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Sunaks Speech
at 13:10 6 Oct 2023

All but a measly seven miles of the London to Birmingham line needed to be tunnelled - thus the cost increase. Why's that then? Nearly the entire route cuts through Conservative constituencies, with each fearful MP leaning on Westminster to ensure that their back yard wasn't exposed to an unsightly rail line. Not exactly corruption on the scale of PPE, but an illuminating anecdote which brings to light the priorities of the party.
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Ballard
at 12:49 14 Sep 2023

Bizarre decision. Saw him come on at Cambridge last season - in just a few minutes he had their CB's looking like they were playing a game of whack-a-mole - they never seemed to know where he was, and he scored a goal. Can we honestly say that Sekou Mara is more ready to play than Ballard?
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Farage Having Bank Accounts cancelled
at 08:26 4 Jul 2023

Anti-money laundering software is now quite sophisticated, so it may be that there's a track record of transactions with a party which the banks are uncomfortable about - and let's face it, he's hardly a stranger to the Russian expatriate community.
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The good news.
at 09:26 1 May 2023

Fair post, Nick. It strikes me that the new owners DID have a great plan: build youth and reinvent our brand as a feeder club. In terms of the modern EPL, that doesn’t sound like a bad approach to a league in which we will never win. Where they went wrong was a series of disastrous, morale-sapping appointments and decisions: Jones, Marsh, Selles and perhaps some of the player acquisitions.
Having said that, even in relegation one or two decisions based on their model could yet pay off: Lavia has been brilliant at £10m and although he’ll be sold his value has risen significantly; JWP’s departure - though sad for us - will bring in a large cheque which can be spent on a replacement similar to Lavia; there is also significant depth in the squad which will be above mean championship level: Caletta Car, Orsic, Perrault, Kulenana, even Bree. Meanwhile, players like the wonderful but past his best Stuart Armstrong will be moved on.
If the rumours about Solskjaer or Potter are true, I think there’s a really solid squad there for the Championship (Ballard too?) and we might be one of the luck clubs that can bounce back.
It’s proper football down there, with real fans and it’ll be good to leave the house on a Saturday (yes, playing on Saturdays again!) in the expectation that we’ll see a good game and get three points.
My main gripe on the squad is the goalkeepers, partly thanks to Matt76’s brilliant statistical analysis last month - SR please address this. Otherwise I think we could be OK.
Sorry for the optimism!
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Refunds policy
at 08:09 28 Jan 2023

Thanks - all - I’ll contact supporter services and if no luck will go to the card company. I’m sure common sense will prevail as I’m very happy to have tickets moved to another fixture.
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at 08:07 28 Jan 2023

Thanks all - I’ll contact Supporter Services and if no luck I’ll do that. Really appreciate the advice.
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at 20:24 27 Jan 2023

Thanks!
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at 19:44 27 Jan 2023

Don’t get to many home games these days as I live in Hertfordshire, but as a treat I got some Saints Bar tickets for the Leicester game for 2 x adults, 1 OAP and 4 kids. We’re coming from Somerset and Herts - so a bit of a family gathering.
One of the kids (who has a health issue) was told “no travelling” by the doc, so I told the club within 24 hours of purchase. Answer: “Sorry, we don’t do refunds”.
Two days on, the KO time gets moved and now only 2 of the original party of 7 can make it…So I called again: no refund and they won’t even transfer the tickets to another game later in the season.
£700 down the drain.
The clubs own terms state that they have the discretion to refund or transfer tickets - they just chose to not to do so.
Should I be surprised? Is this normal treatment towards fans?
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Is Ralph’s time up
at 22:27 27 Sep 2021

For me, it’s a combination of tactics and bizarre selections: we go five or six games without conceding last season, so he drops Forster and brings back the hapless McCarthy, for example. No observation for the difference in win-rate when certain players turn out. It’s as if he just wants to be contrary at any expense.
But the thing which really bothers me is the tactics - trying to win every game by possession football and the thing about passing back unless the player knows they have a definite transition. Ridiculous, when we have several quick players and I’m not convinced that Ings approved either.
I do think that Eddie Howe would be a great ‘right size’ appointment: Meticulously prepares for games, players love him, sensible and shrewd. Took Bournemouth from the verge of extinction to the EPL. I appreciate that they ultimately got relegated but I think he’d be able to attract slightly better players to SFC than Bournemouth.
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Saints Tipped To Complete Signing Of Brazilian From Serie A
at 19:05 20 Aug 2021

‘Ball-playing CB’: Ralph is determined to play the ball out from the back, dominate possession and win like Pepe. You can see it in his insistence on playing McCarthy (on the grounds that he has marginally better feet than Forster); or even in his reliance to date on Stephens (decent ball control for a CB but can’t actually mark an opposing player or head the ball). Despite all the evidence that his team are not strong enough to play the way he wants - the most obvious being that they are knackered by half time), he just won’t change his tactics.

