Farmer Saint

So the Cayenne is a really odd one. First gen are awfully unreliable, but second gen are meant to be bombproof (according to online!). Who knows. I can't be turning up to board meetings in a Dacia unfortunately 😕

Or he accidentally goes to a country that is happy to uphold ICC commitments.

No, I don't think he'd do well in the Championship

He's playing with better players, under better managers. But yes, he's better than our Championship level players.

Musk is correct on this one, for sure.

Alcaraz is bang average, and forever will be so. He's another in a long line that can have incredible moments, but they are too few and far between. For other examples please see: Boufal, Sofiane Ramirez, Gaston Redmond, Nathan Fernandes, Fabrice et al

I'll nip down to Volvo and have a test drive - cheers mate.

So in general I think Land Cruisers are slightly out of budget (which is why I don't mention it above), but I will certainly keep an eye out. V10 Touareg will cost me as much as a RR to maintain and run 🤣 The gearboxes on them can be ruinous. XC90 should be on the list as well - great cars and lovely to drive. Love Jimmy's, but not big enough for what I need unfortunately. Cheers for your suggestions though!

Hmmm, not sure I'd "suit" a pick-up tbh. Best I could get is probably a 2.2 Ranger and not sure that's got the capabilities I need.

He's also in the shop window for bigger teams. Not really sure how you fail to see what Saints could get from the deal?

Afternoon all. So as you all know I do some farm shit from time to time, and over the past 4 years I have been running a 2011 Land Rover Discovery 4. Now if you've ever owned one of these you will know that they are utterly brilliant in every way, apart from two - reliability and reliability. It recently crossed over to 160k miles, and was getting close to a cambelt change (body off, £1500 job), so I decided to part ways. I am now looking for a replacement, but also one that I can use for my other ventures (of which there are a few). Therefore, I am looking for the following: - A car with as big a boot as possible. - Comfortable over long distances. - Very capable off-road. - Available for circa £15k to £20k as it's likely to end up getting wrecked and I don't want to drop more than that on a car that may get a little wrecked. - Able to tow. At the moment I am looking at the L405 Range Rover 4.4 SDV8 (2015 onwards). Obviously does all the above, with worse reliability than my old LR4. I am also looking at the Porsche Cayenne 3.0 or 4.2 V8 D (2014 onwards). Think the reliability is a bit better on these. Any tips or suggestions would be appreciated, and anyone who has had either of the above I'd be interested to know your experiences. Ta, Farmer

It does make me laugh how people have such an issue with Manager's ways of life. It's actually really weird.

I doubt it, they've got to track them down first - I think they're more bothered about sorting the driver charges out first.

I don't, but it makes more logical sense than he wanted to drive through a crowded area because he was in a rush. Why do you assume he did? If I was impatient and in a rush, the last area I'd want to drive through is a parade crowd.

Tailgated or followed - IE he was the first car behind an ambulance on the way into the cordon and he didn't know which way he was going. Videos show he got violent after his car was being pelted, hit and damaged, and someone tried to open his door and pull him out of the car. As you say, let's wait and see, but I still think your choice of language on something that we don't know the full story about is without merit.

Again, making assumptions that you said we shouldn't do. Why did the police let him through? There is no talk that he battered his way through the police cordon, or that the police were chasing him to get him out of the area. Read up on him a bit. It does not sound, at all, like this is the kind of person you say he is. If he really wanted to kill and maim people, it would have been incredibly easy to do so in a car. The fact that there are no dead is not luck.

He was arrested because he drove a car into people. Drugs and alcohol is pretty much irrelevant anyway when that happens. I disagree with you, mob mentality where you are below most people's eye level, you can't see anything ahead, or behind. I'm sure he didn't mean to run over kids, he just didn't want to be killed by rabid Liverpool fans. I think you're massively under-estimating fight or flight here.

Which is why I think it won't hold up. But they had to charge him with something "with intent" for the optics of the situation. Is this wasn't Liverpool it would be different.

I'm not being funny, no-one has died, and they haven't even charged him with attempted murder. You can make an assumption from that - mens rea of murder (IE he is trying to hurt people) is not present. Very simply, the CPS did not believe at any point he was trying to kill anyone. Even as the BBC reporter who was there said, he was being chased the whole way by about 30 Liverpool fans attacking and throwing stuff at his car. It's why the rear window was smashed. I think he thought he was going to die. I think this was just a tragic mishap.

Yeah, it was. I don't think he tried to kill people, I think he was trying to save himself. From what I've read and seen he was a lovely family man who gets caught UK behind an ambulance and accidentally went into the parade area. His car then got attacked by Liverpool fans, and fearing for his life he tried to flee. As you say, we'll see what happens, but from what I've been told from some friends in Liverpool, he certainly is not a cunt.

It's essentially a loan, but if they stay up they keep him. Reduces the financial risk massively and also helps with PSR for both the seller (City in this case) and Ipswich (as they are selling in the same financial year).

He wouldn't have been given bail anyway as the authorities need to protect him, rather than the other way round as it usually is (protecting the public). I don't think the charges will stack up against him as he can and will plead self-defence. Liverpool fans attacking his car, chanting "Kill him" before he went into fight or flight.

I don't think it is, but we'll see.

Not really, purchases are amortised over the length of the contract, irrespective of if the player is sold (I think). Sales are put straight on the balance sheet as an income. Also, it'll be interesting to see if he's sold in this financial year, as if they do it will be seen as a PSR profit, even selling for a loss (which effectively they will be with the 30% sell on).

Just a very quick one, remember the last rapid CB, who was not a great tackler, we bought..?