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Concrete

A bit weaker at right back, then. I guess KWP could be a target. 🙂

Besides, it won't be as effective without Baz in goal.

All those times I shouted out "Who was that masked tractor?!" and received odd looks. #vindicated 🙂

It's a bit cold here, but I'm warming myself on the good will that just crashed and burned with your reply. 🙂

Disapointed to read you harassing those poor folk into going to the football. "Look, he only going to come back a sixth time, then a seventh with a 'Come to the football' placard, until we just give in. It's going to mean an end to Monopoly night, our cherished family tradition. But he's not going to stop." 🙂 A heart warming tale of reaching out, and importantly continuing to do so, to make anyone welcome and involved. Because people from all backgrounds can be reluctant, or uncomfortable, at first, for lots of reasons.

Having culled all of SaintsWeb, it's renamed to BadgerBlog. 🙂

Shhh... don't let on that all my posts are just repeats.

On Alcaraz, we looked to him to be a pacey, central player when Selles was looking to counter attack. Elsewhere, he was direct and in a team starved of creativity, sometimes that was as good as it got. Under Martin, he needed to have a much more rounded set of skills. Which he didn't have. That directness would cause problems. So,a bit of frustration all round. He wasn't as versatile as Stu, Aribo or Will. I like him, and hope he comes good here. But if his skillset is better suited elsewhere, it might be better for all of we get a sale. On Fraser, he made a big impact when he joined. That faded a bit, but still an important player for us across the season. If we get a decent deal, he'd be a solid addition to the squad. More do, if he could also fill that wing back position a bit too.

Insane signing! By signing a player with the ceiling and ability of Foo-kin Nowan, we're really showing everyone how our season is going to end up. Well done SR!

You forgot to put in the year. 🙂

Eep, 2 posts in a row... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/articles/cq5dd2lz8y8o More contradiction of IBA, leading to comical (if it weren't for 2 boxers and their families at the heart of it) interview at the bottom. What a shambles.

I looked up an article on the rise of far right terrorism. Forgot how old it was. While reading it, it seems the police admit to having a 2 tier view of terrorism, ... with the far right getting less attention than they should have. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-49753325

Ale

Acshully >hic< we prefers to call it the Transfer Hub >hic<

Following up my link to the express 🙂 A former police official (can't find link as on radio) saying those involved should look closely at anti terrorism legislation. Because he considers that some of the recent actions do cross that line into terrorism. As much as that seemed like an escalation, it's also a reminder of the extremists out there, happily taking advantage/ stoking these actions.

But only "great" hair. So, not like Stu at all. 🙂

Yeah, I was aware after I posted that it was just sitting there, contextless. Having said that, I do look every now and again at the Scottish version, for their pathological hatred of the SNP, Harry &Megan and undying love for their fav TV programme ( that I assume they get paid to plug)

The express also ran it https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1932225/uk-riots-stoke-police-mosque

SR's dream scenario is to be paying championship wages to a squad that then gets sold to CL clubs for the maximum profit. Dreaming of more Livramentos and Lavia's, while losing a ton of cash by being relegated, and losing a lot more on the way with a dreadful January window. Like the analysis Rasmus' has done throughout his career, he'll have focused on that player profit, with the others fixable. And we now will have one of the lowest wage budgets. So, they've now got that along the path to where they want. Generally, you get what you pay for when it comes to PL wages. There are outliers. Chelsea buying a disjointed squad, Man Utd's desperate high value, low resale buys, and Everton's mini squad of 10s. On the other hand, Brentford and Brighton consolidated from lower starts. Villa realised their low wage bill, on promotion, gave them scope to push the boat out to get well up the table. SR want to operate like that. But with progress tempered by regular, hopefully planned, sales to the big clubs. Also to be considered are having to be careful with funds (impact of loans, relegations and contracts to departed managers, and players who haven't departed). I've put my thoughts on what I think their ambition is above. If that's what they're going for then no point in spending loads of transfer pennies on players with large wages. Also, there will have been no shortage of offers from clubs and agents. But they have to work within the wage structure. Clubs have found they simply couldn't afford to bring in their targets, not least because of the impact it would have on the contracts of others.

I didn't hear an English translation of Kremlev's rant, so thanks for providing more behind all the annoyed reporters who came out of there. Yesterday's muddled statement, is no clearer. Unsurprisingly, they can't release the data. Apparently we can "read between the lines." Except we can't and shouldn't either. However, credibility over IBA procedures, motivations, results and now sanity do remain.

Shadow

That Beeb one, was the first I've seen to say "accuracy of the tests." I took that to include the results. Looks like the lines are well drawn between the two organisations.

Officer

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/articles/cnk4427vvd2o The link is an update on the boxing. It's now saying there's doubt about the test (IOC quotes), as well as the previous issues around the procedure of the tests. The IBA quote says that there were ' "different strands involved in that" and therefore the body could not commit to referring to the fighters as "biologically male". So, that seems less than clear. Having started off their coverage with a simply "Russian" to indicate their opinion of the IBA, this report now indicates that although the fighter was disqualified rounds after fighting a Russian, the disqualification retroactively wiped that defeat from the Russian's record. No doubt there will be more tomorrow.