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Probably keep the main stand and newer home end active, maybe knock down the two older wooden stands down and put screening up. That would be enough for the WSL. Main stand is 12.6k and the Sir Philip Carter stand 5,750. Gives them around 18k, that would be enough. If not, keep the Gladyws St End which holds 10k as well.

I agree on Wellington, miles better than Manning, mystery as to why he’s not regularly started if fit. Sulemana just isn’t a footballer for me. A £22m, much poorer version of George Lawrence, Neil Heaney or Franz Carr. Actually, that’s still unfair on George, look at his output in the top flight compared with Sulemana’s https://www.saintsplayers.co.uk/player/george-lawrence/ Much inferior to Neil Heaney as well https://www.saintsplayers.co.uk/player/neil-heaney/

Remember, MAGA are a plucky movement taking on elites… I wonder what he makes of that? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Nader

He would be upfront with Carrillo in our worst ever top flight team.

Impressive and great for their fans. In practical terms, reflects the difference in cost of land. The London clubs couldn’t have done that and the Dell site was too attractive for developers. Whereas Everton would probably spend more demolishing Goodison that they’d get for the land. Although they’ll have to budget for maintenance on Goodison as an old stadium. Imagine if the new one at Bramley Dock was damaged in a storm? Can’t be too many medium-large clubs around Europe that could play fixtures in their old, quite large stadium, whilst the new one was fixed and insurance settled. And probably not totally fanciful with climate change.

The commercial side of the club has done alright from what I can tell, and would be better still if the football side wasn’t so disasterous. Rasmus, Kraft and Martin were the main offenders. Just have to hope Spors and his team find the right manager and sort player recruitment out over the next few windows, because it won’t be fixed in one or two.

Reform have certainly targeted that age group on TikTok, I remember reading about it. There we go https://news.sky.com/story/something-remarkable-is-happening-with-gen-z-is-reform-uk-winning-the-bro-vote-13265490 Seems to be what would have been the Young Conservatives when we were growing up in the 1980s plus the Conservative Student Societies which were pretty active, effectively replaced them. Like the YCs, this ‘bro’ crowd are almost all men as well 18-25. The YCs were always in the papers for various views that would make CCO shudder plus their drinking, and this cohort sound quite similar. With the average Tory age of voter let alone member nudging up towards 75, this really is existential for them. Happy to welcome any One Nation Tories into the Lib Dem fold.

Agreed, has had more wealth and success but millions better not just financially but as a human being https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Stevenson_(economist) The likes of Rob Moore are just poundshop Candy brothers, bet they’re his heroes.

Rob Moore’s X account is full of him whining about paying tax, then whining about how high crime rates are and why it took hours for his 81 year old father to be seen in A&E. Not ‘progressive’ enough to join the dots as to why, nor work out (Brexit) as to why his beloved London isn’t a ‘tax haven’ any longer. Then praises Farage… Please do move to Dubai Rob as keep saying you’ll do. I’ll drop you at the airport as you’re the sort who is minted but won’t pay for a taxi. Met plenty of those. Bet he claimed furlough as well…then wonders why there’s debt the country has to service. Parasite.

What next - Islands of Blood? I suppose there could be a few violent scuffles on the Ryde hovercraft after the game at Fratton amongst supporters heading back to the IoW….

We did, Killer got the winner. Our fans got limited to a temporary stand in the corner, less than the minimum we should’ve had. Hence the next season we got 4 or 5k allocation half-price at what is now the Etihad and won 3-1, excellent day out.

The only positive is at least he isn’t compulsory to buy. The club loves a player with an Achilles injury, you could say it’s their Achilles Heel… In all honesty, Uncle Albert from Only Fools & Horses would have offered more athleticism and vitality, plus entertained the squad with WW2 stories.

That was one more game in that style from Mauricio Pellegrino, after Les Reed promised it on the website. Considering the pedigree and the expensive squad he had, he was astonishingly bad.

I know what you mean but a recent England cap, time to develop as a third CB at a bigger club, and a good reputation in the game, he will get a buyer at somewhere like West Ham or Aston Villa.

Sadly not a surprise. A former boss of mine worked in one of the Motherwell plants in the 1970s and he decided to move the family to a new life and job in Southampton after his little daughter came home and asked ‘Daddy, what is a Feinian?’.

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As a liberal (small and large L), I don’t like it honestly. But it’s not totally incongruous to Labour historically though. More people remember Blair era and openness, pro-EU but in the 1970s Labour were far more socially conservative and if you ask our parents generation the trade unions were protectionist with their closed shops, in pockets outright racist.

