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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.

Can be worse than abuse too - e.g. David Amess, Jo Cox and Nigel Jones’s office manager.

Hope for Leeds next season because in parallel with likely selling their best player we know how that ends up.

MLT, Shearer and Ruddock were playing in the group behind us early 90s at Soton Muni. Very good golfers as you’d expect and had a quick chat. Nice fellas. John Burridge presented us with our Tyro League promotion medals late 1980s. Paul Telfer and Wayne Bridge on London Rd just before the 2003 Cup Final, very nice lads. Chris Nicholl at Chilworth driving range as it was then, smiled and said hello. WGS out running in Hamble on Satchell Lane. Met more cricketers than footballers over time - Sir Colin Cowdrey re-opened our local, wonderful chap, Angus Fraser, Phil Tufnell, Jimmy Anderson, Matthew Hoggard, Paul Collingwood all on Barmy Army duty. My friend in Lancashire had Brett Ormerod deliver a parcel to his house.

IFS is equally critical of all parties when they go into fantasy/denial, just like Private Eye are in exposing corruption. https://ifs.org.uk/news/response-mornings-reform-uk-policy-announcements https://ifs.org.uk/articles/spring-budget-2024-initial-ifs-response https://ifs.org.uk/articles/liberal-democrat-manifesto-reaction

50% relegation clause is the rumour, so Aribo won’t be on the rumoured £65k p/w next month for example. Galatasaray can easily afford that, they just signed Leroy Sane. So can Beskitas, Serie A most of, Bundesliga. Bednarek ditto, Roma’s bid was rejected in January for more than the £6m release fee.

All for officers being held to account, worked for SCC summers and holidays during university 1990s, but it’s the potential selling on of personal data to Reform donors and others that would be a concern for me, with the potential for fraud and identity theft.

Those players, bar Sulemana, are proven second tier/non-EPL players, Aribo starred in Rangers title win and Europa League run, scoring in the final. He has a market - perhaps Rangers again, bigger Turkish clubs, maybe Greece’s sides in European competitions. Bednarek’s release fee is only £6m - he is off. Jack has a broken wrist, AA scored 23 goals odd last time out and even Smallbone is a decent Champ midfielder in a central trio, if that’s the formation Still prefers. If he wants a two then Will probably leaves on a nominal fee but clubs at our level will want him. It’s the likes of Larios and Bazunu who will be harder to shift as they’ve been injured and/or had terrible loan spells. They’ll be wage write offs on loan I should think for the rest of their contracts. BBD is tricky to assess - three rank spells at his last three clubs, but has some track record at this level. I suspect Still wants to see him first and ideally fully fit, which he’s never looked for Saints nor his second loan spell at the Blades. Type of player who needs a WGS-style fitness regime pre-season to get the best from him I suspect, and the players didn’t seem very fit overall under Martin after the last pre-season.

The dodgy tweets are rather a problem when they are meant to be managing Leicestershire’s adult social care budget in one of the most diverse counties in the country. If you’re good enough, you’re old enough but these two are miles away from being good enough to run a bath https://basw.co.uk/about-social-work/psw-magazine/articles/reform-councillors-aged-19-and-22-charge-childrens-and It also has the serious outcome of probably being unable to scrutinise council officers properly. If you’re going to put lads that age in important positions, at least ensure they’ve got lived experience of being in care etc to draw upon. Just having a couple of random chavs with offensive posts from X isn’t good for anyone.

No beef with bringing in Boving, just hope we don’t get milked on the fee

Plenty of evidence of the chaos they’ve caused in local government already. Would you want IT people in their teens and early 20s accessing your personal information as they seemingly will be in Kent for Reform’s ‘DOGE’ programme?

The donations largely from tax havens hardly suggests Reform is interests in the working man (or woman) either https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/reform-uk-funders-nigel-farage-5-million-donations-fossil-fuels-tax-havens/ A bit too reliant on David Sainsbury but otherwise rather cleaner https://donation.watch/en/unitedkingdom/party/LIBDEMS/donors

I’m not a fan of Reeves at all and she’s not using her abacus very well. But at least she’s got one, let’s hear your views on the following from Reform https://ifs.org.uk/news/response-mornings-reform-uk-policy-announcements Do you agree with Farage or is he even more economically incompetent than Truss? (Whom he praised last week). Do clarify for us how Reform make any economic sense, if you can. To most people, they look like they haven’t got a clue economically beyond hating on immigrants. And putting 19 year old racists in charge of Leicestershire adult social care. I’ve seen enough of MAGA US to know it’s a total disaster economically and pledging to delete to diversity officers which don’t exist in councils they now lead copying the flop that is DOGE isn’t going to cut the mustard I’m afraid. Let’s see your party step up to the plate now. The government are crap, let’s hear the alternative then, But judging on the resignations and back-tracks so far, I’m not confident. You want power, pressure is on to prove yourselves. Let’s see how you lot perform in local government. We are watching. Signs are not encouraging so far.

I’m pretty shore he isn’t. Will look up Donnell McNeilly.

Hope that he gets a red card for foul language to the fourth official so that we can shout ‘you filthy Trollope!’

She did some good things - trade Union reform - and some stupid things eg privatisation of utilities (not trains though, that was Major). Like most PMs. Her and Blair are miles ahead of what we have today in terms of leadership but they didn’t have to deal with Trump, pandemics etc, and both had reliable transatlantic partners.

I know, let’s put teenagers, OK one of them is the grand old age of 22, who denies depression exists, lauded Andrew Tate and has posted very racist content that the BNP would have thought twice about, in charge of Adult Social Care. That should get some different results….you can get MPs in their early 20s, but not in positions with this responsibility level still sounding like early teenage incels waiting for their parents to clean up their bedrooms. https://www.leicester.news/reforms-deputy-leader-in-leicestershire-shared-homophobic-sexist-and-islamophobic-content/