Saint86

And yet, it is absolutely inappropriate that parliamentarians are behaving like this at at time when the UK is being reprimanded by world powers ranging from Cyprus to the usa, having foreign service personnel reliant on the Greeks for defence, unable and unwilling to act in self defence against iran, and unable to even get a single evacuation flight out of the middle east after 6days, whilst even countries as small as Thailand can manage it, and the USA has rescued 18,000 of their own citizens. And its not like the economy is doing well, unemployment isn't spiralling etc. I bet the students they're trying to shaft by freezing the repayment threshold are delighted to see them dancing around enjoying themselves. Newsflash for the government, when you're one of the worst performing ones in recent memory, don't draw attention to yourselves pissing about. Just shows that we've got a load of incompetent unserious cockwombles having a jolly on the taxpayers dime... certainly getting our monies worth out of them.

We need to badly hope boro need a win in that last game at Wrexham as well i reckon. Unless we fluff it up before hand, its going to go right down to the wire.

Arbitrary rankings FTW... but unless we implode away at Wrexham, we have easier fixtures and i reckon we'll catch them - plus GD will be on our side.

He has the highest points haul since his appointment, and he could have done even better... I was very critical of him early doors, but since the change in tactics (and adoption of the back 4 with a target man centrally up top) we've looked a very solid side. Its frustrating to watch him walk into mistakes eyes open time and again, but he's a rookie manager and its sadly to be expected... however on current form, he looks to be someone with a pretty high ceiling - we just have to be prepared to accept the learning curve.

Thanks for that staggering insight John... 😅 What predictors do however, is provide a relatively quick way of looking at specific scenarios... which (for those of us who can't track the live league table for 7 teams over each of the remaining game weeks in our own heads) can be quite handy, informative, and/or interesting... 🙃

I did a championship predictor over the weekend. Essentially had Hull and wrexham winning every game (where practicable), and all the other teams above us winning every game in the most onerous way for us (i.e., always benefiting the lower of hull/wrexham basically). That won't happen obviously, but if it did then i think it worked out that we'd miss out by 1-2 points on 6th place. Probably explained that terribly, but in effect it means that if hull played say ipswich, then i'd have given hull the win, but if wrexham played hull then i would have given it to whichever of them needed the points (99% sure that was wrexham). The reality though is that it pretty much is in our own hands - there is near zero probability of Wrexham and hull achieving their required "maximum" points and keeping us out, especially with their fixtures vs other top sides - So saints need to just keep going, focus on ourselves, win as many as we can, and crucially beat Wrexham away, or certainly don't lose that one. We have the squad depth and quality, barring a major injury crisis (touch wood we don't hit one) that is an advantage to us over this run in. Against it, Eckert is still very young an inexperienced, and he is going to make mistakes. But one of the 5 sides is going to drop form and points - just don't let it be us. And bottom line - if saints maintain the form to qualify, then with this squad you'd be a brave punter to bet against another side to win them over saints imho.

Whilst Fulham have an outside chance of getting into the european spaces, the reality is that their season is over aside from the cup... You'd therefore expect them to go all in on a cup run this season. For us, promotion via the playoffs is our cup final, and we are unlikely to win the cup anyway... so the expectation is that we will rotate. Even though this will be largely unpalatable to many of the fans. We also have Eckert as manager, and as good as we are doing post the switch to a back 4... he's still very inexperienced and walks into every pitfall trap with his eyes wide open. I would therefore expect this to be a dead rubber from our side, with eckert fielding a grossly under strength side, and Fulham knowing it and winning easily (provided they actually raise their game - rather than do what we did vs wedensday). Possibly pissing off the fans and damaging our momentum as well... Sorry to be so bleak. If it were me, i would go for it and try to do something special - Promotion through the league is still a long way off (even if we believe we can do it) and a cup run and some upsets may well set us up for better next year (like the JPT, and like 76 as well).

In their defence, that's been their strategy for decades...

The state of that man - can't believe i am seeing any mainstream UK party leader picking sides with the Iranian regime over the UK's allies. He has truly swallowed the crazy pills if this is his outlook. You have Iranians all over the world begging the USA to save the people from the regime ffs, videos getting out of civilians rejoicing and laughing at Khamenei's compound being hit, and its a regime that has just butchered 40,000 of their own people in a month, with millions more living under one of the most oppressive regimes in the world... But I guess he has voters to keep happy

Reminds me of the nazis, they're going down and they just want to see the world burn - the more they can take down the better 😕

Keir trying to come out fighting (too little too late) - he's clearly a dead man walking at this point, really should just resign and let someone else get the clobbering that's coming in May (they're all so desperate to jockey for position, to knife him, and ultimately go get his job, but not so desperate that they want him to go before then)... should just give it to them now and have a laugh in a couple of months at their expense 🤣😄 "We’ve seen the true colours of Zack Polanski’s Greens in this campaign. The Greens were able to capitalise on an endorsement from George Galloway to win over enough voters to push them over the line. Their willingness to welcome Galloway’s divisive, sectarian politics is a sign that the Greens are not the harmless environmentalists they pretend to be, and their position on legalising all drugs shows how unstable this electoral coalition is. It cannot survive a general election campaign. We will continue to warn of the risk the Greens pose: the risk of extreme policies like legalising all drugs and pulling out of Nato that most voters strongly reject, and the risk of splitting the progressive vote so that Reform come through the middle.”

Yeah, her speech was great. A self made landlord with a million pound property portfolio talking about standing up to the millionaires and billionaires, how "hard work should get you a home", and all for a party that wants to abolish private landlords (it was at this point that i questioned if she knew which party she was standing for). All backed by large Muslim vote that now supports legalising sex work and LGBTQ+ rights, and where potentially a small number of people have had to tell another group of people exactly how one fills in a voting form. We can say one thing, the constituency isn't a shining example of an educated and politically conscious england. The greens probably could've have stood bonnie blue and won an even bigger majority 🤣

They won by 4400 votes. Turnout was 37k. The reported 12% observed/alleged illegal votes is 4440. So It is a significant number and could certainly be argued as such by the losing parties. Although i tend to agree that whether or not there was "family" voting, the same people would largely have voted green if left to their own devices. What it does indicate though (as i said above), is that people should be voting in private, and such a significant level of illegal voting patterns is damaging confidence in the democratic process.

Damit, i was too slow 🤦‍♂️

Oh okay, whereas you're arguing that in half the polling stations it was prevalent and at record levels, but in the other half it magically didn't happen at all? If you believe that then I've got a great investment opportunity to sell you... 😅