
Gloucester Saint
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The Starmer Years - Can The New Broom Sweep Clean?
Gloucester Saint replied to sadoldgit's topic in The Lounge
Apart from the tabloid locked in Reach’s basement (Express). MOS’s front page today even more pathetic https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4dxjxlzljo -
This is true of quite a few other squad members as well. Archer looks dangerous when we actually get him quicker balls in/through.
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The Starmer Years - Can The New Broom Sweep Clean?
Gloucester Saint replied to sadoldgit's topic in The Lounge
Reported that despite a mixed start, Labour leads on all issues in the polls bar two issues where the two main parties are tied. The polls after their conference were interesting, Cleverly shown as the most popular with both all voters and specifically Tory voters. The members are only a tiny sub-set though, and more likely Jenryck wins with them, as Badenoch has declined with the maternity pay comments. Jenryck may also have an IDS-type problem - campaign to win the right wing and find they hold you hostage when you try to tack back to the centre right and/or boot you out. Didn’t realise that it’s now only around 16 letters needed to the 1922 to trigger a leadership contest… William Hague gave an interview last week saying he didn’t regret being leader as someone ‘needed to do the night shift’ but did regret bringing in the current leadership election rules. -
That’s what I meant, to clarify, that he made a mistake you’d expect from a 22/23 year old back up CB against an all time great forward, but that many of us thought he could improve his concentration and positioning as he got into his mid-late 20s when players in that position typically peak. Allied to his ability to bring the ball out. And he hasn’t, really, he’s struggled even this season to look like the squad centre back he was under Ralph and at Bournemouth. Arguably, the technical ability on the ball had diminished as well. Only early 30s now and thought he’d be absolute peak now when seeing him as a younger player. Les was a disgrace that January to have sold Fonte and only brought in a half-fit Caceres. Plus Vardy crocking VVD.
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Worst of the lot for me taking into account the resources and standard of football was Pellegrino. Fell asleep at the Watford home game in the sunshine after Fraser let the second daisy cutter in from range, and the nadir was 10 men behind the ball v Huddersfield at 1-0, league’s lowest scorers there for the taking after Austin’s early goal. Les must have been highly pickled that season not to have sacked him before March, or an ego the size of Rasmus,
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That was a frustrating moment but him and Yoshida otherwise acquitted themselves well at Wembley, Fraser’s error on the free kick was very damaging. From there I expected him to kick on but the ball watching and losing strikers has become a more regular habit than it should be for someone with what, 150 PL starts?
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Someone who wants to play at a decent lick. The likes of Fernandes, Downes, Lallana, KWP, Sugawara, Taylor could all cope with it, and the centre backs would be less exposed. I dare say the forwards would appreciate earlier deliveries into forward areas before PL defences get set and everything goes on in front of them. Which is how our opponents want it.
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Shocking statistic that between 2013 and 2022, 66 under-19s have been killed by falls from tower blocks https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8elp45llz4o You could argue residents could fix it themselves - on the lowest couple of floors maybe - but above that it needs people experienced working at height to fit new latches and from the sound of it new windows on some of the 1960s and 70s stock. To let windows and doors degrade to that extent where young families are living, especially very young kids with less of a sense of danger, is unacceptable in a western country.
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Stokes doubtful for first Test v 🇵🇰 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/cj6e9k22e88o As the article suggests, save him for 2nd 3rd tests, have Smith at 6 and 5 bowlers. The wickets there are often very flat. Grass on it now but less so by next week.
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True, although the Central Lancashire Leagues have always been strong. Maybe not quite as strong as their 1970s/80s heyday with the proliferation of franchise white ball cricket before many rising stars have even established themselves in their national sides. There was a lot of moans about Jamie Smith’s Test selection in the Midlands and North but he’s been superb, McCullum, Stokes and Key can spot a player as Duncan Fletcher could.
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Probably but most of the PL outside the top 6/7 would be in the bottom three if they played a slow recycling game as Saints are at the moment, which is so easy to set against. It would have been interesting to see how we could have fared with a more varied pattern and style of play, and certainly moving the ball quicker. At least be competitive ala Luton last term with a squad costing a fraction of ours. Unlikely we’ll even pass Sheffield Utd’s total at this rate without a huge change in results. Derby’s 11 points record will go if Martin is here for 38 games. If we ship 5 or 6 at the weekend he probably won’t make the Leics game, especially if 2 of their goals are from intercepting slow recycled play.
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Makes Saints seem like George Graham era Arsenal with Adams, Dixon, Bould and Winterburn by comparison.
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The Starmer Years - Can The New Broom Sweep Clean?
Gloucester Saint replied to sadoldgit's topic in The Lounge
Suella wanted to send asylum seekers to the Falklands but Rishi overruled - could this have been an alternative? https://www.thetimes.com/uk/law/article/home-office-offered-up-falklands-as-back-up-for-rwanda-policy-z8stsjc83 Anderson suggested they could be sent to the Orkneys instead. And further back, Blair allegedly wanted to send them to the Isle of Mull https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/12/29/tony-blair-government-house-asylum-seekers-isle-of-mull/ -
There’s a difference between overseeing the paperwork and being the ‘strategic genius’. Which Mr 🐂 💩 thinks he is.
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He can work with the other two clubs, I just don’t want him anywhere near SFC decision making, even down what beer is in the concourse. One of the most inept people I’ve ever seen in any industry. The Frank Spencer of transfers.
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The Starmer Years - Can The New Broom Sweep Clean?
Gloucester Saint replied to sadoldgit's topic in The Lounge
Reminds me of that song at Alan Knight’s testimonial before all the trouble afterwards 🎵 ‘Alan Knight is a scummer, scummer His children are scummers, are scummers His grandkids are scummers, are scummers, His great, great children are scummers, are scummers’ 🎵 -
This time, Rasmus has to go as well. If SR want to employ him at Goztepe that’s up to them. But he is the most harmful individual I’ve seen in relation to SFC, even worse than Lowe or Askham.
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Equally possible and/or a subordinate dropped a ricket and she’s soaring their blushes. Still an unusual situation at that level.
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Agree with 99% of that FT apart from being sold to Gao.
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Very much agree, and as poor as Martin has been this season there’s just no top level football experience to rein him in a bit and get the detail focus the squad needs. SR needs an experienced top level DoF and first team manager at SFC just as much as SFC needs them.
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As Braverman once said, people’s ethnicity doesn’t always determine their personal views and political ones. It’s not a route I’d ever choose, especially if I were him.
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Which is Rasmus, the compromise might be that he becomes a Goztepe employee but not part of SR board itself, and Dragan appoints someone of more obvious top level footballing stature and experience to oversee the group.
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Cynical I know but that’s the sort of thing which gets you the elbow at the BBC and not what you expect from someone that experienced. Given Boris’s duo will be going shortly I’d think, I wonder if she’s had a bigger offer from one of Murdoch’s or Marshall’s streaming channels and this gets her out of her BBC deal?
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Don’t know about Soton specifically but certainly overseas Neo-Nazi involvement inciting and escalating the rioting and the arson attacks, in addition to Patriotic Alternative’s role domestically. PA being led by Nick Griffin’s former deputy https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8l9gpp8yro