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You say that like we haven't been attacking in games? But we have been one of the most attacking sides in the league chance creation wise, and thats with a back 5 until now - the strikers have just been gash frankly. As for the last match - Pompey rocked up with a game plan to stop us playing and to try to snatch something - nothing wrong with that as a tactic - But they averaged 0.09 xg as an average per shot, always had 1 man tight marking azaz as a minimum, sat in a compact defensive shape whenever we had the ball, and were time wasting and playing for any foul going to break up the play. Saints won't face that every week, and similarly that was the first game where all the new signings had a chance to play after a 2 week international break. There are plenty of reasons to expect us to kick on now.

Need to get 3 points here and get the season moving. It's also the start of an awkward run - I think it's 6 of the next 8 games away from home? And a lot of trips up north in that time as well... Sheffield, derby, hull, liverpool, Blackburn. That's not a kind fixture list on the travel front. The blades will have a new manager bounce as well.

Matty Taylor isn't as much of a bell end as i remember him at least.

Not good. The only things we are creating - is when we do crab football until Pompey push up, and then we hit a long ball and try to quick counter.

Absolutely shocking start imo. Can't seem to string more than 2 passes together FFS

I do not miss this 😆

Looks like they got the guy who killed Kirk - and it does seem to have been a political motivated assassination by an extremist / nutter on the left. Based on the bullet engravings and the tone of his conversations with those who knew him, he'd become radicalised by the rhetoric in America in recent years (stuff like calling Kirk a Fascist/nazi etc). Surely this has to act as a warning to America to tone down the rhetoric? They'll end up fully down the path of tit for tat political killings otherwise.

Would be an error to drop Baz - doing so would damage him regardless in terms of his own confidence and trust from the fans. Equally, if you bring in Macca and he then has a bad game, we will be playing the season with 2 damaged keepers. We don't then have another keeper and so we would be undermining the season until Jan on the keeper front. The only thing for it is to put faith in Baz and leave him to it - one thing i will say about him is that he's not a keeper with a weak mentality or likely to fold under the pressure - we'll get the same baz as always, and he may even step up. Personally i would be far more worried about some of the defenders in front of him shitting the bed, or potentially Downes doing something stupid or getting sent off. If Baz does have a bad game then it happens, but at least Macca is then untarnished for the rest of the season.

Did you just try to apply logic to something relating to guns in America? let alone a likely political assassination by a theoretical unhinged far left nut job?

No doubt they'll be conspiracy theories that spin that the other way. I just hope they actually catch the person who did it to at least give his family some kind of justice - but i feat they won't. Interestingly, death by firing squad is legal method of execution in Utah.

Speaking as an engineer... what's are the localised population increases for a lot of the stretched water authorities vs the increases in storage and treatment capacity over the corresponding timeframe? - the last reservoir was built in 1992. Population then was circa 57.6M, compared to 69.6M today - thats a 21% increase. Simple reality is we need to build more reservoirs and treatment capacity, eliminate wastage/loss, and provide better connections between high and low rainfall areas - because we are not going to get more rainfall.

I haven't seen the close up video and don't want/need to - The footage of that poor Ukrainian woman on the train was heart-breaking enough, i don't need to see any more snuff films of violence in America. But yes, it is very sad. People may not have agreed with his politics, but from what i can see he was just a young guy that was passionate about political discourse and for engaging younger people in politics. To be killed for it is just horrendous. Its the sort of thing that might happen in some despotic or backwards state - not the self proclaimed leader of the free world. That's 3 assassination attempts in America in under a year now - 2 on trump (1 near miss), and obviously this one on Charlie Kirk - feels like a pretty long way back to being a stable democracy.

Agreed again 😄 There is a drive to get smartphones out of schools, which is part of that. But social media would be the thing to really get rid of for kids.

Also agreed, or at least significantly so. Part of the problem is, is that people watch entirely different content/takes on world events based on the algorithms - and then form a viewpoint. That acts like rabbit holes that become ever more extreme. Then they look at people on the other side and cannot comprehend how they have such differing viewpoints whilst equally being completely ignorant to what those other people may have watched. So people are divided now from the start. And then the younger generations in particular are growing up on social media and are far less likely to talk and interact with each other. Divides are becoming chasms at this point. Not clear how society winds the clock back from it. Add to that the political rhetoric and language being used (in the states both sides have been doing it for a while now - but re the kirk killing you have stuff like fascist and Nazi's being bandied about routinely) - this sort of language just radicalises people, increases the divides, and makes these things more likely.

Agreed. Just another example of the division between people, and the lack of understanding/empathy that is blighting modern society in the west in particular.

Dresses as a clown to be precise 😅

There are a few rules in life that you can swear by. One of them is that if the fish fuckers either claim something derogatory about Southampton or positive about their fish bowl of a club / slum of a city, then it is in fact 100% certain to be yet another Portsmyth, and not worth the paper its printed on.

Really is disgusting - would come with a football banning order these days.

https://news.sky.com/story/israel-not-committing-genocide-in-gaza-but-casualties-and-destruction-are-utterly-appalling-says-uk-government-13427380 Imagine this stance will change subject to whoever wins the deputy leader contest.

A lot of Tory donors have switched to reform now, as well as them starting to attract business. They are the largest party at this point - I think it will come down to whether labour can sort themselves out and/or whether people actually think reform can form a serious government. The tories are normally wounded as far as the next GE goes. The other question ofc is whether Corbyn splits the left wing vote - which would also be devastating for labour. I wouldn't be at all surprised if labour push through PR to at least stop reform getting in - even if it's long term suicide for labour. I don't think it's that unlikely that we see reform and lib Dems as the main two parties next GE.

Now that just sounds like the democrats in America 😅

He may be isolated, but its extremely telling that he is still there and hasn't even been moved.

Of all the cabinet - this is the fucktard that actually has to go.

Grim. People like that are a great argument for why we need migrants... we've got a thick underclass of absolute bitter morons that have wasted / taken for granted all of the advantages that being born in Britain afforded them, and are nothing but a net drain on the economy and society as a whole. Any chance we can deport that lot?