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He’s joined Badenoch and MAGA in attacking children with SEND. Classy and ignorant in equal measure https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/nigel-farage-mind-reform-uk-dover-national-autistic-society-b1224130.html And a rubber-faced hypocrite https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw9ydv975wzo Echoes RFK’s comments, showing again that Reform are simply MAGA-lite.

To think that even other struggling Saints sides have had the likes of Flowers and Niemi in goal. Keeper recruitment has been crap for about 10 years now.

The Leicester result skews a far smaller sample. And look at the outcomes in the play offs themselves plus we only conceded one at Elland the game before.

Cross-party legislation coming in to tackle reckless cyclist behaviour which harms or kills others (recognising this is a small minority of cyclists) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0w8g18x9no

Your last sentence has some truth to it, but the injury in part forced Martin’s hand. He’s just conceded 15 in only 8 games for one of Belgium’s biggest clubs in a much weaker league which indicates it’s not just an SFC defensive issue or style of play. He’s worse than average and his age has to stop being an excuse for not saving routine shots at his goal. Saints must buy a Ramsdale replacement and loan Gavin out, even if it’s heavily subsidised. He’s a liability.

Graham Roberts

Those figures were from GB News via an FoI request. I wouldn’t dismiss them out of hand because of that but would also take with a certain amount of salt as I doubt proper statisticians were used to analyse the data. The government has stated that official migrant crime rates will be published before Xmas in a move which has thrown the Tories who always promised it and never actually did it. I’m not that fussed on it myself from a Lib Dem perspective but it’s red meat for the red wall isn’t it? https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-labour-is-finally-publishing-migrant-crime-league-tables/ I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the nations are similar in the official data assimilated properly though - Albania we know has a chronic people smuggling problem and a lot of those nations listed have legal and policing systems very different to the West not to mention very different cultures. What will be interesting is if Germany, France and Scandinavian nations follow suit for comparative data and whether the patterns follow. Because it’s a pan-European problem whether the populists like that or not. Brexit hasn’t helped the borders but a joined up approach is more likely to.

And regardless tainted with ammonia. SR have done many stupid things but even they can read about how Redknapp panned out, and what a hard time Crouch had initially.

Spors said as much quite openly as well. https://www.tribalfootball.com/article/soccer-premier-league-southampton-plan-major-sell-off-as-spors-makes-window-promise-to-fans-205e8789-8a27-4172-95db-901821403e3e

Leopards don’t change their spots https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz798wrd81jo The leaflet that came through our door from them was little better and full of anti-EDI. Thankfully people here are generally open-minded and independent so the Lib Dem’s will increase their majorities. In Devon, where some of my family live, Reform have colonised some of the NextDoor apps, openly campaigning on them and very hostile and aggressive to any questioning. Constant threads about immigration, dislike of foreign visitors, and hatred of other political parties (Tories but increasingly Lib Dem’s who they see as a threat) drowning out the normal posts about missing pets and community events. If it was a London borough, Midlands or NW - understandable but those areas are 98% white!

£12-15m which unlike for outfield players was still a significant outlay for a keeper at the time. Has never looked a natural goalkeeper in his positioning and presence around the box.

And part of the reason Galtieri felt able initially was the defence cuts of 1981 even though there were FCO warnings that Argentina might try its luck.

We were better off getting him bumped off as an inside job, which I think would have happened if Trump hadn’t have kissed Putin’s arse. Very hard to win that war in the battlefield even with the aid Ukraine were getting but Trump has totally misread Russia and made a twat of himself with all the pronouncements around ending the war in a day or a week. New leader could be just as bad but you could get a Gorbachev.

I couldn’t understand what the dirty marks were down the side of Canberra (rust of course) watching on Weston Shore. I was coming up for 5 so we must be a similar age. 43 years ago in July but one of my earliest and most vivid memories (along with Bryan Robson’s WC goals v France the previous month lol).

Whilst not a long war thankfully, the human loss shouldn’t be overlooked with the Falklands as Francis mentions with the Exocet hit and losing 14 of his shipmates. I’ve worked with one ex-serviceman on community projects who has PTSD from having packed away the bodies of Argentinian troops in crates. I asked him how young, expecting him to say 18/19 and he said ‘no, younger, taking their O Levels or younger’.

Feebly asking a Russian dictator and lunatic to stop bombing another country like he’s a cat scratching furniture is not going to work. Bombing Moscow’s power plants and shutting their capital city into darkness, that might.

He is, cartilage, although that’s not the feared injury it was in the 1970s and early 1980s thankfully with advances in sports and clinical science. He’s still conceded 2 goals per game there and not a glowing report card from people watching the games overall. Not terrible either but nowhere near a Southampton shirt next season even given how bad we’ve been. Subsidised loan to lower Champ or more likely League 1 where he’s had some success before is the way to go. He’s looked very skittish in Belgium and keeping every other week in a stadium which doesn’t hold happy memories won’t help him. Fresh start.

If Martin does join Norwich, and wants Gavin on loan initially, then I’d have thought Saints would have to subsidise some of his wages anyway as their parachute payments run out.

Although extending McCarthy for 2 years wasn’t bright either. Agree that we’d never have won the playoffs with Gavin in goal though. Subsidised loan probably the best route to a lower Champ, League 1 club, no loan fee and pay 50% of wages to give him a full season of men’s football. Alternative is Martin gets the Norwich job and Gunn leaving in the summer on a free and no senior keepers….

Canberra’s return to Southampton July 1982 for anyone too young to have been there or seen it

https://www.hants.gov.uk/transport/roadsafety/cyclingtraining

When the Trump regime does things beneficial to public wellbeing, I will praise and give them credit https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/crld4egrkrxo

In terms of your memory of Southern Seas deployment, I’m currently reading - and enjoying - this book at the moment about how Canberra was borrowed, and adapted, for the Falklands War. I remember being on Weston Shore in 1982 with my parents when she came back, a vivid early memory. The human aspects in terms of how civilian and naval personnel got along is really interesting, and 99% of the Cunard crew wanted to stay on. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Very-Strange-Way-War-Falklands/dp/1845137450

Fair point, and the Highway Code says to treat them as another car in terms of space which I do. Cyclists who also hold a driving licence I suspect tend to be safer cyclists.

There does need to be a deterrent. They want to see chaos but it not effect them. NBC poll still finding that only 2% regret their vote, although his approval ratings are very low by Presidential standards.