Gloucester Saint

Not least Leeds’s away record - answers on a postcard as to where they finally broke that very long sequence?

Tonight’s offering SG was Phoenix, a collaboration between Hook Norton Brewery and Arbor Brewery in Bristol - describing itself as an American Brown Ale but much, much darker. And it looks like a Black IPA. Bitter up front from the roasted malt and blood orange from the US hops, with the palate clashing slightly but it then mellows nicely into a Terry’s Chocolate Orange vibe but with a sharper edge. Nice, would have that again. Got it from Dunkerton’s, the cider makers who have a big cider, ale (Stroud), global food and farm shop complex on the edge of Cheltenham off the A40. The farm shop sells other local beers and is run by Daylesford Organic, it’s where this came from. McEwans - I remember it was very popular in the 90s when I first started drinking, our local Co-Op sells their Champion ale in bottles (at 7.3% it could earn the moniker Red Death!). I liked the equivalent beer from Broughton.

After Russell is dismissed, absolutely.

As long as the manager is changed well before then. I’d make us relegation favourites with Russell Martin in charge. He’s making Ian Branfoot look like Brian Clough.

Whatever the inverse of the Midas Touch is, SR has it. VAFC should be ripping up that league. Feel sorry for their fans, even more so than ours

More chance of signing Baldrick.

We were the vehicle - but if you burn the show-home down, the rest of the development won’t be worth much. But they’re aren’t up to much at business either so this hasn’t dawned on them and Solak seems totally unaware that Ankerson and Martin are leading them back down the leagues in their vanity bullshit. Just leave them to it and when somebody buys the carcass in League one or two maybe we’ll take an interest again. None of the St Mary’s tourists will say a word until it’s far too late and we are 10 points adrift in the Championship drop zone in two years time,

If that’s an option, I’ll have Shankly thanks.

Sounds like more of a classical Trump loyalist pick. Other than the Scientology, not at a lot at face value to stop a nomination succeeding through a GOP majority Senate, and I can’t see the GOP being phased by that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pam_Bondi

Beattie as well was very reliable from the spot.

Yes, home to Spurs I think. My old man was impressed with Folly playing at DMC.

My old man had a few quid on him for the first goal at the League Cup final as he was our penalty taker at 16/1 and low and behold… Very nice little win back then I believe.

Allegedly kept our players waiting in a boiling tunnel at Plymouth pre-season whilst he received an award from them which caused ill will with the senior players (IIRC that was from MLT’s memoirs). Beattie got serious shit off their fans playing for Everton but denied he was horrible to Sturrock or offered him his autograph (was the rumour). Still, even 04/05 looks sane compared to Russell Martin, Rasmus Ankerson and the madness of SR.

I was there for City away, at the Barbados Test for Wolves and missed Claus’s first goal. My old man attended home games in my absence and saw Delap’s overhead kick. I should have gone on Barmy Army duty more often!

Fair point 🙂 The jocks managed to stop short of the cliff edge and there were loads of hidden costs in their leave campaign, not least a lack of clarity of whether they could carry on using Sterling, whether the EC would let them join the Euro (very unlikely as Spain didn’t want the Basques kicking off) and/or the EU itself.

I thought about Steve Williams but my first season was 83/84 and that was the only full season I remember him from although was superb. Christmas 1984 he went to Arsenal which never really worked out for him. I’ll edit to put him on the bench. Golac was slightly past his best by that time, have seen the WBA goal on You Tube. Keegan sadly just tantalisingly before my time, ditto Channon, both leaving summer 1982. Beattie v Lambert was a tough decision, Lambert was a more refined player but James’s astonishing 02/03 got him in. Imagine the conversation rate given supply from peak MLT, David Armstrong, and Danny Wallace!

When you’re too much of a sicko and a pervert even for the present day GOP, that’s some statement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Gaetz

https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/chancellor-rachel-reeves-budget-brexit-behind-labour-ps40-billion-tax-rise-4847584 https://www.itv.com/news/2022-12-20/brexit-costs-government-40-billion-a-year-in-lost-tax-revenue https://www.bestforbritain.org/inheriting_the_cost_of_brexit Nationalism is very expensive

But much further behind still now. Which considering the club went down in 22/23 with a pathetic 24 points is a seriously piss poorly run and managed club.

What have we said before Duck about not telling us what you really think 😂😂😂

Yes, as Badger said, that stuck out and disappointed me. Bullshitters seem to get away with it often, and with his fellow bullshitter the manager they are taking SFC potentially down a road even Markus couldn’t have dug the club out of.

They all do it, they wouldn’t get elected otherwise. Maggie on doubling VAT, the party I vote for on tuition fees to get the ministerial cars, Brown on pensions. Farage has told loads and now he’s elected it’ll be harder to shrug them off.

👏 Quality and well deserved for a ‘poster’ who is a true WUM. Love and Light

The NI contributions weren’t and that’s a major earner to repair the damage. I’ve got a very wealthy friend who will be moaning about the VAT on public school fees but with hundreds of schools failing under aero concrete, it’s easy to understand why. He doesn’t like it but I understand it. We also needed to stop the rail strikes to save the huge hospitality industry and health ones to get productivity up and sick back to work. The border force needed boosting and that costs money. Personally I’d have reversed the NI cut we clearly couldn’t afford and rejoin the Single Market, because Slovenians and Finns aren’t coming here via boats, and we wouldn’t have a £40bn economic black hole every year. But unlike Labour, I don’t have to worry about re-election or political optics, I can pick the common sense solutions. Do those two and we’re not even discussing farmers.

Funnily enough thriving under a good manager who plays non-ponderous higher energy football (although anything slower than Russball is like the WBA fan who fell asleep in the away end last year).