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Reply | Sliding Doors
at 18:06 23 Oct 2025
I said at the time he’d have been a good appointment for Saints. Despite him having won everything as a player, he is incredibly humble, a rarity in the modern game. He did a fantastic job in his first year at Everton in uniting the fan base, the players and the club. In the end all of the shenanigans behind the scenes which were unprecedented (and this is before the points deductions) were to much for him and and young manager to be fair and the club had no choice but to sound the Dyche Klaxon.
He doesn’t bullshit or talk shite language that confuses the fans (well me anyway). I think he will go onto be a good manager. |
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Reply | Danny Rohl
at 18:27 20 Oct 2025
That won 12 is 8 more than Saints have won in the past year and more.
*legs it* |
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Reply | Maccabi Tel Aviv fans banned...
at 18:12 17 Oct 2025
I can’t understand why Starmer feels the need to get involved and so publicly. If they are allowed to attend and it kicks off, as others have said their recent behaviour in Amsterdam that it likely will, then it’s on Starmer.
As with Kneecap and Glastonbury, the coont can’t help getting involved in things he doesn’t full grasp and he comes across as a cringey tw4t. |
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Reply | England
at 13:58 16 Oct 2025
The players that Tuchel has at his disposal is incredible. There will be loads of very good players who won’t be going to the WC next Summer. There will players are definitely there, it’s just executing a tournament now where they have gone desperately close in the last ten years or so. |
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Reply | Celebrity Traitors
at 13:56 16 Oct 2025
It’s harmless telly. The normal Traitors programme is a good watch. |
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Reply | Survey results as reported in the Times
at 11:05 9 Oct 2025
On a similar note, I saw Yaxley Lennon post online having a go at the establishment for his upcoming court appearance. Whilst rallying his troops he’s cry arsing about being picked on for not having a jury at the magistrates court and having his case being heard by a judge.
Apparently this is a massive stitch up.
But’s simply the law. Magistrates = Judge; Crown Court = Jury.
I’m fairly sure that he knows this, but looking at the comments people have fallen for it. |
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Reply | Survey results as reported in the Times
at 11:21 8 Oct 2025
There is plenty of ‘illegal’ immigration, people who have entered the country on various visas and then overstayed, often working crappy cash in hand jobs such as agricultural roles during harvesting times that farmers would be phucked without.
The ‘illegals’ that people are losing their minds about are technically not illegal as they have have an ongoing asylum case which is a legal process. |
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Reply | Survey results as reported in the Times
at 13:30 7 Oct 2025
From what my colleague told me the refugee camp ‘helpers’ in countries such as Greece and Turkey are working for the gangs. It’s very blatant and as you say it needs a proper team of intel to get on top of it.
People are still going to escape their situations though, it’s perfectly normal to escape persecution, violence etc. Again it should be an international solution not everyone trying to leave it to everyone else and creating an inhumane mess. |
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Reply | Survey results as reported in the Times
at 12:48 7 Oct 2025
The One in, One out is utter nonsense and is up there with the Rwanda for a massive waste of time and money.
I don’t understand how the Smash the Gangs is proving to be so difficult apart from the clear lack of communication and coordination across Europe with other countries.
I have a colleague and a friend who came through the boat route, there were no direct flights from his part of Afghanistan. Members of his family had already been killed and his dad (who has since died) paid smugglers to get him out safely. He was 18 and had no idea where he was going. It took four months to get here and he was passed from smuggler to smuggler en route across several countries staying in some of them for weeks on end. He had no idea that he would end up in the UK and several people that he travelled with were left in Bosnia, Greece, Germany and France. I don’t know how it works, but that’s what the gangs did.
People like him should be spoken to by the authorities to hear about his experience, get intel on what is happening but he has never been approached. They should be throwing the kitchen sink at stopping the gangs, never mind stopping the boats. |
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Reply | Survey results as reported in the Times
at 12:16 7 Oct 2025
I’ve worked at some of his hotels as part of a Home Office contract, offering support to residents when they have received a positive decision.
They are awful, depressing places. Tons of security guards everywhere you look, but barely interested in engaging with the residents. Food is served in an empty former dining room three times a day, if you snooze you lose as it’s first come first served. There are no cooking facilities on site so food is brought in through an outside company and served up soup kitchen style. There are zero leisure facilities despite people claiming they are 4/5 star hotels. Families often share the same room (and don’t complain as they are happy to be there and safe).
I’ve worked in many prisons that have better conditions.
Clearsprings also sub out their contracts to other providers, solely to work in this sector and to cash in on this opportunity. Their profits are also scandalous and an outrageous waste of public money. |
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Reply | Hypocrisy of the highest order or genuine concern?
at 09:08 3 Oct 2025
It would be interesting to see how their policy of mass deportation of people who have claimed ILR since 2020 will effect services such as the NHS and the care industry, where there is already a massive shortage of people.
They don’t appear to have a follow up policy of filling these roles from the huge numbers of NEETs, UC and those who don’t work and have never worked.
It’s almost as though they haven’t got a plan. |
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Reply | Hypothetical Question Play Off Final Saints v Pompey
at 15:20 2 Oct 2025
I went to the Checkatrade final for Pompey v Sunderland a few years ago. At Waterloo on the way home, Pompey fans were really struggling to work out how the trains home worked. One group asked me would the Basingstoke train be going via Fareham.
It made my day! |
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Reply | Hypothetical Question Play Off Final Saints v Pompey
at 09:03 2 Oct 2025
It was completely different back then, that final was post Hillsbrough and there was a sense of one big togetherness.
It really isnt the same now. Anfield derbies are fairly sterile with most Liverpool fans having no recognisable rivalry with Everton fans. Everton fans are kept in afterwards as well which is a bit odd, presumably to let the tourists get home easier. At the same time, the Goodison derbies, the same police force allow Liverpool fans to leave at the same time as blues (as they should).
If there was now a Cup final with the two teams, I wouldnt know what the atmosphere would be like. As fan bases, we are very different. |
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Reply | Isle of Wight Festival 2026 Line-up...
at 08:57 2 Oct 2025
Saw Oasis at Wembley. They were brilliant. Seen them before, but they seemed a lot tighter, more on it. Liam's voice was significantly better than previous times I've seen them.
Richard Ashcroft was also great and it would be good to see him again at some point next summer. It was packed when he played his set and young and old seemed to get well into it. |
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Reply | The New Forest
at 15:19 30 Sep 2025
In laws used to have their boat in the marina there, so know it quiet well. It is a beautiful spot. Apart from the dinner lady sacking Sir Jim's house that is. |
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Reply | The New Forest
at 13:22 30 Sep 2025
The walk from Beaulieu to Bucklers Hard is lovely, park up on the road at the top by the garden centre, cut through the little pass by the school and its lovely country, riverwalks to Bucklers Hard.
Bolderwood is a cracking walk too. |
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Reply | BBC story about feral teenagers in Shirley
at 11:38 25 Sep 2025
More police on the street will just mean more police for the kids to give the run around to.
Instead put the money into boxing clubs, youth clubs, places where they learn different stuff around music and art. Get them to do taster sessions on stuff they don’t do at school.
Sit down and listen to them, get Saints foundation, have people with lived experience speak to them and tell them how mind numbingly dull and utterly shit prison is despite what they might see or hear on TV and social media.
Actually have people who know what they’re talking about try to resolve it and not politians. |
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