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Ditto. If I start using ‘Pony’ on the match thread he’s definitely got into my head.

That experience can’t be ignored but training and u23 matches only replicates match day situations so far, although obviously important in preparation. Let’s see how Gavin does in the first 3-4 games and if he’s free of major faults, claiming crosses well and making the saves he should be as well as the ones that are over and above a couple of times then as a fanbase we can start saying ‘you know, I think Gavin has developed and grown’.

Again, more attributing of things that the likes of me, Egg and Sheaf haven’t said. Me and Egg have been pretty consistent on here about the NI being misdirected and very harmful to SMEs under 10 staff, charities and universities etc. The country’s infrastructure is severely under-invested - businesses use that as much as anyone else. The Trump environment and tariffs don’t help anyone. And I’ve been very vocal about the Labour weak approach to rebuilding our relationship with the EU and getting back towards the Single Market. That would be more transformative to businesses than anything else. Exporting without the insane increase in paperwork we have to put up with now.

It’s alright everyone, Reform will fix it 😂 (credit Private Eye)

Question marks over his attitude as well. Can understand his disappointment at being on the bench for the Europa Final but the way he expressed it was not professional or acceptable. As a manger, those individuals are toxin however talented.

Madness, why not see how he gets on in the early games first? An asset is only worth protecting long-term if it can succeed at the level your club or organisation wants/needs to be at.

You’d have thought they’d have learned from the Lallana situation last season. If Adam was giving sage advice, Russell Martin sure as hell didn’t listen to any of it.

IFS hammered the conspiracy of silence at the last GE from Tories, Labour and Reform about taxes almost certainly needing to rise to cover Covid borrowings, type of Brexit and that was before Trump was re-elected with the impact of tariffs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigger_(Only_Fools_and_Horses) I smoke astroturf myself

Hmmm, does anyone recognise this post that sounds rather like what Nic posted a few weeks ago? See, if Mickey wanted to make an example of people on the populist right being poorly read and uniformed, he wouldn’t have look far https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdd32lnq445o

Nah, nowhere has Reeves or Starmer said ‘fuck business’ like Boris did during Brexit. And as for calling them socialist…we’re widely regarded as to left of Labour these days let alone the Greens. You’re sounding like nutcase Nic or drunken John Guided Missile tbh. Had my own business so don’t need lectures on capitalism thanks. And I look forward to hearing about how they somehow to have managed to wipe more off the economy than a hard Brexit did. 6% of GDP. Own it.

Never heard of Liz Truss then? Or slept heavily between 2019-20 when Johnson and Frost wiped 6% off our economy with a needless and brainless hard Brexit. Not a fan of Reeves at all btw as a Lib Dem voter but whatever she does, she won’t have wiped anywhere close, not even remotely, to what those two Conservative clowns did above. And then there’s Truss. And that’s still minute compared with the IFS’s withering assessment of anything economic Reform has put forward, which has had hundreds of billions of uncosted elements. Ours came out the best but not without issues, but then we won’t be winning an overall majority in a Brexit nation. Pity as I think we’d make the country a lot better and happier.

*put a laughing emoji just in case…

The TAA was still spewing hatred at a player, and that’s just three other examples of fan frustration at players under-performing off the top of my head in 60 seconds. Given time plenty more would come to mind. It underscores the point that our fanbase is hardly unique and the Everton example was taken out directly on the players and was equally a frustration with players and owners. And probably humiliated at being Nathan Jones’s only PL scalp in their own backyard!

I don’t aspire to those fans at all, just factually observing that our fanbase whether in the stadium or online is more moderate comparatively to a lot of similar sized or bigger clubs.

Wasn’t that the transfer Spors said he would never have signed off on?

Ex-Saints academy and son of Mark Alleyne, Gloucestershire CCC head coach and 1990s serial one day cup winning captain.

You’ve not been to many other grounds and clubs I take it? Just a few examples: - Watch the clips after Nathan Jones’s only PL win at Everton. Their fans turned on them with some vitriol and went further in the car park directly physically accosting their players and then blocked roads around Goodison Park stopping their escape hurling further abuse and objects. - West Ham at home to Burnley which was a full scale pitch invasion during the second half, mainly aimed at their owners but their players copped plenty too. It also got very tasty at Upton Park after our last minute winner in 2003. - Skates loads of times, not least the abuse Carl Tiler got after an error ridden game v Palace. Even the skates at work the next day were staggered at the level and scale of the hatred spewed at the Fish Shed. - Man U most of last season at Old Trafford - Liverpool fans at TAA after his move was nearly complete to Real - Eric Dier took so much of it from one section of Spurs fans he climbed in that section to confront them - Granit Xhaka moved overseas to get away from the Arsenal booboys - Chelsea fans and Brian Laudrup, not sure he wanted to be there, and Chris Sutton. Going further back, targeting their own player Paul Canoville for horrific racist abuse.

CM who is first team ready makes sense to rotate over 46 games as Charles and Downes will get bookings and injuries. Aribo very likely to move still and increasingly Smallbone. At his age he needs/wants to be starting and a mid-level to lower Champ club is his best route. He can’t play in a two for a promotion-chasing outfit, we know that, and he’d be back up to at least one #10 signing even in a three. He won’t be allowed to run his last 12 months down either if the club can help it and no sign he’s been offered a new deal.

It’s not unreasonable though, no sign of him being offered nor signing a new deal, and he’s not had a particularly great pre-season under Still. Nor does he look any more likely to be able to play in a central two for Still’s preferred formations. He’s at an age where he needs to/wants to start regularly, especially to stay in the RoI set up, so as long as Saints aren’t silly about the fee - £2-4m seems fair - I can see him departing for the right Championship club.

I think it’ll be Grace Dent if the Celebrity series goes well. I’m ok with them showing the last series, would’ve been unfair on the contestants who bust a gut to compete and in one case win.

Good job we gave Jack Stephens that contract extension - if he joined the Masterchef crew, that hair would be far too tempting to pull.

Grace Dent replacing Wallace’s non-professional chef co-presenter role for Celebrity version, presumably without the alleged perviness…

Trump, Vance and David Duke will be having a good old tug at that image

Quarshie probably starts and possibly Downs? Hasn’t played lots of pre-season but must be fairly fit with the US going quite deep into the Gold Cup?