The Kraken

Tickets haven’t even gone on general sale yet.

My expectation is that if we don’t go up we’re going to have to make monumental cost cutting changes, both on the playing side and within the club itself. We’ll have a lot of players still on relatively huge wages, plus we’ve got quite a few loanees out who haven’t exactly set their respective places alight so that’s another headache. Basically I think we’re a bit fucked financially if we don’t go up.

I’d be very surprised if it doesn’t sell out most games.

When even the shitrag that is the Daily Express are reporting that big Ange likely doesn’t owe any CGT, you know this smear has basically run its course. https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1892483/angela-rayner-council-house-tax-renovations Ange 😍

Might need to go to specsavers. It was front and centre on the BBC website pretty much as soon as it happened. It’s still on the bbc main page. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68903573 Hers the daily Heil’s take on it. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13351441/Unbelievable-moment-policing-minister-Chris-Philp-leaves-Question-Time-audience-gasping-asks-Rwanda-Congo-different-countries-Senior-Torys-howler-hes-asked-deporting-migrants-African-warzones.html#:~:text=A Conservative minister has faced,about the controversial Rwanda bill. The Torygraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/chris-philp/ The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/chris-philp-are-rwanda-and-congo-different-countries-0f0gbxf5f even the sodding Spectator carried the story https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/watch-minister-asks-if-rwanda-and-congo-are-different-countries/ Conclusion. Sadoldliar found to be fibbing again shocker.

The mask has well and truly fallen off.

It’s one way to look at it. Another way to look at it is that there have been 15 games this season where we have conceded 2 or more goals. Thats just slightly more than 1 in every 3 games that we need to score no fewer than three goals to have a chance of winning the game. That seems like an awful lot to me, and gets beyond talk of outliers due to the obvious regularity.

The mattresses and sheets things is fine, it was part of the marginal gains thing that Brailsford had with cycling. Kind of makes sense really, pro athletes sleeping in different beds, make it as close home as they’re used to. Banning the echo, banning Franny and mlt, getting a national newspaper to report on you as South Coast Club, and getting the best sponsorship deal in Chilworth were all belters. As was interfering with and fucking up the kit design not once but twice (and still some absolute wallies lapped it up, “all red is good for the Asian markets” we were told). The Cult of Cortese were a strongly knitted group with spurious, nefarious objectives. We were well rid of them and Nic Nac in the end.

Another political tap in too, trains have got even worse despite the companies making massive profits and therefore dividend payments to shareholders. So let’s start by reinvesting those profits instead.

Gotta love gio and his superiority complex, the sanctimonious pillock, yet again giving it the “I think I speak for all Saints fans when I say…………” over-written waffle. Absolute prat.

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Well, this is it, isn’t it. The Tories seem to have pivoted away from actively trying to attract the centre and are now actively trying to shore up their support more towards the right. A bit of a kick-in for Kier really as the amount of people who will see positivity from the Rwanda deal especially is surely a fairly small fraction.

Most people on here are far right IIRC, and we’re linked to a football club, so likely we’ll see you there.

I’m wondering who these people are that think “oh look, we’re deporting our refugees to Rwanda, I must remember to vote for Rishi Sunak for that”. I mean, I’m sure there’s some but not many who see it as both a cost effective and human natured solution.

https://www.southamptonfc.com/en/news/article/2024-25-season-ticket-and-stadium-development-update?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=stmens-2425&utm_term=launch&utm_content=link&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR03PWZR2NoUZua1MR5UEeuVSf9vLXA14T9-jUEgkG8oySz3ubPGGGKapJg_aem_AcSCObAu4Pe7OgJEb9OFAk8LcHl7rMebgR4bqYmhFVIEzb8YruUbDRSi59DWfS455X_qYzW0z7dclpVei4yq2JbM Only just read the article, looks like all areas of the ground except the Northam are going to see big price increases next season: Season Ticket costs and payment plans Prices across the stadium are likely to increase by 10-15% on average for the 2024/25 season following six years of price freezes for the majority of fans and an average 10% reduction last year.

Might pop to the alehouse at lunchtime for a pint of Spitfire. Greggs sausage roll on the way, moan about the weather all afternoon, shepherds pie for dinner and only fools on the telly. Being English

That was supposed to be the sentiment yes, many years ago. In truth it probably never happened, before VAR I’d suggest linos were more inclined to stick their flag up rather than keep it down when in doubt.

If it’s the same video as I’ve seen it certainly looks dodgy but also it does not show the position of the striker and the defender at the point the ball is kicked. I still think it’s a monumentally tight call. In real time and even the freeze frame I thought it was offside. Var lines are very close, that extra video puts a different slant on it but is entirely inconclusive on its own.

Steve Cooper would be a brilliant appointment. Ergo, it won’t happen.

I wonder how far we are from having offsides be as quick and accurate as GLT. They’ve already demoed semi autonomous offside systems in the WC and it seemed to speed things up a bit. Getting an onside/offside decision with 5 seconds would go a long way to sorting it IMO. The tech might be a way off though.

Why is that better? If we’re having to go to VAR anyway, what difference do lines make? I don’t understand the logic, it’s either offside or it isn’t and once you’ve gone to VAR you may as well make it as accurate as you can.

If we’re going to have VAR then it’s best off sticking to things like offside and ball out of play. A bit like GLT. Fouls are very opinion based and I really don’t like decisions being re-refereed in game time. I also dont like big mistakes being made, but I refer to my earlier point, it’s extremely difficult once you have VAR to have a benchmark of what is a clear and obvious error. The genue is out of the bottle though, so all we can hope for is better officials to do a better job.

But what is the benchmark of clear and obvious? 10cm? 30cm? A metre? Once you introduce a “factual” system like VAR it’s pretty difficult to add in benefit of the doubt and “clear and obvious”. Something is either shown to be offside, or it isn’t.

The lines for tv are just illustrative and made bigger, the lines used in the studio are supposedly much thinner and “more accurate”. I still wouldn’t trust our VAR officials as far as I could throw them. There was a reason none of them made the World Cup, bloody hopeless.