The Kraken

If the defender attempts a clearance and makes contact it’s deemed a new phase of play and invalidates the original offside. If the defender doesn’t make contact with the ball then it’s offside. As you say, an absolute mess.

It comes to something that I’d still rather hear what she’s got to say rather than listen to the twatterings of professional dickhead Joey Barton.

Of course they will. They always pivot to the party that is likely to win so they can be seen to be associated with the winning side. They’ve been doing it for decades. Current polling indicates that the Tories are in store for an absolute hammering, The Sun have basically already shown their hand in the last few weeks that they’re favouring Labour.

Stop being a sad fuck. Twar knows his onions.

Like I said, agree to disagree. I think a start point of Bednarek, KWP, Bree, AArm, SArm, even Che should be a massive leg up at this level. Add in THB who effectively got promoted and Flynn Downes who I think we both agree is PL quality, that’s a squad that already looks very decent even without the other quality additions that were made. I stand by my original dissent to your point that we had a standing start, I genuinely can’t agree to that at all. And Mason Holgate shouldn’t be used as a barometer for anything other than being the exception to the rule; he won Everton’s player of the season in the PL not so long ago! How on earth….

I genuinely find it very difficult to comprehend the absolute radio silence from SFC on Chris. Forgetting it is one thing but failing to remedy the situation is just completely shameful.

Tbf I think at least some of the more successfully promoted championship sides of recent years have been ones that have worked the loan system to their benefit. But certainly our spending of, what £25M last summer? has provided a completely minimal impact in terms of VFM.

Theres such a massive between 15th or 16th in the Prem and the top of the championship that it’s a ridiculous comparison. If you can do it over multiple seasons in the PL you’re likely to be a very good standard of player at championship level. So, whether we’d want players next season if we got promoted is entirely irrelevant. Everyone knows that this squad’s job is to get promoted and,if they do, there would need to be multiple player additions to stay up. So I don’t follow the logic.

None of our actual transfers in look very good and can’t make the team / squad. Manning, Charles, Stewart, minimal positive impact. The loans have been much, much better though, Holgate aside they’ve all been positive imo.

Agree to disagree. IMO there’s plenty of evidence that a significant number of the players Martin inherited are perfectly good enough with a bit of decent guidance. The likes of KWP, Bednarek, SArmstrong, proved over numerous seasons that they were good enough for a lower / mid range Premier league team. Bree was nabbed from a championship side that got promoted, Stephens had credit in the bank from his spell at a Bournemouth, Smallbone the same with Stoke. Sulemana, well not sure what he’s about but two goals against Liverpool suggest he’s got a little bit of something. Adam Armstrong got nearly 30 goals at this level the last time he played it, and Aribo while completely lost in the Premier league clearly had something to him. Add in the potential of Edozie too. Then we added genuine quality in Downes and THB. If anything I think Russell Martin had a running start with the squad he inherited, and was allowed a generous budget for incomings too.

You never know, we could finish 4th or even 5th and events could conspire that we needn’t play any of them. Very unlikely but still possible. Seen it happen before where an automatic chasing team finish third then spin out in the playoffs.

Ipswich 1 up inside ten minutes. Leicester fans must be worrying now.

9 of today’s starting lineup were existing Saints players from last season, albeit a couple were out on loan. The team today was enhanced by a decent signing from the Premier League in Flynn Downes, and THB who is proven quality at this level who was signed once Stephens was crocked. It’s almost the opposite of starting from scratch.

Shit result and honestly didn’t really enjoy it that much as a spectacle.

So sloppy.

Leicester could feasibly be out of the top two by the end of today 🤪

I remember his promise, to get a beer in the hand of the customer much quicker. He cared, man.

Apparently this is something that has worked well at the new Tottenham stadium. Or at least it’s increasing their revenues. The bars in the stadium are immense, one is 65 metres long along the side stand so queuing is kept to a minimum. Beavertown are in there too so it’s not the filthy muck we have to put up with in a tiny bar staffed by numbskulls. Sport on the TVs, it’s an attractive place to go to for a pre match pint and bite to eat without needing to go to a local pub instead. St Mary’s needs a bit more than a lick of paint to start to think along those lines though, it’s a fucking dump in the concourses.

Medical is one reason yes, but overall it’s to ensure that if you overstay for any reason at all your passport will remain valid while still being able to stay in the country legally and without need for an exemption. EU require 3 months which equates to the maximum of 90/180 (which itself will soon be much better monitored with the upcoming introduction of EES and then ETIAS).

Come on now, they only need the Rwanda planes to start taking off and that’ll solve the whole immigration problem immediately.

The rest of the world have variations on what they’ll accept, insofar as many countries require a passport to have a minimum of 1-6 months remaining at the time of travel. The EU rule wasn’t invented for Brexit, it’s always been there for third country citizens. And it makes sense really, if your passport is older than 10 years on the day you travel (and/or doesn’t have a minimum of 3 months to expiry) it’s invalid to visit the EU.

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Just when you think the Tories can’t scrape the bottom of the barrel any further, then go and announce Jonathan fucking Gullis as party deputy chairman to replace 30p Lee. Gullis is the shaved chimp who previously heckled with this lovely interjection at PMQs.

He also posted on the Malaysia flight 370 thread offering various snippets of interesting info. Quite hilariously, forum moron aintclever didn’t know who West Stand was and definitely didn’t like him “speculating” about events, and told him he didn’t know what he was talking about. Shortly afterwards it was pointed out who West Stand actually was, and that he had an infinitely better understanding of the scenario than basically anyone else in the thread (especially his accuser). Quite fond memories actually of me asking West Stand “please tell me that was you?” when asking if he was indeed the hero of BA009 and him replying “yes it was!”. I genuinely felt a bit humbled to share this mental online space with an actual real life hero.

Legend.