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Northampton’s prodigal son, Mosin, who claims he’s French North African on account of the fact that he can barely read or write, will soon be here to put you right.

What difference does it make - is it going to make him any less of an absentee landlord who probably doesn’t know his SMS from his Fratton Park?

Any word on Ings - is it going to be one of those lingering hammy jobs?

I thought Krueger was some world authority on leadership and motivation.

Hopefully Goa has learned from last year that draws are not enough in this league - that’s what kept Pellegrino in the job so long.

Exactly if people think we would have dealt well that adversity, then they haven't watched us play.

Again they had the better chances - Foster didn't have that much to do.

And if they had got and scored the pen, we would have probably lost our way a lot earlier pal.

That's for last season's handball. xxx

Terrible hoj.

Hope its not serious.

Silver linings and all that.

Hoj has been very poor.

Alot of grieving on this place over Reed but it seems like the players have moved on pretty quickly.

Great corner from JWP.

Better

Focus on tariffs is a red herring IMO. The EU is ultimately a regulatory order. The rationale of single market is to have common rules so that a product sold in one EU country can also be sold in any other - no questions asked. With 28 different sets of rules governing the sale of a product, it becomes harder to sell this product across all EU countries, reducing trade and competition. Critical to this is the ability of the EU and ECJ to ensure a level playing field - that everyone is actually playing by the same rules. To this end, the EU and ECJ have direct jurisdiction over enforcement up and down the value chain and can take action against member states where they are believed to in violation of the rules. In return, member states get their free passes at the border. With Brexit, that jurisdiction necessarily ends. Therefore border checks are necessary. What is the alternative - that the EU is going to trust a third country's word that it is exporting to the EU under the same stringent conditions as intra-union trade undertaken by member states without any capacity to verify or enforce that word? Dream on.

Totally agree. The whole discussion began crudely and simplistically: the argument could never be settled -as some tried- by invoking port tonnages -and even worse using these figures to claim that Dover was a tinpot port and that if we shut Dover down tomorrow, it would be a disaster for the UK. Yes the feckless GM uttered those very words. Even on those crude terms, I suggested that we could get some insight by decomposing aggregate figures by cargo type which puts the role of Dover in a very different light. But as you say, this misses the big picture about what we do to ensure minimal delays to key ports like Dover, not only given their role in JIT but also in trade in food and pharmaceuticals when the UK is outside the customs union and single market.

Southampton largely handles liquid bulk. FACT. By contrast, only a third of the freight it handles is lo-lo or ro-ro freight -what one typically thinks about when one thinks about trade in manufacturing goods. It's clearly important but in absolute and relative terms, it is smaller than Dover. FACT. As you can't or won't disprove this, one can only conclude that you've made a weapons-grade tit of yourself. And when was international trade not EU trade? Maybe ask Santa for an atlas or globe this crimbo. The EU accounts for 55% of all international cargo moved (some of that comes from outside the EU via Rotterdam). Spyinthesky's post is particularly interesting insofar as it points out that much of the cargo transported by ro-ro carriers is just-in-time production parts - all part and parcel of a sophisticated, interdependent, 21st century economy that requires customs procedures that are as frictionless as possible. And they say the jihadists want to take us back to the stone age. Or is it gravel age? Thanks for the easy pickings JJ. Chin up pal. Maybe next time

Cut Always some slack. Its been a difficult week for him. He’s obviously in grief and needs to work things out at his own pace.

Maybe his political skills are better than his business skills. #cronycapitalism

Bury your head in the sand or gravel all you want little fella, it only makes you look more silly and desperate. The figures you posted are public knowledge and not in dispute. Indeed, I've drawn on them myself. But as I've also said, only f**kwits look at figures without understanding how they were derived or what they mean. To repeat: there is a world of difference between handling bulk commodities and complex goods -both in terms of the customs checks they require and their value-added. Aggregate figures wont tell what kind of cargo a port handles. To this effect I provided you more granular data with a breakdown by cargo type: having been unable to maintain your argument on those grounds, you've now retreated to your initial position, so we're all the way back at square one. I'll be merciful and leave things there -suffice to add that most of Grimsby & Immingham's trade is in liquid and dry bulk (65%). Long live gravel, coal, cement (and other bulk)!!!

And Les was so successful expanding his empire that we might have to hire several people to fill the vacuum.