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Arsenal next and Arteta is not a manager to ease off at 5-0 on 65 minutes.

Keeping us up this year would be beyond re-incarnated peak Clough. But getting some self-respect and a sense SR want to be serious owners and not a Danish child’s play thing with other people’s money would be a huge step forward. It would ruin Lallana to be thrown in this season but clean slate next season, Moyes in charge of transfers having set the basics down at Staplewood - it’s an option at least. And David Moyes Head of Football, Rasmus ain’t arguing with him 😂

If he’s like this used where he was effective for the Blades under the new manager I’ll be in agreement.

Looked alright in a dire Blades team last year though. Funny that when you a sign a player and play to their strengths….

Have we done any since February 2022?

Don’t think he is fully fit or not training properly. Seen him play for Blackburn and Sheff Utd. Granted, he isn’t Mane but has a change of pace and strong. Only mid-20s but Mark Hughes in his late 30s was quicker this season. Another sign of serious issues at the club.

Not Ross’s fault. Bought him injured and barely trained with the squad in totality of his time here. Sunderland were laughing but got to get the best we can out of him and the dysfunction in the club and coaching set up isn’t helpful.

Moyes for this season and as Head of Football next season working with Lallana as head coach. Won’t take any shit from Rasmus and this is the core issue. In charge of all transfer activity as SR are terrible at this aspect. Will also fill the lack of football experience at the heart of SR and SFC.

Oh come on FS, you could’ve said the same about Rob Edwards and Luton last season. They weren’t good enough over 38 games but they got respect, some memorable wins, did the basics well and were well in the vast majority of games. And this squad is better and more expensive than they had. I don’t think anyone will keep us up but after this latest disaster just some self-respect, organisation and beating the 22/23 low points total would be success.

He’s in the rear view mirror. Lallana needs to think about how to approach the Arsenal game as caretaker.

Probably right but he looks so far behind McKenna and Cooper tactically it’s frightening. Just not cut out for this level as Jones wasn’t either, Dragan needs to act. I like him as a personality but his confidence is gone, you can tell. Aim has to be to compete better, beat the 22/23 points total and come back with a bit more momentum.

I think it wasn’t an affordability issue like it was with Tella, and he’d have gone to Bayer anyway given the choice (and why wouldn’t you - 2 lovely medals the result).

With the right manager I agree. Ipswich don’t have a miles better squad but look at their performance yesterday, playing to the strengths of the players they have. Funnily enough competing well even if they ultimately go down. We will struggle next season as well with Martin in charge.

It’s poor from the officials but also inexcusable in the top 2 divisions to be switched off like that. I don’t think the squad is anywhere near fit enough mentally or physically which is part of the issue. Time for Poch style double training sessions.

THB has been very disappointing so far this season. Clearly £20m buys you the modern day Jos Hooiveld.

Not harsh when it’s happening in some form every game. Can’t score often and giving dreadfully soft goals away like that.

Crazy isn’t it? We barely have the public services left of a developed western county. This is what happens if you spend any time with the modern day GOP over the pond.

Ground invasion being telegraphed by the Isrealis https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c981g8mrl8lt Part of me really enjoys seeing Iran get a bloody nose, the IRG is vile, but this phase could get protracted.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7481gy3kg9o The fact the audience cheered about her saying Trump winning would cheer her up and fact that a majority of hands up wanted her back in Parliament defies belief. They really don’t get why they lost so heavily do they?

Overheard this one on the way to SMS a few years back: A Saints supporting man in his early 20s is set up by work colleagues with a blind date with a woman around the same age from a Portsmouth-supporting family. They meet at Whiteley as a neutral venue. His dad asks him if he’ll let him know halfway through what the woman is like and whether he’d like to see her again. The date is going fairly well and he pops outside whilst she’s gone to the toilet to ring his father, ’It’s going well Dad, I think I like her, she says she’s still a Virgin’ ’Son, you need to come home now’ ‘Dad, why?’ ’Son, if she’s not good enough for her own family, she’s not good enough for ours’.

Of course, his core base would regardless and most of the GOP as it currently stands (minus the outflow of the country club GOP from the Reagan and Bush era to the Democrats, see Dick Cheney and Bush families). And in 90% of the country I think people have already decided too. It’s in the hands of a handful of Electoral College swing states now.

You can see his supporters eyes glazing over in the background. Far from the first time even this month let alone before that he’s totally lost threads of his really speeches. Apparently he ‘weaves’ in and out of threads. Nothing to do with senility. One thing he did weave in was some hate, this time against disabled people https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-wisconsin-rally-speech-harris-mentally-impaired-b2620652.html The most rambling speech this month was in Savannah, Georgia, last month, that state being one of the swing ones in the Electoral College. If Biden had made that speech….https://newrepublic.com/post/186315/donald-trump-struggles-focused-rambling-speech I’ve heard of blackouts but not brownouts. And it sounds like the Venezuelans have taken over an apartment building in Colorado and are set to take over the whole country, It’s almost as if he’s repeating the craziest conspiracy theories really incoherently.

It depends what the 32% reduction is in. It may well not be in consumables as people tend to assume but rather building materials and supplies which when you factor in supply chain delays from the pandemic 😷 additionally has had a devastating impact on both large building projects and domestic ones eg renovation. It’s impacted us twice over - we had to withdraw from buying a new property as the regional firm couldn’t get it built and we’d have lost our own buyer and then on the doer-upper on a larger plot we bought instead the cost of materials went through the roof (pun partially intended). Also, on the imports we do receive, more is coming from outside the EU than before which means more miles travelled because of needless duties which is environmentally worse. On both imports and exports, the uncertainty is not helping smaller businesses doing reasonably well who’d like to expand either.

Know what you’re saying but we’d been so badly outplayed at that point that it would have felt hollow to have escaped! We still owe them one for Bairstow at Lords but save it for the next Ashes series if we actually go down there and make an effort to run them close for the first time since Strauss’s team. Good effort from 0-2 down but the batting needs Root - or someone who can score a lower risk run a ball rate regularly - in it still to get a balance with the batters who can get it over the ropes regularly.

Shouldn’t be a surprise to anybody, frictionless trade was as much an outright lie as the £350m a week for the NHS, oven ready deals and having control of borders. All driven by the party of free trade and enterprise (and if anyone still believes that, they’ll think they’ve also won the Nigerian lottery from what’s in their junk mail).