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Me too, Forest have picked up and are better sides than Spurs or West Ham, Leeds win or even a point tonight really puts those two under the pump. It’d destroy them financially if they went down. Spurs with the stadium debt/wages and West Ham owe £100m plus in owed transfer fees this summer alone.

It didn’t work out well for either party going to Everton yes, it was a needless mistake. Claude Puel wasn’t the puppet Les thought he’d easily control either - the Forster contract extension against the manager’s wishes caused a rift allegedly. The 2016 end of season fans forum and the Les Reed comment about Ronald ‘doing alright’ when he steered us to top 6 for the first time since Lawrie fully warranted the nervous laughter in the audience. Les lost my trust from that point. Also, the response to the Guido Carrillo question in the 2018 forum was also priceless. Rather than just say the player wasn’t suited, he went into a speech about how he’d be a great asset over time. The laughter was deafening. We’d all seen him marked out of the FA Cup game by Wigan’s centre backs. The Fonte transfer window mess was awful and cost us a trophy. Les was fine with an experienced manager but not the brains of the operation.

D2 batting line ups and helpful wickets - Jimmy will cut through those like a hot knife through butter. 5 day Tests on the flat wickets of the India series last summer - different story. I’ve met Jimmy, great bowler and bloke, maybe the best ever, but he struggled in his last couple of Test series.

More people on here, a Southampton football forum, probably read it than the whole of Devon. Sometimes it’s better to turn the volume down on flag shagging morons with 10 followers (and being Plymouth probably related to each other).

Summarised here in more detail but yours is pretty accurate https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c239zz1m324o The 2022 incident is the worst - taking a knife on a bus with stated prior and recent intent to use is a clear arrestable offence. Given his history of serious and dangerous MH to others, being sectioned was a reasonable option. I know it’s difficult, but his family should’ve insisted on sectioning at that point he assaulted his father seriously. Clear escalation was happening. Lazy of the agencies to tag it as ASD - there’s loads of people with ASD on this forum and they don’t beat their families, carry knives and look up incredibly violent images online. Shows they didn’t know what they were talking about and gross underassessment of the likely risk. Neurodiversity and severe/violent MH issues are very separate issues.

Those views are strongly sentient with MAGA as a whole. He’s really fallen for Kushner’s, Mad Ben and Ben Givr’s shtick. Israel will need a good hard clip of their claws by the next President unless their own has the good sense to bin off the far right loonies they have.

214 run win. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/scorecard/e-233476 Needed that after the first game and Sussex’s start. Essex got hammered by Somerset. Good time to play Yorks with no Bairstow, Root or Brook (latter duo set to play in next round). But you can only beat what’s in front of you and much-improved display. Brown ton, and good 50s Lehmann, who looks a good addition and Prest. Abbott sublime again, Baker’s burst first innings was key in demolishing their top order and the tail didn’t enjoy him today. @John B I get what you’re saying but Weatherley is 29 and has a FC averagevof 24 which is frankly at least 10 below what it should be. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Weatherley We can’t have a tailender opening - which is his record over the last couple of seasons. I’d imagine he’s averaging quite a bit less than 24 which won’t make him a living much longer full-time in cricket. Toby Albert was slow starting last year but the white ball helped him kick on in all formats. Joe is older and his England u19 promise is long behind him. Right now, unless he survives the axe and makes some mega scores against the form of the last 24-36 months, he’s drifting out the sport full-time, as a player at least.

Probably left back who posted on here at the time. Was suspected to be Wally Downes but rumoured that Pardew himself and some of the players used the account too. It was none too complimentary about Les. ‘Oaf’ was one word used.

Narcissistic right down to his bone spurs.

Like the UK, what the electorate and press owned by oligarchs want are quite different.

Yep, looking better today than had been forecast https://weather.metoffice.gov.uk/forecast/gcwfhjjxu#?date=2026-04-13

They’re even lower than us on that.

The Trump before Trump (Bannon) conceded the Hungarian election. Huge setback for Trump and Vance’s hard right populism movement considering how much they invested in trying to keep him in power. Huge blow for Putin as Orbán was buying large quantities of Russian gas to help fund his Ukrainian war. Leaves Slovakia all on their own aligned to Putin and harder to hold up joint action against Russia.

Romero substituted with a face like a smacked arse. The non penalty was weird first half, Spurs forward Tolo was appealing for a corner and the ref was the only person in the stadium to spot a foul. VAR for once chalked off the clear and obvious blooper.

Sunderland leading Spurs through a deflected goal.

Nearing 300 lead but with the forecast need to up the scoring and get them in.

Gateway was a crap supermarket tbf.

This is pure Hitler/Stalin/totalitarian dictator architecture https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwywre1e3kvo

Didn’t realise Guido Carrillo was back in town. Kind of him to give you a lift.

Steve Bannon refers to him as Trump before Trump. He’s a prototype of far right populism in Europe which had spread further https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/09/europe/orban-hungary-election-trump-ally-intl Orban’s rule is also a disturbing preview of what a Reform government would be like under Farage, Braverman and Tice.

Yorks finished 48-4, Wharton went for another 🦆 Baker ripping through their top order with 3-16. Abbott got the ball rolling bowling Finlay Bean for 1. Yusuf yet to make a breakthrough but good economy and ditto Jack with his 5 overs. Their batting is also shallow without Bairstow so need to press home an advantage first hour tomorrow. George Hill, who took a 5-for earlier at 7 and Bess as high as 8. Bit of rain of early morning but should be clear enough for a 10.30 start and forecast set fair, if not that warm, for the rest of the game.

Night watchman Coad 0, 37-3.

Whiteman out for 14, 37-2.

Bean baked by Abbott for 1. See if we can get one or maybe even two more tonight.

He reminds me of the goby kid at Wednesday afternoon snooker who got whitewashed 3-0 at Pot Black every week and always said ‘I’ll be back next week with my graphite cue and I’ll thrash you’. Next Wednesday, no graphite cue and the same outcome.