Not all of it was, for example I’d prefer to have the best technical and emotional skills working with our most ill/vulnerable society members and my experience of how my relatives have been cared for is that some cultures are outstanding at that. So Labour is making me uncomfortable there. But yes, it’s an unarguable fact that this issue has surged in public opinion since the financial crisis stalled living standards for most people and public services degraded by ongoing austerity. Migration has an impact services but research shows most legal migrants are here younger, working/studying and take the qualifications back to their nation of origin and start families there without drawing on the NHS etc. And if they stay long-term, pay tax and contribute to our communities then they should recognised after a decade. Asylum is where we meet in the middle and where we have a global and national issue. Geneva does need a review as countries fragment and climate change kicks in. Some nations - Albania, Vietnam, Turkey etc where there isn’t an active conflict should be on the first plane back out. Afghanistan is tricky due to how many people worked with UK and US vs Taliban. Unfortunately with this topic nationally, the nuance in discussion shown on this thread will not appear.

Clearly there is public concern about the rising migration numbers over the last 25 years. This has accelerated support for hard right and populist parties since the financial crisis of 2008 and particularly the austerity of 2010 onwards. A lot of people, especially just above minimum wage/benefits, or a hybrid of the two, feel poorer and that their living standards have declined since the 2000s. Actually, it has, they are not just feeling it. Part of the issue is that wealth inequalities are unsustainable, along with the pressure on public services. Migration curbs by themselves will not make the difference the public wants to key public services. The very wealthiest have to contribute more and that’s another reality all political parties need to face. Also, do you want our relatives in respite, end of life or other forms of social care looked after by trained people with the emotional competences to give them the experience they deserve or do you want Tiffany or Tony forced by welfare sanctions who don’t give a fuck? Leading to far more scandals like this https://www.hughjames.com/blog/doncaster-care-homes-child-abuse-scandal/ Because with an ageing population that’s the choice being made. The birth rate is not going to rise unless work and jobs are made a lot more secure and people feel a lot more confident to plan family lives together. Universities will also recruit less numbers from China and elsewhere if they are actually allowed to be the market organisations the Browne Review anticipated them to be, by putting fees up by at least inflation, and more if needed. Tice is a 🤡 though saying ‘net zero immigration’. Zero thought for the country’s future needs more like, and as bad as their pathetic budget plans published in the last election shredded by the IFS. As for the Tories, they spent ten years plus setting arbitrary targets without any planning for why those figures were what was needed, and missing every single one. They have not learned a single thing. And their hard Brexit cut the economy by an eye watering 6%, hitting middle and lower and middle earners hardest and enriching their donors and hedge fund friends who shorted the market (see Crispin Odey’). A thin levelling up agenda didn’t touch the sides or come anywhere near what EU regional structural funds had offered. In response to someone else, the NHS is undergoing from what I discern from outside looking in far harder cuts than anything the Tories did as the wasteful Lansley set up is demolished. Hunt wanted to do it but politically couldn’t which is understandable. As a Lib Dem, I’m less fussed about migration but clearly people are so trying to meet them in the middle. But there are tough decisions to be made, I’m not sure I trust Labour with them tbh. But I trust the Tories even less as they did nothing but enrich their donors through asylum accommodation as numbers soared and Reform couldn’t run a bath as UKIP have proved every time they’ve led a council, let alone anything national.

And the manager who brought it about happens to be available.

It could’ve been the mid-70s again but for the 3 promoted teams being so far adrift, with Man U and Spurs spending time in the second tier. Even more staggering that they are competing a European final. Lord knows what the Forest owner was thinking of there.

Step forward Nigel and destroy our economy like MAGA USA has just done.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/farage-reform-nhs-local-elections-starmer-b2742970.html All very well, but no serious counter suggestion on how to fund it https://fullfact.org/health/reform-nigel-farage-pay-for-nhs-labour/

And BBD was on loan by January, 0 goals/assists, and Sugawara effectively out of favour by then after mistaking football for volleyball. For only Fernandes and Ramsdale to work out is about right for SR transfer windows though as a success rate.

Inevitable given Canada’s been using it for a few years and Germany using dialect-based AI on speech since 2017 https://www.context.news/ai/ai-will-help-make-life-or-death-calls-in-rammed-uk-asylum-system https://www.ibanet.org/artificial-intelligence-in-immigration