting a fifth and Stewart a header in the last second, in a crazy 6-4 win.

"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.