Gloucester Saint

I don’t vote Labour but he’s had a pretty full plate on foreign affairs - Ukraine, which has escalated since the GE, Trump, Vance et al and NATO, trying to sort out the pathetic mess left behind by Johnson and Frost on our relationship with the EU leaving a 6% hole in our economy. Trump’s tariff tantrums impact by another 0.8% GDP but the hard Brexit is the priority to fix with the new German Chancellor and others. Working more closely with France as adults will also help with curbing illegal migration, which the ERG were unable to do. Reeves is a clusterfuck but I don’t think Starmer has done that badly and if you’re being objective, there’s some good early performances there eg Streeting sorting out another horrific mess from Lansley. Jeremy Hunt agrees with what he’s doing.

Organ probably a better bat too. Let’s hope he can recapture that purple patch he had with his spin bowling later today.

Yes, IIRC, summer 2023. Tino had done back towards the end of the season after his ACL injury sustained at Brighton.

Ambient or lightly chilled. Fully chilled murders the flavour. Although in the case of Carling, that is probably a good thing.

I think RVN would have to walk with their PSR severe issues though. He’s probably wealthy enough but footballers don’t tend to walk away from guaranteed money very often….

Although not quite the crop circles of Fabrice Fernandes

IIRC they pretty much made a strategy out of that transfer which fed into the SR takeover - Semmens may even have referred to it in the press release - and you can see a direct correlation as you say to the summer 2022 window.

Probably someone economically a smidgen left of centre but disliking the Labour left approach and probably less of a collectivist e.g. big trade unions. Pro business overall but not believing public or private sectors can do everything. Pro-European and a more pragmatic approach to immigration.

Me and my wife. Parents tend to plus some family members who were Conservatives pre-Brexit.

True, although it didn’t stop the local Reform candidate for Gloucestershire making all kinds of lavish claims and how they’d slash spending. Behaviourally it might be interesting. Jenkyns in her Mayor role in Lincs will have to work with Tory councils in the districts - which could be interesting after the acceptance she just gave!

50% of this forum has more pace than Vestergaard. Play Sulemana through the middle/coming off wide down his side and lots of early balls into the channels to skin Jannik. If Sulemana can’t put Vestergaard on his arse then there’s no hope for him even in the Champ. If Archer could be bothered, I’d start him as well.

Agree, I think football clubs and scouts must be watching a different game to me at times because I see a bang average centre half similar to Bednarek in a 4, and in a 5 THB has been miles worse than Jan, and even worse than Stephens when the latter has been off the pitch. Not even sure he’s been better than Wood in a 5. He’s alright on the ball but so is Stephens when he’s not sent off. That England cap might make us very grateful to Lee Carsley if we can somehow turn a profit on him. I do hope that it is another learning point along with Bazanu (the biggest lesson), Larios and to an extent Edozie that because a player has looked good for an ECL petrol club below first team level with genuine talent around them that it will automatically translate to PL at a medium sized club. The Livramento and Lavia transfers made money but they also killed SFC in a lot of ways.

One look at where Reform’s funding comes from tells anyone with an IQ in double digits that those are the people Reform is going to shit all over. As Rallyboy says, it’s an opportunity for Reform to prove their worth at a local and regional level. Andrea Jenkyns promising DOGE forLincolnshire and already stomped off a Sky News interview with her nappy around her ankles. Quite possibly the most unpleasant human being in British politics but given Lincolnshire’s leading role in Brexit they absolutely deserve each other. Cue the whining on social media when their remaining public services disappear. But too dense to watch the News and what is happening in the US https://news.sky.com/video/reform-mayor-andrea-jenkyns-pushes-journalists-mic-away-13359666

Don’t know what that makes Jannik Vestergaard then - cost Saints £18m, then even more astonishingly Leicester paid £15m for him with only a year left on his deal at Saints. And he played in the 0-9.

Gloucester City in the final - my Hampshire roots mean that I’d like to see Totton win though. But if not, local 6th tier football plus Cheltenham Town in League 2. Bishop’s Cleeve had a great season locally as well.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14650649/cia-deputy-director-son-russian-ukraine-war-death-michael-gloss.html

Their main stand from 1971 is interesting and very imposing, that third tier tapers in an interesting way. Rumour was that Alan Ball had to be sold to Arsenal to help fund it, breaking up the Holy Trinity. Surprised by that stage that it had pillars, Chelsea’s East Stand in 1974 had none, but then it did bankrupt them!

£5m was a mid-level Champ fee at the time, now its top 10 League 1. 200 odd appearance, bulk of them in the top flight, can’t really moan. Not Jannik’s fault that Reed and Wilson couldn’t stay off the sauce long enough to think that Hoedt and Vestergaard were worth £17m each (£30m today).

Agree with much of that, being lactose intolerant I watch ingredients like a hawk. Anything with more than 4-5 listed I’m naturally suspicious of and much less likely to buy. For balance though, bacon, lower grade sausages supermarket bread are as bad as anything else.

Not a surprise when you look at what Trump has said on record https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/12/trump-racist-rhetoric-immigrants-00183537 If Hitler had said those things at Nuremberg no-one would be surprised.

Same story about Witkoff has appeared in the Moscow Times that he met Putin solo and didn’t even arrange a translator https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14666633/trump-insider-steve-witkoff-putin-russia-meetin.html Fuck me, Trump knows some morons. Waltz goes but the suspected rapist, domestically violent and ex-Fox News presenter clings on https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/pete-hegseth-confirmed-defense-secretary-assault-allegations-rcna189168

Arib-go https://saintsmarching.com/southampton-midfielder-wants-leave-amid-recent-transfer-interest One of the bigger earners, done OK but not fussed if he moves on, need far more of an engine in that area. Smallbone also needs to move on for the same reason, also only a year left.

Sing to the tune of the infamous Harry & Jim song 🎵 Just get a point, You Useless Pricks Just get a point You Useless Pricks 🎵 Our lot will just stand there and clap them instead

I think the Leicester forum has called it The El-Shatico. Same thing and both clubs and squads are a disgrace to English football.

He’s economically illiterate, not difficult to see why he’s endured a string of bankruptcies. Hinting at elimination of income taxes is typical populist fantasist thinking, Farage is in a similar mould, as was Boris as well. No qualification of what ‘massive’ is or any evidence of it bar the odd new plant, nowhere near covering the jobs lost in the commercial sector. And that’s pre-DOGE, because tens of thousands of highly skilled people won’t be buying new Chevys or extending their townhouses. They’re more focused on not foreclosing. He’s has been propped up by Daddy, the banks and shady billionaires (eg Musk), hasn’t had to face realities. If he presented this as a business plan at the interview stage of the UK Apprentice, Claude Littner would tear him a new arsehole.