Gloucester Saint

My first season of being a supporter…

Darren M’Six Fingers his brother, plays for Pompey’s academy.

Went there for our FA Cup round 2 game in 2010 - freezing November afternoon/evening but good day out, won 3-2.

Driver has said to witnesses that throttle stuck - rare but can happen (see Toyota).

The devil’s advocate is that in the Dalian Atkinson case (this being a football forum) the taser was used inappropriately with deadly consequences but overall yes, I agree that when the public are facing a life/death threat from a lunatic with a sword running around, the police are well beyond asking ‘please sir can you drop your weapon?’. Taser at the first refusal to surrender the weapon is fine and logical with me.

Scary, and not that far from here. He might be the most mature 18 year old ever, and it’s true that he can legally drive, vote, smoke, drink alcohol. But that’s light years from controlling a multi-million pound budget with thousands of staff delivering key public services that we rely on which in some cases are the difference between life and death, and the sheer complexity coming with that. Very difficult to scrutinise effectively for us let alone a lad that age who hasn’t lived yet really.

If the Sulemana sale happens that wouldn’t hurt either.

Ndidi £9m release clause on relegation as well apparently.

I’m going on Klopp’s comments and Brighton’s feedback, they considered him for manager after De Zerbi left.

Quite, and Rohl’s compo situation means that he will have less time to implement his pressing game onto a squad schooled in Maresca-ball. He will be behind Still in preparation time - whether that proves significant time will tell. But people would’ve been stressing about it on here.

He was a dick in 2014, but it was 11 years ago as well. He’s highly regarded as a coach in the game, let’s hope Still benefits from that and together with Paul Trollope they turn the club around. As you say, time to move forwards and we need all of the management team to be at their best as it’s a long time since we improved players.

https://news.sky.com/story/nato-chief-heaps-praise-on-trump-at-meeting-after-us-president-cast-doubt-on-commitment-to-collective-defence-13388255

Not too bad a record at Stoke 😉

Yes, I think so. But there were some Saturdays, perhaps once per month, where the bulk of Champ, L1 and 2 matches were televised in parallel at 3pm. As well as watching a few live I saw Cheltenham play regularly that way once Saints season was over by the leaves in the trees changing colour.

Leicester away for them I reckon and yes, TV Friday night guaranteed. Like @skintsaint I reckon someone like PNE or Stoke home or away. A more interesting possibility would be Charlton home - which like Wrexham would be guaranteed to be on TV. Are Sky repeating their extra EFL games on certain Saturdays as per last season?

You’d be very unlucky to find worse than CrossCountry in Germany. Their non-dom ownership, leadership are parasites, they barely run trains at all, let alone on time nor in conditions which are safe or sanitary. All for the highest fares in Europe. Add the infamous RMT into the mix, and it’s a clusterfuck. Sack them off, renationalise and put the ballot minimum for strike action across the membership up to 60% of eligible members. Stealing a living, astonishing Heidi Alexander sees improvements in them. All they did was get worse even before the overtime ban (and no business should rely on as much of that as they do).

Good question - is a player more dislikable for not being able to do what the club signed them to do for good money and wages - Wesley Hoedt, David Lee, Lee Todd, Gavin Bazunu, Guido Carrillo - when they are clearly ability-wise League One players (Hoedt probably Championship tbf but never PL in a million years) or is that the manager, DoF and club scouts who should take the flak and it isn’t the players’ fault? Or are the players who are plenty good enough and have a dreadful attitude - Osvaldo, Lemina - the ones we should really dislike?

Latest offer for Sulemana apparently up to £14.5m. Round it up to £15m and take it as long as the ‘up to’ is practical. Onachu reportedly fed up with the latest ongoing boring Trabzonspor saga - may I suggest his agent asks that his new club finds a Chairman with some actual money and not the monopoly stuff? Goztepe could do a lot worse, finished only a point below Trabzonspor and they have more money than Trabz, who seem to be in some trouble. They pulled out of signing an Ipswich defender on a free as well.

What I want I know is why the current government and previous one won’t pass legislation enforcing unlimited fines and jail time for large firm’s CEOs and Directors proven to be consistently employing illegal immigrants? Large firms like Deliveroo despite their opaque and devolved operating model should be bearing the cost directly of the hotels, regardless of how much that is. Their turnover is in excess of £2bn. So a £250m fine is affordable and reasonable for them, whereas for a local takeaway they are already fining a proportionally similar amount https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/25012992.oxford-takeaway-fined-30-000-employing-illegal-workers/ https://glastonbury.nub.news/news/local-news/glastonbury-takeaway-fined-ps80000-for-illegal-employment-254665 No point meeting with them, just prosecute them fast track as they’ve done to the SMEs quite rightly, and fines on a sliding scale of £70m-£250m for starters will soon cut it down https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj615p5y5kko Theresa’s May’s idiot legislation puts the likes of you and me liable for ensuring that our firms don’t employ people without the RTW in the UK even if we were born here. If large organisational leaders thought they’d be having a day in court instead and risk losing their business and family home, it’d soon reduce rapidly. Cracking down severely on illegal working and knowing employment of illegals would do far more to slow the influx than just ‘smashing the gangs’ in isolation or eye-wateringly expensive Rwanda schemes. We can do a mix of those in parallel too, not either/or.

Seen from the perspective of May 1974 and 1975 I suspect it would’ve been an unpopular internal promotion. Seen from May 1976 to 1985, a very different story!

Agree with this post overall but I reckon Frank and Mbeumo leaving not properly replaced will totally take the air out of Brentford’s tyres and they could be the implosion you cite. Leeds are the most likely to be able to take advantage but their recruitment has to be pitch perfect. We shouldn’t have gone down in 04/05 with Beattie, Phillips and Crouch but once a medium-sized PL’s club’s ambition is reckoned to be on the wane and the owner’s foot off the pedal and up on the dashboard, the wheels can really fall off.

Amazed Brentford didn’t try - or hard enough if they did - for McKenna. High probability that Ipswich and Brentford trading places in May.

My late friend was one of Pulis’s scouts and recommended he sign Davies which Pulis did after watching him further. Unlucky with injuries.

It stinks of what Lowe tried to do in 2001 with Stuart Gray, WGS dug him out of a hole, clearly wanted rid of Sturrock summer of 2004, after the Blackburn win replaced him with Steve Wigley. Shorthand ‘promoted teams are rubbish, we won’t go down, let’s have a cheap manager for a cheap little season, do the minimum on buying players, sell a couple of key players and go again next season with our powder dry’. History shows what actually happened and Leeds in particular will be licking their lips, possibly Burnley if they can find a striker or two. Brentford have pretty much relegated themselves, surprised at Matthew Benham as I had him down as more Tony Bloom than Rupert Lowe.