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Shearer went a huge rant about it post-match on the BBC about what the hell Guly was doing at the back post.

Quick though for a centre back and can actually play. A decent manager might turn him into a decent higher-end Champ CB. Not sure his concentration is PL level and has a touch of the Stephens in his ball-watching.

Hope you’re right on much of that Manji, if RM was in charge in summer recruitment with Rasmus doing the paperwork then he was even more out of his depth and deluded than we feared. Fancy buying BBD, Taylor, Archer and loaning Lesley for possession-obsessed football. It’ll require major investment from Dragan as far as FFP allows, Wolves under Nuno are the template. Pace, strength, then technical ability right through the spine of the team plus a new first choice keeper. Negotiate exit compromise packages with Bazanu, Stewart and Larios, latter two won’t be fit for professional football at any level again and insurance should cover some of it. Whether it’s Rohl or Cooper coming in, I don’t think another manager wedded religiously to a system or style is what is needed as we can have again at the moment as we had with Juric and Martin, although empathy and respect with the former for even taking this rabble on frankly. I didn’t care for the picture of Rasmus sitting next to Spores at the Burnley game with a face like a smacked arse. That didn’t look like someone willing to easily to give up his Mr Football/Frank Spencer role within SR. Dragan may have dissolve him out of SR and re-employ him for Goztepe’s DoF to resolve a potential power struggle.

Kicked off at the ice hockey, the coaches trying to play it down but of course the GOP rhetoric and hate has had an impact https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/ice-hockey/articles/c70k2pwkrj1o

That’s part of the debate that would need to happen. And I wasn’t a fan of Straw taking us into the Social Chapter, that was a factor behind Brexit over time. But there are well-resourced elements, not least a mass media and their non doms, who will argue against that, and the social clock would go back 50 years. We took a leap into the dark with an in/out referendum and had years of haggling because there was no consensus on what a post-EU UK looked like and what the relationship then looked like with the EU, that’s why I’d be sceptical about what Lowe is saying. The issues need cool rational heads but these issues tend the promote the most knee-jerk and wealthiest voices on either side.

Arguably an insult to Noddy too. I liked the vans parked outside the King Power against Jon Rudkin yesterday. Humorous but targeted. You can’t imagine most of our lot being able to spell the words let alone design the clown images.

#thatsthepurposeofaloanspell

Agreed too, our point is that it shouldn’t be an either/or, and in better times we’d have them competing.

It was more tongue in cheek taking the rise out of Blackmore like the Brian McMillan sledge v the Aussies in a Test match but point taken. https://www.sacricketmag.com/watch-big-macs-sledge-shook-warnie/

I get that LD, and context is important. But that can’t be a justification for rolling back hard won rights for British-born minorities as collateral damage. Rupert wasn’t into football then so won’t remember it, but I remember Danny Wallace getting pelted with bananas from the Archers cage by West Ham and Chelsea fans. Whether people vote for it or not, it’s never right and I don’t believe that a majority will. Besides, illegal immigration is too high, and the boat invasions make me sick, that we can agree on. But let’s pull overseas students out of it, and dependents of junior doctors, that was Braverman shit stirring, and focus on those core issues where there is majority consensus.

And a hypocrite I should have added https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/feb/13/reform-mp-rupert-lowe-hails-solar-energy-money-saver-while-party-vows-tax-sector

Simple put down for Lowe is his dismal record as Saints Chairman, but this is more fuel to play back nearer the GE. The fact that he wants to go back to the guesthouses with ‘No blacks’ in the window tells you what he is. But Saints fans already knew he was vile. Trump and the attacks on ethnic minorities and the disabled which they copy will be the nail in the tyres of their poll ratings, not to mention their economic ineptitude and non dom owners awash with Russian oligarch blood money.

Agree with you on Smallbone, plenty of players I’d be giving stick to ahead of him, but can’t agree that the fanbase is toxic. Look at the Leicester targeted protests against Jon Rudkin yesterday, should have done that vs Rasmus ages ago. West Ham protests 4 years ago, Everton when we won at Goodison under Nathan Jones. Ours are like church mice.

QPR couldn’t pay the wages or fee needed with FFP either.

The statues would be something else for Westwood to urinate on for a start. Their fans might argue for a double bubble - one for them and another for just him with the Police and stewards (wearing masks), plus the poor skates sat next to him issued with industrial nose pegs. Industrial Karcher pressure wash for the away end afterwards.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crr0gkn1qlzo

I’d make Clough look like a softie

Pathetic. Some of the worst driving you will ever see and I’ve driven circa 300k miles in my life. Hopefully a driving ban and a further 12 points for being a chav so he’s banned for at least 4 years. Re-take extended 2 hour driving test with 2 years probation if he passes. Then tell the kids on board how severely he’s been punished so they are never tempted to copy him. Don’t want him jailed as costs us money, he can financially pay for his crimes. Taxis are expensive.

As long as we get £40m for the cunt I don’t care.

Struggling to give a flying fuck until the match days and even then I’ll struggle to work up much interest. Besides which, there’s rather a lot for the club to do by then: - Somehow get three more points to avoid Derby’s wooden 🥄 - Sell £125m of the few decent players and pay some contracts up and retire others (Bazanu, Stewart, Larios) - Buy £60-70m on 4-5 players to blow the other sides out of the water. Pace and strength right through the spine. New first XI goalkeeper essential as well. Blow the Neves record fee out of the water on at least one of those. - Offload a load more crap on nominal fees to offset their bloated wages - Re-integrate the successful loan players (Edwards, Charles) and extend contracts. I think Sheff Utd will go up so you can add another £10m to the £125m coming in above. - Appoint a high calibre manager name for that level (Cooper would be one example) and arrange a tough pre-season programme to drill the defence and test out the pressing game.

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.