Gloucester Saint

Time for @Pilchards tree and some granular binoculars

And Damion Downs.

If they did that in Devon, Cornwall and Pembrokeshire they’d clean up. No chance that Farage and Tice would ever adopt it at national level however. Another councillor amongst many seeing the light. Their right to remain policy is revolting https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/national/25588459.reform-councillor-switches-tories-becoming-uncomfortable-party/

Cousin went to school with him and top schools athlete, was England Schools striker and scored at Wembley didn’t he? Shearer’s strike partner and was still scoring plenty albeit not as many as Alan.

Looked like a striker playing at left back because that’s what he was earlier on. Became tidier as he got older and always had pace.

Worst Saints players I’ve seen by position: GK: Andrews or Bazunu. Gavin is a L1 keeper bought by brainless morons for large money and then chucked in at the deep end (still is) whereas Ian Andrews had played a lot of games in the top flight, so Andrews gets the jersey of shame. RB: Steve Baker, Pompey 1988. Has to be. Nilsson dishonourable mention. LB: Olivier Bernard or Lee Todd? Bernard’s position and work rate was piss poor, Blackburn away and Villa home were terrible, but Lee Todd was next level wank as @franniesTache says CB: Hoedt is my #1 here, Les Reed must have had early onset to pay £17m for that slow heap of Lazio reserves shit. Mid-table Championship at best. That’s without the fact he was allegedly a total bellend despised at all levels of the club. Partner grim with the appalling and equal bellend of ABK. Dishonourable mentions to Davenport, Jakobsson, Holgate and Powell. DCC pretty poor too. CM: Euell, Downes as a PL player, Safri, J Wright, but the worst was N Quarshie. Equally hated at both ends of the M27. RM: Hard to look past David Lee. Kanchelskis was totally washed up. LM: Trying to think of one - Gibbens maybe? Strikers - the recent list of pure faeces is staggering: Downs is in a league of his own. BBD, AA in the top flight, Archer, then further back Mayuka, Moody, Johansen, Frankie Bennett (once cleared the upper Milton with a shot - true story). Carrillo was another Les special. Onachu wasn’t great either and David Speedie was a cunt. Dixon totally addicted to gambling and goodness knows what else, Chelsea couldn’t believe their luck.

The Conservatives is that? Yeah, they spent tens of billions of our money on extra civil service posts to sort their shambles of a cliff edge hard Brexit https://ukandeu.ac.uk/videos/jill-rutter-and-james-obrien-civil-service-100k-bigger-since-brexit-but-no-clear-vision/ You’re right, they waste taxpayers money right left and centre. Reform wasting it all over the country in local government and DOGE having all the impact of a wet fart. Didn’t vote for the current government but they’ve had to cut Boris’s huge civil service post increases and Streeting is laying off so many posts in the NHS undoing the barking mad Lansley system by merging NHS England and DHSC (Jeremy Hunt badly wanted to do the same as Health Secretary but politically couldn’t) that he’s clashing with Reeves about the sheer cost of redundancy payments, so much so that they’ll probably need to be staggered over three years https://www.healthcare-management.uk/streeting-reeves-reported-loggerheads-redundancy-payments Plenty that I can criticise them for but this isn’t it. At least they are accelerating moving the roles around the UK to boost skilled jobs and prosperity across the UK, one Boris policy I did agree with https://www.gov.uk/government/news/thousands-of-civil-service-roles-moved-out-of-london-in-latest-reform-to-the-state

They wouldn’t need those if politicians of all stripes didn’t have Pinocchio tendencies. They all do it but the key difference is that Trump spouts crap out of his mouth every two seconds/on Truth Social that has no relationship with reality let alone the truth. Our politicians aren’t much cop but at least they won’t deny election defeats, nor overturn democracies in a violent temper tantrum with thousands of their fellow thugs armed to the teeth. Dimbelby is an old fart but even he has an unarguable point rationally about the events of 6 January 2021.

Generational thing. People that are retiring now or retired had the vast majority of their career pre-Skype and especially Zoom/Teams and pre cheaper laptops and mobiles would naturally think that. Personally, I enjoy having a hybrid set up. All WFH I’d find very isolating but one or two days per week of a 7.45 instead of 6am alarm is very welcome. And last week I was on site all 5 days because that was business need and what the team needed. Not having to sit in heavy traffic and/or trains packed like sardines all week is good. And for those who work in the public sector, it cuts costs when they aren’t getting the pay rises or bonuses I’d imagine. Most customers want to meet/deal online since Covid. For the 3/4 days I’m usually in, I like my days very busy and active, loads of interactions. I hate just sitting staring at a screen for 8 hours unless it’s a very focused all day task.

Whether they did it to Trump or the new NYC Mayor it was a stupid and needless error. Saints fans know what those look like… As @CB Fry says, Trump whipped up that mob of nutcases to storm and insurrect with maximum violence. No need for cut and shut footage, it’s as plain and obvious as MLT’s conk.

Hopefully replaced by a DG who doesn’t want to suck Farage’s dick and dispatches the horrific Chris Mason, Reform’s Press Officer.

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Won’t happen and Baz will keep getting picked as well until that lunatic Rasmus Ankerson is dispatched from SR.

And not only slow to react, any EFL goalkeeper worth their salt, gets a stronger hand on it and past the post. Even McCarthy does. As others have said, Dexter Blackstock looked a better keeper, outfield player in goal.

If it wasn’t broken enough already, best to make sure

He’d feel vindicated regardless.

We know what happened to the National Front…just look around at all of Tommy’s flags and Reform’s chaotic councils.

His call, but with a distinctive Danish accent. We all know the truth - Rasmus still can’t admit to his mistakes.

They were ages ago - final salary ended many years ago - and even average earnings watered down. Combine as @skintsaint says with lower wages and no bonuses and what is written in the Mail and Telegraph is about 15 years out of date. I know this as family members working in the pensions profession.

At least Alan’s dad played and had a long career in the sport.

Just a different book to the one he found Downs in - Fiesta or Escort. It ought to come in a brown paper bag whatever it was.

Lighthouse has gotten himself a second account then..

Don’t know how Ankerson has the fucking front to be there. No accident that he appears and fucking Stephens and Bazunu are back in the team. Might as well have brought a earpiece so he could micromanage the clone they’ve put in charge.