The Kraken

Yep, agree with this. Right now I just want a government run by intelligent grown ups. Labour have an awful lot to prove and seeing Starmer already row back on certain pledges is a slight concern. But they’re certainly a better option than the current shower of shit and deserve a chance ASAP.

Just when you thought Sunak might have seen sense and ditched the culture war bullshit, he goes and appoints Esther McVey as the Minister for common sense and anti-wokery tsar. These lot really do need firing into the sun, never to return.

Tbf Priti is quite pretty from the neck up. Being shaped like a weeble from the neck down doesn’t help her cause, granted. Sue Ellen on the other hand looks like Dobby the elf.

I’ve only got great memories of JWP, and I still look out for him and am glad when he does well. I don’t really think he’s quite up to it for England though. As a deep holding player, I don’t think that’s his major strength and when he has played there for England before he hasn’t exactly stood out. He gets mentioned there because there’s such a dearth of talent and for some reason Henderson/Phillips are still being picked. Further up the pitch there’s so much competition for places, and Cole Palmer has also just been called up to the squad, I don’t see him dislodging anyone there. The argument to be made is instead of Henderson or Phillips but personally I’m not sure England are losing out on a huge amount by not having him there.

We’re the ‘Airport Stealers’ if I recall correctly. MLG alert: a small fraction of the runway is located in Southampton, though the majority of it and the terminal building is based in Eastleigh.

Sky showed a stat pre game, he’s already played more minutes for Chelsea than he did in total for Man City. City have also got an embarrassment of riches in his position so you can kind of understand why he left. He’s also been given pens so he’s clearly right at the front of Chelsea’s plans and will likely start whenever he’s fit. Unlike at City where the likes of Grealish and Foden are often on the bench.

Tories still predicted for the seat but a hell of a lot closer than previous years when it has been in the top 20 safe blue seats. https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/fcgi-bin/calcwork23.py?seat=Fareham and Waterlooville

So harsh to only have one up and one down. It was ridiculous when they did it for the conference to league 2, thankfully changed now. I did read a while back that one or two of the managers in the top league said the league to expand the number of teams in it, so that could open things up a bit.

A Swansea squad that should have been bottom three but finished 6th and 4th in the two seasons before Martin took over. Rightyho.

Lowest save percentage in the league. But we’re better off with him than Shilts so it’s swings and roundabouts.

“There will be a couple of changes to the team, 1 of which if happens is not enforced” Most likely candidates S Armstrong, Sully and Alcaraz I’d have thought. Hope Bree keeps his place.

Also used to write the Windmill Diaries which were an entertaining read.

The absolute peak of forumming. The nefarious DoC; Richard Evans; big Chris and the rest of the work gang; gotcha. What a time to be online.

I’ve said it before but seeing him wearing a Ben Sherman shirt at Derby away after you gave him online pelters for his fashion sense was 🤣 Frank’s cousin , yep, I imagine he’s not with us any more so I’ll watch what I say, but he seemed to love a drink (and then post on forums afterwards).

Something horrendous like randomly battering someone over the head with a bat or an iron bar or something. Absolute cunt from the sounds of it.

A slight understatement, he was a rampant loony.

1) Alpine, his ignorance and downright negativity were just something to behold and he had the thinnest skin ever so just ended up winding himself up all the time. 2) MLG, a monumental pain in the arse of a man but he brought a lot of good information to the forum. He has his own reasons for taking a break from here but by all accounts he gets his online fix of being an objectionable prick solely on Twitter these days where he has quickly forged himself a reputation akin to on here. 3) Dig Dig and Charlie. Diggers seem to be back but only in a very limited capacity. The regular double act they put on was humorous. 4) TWar. Rumours are abound that he’s posting as someone else which seems entirely likely, but his know-it-all bluffery was regularly entertaining. I particularly enjoyed him telling Turkish that he knew nothing about football then in the next sentence claimed Alphonso Davies to be one of the best right backs in the world.

I haven’t, but any time I see homeless people on the streets I always think “you know what, I could give everything else up and just go and do that”.

Correct. He may well turn out to be flipping excellent but, at the moment, he’s a bit of a novice at this level. Hopefully Stewart can do a Lambert and break ground at each increased level he finds himself at, but until then he has a lot to prove to be even considered amongst the best in the division.

I think the stat Sky showed was transfer money spent since 1992, because that’s when football began. Liverpool 1.8 billion, Luton 32 million.

Good old 1teem. What a complete fuckwit he was, he made aintclever look like a rocket scientist.

Havent seen him for years. Many years ago I used to think he was a myth, I heard so much about him from so many people but I never saw him. Then when I bought my first ever flat in central town, on my very first morning there I wandered out to the newsagent and there he was! Used to see him loads, same old ‘uniform’ of a massive grey double breasted suit, a significant limp, plus the every present cackle and sometimes a cry of “you nutter” for unknown reasons. Southampton legend. But yeah, the nickname probably needs work these days…..

Tbf the standard of crossing against Saints has been world class all season so one cannot blame him for that…..

Cobblers.

Meh. I hope it rains.