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Good that our first game isn't until the Monday. Gives us a few more days to find a manager.

I think you'll find it is. Sun is shining and the mood seems right. Announcement 4pm.

Does this mean it looks unlikely that OGS will be coming?

Not just stabby, but also a trend of resorting to extreme violence with very little value on human life, for minor things. It's messed up.

Just because he works in a circus, doesn't make him a clown!

I don't think anyone would suggest that parents should be held directly responsible for their child's crime BUT it shouldn't be lost that being a parent is one of THE most important roles in society, and bring children up to be law abiding, functional people in society should be taken seriously. Most parents do a decent enough job, but, like in any job, you get some who are bad at it, some who are plain lazy and some who are just not interested. If your child starts coming to the continual notice of law enforcement, there should be some consequence - mandatory parenting lessons, supervision, specific tasks and so on. Make it optional if you like, but failure to engage carries some sort of consequence if your child goes on to commit a serious crime. I'm not supporting the idea that a parent can be held responsible for a single, horrific act - that's nuts. But these kids who glorify and carry knives (and perhaps older siblings) and cause anti social problems in their community can and should be put on a different path. The parents have a huge role to play in that and should be helped to do so, with the caveat that if they don't try, then they have to share some responsibility.

I think it's becoming clear that it is us who are waiting for the Man U decision. Ten Hag incoming I think.

Will there ever be a person who can swim faster than a shark? If you ate yourself, would you be twice as big or disappear completely?

I'm no cricket fan, but I had no idea the US had a cricket team. I had to read the article twice. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/cv22me263jmo

The irony being that Man Utd could be one of the teams that could buy up those players, despite being nearly £1,000,000,000 in debt.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5115e7k2eno Not sure where to start with this. I hope the parents are located very soon.

On balance I do. If you look at the last decade I think they've got most of the managerial appointments right, probably most of the players have been fine (most clubs are hit and miss with their signings). For me, the mistake they did make, and it was a whopper, was that they bought into Brand Brendan way too much. The players signed with Brendan have been largely doggo, the end of season capitulations were an embarrassment. The board should have pulled the trigger on Brendan months earlier, if they had I'm sure we'd be in a very different situation now. Instead, we're still licking our wounds and the scars will last for a few more years yet.

The term legends is quite subjective. I quite like the idea of a hall of fame. The club can quite easily set a high bar for inductees into the hall of fame - appearances/goals/outstanding achievement etc... then the conversation about legends becomes a bit easier and it's a proper tangible recognition of a player (or manager's) contribution to the club.

I agree. Stop posing for staged photo opportunities and just get on with explaining how you intend to actually do the serious job of running the country.

Yeah and Rudkin went home early, switched off his phone and started a lovely long bank holiday weekend. He'll be back in the office tomorrow morning and find out that we don't have a manager!