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They recruited one and for a decent Champ level fee. Sadly he’s a Wessex League footballer. Bristol City manager was saying that Bundesliga 2 is a lot weaker and less intensive than the Championship, and hence you have to be selective who you sign from there and expect instant performance.

So they should be, Lib Dem’s were as well, and Tories if they had a vaguely competent leader and deputy (not saying Starmer and Davey are all that either, but Kemi is desperate straits for them). Long may Sarah Pochin give gifts. Good article here showing data that more voters believe Reform is an openly racist party than was the case in 2024, which added to their plagiarism of MAGA’s crazy anti-abortion views is leaving them wide open for tactical voting as we’ve seen in Wales and Scotland https://www.ft.com/content/c09d5494-9c0c-480e-8f2b-73635d86e76a They should have won Runcorn by more considering the former Labour MP actually punched a constituent on the high street! Window of opportunity for the Tories to revive somewhat to be the primary centre right option again if they ditch Badenoch/Estate Agent Bob and elect a centre right pro-business leader free of the 2016-22 taint.

So could I. Might not even need to move house if he doesn’t mind the W Mids M-Way network.

Can’t see it, wouldn’t worry, SR love a needless risk but too hot even for them. Pity, if he wasn’t one of the Blue Few he’d be what we needed,

Linked to Brum where Chris Davies under pressure.

Honestly, don’t bother @Crouchie's Lawyer, MLG just wants an argument. He knows full well that the club have been selling players for higher fees and re-investing and replacing across different areas of the squad since Martin Chivers in the 1960s. The times it’s gone wrong is when a player has either been sold/injured/not worked out across the spine of the team. Take centre back. Ken Monkou contract expires, getting on a bit, Dean Richards comes in on a free from Wolves. He excels, sold for £8m, after Paul Williams as a stop gap, Michael Svensson came in from Troyes for £2m. Where it went wrong for Lowe was Killer doing his knee (Fratton of all place in the warm up) and replacing him with Andreas Jakobsson. A slow and reactive ball playing CB with an ageing Claus who was ditto. But cheap fee from Brondby. Claus needed pairing at that stage with another Killer/Deano who were more inclined to attack the ball and see off danger. VVD despite the record fee and Fonte weren’t replaced properly at all by Reed, Jan was meant to be back up at most and Stephens has never been a PL CB because we wouldn’t pay the £25m fee at the time that a ball winning and assertive decent quality international CB cost. Vestergaard, Hoedt, Lyanco - the list of failures goes on and cost far more than a good one would’ve cost who at 23-24 if does well probably sells for £50m and they achieve their aim. Ings - similar, Semmens and Crocker patted themselves on the back for weeks sickeningly at the £35m fee and then panicked on AA for £15m. Keepers - Gunn was never needed, Forster never the same mobility after his major knee injury, AM back up. Just needed a Ramsdale level #1 for £25-30m. Look at how much extra they pissed away instead on wages, fees, contract extensions. Then SR and Rasmus doubled down by spaffing £14m up the wall on a 20 year old lower leagues keeper straight in the deep end who makes Shilts look a giant minus all of the natural goalkeeping ability.

Quite, if she’d said ‘I’d feel patronised if I were from an ethnic minority in this country by what advertisers are doing, it’s tokenistic’, I think a majority of people including me would have actually agreed with her. Instead, she went down the ‘It Drives me Mad line’, all those black faces, poor whites etc’ following Murdoch’s channel’s caller down the racist rabbit hole. She’s had prior form for racism as well so if it she mis-spoke as a one-off.

Ergo what the club did during the 1960s, 70s, 80s, lost its way in the 90s but did again early-mid 00s until Lowe’s brainfarts. Then again 09-17.

More like the Lonely Planet guide with all of his whacky conspiracy theories, because the rest of it is out to get him.

Agree with this post to a large extent. Still has made some obvious decisions in spite of SR eg dropping Bazunu and Stephens, two of their favourite sons. But it needs some more experienced who will go further and give the likes of Sesay a chance, bring Robinson back in and build around the few senior players who do give a shit. Put the two u23 forwards in ahead of Archer. Aribo needs to be brought back in and Edozie must be a better option than Fraser. A manager who will toss the SR boardroom politics in the bin publically would buy a lot more time with the fanbase and actually even though SR would hate it, it’s what they need as well. Decisions made 100% on who is training best and applying themselves fully week, not future value, re-sell or a reluctance to write off investments with contracts winding down. If Bazunu and Smallbone are out of contract, so what? A new keeper in January and centre forward, and we should at least stay up. But will take a seasoned figure to cut through SR’s nonsense and outplay them in the Uk media.

