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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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Reply | Survey results as reported in the Times
at 15:22 23 Sep 2025
If the government shipped out all asylum seekers on arrival, will the money saved be reallocated to fund other services? I’m not sure, but I doubt it. Will all societies problems be solved? The ‘we want a country back’ seem to think so, but I doubt it.We have millions of people in the UK who don’t work and don’t claim benefits, but do tap into public services, NHS etc and will expect to have some sort of pension when they come to retire. Likewise we have around 1m NEET, and almost 8 million claiming some form of UC, with 1.7 million being unemployed. That’s some shocking stats and it’s hard to see how that can be blamed on asylum seekers, although I do admit that the asylum system is a shambles and has been for years.
I’m not particularly a Labour supporter but what they inherited from the Tories was an absolute mess and they’ve approached it like a rabbit in a headlight in front of a baying crowd.
Some serious cross party grown up conversations need to take place to properly get this country back, back into work, back into industries to create jobs and opportunities.
But I doubt it will happen. |
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Reply | Survey results as reported in the Times
at 13:13 23 Sep 2025
During Covid a lot of homeless people were quite rightly brought into hotels. This was a once in a generation opportunity to help those in need receive support and be given Information, Advice and Guidance to rebuild their lives. Instead once Covid eased up, they were sent back to the streets and back to square one. Barely nobody bat eyelid. In fact here in Southampton, homeless campaigners have often been attacked online by the general public for being do gooders. I’ve no doubt that if and when the immigration problem is resolved or out of the news, people will soon get back onto slating our very own homeless and show a lack of compassion.
This isn’t a dig as you, just the constant ‘we need to look after our own’ shouts they all over social media from people who couldn’t give two phucks about the homeless or veterans that also pull on the social media conscienceness of the masses who wouldn’t give two hoots to the homeless veterans. |
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Reply | Tyler already getting splinters
at 19:35 16 Sep 2025
You forgot to meantime 18th May 2025 when Everton beat Saints 2-0 without them barely getting into Everton’s half and then finished 36 points ahead of them. |
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Reply | Tyler already getting splinters
at 08:33 16 Sep 2025
No he didn’t move for the money. As above he moved to play for a better team, with better players, for a better manager in a better league.
Last season, I wouldn’t have signed for Everton even if they had offered stupid money for him. Similarly a few seasons ago Che Adams was linked to Everton and loads on here were saying why would he sign for Everton over Saints and they had a point. Apart from having being a ‘bigger’ club than Saints, on and off the field Everton were either behind but certainly weren’t ahead of them.
Now is a complete story, new ground, new players, new owners, new optimism.
Everton couldn’t afford to bring a player for the kind of money and have them on the bench. Now they can. It’s not just Dibling, Anan from Bayern, Rolf from Freiburg, Barry from Villarreal. All very young, expensive players who will be brought it gradually and sensibily. It’s all very unlike the Everton of the past ten years. |
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Reply | Tyler already getting splinters
at 19:55 15 Sep 2025
I’m sure who the other players are but the way Moyes looks like setting them up, he’s more likely to get played out wide than McNeill at the moment and Alcarez plays in a more central role.
For the first time in years and years, Everton have got a half decent squad and Dibling will be an important part of that. |
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Reply | Tyler already getting splinters
at 15:55 15 Sep 2025
Five minutes as a sub in the championship probably isnt enough to get up to speed in the premier league. |
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Reply | Tyler already getting splinters
at 15:11 15 Sep 2025
They've only played two games since he signed and he missed a big chunk of pre-season when he was training alone. Also, as I've said before, Everton have a few injuries at the moment meaning a couple of players are playing out of position. I think the long term plan is to play him and Ndiaye out wide and have Grealish behind the striker/playing in the number role with Dewsbury Hall dropping into a more midfield role.
His time will come definitely. |
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Reply | Tyler already getting splinters
at 12:02 15 Sep 2025
He didn’t move for the money, he moved to a much better team, with much better players, with a much better manager and in a higher division. He was never going to go straight into the first team, but his chance will come. In the meantime he’s training and learning from being around some very good players and being coached by a manager with loads of experience as opposed to the first coupe of years in his professional career. |
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Reply | Tyler already getting splinters
at 11:21 14 Sep 2025
His time will come, at the moment they are having to play players out of position due to injuries meaning Dewsbury Hall is playing as a ten with Grealish out wide. I think the long term plan is to have Grealish as a ten with Dibling and Ndiaye out wide. |
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Reply | Danny Murphy
at 13:44 3 Sep 2025
Can we not start a go fund me to help get Murphy his money back?
Anything to keep the smarmy Kopite goblin fist from appearing on MOTD. |
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Reply | What have we become?
at 19:59 31 Aug 2025
Whilst the football was going on yesterday and in the pissing down rain, I completed a ‘Southampton Treasure Hunt’, a Christmas present from my sister who had come down to visit.
It was great (albeit got soaked) going across the city to the various parks, monuments etc.
Southampton has so much history to be proud of and it’s shameful the way that the many councils over the years have neglected that history, especially the waterfront.
There are two Universities with a shedload of students graduating each summer with very few jobs to keep them in the city other than bar work or in a coffee shop. There’s no ambition again from the council to bring in industries and get the city going. It’s as though the council, from all parties, is run like a local parish rather than the international city it should be.
I love the City of Southampton, but it really does need a kick up the arse and start being competitive. |
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Reply | Wetherspoons
at 13:46 30 Aug 2025
As an organisation, Gregg’s show some great responsibility. I volunteered at an emergency winter homeless shelter in town and every night Gregg’s donate tons of their unused stock to them and other similar causes throughout the city. This is replicated across the country too.
Fair do’s.
And as a fully confirmed pie arse, their pasties etc are pretty decent. |
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Reply | Dibling Everton Debut Tonight
at 09:43 28 Aug 2025
Haha, both. As I say it was like a pre season game. He’s only trained once with the team so I doubt we will see much of him until after the international break.
40 million does seem a lot, but as you say time will tell. |
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Reply | Dibling Everton Debut Tonight
at 07:49 28 Aug 2025
It was almost like an extended pre season game, keep hold of the ball and get some minutes.
I thought Dibling did well in that respect. |
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Reply | Does reform = anarchy?
at 15:01 27 Aug 2025
I try not to give Farage much head space to be honest, because I think he’s a self serving opportunist ic grifter (aren’t they all).
However, I just can’t get my head around the thought of him even considering paying the Taliban to take back asylum seekers to Afghanistan. From a humanitarian point of you, I can’t see the Taliban welcoming them back with open arms. But the Taliban aren’t recognised as being a government by the west, Afghanistan no longer has an embassy here. British army personnel have been killed in conflict with them in living memory and now he is proposing that the British tax payer pays for the mess that they have created in the first place.
It’s very messed up. |
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