I’ve never been so depressed at the mention of a potential new signing, because this one says so much about what is going wrong.

Please can someone tell Ralph what a counter-attack is?
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Should Southampton Sell Jannik Vestergaard This Summer
at 13:35 4 Jun 2021

100%. And for that, read the rest of the team. The way we play is very complicated and I think the players don’t like it, which is why their heads drop...
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Where are we on the takeover?
at 14:03 22 Sep 2020

His tweet could easily be influenced by an informal exclusivity agreement. In that case, the club would likely brief him that it’s not happening to protect a major deal.
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Dom Cummings - the great man speaks
at 14:14 30 May 2020

Well, you were right about that one, weren’t you? Latest polls showing that the nation has seen what a weak man Boris really is thanks to this affair and 1.5m people signing a petition in just over 48 hours, demanding the resignation of Cummings.
Whilst I have your attention, Dune, did you see the FT editorial today?
Turns out Cummings altered his blog on his return to work, to make it look like he’d written about coronavirus last year - something he’d claimed in his press briefing last week. Turned out to be a pure lie, based on falsifying a 2019 article and republishing it.
I guess there’s no fooling you though, is there?
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Booing teachers
at 10:23 16 May 2020

My God, they really must need the staff
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Oh kier Starmer
at 19:14 8 May 2020

Yawn, yawn, yawn, yawn, yawn. You really are an obsessive, delusional little man, aren’t you OS? Have got any other interests apart from Brexit? I’ll bet you get laid about once every ten years!
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Is your BUSINESS under threat from Coronavirus?
at 07:41 16 Mar 2020

Of course the immediate human cost of the virus is the most important thing. However, your post implies that anybody in business is more concerned with profit and I think this is naive under the current circumstances.

I work in a serviced office with 2000 other people - nearly all service providers and all small companies. Like most small companies, our order sheet has already suffered mass cancellations. Like nearly all small businesses, we keep 3 months cash at the bank as we cannot afford to do more. For us (and I reckon most others in our building to continue with the example) we will not be able to trade in 12 weeks time. Apply that model to most small and medium sized businesses across the country and we will be looking at social deprivation and secondary impacts in areas like mass suicide or poverty related illness on a scale not seen since the thirties. Then there is the indirect costs in areas like mental health and potentially even malnutrition, as the economy grinds to a complete halt. Indebtedness will increase exponentially and people will be eating out of the gutters. For you to think that anybody concerned about the impact on business is ignoring the real costs is simplistic in the extreme.
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CRISIS At Germany's Deutsche Bank!
at 11:12 4 Feb 2020

Having spent years hiring people for banks in The City, you do get to hear the odd worrying anecdote about DB. The main thing is that they have several thousand open derivative positions which - if true - would cause worldwide contagion if the worst happened and the bank became insolvent. It really would make 2008 look like nothing by comparison, I’m afraid, due to the size of DB’s balance sheet.
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Happy Brexit Day
at 18:51 1 Feb 2020

Yes, a victory of sorts:
A victory for ignorance over intellect.
A victory for intolerance over compassion.
A victory for fear over mindfulness.
For insularity over brotherhood.
For the past over the future.
...for mythology over reality.
...for the old over the young.
For the wealthy over the poor.
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Cedric
at 09:09 30 Jan 2020

Cedric’s defensive lapses are the root cause of many of the goals conceded which are sometimes blamed on the CB’s. I’ve never seen a full back who recovers his position so well, yet somehow finds himself two yards away from the man he’s supposed to be marking at the far post.
KWP rated highly by Spurs fans I know.
Wouldn’t be the first time Mourinho let a talented youngster fall through his finger tips.
If only the deal had a permanent clause.
Good bit of business I reckon.
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At what point do the traitors apologise for being so wrong?
at 18:22 25 Jan 2020

Yes, I do. Whatever I might think about peoples’ inclinations, I would never label 51% of the country in that fashion. Which is the whole point of my objection to OP’s repeated use of the word ‘traitor’. It’s totally unacceptable, moronic and childish. I wonder whether he’d have the courage to call me that to my face?
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