@skytv 👋🏻 Any update on when your streaming services might be running normally? Recently moved from @virginmedia but beginning to regret that decision. The ‘puck’ just doesn’t work! It’s terrible.
Need to see the detail, but I think Rachel Reeves has grounds to be cross. The in-year funding pressures do genuinely appear to be greater than could be discerned from outside. The £9bn contingency ‘reserve’ has seemingly been spent several times over. It’s a mess.
@pamsson With two notable exceptions, the whole team is a disaster. I can’t conceive how the starting pitching can be so dominant but then so completely inept. And that the bats can be good but then totally absent….for the third season. Culturally, something in this team is very wrong.
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Boris Johnson today calls Starmer “Sir Keir Schnorrer” (see attached). “Schnorrer” is the Yiddish word for beggar and scrounger. It is pretty offensive. It was part of the lingua franca of my grandparents and of my childhood. I find it unsettling to see Johnson appropriating it to describe someone whose wife is Jewish - and especially when he says “if Schnorrer gets in, he will immediately begin the process of robbing this country of
its new-found independence
and make the UK the punk of the EU”. What do you think? Am I being over sensitive?
Believe me Mick I’m VERY frustrated this week just like the rest of you.
I hate losing but top teams are going to lose 60+ games a year for the most part.
This team will be fine long term this year but this is an ugly stretch we are in this week for sure… there’s cracks showing that I’m not liking and that very much includes my guy Gleyber
There’s so many fans on here that are so quick to criticise our players… at times it’s warranted, I get that but a lot of the time it’s way over top
You all call for guys like Rizzo, Gleyber, Verdugo to get traded but also screamed for Cashman to sign guys like Bennintendi, Bellinger, Chapman, Snell etc. I’ll add all these guys are not performing to start the season.
Just an observation…