Lord Duckhunter

From the bloke who could hardly contain himself when Ched Evans headed one in Preston’s net last season. Things are looking up, Premier league goal from a corner. Something lacking under Legoball.

Who the fuck is going to set up like that against us 😂😂. “Southampton this week lads, let’s make sure we’re defending in numbers and get behind the ball, if we aren’t solid defensively we’ll come away with nothing”.

I’ll reserve judgement until he’s not plying for a move or playing against a big club. However, he was pretty impressive last night. He did this amazing thing unheard of during Legoball. He ran at his opponent, quickly. He didn’t fucking turn round and knock it back or sideways. He didn’t play safe or stop his run to wait for the opposing side to get in their defensive shape. He took their full back to the cleaners & back again. His shooting isn’t great, but he made the keeper make saves. Had Baz been in nets for them, he’d have been walking off with the match ball. I thought the bloke was fucking pony, last night he wasn’t. The manager actually asked him to play to his strengths…Unbelievable, why didn’t someone think of that earlier in the season. 😂

If we’d played like that all season, we’d probably still be in the bottom 3, but we wouldn’t be embarrassingly adrift. We’d have hope and will have watched decent football. The difference was the standard of substitutes, theirs made a real difference whereas ours are substandard. Definitely some positives though. I thought Bree, Airbo and obviously Sully had their best games in a saints shirt. Big Les also did well, together with the usual high performers of MF & TB. KWP a mixed bag, played well generally, but thought he could have done better with first 2 goals. Maybe I’m old fashioned, but he should have engaged the winger earlier. I know it’s the modern way to defend, but I’d like to see a challenge put in further up the pitch rather than jockeying until he gets into dangerous areas. First time for a long time I’ve been disappointed with a result, without being angry. First hour we showed real purpose and urgency, two things missing from the previous regime and our Manager posed questions of the other dug out and seemed to catch them by surprise. Fair play to Ivan, after the Brentford shit show he’s clearly worked on stuff and we’re looking better. Time will tell whether it was him or playing against a big club that drove the improvement, but at least there’s now something to work on.

That’s two now, one because of a fraud conviction and now this one. Media now digging around this and according to Michael Crick (that far right loon), this story is getting worse for our “Government of service”. If he’s right, there will be a by-election. Perhaps they could hold it on the same day as the one theyll call after their MP chinned a voter. “The Tulip Siddiq story shows astonishingly poor judgement on Starmer's part - he was alerted to problems with her by C4 News in 2017 & several of his constituents write to him as their MP complain. I'm afraid she will have to quit as an MP as well.”

Labour inherited a tricky economic situation and have proceeded to make it worse. They lied to the country that their manifesto was “fully costed” and apart from VAT on private schools, wouldn’t be raising taxes. To get round this ridiculous corner they boxed themselves into, they raised the worst tax possible. Killing what business confidence there was stone dead. The triple whammy of NI raise, Minimum wage increase & Rayners employment law changes coming down the line, have cost jobs and will continue to do so. It’s not going to get better for them anytime soon. Market forces will force them to change course & they will also have to ditch Rachel from accounts, and corruption allegations will eventually do for the Anti corruption minister.

Starmer talking up the freedoms offered by Brexit in the field of AI. “We are now in control of our regulatory regime. So we will go our own way on this.”

Jess Phillips called George Galloway a “rape apologist”, told Abbott to Fuck off and said she wanted to stab Jezza in the front, and we’re supposed to feel sorry for her because she got a bit of clog back?

So has Starmer. Looking after us plebs that pay for tickets.

To be fair, Baz has gone up in my estimations. Having watched the Swansea lad today, I may have been a bit harsh on Baz. He might not be the worst goalkeeper in the championship next season. Instead, he’ll be the second worst…

Routine win, never in doubt. All I can say is thank fuck Lego was moved on, as watching both teams playing Lego ball would have me contemplating staying at home with the snap dragon. Archer, Smallbone and Adam fucking Armstrong really were pony when they came on. If Swansea are going to play like that, they really need a keeper who can knock the ball about rather than actually save anything. I know of an Irish lad they could buy. We could even throw Lego footballers Smallbone & Manning in to sweeten the deal.

Adam Armstrong would probably stick it in her ear by mistake…

That’s probably the worst defence of a player I’ve ever seen.

People are only upset because he’s shite, Some will be upset if Jack Stephens is starting next year, and unlike Baz, Jack actually contributed towards our play off win. People want a better centre half in place for next season, and they want a better keeper than foam wrists Baz. You keep comparing him with AM, as if that makes him good enough to be number 1. He’s not, he wasn’t before he got injured, and he won’t be afterwards either. One of the worst shot stoppers I’ve ever seen in a Saints shirt.

Was it subject to a gagging order like Nick Brown’s suspension , or are the press free report on why he was suspended?

If Baz is in nets next season we won’t get promoted, awful keeper….

Looks like Martina Navratilova has summed up Campbell and the forum’s favourite Tory pretty well here.

I heard similar from a senior midwife. After a caesarean birds can only go home after they’ve pissed a certain amount. If they haven’t done so after a few hours they are sent home with a catheter, not great for the bird and also needs taking out the following week. Some of the older midwives said that a remedy was blackcurrant squash which apparently makes you piss. Instead of giving them water to try and make them piss, they started giving them blackcurrant squash. The result was loads more women passed the required amount, and went home without the dreaded catheter. A few quid on blackcurrant squash saved dignity and a lot of dosh. After a few months one of the managers complained about the amount being spent on the squash and asked why so much was being purchased. When the situation was explained their answer was they had to stop buying it, when the midwives said this would ultimately cost the NSH more money, the reply was they didn’t care as that wasn’t one of their controllables and came from a different budget.

Shame on The Guardian

Are they trying to attract more lads to the chicks game? If so, I can think of a few other innovations that would work better.

If need about 15 pints of our piss water to watch 9 pinters running round trying to kick a “footy”. Just get some decent ale in the bars, that’s all they need to do.

I’d have thought making the Minister for children a cabinet position was pretty easy to do, especially when you’ve criticised the previous government for not doing so. But I guess like you he didn’t think that really easy measure a “priority”. How long do you give Starmer to implement the recommendations in full. How long before it becomes “unforgivable “ that he hasn’t done so. Personally, I doubt he ever will as the compensation could be as much as 10bn. That’s the reason the Tories didn’t do so, and I’m pretty sure it’ll be the reason labour dont. No doubt you won’t find that quite so “unforgivable “. But we’ll wait and see.

I think Sir Kier and Rachael from accounts have more to worry about economically than a letter from Truss. Increased borrowing costs means they’re rapidly running out of fiscal headroom. It’s one thing to fiddle your fiscal rules, another one to then break the new ones. If we continue like this she’ll have to impose more spending cuts, or come back for more taxes (something she claimed she wouldn’t). Truss’ budget was an instant disaster, Reeves’ seems to be a slow burning one.

Should Starmer have made the Children's minister a cabinet level position in July?

So we can’t criticise labour because the Tories didn’t do it , is that your defence of them. You still won’t answer the question. Why isn’t the Children’s minister cabinet level position (a recommendation) That’s not a money thing, or a time thing, it could have been done in July. Labour had no more intention of implementing the review than the tories, until Musk got involved.