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I follow a lot of African football accounts on social media and culturally there’s a lot of ‘the real ones stay with you’, ‘support those who support you’, ‘look after your mother’ etc type of messages like this.

Seems more just a ‘we can bounce back’ post.

Does he know who we are?

There were a lot at the time banging on about how we had such a decent squad to be comfortably above relegation and just being competitive (more than we are now anyway) wasn’t enough. The board obviously agreed with that. We were still above the relegation zone at the time, so

With this club? What do you think? We’d have had about 20 social media posts on how good a job’s been done that Steve has been found.

I think the worst thing at the moment is I don’t really give a shit about next season. It somehow feels that even if we win the league without conceding a goal, it’d still be shite.

35% according to the Percy article he’s been sitting on waiting to press publish on.

The one thing in our favour in getting rid of a lot is (astonishingly) the likes of Faes and Vestergaard are still in contention for their national sides ahead of a World Cup. That might entice them to leave for a lower wage than normal. If we don’t get rid of them this season I doubt we would until the contracts runs out.

Even if it does rain all day tomorrow, to out bat and completely out bowl the favourites for the league bodes well for the season. Those last seven overs were brilliant to watch.

Blimey, the best sports team in Leicestershire at the minute.

Not said this for months, but well played lads. (I know it’s not going to last.)

Liverpool reckon they won’t miss TAA because they’ve got Conor Bradley? Mavididi’s destroying him at the minute.

Been wondering if any managers would just outright call us shite. This is probably as close as we’re going to get, especially when TAA gets 45 mins.

He was definitely among the most wanted alongside Moyes.

I hope you’re right but the same could probably have been said in Germany in the 1930s and without delving into the whole history of transphobia/ homophobia, I’m sure many other times.

I tend to stay out too as I have no idea why people get so worked up about it, but why is it ridiculous? History tells us pretty much every minority group that’s blamed for ills in society (Jews most famously, illegal immigrants etc) ends up concentrated in camps.

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/palestinian-photojournalist-annes-documentary-killed-gaza/ A 23-year-old Palestinian photographer, who is the feature of a documentary about her work in Gaza, had her house bombed just hours after it was announced it would be part of the Cannes film festival. She and nine family members, including a pregnant sister, all murdered.

At least you didn’t burn him. Not sure I could take the sight of his face melting. 🫠

Out of interest, is he still there?

The £650m they’ve put in probably had more of an effect to be honest. They’re not relegation fodder because since the takeover in 2021 they’ve spent a lot of money. Yes they’ve invested wisely, better than Chelsea and Man U (it’s not hard) but it’s still much easier to do with a transfer kitty of the size they had. They partly avoided relegation because they bought Chris Wood off Burnley for an offer the Clarets couldn’t refuse and offered enough money to Kieran Trippier to swap the Champions League for a side in the bottom three. They were also able to make long term investments by offering big money to some of the hottest prospects in Europe such as Tonali who is on £210k a week. That’s one of the investments that’s paying off now, but how you paying those wages?

Bit touchy ain’t we? What I’m reading here is money doesn’t always buy success, unless it does. Which it has with Newcastle….. if you define one League Cup as success.

Is this a wind up? A sustainable model is get the richest owners in football, spend about £400m in four years and have a wage bill that is about 30 per cent higher than our already higher than turnover setup?

At work and can’t listen, but is Ahmed injured and that’s why Kimber is bowling?

Who said he couldn’t score?

It may be that the umpires told Derbys to bowls the spinners because of the light. If that is what happened and we declared we’d have to give the new ball to Ahmed and Kimber. It could be just being cautious though. Declaring overnight they’d still need less than four an over, when every team’s gone at a fair bit quicker than that throughout the match.