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Another Yorkshire exile here! Born in Fareham, was at Price's School a year ahead of a certain Moran, S. Due to shiftwork (ATC at West Drayton then Swanwick) and inability to get tickets didn't become a regular until my Dad got a job at OPCS alongside Tommy Hare, an ex-Saint who could get tickets. In the last season at the Dell, was right behind the goal when Matty scored in the last game 🙂 then finally got a season ticket at SMS - explains my username - which I kept until early retirement in '16 and moved to Scarborough so we could pay off the mortgage and buy a big house for the same price as a garden shed down South... Keep my Saints fix courtesy of Adam Blackmore and a VPN for the dodgy feeds! I'm now a ST holder at Scarborough Athletic, who got promoted to the Nat. League North last season and are off to a flyer again. Manager is Jono Greening, ex Boro, WBA etc and a nice bloke. Neil Warnock, an ex-manager comes to the odd game as well and I also met Geoff Boycott at the cricket festival here so it's a pretty good place for sporting celebs! Not bumped into many Saints but my replica tops do start conversations and people are generally complimentary about the club. Football is becoming a thing here with the success of the Athletic, they've sold about 750 shirts so far this season and attendances are up to a couple of thousand with 600-ish travelling away to Farsley (Leeds) a couple of weeks ago. Thanks to all the posters on here for keeping us exiles informed, exasperated occasionally, and entertained! (Sorry/not sorry for the Oxford comma, Mzz Coffey)

I think this counts as a moment 🙂

Liverpool's defence tonight

Highlights of Johnson's speech this morning https://youtu.be/TeVlsRubPWY?t=182

For those that missed it

https://twitter.com/yan_valery/status/1565666412848349184

Ali Dia?

The pitch will be fine, we're ordering a ton of this with the money we saved from Gakpo

Just been down to look at the pitch, still looks pretty good. Think we've got enough but don't want to see Yorkshire get off to a fast start.

Some overnight rain in Scarbados but it's cleared now, some weak sunshine just starting to come through. It's not forecast to rain again until this evening, so fingers crossed!

I'll be going on Tuesday, looking forward to it. Will be nicely competitive with Yorks having it all to play for, but think Hants have got too much in the tank for the tykes, and they also know the ground having played up here last month.

Particularly enjoyed the last comment 'After goading Ukraine into a devastating conflict with Russia, the US is now demanding that Zelensky take the blame.' Yes , Russia is only defending itself from Ukraine's aggression 🙄

YEssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss Che!!!!

Presumably he'll be rewriting the training manual? 🙂

Bloke I know who works at Connells says someone calling himself 'Wimo Terner' has been in looking to rent a flat in Shirley ITK #itshappening

What's she sitting behind? Skateboard ramp? Giant hunk of old stilton?

Enjoyed that. Good performance overall again, pitch was a lot better today than I expected after the first 3 days. They're up here again next month for a one dayer, looking forward to seeing them again at the "crappy ground"🙂

FFS. 52/4. Vince and Dawson at the crease

It's stopped raining, hopefully we'll get some play soon, covers are coming off. Seems to be clearing up, just announced play restarting at 215. Less of the crappy ground talk please, btw, it's a very decent ground, and I think festivals away from the big stadia are a worthwhile tradition. (Admittedly I'm a bit biased as I live 10 minutes away)

29 for 5, can think of worse ways to spend a Monday than watching Hampshire absolutely flattening Yorkshire with a beer in hand! A few showers passing to the South but still OK here so far 👌

It's raining in Scarborough at the moment, and we've got a poor outlook for tomorrow but it's looking better for the rest of the week. May be a 3 day match... Yorkshire have had a lot of draws this season, but they gave Surrey a scare up here a couple of weeks ago, so Hants will need to be at the top of their game.