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Reply | The Ugly Inside Verdict On Southampton.s 2025/26 Kit
at 16:47 4 Jul 2025
I agree with you Nick, particularly about the back of the shirt, and I think the vast majority of Saints fans will too. So, that means this is another own goal by Sport Republic. They don't need to take a good shirt design and spoil it, but yet again they do. It's not the biggest issue we face as a club, but it shows how Sport Republic just go on making stupid mistake after stupid mistake.
p.s. there is absolutely no requirement for a plain back, but this gives the best explanation I've seen as to why some use a panel and some just have stripes without a panel:
https://www.footyheadlines.com/2025/01/explained-why-some-striped-backs-are-forb |
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Reply | Top 3 Saints players who fans wrote off but ended up being half-decent elsewhere
at 09:19 2 Jul 2025
Tall Paul might already be in this list. He was written off by Saints fans at the end of the 22-23 season. The next season he scored 17 in 25 appearances in Turkey. I wouldn't be surprised if he goes on to qualify a second time.
Does Andrew Surman qualify? Not universally admired at Saints but did pretty well elsewhere. |
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Reply | Ramsdale, Fernandes and Harwood-Bellis - prediction
at 13:50 30 Jun 2025
As I say, they've had ROI players before, plus Italian catholics etc. - and I can't imagine Rusty having any qualms about taking him if he wants him. Rusty doesn't pay much attention to what other people think. |
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Reply | Glastonbury Thread
at 19:56 29 Jun 2025
More hypocrisy from Eavis. Now his empire is threatened he decides it's time to condemn hate speech and changes his tune from "if you don't like our politics don't come" to "there is no place at Glastonbury for.... incitement to violence."
Bob Vylan's lyric's are basically one long incitement to violence. Here are just a few:
"kill the f*cking queen"
"Lynch your leaders"
"Landlord just raised your rent
Better get yourself a gun"
So, apparently now it's ok to incite violence against landlords, royalty and politicians, but not the IDF.
The Eavis's knew exactly what they were giving a platform to but it wouldn't have been a good marketing move for them to exclude the acts that are trendy with the yoof. Now they're saying oh dear we didn't realise. It's just more double standards and hypocrisy. |
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Reply | Adios to Larios
at 16:01 29 Jun 2025
Holding on to him in the hope that all the £millions weren't wasted would have been another mistake. He would have been too small and frail. Better to write him off and instead look at players who can compete with adult men in one of the most physical leagues in the world. It's a good move for him too because he's probably far better suited to Spanish football.
I only hope this marks the end of the disastrous Man City lite era and we can start recruiting some players that actually make sense for a club like SFC. |
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Reply | Nigerian soccer site claiming Tall Paul deal ‘stalled’
at 13:21 27 Jun 2025
We don't know for sure, but I really doubt that he refused to play in the Championship. Far more likely that Rusty decided he wasn't the tippy tappy type and shipped him out - which is fair enough, he's not really built for Rusty's style. The Championship is a better league than Turkey so I can't see anyone refusing to play in it so that they can play in Turkey.
I think SR are jumping at the chance to get some money in quickly without thinking through the best long term solution. Now we will have to pay up for a new centre forward - maybe in January when Will Still has finally persuaded them we need one. That will mean we have to pay inflated January prices like we did with TP when we signed him.
Edit: there are different numbers out there but it looks like wages in the Championship v Turkey are comparable. Turkey may be a bit higher on average but we have parachute payments etc. The other thing with Turkey is that wages are paid in Lira, so for example the previous year (75% inflation) salaries devalued by about half over the course of the year. Currently inflation is about 35%. In those circumstances, TP would take a contract extension that we could offer him based on Championship wages. A good deal for all. [Post edited 27 Jun 14:14]
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Reply | Nigerian soccer site claiming Tall Paul deal ‘stalled’
at 12:39 27 Jun 2025
Exactly every word you said - but also we've sold the only one who is actually a centre forward and poses a physical threat (again Stewart may be the exception, depending on how fast he can wheel his wheelchair into the penalty box). The others are all naturally wide players or second strikers, not true centre forwards.
