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Reply | Who Killed The Magic Of The FA Cup for Southampton
at 13:06 6 Feb 2025
The hard fact is that winning the FA cup gets you £2m in prize money.
In PL terms. petty cash.
When Burnley were relegated after finishing 19th (and I'd give a lot to finish 19th this season), they got £6.2m in prize money.
Why would managers risk league position for the cup when there's a disparity in earnings? |
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Reply | Who Killed The Magic Of The FA Cup for Southampton
at 11:05 6 Feb 2025
The FA Cup was - back when everything was in black and white - a chance for the plucky underdog to upset the ruling class of the big clubs.
Pretty much every match shown in the build ups is about a good little club beating a big club.
And I think that plays into the British mindset. If we have no affiliation in a match our instinct is to support the underdog.
Since 2008 only two (little) clubs have won the competition - Wigan and Leicester. The latter is now arguably a big club as well. Otherwise it's been one of the top 6.
And this year will be the same. We can huff and puff, perhaps beat Burnley, perhaps go a stage further, but eventually we'll run into a big club and because we cannot compete on resource, we will lose.
I see no magic anymore. I see a cynical exercise by the FA to get richer and in the process enrich the top 6 teams. |
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Reply | Top 3 nationalities most likely to have a bounty on Trump
at 10:58 6 Feb 2025
Trump is attending the Super Bowl because he wants to think that 80,000 people are all there to see him.
Unusual move though. Given the number of homicidal whackos and guns in the US, announcing the whereabouts of the president in advance might eb a bit reckless?
I'd add Saudi Arabia to the list.
Trump wants to send a couple of million Palestinians there and for them to pump more oil at cheaper prices. The Saudi ruling families don't have a great record for bearing criticism well. |
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Thread | Will we beat Derby's lowest points record
at 12:11 31 Jan 2025
Article in the Times today but told mainly from the effect that the record low points tally had on the club and players.
Apparently only two of that Derby team ever played in the Premiership again.
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Reply | Are Saints Fans
at 10:23 30 Jan 2025
Personally I've checked out this season in terms of expecting more points - and even we go a gaol up I expect us to lose - but I still love the club and will defend the team whenever I can.
Obviously not easy to endure the ribbing given the season we're having and workmates who support Arsenal, Man U and Liverpool.
still very interested, just waiting for next season. |
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Reply | The Rupert Lowe thread
at 09:00 30 Jan 2025
OK.
I see the thin skinned, defenders of free speech have woken and demonstrated that only one of those descriptions is acceptable.
I post about things I find interesting and in this case with a connection to the club. Clearly in this case, half of those who bothered to read the initial post have issues with the poster rather than the post. That's quite sad but message understood.
I'll voluntarily forgo my right to free speech and attempts to get people thinking for fear of being accused of whatever. |
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Reply | Dibbling on his way to Spurs ?
at 17:46 29 Jan 2025
I worked in B'muff and Poole between 1985 and 1990. A lot of those I worked with supported their local team. I can't say that they were anti Saints at all.
I do remember watching a cup match between us when they beat us at the old Dean Court and promised my colleagues that if they came to The Dell for the second leg, we woudl see matters right.
Except of course we didn't.
I thin it was a draw at our place, so we went out? |
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Thread | The Rupert Lowe thread
at 17:33 29 Jan 2025
Our old mucka Rupert is now of course a Reform MP.
He has come out with some bonkers stuff based on things he seems to have read on websites belong to anti immigration, anti woke, anti everything groups.
That is perhaps the job of politicians - to challenge the status quo.
More recently however he has proposed that the NHS is broken up and instead we are all to be forced to buy our own healthcare.
Apparently the "saving" to the country will be enormous - perhaps enough to build a wall in the English Channel. (I made the last bit up).
Well it's a challenge. |
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Thread | Sovereign citizen scam
at 12:08 29 Jan 2025
I've reported before about the activities of one Iain Clifford Stamp and his "Matrix Freedom" companies which promise - for a fee - to show you how to remove mortgage and credit card debt.
