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Which is why whilst I like him we need to move on in the summer. Managers with rigid systems/styles not what we need.

Clubs in identikit Barr stadiums 0 Brentford 8 so far this season.

The channel winds haven’t blown his satellite dish off though. Wonder what the car keys are in the bowl for Romney Marsh? It’d all be 4x4s and Chelsea Tractors up here

It needs players comfortable on the half-turn - peak Lallana plus rock solid DMCs - Oriol - to work at mid-level clubs. And Saints won’t pay for those calibre players now. Even then, if your squad gets too old like City’s have, you can still be vulnerable even with the billions their squad is (or was) worth. Leave it for Real and Barca of 10 years ago. Bayern aren’t doing that well on it.

Didn’t Blur have a single about that - lives in his house, a very big house in the Cunthey?

Ashes to Ashes Rusk to Rusk Bournemouth got us So Brighton must

Surely not? She didn’t actually answer with that?

Soggy could make his own variation - BOG Surely we could put Turkish, Hypo, Duck and H&W down for the first few orders once production is in full, Romney Marsh swing?

Saints are certainly terrible.

More than teething troubles this season.

You might get your wish, Wrexham are stumbling slightly although still well in without a shout of the top 2. Brum definitely a danger next season with their financial backing.

Think I need to chew on it

King was a big MLT fan but Villa as a club.

Everybody else’s will who has a spat with him. Popular at the moment in America but sliding already and will implode when tariffs hit everyday items (Americans didn’t learn our cost of living lesson from Brexit), India, and Moscow.

https://www.avfc.co.uk/news/2016/02/08/interview-mervyn-king---why-aston-villa-means-so-much-to-me

100%. And trips further back to Bucharest, Lisbon, Hamburg, Lisbon, Brussels (my parents went to that and stayed in Bruges) and Marseilles. Probably more further back in the Fairs Cup. Hate it when the club is in its complacent/dozing phases. Hopefully there’s a 09-17 or a 76-85 around the corner. Even an 86-91 or 99-04 would do.

Early season that’s ok but want to move on a bit as the pitches dry out. Lords has not been a good batting wicket in domestic cricket recently and he started at Durham, so the average may only be part of the story. His form on proper wickets at Surrey would be a better guide. Remember him defending well for England but the better bowlers tied up him down a bit.

Didn’t Jason Puncheon have issues with an insistent tortoise at the Everton home game and had to leave the pitch temporarily?

That’s rather cruel H&W - surely a man can be permitted some of his own, fine, home made chutney, fresh from the cooking pots of Romney Marsh?

Gaza is a bit more problematic in the Midlands, as people probably gathered from the GE, more along divided lines, whereas very strong support for Ukraine still.

It’ll fuck their economy, there’s very little Youngkin can do https://www.washingtontechnology.com/companies/2025/02/virginia-governor-pressed-support-federal-workers-and-contractors/403116/ at that scale to mitigate the level of lunacy. 27% of businesses in Fairfax County, the most affected region, rely on competing for federal tenders so private sector decimated, and 30% of federal role going held by military veterans. Wasn't quite in the brochure was it? Virginia state elections are in November https://thedispatch.com/article/virginia-governor-doge-spanberger/ With wafer thin majorities in the House and Senate, only takes a couple of rebel GOPs sticking up for their states and deadlock on the national budget, which affects all 50 states.

Seen plenty still around here and in the Midlands, jacket lapels quite common. Can’t speak for other areas. With public opinion strongly against Trump and Vance’s behaviour I suspect more will pop up again.

It’s incredibly haphazard but in Musk’s case he’s well aware of the asset-stripping he and his team of acne-ridden munchkins are doing. It’s vile but the American electorate are going to have to wear it. They’ve not realised how many Trump voters in poor districts rely on Medicaid, which could be an issue when they finally realise because one thing that lot do save money aside/go robbing for is gun ownership. And plenty of them. When those voters refer to socialism and hating it, they’re not referring to themselves and their own historic provisions which will go under DOGE. Combined with inflation from tariffs pushing up their everyday goods it’s going to get ugly quite soon. Main thing we can do is stop that shit spreading here and to Europe.

Whilst there are many decisions this current government has made that I don’t agree with, a lot of the morass is down to short-term economic experiments like hers which cost tens of billions in a few weeks pushing interest rates further, as well as taking a hard Brexit in 2019 which has cut 6% off the whole economy. So yes, I agree, going back into the Single Market is absolutely essential. We simply don’t have enough money to fund the services the overwhelming majority of voters of all parties expect. Truss knew it as well, which is why she wouldn’t balance the books to make the level of tax cuts (even then they weren’t remotely affordable).

On polling, in 1981-2 the SDP were polling over 50% and leaving a very unpopular Conservative government and conflict-ridden opposition with an unelectable leader batting for 2nd in high teens/low 20s. National Front were active on the streets and predicted to win seats. Then check out the 1983 GE result.