Sheaf Saint

He's a CB. That's not his job 😉

True, but then last time in 2011/12 we didn't have a handful of players who had already demonstrated (with us) that the PL is a step too far for them.

Me too. Hopefully Stewart will give us the firepower to do that. Great to see him finally get some game time today.

Good on him. I started to have some doubts when we were playing so badly during that 4 game run. His insistence that the players just needed to adapt to his system came across as a hollow excuse when he seemingly wasn't learning some obvious lessons. But his perseverance has paid off and there is really something about this team now. There's a real togetherness, confidence in each other and the system, and a "never give up" attitude which was so sorely lacking for the last couple of seasons. Most importantly of all, he's brought some smiles, belief and atmosphere back to SMS after years and years of dross and negativity (although I haven't actually been to a home game yet this season but it comes across very clearly on streams). Keep it up Russ. Sorry I doubted you.

Not going so well for him at Wednesday so far. After finally getting his first win against local rivals Rotherham last week, they lost 0-4 at home to Millwall today which, given how toothless they looked when we played them last week, is a terrible result.

Phew! Don't know quite how we scraped that, but another scrappy win despite not playing well, against a team in really good form as well, is not to be sniffed at. Get in there! The good times are back at SMS at long fucking last!

Obviously it was a rhetorical question 😉

FFS why not play the advantage there?

Slightly against the run of play but who cares! 🙂

How's that not a booking for Mowatt?

Well that's been coming.

Ipswich 3-1 up now.

Sounds like a decent atmosphere today.

We already are one up 🫤

Yeah he did really well there. Can't imagine Manning getting back and clearing up like that.

He wasn't though. Lino got that wrong.

She demonstrated how little she actually knows about law when she was Attorney General.

Hypo - for as many years as I can remember, you've been posting dog-whistle Islamophobia on here and vehemently denying it when challenged. And yet, in your mind, anybody who doesn't share your view on this issue must by default be a Jew hating antisemite, and you flat out refuse to retract that when presented with clear explanations why that isn't the case. Spectacular double standards on your part, I must say.

Thrown a kettle over a pub pal 😉

Wonderful track. Was lucky enough to go and see them at the Manchester Apollo when they toured that album and it's hands down the best gig I've ever been to.

Anyway, back on topic...

Yeah point taken, but he's obviously not alone in the sentiments he expressed. Those beliefs lie at the very heart of Israel's expansionist policies in the West Bank.

I hadn't, because I didn't refresh the page before posting and thus didn't see your post, but I have now and it only reinforces the point that the growth figures you originally quoted are false because they are not adjusted for inflation...

It doesn't say that in exactly those words, but anybody who knows how to read graphs would see they quite clearly show negative growth in exports to both EU and non-EU countries since the end of the Brexit transition period, when inflation is adjusted for, and only a slight increase in imports from the EU (you know, that trading bloc that we used to have unlimited access to) which is mostly offset by a drop in non-EU imports. So when can we expect to start seeing the amazing benefits to our GDP of these wonderful new trade deals that leaving the EU was supposed to allow us to make?

Came across this earlier. Angelina Jolie's father (actor John Voight) has had a pop at her on social media for daring to be outspoken about the humanitarian disaster in Gaza. He said: He's talking about divine retribution, which sounds an awful lot like religious fundamentalism to me. And I found it interesting because this aspect of the conflict never seems to be discussed in the western media. Obviously there has been an overwhelming amount of stuff printed/broadcast about Islamic fundamentalism since the turn of the century, but nobody ever seems to want to talk about the fact that the Zionist movement is itself underpinned by a fervent belief in the ancient scriptures that tell of God promising the land to Abraham and his descendants (probably for fear of being accused of being antisemitic).