The scam basically works by your claiming that the UK is not a country (it's a company based in a backstreet in London) and therefore none of its rules are binding because it has no "citizens" and even if it did because your birth certificate has your name in capital letters, you are not a citizen.
The law quoted by Stamp/Matrix is a confused, illogical and wholly incorrect interpretation based on US state law which has been debunked in US Courts for at least 50 years.
It's a scam designed to rob you.
Don't get involved.
(We hope to have Stamp in a court room this year on a range of charges way curtail his activities, but he is persistent.) |
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Reply | Le Tissier Bringe Political Protest to St Marys Stadium
at 15:30 28 Jan 2025
SO if employers would have given pay rises (assuming income tax increased and not em'er NIC) why would that have been more affordable?
Wages and tax and not drivers of inflation. They are products of the economy and they get measured in terms of RPI etc, but are not in the arithmetic of inflation.
Recession is a product of more than one quarter of economic stagnation or retardation. etc will be a factor there (higher wages means higher prices) but it is one of thousands of items and on its own not likely to move the dial.
And Council tax is not a tax - it's a duty or impost because it comes from legislation which permits local and not national control. |
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Reply | Le Tissier Bringe Political Protest to St Marys Stadium
at 14:34 28 Jan 2025
Sainsbury's have used the Employer NIC increase as a convenient hook/excuse for getting rid of a business that has been losing money for several years.
Unless you shop in Sainsbury's you're not going to go there for tea/coffee/pastry/breakfast etc. |
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Reply | One for those who know the LOTG
at 13:06 28 Jan 2025
There is some evidence that refs are biased toward "successful" teams, especially when they are playing at home.
Generally however, whilst I think many refs are short of the required standard, bias makes very little difference over a season.
(And we should abandon VAR) |
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Reply | Dibbling on his way to Spurs ?
at 13:03 28 Jan 2025
I'd have thought City is better.
They probably need some rebuilding and an English recruit may help in their CL ambitions?
I know that Dibling is similar in many ways to Grealish but let's be honest, Grealish has been underperforming for at least the last three seasons.
(Never been a fan of his). |
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Reply | Le Tissier Bringe Political Protest to St Marys Stadium
at 13:01 28 Jan 2025
I'm not an economist - I work in tax - so I may not be qualified about macro economic effects but I can speak to the question of the effect of tax increases.
This Gov't has a philosophy of "growth". In seeking to fulfil that, they are skirting dangerously close to the sort of plan Truss wanted to adopt.
A profitable small company employing a few people is facing an increase in employer NIC. On average about 3% of the total payroll bill. (Made up of an increase in headline rate and a lowering of threshold). That 3% qualifies for tax relief at circa 20% so the net effect is a 2.4% increase in payroll costs.
So if the business employed say 5 people at the average wage (around £35k), that's £4,200 a year in additional NIC.
If that business turned over £750k in sales, (I've assumed that is payroll costs x 3 plus £225k for the owners profit), then each sale would need to increase by just over half of one percent.
So something they sold last year for £100, needs to be £100.50 this year.
So it's not these tax increases driving inflation or causing firms to lay people off or putting strain on the benefit system. It's other inflationary pressures such as raw material costs, interest rates, transport charges increased by fuel costs, etc.
Whilst I do not work in the area of small businesses I can appreciate how tough it is out there and I do not doubt that the Gov't (as well as the previous administrations) could and perhaps should adopt some mitigation plans.
We are however seeing the effects of austerity and the consequent under investment in businesses over the past two decades and more which inevitably results in higher running costs now. We also see that failure to take action sooner on those infrastructure projects we love (NHS, road, rail, local Government services) now means that we are funding them from current income (tax).
Much of Europe is in the same boat and US will be if the Orange Felon continues his misguided policies. |
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Reply | Dibbling on his way to Spurs ?
at 10:08 28 Jan 2025
Would be a very odd signing for Spurs.
They are leaking goals and probably about to sack the manager and are more in need of defenders than midfield/strikers.
Plus as is said above, Levy is not going to pay top dollar for an injured teenager who has not done a full season.
I can see KWP going to Spurs though. |
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