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Burridge ought to be - old but good, if mad as a box of frogs. Brucie had some brilliant nights - Newcastle home he kept us in it until the late assault on their goal at the Archers End. But there’s always that ‘did he let one in at Coventry?’. Dave Merrington had a view I would say and Beasant didn’t let him down, huge role in keeping us up.

That data is skewed by a much smaller dataset of games and the 5-0 at Leicester skews that proportionally. So not just my opinion I’m afraid. Alex played more games under Still than Bazunu after Gavin got canned post-Hull debacle. By the way, they’re both crap and we are debating whether a cow pat or dog shit is worse. WTF Martin and Rasmus were doing offering McCarthy a 2-year contract after Wembley I have no idea. Rasmus has the double distinction of signing of Bazunu for £10m plus even if it was Shields’s bonkers idea. We’ve had some right twats running the club.

Certainly are https://www.politico.eu/article/final-decision-on-fate-of-crumbling-uk-parliament-delayed-to-2030s/ Asbestos exposure especially is a huge safety issue for people working there (not the politicians as much) and the electrics are really antiquated and lacking a lot of the basic safety features our own homes have.

Bazunu better than Paul Jones? Seriously? Watch the Man U home game we won 1-0 backs to the wall. Baz doesn’t save any of the stops Jones made that night. Liverpool certainly won’t be taking him on loan. And Forster pre-knee injury? Beasant was miles better than Baz as well. Got POTS in 1996. If you’d said Bazunu was par with Bart or Gunn maybe, but still a push. He’s not better than McCarthy either.

🎵 So True 🎵 The sun’s gonna shine on Gavin Bazunu too

He babysat Gavin as a nipper when Mr and Mrs Lighthouse wanted a Saturday night out.

Reform are presenting it as a coup - but like Mad Nads joining them, Badenoch will be fairly satisfied at seeing three more ERG nutcases fuck off and weaken Reform. In Lia Nici’s case, she’s a plastic Brexiteer and as Reform finished second in the 2024 GE in Grimsby she believes she can get her seat back. Gullis is one of the thickest human beings I’ve ever seen, how he was allowed to be a teacher I’ll never understand. Chris Green I know less about, has done some good charity fundraising for women’s refuges so well done there, maybe needs to be a bit more careful on what he retweets e.g. antisemetic poems. A vaccine sceptic so ideal for Reform’s medical quackery. End of the Uniparty? Not with Reform, ERG Mk2.

He did allegedly drive off from the scene of an accident though, that’s frequently a ban and a big fine in court. Club sorted it out seemingly. Agree that the woman on the video is doing a Francis Lee in the penalty box though, going over dramatically. He admitted liability via his insurer, her car was repaired, get on with your business and life. Millions like her pollute the Nextdoor apps.

Oh Lord, won’t you buy me, a Mercedes Benz…

My wife works for the NHS and I can confirm that your first post about the pandemic pressures pushing back cancer treatments for patients with advanced stages is sadly 100% accurate. There’s also a hell of a lot of trauma from Covid within the nursing profession, imagine having to facilitate goodbyes between parents and kids via Zoom. The parents weren’t elderly in many cases either, our age (mid-late 40s or younger). Friend of mine was one of them at just 47 and you still get helmets on here denying the danger of the pandemic and conspiracies about vaccines. Lifestyle illnesses are a problem, people will not walk any distance, seeing it at the Christmas fairs, park as close as they can and aggressive with each other competing for spaces. Mental illness in this country is frightening, it wasn’t good before the pandemic but worse again still now. Manifests itself in not just the welfare bill but at work, some of the behaviour is terrible at all levels, albeit not the majority. Includes colleagues and customers. The only bit of the above I’d slightly quibble with is about immigrants. Asylum yes, but if it wasn’t for the Philippines especially and other regions coming to work in our health services, we wouldn’t have them. I’d argue it’s probably evens Steven’s with an ageing population as they do a lot of caring albeit there’s some migrants who are a drain, seeing the stories about ASs and taxis. But I’d say legal immigrants benefit us (including say oncology PhDs training here, coming into teams finding breakthroughs, as well as nurses/doctors) and asylum is too high and a drain.

Gavin is hit and miss still - some improvement but remains well off Champ standard and consistency overall. And you’ve only got to watch Downs with your own eyes…worst outfield player I’ve ever seen in a Southampton first team shirt, and that includes Ali Dia. Gavin back in the team I would strongly suspect is Rasmus’s influence - the only positive thing Still did was drop him but the goalkeeping situation has been a total mess for years. All they needed to do was loan him out and get a solid first XI keeper in for this level which McCarthy is a bit too old to be now. Not expensive, should have been sorted.

