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Youth are mortal in the Bodega, indulging in the long lost past time of throwing beer mats around. The locals are obviously looking on with affectionate tender contempt 😆

Beehive 👍

Quayside breakfast with squad member. No biggie. More interesting is who he was dining with

Goooood morning

Nah we’re not in there, we’re in the Leonardo next door

The Shell garage at Tot Hill services is clean out of red stripe

Van turned up, 10 mins up the road one of the youth says hes left his wallet inside Callum 😒

Were still here, waiting for a replacement that’s very likely stuck in traffic due to a crash between Southampton and here 😀

BREAKDOWN UPDATE: head gasket gone

Gooooood morning from Newbury 😀

Brighton fans say Tony Bloom found the talent that they completely mug Chelsea off with. So the question remains, in a football universe where you live or die by the quality of your recruitment, what does Ashworth bring that’s different to any other decent DoF? Has he got extra memory on that laptop or something??..

A DoF as far as I can make out is supposed to be the ultimate football brains of the club. He should hire and fire the first team coach who should be brought in to carry out the DoF’s philosophy on the pitch. First team coaches should be expendable but the philosophy continues due to the long term appointment of the DoF. That used to stop a coach coming in, spending millions on his staff and player choices then leaving after 18 months and a club having to start all over again. A good DoF prevents that scenario. Who’s the club most guilty of that bullshit in the last decade or so?.. A DoF is also responsible for the recruitment team who identify the players required to carry out the philosophy and the development of the youth academy. Hes obviously got to do it within income and FFP constraints so he’s also got to be financially well qualified and astute . Ashworth is going to one of the five biggest clubs on the planet . He’ll do all the above with more cash flow and more FFP wriggle room. In a way it’s a no brainer but it doesn’t reflect particularly well on him . He's supposed to be designing the “NUFC project” which is a bullshit phrase but his leaving shows that the likes of him do see these things in those terms . Maybe Howe has too much clout with the owners and Ashworth feels he can’t do his job properly because Howe wasn’t his appointment. I’ve seen a few names being linked with the job one of which is Richard Hughes who (surprise surprise ) is an ex Bournemouth teammate of EH and was Techinical Director at Bournemouth when Howe was coach there. If he is appointed it’s a full on AFCB coup at NUFC. Maybe that’s why we’re strongly linked with Billing? 🤔🤷🏻‍♂️

Real Sociedad should’ve been at SJP tonight 😏

@Monkeys Fist The Herbaliser btw….thats a blast from the past

fuckin belter that mate… I’ll be sticking to the traditional, tried and tested “Larry from Cameo” get up.. it’s a bit old hat but the now semi-permanent Mrs PL likes it and I hate to disappoint her

You should if you want to though, one infamous poster on here has used it to promote his podcast for the last decade or so free of charge the chancing fuckin freeloader😒 Am fairly sure that’s a recent revaluation then. That book I’ve recommended says it’s a line from a Burns poem

@Alex I thought it was a Burns reference too? 🤷🏻‍♂️

I’ll never forget the first day I saw it… I was maybe 11ish and I thought it had been dropped on to a football pitch from another planet It’s right next to the Gala RFC rugby ground, where we were watching Gala v Kelso but I didn’t watch much of the match I just couldn’t take my eyes off this massive fuckin carbuncle next door..

There’s a book you’d like here, I think QotS feature in it, written by a smoggie who lives in Scotland.. https://www.waterstones.com/book/stramash/daniel-gray//9781906817664?gad_source=1&sv1=affiliate&sv_campaign_id=863943&awc=3787_1707913557_38306248f3b4d0b9d85f98e1df32bfa6&utm_source=863943&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.octer.co.uk%2F

Who’s hallowed Netherdale ground I graced with my presence in my youth 😎 one or two games v John Collins ex Hibs, Celtic, Monaco,Everton, Fulham etc… Wait till you see the stand, it’s a fuckin doozy 😊 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-63426968

They’re Lowland League along with dear old Berwick Rangers nowadays. What you’re looking at there is the Highland League fixtures

❤️ For all TT lovers this valentines lunchtime