Gloucester Saint

Don’t forget about NotnowJimmy

Only played a dozen or so, did score ten mind but as sample sizes go, it’s very limited.

Didn’t vote Labour, voted Lib Dem, and we don’t get any press, Reform do and uniformally positive despite their staggering level of sleaze compared to our 72 MPs and their 4. No need to champion the current lot and plenty to criticise but they’ve been good on foreign policy and are making some headway on health. Fuck ups on NI rise hitting SMEs under 10 people, charities, education etc, and the welfare issues although personally I thought their MPs were wrong and it should’ve been cut further. Fuel allowance was a bit daft politically as could’ve made the exemptions for those on £25k or less to start with. Tories hardly get mentioned now compared to Reform. It’ll be interesting to see how long it takes the red tops to clock that 85% of Tory support is heading to Reform and whether they finally grow a pair around Farage or whether they’re willing to hammer the final nails in their party’s coffin. Also, and very importantly, the May, Sunak and Starmer governments have been economically very stymied by the hard Brexit which Sunak and Starmer have tried to alleviate slightly - not fucking far enough in my book. I would say Boris but it was and Farage’s fault in the first place. 6% of our economy - Vote Leave didn’t advertise that.

And I’m talking about a corrupt party with shady funding getting no scrutiny whatsoever from the media so the majority of the public who want them nowhere near politics have to the fill the gap.

I do. My grandfathers didn’t fight in WW2 for people like that to win power and Brexit has fucked our economy. Reeves hasn’t done an especially good job but the markets trust her. People forgotten the sheer carnage of Boris and Truss - I’m quite disappointed with Labour in many aspects and they need to do a lot better but a pro-European party I vote for won’t win power, although we might hold the keys to it next GE.

Imagine their behaviour at Lib Dem, let alone former Tory scale or current Labour. If they won say circa 70 seats at the next GE (God forbid) like the Lib Dem’s have now, proportionally 30 would be suspended or under investigation for fraud, sex offences, electoral misconduct etc. All led by a graduate of Dulwich College. Party of the working class!

Surely Crawley has to be dropped now? From 56 Tests, no recognised batsman has more single figure scores. All the footwork of John Sergeant on Strictly.

Reform going great guns by contrast https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78n1dxl8wwo What 6 MPs, now 4, two quit/walked out, another one with a racist question in the Commons caused the party chair to resign and declare working for a Reform government was a total waste of his time. Litter of resignations across the councils just two months in, leaving acne-d teenagers in charge. We will never get the Lib Dem government I’d like with Brexit and Tories are brown bread. So better hope Labour picks up hadn’t we?

Question with BBD is where would the market be? Flop with Saints and Villarreal, one good and one poor loan spell with Sheff Utd. You’d buy him maybe based on his Blackburn record but looked out of shape last season not just out of form.

Tim Davie at it again https://bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/bbc-news-tim-davie-robbie-gibb-reform-voters-nigel-farage-trust/ Question is when the tabloids realise the Tories are a busted flush with Badenoch and 85% of their voters have gone or are going to Reform unless those papers turn on Farage. Penny hasn’t dropped yet and get the sense the Telegraph might go Reform. Maybe the Sun. Mail is the bigger one though readership-wise, albeit a fraction of what it used to be.

All sorts of records yesterday - record number 7 score for England, record for wk, 5 ducks + and 2 x150+ scores in the same innings for the first time. Siraj getting 5 on that deck - hats off to him. Stokes’s form with the bat is an ongoing concern. Pope is too hit and miss at 3, he’s competing with Smith for me for wk/bat, so we need a number 3 and Crawley keeps getting out the same way. Combines well with Duckett but needs some competition. Jonathan Trott has never been replaced really.

