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At least they have a PL and FA Cup to show for it, we’ve got the net spend and owner asset-stripping trophies. Even the gunner running shysters in E Hants got them a cup.

Good on the Leicester fans for getting organised and showing some guts, unlike our obedient League 2 Hampshire church mice.🐭

If Rasmus and Spores told Juric that they had put £10k per person on 0-6 to Bournemouth at 12/1 and make sure that happens so we get our payout, that’s the team and formation you’d pick.

Good grief. Bournemouth away Martin selects a line up and formation that was so incoherent and nonsensical it looked like a wino from Hoglands Park had made it. Six months later a new manager does the same, possibly even worse actually. Against possibly the highest energy midfield in the league we pick a 9 stone kid and someone who isn’t a strong runner or tracker. Need to start again in the summer.

Will be on the bench I’d imagine, really would be in the deep end starting him.

If the Americans leave a yogurt in the fridge long enough, that’s their best chance of getting culture.

When you think back to last summer and the 80th anniversary of D-Day, that shows you how tone deaf Vance’s pitch for the Presidency in 2028 was. Trump has backed it public because he can’t do anything else but I suspect behind the scenes he was going ‘FFS, you’re the VP’. This shows the true face of Project 2025, which they couldn’t have done without Trump getting them back in, and Vance is a leading figure in the drafting. Trump clearly doesn’t give a shit about NATO or European security, we knew that, but Vance’s speech could’ve said ‘China is a real issue for us, and we can’t decimate Russia because they have a long border with them. But Europe has to pay more for its defence, we can give your forces some air cover but on the ground it’s up to you’. Same outcomes but lands totally differently. Instead, all we hear is ‘we want Tommy Robinson, Le Pen, Orban and fascists leading every government’. OK for an immigrant to decimate the Federal Government though if he’s also a white supremacist and billionaire. Not what our grandfathers fought for in the 1940s, so much for the party of patriots. Although most genuine GOP left the party a while ago.

This is what will trip Musk up because he doesn’t understand politics, or human beings in general, even in a Darwinian country like that. The same singular focus on whether they think their family budgets might get a few more dollars in them a week got MAGA re-elected (added to a hopeless Democrat party) will also mean enough GOP Senators look after their own interests and re-elections despite the warm, empty words about DOGE.

JDV’s ‘speech’ is also a reminder that Trump and MAGA aren’t uniquely one and the same. Nor did Trump have much if any input into the writing of Project 2025. Vance did though.

Diaz the most likely - QPR and Weds could make the play offs but I think they’ll just be short. Fair play to all of them and hope Diaz goes get a move back there if they go up as got the short end of the straw with Martin trying to use him wide in a u-shaped formation. Nope, I didn’t understand it either!

He’d have been alright during the pandemic because he’d never have caught Covid if his ability with footballs are anything to go by.

Yes I did change it to leader of the free world and NATO on reflection. Canada sandwiched between a hostile USA and China, and the Baltic in Putin’s sights. And of course Russia and China share long sections on border. Obama had a pivot to focusing more on China than Europe for different reasons but not trying to dismantle western civilisation in the process.

JD Vance just put the final nail in America’s coffin as leader of the free world, certainly NATO. Then refuses to meet with the official German Chancellor but meets with the leader of the far right AFD. Great for China, only outward-looking genuine superpower left and eyeing up Taiwan. If Putin can get most of what he wants in Ukraine then it’s a green light for China. Hopefully this is to blindside Putin over Ukraine. Crazy stuff even so. Trump just had a spontaneous call with Starmer and Mark Burnett. It’s like a mad man theory in reverse - Hegseth and Vance are ultra aggressive bad cops but Trump is the better cop bringing more reason. Doubt that’s the reality but seems to be the public presentation.

Sounds like Hegseth announced Trump’s thinking for that moment on Ukraine without filtering it properly. Scott Bessant the Treasury Sec now rowing back at pace saying US air cover may well be on offer and Vance backing that up on the way to the summit stating all options are on the table and Russia may face further sanctions.

Sonny Baker, our new quick signed from Somerset, has been given an England development contract after impressing Flintoff with his performance on the Lions tour of Australia https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/cn4m9rwm041o Same status as John Turner.

https://www.southamptonfc.news/opinion/one-alarming-statistic-shows-why-russell-martin-must-upgrade-key-southampton-position/

The second goal was the worst blooper, near post, low, not that firmly struck should be around the post or further across at a angle less likely to present a tap-in. Nearly a calamity coming off his line getting bullied and then glued to it in the second half. Cheltenham Town have genuinely got two better keepers than him. Whoever sanctioned £14m should be arrested for fraud. But our coaching has made him even worse than the League One keeper he was before.

Not in the same league as the previous What’s App issue and no worse than what was in Britannia Unchained about abusing an entire country. I just wouldn’t touch these groups with a barge pole if I were a public figure. Someone could hack it, disaffected colleagues or their partners could leak it. I remember getting a briefing in the early days of social media about the fact anything you post could be there for perpetuity and nothing was truly deleted.

Left on VR. That BBC News might be adding 2+2 = 4 but it could be 7. Looking at it with a cold professional head on, NDAs, which effectively is what that is, are there to protect the organisation. It ain’t there to protect the departing employees which suggests she knew where the bodies were buried at HBOS https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg75jr5284o She’s clearly rubbed some people up the wrong way at HBOS in her time there. That link above says what you want according to whether you’re red or blue. I’m yellow so probably don’t matter. The culture on expenses in both politics and the corporate world actually stinks having seen it myself. And in the 00s it was a fuck sight worse. Grant Schapps also got caught out selling ponzi schemes under a false name and false representation and kept his job. What really grinds my gears is people seemingly misrepresenting. If I did that which I never have, I’d get caught but people like Schapps and Reeves either never do, or if they do never face the same sanction we would. I’ve had to work with loads of them and it depresses me because they are always the most slippery people to deal with. I always count my fingers after shaking hands with them. I suspect another one has been overseeing our football club’s demise if politics isn’t depressing enough. If you’ve worked at Bank of England for 6 years as an Economist, well done. But don’t say it’s 10 years because it’s not. Not impressed so far overall with her. I predict she will last 2025 but a re-shuffle after that.

That’d be his revenge - we’d never get any of our tickets in the post

It definitely did. Some gate figures on this article to back it up http://www.afcbournemouth-mad.co.uk/feat/ed13/memories_of_dorchester_21374/index.shtml https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/5399356.magpies-ground-share-is-backed/ https://www.footballgroundmap.com/ground/avenue-stadium/dorchester-town

Ground shared with Dorchester when they redid it last time. Lovely for a Southern League ground but only holds 6k. Pompey need the rental income though…can’t be Exeter as not enough seats and Plymouth too far.

He’s a political worm like Les Reed was. Remember Reed at a fans forum shamelessly saying Guido Carrillo would return from loan and be a great asset in the PL to howls of laughter from the audience and the other panel members avoiding rolling their eyes. They genuinely believe they are Teflon and I’d bet he’s giving it large around the SR boardroom about Goztepe’s league position and how it’s all his great work. We’ve read enough about his role at Brentford but their fans burst that bubble in more ways than one when they visited recently.

Not acceptable behaviour. It’s human nature to think it, but in public roles it’s stupid to have these things written in chat forums. The lessons were there from the previous shambles with their What’s App, so to repeat those mistakes with the contempt, they need to take a long look in the mirror. And not take a role in public or civic life.