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It is the contrariness and stubbornness that makes the thread irritating though. Free kick yesterday - lots of talk about his positioning but nobody saves that, perfect free kick and reminded me of JWP’s down the other end during Project Restart. 1st goal - goalkeeping error. Has to be getting a hand or at worst fingers to that and turning it around the post. Decent strike but no there’s no real deviation on it, decent but standard save which should be made. Seeing people post that those type of shots are impossible to save clearly didn’t see McCarthy make identical saves at Norwich midweek.

Pretty clear what the old men voted for there.

Rangers the better side, just that final ball needs to be slightly better. Gassama in behind again there and just needs to be slightly better. Rodgers has totally lost his mojo - Celtic dire and their own midweek Europe disaster.

Loan with an option I’d have thought.

The next game is definitely one to bash the Bishop in, and their other nine outfield players as well.

Cheers, good to know, I’d be more concerned about the ticker some of the players who have been here a while - Downes, Bazunu, AA - than I would be about this week’s additions or Mads. Atmosphere will spur them on if anything.

Great article as ever @L1Minus10 and honest, fair and objective about Baz. No slaughtering him and weak defending but that first goal shouldn’t go in period, it gets worse every time you see it and personally McCarthy has to start v the filth. No chance whatsoever with the free kick though, prime Gordon Banks wouldn’t have stopped that.

Tom Fellows was certainly up for it (did well vs Wolves in their feisty encounter in the FA Cup live on ITV) so no reason Azaz wouldn’t be (he’s played in Boro v Sunderland) and Casper Jander has probably experienced some German clashes with a bit of edge on them.

I think the groundsman of those sports pitches would have said so, he created huge tyre skid marks as he swerved to a halt!

Funny enough, Voice of America has a track record of opposing fascist propaganda, no wonder Trump wanted to abolish it https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdd38v3zvjdo Funnily enough China, a totalitarian state, thinks this is a positive move.

Best that Russ doesn’t attend the White House

‘Ding Dong, Ding Dong, where’s your bell gone?’ Recall us also singing ‘have you ever had a shag?’ In 2003. Some of the GRT songs during those game are probably a stadium ban these days though….

One of our players mid-90s hadn’t turned up close to kick off, we were just about to confirm the line up and he appeared in his car (probably failing a breath test if caught) doing a swerving emergency stop on the edge of the pitch. ’I’m here now lads, ready to play’….ugh and 🤮 on the pitch

Shrewd observation. Pity Stewart can’t stay fit for long as he will actually play with his back to goal a bit more and link up, albeit from a limited sample size. It’s the aspect of Che’s game we never replaced and it adds to the pressure on the midfield and defence.

Joe’s a good player at this level, less so PL, but I don’t think he’s a Will Still player and he’s also wanted out for ages. He will go to Turkey in their window, maybe Saudi as a squad option somewhere. Edozie one of the ITKs reckoned was virtually complete to Bruges since they made ECL league stage. Smallbone and Wrexham close too apparently, into the final details. Derby favourites on BBD and apparently Saints don’t want to send him to another top 6 prospect. Big wages for Derby to fund though.

I agree but they aren’t going to and trying to wring out some of the crazy fee they paid City. Just have to hope that the new players ensure the ball is much nearer the opposition goal than ours and that McCarthy ends up in goal mostly if we keep conceding poor goals (those are as much the defence and midfield as Gavin to be fair to him). We haven’t defended as a team since the first half of 2021/22. Even under Ralph, far too many crosses were not getting closed down.

It’s perception. We haven’t won there much and I’ve been quite a few times to watch Saints. Don’t like Selhurst either where I’ve also been a lot but our record there isn’t too bad and Dellhurst in 99. I don’t fear us going there but it’s a pleasant surprise when we do win. Carrow and Loftus Road for example are much happier hunting grounds.

2-2 I think was under Pellegrino? Certain grounds for certain eras. If you supported since Liebherr, you’ve probably never seen us lose at Hillsborough. But for decades we didn’t and got some hidings. Lost there consistently when Wilkinson managed them - at home to them as well - 5-2 humping over Easter, 5-0 in the Champ. Was there for a 1-0 win under Hoddle which contributed to sending them down though.

As posted below, might be a generational thing, if you’ve started supporting Liebherr onwards it’s not a bad ground but for the 00s it wasn’t good. And I was there for some of those defeats, the League Cup was especially grim, 5-2 when we were PL and they were mid-lower Champ. And the Boxing Day walloping.

Lot of draws and remember Boxing Day under Burley, stuffed 3-0 and could have been several more. Lost under Jones 3-2 when Watford went down by miles. And League Cup hammering under Wigley or one of Lowe’s minions.

It’s pretty major for social care and nursing - having family work in those areas it is certainly true. Some towns like Loughborough and Durham are also totally reliant on this universities for employment and SMEs rely on the spending and contracts. Braverman spitefully put students and dependents in the figures to spark disorder. Current government has made it much harder for students to claim asylum after their studies finish and I don’t see any rationale for an oncology PhD and their family to be cited in immigration data when they’ve trained here, paying tens of thousands in visas, health surcharges (which Farage and the papers never reference) and fees, and taking those skills back home. They are also treating UK patients whilst training and helping pay for the border forces. The boats and lorries for smuggling do my head in as well but that’s asylum and that’s what the numerical focus should be on IMHO.

Not the first time that’s happened there either, big queues previous visits.

Get him some Imodium. And keep him away from chicken livers and grills. Watford not the best ground for us, Long’s record early goal apart, going back to the Lawrie and Keegan era, and thought we’d lose so better than I thought. Bit of a gap to the top but not insurmountable with a run of wins, momentum can build up quickly in this league. September 2023 was far worse and our major transfer window signing was injured last time. Skates game a 6 pointer though, no excuses on that. All we can do is make it a cauldron of noise as Tom Fellows asks of us.

☝️ although I don’t want to see 5 ATB v them at home under any circumstances.

That’s because having a focus purely on numbers in the first place is daft (May’s fault). The social care system a lot of Reform potential voters have elderly and other relatives in collapses without a flexible legal migration. Do you want your elderly mother cared for by a culture steeped in caring or by Tracy the 16 year school leaver who got Fs in her GCSEs if that and doesn’t care? Same with nursing.