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Ha ha, Trump should do it, they have a lot in common and that’s one less extremist scumbag in our country. In fact, offer them a two for one with Farage. Persuade N Korea to take Corbyn and that would improve things slightly.

Good post. Whoever wins the leadership is going to need to sort Brexit out first and then start getting markets working for a greater proportion of the population (I still prefer markets to socialism but we have to see some major change). They had the double pain of the credit crunch hitting jobs and what little pension they might have had and then a brutal austerity that even Thatcher would have baulked at. The widespread need for food banks is a national disgrace in 2019. It’s no coincidence you have the group of billionaires in the States saying taxation has to change as well, no matter how much Trump and Fox try and drown it out.

Plus the wages - even the fringe players seem to be on silly money. Agree that Les did enormous damage, no idea what the hell he was doing in his last couple of seasons.

Thanks for clarifying Vectis. It makes sense in terms of the £5m fee. Wish Sam well whatever option he chooses.

Outside of Leeds/Fulham/Boro/Derby I would agree. I know Stephens came from Plymouth but did Sam (born in Credition) come from Plymouth as well? They would be due a % I would have thought if both leave Saints. Surprised Cedric hasn’t been on the move yet out of all the players expected to move.

I meant Rodwell, not Roswell - flipping predictive text. Although I did think the aliens had landed when Reed went on to sign Carrillo...

Quite. The club has the responsibility and should not have left Reed (I wasn’t a fan of Puel but allegedly he felt Fraser needed to move on) to make that decision without some very serious and intense prior scrutiny, especially as there had been a extension the year before and Fraser had a fairly poor season (although nowhere near as bad as the Tommy Fourpast standard after). That’s really poor governance and whatever people think of Fraser’s current form and status, he signed that extension in good faith as an employee. We can’t moan about managers and players not honouring contract extensions if clubs won’t do so. It says everything about football that Reed is now FA Technical Director. I do think for his wellbeing that Fraser is better off negotiating a pay off of % his salary and starting again lower down, if he has the football appetite still. Make some saves, play in games, getting a crowd singing his name again. You’d hope a sensible agent would help him do that for a fee but it could also end up being a Bogarde or Roswell situation. Is going to happen more and more with the rate of wage inflation in the PL.

Agree, swear word a bit much but turning your back on the EU anthem is like members of England’s hooligan brigade booing other nations anthems. Commentators always condemn that as yobbish behaviour and they are correct. Farage et al (Rupert is a hypocrite to be associated with them after his yobs comment about Spurs) might as well have gone full England Travel Club and followed up with a few verses of no surrender and necked a crate of lager. What I suppose the t shirt was saying - in an inappropriate way - is that the far right do not speak for British values and behaviour.

Yes, Taylor was fairly hot property at Swansea earlier in his career but suffered a horrific injury and apparently not quite the same player since. Reasonable at Champ level now but will be back up IMO to Targett in the PL. Saints were linked with him a few years ago.

DT article encouraging - good that looking to sell Lemina. Talented for sure but not available enough for a higher earner but might be for a club on the continent so a move suits both parties. No surprise that looking to move on one or both keepers either. I like McCarthy but the club are spending way too much on keepers’ wages. Adams I like the look of and good deal for all parties on Targett.

Disgrace with the bat again bar Stokes who is the only one seemingly really trying. Vince is simply not an international level cricketer, even with a nice cover drive. The only saving grace is Roy, who can play at the highest level against proper fast bowling, is back hopefully for the last two games to do a man’s job. You can’t trust a boy to do it. The stance with Hales looks more than a bit OTT now. Root and Morgan need to step up and rapidly. Practice and more practice. If Morgan’s back is an issue, do the decent thing for the team and step back. Buttler needs to get his finger out as well and play the conditions and opposition.

Ah yes! And the rumpled tablecloth at the press conference. The McInnes facepalm as Oxford put four past them.

The Sargent Pepper Muriel hasn’t been seen for a few years - that was a beauty. Other highlights; - The Toy salesman’s storming off this site - Rallyboy’s posts - Three relegations and one promotion from the fourth division for them (third time of trying), double promotion for SFC, top 6 PL finish, beat Inter Milan, three Wembley trips. Mane, Davis, Toby, Lambert, Lallana, VVD, Shaw, Bertrand, Fonte just a selection of the players we have enjoyed watching. - Seemingly as many administrations - Chinny, CSI Portsmouth - Guy Whittington, Andy Awful, Richie Barker, Voldemort, Cook and his post training fry ups - Fan ownership (if you ignore all of the HNWs) - Hartley’s last minute header for Plymouth - Winning a trophy they all said they would boycott - Mr Leigh Park thug assaulting Sunderland’s full back to national notoriety Quiet decade really....