I don’t get it either - if I was him, I’d go down using the style which worked for me in France and Belgium. Whoever succeeds is going to have to restore some organisation in the playing squad, build resilience, manage upwards eg new DoF and Dragan, tell Rasmus to stick to his spreadsheets and bomb him out of any involvement with Saints, find a new keeper and 9 in January and rebuild some form of connection with the fanbase. And put multiple players in the bomb squad to go as the squad is far too big, yet again. Not much then 😅

He was awful with Sweden though - decent job at Blackburn but wouldn’t be a first choice.

Their club is another player trading mess but at least there is a semblance of a playing spine and the manager - for this month at least - has managed at this level before. Their goalkeepers aren’t a total write off and they do sign the odd effective striker. So some improvement on Saints albeit not huge.

I think it’s win or bust for Still - bust it is. He’s wedded himself Juric-like to 5 at the back and with the midfield being depleted with Charles injury that spells major trouble. The only thing I can say in his favour is that he stuck two fingers up at Rasmus and rightly dropped the hapless Bazunu. McCarthy isn’t great and making mistakes but he’s still like Gordon Banks by comparison.

Now Charles is crocked you’d think some common sense has to kick in and Aribo be re-integrated. The squad was already light in CM and with Flynn Downes continuing to be gastro-germ central even SR surely aren’t going to carry on punching their own face. Edozie should be in front of Fraser as well.

In the Conference League below the MLS

Buying players as single transactions for profit rather than because they have leadership characteristics and don’t need constant instruction and coaching, incapable of independent thought and adaption on the pitch tends to contribute. Add that into the chaos before and after crossing the white line and a rather toxic mix.

Good episode. The whole set up sounds incredibly chaotic and unprofessional, can’t remember who the poster is who slags off Parsons but he’ll have enjoyed those references. Total mess from top to bottom, earlier in my career I worked in some chaotic places before I reached leadership levels and had the power to sort them out and turn them around but SFC would be a stern challenge for anyone. Pretty clear Still’s brain is scrambled from the decisions topped off by subbing Scienza for Stephens and putting Jack who hadn’t played for 6 weeks in central midfield. Bragg without a shirt number, as Glen said total tinpot. If we can’t rid ourselves of SR, and the fanbase has to give that a concerted go now, then it has to be new CEO, DoF, First Team manager and coaching line up from the UK and 100% independence from the SR board bar budget setting each summer.

You’ll get to see Mad Nate celebrate his revenge on the other hand.

I knew brighter people in the fourth stream at secondary school. Farage and Tommy know their market.

It’s how it’s said, I don’t necessarily agree with Streeting’s original observation but there’s a gulf of difference between saying ‘it’d be good to see more representation’ and ‘I’m sick to death of seeing brown and black faces, there’s no white families’. It’s not that Streeting’s a good guy, I could pick many holes in that statement, but simply a lot more articulate than Pochin which is a core competence at this level. She’s not 30P Lee from the mines though, she’s studied at a good university and been a JP. She knew what she was saying and has plenty of prior for being a racist. Mind you, she got reprimanded for dragging politics into that as well (having family members who are JPs, that is no no) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Pochin

Glad it wasn’t just me! Assuming it’s some kind of social media influenced connected with the club that the organisers dislike. Great to see it overall though. Hope it comes off and gets reported. Wolves fans having a decent go today.

Sarah Pochin still going and having a pop at Anas Sarwar now https://www.thenational.scot/news/25572754.racist-reform-uk-mp-attacks-anas-sarwar-white-speech/

Agreed on the above, but still no excuse for people to vote for this rabble of conspiracy theories, unfounded attack on the RNLI and all round dreadful behaviour https://northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politics/chaos-engulfs-reform-uk-in-northumberland/ Same for every council they control includes the astonishing proceedings video in Kent https://theconversation.com/kent-county-council-is-reforms-shop-window-its-leaked-zoom-call-implies-chaos-and-poor-leadership-267900 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz7pe443lp5o

I picked it up from the match day thread I think it was, a couple of people posted it who had listened to Going Home with Adam & Jo. Like you I’m out of Solent area. Closest I could pick it up when I lived in Devon was on the hills above Lyme Regis.