Gemmill

Aye that's him, fuck knows why I decided he was from Norwich.

I've heard you speak like you've got Highland Toffee stuck to the roof of your mouth too. Very exotic.

We've just signed another keeper from Norwich. It's like FM when you put a load of bids in and forget to cancel them.

Sounds like we think so, but won't know for certain til Jan next year.

That we would be what?! You know what helps improve your writing? Reading.

I think England will get pumped by Switzerland if he goes in with the same team. The Swiss looked like a well-drilled club side vs Italy and England look like a Soccer Aid rabble that have never met and have just been thrown together by a celebrity manager.

Nice to have a genuine Scottish person posting on here BTW, instead of just the three lads that watched Braveheart and started saying wee instead of little. You know who you are!

Only if you want to be informed. I appreciate that doesn't tend to be your style. 😎

Aye totally. It's the idiotic rules that are to blame though. The sooner we can get ourselves to a position where we can comfortably operate without falling foul of them, the better. But we wouldn't have made anything like the progress we have if we hadn't taken the risks that have put us the wrong side of them.

Waugh's article suggests that we still can't be entirely sure we're OK on PSR because of the questions around what are allowable expenses etc. So I guess it's possible that Ashworth was done to help out. All I'm saying is that Edwards won't know one way or the other. He'll lump them together to make his next article easier to write.

We're looking for you to screenshot it over here. You can't see it if you're not a registered LOSER.

It was like that with Labour colours at the start of the weekend. They'll take anyone's money.

It sounds like it was DCL's wage demands that scuppered his move here, the cheeky permanently injured clown.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5599305/2024/07/01/newcastle-psr-player-sales?source=user-shared-article We were over £50m short on PSR according to this article by Waugh. At over 150% of the allowable loss, I'm not sure a 10 point deduction sounds all that daft. We would have had very little to argue in terms of mitigation. Worth reading the article though.

Edwards won't have a clue. He's just lumping it in with the other deals for convenience.

I reckon it'll probably be about £5m. I think it's a mistake that we've allowed him to start there for this window, particularly given we don't yet have a replacement. But I hope he's an absolute disaster there. He'll be there long term, you'd think, so Man United will be the first club that actually find out whether he's any good at his job.

The thing that makes me think he might turn out good is that he's gone to Brighton. When he was going to Everton, I was confident he'd turn out shit and find himself playing in the Championship sometime soon.

Welcome on board mate. 👍

Going all out for this LOTO.

Not if Labour have lost some votes to Reform, might cost them the odd seat in the Red Wall or something like that. I'd love to see the Tories obliterated to the extent that Davey is LOTO, but it just seems too much to hope for.

Ratcliffe has got his rat.

Right, so the second round of voting is expected to result in a load of three way runoff, possibly in as man as 315 of the 577 seats. This would be between Le Pen, the far left party, and Macron's party. So Macron and the far left could either stand down candidates in the run-offs, or encourage their voters to side with the other lot to block Le Pen from achieving a majority. Loads of caveats cos the two parties that are now being expected to work together actually despise one another, AND it's actually the far left and not Macron's lot that came second in the first round, and are therefore in the ascendancy. So they might just think, actually we'll take our 160+ seats that we're projected to win, and just let this play out without any deals.

https://open.substack.com/pub/dividinglines/p/into-injury-time?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=172gw This is decent. Dismantled a Tory broadcast where they tried to link the current choice facing voters to football..... and failed spectacularly.

I think there might be some Con 19 - > Labour switchers who switch to Reform at the last minute. I follow all the gimps who delve into the data tables when polls come out, and so far the vast majority of the drop in the Tory vote share has gone to reform, and the vast majority of the drop in Labour vote share is being attributed to tactical voting. But the last couple of days they've started second guessing themselves and wondering about Lab to Reform - they reckon it's small, but it might be there. We'll know soon enough!

I reckon if there's gonna be a surprise of the night, it might be that Reform end up with a higher vote share than we're all expecting. I don't think it'll do much for them in terms of seats, but if there's Russian money pushing them in certain parts of the Internet that we won't see, I wouldn't be surprised if there's a bit of a Brexit effect where there's a last minute bloat in their vote.