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MND remains a chronically underfunded topic for research. Needs to be an all-sector push on fundraising and the agencies need to take it more seriously. New drug available in the EU, not in UK yet but trials and has delayed symptoms slightly and increased life expectancy by a year or so. Nowhere near more effective treatments let alone cures though.

Baz always looks like an outfield player in goal from the days of one or two subs allowed when the main keeper has been injured/sent off.

The ‘Streets not safe’ line Reform have also been pushing with huge (and inevitably dodgy) funding on Facebook. Splitting the Reform vote with a change of leader is probably the best they can hope for. I’d be getting Street elected however they can as an MP and getting him as leader, fresh face without the tarnish of the post-Brexit disaster.

Either Alfie House or Adam Blackmore referred to Downs on social media as a ‘project’. I prefer the project from the US Derby purchased for £2m less who is also ahead of Damian Downs in the US national squad.

Other sports using the Americanism ‘Three Peat’ instead of hat-trick https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/articles/cpqlvg1pjy4o What’s wrong with hat-trick? Is it a banned phrase now? Mind you, love to use either in association with a Saints player doing three of anything! Unless it’s own goals.

In Private Eye, just to show what a buffoon Badenoch is, she’s been directing her followers to Turning Point UK’s website. Which amongst other activities last month featured TPUK members accusing Southampton motorists without evidence of taking down their ‘fucking flags’ and being a ‘fucking cunt’. TPUK went one better down the M27, thinking they were gatecrashing Corbyn launching his new party. Corbyn was nowhere near Portsmouth but TPUK did manage to find a mob of ex-EDL and BNP boneheads who chanted ‘Corbyn’s a wanker’ through a PA system. Not only was Corbyn nor his new party not there but Hampshire Police dispersed them as they frightened disabled kids having a dance meeting in the community centre upstairs. TPUK thanked Kemi for being the only elected party leader who reached out to them.

At times - she had the benefit of North Sea oil and 1983-88 she did have strong growth. Unfortunately unlike Norway and their Sovereign Fund, the UK spaffed it up the wall on a credit boom which led to a nasty overheating and recession which lasted until the mid-90s as Clarke got things back on an even keel.

Chris Mason twisting the knife on BBC. Their 1922 Committee have got to act by the spring of next year unless Reform implodes by then (it won’t yet) as Badenoch trying to take them on directly and out-Reform him is stupid. They need a centre right pro business leader like Street if they can find him a seat, attack Farage on that as it’s his Achilles Heel and hold Reeves to better account.

Be careful what you wish for though, disappointing as Starmer has been domestically. Look at Milei in Argentina, lauded by Farage as Thatcher on steroids, the man ‘with the chainsaw and funny hairstyle - that’s leadership’ and expressed a wish to buy Argentinian bonds, Milei is the template’ said Kemi. Trump loves him. Good job really, as the US last week had to pledge a ‘large and forceful bailout’ (Private Eye) with the Peso down 75% since Milei’s election less than 2 years ago. We have a lot of issues ourselves but not on this scale and Farage’s judgement hasn’t improved on the economy clearly.

Dreadful news, on top of Doddie Weir as a Rugby Union fan as well as human being. Rob Burrow too in League. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/articles/cz7rddrrlqno I hope the club and everyone associated supports Dylan and the Moody family. As a further Saints-related note, my grandmother, who I never got to meet, passed away at the age of just 52 due to MND in December 1975. She followed Saints home and away, and her ultimate was seeing Saints win the FA Cup one day. I don’t really need the type the rest…not sure how my Mum kept it together at Wembley.

And Derby’s US striker whilst raw, did cause our centres halves issues yesterday and did score as well. For £5.8m. That’s what happens when you actually scout players properly in person several times and not just use AI.

Don’t worry, the club will have any positivity coached out of him and he will be backwards and sideways like the rest.

Damion Downs is the worst call since Charles called Camilla for the squidgeygate tape.

The only way I can see it happening is for Ben Gvir to go missing and be found David Kelly style with an open coroners’ verdict. Not advocating for that by the way.

He wouldn’t get a start either at Cheltenham in L2 and Wotton wouldn’t want him at Conference South Torquay.

Part of the issue is that Fellows and AA as two proven performers at this level, play in a similar space. He’s dropped the undroppables and Rasmus darlings but Spors fucked him over royally on Downs - £73m of talent on the bench as Downs is a poor man’s Paul Moody. Another striker gamble from two years ago injured again today and Che still not replaced. That’s just negligence from SR. Player trading experts my arse. I’m as frustrated as anyone but can’t see how sacking Still will improve things.

The essence of a rhetorical question. We all know the answer… By contrast pretty clear Derby had watched Agyemang live. He’s also raw but much more what I’d have expected from Downs and cheaper than Downs so Damian ought to be better https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cwykgvxjwmko SR getting their naive, lazy pants pulled down again.

Gets more time for me as he’s had the guts to defy Ankerson and drop two of the SR ‘glory’ boys Bazunu and Stephens. Just needs to jettison Downs now in January as he won’t make a Championship centre forward anytime this century. If Stewart’s out for a while again he’s going to have to think about how to adapt the pattern of play for Archer, Robinson and Dipepa. AA through the middle isn’t an option.

You’d have to go some for another striker to be worse in the FM database at this level than him, and one or two levels below as well. I’ve seen Keith Cassels, Paul Moody, a totally past it and addiction-addled Kerry Dixon, a no-shit giving David Speedie, Ali Dia, Sekou Mara, and Guido Carrillo. Downs is worse, considerably, than any of those. The only one I never saw live was Stig Johansen. One can only assume the scouts never saw him play live.

Got a header on target, landed slightly awkwardly and then felt the back of his calf/hamstring.

The Sargeant at Charing Cross was arrested today.

Sadly they won’t, saw it with Pellegrino, Martin in the PL, the fanbase has lost the fire it had in the Branfoot and Lowe years. Nathan Jones there was a flicker and a superb P45 poster (which the stewards confiscated and threw the supporters out which sums up what an appalling club Southampton FC is these days).

Blackburn had 4000 to be fair.

Fixed it for you. This is why AI scouting by itself doesn’t work, you need to watch players properly several times live. And I mean the player not the actual game. The fans are going to make mincemeat of him if he doesn’t at least display some work ethic and compete in the air. As usual, we have to do the club’s work for them.

He’s easily the worst striker I’ve ever seen since my first season in 1983/84. Ability and work rate wise, quite possibly the worst outfield player. I would suggest relegating him to the u23s but I don’t want his attitude stinking that group out. Lord knows what the likes of Robinson and Dipepa who can actually play football think about being behind the useless oaf in the pecking order. Steve Cotterill wouldn’t consider him good enough for Cheltenham at the base of League 2 (great win on his return today) nor would Paul Wotton tolerate his lack of work rate (won 0-1 at Salisbury today) so at least my non-Saints teams I follow won.