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Dyche only has a goatee and lacks luxuriant Lego-type hair. He’s a bit too old school for vaping and skinny jeans as well. Wouldn’t be on Rasmus’s black box therefore. Does have bags of actual top level football management expertise but that’s over-rated apparently.

Isn’t Paul Doswell at Sholing now and Kelvin at Eastleigh or am I confused? Adam is in a difficult spot and Martin has been rude to both him and Alfie. The club can just pull the shutters down. They don't do it to the national media of course. PS - your username is a great summary of what most of us think of Martin, Rasmus and SR 😉

Is there an option four - have Jones, Selles or Martin manage Saints, or cutting off our cocks with a rusty butter knife?

You’re right, I got the first two the wrong way around. Brighton was Boxing Day and Gavin’s nightmare in front of the cameras.

First game was Lincoln home and then Liverpool away IIRC

Commonality between the three SR clubs https://www.rasmusankersen.com/about/

You know me. Stamping on people’s dreams and all that 😉

Didn’t know Sky had adopted BBC Breakfast’s background 😉

But they need the £££ to do it. Needs a couple more major investors and buy the Danish duo of the partnership, or make them full-time employees of say Goztepe.

Good post although your username is rather optimistic this season 😉

We are on course for that anyway with 70% possession and 1 shot on target at what was the bottom club this morning. Try Fratton, they won today. Although you might want to invest in a robust nose peg because John Westwood smells appalling. Assuming he hasn’t got arrested for urinating on the side of one of the stands pre-match.

Have you ever managed staff, run a business or led a large department? The workplace isn’t much different to the football industry, people just use stronger language at the football.

If you can’t vent off after a club record defeat then there’s something wrong and Ralph said if he’d been a fan he’d have left the ground before half-time. He was astonished how many fans stayed. This is a strange hill you seem determined to die on.

Ralph after the two 9-0s. RH himself said it was remarkable. And no-one was saying anything vaguely against Ronald after the 0-3 v Everton first home game of the season, a bit of frustration with a lethargic display. A few murmurs after the bad run mid-season but very low level.

Adrian Viveash, who the new owner got rid of in the summer.

All of this is a fact, and has been obvious with SR for a while. Need a latter day John Williams as SFC CEO, have a strategic hook-up with an agent like Wolves had with Mendez next season until the scouting department is rebuilt top to bottom and ensure Rasmus’s nose is kept firmly out of any transfers. Hire a first team manager committed to the type of press then pass football which suits Saints and what the fans enjoy and recruit players accordingly with pace, power, maybe raw but the materials to improve. Even when a transfer looks a good deal on paper, the first team manager has right of veto. SR themselves need a couple more investors with Dragan to get the headroom up to 3-5Bn which is the minimum for a multi club model and dilute Rasmus and Henrik’s influence. A global figurehead like Patrick Vieira or Henry would make them be taken far more seriously in the industry. At the moment, all they’re doing is giving a horrific glimpse of what Pinnacle would’ve been like if Markus hadn’t bought us. Professionalise or sell up this season. Your choice Dragan. I wouldn’t invest in setting up a hotel chain as I don’t have a hospitality background, I’d start with a smaller hotel and hire very experienced in that industry around me first. They have never got Saints right at the core before taking on two more clubs with not much success so far either.

All the hallmarks of Russia https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy93dp4zk3o

RoI football team very much in the Rugby Union team’s shadow

Going further north this week with Abbeydale’s Sheffield Stout. Made with six malts apparently, notes of dark chocolate with spicy hop notes in the background. And it tastes good - dark chocolate, equivalent to a very high cocoa content, getting the peppery notes off the hops with hints of fruit 🍋‍🟩 The can is a work of art, I’m reluctant to put it in the recycling. I think that’s Kinder Scout depicted at the top of the can.

What’s in it for Ukraine though? They can’t fight at the same level if Trump slows the funding package but Russia’s operations are now in part propped up by N Korea. And America doesn’t want that. Crimea and Donbas will go to Putin in any settlement next year, RUSI have predicted that for months. Although the latter Putin’s forces have smashed to shit, and Russia has no money for reparations anywhere with their economy in tatters. Trump has campaigned on not funding overseas wars so can’t fill the reparations gap either, but what he can do is NATO membership which would also be a positive stroke for Western Europe, who are concerned about Putin holding on for another 4 years for a crack at Latvia/Lithuania. Putin would hate that but he’s already in a corner and Xi won’t supply any more credit. He can claim a hollow win for liberating the Russian speaking lands.

He’s got a unique status as a non-Washington system person - really The Apprentice and the visibility of his enterprises enabled him to parachute in with that profile. Plus he was non-aligned for most of his life and in fact more involved in Democrat politics 90s and 00s in NYC. It’d be hard to replicate again in the same way by anyone else. Main reason is people thought they were better off in 2020 with the cost of living and borrowing https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cze3yr77j9wo They may well have been too given the post-pandemic inflation we’ve all experienced and impact of Putin’s war. But his tariffs didn’t work last time - cost of washing machines shot up for domestic consumers when he slapped 50% on those, hurting the lowest incomes, hopefully he’s learned from that https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20myx1erl6o

They’re both the elite - Trump had a huge PAC investment from Musk, the Kock billionaires have pumped huge money into the GOP. Trump inherited a lot of money and assets with the family business. The other fact is that the Democrats have been and remain a mess post-Obama. They need a compelling counter narrative of how they’ll create new industries to keep the lights on to get a big majority with younger voters. The former coal communities ain’t coming back to them.

To be fair to Sheaf, under what the Heritage Foundation have drawn up with Project 2025, you absolutely would, a climate scientist would be a criminal. From the evidence visible, Trump isn’t fussed by it and thinks it’s way too much hassle/load of bollocks but he’s 78 and there’s a whole movement behind him who do believe in it, horrific as it is. Hence the Democrats only have a brief window to mope into their Brooklyn Pilsner because the mid-terms and 2028 need to be planned for now. They need that precision they had in their tactics under Obama back.

Project 2025 is a very chilling strategy, from the Heritage Foundation, a certain former poster’s favourite cut and paste source. It’s a hard right policy Kleenex list (other tissue brands are available). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025 My sense is however that Trump doesn’t care that much for it and more hassle than it is worth. JD Vance definitely does though and was seemingly involved in the drafting. Given he’s only in his early 40s, the Democrats need to build around Sharpiro as a front runner early to build around, and build up funds quickly for the mid-terms and then squeeze Vance for 2028.

Whilst no fan of Trump whatsoever, he’s not even been re-inaugurated yet…