It’s going to be a ‘wait and see’ with this signing. If he scores 15 and shows potential then it’s good VFM. With the parachutes situation we can’t afford for him to be the main striker signing if AA/Archer/BBD goes as it’s two seasons up or bust. But all of those stay (AA the club seem to be moving on though) it looks a far better signing as he can’t be worse than Onachu, cult favourite though he was. We look like a 6th-10th place squad as it stands if Fernandes and Ramsdale leave, could squeak in the play offs, long way to go in the window though. Similar to 2023 so far in that outgoing fees impressive but not blown away with what’s coming in. But first team quality certainly down on that on that season even by a previous manager’s admission. Needs some automatic XI purchases to compete for the autos through the spine.

At least he won’t have to play in that monstrous away kit

I get bad hayfever (especially this summer) but one night around 10 years I was so congested I couldn’t sleep so put Olbas Oil on a tissue, scrunched it up and put it up my nostril. Which did the trick until I must have changed position, the tissue popped out of my nostril and into my eye. Oh boy! Like a habanero in the eye. Cleared every single sinus but although I have a high pain threshold, that was too much even for me!

Lots of them in neighbouring Worcestershire.

Which ironically given this thread was made with a hop called East Kent Goldings https://beerandbrewing.com/dictionary/igpgp4u2tb/

If he’s allowed into SMS, do you think he’ll complete a double of seat urinating?

I only had all 4 changed a few months ago and done average mileage, recent service. The state of the roads is a real issue in rural areas some A roads, even the M5 has a stretch in South Worcestershire which is quite pitted and the M50 although that gets less volume. The mobile tyre firm around here came out on the Sunday to fit my new one, checked the other three which are in very good shape, but said they’re incredibly busy because of people hitting potholes as hard as you try to avoid, you can’t all of the time. Also, a HGV had shed a tyre this week on the M5 which I managed to swerve but could have caused something like this tragic situation in N Spain. Ironically, minor surgery caused Jota to drive as they advised against flying so as not to set back healing time…he normally flies back for pre-season.

My folks are doing the Norwegian Fjords in the autumn.

I quite like it overall, sponsor logo should have a smaller edging but a minor point. The lighter and darker reds are odd though. If that was deliberate rather than a design mistake that’s a strange choice. Good concept, execution not miles off but could’ve been a classic with another layer of attention to detail.

Or the paediatrician’s car in Paulsgrove…

As a club at the Eastern end of the M27 found out.

Very glad to hear it ended safely but petrifying at the time I bet. On a related note I’m always surprised to see drivers sometimes doing 65-70mph on their spare, the garage owner asked me to do no more than 40mph, 45mph at the most. Took the Gloucestershire backroads home but realise not always possible on some journeys.

That’s not to say it would’ve had the tragic outcome as this, but it was a distinct possibility. If anyone sees similar changes in their own tyres on a journey, I’d strongly advise stopping and at least coming off higher speed roads and finding the nearest garage or outlet. If at night and not confident changing to the spare yourself (we wouldn’t have been tbh) then your breakdown provider should normally be able do it depending on your policy type.

Me and the missus were in the Brecon Beacons a couple of weeks ago for the day. I had about 100 miles of fuel left and 30 or so left to home. Normally I’d have carried on and got fuel the next day. This time, I decided to stop at the Shell in Symonds Yat. Whilst filling up I noticed an egg had suddenly appeared on my front offside tyre that wasn’t there when we popped into Abergavenny on the way home. I diverted to the Forest of Dean away from the M50 and by luck found a garage just closing up. Very kind owner changed to my spare and said to me ‘that’s potentially lethal, you’ve hit a pothole recently and it’s popped the inner in the heat. There’s only the tyre surface between you and the road - that won’t last 30 miles and likely to blow out any moment’. Went onto say at 70mph it would be very difficult to control if it did. Bearing in mind the M50 doesn’t consistently have a hard shoulder…. Wouldn't take payment either - what a gent - but if I hadn’t stopped for fuel I’d never have known I was driving with a lethal fault as the car wasn’t handling any differently.