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It worked OK for a while, but a string of signings who failed to make the necessary grade to make them saleable is what really got us into this mess. I take your point, but this guy has good pedigree and I think it's a positive appointment. The main architect of that buy and sell policy (Reed) is no longer here, and since VVD left we haven't had anyone else even remotely good enough to sell on for a large profit, so it's hard to say for sure if the current board still want to pursue that policy. With better people in place to oversee player development (like Crocker), maybe we might get back to that point again, and only then will we be able to see if Gao wants to carry on where Kat and Reed left off by flogging them off at the first sign of interest from Liverpool. But if we suddenly have a number of players who are wanted by bigger clubs, that can only be an improvement on our current situation where nobody wants them because they're not good enough.

Fook me, really? Do you honestly not see the implications of US pharma companies securing the contracts to supply medicine and then raising the costs by 1000%?

Well nobody is going to buy it in its entirety are they. But can you genuinely not see how lucrative it would be for US healthcare firms to cash in on it piece by piece? Have a read of this thread... https://twitter.com/ByDonkeys/status/1196685828627533824 Johnson is a pathological liar. When he says the NHS is not up for grabs in any US/UK trade deal, you can be 100% certain he is not telling the truth.

No, it was much lower. It was released at an average rate of 0.24 Gt per year over 50,000 years. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature23646 Currently we're emitting around 10 Gt per year and, surprise surprise, the rate of warming over the last 100 or so years is about ten times greater than at any point in the records from which your graph was based.

No, it was much lower. It was released at an average rate of 0.24 Gt per year over 50,000 years. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature23646 Currently we're emitting around 10 Gt per year and, surprise surprise, the rate of warming over the last 100 or so years is about ten times greater than at any point in the records from which your graph was based.

The decision to sell those players was not his. I don't see how you can use that as a stick to beat him with.

The decision to sell those players was not his. I don't see how you can use that as a stick to beat him with.

Crocker was in charge of our Academy during its most successful spell in our history, and brought through players like Walcott, Bale, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Lallana and Shaw.

Crocker was in charge of our Academy during its most successful spell in our history, and brought through players like Walcott, Bale, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Lallana and Shaw.

Interesting that you choose a graph which shows the massive peak of the PETM. I'm sure you must already know that this followed a massive release of CO2 into the atmosphere, at a much slower rate than at which we are currently pumping it out, right?

Interesting that you choose a graph which shows the massive peak of the PETM. I'm sure you must already know that this followed a massive release of CO2 into the atmosphere, at a much slower rate than at which we are currently pumping it out, right?

Since record keeping began in 1880.

Since record keeping began in 1880.

Look I'm not even going to try and defend Corbyn's performance in that interview because, from what little of it I saw, he got completely rinsed by Neil. But.... Did it not occur to you for a second that this is so obviously fake? The messages are all on the right of the screen, which is where your own sent messages show, meaning whoever 'leaked' this must have also written it.

Look I'm not even going to try and defend Corbyn's performance in that interview because, from what little of it I saw, he got completely rinsed by Neil. But.... Did it not occur to you for a second that this is so obviously fake? The messages are all on the right of the screen, which is where your own sent messages show, meaning whoever 'leaked' this must have also written it.

https://www.southamptonfc.com/news/2019-11-26/southampton-football-club-announcement-matt-crocker-director-of-football-operations Time for a sticky? And a change of thread title?

OK, hold my hands up time - I didn't realise those were actual Stormzy lyrics (I'm a middle-aged white bloke - why would I? ) so I agree in that context it doesn't seem quite as awful as if he had just decided to pretend to be Jamaican in order to make a point. It's still a very stupid look for someone like Gove though. I agree with your last point though, as that's the way politics is these days (and probably always has been to a degree). Just look at Trump as an example - he can go on stage at an election rally and disgracefully mock a disabled person who had justifiably criticised him, yet his supporters simply don't care and still voted for him in their millions anyway.

Entitled white politician, who just loves to tell people how the leader of the opposition is a racist, engages in lazy racist stereotypes against a black rapper because he disagrees with his political stance. Like I said - astonishing error of judgement.

Must be. It's the only explanation I can think of for someone in his position exercising such an astonishing error of judgement.

I think it goes a bit further than that... https://twitter.com/michaelgove/status/1199304826468876288

I think it was pretty obvious that his first sentence was not actually aimed at me.

I expect his first port of call would be Staplewood.

I don't really know anything about Matt Crocker so can't judge his suitability. But surely it can only be a good thing that we have someone in place at board level who actually understands the technical side of the game. When was he at Saints previously and what was his record like? Apparently he's been at the FA since 2013, so I'm assuming he was here during the good years when we actually produced some decent players from the academy, yes?

Is it any wonder the BBC get accused of bias when they do things like this? https://twitter.com/paulmasonnews/status/1198336234202030081 This on top of 'accidentally' using footage from the 2016 Remembrance service recently, instead of showing Johnson looking hungover and laying his wreath upside down. Their credibility is shot.

So we're going with a CB pairing of Stephens and Bednarek, with JWP and PEH as their 'protection' in midfield. Arsenal may not be any great shakes at the moment, but they will cut through that like a knife through butter. And our two most dangerous attackers get dropped to the bench. Again. Is Ralph deliberately trying to get the sack?