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Reply | Friday Big Day For World Peace
at 11:18 15 Aug 2025
It worked well when Russia/Putin was invited to the G8, and given the Winter Olympics and the World Cup.
That level of inclusion really helped to dim their imperialist plans.
The Winter Olympics ended on 23 Feb 2014, the annexation of Crimea began on 27 Feb 2014. |
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Reply | Jack Rudoni
at 10:41 15 Aug 2025
Got to be right and he is going to need some financial persuading to come too.
He was let down a bit at Coventry last season last season in terms of recruitment to match his level - particularly up front where Ellis Simms and Hadji Wright both blow hot and mainly cold. Rudoni was often the one scoring the important goals as well as being the most creative in midfield.
He could be the missing link for us. |
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Reply | Saints allegedly put Smallbone on sale for £8m
at 15:16 14 Aug 2025
"He can't sprint, he can't tackle, he just wanders around aimlessly off the pace.
He's one of the few players I've ever seen at this level who has no acceleration whatsoever. He just jogs around at one pace as the game passes him by."
Got to agree that this is the impression he gives. Looks 'one-paced' but maybe it's just how he seems.
And I think his footballing brain and passing is good. Maybe he's the midfielder that Pirlo could have been. |
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Reply | Freedom vs "security"
at 16:57 13 Aug 2025
It's absolutely no wonder that Jelly and hundred's of thousands of Americans think that the UK no longer has freedom of speech when over 500+ are arrested for holding placards.
And the difference with Russia is that most of these people will be released without charge, possible with comp for wrongful arrest, rather than ending up in a Gulag, but even so.
Such a stupid set of decisions by Yvette Cooper and the police. |
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Reply | Fans' Forum tonight
at 21:20 7 Aug 2025
Not according to Nick, Dirk.
His appointment was proof that the Club were turning over a new leaf. |
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Reply | Hardest done by...
at 21:15 7 Aug 2025
"The moaning fans are not to blame for results"
We heard it here first. I bet it actually feels good to say that.
Are you ready to try: "The rot started under Gao, who was a disaster for the Club"?
That could also be cathartic. |
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Reply | Jack Rudoni
at 15:31 7 Aug 2025
He's the best player in what became a strong Coventry side under Lampard last season.
Creative midfielder, with skill, who scores goals.
Would be a great buy for Saints but why anyone would move from Lampard and a Cov side on the up, to a Will Still gamble at Saints under Solak's stewardship is beyond me. |
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Thread | Hardest done by...
at 10:46 6 Aug 2025
This from:
https://www.sportbible.com/hardest-done-by
"Five years of data. Thirteen painstakingly chosen categories. One clear ‘winner’ - Southampton.
The Saints have endured a brutal half-decade: 42 errors leading to goals, nine 90th
-minute winners conceded, and a 55% away -day defeat rate.
The evidence is damning. Southampton fans are, beyond doubt, the most hard-done-byin English football.
Congratulations, Southampton…sort of."
Over to you Nick to:
(a) Put a positive spin on this
(b) Flip it so that it's the moaning fans to blame, and the Club that is hard done by... |
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Reply | Valiant Effort In The Cricket
at 22:47 4 Aug 2025
Fair play India. 35 wasn't much of a total to defend this morning but they took the game by the scruff of the neck and bowled accurately and aggressively, and forced the win.
And 2-2 was fair. |
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Reply | Do you need an education to govern the country?
at 22:32 4 Aug 2025
I think all of us - of all political outlooks - despair about idiots having the vote.
But we all disagree on who the idiots are.
So I'd rather that my idiots get to elect their people sometimes, than to have some sort of intelligence test before you get the vote.
(Although they were taking the piss with Liz Truss). |
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Reply | Southampton Go Into Championship Opening Weekend In Strong Position
at 13:35 4 Aug 2025
I said I was waiting before judging the manager and the team too.
I'm not really interested in the strength of the squad 'on paper' - it's not Top Trumps.
Let's see if this manager can turn the players he has at the end of the window into a winning team. That's the only question that matters. |
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Reply | Should the UK adopt the Greek policy on immigrants?
at 20:49 31 Jul 2025
If everyone arriving on a boat was automatically sent back to France, no one would get on a boat and that would be the end of it.
And that's exactly the deal that Labour seem to be trying to make with France.
But it has to be deal - France has to agree. And they will reasonably want the UK to legally take asylum seekers by a different route.
I don't mind making a deal with them to share the load if it stops the boats.
Like every country, we should be offereing sanctuary to genuine asylum seekers. |
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Reply | Good man - poor leader vs bad man - allegedly good leader
at 10:31 30 Jul 2025
At present it doesn't look like Labour is moving the dial on getting the economy moving. I also find their use of the terrorism act in relation to Palestine Action really sinister.
But I think this country needs 'boring' after all the craziness that Brexit, Boris and Liz Trust brought - none of which, it seems to me, improved our day to day lives.
And Starmer does seem to have navigated positioning the UK with good relations with both the EU and with Trump, and that is no mean feat. |
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Reply | Ryan Bertrand on Hassenhutl
at 20:57 24 Jul 2025
Rings true.
Always thought some of Ralph's team selections and subs were bonkers. Makes sense that he was playing stupid games at the time. |
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Reply | Is promotion this season possible?
at 15:20 7 Jul 2025
Very true, and maybe it's now actually impossible without breaching the FFP rules to compete with a new team in the PL.
And I guess it highlights the difference between the financial motivations of the Club as a business, and as a football Club.
But last season was purgatory and I felt resentful watching them, particularly since January when the Club didn't even attempt to strengthen to stay in the league.
If the Club are just going to use a PL season to get some cash, and not be too fussed about results, there's not really much point in going to watch. |
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Reply | Is promotion this season possible?
at 14:13 7 Jul 2025
There's no point trying to get out of the league unless we do it with a squad that can at least form the basis of a team that can compete in the PL.
I don't want another PL season like last year. Ever. |
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Reply | Will Still taking a job in England……
at 21:22 20 May 2025
If we didn’t know otherwise, and hadn’t had our expectations lowered quite so much, we would have to think that a story about appointing Still was a joke.
We need a manager to build a new team pretty much from scratch, get us out of the Championship and then maintain us in the PL.
Is Will Still the man to do this? Who the f*ckety f*ck knows. But what I do know is that it’s yet another Solak gamble and that Solak’s track record is appalling.
And I wouldn’t trust Spors to make the right decision either. He’s also completely unproven. |
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