Hobsons Choice

Use it, Mings. Use it as Fuel to beat these.

WM on DAB

I'm currently Newcastle, came 2nd in the league last year and building a nice young squad that will age into some big potential. Calvin Ramsey, my right back who I bought last year as a reserve, with a view to stepping up as a first teamer this year pulled a Grealish. Two days to go in the transfer window a bid comes in from a team well below me in the league, and when I reject the bid, Ramsey goes ape s**t. Demands to be put on the transfer list. I try to tell him he's in my plans and we're in the Champions League, but he gets hurt that I'm trying to influence his career. Football Manager is the most amazing spreadsheet ever created. Incidentally, I ended up rejecting the bid, put him in the u18's until I sold him intentionally cheaply to a Romanian team. Haha Calvin. Respect my authoritar. Hope you enjoy playing FC Arges Pitesti, b**ch.

Risking countless lives by arming everyone with an trigger finger and half a brain, but won't take a nominal risk resulting from falling debris? In the Pacific northwest which is mostly forest? I just don’t get America.

I've been. They were pretty nice, but if I'm totally honest, the kebabs there are like sanitised versions of doners you get from a chip shop. Slightly less chance of rat anus in the Kebab meat, but also slightly less flavour. Certainly a decent option for food on the go if you don't fancy maccies or KFC though.

Little known fact, balloon based ordnance was responsible during WWII for the deaths of civilians on the US mainland, so this has precedent, and I can see why the US would be peed off. If I'm honest I can see why they've not shot it down, they can extract a lot of embarrassment from the Chinese government. They must be losing face over it.

Bounty Bars are my favourite. There, I said it. Rain down your vitriol on me everyone! It tastes like coconut and it is awesome.

I have kids, I have no idea

Ludlow is my closest town now (we're roughly equidistant from Ludlow and Bewdley). It's a nice place, but for some reason the shops never seem to be open when I go. Food centre is worth a squiz, especially for Christmas gifts, which it is great for. I go there every year. Castle is definitely worth an explore. Bewdley is also a lovely little place. In the summer we go down to the river, get fish and chips from Merchants and walk along the prom. Cleobury, the village I live in now has THE best little brewery. Hobsons beers are epic (get some Town Crier, you will not regret it).

Having tried Street food in Vietnam I can confirm that cat ballsack is delicious.

Penrith and North Norfolk are OK. Agree with the rest though.

Used to live in Walsall. Every time I went to the town centre it seemed full of mentally ill people who desperately needed help, but instead were given special brew and a lottery ticket.

As a native of Dudley I can say with certainty that the last bit is not true. Stoke f***ing wishes it was Dudley. Dudley would rather be York. Unfortunately it is a s**thole (Dudley not York), but we don't want to be Stoke, which is where hope goes to die. And at least we're not Wolverhampton.

Can I just say that I am gutted about Jennie Gow's illness. I listened to the BBC F1 podcast religiously after each race. Hope she's well soon, and it's not taken too much of a toll. GWS!

That just reminds me of Wayne's World 2 when the roadie starts talking about machine gun nests.

Agent Albrighton.

Bertie, you son of a bitch!

Yesssssss!!

Very strange then. My wife refuses to use a dishwasher. We inherited one when we moved out but she'd rather we both wash up for hours at a time. I use the dishwasher.

You sure she was not using the bowl to introduce a little oil to the pots? I know air fryers (I love mine) cut down a lot on oil, but if you want them extra crispy you can coat them in a little oil. The sync thing makes no sense, I agree. On a side note, tell her to get an Instant Pot (combined pressure cooker, rice cooker, everything cooker). It's literally changed my life. I can get real cheap cuts of meat now, and in less than an hour they are falling off the bone.

Me: How much wood could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood? UE: A woodchuck would chuck no amount of wood, cos a woodchuck can't chuck wood. Me: If a woodchuck could chuck wood, and if a woodchuck would chuck wood, how much wood would a woodchuck chuck? UE: 4

Who? Based on current rates this season our squad excluding whatever Jhon can provide would be 16th in terms of goals scored. Either Jhon needs to score, or Ollie and Bailey needs to sort their shit out and start scoring.

And we had another striker. One who scored ca.30% of our goals this season.

The club needs goals. If he doesn't score any, then all of our forward players need to drastically improve their output to maintain our GD, let alone try to catch anyone above us. Like a 30% uplift from everyone over their rates achieved under Gerrard and Emery so far.

Forget next season, the club has put him in a position where he has to hit the ground running. I hope he can. My gut says it's a lot of expectation to put on him given his experience.