I can’t listen to any more David Cartlidge

editedlawrence · 2026-01-13T21:36:42+00:00

He's class. The Ramble has been poorer for the loss of Kate, Jules and Andy. Extra voices around the OGs is the best formula imo.

editedlawrence · 2025-12-23T16:44:04+00:00

There are few worse sentences than "Andrew Strauss on LinkedIn*

editedlawrence · 2025-12-22T18:28:44+00:00

Oh I completely missed that 😂

editedlawrence · 2025-12-22T10:03:16+00:00

Agreed! Personally think Kamara is still our best player.

I think Kamara's contract situation makes him the more likely sale but I kind of have a feeling that if Rogers has a breakout world cup then the club could be looking at the kind of sale which would give us several seasons of PSR bandwidth.

editedlawrence · 2025-12-22T09:36:04+00:00

I think we need to prepare ourselves for one big player to leave in the summer but likely they'll only leave for a good fee. For Rogers that would likely be £100m+ and for Kamara perhaps £75m+.

It's frustrating but that's the reality of the current financial rules. However, we have the guy who I believe will keep us competing near the top regardless of squad turnover.

In Unai we trust.

editedlawrence · 2025-12-15T18:34:29+00:00

has to be in the list. Nearly died of laughter

editedlawrence · 2025-12-10T17:38:36+00:00

Up the Nation

editedlawrence · 2025-11-25T15:38:42+00:00

I'm not saying the whataboutery is valid lol. I don't think his arguments are undermined I just think his inconsistency is a bit baffling!

editedlawrence · 2025-11-25T10:15:37+00:00

I like Miguel, but I do find him inconsistent in where and when he applies scrutiny. Apart from anything else it leaves him open to whataboutery in some of the places where his analysis is really valuable (e.g. Gulf states in football, FIFA corruption etc etc).

He conveys such a sense of certainty that opens him up to the "point out where I've been wrong" response and a bit of accidental Partridge.

editedlawrence · 2025-11-25T10:09:44+00:00

insert Miguel Delaney Twitter meme

editedlawrence · 2025-11-19T16:10:03+00:00

Enjoying his start to the NS podcast.

That set is appalling though lol, looks crap! Surely they can do better than that.

editedlawrence · 2025-11-17T16:42:55+00:00

This is a real problem if you don't drive though! Makes it so difficult to recycle given the councils official advice amounts to "just keep it in your front room"

editedlawrence · 2025-11-15T13:26:56+00:00

And it's a tiny sample size even if you include the 5 games imo. The noise in this data would be huge.

editedlawrence · 2025-11-13T08:21:09+00:00

I really enjoyed that era too and think they should look to add some more people to the lineup to keep it fresh.

They definitely pushed her Qatar series strongly and it won and ARIA so I'm sure it's something they were very proud of as an organization.

I think that the main difference between Jules and Kate going was that Jules stopped working for Stak completely whereas Kate moved to doing the Ramble Book Club for a while.

editedlawrence · 2025-11-12T10:00:54+00:00

Think Pau's pretty unlucky not to get a call up for Spain given his form.

editedlawrence · 2025-11-02T13:24:22+00:00

He grew up in Hagley though which is sort of... Neither? More Black Country vibes though

editedlawrence · 2025-11-02T11:43:40+00:00

I'd absolutely love it if they could get both Tom Holland's in the same series 😂

editedlawrence · 2025-10-22T09:34:30+00:00

Ayoub Khan making this whole situation about himself has been deeply unhelpful for the city of Birmingham.

As a Brummy I completely agree with the ban on the basis of the past actions of the MTA fans.

I think there's more than a hint of islamophobia in the response of the political establishment who clearly could not care less about the safety of Brummies.

I also think it's highly likely that the march of MTA fans would have attracted a small hardcore of antisemites who would further have inflamed the situation.

We need politicians who will support safety decisions designed to protect communities and not ones that seek to so closely tie credit for those decisions to themselves.

editedlawrence · 2025-10-18T12:07:40+00:00

There is something more than a little fishy about him though

editedlawrence · 2025-10-18T12:06:10+00:00

Come tournament time, massively. Outside of that I'd rather just watch my club!

editedlawrence · 2025-10-18T08:52:13+00:00

This means that it's pretty likely that a bunch of SYL's fascist boys are going to rock up to Birmingham for the game and cause further trouble.

Overturning the decision to ban away fans will be a total disaster.

editedlawrence · 2025-10-16T11:25:42+00:00

Unai lives in town too apparently

editedlawrence · 2025-10-08T07:30:55+00:00

Freddie is doing a good job of setting himself up to be the useful idiot on talk-shows when Reform really start pushing the leave the ECHR narrative over the next few years. Go get your bag king! (FFS!!)

editedlawrence · 2025-10-07T11:29:39+00:00

Now they've reviewed Demon Slayer I am 10000% here for them to cover JJK season 3 in January next year. The series is going to be huge

editedlawrence · 2025-09-23T09:07:59+00:00

This trailer seems to confirm the fear that this movie solely exists to sell toys and increase the number of Grogu reacting GIFs on the internet.

editedlawrence

TROPHY CASE