Wouldn’t have thought so, it’s a technical detail probably most familiar to police/enforcemebt officers, motoring organisations, driving instructors and the courts, but leaving the scene is a distinct offence and set of penalties.

Pretty much, worse arguably. Joe has been on the scoff judging by his lack of fitness since his agent wasn’t able to bluff a move to the Saudi or Qatari leagues in September. Even Diallo and Holgate could get a gig in the latter and they’re appalling.

Not a Bazunu supporter but can’t see that he was a factor in throwing today’s game away. Manning, well, that’s a different story. Wood lousy and THB little better.

It’s not stopping at the scene of an accident - legally quite a different matter to a hit and run. Whoever Alex is hasn’t quite got that right.

I won’t lie, I’ve enjoyed watching the red ball cricket under McCullum and Stokes but that batting display was abysmal at Perth. I can’t see it improving at all under lights and pink ball at the Gabba. The knives will be out from the Barmy Army. Second innings they lost key wickets to regulation deliveries with a touch of movement on 5th stump. It was the old Oval pitch in say May/early June. Root is Warner MK2, brilliant in his own conditions and in Asia, but iffy in Aus/SA. Can’t leave rising deliveries well outside off and it’s his 4 away Ashes tour….very good but not confidently world class. Stokes gets a pass with his bowling but Brook’s shot selection is terrible in spite of immense talent. Duckett needs to learn to leave on the bounce like Root. At least give yourself 15-20 balls to look at the conditions lads… Too much like Russell Martin - this is the way we play. Well you’re losing badly and their best two quicks and skipper are injured. Starc is brilliant but England never put miles in his legs.

Happy to be corrected if anyone can recall a better one. The Wrexham one was a good save but the contact was quite scuffed.

I used it in the past and wouldn’t again. Better to look for Federation of Master Builders in your area if you have a bigger job to advertise as they can have their own trades who work with them regularly who also tend to pretty good as well. Our builder is a 💎. But even FMB accreditation isn’t a panacea, I’ve had other FMB companies turn up for both home and work jobs (the latter a biggie) chewing Wrigley’s like it’s going out of fashion in the mistaken belief that skunk only makes your breath stink and doesn’t go onto your work clothes. And make you glass eyed.

Yep, through my involvement with CAMRA I see fantastic breweries and pubs doing well, some good ones earlier in their business plan struggling with big rent hikes and cost of stock/staff availability in more rural areas (esp from the big pub cos, get managing tenants in a lower rate and hike it hugely when they are getting established after 18 months) and some shysters. On the latter, here is a prime example from the Midlands earlier this year

In a normal employment scenario I’d agree with you but this is far more high profile and the club has a highly paid employee from another country who may not fully understand UK laws yet and a court case would not reflect well on their duty of care. Of course, he’s from an English-speaking country and that would be a thin excuse. This is all one person’s account and given he subsequently admitted liability, I am really not sure she should have put it in the public domain like that let alone the histrionics. The club would get a lot of hassle though and PR to clean up if they hadn’t have advised him on what to do as I suspect they and his agent did. Either way, although accidents happen, if he looked remotely awake on the pitch I doubt it would be paid attention to at all, but he’s looked comatose and the worst outfield player I’ve ever seen for the club - and I was at the Leeds/Dia game.

Matterface is a prick but he made that exact observation on commentary and it’s impossible to argue against. If they had better than Colby Bishop up front we’d have lost that 0-2 on national tv.

Liverpool had some bad times in the 1990s - by their standards - but I don’t remember them losing 9 in 12 or shipping 7 goals at Anfield in two games against opponents they’d be strong favourites against.

Their owner moaning about the cost of the EFL today. Shows you how crap Still was that despite having to bring a shaky reserve keeper on that he was never tested and we didn’t score against them. Mind you, we also were the only side to lose at Ewood Park this season as well. Ginger Mourinho Will was not.

The video is cringey and self-pitying, typical Next Door app type slop, but him - allegedly as we only have one side of the story - driving away from an accident, the club would have had to report it to the police as that’s actually a criminal offence with some serious penalties attached (not that he’d ever be able to score one himself) https://www.draycottbrowne.co.uk/motoring-law/failure-to-stop We’ve not heard his side or the club’s, but if it’s true that he’s not stopped then he should be looking at a driving ban or very close to it. We’ve had stupidity with cars before (Hurlock, Beattie, Lemina) but driving away from an accident scene he’s been involved in or possibly caused, that’s serious. Combined with his absence of any professional football ability and a broken Ross Stewart almost certainly there will be a loan striker coming in January, at least one, and I suspect Damion will be packed off on a long-term subsidised loan somewhere.

Adding to the porn https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62l3j34772o https://hopenothate.org.uk/2025/11/26/reform-uks-small-business-champion-supports-tommy-robinson-and-peddles-conspiracy-theories/