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Only asset the club has going for it. Club has treated them like shit for years as well. Above the enormous amounts of surgery Spores and the new manager (surely Steve Cooper FFS if he wants it) will need to do, re-connecting with the fanbase and dropping the ‘we know better than you crap’ is #1 priority. SR and the board don’t know better or anything - simple as that, we have far more top flight football experience and knowledge than them over the years and you could see this season coming with the recruitment and lax, sloppy preparations under Martin (Oxford away anyone where they could have had 5 or 6 and steamed all over our midfield). But even I didn’t think it would be THIS bad.

Funny how when you buy players and use them to their strengths within a team structure, as Gerrard did with him at Rangers, that they tend to fare better. Rather than collecting ‘deals’ and hoping like a backstreet antiques dealer in Leominster that the odd item turns a profit.

Didn’t vote for Labour but objectively slightly better than Sunak and still miles better even with a lot of mis-steps than Boris and God forbid, Truss. Plenty of issues and frustrations with things they have done eg NI rise on businesses when the unaffordable employee cut should have rolled back and some dishonest behaviour eg Reynolds, but handling Ukraine and Trump situation well, and those are very difficult. Early progress on reducing illegal immigration and processing rejections much faster. Labour have much scope to do better overall. And the country can’t do what it needs to do with a 6% hole in the economy (Single Market) whoever is in power. So no feasible scope for Tories or Reform to do any better, look at the pathetic trade deals outside of the EU that Truss did. The Australian one in particular. Hopefully Labour gets its big boy pants on around rolling the hard Brexit back but I’ve a nasty feeling they won’t. But I’m Lib Dem so I would say that. Juric - struggling to think of one thing positive other than Ipswich away (even Martin won one PL game), so has to be him worse logically.

He’s going for another promotion with Paul Wotton at Torquay United, a club I follow. Don’t drag him into this dying club.

I’d rip your arm off for that

Either way, they haven’t defended as a unit and made it very easy for an edgy opponent.

Send him here https://www.rodiziorico.com/rodizio-rico-birmingham.html followed by an intensive weights session at Villa’s training with a protein shake to finish.

If you want to mourn how far we’ve fallen, watch the quick pressing, passing and transitions of Brighton v Bournemouth, both of which just handed us our arse (for the 20th time this season).

That long?

I dread to think what goes on in his mind having seen those players in action in that formation and using it again. As pig stubborn as Russell Martin was. Fuck Sports Republic.

Unless it’s 10-0 or worse that’s frankly impossible by now.

Baby biscuits until May and then https://www.topgear.com/car-reviews/mini/cooper

Although frankly the fucking line up Ivan Juric for the Chelsea game just picked makes any politician look sane.

As a Liberal Democrat voter, I didn’t agree with the employers NI rise, it should have been the employees NI rise revoked as it clearly wasn’t affordable. Not the route to growth. Reynolds pissed me off and Starmer needs to shake the tree for any more duds. Some promising signs on the boats and asylum, more than Braverman or Patel ever managed. The only way to really get out this mess is to rejoin the Single Market, we can’t have the services we are used to, decent roads and infrastructure with 6% of the economy missing. I guess we will gradually move back nearer that but not as fast as I want and we need. Hopefully the MAGA implosion over DOGE and Trump being crystal clear about not being fussed about European security or prosperity will underscore this for all bar the most hardcore Red Wall seats. It won’t do the populists much good either being on the wrong side with Putin. Reform will probably still beat the Tories next time though as they leak further seats to the Liberals lurching even further right.

If there’s one positive that’s coming out of this…

Absolutely spot on Glen. The club might as well have a tombola and pick a supporter’s name to be in the dug out each for the remaining torture. If there’s a weirdo out there with a ‘philosophy’ that loves picking players out of position, Saints will find them and hire them.

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Americans voted for it so they have to do the work themselves to oppose and mitigate it, my sole concern is for the impact of foreign policy on the UK and Europe. However, just as Liz Truss was the Mail and Telegraph’s wet dream in economic policy that turned into a global laughing stock, so Musk’s implosion is further learning for our electorate to keep the elements in the press and ERG/Reform who want DOGE and other lunacy in this country on a very short leash.

More town hall meetings about DOGE have recordings coming out from across America. Musk is really making the wheels fall off the MAGA car even faster than anyone every thought possible.

The ‘Norfolk Cafu’ no less. Although Rangers got the Lidl instant coffee version at the back end of his career on loan from Norwich.

Judging by the rest of this season’s displays, capitulations and lack of running/organisation/being bothered, they clearly didn’t want to play for Russell either. Including his supposed best mate Flynn from TOWIE (or the only way is Suffolk) Hopefully 95% of them find new homes during the summer because the thought of them still wearing SFC shirts next season is horrifying.

Even Che would’ve scored that! Does Rasmus deliberately go around the world looking for the most shit players he can find on video clips? He’d have signed Ali Dia for £30m in today’s money.

And those three clubs didn’t squander tens of millions on Man City academy products. Only Lavia was fit (a relative term) for purpose, Edozie ok for the division below but only that, Bazanu not fit for above League 2 if that high, and a photo of Larios should be on a milk carton he’s been missing that long. The club was hollowed out, I get what CAM is trying to say, and Ralph worn out. But SR had time and resource to fix both well. Instead, they bottled the manager issue and instead of investing heavily in the spine of the squad, they sold the only bit of it left for a pittance, relying on an 18 year old, and spunked the rest up the wall on data-driven gambling madness that a couple more might turn a profit. In other words people who don’t have a clue how to run a top level football club or any organisation come to that.

Just in the Caribbean https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/china-snapshot-project-the-caribbean/