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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).

The other three candidates are making hay out of Kemi’s astonishing blooper https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm24vzd52p4o

That’s his resume https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torsten_Bell TBF, you could say the same about most politicians since the mid-00s, bar Sunak and Starmer of the current crop and May from the previous. If and when Burnham and Street come into the HoC it’ll help.

I can’t believe she’s said that, I don’t think she’s a plant but is just genuinely batshit mental. Ageing population, main two parties looking to reduce migration, maintaining a western public services model - yeah, great idea Kemi 😂😂😂 It’s going to be Jenryck isn’t it? And his corruption record is a gift for the other parties.

This is ridiculous, need to get to 20 overs a side for a result and there’s a drinks break at 17 overs. At the end of September in Bristol. Potts now wasting time changing boots when he should have done that during the needless drinks break.

Liam Dawson is an excellent cricketer, would be in any best ever Hampshire XI for me. Not surprised John Turner not had a bowl for England, was out of sorts in domestic white ball stuff. Very talented prospect but needs some 1-1 coaching from Jimmy Anderson and with Glenn McGrath at the MRF Academy.

That’s the sum of it, and I’ll go further, it’s far more effective.

There’s absolutely a point in changing if the stupid slow passing around the back continues and we challenge Derby’s low points total, that’s no good for next season. Look at Derby’s trajectory since. At least go down a bit more competitive, and better chance of bouncing back and the PSR issues get easier without Rasmus’s transfer disasters around our necks.

Whatever your political views, have a watch of this. No disrespect to Starmer or Rayner, but along with Wes Streeting, Darren Jones and Andy Burnham, this is where the talent in the Labour Party is

Don’t know about that, but the previous government’s dickhead move to try and appeal to Reform UK/ex-BNP voters by restricting overseas student visas just cost £15bn in guaranteed tax revenue according to an article by the FT posted by former Conservative minister Jo Johnson, who along with Rachel is the one in the family whom the brains were dished out to. Which would have made this budget a darn sight easier. How’s the kebab tasting now?

Last night watching the England ODI I enjoyed Hokum Stomp by Deya in Cheltenham. They are best known for their pale ales and IPAs such as Steady Rolling Man which has won loads of awards but this was a stout. Stronger at 5.6% but very tasty, coffee, bright red berries and dark chocolate finish. Tonight it’s a beer I bought at the Malvern Autumn Show today, by Copper Beech called Common Ground, a New England style pale ale. Hazy as unfiltered, strongly tropical fruity nose, I can detect mango, mellow grapefruit, pine lingering with a spicy finish. The Show had quite a few local ciders and perries on offer (Worcestershire is famous for its pears and nearby Herefordshire for apples and ciders).

On Talk TV. Circa 300 viewers where the risk of being challenged is very low. Tim Shipman won’t have been one of those other journalists.

Quite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Oakeshott Richard Tice’s partner https://dorseteye.com/for-those-who-care-about-morality-and-the-law-lets-look-closely-at-richard-tice-and-isabel-oakeshott/ and employee of Lord Ashcroft and his non dom money https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ashcroft Worth reminding people of the gotcha the Ashcroft clan thought they had on Rayner