Gloucester Saint

I think voters who are really appalled by Trump and MAGA have really got to be organised to see the populists off here. Reform/UKIP/BNP have done well in local and European elections (when we had them) before, but not quite to this extent. Long way to go but hard to see Labour getting to 326 seats next GE, as Hypo says knife edge on being too left/right wing. Lib Dem growth is encouraging and not just because I vote for them. Probably the best is Lab largest party with Lib Dem and Greens, who are starting to translate local results into national, vote by vote. Reform would do grave economic harm and the last thing we need is to swing back towards Brexit when public opinion clearly shows support for closer links with the EU. Economically it’s crucial. Would welcome a revival of One Nation Conservatism as the grown ups in their party but can’t see from where.

Wood had Spurs and Arsenal after him a couple of years back so he has the raw materials - height, pace, decent on the ball. He is genuinely quick for a CB. The worry is concentration, Stephens-level ball watching and then some. Is that something that can be fixed for the PL in the future?

Who is behind the retail hacks? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crkx3vy54nzo Seems to be multinational and young, including British teenagers https://www.standard.co.uk/news/tech/who-scattered-spider-marks-spencer-hackers-b1225699.html Another ‘gift’ of generative AI.

OBS/Glasgow/Heisenberg/Barry Sanchez and dread to think how many other eg Love and Light when Victor played for us.

That would be seriously screwed up though, like a split personality. And would take a shedload of time.

Farage is copying the Trump playbook closely by attacking EDI. Will please the boomers who turned out for them yesterday but it won’t help Reform at national elections where ethnic minorities, the physically disabled and neurodiverse and more women tend to vote than local elections. Sciences, especially climate science, and R&D in general in all sectors will be next in the populist sights. Even tactically, if you voted Reform, the fact is that you voted Trump policy-wise.

Fair enough. You’d think it would encourage the Tories back to the centre ground but you just know it won’t after Boris’s purge of the One Nation group. Supporting Reform is still supporting Trump’s agenda though, let’s be clear about that. Despite the farmers (you’d think they had learned from Brexit wouldn’t you?) GCC very much yellow. No formal majority but with the Greens it will be. Used to be blue as a blue arsed fly here https://glostext.gloucestershire.gov.uk/mgElectionResults.aspx?ID=14&RPID=182116020

Serves the Tories right for their membership for a quid swizz, they’ve got infiltrated and unlike Momentum and Labour, still not cleared the stables out with the ERG crazy gang still leading them. Won’t win another election taking Reform on and RIP if they have a pact.

I wouldn’t be so sure, kites flown in the DT and Mail yesterday hinting Ed Miliband was on his bike in the near future.

I don’t vote Labour but he’s had a pretty full plate on foreign affairs - Ukraine, which has escalated since the GE, Trump, Vance et al and NATO, trying to sort out the pathetic mess left behind by Johnson and Frost on our relationship with the EU leaving a 6% hole in our economy. Trump’s tariff tantrums impact by another 0.8% GDP but the hard Brexit is the priority to fix with the new German Chancellor and others. Working more closely with France as adults will also help with curbing illegal migration, which the ERG were unable to do. Reeves is a clusterfuck but I don’t think Starmer has done that badly and if you’re being objective, there’s some good early performances there eg Streeting sorting out another horrific mess from Lansley. Jeremy Hunt agrees with what he’s doing.

Organ probably a better bat too. Let’s hope he can recapture that purple patch he had with his spin bowling later today.

Yes, IIRC, summer 2023. Tino had done back towards the end of the season after his ACL injury sustained at Brighton.

Ambient or lightly chilled. Fully chilled murders the flavour. Although in the case of Carling, that is probably a good thing.

I think RVN would have to walk with their PSR severe issues though. He’s probably wealthy enough but footballers don’t tend to walk away from guaranteed money very often….

Although not quite the crop circles of Fabrice Fernandes

IIRC they pretty much made a strategy out of that transfer which fed into the SR takeover - Semmens may even have referred to it in the press release - and you can see a direct correlation as you say to the summer 2022 window.

Probably someone economically a smidgen left of centre but disliking the Labour left approach and probably less of a collectivist e.g. big trade unions. Pro business overall but not believing public or private sectors can do everything. Pro-European and a more pragmatic approach to immigration.

Me and my wife. Parents tend to plus some family members who were Conservatives pre-Brexit.

True, although it didn’t stop the local Reform candidate for Gloucestershire making all kinds of lavish claims and how they’d slash spending. Behaviourally it might be interesting. Jenkyns in her Mayor role in Lincs will have to work with Tory councils in the districts - which could be interesting after the acceptance she just gave!

50% of this forum has more pace than Vestergaard. Play Sulemana through the middle/coming off wide down his side and lots of early balls into the channels to skin Jannik. If Sulemana can’t put Vestergaard on his arse then there’s no hope for him even in the Champ. If Archer could be bothered, I’d start him as well.

Agree, I think football clubs and scouts must be watching a different game to me at times because I see a bang average centre half similar to Bednarek in a 4, and in a 5 THB has been miles worse than Jan, and even worse than Stephens when the latter has been off the pitch. Not even sure he’s been better than Wood in a 5. He’s alright on the ball but so is Stephens when he’s not sent off. That England cap might make us very grateful to Lee Carsley if we can somehow turn a profit on him. I do hope that it is another learning point along with Bazanu (the biggest lesson), Larios and to an extent Edozie that because a player has looked good for an ECL petrol club below first team level with genuine talent around them that it will automatically translate to PL at a medium sized club. The Livramento and Lavia transfers made money but they also killed SFC in a lot of ways.

One look at where Reform’s funding comes from tells anyone with an IQ in double digits that those are the people Reform is going to shit all over. As Rallyboy says, it’s an opportunity for Reform to prove their worth at a local and regional level. Andrea Jenkyns promising DOGE forLincolnshire and already stomped off a Sky News interview with her nappy around her ankles. Quite possibly the most unpleasant human being in British politics but given Lincolnshire’s leading role in Brexit they absolutely deserve each other. Cue the whining on social media when their remaining public services disappear. But too dense to watch the News and what is happening in the US https://news.sky.com/video/reform-mayor-andrea-jenkyns-pushes-journalists-mic-away-13359666

Don’t know what that makes Jannik Vestergaard then - cost Saints £18m, then even more astonishingly Leicester paid £15m for him with only a year left on his deal at Saints. And he played in the 0-9.

Gloucester City in the final - my Hampshire roots mean that I’d like to see Totton win though. But if not, local 6th tier football plus Cheltenham Town in League 2. Bishop’s Cleeve had a great season locally as well.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14650649/cia-deputy-director-son-russian-ukraine-war-death-michael-gloss.html