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We just did to Ipswich what they were trying to do us playing out from the back. Excellent ball and concentration from Adam and composed finish by Tyler. Well done young man!

Mr X won that

That is more or less the side I’d have selected, toss-up between Fraser and Cornet, Cornet will be in when Fraser runs out of fuel, ditto Lesley for Lallana after an hour.

👏😂

I asked this question last night, whether FD-Fernandes-Lallana was too lightweight and bring Ugo on 55-60 when Lallana is done? As it’s a must-win game really, I think I’d be tempted. Yes to 🍦

Wish Robin Smith well. My old man played golf with him a couple of times in competitions and said he was a lovely bloke and his driving off the tee was like his square cuts in cricket. Slightly surprised at Barket getting another year but gives the left arm variety and verging on all rounder status. Currie has done very well at Leicester, featured in Finals Day as well.

I think this is a fair post. If they can get over the giddiness of being back in the big time, and all of the attention that brings, then this won’t be remembered in 4 or 5 years time. And certainly if they’re facing Jenryck. But a sniff test for me would be ‘if I was working at a senior level in the public sector, I accepted these items and had a role in commissioning, would I have issues with legislation such as the Bribery Act?’. I suspect that I would. Yes, yes, politicians have operated in a different sphere with different rules for a long time. The sport I don’t think is too bad, May and Major went to the Test Match, Sunak to loads of sport, but goodness sakes, buy your own clothes like the rest of us.

The split title reminds me of the Leeds fans the night of the infamous Valley Slags performance at the Dell. 🎵 ’You’re going to get your fucking heads kicked in’ 🎵

Second and final beer for tonight. Maggs Mild from Renegade Brewery in Berkshire. The previous beer was only 3.8% and this is only 3.4%. Not untypical for a Mild although they are being brewed stronger if late, although grateful any milds are brewed at all. I’ll have something stronger at the local tomorrow as a solo pint. This beer is very dark brown, chocolately nose, malty sweet palate, chocolate biscuits, not much hop presence although a hint of peppery/spicy on the finish. A decent, classic mild.

James is defensively more solid. Two decent league cup displays don’t hurt either. I thought Ryan might be better going forward with the assists at Swansea and QPR but didn’t materialise that much. Bree has looked better going forward IMHO and the humdinger at Cardiff.

I actually had to look up what that meant…

Beer number one tonight is Madresfield Land First Pale Ale. Bought at St Peter’s Garden Centre near Malvern, which has a fruit and veg shack with it selling great produce. It’s better than it sounds! Floral nose which followed through on the taste, bit of citrus, tangy but not too bitter. Simple beer but good. I suspect the grains and hops come from Madresfield Farm and the Hop Shed in Worcester brews it.

Good-o. Happy to be on ignore with Badger, last thing anyone needs is an abusive troll. You dish it out on a regular basis with personal insults, make empty threats to sue other posters and hurl yet more abuse when you get a bit back. And you think people would then want to send you a PM and spend time on/with you? You’ve got some strange ideas of how people work, supporting the same football club or not. Your choice.

Hoping we can build on midweek - wins at Goodison are rare, pens or not - but need to get the midfield right and move the ball quicker around the pitch as Ipswich will be looking to counter-attack. If their fans jeer Flynn again it might key him up. Would a Downes-Fernandes-Lallana midfield to start be too lightweight? Question also of whether Lesley can start two games in a week.

He was rank last season and with KWP not moving on and Taylor looking decent at Goodison, it’s the only game time he will get until January. I thought he’d be Danny Fox with slightly more pace but Danny was a far superior player at Champ level.

🥬 It’s Mrs GS that has to tolerate them though….

Nearly 20 years ago…and still with her 😉

Lost half a yard but still decent acceleration and a lot of craft/know how at PL level, which we aren’t exactly blessed with right now.

Blimey fellas, I’ll have to come down for a game soon and get the 🍺 in

That’s right. I’d been on since the start but when it moved to logging on with email, I’d changed it so long ago that it was easier to start again! Meant that I never was able to take up Turkish’s CoT offer after getting the Wilcox departure prediction right when he was hired 😉

Quite and thanks mate. I do agree with you and Duck a lot on the football generally, whereas that might not be true for all posters I agree on with non-football topics.