Even Liam Fox calling out Boris’s latest lies today on GATT 24 and trade rules, funny how experienced cabinet ministers are finding issues with anything the fat oaf comes out with. With his private life seemingly a mess as well, and the latest polls of Tory members (let alone Tory/floating voters), with a month to go this isn’t cut and dried yet. Even if the idiots in the shires vote for Boris, it’s very difficult to see any prospect of a GE majority so would be a very hollow victory if Boris wins. Hunt might give the Tories a chance.

I agree as long as Targett isn’t first choice.

Agree, would be a relegation struggle again before a ball was kicked. Can’t see RH allowing it to happen and think Targett will leave for the Championship where he excels. MLT did say that the club might look to let Berty leave recently which was surprising but perhaps for £15m - the very least they should seeking - and buy a new LB with Vokins as back up?

The GATT 24 error/ignorance last night was astonishing. Can the bloke put his cream cake down or stop having an affair for five minutes to read? His responses on the Iran and Islamophobia questions were also woefully inadequate. Boris must have some serious, serious dirt on the Barclay Brothers or Moore to justify the false and crazy support there. It isn’t justified by last nights performance, his prior disappearing act and certainly not by his pathetic performance as Foreign Secretary. Gove-Stewart or Javid look like the best options now (almost a contradiction in terms), Hunt sucked up to Trump too much and he just doesn’t stand out.

Or it’s a diversity of opinion? Parties go through cycles, Labour is back on its early 80s era of Trots running its NEC and anyone in the centre or right of the party is a Red Tory. Ditto, the Tories are also back in the early-mid 80s ideologically as well with the extremists in charge. People get sick quickly though history shows of key decisions made purely or largely on ideology and the middle ground comes back into play with reformist figures emerging, especially as the Brexit Party are such a short term and single issue who would get totally exposed for what they are in a GE campaign where they couldn’t hide. After all, ideological purity doesn’t put bread on the table which the 600k members of the Tory and Labour parties right now have totally lost reality on. In terms of ‘draining the swamp’, fine by me as the Brexit Party and Momentum entryists will kill both main parties, and we will end up with coalition government as we have in Europe, ironically. Although not sure I want to use a phrase made famous by a far right President,

Broadly agree, I think Javid is doing better than that but just doesn’t quite sell himself. Whereas Boris does project himself but there’s nothing there in the way of detail. Mind you, he is really uncomfortable on the question from Bristol, waffling again and not answering it. The swivels in the shires won’t be bothered but it does remind you that he would severely struggle in any future GE. Stewart is not Tory enough for the 2019/1959 version, would be brilliant to replace Cable if he was an LD and I would certainly vote for him as a political centrist and suspect a lot of others would as well. He has a big future.

Thanks for sharing, interesting that. Boris won’t be as obsessed as May was on a ‘keep em out’ strategy and freedom of movement although he is a divisive figure on both sides of the channel and I don’t know if either the EU or Labour/LD would compromise and the swivels would go demented (or dementia) if it wasn’t straight to No Deal. Whoever takes over this role has a pig of a job - look at the level of divisions on here, on this BBC programme - then magnify it nationally. Boris will win, but not pulling up any trees and sorely lacking in any detail, Hunt solid but as with Javid has much better detail but not quite selling themselves, Gove has the best granularity and just landed a blow on Boris about tax, but not sure he can recover the ground, Stewart deliberately standing apart and actually it’s refreshing but I can’t see him winning this race. Talent though, he and to a certain extent Gove come across as being more in touch. I bet Ducky and Wes are shouting and throwing cans at the screen every time Stewart speaks though

Yep, I think most of us can see it. Just watching the piece on C4 News about how private owners on flats have been left with bills going up to £100k per person to remove high flammable cladding and that the £200k fund only covers the form of cladding which caused Grenfell. The fund is only 10% of what the LGA estimates is needed to address the market failures. Still, I’m sure LD’s choice will have the ideological ‘stomach’ to kill more people through not regulating to basic public safety standards expected in the developed world. Now watching coverage about the bus attack on the two lesbian women, assuming Boris does win he has some huge issues on his hands if he does want to genuinely bring the country back together, and that’s excluding Brexit. Would rather he tackled those than gave me a tax cut on the backs of people earning less than me.

It looked overvalued at the time, but then as we know nothing of Gao’s reasons for buying it it’s hard to say what benefits he has had from doing so since. Would be similar decision for any new buyer and their reasons might dictate the price they pay (or not). Whole Gao purchase is odd, and any sale price might reflect changes in his circumstances. Lander hasn’t done too well it would appear over the last couple of years. One day perhaps we will know the full story, club probably won’t be sold at the moment. Would I like it to be? Yes, I don’t know what Gao is bringing to the table.

Here’s hoping, and that a few become firm interest. Sooner Gao is gone the better

Guessing you live near Morecambe/Lune Valley area? Lovely part of the world.