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 Osborne again, on 25 May 2024 - 02:03 PM, said:

The only thing Rooney will do with time at Plymouth is make his successors job impossible with the position he?s left them in.

Rooney effectively relegated Birmingham from a playoff position. They were going great under John Eustace and were in absolute free fall when Rooney left.

He is a woeful appointment, IMO.

He failed at DC United too. With the players he signed the playoffs were a must and he missed out on them.

The only success he had was in a nothing-to-lose spell at Derby where nothing was expected of him as it was a backs to the wall fight for a club in dire straits and, by all accounts, it was actually Liam Rosenior that was coaching and managing the team.

I hope I?m wrong as I quite like Plymouth.

 Mr Mercury, on 25 May 2024 - 07:12 AM, said:

That?s the problem. Labour have not got a clue. Other than not being the Tories, they?ve got nothing whatsoever.

Someone recently said voting Labour in the GE is like changing your shirt when you?ve just $h!t yourself.

 isleaiw1, on 24 May 2024 - 09:17 AM, said:

You mean like Starmers plan to control immigration by smashing the organised crime groups smuggling folk into the country?
All done by teatime and back for tea and medals.

Can?t believe no one else thought of that straightforward solution.

Sunak is woeful and his days are obviously numbered.

However, whether folk agree or disagree with his Rwanda plan, and whether the left like it or not there will be large swathes of the UK population that do agree with it, it?s actually an attempt to press forward with something decisive. It is highly controversial and the only way it could actually be judged in its numerical success would be over time, which it won?t have.

Starmer has said he will bin it immediately and set up a border force to smash these gangs at source. Easy as that.

Anyone else fear his actual response will be a lot of fannying about and blaming the Tories for what?s gone before, rather than take any positive action?

I won?t be voting Tory. Horrible bunch and proven themselves wholly untrustworthy.

But Labour under Starmer?

I?m not sure what?s worse, attempting something decisive yet controversial or failing to offer any structure and plan as to how these magical results are going to be achieved.

I was reading the other day that over the past couple of years Labours support hasn?t actually increased. The Tory support has fallen through the floor.

There are millions of Tory voters that, at this time, simply aren?t casting their vote. They are so disillusioned with the Tories but wholly underwhelmed by Labour.

Where will they go at the ballot box?

Starmers got a huge chance and it would be nothing short of a complete political embarrassment if he doesn?t become the next PM but I think he has a hell of a lot of work to do over the next few weeks.

Time will tell.

So Prem clubs vote for scrapping FA Cup replays because of the increased workload on their players, or some similar crock, but it?s ok for Newcastle and Spurs to play meaningless friendlies in Australia three weeks before the Euros start.

With Trippier limping off after half an hour.

You couldn?t make it up.

I?m perhaps on my own but I?m not sure Freckleton is the answer to anything.

I?ve seen nothing to suggest he could strengthen the CB position, and it?s most definitely a position that needs improving not padding out with numbers.

And the suggestion he can fill in at LB is worrying, IMO. He?s not a LB in a million years and to have him covering there at all would see us vulnerable.

I?ve got nothing against the lad but I don?t feel he?s the answer.