Lighthouse

We’re playing like we’re 1-0 up in the 94th minute. No composure, just booting it up the pitch.

Why are we just smashing everything in 50 yards up the pitch?

We'll sh*t 'em!

I'm just sat here drinking alone, on the sofa in my boxers. Is there a game on today?

I'd like this to be farewell to Wood and Howell but it probably isn't. I know it's already been said but the messed up dates and availability of players really is a bit of a farce. in 2022 and 2023 we had Nelly and McDermott across both seasons. In the last two seasons it seems like we've had a different ringer in every game.

Always felt about 20 short on that pitch, oh well.

I don't think West Ham are, or will be, one of the worst three in the league. There're enough poor teams down there to bail them out this year.

Hampshire are currently batting in the Vitality Blast final, if anyone had forgotten.

Well, Chris Lynn sending Pope for a hotdog has certainly helped. How the umpire gave him out off that sixth ball I've no idea. Will need a few other players to turn up in the final.

I never had you down as part of the tweed mafia.

Replacing Wilder with Selles is up there with replacing Ralph with Jones in WTF managerial appointments. Every time someone says, "the manager has got to go FFS! It can't possibly get any worse than this!" I think of decisions like this.

F**k me, what was Rabada smoking before that innings. The only other teams to concede 300 in a T20i are Gambia and Mongolia.

Maybe he means like mad Nate, God is telling him what tactics to play.

Aahhhh because Northampton and Norwich reserves. Damn, you've got me there, no comeback to that argument.

You’ve clearly never been to Minneapolis.

Bazunu will not be dropped, primarily because he’s a far better keeper than McCarthy (Still being the fifth consecutive manager to believe this) and has done nothing wrong this season. Our coaches and managers are not playing ‘the Bazunu game’ like a lot of people on the internet seem to.

The George Floyd stuff was largely fuelled by anti-authoritarian sentiments, much like many of the current anti-Israel protests, rather than any specific moral objections. In this country the 2011 riots fell under basically the same umbrella.

I'm not sure entire neighbourhoods off their face on fent is really a 'liberal policy' as such.

Well, there were tens of thousands of mentally and physically handicapped people following Jews into the showers in the 1940s but that's not really the point is it.

I'm not sure you can complain too loudly about nasty insults being thrown around 'willy nilly', when you then immediately follow it by calling someone who's not even in this discussion a retard, unprovoked, for no reason.

Second time in three years, that just embarrassing. Especially as it was for a game we got humped in anyway.

Money talks, as they say. I'm sure if there was demand for a large, indoor venue in Hampshire, someone would have built it. As it happens, most of the demand at the moment seems to be for more flats.

I really don't think the TRU site is big enough for any kind of decent size venue. Any big act which comes to the city will play SMS or the Utilita bowl, with a temporary covered stage. I'm just not sure there's any market for a smaller, middle ground venue, or that it'd be financially viable.

When a school full of children is gunned down, the likes of Kirk are usually the first to say, "OMG thoughts and prayers, how sad etc." before continuing their relentless defence of the second amendment. It's not a crass comment, Kirks death barely even counts as ironic it's so literal. The shooter is responsible for the shooting but they are not solely responsible for this, not by a long way. America has chosen to elect a president who in 2021 tried to overthrow a democratic election and take the country by force. There has been a very clear shift away from respecting the values of freedom and democracy towards, 'it's my way or nothing and violence to anyone who opposed me'.

I doubt you were his type anyway.