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9/10 for me. The squad needed major surgery and it has mostly happened. We needed to sort out the defence as a priority and that had happened. Lots of exciting young talent in board and some experience with AMN. It’s a shame we didn’t manage to get the striker in but we do have players who can score. Very sad to see Ori go. He has been a brilliant signing for us but the timing is probably right.

You sound like you have been shagging Alexandra Daddario, Margot Robbie, Selena Gomez and Scarlett Johansson this summer but have got the hump because Paige Spiranac turned you down today. 😥

Indeed! We have clearly been trying hard to sign a goal scorer all Summer but for whatever reasons, no joy so far. But no matter what happens today, our recruitment this window has been excellent and we have a much stronger squad than we did at the end of the season. There is also another window coming up in a few month’s time. As they say, Rome wasn’t built in a day, and the owners have shown a real intent to get us back on track. I think that there is plenty to be optimistic about.

As Ralph said, 95% of the stuff in the media is rubbish. The Delap rumours looked solid and an interest in Broja made sense, but as to the other rumours, I’d take most of them with a pinch of salt.

Much better transport links to be closer to his family in the Midlands 🤔

You were clueless as Delldays. You were clueless as Batman. You are still clueless. Why someone who thought that Pelle was crap thinks he has a handle on the national crisis that is about to cripple us is beyond comprehension. Do yourself a favour Jamie and STFU about things that you don’t have a clue about (which, to be frank, is pretty much everything).

Plenty of “chicks” behind the bar, a picture of the Queen on the wall and white flag with a Red Cross draped above the TV playing GB news all day no doubt though.

The way this country is going, come winter the Channel could well be full of small boats full of Brits heading for The French coast.

I guess banging on about UKIP and reciting speeches from the “Iron Lady” is a big draw in your local. Frankly I would rather stick pins in my eyes.

Apparently you could well be right Duckie. The landlord has been complaining that fewer of the locals go there regularly since lockdown and they have been replaced by a bunch of boorish non woke types from Ashford. Sounds like your kind of demographic Duckie. Who knows, they might even end up renaming it the Gammon Arms? 😚

Multiply us by the countless others who are tightening their belts also and it will have an adverse affect on many local economies will it not?

Not to people like you Batman, that is why I told you to avert your eyes. As for thousands and thousands of people pouring into the country daily, you really do spout some nonsense. Perhaps if you didn’t spend so much of your day reading crap on Twitter you might make the occasional post that is worth reading. You might also stop sounding like a poor man’s Nigel Farage.

Come now Batman, we all know that you spend your days trawling the internet trying to find material that shows that racism doesn’t exist or tries to undermine anything that opposes it . If you are glued to anything it is to your keyboard and to Twitter. Someone who has spent years knocking Johnny Foreigner on a football foreign doesn’t turn into a “snowflake” overnight. Anyway, whilst I usually avoid anything by Owen Jones like the plague, he addresses the idea of civil unrest over the energy prices and cost of living hike here. You might want to avert your eyes Batman. Brits took to the streets over the Poll tax… https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/23/cost-of-living-french-popular-resistance-living-standards-uk

The truth is usually mundane and boring Duckie. Your infatuation with Margaret Thatcher, Farage, your defence of Brexit and your constant fight against lefties and Pinkos will always be a lot more entertaining, I give you that. I look forward to a lot more of your posts in defence of politics and a party who are taking this country into the sewers, literally. Sleep tight, don’t let the Snap Dragon bite.

I live 6 miles away from Ashford International Stn and one junction away from Folkestone. EuroStar and EuroTunnel employ people in both towns. Not surprisingly some of those people live near Ashford as I do. A married couple who each work for one of the company’s above live four doors away from us. Not surprisingly in a small village everybody knows everybody else and knows everybody else’s business. We saw them the other week walking their dog and the subject of the strike came up, unsurprisingly, as he was on strike at the time. I mentioned it on a thread on a football forum dealing with current strikes because it was pertinent to a point I had made and been challenged on. That’s the way these things work Duckie. If he had worked for the fire brigade and wasn’t on strike, guess what, I wouldn’t have mentioned it. 1. Without wishing to get into a tit for tat argument, I only patronised you because you patronised me. 2. I was talking about attitudes towards strikers on the railways in particular at the moment who, I don’t believe have been offered 9%. There will have been many more strikes within many different organisations by the end of the year. It will be interesting to see where the public’s sympathies lie then, but I have a feeling it will be more with the strikers than the Tory government or their supporters.

