Gloucester Saint

Or called the Physio a cunt in training.

For balance, you and I would have laid into Martin if he’d picked that line up and formation. Dragan needs to get discussions going with Steve Cooper IMO to start in June. Couple of better early performances but back to square pegs in round holes and these square pegs are utter crap even in square holes.

https://blackadderquotes.com/captain-darling

Still stinks of Boris, this government won’t give a fuck what Cummings is up to but Boris and Kemi will.

He’s an out and out number 2 instead 💩

How many pints would Martina be for Duck?

Hmmm, wonder who they got that from? The obese, dishonest, philandering, non-condom wearing, over-annuated ex-PM they pay a fortune to write garbage on a Saturday for them who fell out with Dominic Cummings per chance?

You may be getting confused with the Pompey thread 😉

Yep, York has fantastic culture, Yorvik Museum, Minster, The Shambles (unrelated to SFC..) and some brilliant pubs. As a Walker/hiker, Yorkshire Dales are wonderful. The Malham circuit is one of my favourite walks in the country, everybody talks about Malham Cove but Gordale Scar even better, Janet’s Foss waterfall and the Tarn. Tan Hill Inn highest pub in the country on the Durham/Cumbria border, the roads out have views right into the Lake District. Wensleydale and Swaledale stunning. Kettlewell - could spend a week there doing the walks. Fleet Moss road a must cycle/drive near there to get to Hawes.

He had been crippled with an achilees injury, wasn’t due back until the autumn at best, and out of contract at the end of the season. If he’d kept that ratio up over a whole season….that makes Adam Armstrong or BBD…hardly worth the mind-numbingly stupid decision to pay £8m plus an extra payment after we went up. When Saints signed Lambert for £1m, then very rare in League 1, he was already a prolific scorer at that level over a few seasons with ability to play higher with the right conditioning and lifestyle. But we were a far more sensible club then.

Shamrock Rovers or Cork City

Kraken is right though even if don’t agree with the tone of his post, Armed Forces have plenty of ED&I posts which given some of the racist abuse cases they’ve tried to cover up isn’t a surprise.

Having never worked for the NHS I may have this wrong but if you’re needing to have multiple posts at that levels managing whole teams at the scale of the NHS, doesn’t that indicate that the right/best leaders especially for Trusts in the most diverse and deprived areas aren’t being recruited and selected. Not just the money either, if you’re having to create workarounds some potentially bad leaders to embed ED&I into health prevention and care delivery that must create a fair bit of extra work? I wouldn’t want to see politicians interfering in appointments, we’ve seen what happens then and it’s a disaster, but what about patient groups and community groups having some say in leadership recruitment?

Yep, and that’s where mainly data-driven scouting and transfer activity leads you. You miss out the balancing out across a team/squad of strengths and weaknesses, because you only look at each deal in isolation.

League One here we come.

Fair, and Baz is League one or two at best.

It’s not necessarily disagreeing with what’s there because there is some truth there - albeit the tone is very partisan given the audience - but what’s missing. Brexit and the type of Brexit, what that newspaper demanded - has murdered commercial investment in the UK as an overall trend, and productivity is every bit as much a problem in the private sector as public. Skills development is another banana skin that successive governments have not made progress on consistently and become yet another ideological football. 2011-23 there were 11 growth strategies and Labour are producing yet more now. Our businesses, colleges and universities need more consistency, stability and consensus to stick their necks out and make the major investments in R&D needed than we’ve had since 2016, when at least we had some continuation from Brown-Darling-Osborne-Cable. https://www.economicsobservatory.com/how-can-the-uk-revive-its-ailing-productivity

Rejoin the Single Market if you want to sort out the economy. The hard Brexit pursued by Johnson and Frost, his Sherpa that couldn’t climb Butser Hill, wiped 7% off GDP and a £40bn annual gap in the economy. Neil won’t admit that and until he does, he has no credibility with me. Labour need to stop being timid about this and tell people truth. Neil’s article is null and void then.

Some nice areas around it, Saltaire, Bingley and the Locks, but Bradford itself is a shocker. It has been for a long time as well, the state of the housing stock is unacceptable in the 21st century, and parts of it don’t look that different to the Yorkshire Ripper era. Potentially some fantastic Industrial Revolution architecture to work with but as H&W identified, post-Brexit the City of Culture title isn’t worth spit in terms of regeneration funds. Another area that screwed up by voting for Brexit.

There’s been quite a bit more trouble at Cardiff and the rugby even since these articles and restricting beer sales during the second half https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-63595687#:~:text=Principality Stadium alcohol issues down to individuals%2C says WRU,-Published&text=Anti-social behaviour at Wales,the venue's manager has said. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-59402277 The only sport where it works is cricket. Primarily because in an era of inflated prices which have curbed genuine football and rugby fans from watching top level competition, the cricket fans are there for the game all day (and it ain’t cheap either, not for England).

Spaniels’ ears

That won’t be a shock to any Saints supporter. At least with him having a seat in Norfolk I’m less likely to come across the plank.

Fucking hilarious and actually very helpful to Labour. Without even a Parliament seat and spending her time on the alt right speaking circuit, she really is cracking up. She ought to sue Kwarteng as well, he’s gone on various documentaries explaining she went haywire. At the end of a bottle of wine, it probably felt like a good idea, but the lawyer’s had a laugh and fleeced her there.

Not that much though. His dad is a legend in Gloucestershire cricket.

Got another one in the 3-3 v Newcastle IIRC.