Lighthouse

Edging towards 300 now after a little bit of a mid-innings wobble. I think I largely agree with the team, Turner is off form and I don't think piling more County games into him is necessarily the best idea. As Weston says, we've got BAA so we might as well use them this season.

Yes but think what that actually implies in the grans scheme of things. Regardless of your political preference, if you evened out the authority so that it was proportional to the vote, nobody would have had a mandate to affect any real policies since the days of Queen Vic. We'd be stuck in the same quagmire of bureaucracy, lobbyists and conflicts of interest indefinitely.

I don’t want a government which reflects the voting wishes of the public, in a PR sense, you need to give somebody a mandate to rule the country. If you dilute the authority of whoever’s in charge, you just end up with every party blocking policies they don’t like and nothing gets done. Give one party a decent level of authority and if they’re sh*t boot them out at the next GE.

Those things always tend to come out a bit like that though because the liberal parties tend to promise more of what we want. I’d love to live in a world of clean, renewable energy, with no nuclear weapons, new hospitals, lots of doctors and nurses who earn a fair wage, so I’d probably get a very similar outcome. Unfortunately the questionnaires rarely factor in what you believe the parties can reasonably deliver.

What do you mean ‘if’? He did.

It’s very rarely that simple, unless someone is in a particular hurry to sell.

Get him in next year's Eurovision.

I wouldn't worry about it too much.

That was Neser’s final game for us. Overall… mmmmmmm, I’d rather have Ellis back next year if I’m honest. We’ve got enough all-rounders in Howell, Dawson and Fuller. I don’t mind having a good old fashioned #11 batter, as long as he can actually friggin’ bowl. Wheal’s contribution to the last 48 hours has been 1-60 from 5 overs. Who chose him to bowl the 20th I’ve no idea. Vince was clutching his chest area at times yesterday. I assumed he has some sort of stomach upset and had possibly caught the same thing Daws had the night before. I guess a good whack to the throat would explain it. A better performance from his though, unlucky with his wicket.

Halfway through their innings we had them 73-5 and we let them get to 184.

Daws in for Turner tonight. Hopefully we do a bit better than last night’s pie chucking.

They could do this with three overs to spare TBH. Odd that we went with no spinners. It turns out Dawson was ill but you'd have thought Organ might be a better option than Wheal, who's only bowled one over and been hit for 12.

They winning this at a canter so far, well above RRR.

Very useful 39 off 16, or something like that to give us a total to defend. Still our openers haven't fired up, have either of them got past low twenties yet in this season's Blast?

We’re not getting to finals day this year. Even the weather is against us, raining off Glamorgan and Midds but leaving Surrey, Somerset and Essex alone.

It’ll always be that hat in Kelly’s Heroes for me.

Southgate is an architect of failure, he’s never done nothing remotely impressive in his managerial career. He had two consecutive tournaments of incredibly fortunate fixtures, that’s it. Beating the likes of Ukraine, Sweden and Panama at big tournaments is not impressive and he’s never beaten anyone properly decent.

Dawson not in tonight’s team, are we expecting a particularly bad wicket for spin or is he injured? I’m assuming it’s tactical as we haven’t replaced him with Organ.

Trent is the Scouse Jermaine Wright. Got to get him in somewhere.

Walker mugged him right off there.

Farage is fully aware of climate change, as is pretty much everyone else. Most of the so-called deniers are just arguing a contrarian point for their own personal gains; either political lobbying from large industrial corporations or because it quite simply upsets the lefties and that’s what gives them a kick.

That's a complete non-sequitur then. I think the vast majority of Saints fans will have a pragmatic view that next season is going to be a very tough fight against relegation. We're going to have to spend around £40m just to keep the squad that finished fourth in the Championship, let alone improve. That doesn't mean anyone is expecting a big-spending push for the European places, I haven't seen that suggested or even implied on here.

Who's said that?

You're right on the first bit, I misread his stats. Still, three league goals in 18 months is hardly impressive. The fact that he's more regularly used as a late sub isn't something you can just dismiss. There's a reason for it, in much the same way as people on here talk about how good Mara's goals to minutes ratio is actually impressive when actually he never starts because he's sh*te. Ing's can't get a start at West Ham, who are hardly world beaters, and can't knock Antonio out the team, who only brought home six goals himself last season. However you try and dress it up, he just hasn't done anything at West Ham and Villa were quite happy to offload him too.

But he hasn’t and he can’t. His three best ever seasons scoring at this level are 22, 12 and 11 (the last one being ten years ago) they’re the only times he’s made double figures. His last four seasons he’s scored 7, 6, 2, 1. I don’t know why people are ignoring this and talking about him anomalies which happened five or six years ago.