Gloucester Saint

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.

And get what? More public debt like Trump is piling up over there? End of free at point of entry healthcare? To vote for something that you don’t know anything about is an absolute dick move by anyone who does it. Nearer the GE he will actually have to start taking policy positions other than ‘keep the Muslims out’ and hopefully where the wheels come off the clown car, plus Labour and Tories changing leaders. He also has fallen out with every single MP, you can only imagine the civil war if they get 100+ MPs?

Given Farage’s constant apeing of MAGA language that’s a given.

Nobody knows what that change is, just like Brexit, so it’s 100% relevant. The last leap in the dark cost us car manufacturing and exports, hundreds and thousands of jobs, and pushed public services to edge. But yes, there are enough stupid people to drink the populist snake oil, 5 years to regret it and 25 to fix it.

It’s not just a treaty though, it’s common law if you look at Grieve’s comments. And we don’t want political judges like they have in the US.

Don’t disagree with the first bit, living standards have stalled since 2008 and hence the growth of populism. But the electorate and especially the Reform supporting part have to take some responsibility for voting Leave.

Frying pan and fire. Reform’s offices don’t have calculators https://ifs.org.uk/election-2024/general-election-2024-manifesto-analysis-ifs

And every time Farage is asked for details at a press launch or speech, you can see the panic in his eyes same as Boris and parries it to a colleague straight away. Same again midweek and already rowed back on child deportations the next day in Edinburgh. No grasp of detail, policy or otherwise, and look where it got the country with Johnson, and Brexit (which Farage was central to as well). Leaps in the dark don’t pan out well. Not a fan of this government either but some of the public need to grow up and stop looking for unicorns. Doing so has already slashed 6% off our economy.

Agree to a large extent and some of the criticism last week was a bit much. The first goal today is mainly him though. Was given too much space to get the shot off clearly but at EFL level, including L2, a basic save.

Even then I think he’d have been in the net with it. Sometimes the quality of what the opposition does is too good, albeit it happens slightly less at this level. Would have been a good idea to not concede yet another stupid free kick in the first place as well. Conceded far too many and deserved to concede from one. But the first goal is pure Bazunu and really poor. Defence and midfield stood off, decent strike but should never be going in and at EFL level going around the post for a corner. Even at my other team, Torquay’s level, Be. Hamer would be very disappointed to concede the first as would Paul Wotton his manager. But Paul doesn’t have untouchables at his club.