Danbert

We'll struggle to hold on to Lavia, KWP and JWP if we're relegated. Depending on how Livramento's recovery goes this is going to mean we're short on numbers and quality at full back and in midfield.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/mar/12/china-byd-blames-brexit-as-it-rules-out-uk-for-first-european-car-plant

Vestergaard on the naughty step: https://metro.co.uk/2023/03/09/leicester-city-star-banished-from-training-after-criticising-brendan-rodgers-18415041/?ito=newsnow-feed

Bree Orisic Eluseless

I don't see the point in a new manager whose teams play in the Hassenhuttel style, but who has been less successful. Why didn't we just keep Ralph?

Respect to the club for going for it, I only hope it's going to be enough to keep us in the division

Thanks for that depressing comment

I'm not apathetic - let's tear 'em a new one COYS

It's achievable even we don't get anyone in - we're no better or worse than the other teams at the bottom of the league, we just happen to be bottom at this point. Of course new players would help, but they'll help much more if they're "oven-ready." I liked the look of Jackson but I don't think he falls into that category.

Nothing to do with Brexit, I'm sure https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jan/22/uk-will-be-15-years-late-in-hitting-1tn-annual-export-target-figures-show

Such a tragic mess, and a huge loss of prosperity. There is no longer any point in arguing that Brexit has any benefits. "You will remember his claim that the subs paid to the EU only had to be redirected to the NHS to transform it into a world-envied health service. Strike one. What we actually have is a collapsing NHS. Another of their boasts was that the UK would “take back control” of its borders. Strike two. Unmanaged migration is not falling, but rising. The most critical promise was that the economy would roar like a liberated lion just as soon as the UK was “unshackled” from the “sclerotic” EU. Strike three. The UK is the sick man of the G7, the only member with an economy that is still smaller than it was before the pandemic. As for that fabled vista of fantastic exporting opportunities for “Global Britain”, businesses are writhing in all the red tape generated by Brexit while the UK has yet to secure a single better trade deal with a significant partner than we had as members of the EU. Quitting has not been empowering, but enervating. Every credible study concludes that Brexit has introduced new impediments to prosperity while aggravating pre-existing problems. Our trade has had a feebler recovery from the Covid-induced global slump than comparable countries and the inflationary surge fuelled by the war in Ukraine is sharper on these shores than elsewhere. The self-harms inflicted by Brexit also include the suppression of investment and shortages of workers in key sectors. Nothing in the Brexit prospectus has survived contact with reality. Never has there been such a bonfire of vanities."

Well, I've watched half the YouTube video and I'm sold - guy looks a real unit bring him in 🙂

While we're far from brilliant at creating chances, our expected goals have us higher up the league than we actually are. The stats say that our big problem is be putting away the chances we create. A problem which I very much hope our stats obsessed overloads will address, because Adam fucking Armstrong aint the answer. https://understat.com/league/EPL

Sounds like he's coming anyway

Alcaraz said to have agreed terms, though his club haven't http://sportwitness.co.uk/southampton-reach-principle-agreement-player-club-evaluating-proposal-bid-increased/

3 minutes from time ex-Pompey Conor Chaplin scores to level for Ipswich 😆 1 win in 13 for the few now.

Half a million EU workers went home, thanks to which, the pubs are shut: "Half of UKH’s members are making adjustments such as these – to opening hours or capacity – as a result of labour shortages." https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/28/pubs-struggle-to-retain-staff-after-brexit-and-covid-double-whammy

Oven-ready rotten turkey

Meh, we're shit but so are the others.

Oh they can do worse. Walcott does do much worse. I'm completely positive it was a run out for the second string and that the first XI with Adams up front will be taking on Lincoln.

Nice to see we're not wasting the huge Brexit dividend that's going to fund our NHS Festival of Brexit was ‘monumental cock-up’, MPs tell culture secretary

Indeed, so while actual levels of UK exports have yet to recover to 2017 levels the smug little pillock bigs up 800 billion pounds worth of fictional "new" trade. It's such a pathetic and patent lie.

Michael Gove caught using made up statistics about fictional post brexit trade deals https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/dec/12/watchdog-reprimands-tories-over-800bn-post-brexit-trade-deals-claim

No it isn't

What we need, is to be able to pay them the sort of absurd salaries they can get elsewhere. Newcastle have had no problems buying quality despite what was a lowly league position.