Me neither, and the fact we had to add in the rest of Europe to even come close to America too.

Back to rugby I do enjoy the Six nations, but could never really understand why it is played mid season. Surely the time to play it would have been now?

It's far too hot.

As disappointed as I (and I presume many other fans) was when both McGowan and Pinnock turned down contracts and Dyche appears to want to hedge his bets I do think that this means Nolan has a fairly strong hand in the loan market in that he can offer League One football and plenty of it. A wealthier club may not need loans and may not give any they take much of a look in.

Fosu - not worth the effort.

Is guest3732 Doctor Who ? Hopefully he'll morph back into one of the more interesting earlier versions.

Nolan must rate him. not least because he's managed him and presumably kept tabs on him. In a sense , I'm more surprised by his clear confidence in Burge as his No 1.

Just in case anyone's interested;

When does the 2025/26 season get underway?

The 2025/26 season will kick off over the weekends of 1-3 August in League One and League Two and 8-10 August in the Championship.

The scheduled 46 rounds of League matches will take place across 33 weekends, nine midweeks and four Bank Holidays in the Championship, with Leagues One and Two playing over 33 weekends, five midweeks and eight Bank Holidays and International Breaks.


June 26th is Fixture announcement date.


When will the Carabao Cup and Vertu Trophy draws be made?

Fixture Release Day will also incorporate the draws for Round One of the Carabao Cup and the Vertu Trophy Group Stage, which will both take place live on Sky Sports News.

The Vertu Trophy Group Stage Draw will take place at 2:30pm, followed by the Carabao Cup Round One Draw at 4:30pm.

Let’s hope Sky are impressed on Wednesday evening.

What could possibly go wrong !

3 wins on the bounce. Excellent last over from Sanderson conceding only 2 runs from his first 5 balls to seal the win.

Where would we be without Sanderson ? His bowling last night was class. Plaudits to Willey (batting, bowling and fielding) and Bopara. There were some shockers as well. Pope's second over !

I thought our fielding this afternoon was a marked improvement on some of the performances last season. Proctor's drop in the outfield was at least partly explained (a fellow supporter told me) by fielding with a broken finger.

Leicestershire T20 - June 1st

That was a low scoring nail biter. A greenish wicket favouring seam bowlers. Bartlett (getting his runs in quick time) and Bopara key to steering the team to the win. Both Sanderson and Willey bowled really well.

469 All Out. A very decent total in the end.

Watching the Test Match, two things;

1) The Trent Bridge outfield is in a terrible state especially for this time of the year.

2) Even the Zimbabwe backing commentators don't think their own team are good enough for this level. Credit to Ben Curran for reviving his career but he couldn't keep his place in a modest Northants side of his time with us.

Gloucestershire at Home. We win the Toss and Bat.

77-4 as we speak. No change there.

I think it carries a lot of negative connotations after it's previous usage,  I.e what they did to Alan Turing.

You certainly hit the back of it with what I was thinking.

Regarding politicians;

When I read Economics at Newcastle University, there were about 3 times as many reading Economics & Politics and there were about 4 times as many reading Economics & Accountancy). 35 students were in my cohort at the beginning of the degree and 30 completed it (one was escorted out of the Examination Centre during Finals holding one of the standard texts under his arm - caught cheating).

The Politics students were always the most involved in Seminars, arguing about everything, attending Demos (remember Barclays Bank & South Africa ?), living the life, failing to return copies of the most significant articles in Journals (the Internet was decades away) - Milton Friedman (leading light of the Chicago School of Economics) on Monetarism was something of a pantomime villain to the invariably left leaning Politics mob. The Accountancy students were the most studious and quietest during discussions.

Conclusion - Politics is for the endlessly argumentative. Life is much more fun if you follow your interests - Music, History, Golf, Football, Fishing, whatever. Something you enjoy.

This gay man is worried can't lie.
But never mind they have refused diversity training.
As for the flag thing... their statement now disallows them from flying the Saints flag from council buildings if they win tomorrow.

And the very name of the party (for party read LTD company).
Just what are they going to reform?

I'd have thought a number of the Independent MPs would cause you more concern. Doesn't Labour considering chemical castration worry you ? - that has some uncomfortable historical references.

With regard to Chagos;

My concern goes further. What else does this government have in mind ? It's like playing for a team where you know some of your own colleagues are actively conspiring against the team.

Globalism is harming this country big time.

and he's already admitted his guilt. Ignorance is not a defence etc.

He's a Starman now. A Hero for ever and ever.

The current series of Dr Who is entertaining, especially the cameos from Eastenders Angie.

Viewing figures have collapsed. You must be the One.

I’m watching that, ep8 has just come out and I can’t turn the audio description off.

FEIW I've had the identical problem in the past and found that I was only able to switch it off by switching to another site (e.g. NOW tv to Prime Video) and switching off audio description there. It's as if they haven't set up the Settings or Options on one of the site's properly. From memory the issue was eventually corrected and I remember thinking "got it sorted now have we".

A better effort in the 2nd Innings but still a heavy defeat. We could be bottom tomorrow evening.