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Could still win but these need to be in close to the finish to do it. Bollocks - Vince is out

MLG’s local shop ought to stock up on *Kleenex *other brands of tissue are available

Having read the full article, Dragan is saying the first three signings will be without the need for sales, DC (Quarshie), AMC and striker, there will be more incomings but needs to be some sales and squad reduction for those. Which means Ramsdale would leave if there’s to be a new first choice keeper, which makes absolute sense. If the release clause is true then he will be although keepers are a different market,

Sounds like he got fed up with Martin’s and Juric’s inflexibility - not surprised they’ve opted for Will Still and a more adaptive approach. He thinks Martin would do well in the PL much longer-term but probably needs the maturity from a spell at a club the size of Rangers and others to know when to be adaptive.

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We are linked with a lot of first choice keepers though and Baz’s report card from Belgium was not good at all. He might end up as second choice if AM moves on in his final year.

Should’ve guessed it would be that. Still, a welcome addition and let’s see how he does https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/cx2v5yn4xdpo

Happy with that, Edozie offered far more in the Championship last time, as did Fraser come to that.

Heated debate raging within MAGA and the GOP https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1wp72224jzo

Context - if Still wants a central midfield 3, no reasons why he wouldn’t use Smallbone whatsoever as alongside Downes and Aribo he often performed well. In a central two however, Smallbone got swamped for Martin in the Champ.

Inevitably a few of the 28k will have turned up on other crossings but the sheer scale of escalation from the smugglers and new boarding tactics https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpd1l6p8vw9o means the Gendarme will need 1) more licence to intercept and arrest at sea, 2) help from both Navies to accomplish this and 3) immunity from prosecution if something goes wrong unless they literally drown someone with their bare hands. The inflatables are being so overloaded that a sinking soon is inevitable if we get a more choppy/windy day in the Channel.

Weatherley is borderline in the top 5, and Albert’s been struggling to get it off the square in red ball. Surprised we had the decent start we have but can’t see us making the knock outs and staying up in red ball is the priority, maybe a One Day Cup run again with the kids.

That was one of the most one sided matches I’ve ever seen involving Hampshire - lots of leg-side slow rubbish, Dawson and Howell pulled it back slightly but 25-30 too many still. Wood - he was finished at first class white ball standard three years ago and has no knees. Why is he still under contract? Then on a slow surface against far better bowling, too many onside swipes. Overall, can’t be too harsh as only Vince, Dawson and Brevis get in their team, and probably their seconds, but you’ve got to play with some discipline and focus.

Yes, forgot Rangers were after him, but he’s played for Liam Manning before at MK (ironically another ex-Martin club) and originally from Cambridge direction so once Manning took the Carrow hot seat this looked a formality.

Third para from the base of the BBC article from today you shared - 940 boats intercepted in the same period with 28k migrants on them. That’s an average of roughly 29 a boat - more sinkings are on the cards sadly as they aren’t meant to hold anywhere near that number.

It’s a demanding situation against highly organised criminals but yes, the French Border Force ought to be doing better for what they were paid under the 2023 arrangement.

Some transfer activity at other Championship clubs today. Harry Darling as predicted has moved on a free to Norwich from Swansea despite interest from Brum and Wrexham. Wrexham have purchased Ryan Hardie from Plymouth though which is a decent signing for an ambitious club up from League One https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cx2q2rd565ro Cameron Burgess a reasonable free transfer for Swansea, considering he featured fairly regularly for Ipswich last season in the PL and Aussie international defender.

Yep, 15 goals in your teens would lead to a long queue of interested clubs, Brentford would have plenty of competition for his signature. Jordan Thomas for Cheltenham who is early 20s just scored 8 goals from wide areas in his first FT professional season and lots of interested clubs including Millwall, Boro and others apparently.

To some extent it is - record 28k migrants trying to come by boat stopped and scrotes like this banged up with an immediate deportment order https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce399l1329lo His wife and kids should be deported imminently as well, they’ve profited from his activities and don’t seem to either be oppressed nor possess skills we need economically. They can all have a lovely reunion later in Egypt. Italy doesn’t want them either. Get them gone. If the lawyers want to play the appeals system, they can fund their return passage from Egypt themselves. In terms of overall numbers, French Border Force needs to up the interception rate up considerably from 58%. That means more of the more robust policing seen very recently in that BBC article e.g tear gas and batons, frustrating that the inflatables are still taking to sea. Surely there’s a way of puncturing those boats from a distance before they sail? No option but to collaborate with the French on this topic though regardless of who is in power.

Not totally surprising, pretty there and lots of skilled work with the Institute and Army training facilities.

Good grief, was it Cobham or Esher?

I know plenty and none of them have a good word to say about him. Two main reasons cited every time: 1) Personal hygiene (allegedly) and 2) extent of drinking which might contribute further to 1) and the fact he’s urinated on the SMS seats IIRC? I’m fairly certain he did at the League Cup game because he was banned for the League game at Christmas and we were singing ‘Ding Dong, Ding Dong, where’s your bell gone?’ to their fans. IIRC he was also banned from an England game at SMS for wearing a skate shirt? He was banned by the skates from when he was up here for urinating outside at the turnstiles at FGR a couple of years ago https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/football/portsmouth-fc/im-disappointed-with-myself-portsmouth-fc-fanatic-john-westwood-banned-for-second-time-this-season-after-publicly-urinating-outside-forest-green-stadium-3896168 Seems to be something of a consensus amongst their fans https://thepompeychimes.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=80373

Did someone on here post a few years back that at the time CM played for us that he’d had an affair with their wife? It wasn’t me as I was single in the early 00s!

All four parties need to sort this out though, if true/guilty. They have all had issues with type of behaviour which isn’t acceptable in work or social places these days https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g7g1858rpo

That would rely on some markets being a lot more efficient and customer-focused. Monopolies happen unless curbed and a tax is still a tax when you’re paying for something captive where there’s effectively no choice - be that water, energy, rail/bus for people who can’t drive, or public services. Governments have to keep giving out fuel allowances and getting into a pickle because we’ve given control of our energy away and French/Norwegian/Chinese civil service pensions are doing very nicely as a result when our population loses out. Also, if you’ve had to deal with likes of British Gas 🤬 Railways are a sore point for me - fed up with many of the firms being asset stripped for massive dividends from BVI and other tax havens on the one hand, and led appallingly, but unions getting good pay rises last year, clinging onto outdated practices and striking at the drop of a hat (Cross Country and the RMT this time). Balance is wrong - in 1970 the state did too much, after about 1989 it’s not done enough in the right areas and tinkered in others without the regulatory reforms to make a genuine difference to most of the public. For profits are meant to be for-profits as opposed to be a high volume public service like the above, theory is they’re if very good they get repeat custom and grow, I’ve been on that cycle myself and great whilst lasts. But hard for them to plan when national policy zig zags and global instability and tariffs deter investment and commercial borrowing. A new factory or premises is often at least a 10-30 year investment for a lot of firms.