Gloucester Saint

Duck will be quacking furiously at the screen when he does.

Happened under Ralph in a home game v Brighton, RH froze out Alex afterwards for a while in frustration at not coming off.

I try to feature beers that are local or not easy to get hold of in my native Hants and more common to where we live now but tonight feels like a bitter night being mild in temperature so I’ve put the rarer winter beers to one side that I’ve been having in the cold snap and poured a Thornbridge Lord Marples instead for the game. Very good it is too, lovely head, a subtle fruitiness of citrus and 🍐, dry and bitter finish. Bottled conditioned with live yeast so has some of the smoothness of cask.

Duly noted and bookmarked.

That’s a pity, they were looking forward to a scrap after the game. Surprised someone didn’t have 50p.

That sounds like Soggy and a conversation from one of the people he bumps into in his travels around Kent. You don’t think he’s been lurking on here do you and taken a leaf from Soggy’s book?

Correct, Braverman deliberately put them into the net migration figures to stir it up for Sunak. Pity Starmer has been a dick so far about not taking them back out. Ukraine as well.

Happy birthday Notnowcato. Hope the team puts in a shift tonight and you get to enjoy a result. Harvey’s is what we had on cask at our wedding in Sussex. Dark Star is good stuff as well but it depends on whether you like hoppier beers or not. Harvey’s do an Old Ale this time of year - if you see it do try it.

Fair point - Jason’s CV looks decent and cane across as having some substance but should never have signed off on Crock Ness and not clear how much Russell was his appointment. My sense was he completed it but it was a Rasmus idea, which would the extreme clinging onto him when any other club would have moved on by now. We will probably never know.

If he ever appears again and came on a sub next season in the Champ, the home and away fans will be chanting ‘who are yer?’

Ross Stewart makes Charlie George and Darren Powell look like Wayne Bridge and JWP in terms of reliability and fitness. Fair play to him and his agent for being able to pull it off - signing on fee of a £1m at least probably and now PL wages for a bit of light training and sitting on his arse. That’s what happens when you are dealing with amateurs like Rasmus and Martin, bit more surprised at Wilcox. Top trolling and the rewards from a bank robbery but conducted entirely legally. They saw mugs coming and really took their trousers down, pants the lot. Beats the dole where he’d otherwise be and not far off set up for life. The fact Larios is also an SR purchase tells us everything we need to know. He’s even more invisible. So young when signed that he might be seen again I suppose.

I had exactly the same thought when I saw the headline - I posted on here that I thought she was toast after the DP World incident.

He did. It was funny the first time it was uncovered but by the time of the fake Kenyan it was tiresome. Their original ID was pre-Marcus, that’s how long they’ve been at it. From what I can remember, they had a serious obsession with gambling.

It does, it was worse in 08/09, bitterly divided (plus the Lowe paid plants stirring it up).

AKA Bournemouth Saint before that, popped up around the time we signed Victor Wanyama as a Kenyan poster ‘love and light’. Others will probably recall similar incarnations. Multiple bans but always pops up somewhere from a new email account. Professional WUM. Agree with you on Lighthouse, a poster and mod I respect, we just disagree on Martin and Bazanu. Notnowcato is another genuine supporter and poster who simply has another view. Can’t agree about Fabrice though, in the Gio camp for me. Or a plant.

More someone annoying (and rumoured to be very arrogant and rude) - thankfully coming unstuck https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdje0kp7zewo What he was stuck on with in the first place is of itself a cause for concern…

Wasn’t aimed at you, and Gio is obviously Glasgow Saint etc but there’s a few others posting on here that genuinely reckon SR are doing a great job. I won’t pick out names but you’ll see them. Which is astonishing considering their record so far. Gao left the club hollowed out but established in the PL and a solid team. What has followed has been incredibly bad, they’ve not got a clue and don’t seem to recognise the need to bring operational industry expertise to sort it out. That’s before you consider on the pitch the same type of mistakes are being made more or less game in, game out, with a struggling manager doubling down on deeply flawed methods. And it’s no given that we suddenly get into the autos next year.

It seems to have infected the brains of significant numbers of the fanbase where abject failure is a prelude to hero worship. I cannot think of another club who has been in the top flight for most the post-1966 period who would think this was great. I know the schools in Southampton weren’t much cop but surely they aren’t THAT bad?

Another hopeless signing. If SR can’t do transfers whatsoever, because they can’t operationally run football clubs for shit, what are they actually good at? Or even just not an absolute disaster at?

Susan Hall criticising that is like living in the Crystal Palace and throwing rocks at the glass houses of others. Starmer grabbed the opportunity to move on the left wingers on though, won’t be too upset.

Fucking useless signing and a lot of us were rightly astonished that the club spaffed £10m up the wall for a player injured for a year who was out of contract in a few months. Meanwhile Sunderland have rebuilt with the money and are competing at the top of the Champ. It doesn’t matter whose idea it was - Rasmus or Russell, they are both the Frank Spencer of their roles. Wilcox should’ve know better than to sign it off as unlike dumb and dumber he has actually got some common sense.

The southern border is their biggest problem in terms of what he’s been elected on immigration-wise, so less surprised he’s picked a fight there. Canada seems a less obvious one and they also have the means to push back. I think his main focus is Chinese economic expansion tbh. I’m not fussed about Americans paying more for their household goods and electronics, that’s their choice. But inflation usually follows major trade disputes which ripples globally. As you say, a few weeks until he’s inaugurated and seeing what’s rhetoric (most) and actions. An interesting break from the main board where there’s conflict aplenty.

America has a significant issue with the import of steel for its car manufacturing and cement for housebuilding which they are fairly reliant on Canada for after Trump put tariffs on Chinese steel and Biden extended them. It caused job losses last time.

What is most astonishing is that despite having been a PL defender not that long ago, his teams concede an average of 2.5 goals a game. And he doesn’t see not being able to set up the basics of a defence as problem. For a promoted side to concede 60+ goals is shocking, even with Bognor Regis Town’s goalkeeper for most of the season. I don’t have anything against him as a bloke, I just don’t rate him at all at what he gets paid for, same as Branfoot and Pellegrino. Nathan Jones was dislikable but his teams’ defensive records are miles better.

Why would they if Trump did? Would relax fears about NATO and one in the eye for a vile dictator like Putin who has killed and imprisoned thousands of his own citizens, probably tens of thousands. I’d praise him for it. Rumours as it is that his camp are getting fed up with Putin’s delusions about Russia bringing a full size USSR back. It’s the isolationist wing of the GOP who would cry foul.