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That’s being kind - a sloth sleeping in a tree has more energy bar Archer and Charles. Murphy puts in another quality delivery.

Agree, that said Archer has played well and won his duels. Sadly he’s been on his own bar Charles.

Bar the Dozzell effort, lucky they’ve not had the quality Wrexham, Stoke and Watford had. Better move there. More like that please. Archer has done well, won and held up.

This is like a game at Whaddon Road. League 2, ball in the air a lot, head tennis and lots of blind help ons.

Would help if he was actually passed to rather than smashing it into him. That’s why you pick Stewart if that’s the style.

Chance to re-group and get the ball down and use it properly. Try passing to a red shirt. Their reserve keeper is similar-looking! Not more in-breeding?

Or score if we finally settle in.

Ogilvie has a huge bump on the side of his head. Their keeper looks to be struggling, get some crosses in and test him out.

Dowie is just saying what we can all see - Archer needs it into feet, not a hold up forward.

How is that a free kick against Fellows? Shit ref.

Manning nearly tees them up twice with poor headers. Mads done far too easily outside by Murphy, THB awake. Well out by Baz.

Got better players, get it down and dictate the tempo. Mousinho would prefer a bitty game. Azaz won’t get into it if we smash it over his head. Archer pressing like I’ve never seen before. Dozzell injured and going off for them.

Lucky there, not sure what Stephens was doing.

Better

Iffy joke by Matterface about igniting Pompey from the lighter thrown at Murphy. Yet to get going really.

Streeting or Burnham

Q - what is the difference between a bubble bus full of Pompey fans and a hedgehog? A - with the hedgehog, all of the pricks are on the outside.

That’s what I’m saying in a nutshell. We concur.

Hit. Nail. Head. And the US implementation is a key contextual difference. US Affirmative Action as it was a few years back was far more interventionalist because putting wrongs right re segregation as discussed with Hypo last night who has lived over there. I don’t like quotas either as that’s not the way to make inclusivity sustainable - hence Alex’s RAF example which is very rare for the UK - but in the US and SA there was a lot more of it. So yes, DEI is a good thing and we’ve got the balance about right here with the Equality Act. But there will always be voices who say it doesn’t go far enough or shouldn’t be there at all. Now, is there any further space on that fence of yours?

What he says later in the clip is better but that first assumption is nuts. If it wasn’t for clinicians from BAME backgrounds, I wouldn’t be celebrating hopefully a Saints victory on Sunday with loved ones. Likewise, white clinicians made mistakes which killed my cousin. Doesn’t mean that I automatically see a young white junior doctor and think ‘are you only here because you got a bursary because you were the first in your family to go to university?’.

American affirmative action was also quite different for some years which is important context as well. The Equality Act here is a lot more about safeguards and small adjustments to level things up, there’s no discounts whatsoever on the threshold for succeeding. But IIRC you lived in America in the past so you probably know that anyway.

Which they did too rapidly and in a way which was illegal and poor practice. The enquiry findings were fair and correct. What I’m keen not to see is all inclusion chucked in the bin and lumped together.

A joke to help relax things. A Southampton lad in his early 20s goes on a dating app and talks to Portsmouth woman. They get on and arrange a date in Whiteley. He heads off and his father says to him ‘give me a call after half an hour and let me know how it’s going’. They meet and getting on quite well, and the woman shares that she’s a virgin. The son rings his dad ‘It’s going well, but there’s one thing. She says she’s a virgin’. Dad ‘come home now son!’ Son ‘Why!?’ Dad ‘if she’s not good enough for her own family she’s certainly not good enough for ours!’

Lush! Was it great? Been to Bahamas and all around the Caribbean but never there. Another destination I’d love to go to is the South Seas islands, Moorea and Cook Islands. But need to finish renovating this house first…

Yep, that’s unfair practice, trying to change too quickly and the pace they were trying to do it would likely penalise some applicants, which the opposite of what it’s trying to do. Give you that one, said I’d be objective. An interesting question is whether people agree with white people from low income backgrounds receiving EDI encouragement or say bursaries to attend FE/changing careers/university?