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Dragan would give Adam a ‘people disappear in Serbia all of the time’ look and the words would soon dry up.

And to help pay for it, not been sentimental fools and wasted more money on a 2 year extension for McCarthy. Which compounded the original disaster £14m outlay on a League 1 keeper (only just L1 quality as well).

Just about to start reading this book https://booksplea.se/lucky-loser-how-donald-trump-squandered-his-fathers-fortune-and-created-the-illusion-of-success-russ-buettner-9781847928245/?setCurrencyId=1&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADipSSRNB-9BUBERbuz8YAzC2Lg1i&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIs638-_XHiwMVaZtQBh1-jDfaEAQYASABEgJAq_D_BwE

It’s not like America has ever had a near-nuclear meltdown like Three Mile Island is it?

Dragan has to be perfect in 25/26. Big name manager hire for this level, biggest budget in the league and an energetic, physically strong squad with pockets of creativity Spores brings in. Wolves and Nuno, that’s the template he needs.

THB has been abysmal as well, hope he moves on in the summer and turns a x2 profit on the ‘won an England cap and still young’ card. Juric made another tactical howler today and not the answer but the club is a fucking basket case, only Carlisle and Morecambe worse I’d say. Reading in a financial sense but turned the corner in a football one.

Good article here on why car tariffs are nonsense. There’s a trade imbalance because 4 litre gas guzzlers don’t fit around Europe streets with 15th century buildings. Some of the corners around here are a prime example unless you want to collide with honey coloured stone. Tariffs also stifle innovation, look at how lazy BMC became pre-Common Market membership If Americans made better compacts with good automatic transmissions that were durable like Japanese and German models, I’d be open to buying one https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq8kn5v37wxo

He was still sat next to Spores last week, albeit with a face like a smacked arse.

This is SR’s song which sums up their philosophy - 10% is better than nothing at all

Do share further, any particular snippets which can be shared?

Avram might want to return to the UK and specifically Hampshire. He enjoyed his Thai massage in Horton Heath.

National Parks as well https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/15/us-forest-service-national-park-service-layoffs Fire mitigation will be very difficult and the parks left in a far worse state. Mind you, anyone wanting to visit America over the next 4 years for leisure (work is different) has to be a MAGA supporter.

Look at what they’ve done to the NIH. Going to reduce the volume of high quality clinical research by cutting indirect cost rates to 15% with a ripple effect worldwide and other populist pillocks will look at it. Only the very wealthiest Ivy League will be in the game now to cross-subsidise.

Funnily enough looks the good player he was when he first arrived playing to his strengths under an experienced manager, not a prick who has managed for 5 minutes with a ‘philosophy’ and whose teams concede a million goals.

Do I really need to spell this out? Their manager is as wedded to his system as Martin was his. The midfield needs flooding today but no, stick with 5 at the back and get annihilated.

Because it’s obvious we’re going to get beaten several-nil at home to a club with an 11k stadium given the pathetic central midfield their latest idiot has just selected. Might as well as selected wet cardboard than Smallbone and Aribo’s forte is not a holding midfielder. Effective as advanced, not his fault there’s no football knowledge at the club.

At least they have a PL and FA Cup to show for it, we’ve got the net spend and owner asset-stripping trophies. Even the gunner running shysters in E Hants got them a cup.

Good on the Leicester fans for getting organised and showing some guts, unlike our obedient League 2 Hampshire church mice.🐭

If Rasmus and Spores told Juric that they had put £10k per person on 0-6 to Bournemouth at 12/1 and make sure that happens so we get our payout, that’s the team and formation you’d pick.

Good grief. Bournemouth away Martin selects a line up and formation that was so incoherent and nonsensical it looked like a wino from Hoglands Park had made it. Six months later a new manager does the same, possibly even worse actually. Against possibly the highest energy midfield in the league we pick a 9 stone kid and someone who isn’t a strong runner or tracker. Need to start again in the summer.

Will be on the bench I’d imagine, really would be in the deep end starting him.

If the Americans leave a yogurt in the fridge long enough, that’s their best chance of getting culture.

When you think back to last summer and the 80th anniversary of D-Day, that shows you how tone deaf Vance’s pitch for the Presidency in 2028 was. Trump has backed it public because he can’t do anything else but I suspect behind the scenes he was going ‘FFS, you’re the VP’. This shows the true face of Project 2025, which they couldn’t have done without Trump getting them back in, and Vance is a leading figure in the drafting. Trump clearly doesn’t give a shit about NATO or European security, we knew that, but Vance’s speech could’ve said ‘China is a real issue for us, and we can’t decimate Russia because they have a long border with them. But Europe has to pay more for its defence, we can give your forces some air cover but on the ground it’s up to you’. Same outcomes but lands totally differently. Instead, all we hear is ‘we want Tommy Robinson, Le Pen, Orban and fascists leading every government’. OK for an immigrant to decimate the Federal Government though if he’s also a white supremacist and billionaire. Not what our grandfathers fought for in the 1940s, so much for the party of patriots. Although most genuine GOP left the party a while ago.

This is what will trip Musk up because he doesn’t understand politics, or human beings in general, even in a Darwinian country like that. The same singular focus on whether they think their family budgets might get a few more dollars in them a week got MAGA re-elected (added to a hopeless Democrat party) will also mean enough GOP Senators look after their own interests and re-elections despite the warm, empty words about DOGE.

JDV’s ‘speech’ is also a reminder that Trump and MAGA aren’t uniquely one and the same. Nor did Trump have much if any input into the writing of Project 2025. Vance did though.