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Yep. We'll be paying for two people in the same post, but not the end of the world.

Investigation ongoing.

It sounds like he might have left rather than being sacked. No official announcement yet but some reports that he wasn't happy with things and jacked it.

4 points off the playoffs and they're gonna let the assistant take charge to the end of the season. Madness.

They've just finished building a new ward big enough to measure my knob.

I'm at the Freeman next week. What are the odds of me getting pushed around the corridors by you?

"Ere marra, ah telt yiz three eppeys wasn't garna be eenough."

12 matches in charge. An absolute basket case.

You get holiday, you get sick days and then you get these other days for basically whatever. Say your dog dies or a family member suddenly needs urgent care, whatever. They don't have an upper limit on them and you just need to tell your manager you're taking them.

Nah ours is entirely separate from sick or annual leave. When I worked in America, I had 20 days holiday and then sick time came separately, but lads I knew from other firms had a bank of personal days that EVERYTHING came out of, including sick time. Mental. Americans fucking love work though, they take the most pointless amount of holidays and if someone comes along wanting 2 weeks (me), it's like "Oooo a proper EUROPEAN style vacation."

The place I just moved to as recently as last year implemented a new policy whereby you can just book no-questions-asked time off if you've got something going on in your life. So if something happens to a family member or you need to take time off for your own mental health or anything. You just tell your boss, book it in the system, and off you go. I was amazed, given the way the rest of the country is going.

Yeah Juno Temple was excellent in Fargo S5. And that was a good season. Finished Mr & Mrs Smith at the weekend and thought it was very good. Some more action in the later episodes but the whole series was about the chemistry between the two main characters and they were class.

The most telling comment Howe has made with regards to Hall was when he said "it's up to Lewis". To me that suggests problems with his attitude/application. I imagine Howe's training demands are much harder than anything he's dealt with before.

Aye definitely prone to abuse, but football is so fucking leaky that you'd have to think it would probably get out.

I'd like to see us keep him locked out of transfer activity til summer 2025 tbh. Also I'd make him ask to be excused every time he needs the toilet. That one runs to Jan 2026.

In one of the responses to this he says that he's been told that our negotiating start point is actually north of £20m. Not expecting them to pay that, but it is going to be "a very expensive appointment" for them.

Aye, Brighton aren't the only club in world football that was well run. We'll get someone in and hopefully trouser some cash from Man United. It's definitely not ideal cos the new man will have different ideas/possibly want some people replaced, but that's life.

It's the standers who need to worry about getting their brown butterfly pattern chipped off.

I know the birth rate is meant to be too low in this country so we're headed for an ageing population with not enough people to wipe their arses. Luckily I keep a tight ship back there and I don't see that changing in my twilight years.

True Faith did a live event at the weekend with journos on the panel. Luke Edwards was saying that when Howe was asked how Burn is coping with "the noise" around his recent performances, Howe firstly knew nothing about it and secondly couldn't understand why people were criticising Burn. So aye. Might just be Howe's polite way of saying "I pick the team, I don't listen to anyone else, and especially not the fucking neck-ends that inhabit twitter".

It makes total sense as well when you think about it. This bloke should have the next 3 to 4 transfer windows plotted out for us, so of course we're not about to let him leave and start next month at a rival. I just feel like, much like the attitude on that redcafe forum and on social media, Man United are big timing us with the way that they've handled this so far. Even their journalists, like that Adam Crafton bloke saying that this will get sorted out for much lower sums and much shorter notice periods. Well yeah, the maximum is 20 months or whatever and it's likely we'll come down from that cos that's how negotiating works, but I feel like they all just assume that we're about to dance to their tune. The bloke wants to leave, and they're gonna get their man, but we absolutely have to put a marker down here for the way they've carried on when we've tried to sign one of their players recently. And most importantly, go protect our own interests.

I assume our lot will be fizzing at the way Man United have handled this. Leaking to Ornstein last year that they want the bloke, then taking their time to actually do anything about it. Approaching Ashworth before they've made any official approach to us, all the while causing a destabilising effect on us. I hope so anyway, cos I really hope they're gonna dig their heels in on this. And fuck Ashworth in terms of feeling bad if he has to sit in the house for a couple of years. He signed the contract and he's the one that wants to get out of it after 18 month.

Gardening leave is the dream like, the lucky cunt!