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How many were starts?

Well, there is one, lots of nominal/low fees. Unfortunately, SR are still a bit naive around this aspect. Good at selling for big fees until the Dibling mess, but take Aribo. Only cost £6m, sell him for a couple of mill and dump the wages. Heard they were still wanting to turn a profit and it’s not happening, They had to do it on Onachu but you can tell they didn’t like it.

Smallbone wouldn’t cope with how Still sets up so if they can’t sell him it’s a loan out and free transfer. Aribo possibly a bit more but he doesn’t want to be here - his agent needs a rocket up the arse. I’ve seen quicker conveyancing solicitors. Loan at the last minute at worst but realistically I think he’ll be sold for £2-3m. Larger wages a factor.

With how late it’s all been left, one of Dibling or Fernandes can’t be sold now, preferably the latter with the longer contract. Loans in now I’d imagine. Two wide players and another CM required regardless of squad size. As long as it’s within PSR, SR will have to suck it up. Consequences from letting Martin and Ankerson run amok.

Edozie needs to bin his agent off. Made a useless decision last summer to decline Rangers and go to Anderlecht where he didn’t make much of an impression, and the faffing about this summer has probably cost him what would have been a very good move to Strasbourg. Aribo and his agent need a clear deadline to get a move completed by or he’s in the u23s for the season.

Hmmm, I think I can see what might happen..

Their manager is several levels beyond anything we’ve had since Ronald or Poch. Sky love a bit of controversy but honestly, we shouldn’t be at the stage of fans shouting racist comments at players. It should’ve been stamped out by the 1990s.

Not if you’re Putin or Russia. Trump (yet again) got taken to the cleaners by him. Art of the Deal my arse.

Haven’t done it yet I’m afraid.

It would appear so https://www.empireofthekop.com/2025/08/15/liverpool-bournemouth-premier-league-antoine-semenyo-racism/

It’s better than getting banned for making tasteless airplane gestures as two of our twats did to the Cardiff fans from the Itchen North.

My grandfather, a Southampton docker and Army boxing champion, was a POW on the Burma railway. He hated them with a passion, chased a Japanese chef off a vessel in the docks after the war. As Nick said, Hirohito was a scumbag of the highest order for never apologising. No reflection on the current Japanese generation of course but the UK state visit 1980s by Hirohito stuck in our family’s craw.

Probably the Kassam or whatever it’s called these days. A four sided ground will feel so much better. That will be two three-sided grounds visited this season with Wrexham and the gap where their new Kop stand will go next season/building work. The North Stand has been allowed to re-open at Hillsborough so that’s back to four again.

Whoever made the alleged comment to Semenyo, he’s certainly made them choke on it during the second half.

Well done to Oxford United on being granted planning permission for their new stadium https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgjy19xgv45o

Really unnecessary - achieves nothing https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqxg3xg8xyyo

And then back to the pub after that hopefully.

Which character do you reckon?

On the plus side though, his fencing business is going really well. Made from lovely North Devonian wood which is ideal for sitting on.

Thanks, I’ll give it a whirl.

Imagine the half-time team talks from Lord Duckhunter

Did you need MS DOS? If there is a version not needing that it would be fab to play it again.

More than Status Quo and possibly more than GM even.

100 pts for me having voted Tory 2017 as May’s deal whilst naive was far better than what we ended up with from Johnson and Frost (and was obviously so) and Corbyn’s manifesto. Not a very socialist thing to do. My usual party were in disarray post-Brexit and 2015 GE wipeout (apparently austerity was only down to us). Other than that, agree with the rest of that table - if you’re beyond 600 pts it’s a sad state of affairs.

The former players are generally a bit easier to manipulate - barring Neville and Carragher at the brighter end. A lot of the reporters and presenters are cabs for hire same as the red top political journalists, except you are swapping political parties for elite football clubs using mouthpieces to further their interests and pursuits.