Spartan-rugby World Cup draw already happened we have Wales, Tonga and Zimbabwe in our group then Italy in the next round IF awe win the group then Australia in the QFs which will be tricky as they are hosts

 Best wishes Leigh, losing friends can hit people very hard.

 Day night ashes test. How ruddy ridiculous

 I only said “they”.

 sorry to read this Leigh.

 All the Discord chat merely confirms my previous posts about it - I never joined it, never tried to join it, never wanted to join it, never considered joining it, and never saw anything that was on it, and I’m very glad about all of that… ✅

 Sad news, Meadow - do take care… 😕

 Once again, Trigger, neither the club nor the DTB had this place closed down.

 World cup draw is live on BBC2 at 5pm on Friday.

 I got news this evening that my best friend for over 40 years died today at the age of 64. I named my son after him after him when he told me not to. "If you can't be good, be careful. If you can't be careful, don't name it after me."

 For clarity - the ESG email address is a subdomain of the DTB but their content was omitted from the previous SAR output. My subsequent request was not to repeat the output but to revisit and include all ESG content.

 “We are writing in response to your recent subject access request (SAR). Under the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018, individuals have the right to request access to their personal data. However, the law also allows organisations to refuse or limit a request where it is considered 'manifestly excessive'. After carefully reviewing your request, we consider that it is manifestly excessive. This is because: - We have already provided you with a full response to your SAR’s in December 2024 and August 2025, which included over 1,000 pages of information. - The new request, made in September 2025, repeats substantially the same request for information that was already provided very recently. - Given the scale of the material and the limited resources available (our organisation has only one volunteer handling SARs), complying with the request again so soon would place an unreasonable administrative burden on us. For these reasons, and in line with the guidance of the Information Commissioner’s OYice (ICO), we are refusing to provide another full copy of the same information at this time. However, if you would like to refine your request to cover only new or specific information since our last response, we would be happy to consider this. Alternatively, you have the right to challenge our decision. If you remain unhappy, you may complain directly to the ICO, or you may apply to the courts. Yours sincerely, Angus Fox, on behalf of the board Chair, The Dons Trust“

 RIP guitarist Steve Cropper, 84, of Booker T. and the MG's and the co writer of "Green Onions". He was also in the film, "The Blues Brothers".

 Steve Cropper died tonight

 Pretty shocking really that they actually had this place shut down for a while. Should we really expect some transparency and accountability for that?

 Amen to AIoW and Pads.

 That sounds like a good analysis of the situation, Alan. Luckily we have more balanced, wiser people moderating this place.

 In my view, some attack dogs there got an easy ride, which is fine, but like politics, the best debates come from hearing all side of an argument. Others with anything resembling a challenging view to the message the DT wanted to convey was seen as coming from an enemy. They created sides when in truth, most see things mostly between either extremity, but neither really warranting the upper hand or being bashed for daring to be putting forward a view that goes against the grain.

 It is quite funny that on the one hand they argue that it’s not worth keeping going as it’s used by so few people (and some pesky people dare to post more than twice a day, tut tut!) and on the other complain that it’s a full time job to moderate as you have to look at it 24hrs a day

 Shutting down views (not even dissenting ones) is bang on NickW.

 Nick: plus I think the moderators, despite best intentions didn’t realise or have the experience to make discord a success. Many people have now contributed to a thread (about 150ish posts and counting) saying keep it going (mainly),a few have offered to volunteer, but my feeling is they want to shut it down anyhow.

 I suspect the real reasons for the impending demise of Discord are: (1) as predicted, hardly anyone in the DT membership uses it because it is so heavily moderated as to be of no value (2) the DTB don't actually want to hear dissenting views - moderating Discord to suppress them is a lot of work, so it's easier for them just not to have a forum at all. I never joined Discord and had no intention of doing so, so its demise is a matter of supreme indifference to me. I recognise, therefore, that my views are not based on personal experience and I am happy to be contradicted if my analysis is wrong.

 Hopefully Kai Jennings will play for Sutton in the FA cup Saturday. BBC 2 5.15pm

 TG Jones my arse.

 Remi Moses. Not dead after all - [Link]