Thatcher was Prime Minister and still pushed for Savile’s knighthood, Steele Liberal leader and should have done better on Cyril Smith, I’d blame Thatcher less for that as Smith treated Rochdale as his personal fiefdom. Harriet Harman represented some groups she really shouldn’t have done in the 1970s. Just because Starmer was CPS Head for some of that time it doesn’t mean Al Fayed would have been a slam dunk case and the evidence was probably a lot weaker than today. Look at the Stephen Lawrence case, obvious who did it but what, only two of them prosecuted to this day. Daniel Morgan case too. Get it wrong and you are looking at a £50-100m trial against a plaintiff with bottomless pockets to buy the best lawyers on the planet. I don’t know what evidence he had presented but I’m not going on a witch-hunt by the Telegraph which was very slow on Thatcher’s 1980s errors of judgement. Thanks for the reminder about the Bursledon/Netley case I did note the poster who disappeared from here for a while and saluted his courage at the time in sharing what had happened to him and his late neighbour which was dreadful. Without giving any identities, people close to me experienced something similar historically and perpetrators are devious bastards quite often which makes justice very difficult to get. Someone living their life without re-opening a can of worms is not cowardice. I’d rather not meet up with someone to exchange insults with someone, I’ll pick my posters to socialise not be provoked to do so. Call me old fashioned, but the games I do attend this season will be old friends and family from Soton, maybe the odd poster on here who I can discuss Dibling’s step over in the previous game with, or Martin’s formation. You know, fun. I’d be happy to have a pint with say Duck or Hypo even though we disagree on non football, but I don’t voluntarily spend time with abusive, adversarial people where I’m not paid well for the hassle. That’s for the workplace. If your posting style changed, even if our views don’t agree, then the door would be open as we are Saints fans if nothing else. Buctootim’s experience doesn’t hold out much hope. Ball in your court.

See the post above I made - unlike GM you actually tend to discuss these topics rather than cut and paste then hide, even though we come from different perspectives. This country has a historic problem with dealing with and getting prosecutions on very high profile historical abuse cases. Which the libel laws are not helpful in. But when the authorities go too early and/or there’s a weak or false accusations - Sir Leon Brittain, Sir Cliff Richard seemingly, our former manager - look at the damage caused. Yes, Thatcher, Steele, Starmer would turn the clock back with hindsight if they were all still alive, but they made decisions what with they had available evidence/witnesses/resources and in the context and culture of the time. Far easier with hindsight, hindsight is never wrong.

Which doesn’t mention Starmer once you dopey old dick. You know that the bar to actually build a successful prosecution against people with that wealth, level of connections and the lawyers they can buy is extremely high right? I don’t think the fact it’s like that but always has been. A trial where you think you might win, but aren’t sure, and don't is highly embarrassing, let’s the celebrity if they are probably guilt off free with sympathy and wastes tens of millions of pounds, seeing as you hate any form of public expenditure. Look at the match-fixing arrests of the mid-90s, there was apparently a strong case against all three, and the CPS went to trial, and of course the famous Sun video. Still couldn’t secure a conviction https://www.lfchistory.net/Articles/Article/1893 If you are determined to politicise this then Thatcher kept close company of quite a few proven pedophiles - Savile, Peter Morrison, awarded Cyril Smith a gong. David Steele had to resign from the Lords over Smith. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23355531 https://news.sky.com/story/thatcher-turned-blind-eye-to-paedophile-mps-10368694 https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/feb/02/thatcher-peter-hayman-named-paedophile-archives https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11381191/Margaret-Thatcher-warned-of-paedophile-scandal-secret-documents-reveal.html https://www.dw.com/en/uk-politicians-turned-a-blind-eye-to-child-sexual-abuse-for-decades/a-52527161 Personally I don’t want to blame Thatcher or Starmer, these type of wealthy, powerful and well connected abusers are very adept at covering their tracks and manipulating others. But if you and others want to be partisan and immature then I’ll keep rubbing your nose in it. issue is as well that many of the victims are often intimidated until the accuser is deceased as we’ve seen, and the critical mass could have made a difference as the Weinstein case showed. But look at how difficult that was.

Classic GM tactics, get humiliated in one of the obnoxious threads he’s started and cut and paste in another of his threads an article out of context from the Telegraph, this time on the Huw Edwards thread. The old loony loves the attention.