Apart from a very few like TP, our squad has been built to play tippy tappy. It's possible that we could get another play-off place playing that way, but that is not Will Still's game. Without a proper centre forward plus a back up, we could struggle. |
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Reply | England v Holland Under-21's Euros semi-final
at 17:19 25 Jun 2025
Hmm I think I will watch this now but I doubt that we will play at pace for long. Like at most summer tournaments we will probably slow to walking pace like the teams currently playing at the next world cup venues.
From the games I've seen previously the best English player is Cresswell. |
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Reply | Glastonbury Thread
at 17:13 25 Jun 2025
I agree with Bill Gates who said he wouldn't be leaving his wealth to his children because it would hinder them more than help them. But I'm not saying that everyone should start with nothing. I said it would be ideal if everyone started from the same point - and that starting point would include a good education, freedom from crime and foreign threats, a safety net when things go wrong and many other things, all of which need to be paid for by taxes. You assume that our taxes just disappear and have no "societal benefit", I don't. Better to fund those taxes with inheritance tax than pretty much any other.
Lots of taxes are taxing money that has already been taxed. There's nothing special about inheritance tax there. VAT, stamp duty, savings interest, alcohol duty, you name it - it's a tax on money already taxed. Pretty much any event is taxed and death is no different, but people get more upset about inheritance tax even though less than 5% of the wealthiest estates actually have to pay any of it and the inheritors are hardly ever "children". The average age of inheritors is 61 and they are typically grandparents themselves when they receive it. People who wanted to help their children would have already done that, on average, decades before they die.
I just double checked those facts and one of the sources I found gives a good summary although the tax allowances are now more generous than those quoted at the time:
https://www.theguardian.com/money/blog/2017/dec/30/inheritance-tax |
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Reply | Glastonbury Thread
at 09:03 25 Jun 2025
It's not a tax on the dead because it has no effect on the dead. In all cases the dead end up with the same amount of money: £0, regardless of the tax rate.
It's a tax on the inheritors because it directly determines how much they get. If the tax rate was 0% they'd get everything (and the country would still be run by the Lords on their estates). If the tax rate was 100% they'd get nothing.
Technically the tax is paid before the estate is distributed, but that's irrelevant to the real effect. |
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Reply | Time to shift out Armstrong .
at 08:58 25 Jun 2025
I agree with you on Ross Stewart but his fitness is a risk, so we really need him plus 2 proper centre forwards, now we don't have Tall Paul. I think we'll be lucky to get one new decent one. They cost a lot of money. |
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Reply | Glastonbury Thread
at 08:53 25 Jun 2025
It's interesting that inheritance tax seems to cause emotional gut reactions like yours. People just hate it so, like you, they don't actually consider it logically. |
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Reply | Time to shift out Armstrong .
at 23:07 24 Jun 2025
We need some physicality at centre forward. AA, Archer and Diaz have zero between them, so shift whoever we need to get a proper centre forward in. |
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Reply | Glastonbury Thread
at 23:04 24 Jun 2025
It's not a tax on the dead. It's a tax on the inheritors who haven't earned a single penny of it. Every tax involves "mugging" someone, but all other taxes "mug" the person who's earned the money. This makes inheritance tax the fairest of all taxes.
But the biggest reason to favour it over other taxes is that all other taxes disincentivise something. Mostly they disincentivise good things e.g. put up income tax and people work less, put up employers NI and there will be less jobs etc. This issue doesn't exist with inheritance tax. You can't disincentivise dying.
Personally I think we'd have a fairer, better and more successful society if there was no such thing as inheritance and everyone started from the same point, rather than some starting with multi million fortunes they haven't earned. The only real problem with inheritance tax is the lengths some people will go to avoid it e.g. hypocrites like Michael Eavis. |
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