You seem to have lurched from questioning my point that more people now have sympathy for strikers. Not sure what that has to do with the economy as that wasn’t what I was talking about. I understand that even if you didn’t personally 😉. Thanks for the patronisation and yes, of course I understand that higher wages will fuel higher inflation but again, that is not the point. After 10 years of austerity and now rapidly rising inflation and below inflation pay rises more people now have sympathy for strikers was the point. You, personally, took issue with that point. Are we on the same page now?

I recall Semmens saying something that led me to believe that the manager after Ralph had been identified and assumed he would come in as part of the new coaching team to bed in and would step up once Ralph goes. Whether that is Selles I have no idea but it makes perfect sense. Why some people feel the need to get their knickers in a twist over a possible, very reasonable, succession plan, god only knows.

I have seen plenty of support for the strikers in the media. A neighbour works for the railways, is a striker and says that he has received plenty of support. More and more people have had no pay rises for years and are now getting below inflation increases. Throw in fuel poverty and food price hikes and I think there are a lot more people struggling and have sympathy for those in the same boat, even if you don’t personally.

What about squad management? With 5 subs now more than ever before it is how you use your bench. Gone are the days where you start with your strongest eleven.

I disagree. The country is ready for a change and are ready for a grown up for PM. The far left might be irrelevant to the country but they will do what they can to derail Starmer’s attempt to get elected and the right wing media will be all over it, just as they were with the Blairites attempt to hamstring Corbyn. Starmer is not stupid. He knows what he needs to do to get elected and is doing it. He can see that he doesn’t need to do too much right now because the Tories are doing his job for him. If they elect Truss, which seems likely at the moment, he job becomes easier. Just be a viable alternative to the current shit show, which really isn’t difficult. He has some difficult waters to navigate with the forthcoming and current strikes. The far left expect to see Labour MPs supporting the strikers and standing in picket lines. Starmer knows that is a vote loser amongst the floating middle England voters and has to tread a fine line between not alienating those fighting for a living wage and those who are being affected by the strikes. So far he has managed it and he is right to say that the government needs to do more to fasciliate negotiations between management and workers. These strikes will only end with both sides talking and reaching agreements. The Tories enjoy unrest by unions as it plays into their hands. Where they are getting it wrong now is that public opinion seems to be turning in favour of those striking as more and more of us are being hit by costblof living rises. Starmer could probably afford to stand by the unions more and not lose the middle England support he needs to get elected. This winter is going to be a nightmare for this country whoever wins the race to become PM. Starmer should be cleaning up next year.

He doesn’t need charisma. The current incumbent of No 10 has plenty of that and look where that has left the country. He needs to have competence, an understanding of the issues and a desire to do something about them and integrity. He has these qualities. His problem isn’t going to be beating Truss or Sunak. His problem is the element of the far left who seem to be happier to see the Tories in power rather than a moderate Labour Party.

I’m not a betting man but I would have put serious money on Batman being the first person to find and post this. If it were ever in any doubt, he spends his days on Mumsnet. Liz Truss, I doff my cap to you.

You seem to have shot yourself in the foot and done an Alanis yourself. Feel free to go and find posts of mine where I have included the stuff that Batman posts.

What I would imagine is exhausting is trawling the internet every day to find pointless rubbish to post on a forum where most people find it, erm, pointless. Perhaps find yourself a job? Do submariners make their own breakfasts nowadays? Is that why you have so much time on your hands?

Another day, another completely pointless post by someone who has nothing better to do with his life. Perhaps we should all just stop what we are doing and scan adverts for things that Batman thinks are racist? Little wonder Liz Truss thinks we are a nation of shirkers if that’s all the Batman’s of this world get up to everyday.