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Reply | January Transfer Thread
at 18:54 20 Jan 2025
Looking at other transfer business, I see that Burnley have signed JJ Shelvey. Did we miss a trick?  |
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Reply | January Transfer Thread
at 18:51 20 Jan 2025
We seem to use "triangles" more when we try to break the press in our own half than we do in attacking positions. In attack it often doesn't work because our technical ability isn't quite there. Of course, even in our own half our limitations with the tactic has led to more than the odd goal. |
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Reply | Anthony Fauci pardoned
at 18:28 20 Jan 2025
The really controversial pardons came in the last half hour of Biden's term.
https://news.sky.com/story/joe-biden-pardons-public-servants-to-guard-against-po
The interesting question here is whether accepting such a pre-emptive pardon is a tacit admission of guilt. The 1915 U.S. Supreme Court judgement in Burdick v. United States suggested it is, but more recently this has been questioned by lower courts, who say that it may be a way to protect the innocent from capricious proceedings. |
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Reply | Azeem Abdulai
at 09:39 20 Jan 2025
Re skill-set and the idea that Abdulai disappointed because he was played out of position, I am a sceptic. The things that have struck me are not just inability to beat a man and his repeated backward passes, but poor technical ability when it comes to the accuracy of passes and screening the ball to retain possession. As far as I can remember, Azeem scored with one easy chance, but was not clinical when he missed a couple of other chances. So for me, he is no great loss. |
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Reply | Winter fuel allowance
at 03:43 19 Jan 2025
Moving to a genuine pension fund would in a way resurrect the original Beveridge vision of a welfare state based on a Bismarckian social insurance model. If the fund is financed by employment-based contributions related to income rather than tax funding, there can still be a redistributive principle, but the pension would clearly be an entitlement rather than a benefit. Ironically (for Welsh people), we would then be moving away from what Nye Bevan preferred and getting closer to certain current European arrangements. I suppose you could say that central state-administered, tax-funded pensions work well enough when people follow the rules and a majority work through most of their adult lives, but start to creak when too many opt for a benefits-funded, non-work lifestyle or game the system. [Post edited 19 Jan 12:35]
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Reply | Oldham grooming gangs: Government blocks national inquiry
at 17:49 18 Jan 2025
One thing I hadn't really picked up before now is that the UK rape gang phenomenon is stirring up international interest. One might say that the obfuscation and inaction of the British authorities has given ammunition to right-wing critics of immigration elsewhere. In saying that I do not imply they are wrong in using that ammunition, but just that British political correctness did not so much win hearts and minds as push many in the opposite direction. I went on X to see what Musk was saying, and discovered that the UK gangs are a hot topic in Spain, as reflected in a recent video produced by the Vox political party. The thread at the link below illustrates the way opinion may be moving.
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Reply | January Transfer Thread
at 17:02 18 Jan 2025
Another central defender on the move is Tristan Crama who has reportedly just been signed by Millwall from Brentford. He had been on loan at Exeter, where he had done well this season. I guess he was one we could have considered. |
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Reply | Cardiff City v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 14:28 18 Jan 2025
Deeply depressing today. Shambolic defence, unimaginative midfield, two wingers who cannot beat a man, and anonymous strikers. I don't think we would have scored if we had played until midnight. This is probably the most comprehensive derby defeat I can remember. Biggest loss against Cardiff for 60 years. We are going backwards rather than progressing. |
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Reply | Cardiff City v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 13:42 18 Jan 2025
Not impressed with the inside knowledge of the Sky commentary team. 100 years of hostile rivalry? Only hostile since the 1960s really. Key in great form? Nice to have the derby and some of our players bigged up, but more homework was in order. |
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Reply | Oldham grooming gangs: Government blocks national inquiry
at 08:24 18 Jan 2025
Some welcome, if belated, action. However, the fact that two of the three sentenced offenders managed to flee the country and escape prison as the case proceeded, hardly indicates a well-oiled justice system. The system seems to have been notably more effective in jailing the far-right internet offender mentioned in Gwyn's link. That low-life fully deserves what he got, but I'd say he has been rather less productive in terms of number of victims suffering severe harm compared with the rape gang offenders. |
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