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Exeter were in the crapper financially, fans trust had to make an emergency loan of £200k where they over-spent last season so City away is a penny from heaven for them. Probably not as transformative as Man U was when they were non league but very important. Macclesfield hosting Palace WILL be transformational though financially. Derby v Leeds an interesting tie with two historically fairly big clubs. No Lee v Hunter though.

Don’t think it will even require that to happen. Boris fucked them over either intentionally or unintentionally by planting garbage like Sharp, Davie, Gibb on their leadership and boards and it’s screwed them. With the likes of Kuenssberg and Mason licking Farage’s arse out they don’t appeal to centralist/liberal-minded publics any longer and some of the Conservative-minded people never liked them anyway. To think they had reporters like John Cole, Sergeant and Simpson widely respected right across the spectrum… Add in Wallace/Savile/Brand and it’s not a positive picture. If they’d maintained their news and sport quality they might have withstood the turbulence but they are well behind the likes of Sky and C4 now.

Some of them might be on this video, choice depending on your preferred tipple

Saints Loyal I think is will need a week’s supply of Kleenex (other tissue brands are available) if that’s true.

Some good pubs when we’ve watched Saints there though, not least the Grove. Magic Rock taproom closed earlier this year though.

Didn’t know there was a Bangkok in S Yorks…

Thought you’d be happy about this Alex? https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-trans-women-conference-latest-2026-b2879318.html

And now from the coach https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/c78vnl7prg7o ‘Ollie Pope is our number 3’, where is the accountability and competition if players aren’t consistently performing (and in Pope’s case for a while, excluding the fact he’s a number 4 or 5, and Root and Brook are better than him)?

Let’s hope no pictures of trains are handed over during this visit to Doncaster.

Never watched it but the fact Harry Redknapp won it a few years back told me everything I needed to know about the audience.

Cheltenham Town away

Played like a village green slogger. Vice Captain my arse. Can have his Jos Buttler white-ball only career and rest of the time hit horrific shots in some far flung T20 league.

Strong echoes of Saints in the PL under Russell Martin. Same outcome on the pitch and same P45 heading the head coaches’ way shortly.

Both - some fine saves above average but should do better on AA’s first and arguably on his second pushing Leo’s shot wider to narrow AA’s window to score. In the same way it’s not inconsistent to say Gray’s shot was very hard to save but maintaining Bazunu and McCarthy are liabilities to be dealt with in January.

In a nutshell, why I never watch I’m a Celebrity or any of that. 💩 Never have. My missus watches some junk but even she normally won’t watch those sort of programmes, Love Island is another one and Big Brother. She did watch the Batchelor early series, my ear buds went on and watched something else on Netflix.

Need to draw on the England Lions. Duckett, Pope, Brook and Smith all look overwhelmed, and need to be replaced.

Grow up sunshine. Most of us have watched more SFC matches and seasons than you’ve had hot dinners. Yes, he has earned his shot and I don’t begrudge it whatsoever. Wasn’t difficult for me to say it whatsoever as adults can admit they are wrong sometimes. Just enjoy the much better football and results without needing to have a pop at anyone like a 15 year old kid. Frankly, anyone trusting SR with their appalling track record with our club was the insane one, so most of the comments will have reflected that rather than anything specific on Tonda himself. But the time to post this shite with justification on behalf of your beloved SR is when Saints snatch second place on the final day of the season. Delighted with how Tonda has done so far but let’s leave the champagne 🍾 for when it’s warranted. Far too early from an ownership who nearly beat Derby’s low points record last season. Let’s re-assess in May.

Agree with @The Kraken - neither is great, Starmer has to step up otherwise he’s going to be replaced next summer (only needs 80 MPs to trigger a contest) but popularity itself isn’t an indicator. Thatcher had terrible polls at times through her premiership, and as Kraken said, 52% of people following Farage leaping into the dark has left this country far poorer and more divided/unhappy. Electorate keeps wanting ‘change’ but they don’t like any of the changes because we’ve lost a big chunk of the economy and because of that the changes are compromises. Get back in the Customs Union - regain 1.5-2% of economic growth, get more money in people’s pockets and it’ll feel a bit better. Accept that the Single Market is politically unacceptable because of freedom of movement. Starmer needs a backbone on that issue.

Justin Langer for the next three tests might be an option, understands Oz conditions and will get some fight out of the players. England’s red ball record vs Aus, India and SA under McCullum is mixed at best. Flat track bullies. They won’t sack Brendon though, only just signed a white ball contract.

It probably made TE’s job a bit easier saying to SR ‘he’s struggling a bit’ after that alleged incident, ‘take him out of the firing line’. Will be off on loan in January to the MLS somewhere.

Horrible the Charlton fan passing away at today’s game. One of their long-time faces from the sounds. I know there’s mixed views about stopping matches due to emergencies in the crowd but sections (hopefully very small) of the skates away support not emerging with huge credit, if true Page 5 of the Charlton forum indicating this too https://forum.charltonlife.com/discussion/101011/club-statement-fan-sadly-passed-rip/p5 and page 8 is very difficult to read about their fans trying to save him. I know plenty of decent Pompey fellas, a lovely tribute on page 10 by one of their fans but they really have a vile element at times.

Manning scored a couple in August but hasn’t looked dangerous from them since.

Don’t think Beadle did well on our third either. For Gray’s goal, that was Peter Lorimer circa 1973. No chance for any goalkeeper with that.

Trouble is, Joe will eat the whole display if it’s edible.

Funnily enough didn’t pick up on the use of Gaelic as another language https://tfn.scot/news/charity-leads-condemnation-of-farage-over-claims-about-glasgow-schoolkids https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1419439356856154&set=a.709946794472084&id=100063703086121 Downplaying the use of a horrific racial slur. He did the same in 2014 for UKIP candidate Kerry Smith https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/nigel-farage-claims-ukip-candidate-used-offensive-language-because-he-grew-up-in-a-council-house-9935234.html and on other occasions using even worse language https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/nigel-farage-video-racist-divisive-itv-eu-special-ian-warren_uk_5756893de4b0411d4de1d828