Gloucester Saint

Does the fat bear shit in the woods?

If true, weird stuff as he did well at Liverpool and hardly seen since. Still doesn’t seem to like the look of him at all.

Cheltenham Town took Saints’s place today conceding a 95th minute goal at Gillingham. Still a creditable point at a strong side at that level and 4 from 6 in Cotterill’s first two games back as manager.

Governor Kevin Stitt coming out against it and reminding people he sued Biden when he did it on vaccines https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kevin-stitt-trump-national-guard-b2843430.html

The damning thing about Downs - and Spors - is being up against Agyemang at Pride Park and being only 65% of what Damion cost. Agyemang was raw, like Kenwyne Jones was when he joined, but he still gave our defenders plenty of problems and of course got on the scoresheet. If Downs doesn’t have work rate, energy, ability to compete in the air and batter defenders, he hasn’t got an ounce of technical ability to fall back on. The players clearly do not trust him with or without the ball in games. Astonishing him and Jandar played at the same level last season!

They don’t even need to be fans, it’s just about providing professional and objective scrutiny. Clearly, they are failing to do this. If I had to report on Cheltenham Town or Gloucester Rugby I could do that.

The buffoons will give him a new contract though - no sensible businessperson would but that’s not what these are. Sympathy for Ross but he’s pocketed plenty for few appearances so has had a chance to save up for his family’s future, more so than any of us would get.

This is true, but we were sold to people following the sane flawed strategy - find the next Livramento and flip for profit - with larger spending and even worse results. Trading for surpluses is good but sometimes you have to buy the Craig Dawson or Aaron Ramsdale.

Les Reed was the same.

That goes for the fans as well. They’ll wait until we are 7 points adrift of safety in the Champ next year or the year after to protest and make noise when the horse has bolted and run away over a whole range of hills.

@trousers well done for putting some heat on House and Blackmore. Too friendly with the owners by half. Keith got loads of stick on S4E for going on the pre season in Sweden but at least he wasn’t being paid for it unless those two stooges.

Gao and Semmens hollowed us out and let Ralph down, but they were tidy and until Ings went they actually did at least focus on the spine a bit more. The Livramento deal killed the club because a generation of morons invited another group of morons to buy the club, all of whom thought that every single transfer would involve buying an ECL cast off for a medium fee and selling big. All SR had to do in summer 2022 was buy 3-4 higher quality players - Keeper/CB/MC/Striker through the spine. The back patting over the VVD, Ings and Lavia fees received astonished me because you knew they were spaff it up the wall on loads of crap.

It is but as @Midfield_General said, it was very, very, likely to happen. The planning should have been for Ross to be a David Connolly cameo role as was the case in 11/12. Instead, pushed him too hard over a week and inevitably his body broke. Lack of football expertise and experience yet again, sort out the keeper, CBs, and striker (I accept Jandar and Charles helped the middle). And failed yet again. Better hope McCarthy doesn’t get injured as well, then a poor season could turn into Luton Mk2.

What a sad pair, every single post is about politics. The inverse of Owen Jones and that equal bunch of knobs on the other side. Human parrots, assuming they are actually people and not bots.

@Saint86 I’ll respond to your well considered post here to save space. Firstly, congratulations on where you’ve got to and sounds like things are going really well. I’ve mentored colleagues through degree apprenticeships (didn’t exist in the 1990s sadly) and they are excellent. They are in some ways more effective than traditional apprenticeships which a lot of SMEs struggle with in respect of the volume and complexity of paperwork for quality assurance involved. What my post was expressing is frustration that one form of skills/education is pitted against another (Labour did at their conference as well, let alone Reform…) and as you say there’s ample room for all types of qualifications. The tutors on your degree courses need to take a look at that feedback though for a STEM course.

This is the crux of it and their business model simply doesn’t work any more than Mike Ashley’s did at Newcastle.

Gloucestershire and England quick Syd Lawrence as well.

it gets worse this afternoon. She’s going to announce a cut of 10,000 university places and double the value of the apprentice levy borough in under May. The levy most medium-large firms already struggle to spend. And the reason they struggle to spend it as David Willetts said is that our economy in the 1980s pivoted to being more a service economy. That means we no longer have the scale of manufacturing base say Germany does to sustain the good old days of apprenticeships boomers get misty eyed about (and my parents and their generation progressed from). Moreover, the 10000 places will come out of former Polys where a decent % of spin-out companies come from. And when she refers to having done an apprenticeship - she didn’t. BSc from Sussex and Masters from Birkbeck. Do as I say not say as I do. Halfron used to bang on about apprenticeships as well, graduate from Exeter. The only recent cabinet minister with one was Gillian Keegan from AC Delco so she could speak with some of authority on the subject.

Reform pissing it up the wall again

Bit trickier than gluten or milk. Peanut is another dangerous one though.

Apart from that, he’s brilliant then. I’d play Damion Thorn up there - gives you a 6 out of 10 performance every time.

I dunno though, South Devon, which is 98% white Uk/N European, where my folks live is definitely not shouting loudly about the merits of immigration. Quite the opposite - the shopping centres have Reform stands and their NextDoor app is full of Duckhunter and Soggy type characters arguing, x100 the amount happening on here. The one up here is completely different outlook with places like Gloucester and Cheltenham a lot more diverse than Devon and only an hour from Bristol/Birmingham.

People see what they want to see for their narrative. Did he visit any of the local community centres? Any of the faith establishments? The pubs and clubs? Meeting and engaging with people is how you find out what the level of cohesion really is or isn’t. Handsworth had a violent history in the 1980s and added to the bin strike (Unite is a disgrace as well as their City Council) it’s easy to resort to stereotypes. But I’d rather take the word of a recent and effective Conservative Mayor for that region who knows the area inside out than a failed and corrupt former Minister who spends his time making videos of fare evaders, getting in the way of the BTP.

Rat population hardly needed adding to with his visit.

It’s ignorant as much as racist but goes to prove that Bob Jenryck should never be anywhere near power, let alone the stench of corruption around him over the years. Wouldn’t be surprised if he jumped ship to Reform once Badenoch is ousted. Then he can help them tank like he did the Tories. Compare the maturity here with Andy Street’s comments, having been Mayor of the region and having actually lived there for decades https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy85zlpwne6o