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He’d be first on the team sheet but no chance even if West Ham funded half of the wages. Potter is using him more and I suspect he’ll feature in their squads over the next 18 months. Good luck to him and I hope he regains his place there going forward.

Decorative only, a sop to the MAGA crowd. Whilst Kash Patel’s history and record is less than ideal, I was quite impressed with how he swatted away Musk and his McDonalds teenage weekend crew’s email to FBI staff on Saturday, which has put a big nail and puncture in DOGE’s tyres. If he carries on like that I’ll be impressed.

I’d say judging by the amount of well-attended and vocal cross-partytown hall meetings being convened around their country, many hosted by Republican Senators, about mitigating the impact of DOGE and the haphazard and unaccountable methods/team of kids used to slash roles in nuclear, FAA, veterans and access highly personal data, that process is underway. 81% of the US public believe that Putin should not be trusted and 56% disapprove of Trump’s behaviour over Ukraine. The FBI appointment is decorative, if I was American I wouldn’t welcome it but I suspect they’ll get bored and flounce off after 6 months when they’ve leaked all sorts of information and undermined investigations and court cases, not to be replaced.

Somewhere inbetween IIRC. Mali Group was Markus and you are right that the main Liebherr Group was owned by the overall family. Markus’s fortune was still worth £2.5-3bn according to figures at the time of his sad passing which is still more than Dragan Solak who isn’t exactly skint either and Tony Bloom who has funded Brighton. It was a quantum leap from Lowe and Wild and was big bucks then in PL terms let alone the EFL.

Interesting to see https://www.cbi.org.uk/our-campaigns/driving-green-growth-and-the-transition-to-net-zero/

Elon has messed up with Saturday’s email, condemned and being opposed across the political spectrum https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj0qrj20g5vo https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly25yny3ego

£40m and it’s done. JWP wages unaffordable even @50% subsidised great as he’d be in the Champ with some pace and power alongside him.

Tennessee learning the hard way as the UK has done that Xenophobia and nationalism are very expensive to your economy. £20bn tourism economy with Canada, #1 visitors to Nashville and 150k jobs locally depend on Canadian tourism, down the toilet with the national boycott Trump’s behaviour has caused. Whoops, that MAGA vote felt good in the booth for a lot of those 150k but it bet it doesn’t now. Trump has done what he said he would and it’s impacted you.

I’ve got the perfect song for that clip

As another poster would say, noddy behaviour.

JWP was a great servant but it highlights how one dimensional/one paced/lacking physical presence we’d become as a midfield unit. He will do a job as a squad player for the Hammers but his peak was with us and briefly with them at the start.

I don’t think it’s acceptable and is a lie IMHO, as was Schapps selling Ponzi schemes as Michael Green and Jenryck’s various corrupt activities. The stuff around Reeves I don’t like much either, even if it’s a bit more opaque.

I had to look up who they were, must be getting older not knowing who some of these social media figures are https://www.newsweek.com/who-gonzalo-lira-pro-putin-american-expat-dies-ukrainian-jail-1860496 Sounded like a charmer.

Good to see it, using their remits to bypass Elon’s retarded behaviour. Oklahoma the latest state to express grave concerns about DOGE and another acknowledgment it will choke off spending with smaller companies https://www.newsweek.com/kevin-hern-confronted-donald-trump-federal-job-cuts-elon-musk-2034891

The German Daren Powell. At least Powell knew he was a Championship player.

What is a judge supposed to respond with? ‘I banged up five perps last week’. What about if their fraud trial is 3 months long? The request has no actual status or legal bearing but creates more choas. What a fucking lunatic https://news.sky.com/story/elon-musk-says-us-federal-workers-must-justify-their-work-or-resign-13315365 More lies as well exposed https://news.sky.com/story/elon-musk-calls-famed-astronaut-andreas-mogensen-an-idiot-after-being-accused-of-lying-about-stranded-astronauts-13313772

The WBA and Leeds games by Martin’s own admission the ‘philosophy’ was banished, partly because of McCarthy replacing Bazanu and partly the wretched form before the Leeds away game. The play off final in his own words was ‘driven by emotion’ after the goal. I’m not suggesting Juric is any better it’s another left field pick from SR so the extent of the mess can’t be exposed by the limitations of Juric’s language but at the Chelsea and Spurs games under Martin we’d easily have conceded double figures if they hadn’t taken their foot off the gas/woodwork. The lack of any defensive organisation and structure was evident right across those defeats, the shambles at Bournemouth, and Juric’s heaviest defeats. And it correlates directly with conceding 64 goals last season.

It’s depressing though from whoever it is - Jenrick, Schapps, Reeves, Reynolds. Gift to populists with their own shady sources of funding (Nick Candy). And a stain on the offices they hold/held.

Good article about how Pep’s possession-focused style stopped working a few months ago. Which of course is what Martin styles rigidly on. Put simply, we artexed all of the ceilings in 1989 or went to the barbers and asked for curtains https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c20l7lw3ypzo

Agreed, I’d like to see Spores tackling SR’s and Saint’s leadership head on about many of these issues, and he can do it in public because their stock is so low and his is quite decent. Get Dragan and his new SR board members onside and win the politics inside SR early so Rasmus and Kraft are irrelevant. ‘Gavin needs a fresh start elsewhere and we haven’t managed a young goalkeeper well’. - honesty goes a long way.

What’s Duncan’s or anyone’s politics go to do with valid opinions on the team we follow? Why don’t you and you lads have a read of S-Clarke’s post above. You might learn something.

A key role Spores has in the miracle turnaround he’s being asked to produce is to speak truth at the SR boardroom level about the likes of Bazanu, McCarthys extension, the very long-term injured and ensure Dragan writes off some of the dreadful decision on ‘assets’ even if he winces writing the cheques. No face saving for the likes of Rasmus and Kraft, the full Pandora’s Box has to come into the open warts and all for any trust from the supporters to ever be possible again,

That’s the PL to an extent as well. Might be a bit better next season with a manager, DoF and new squad who actually try/give a shit bar the three names mentioned. Ship Downes off to Goztepe as well, that’ll cheer the crowd up. If Goztepe don’t like him either, he might turn up in the pre-match kebabs on sale. Properly cooked through though.

It’s so hard to make an objective view when this season has been one of the worst ever recorded at professional levels. The numbers are impressive in the circumstances, but they could sing for 90 minutes and there’s only Fernandes, Ramsdale or Dibling who would respond to it/are worthy of wearing the shirt. The rest are just SR’s journeymen and mercenaries, a jizzum stain on the history of the club and city. We’d be wasting our time. They’re SR assets, I don’t even recognise them as being part of Southampton Football Club.

For me, Bazanu not being #1 is a key early test of whether Spores and the new manager are going to be up to it. I’ve never seen a less natural or obvious goalkeeper.