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Reply | AFC Wimbledon cashing in during the week
at 12:59 24 Sep 2024
They get to keep 45% of the gate receipts as the away team in the league cup, so the switch to newcastle may pay for the work on the ground that was opened on the 3 Dec 2020. |
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Reply | NFL is back
at 12:13 13 Sep 2024
TT could have a word with Chris Borland the 49ers LB who, after researching the effects of CTE, retired from the sport after one season. He chose not to live for the now but to live for the future. |
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Reply | Paul Waugh
at 11:47 11 Sep 2024
I agree on the point on local government and given the fact that a fair few councils (100+), without financial intervention, will be going off a cliff in just over 2 years’ time. There needs to be a massive re-think of what people want from local government.
In order to improve, the following needs to happen:
• get social services the hell out of there, it is not a council function it is an NHS function.
• Merge the District Councils (tier 2) with the county Councils (tier 1) to create Unitary Councils i.e. Hertfordshire has 10 District Councils and 1 County, merge them into 2 Unitary Councils.
• Service provision re-calibration – Manchester has 10 Metropolitan Councils with each having their own department that could easily be merged or have one lead provider i.e. payroll could be administered for all 10 by 2 Councils, Business rates could be provided by one for all 10, same with Council Tax. This is the big win here, redeploy the excess to shore up other departments.
• Dispense with the grand initiatives of making it the Borough of choice for employers etc and just focus on delivering the basic services.
• Council tax rises are like state pension increases, there will be one every year. |
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Reply | Paul Waugh
at 20:04 10 Sep 2024
careful it's a controversial topic but say it as it is.
Is everyone in life going through it without proper fiscal/pensions planning?
The pensioners have had money thrown at them over the last decade and always get a good increase with their triple lock – 10.1% increase in 2022 and 6.7% increase in 2023 when the rest of the workforce were not in receipt of increases anywhere near that. This is the only group that the government has focused on since 2011.
It’s the young I feel for who the government has thrown under the bus – under schooled due to covid, those that go to uni get to pay 6% a year on fees for the next 40 years and at the weekend all those in jobs get to look at houses they will never be able to afford. You enjoy your avocado on toast!
As for benefits, a re-introduction of the 2 strike rule, send them for 2 jobs that they suddenly don’t either don’t feel inspired by or it really is not them and then cancel their benefits for the next 6 months.
In general I feel there is far too much reliance on the state and a distinct lack of people taking personal financial responsibility, which has to change. |
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Reply | Gateshead
at 11:00 28 Aug 2024
No until they resolve the issue of being able to meet the 10 year security of tenure on the gateshead international stadium.
Stadium costs the Council £860k a year. |
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Reply | Demonstrations outside Rochdale Police Station
at 16:10 8 Aug 2024
assault on an emergency worker will be automatic 2 years, the sentences will range between months and 5 years I would expect. Then you will lose your job on top, as a few have done.
Best bit, plead not guilty and you get remanded until crown court date becomes free. I'm guessing that few will have been to prison before and so they will get to tick that of their bucket list as well. |
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Reply | New kit?
at 22:01 31 Jul 2024
If cr*p home shirts were an art form, this is their mona lisa! |
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Reply | Final
at 15:18 17 Jul 2024
Pickford kept 2 clean sheets but it was his passing that was the issue:
short passes 22/22
medium passes - 142/142
long passes - 61/130 - key stat
The poor long pass completion repeatedly led to england surrendering possession in midfield and having to work to get it back.
Southgate is not the first to attempt to pass through a spanish world class midfield, others have tried and failed most notably Ferguson against Barcelona where they owned Man Utd in the 2 CL finals. Spanish teams, national/club, have not lost a final in the past 27 attempts. You have to go back to 2001 Bayern Munich v Valencia to find one that had lost. |
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Reply | Final
at 13:40 16 Jul 2024
Probably play wingers and not try to pass through a world class midfield. |
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Reply | Southgate resigns
at 13:15 16 Jul 2024
Gary O'neil at Wolves because he had to work with the squad he had due to FFP/PSR and did really well.
Howe has always had money wherever he has been. |
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Reply | Final
at 09:48 15 Jul 2024
Same s**t, different tournament!
Hopefully the new manager may think, that Palmer chap isn't that bad and we seem to be more attacking when he is on the pitch. Should I start with him?
I would keep Southgate around just for the draw, as he definitely gets the jammiest draws of all time. Good in the fact we can get to a final not playing one of the favourites, bad because when we get to the final we have not faced that level of opposition.
Well Spain look good for the world cup, especially with that midfield. |
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Reply | Final
at 16:55 11 Jul 2024
Think final will be close as Spain's defence isn't all that and Moratta is is capable of missing absolute sitters, if he plays. But the midfield is world class and the wingers are not too shabby as well.
No wonder PSG have lodged 250m euro bid for Yamal.
Hopefully start with Shaw but cannot see him making any other changes subject to injury. |
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Reply | Paul Waugh
at 09:45 6 Jul 2024
Also there is a massive need to tell people that you won't own your own home, instill rent caps and hello generation rent.
The prediction for the next 5 years is a slowdown in the price increases up to 2025 and 2025/26 expect 7% increases. Unfortunately wages will not increase by the same percentage points.
Also dispense with right to buy, otherwise there is no social housing coming in the next 5 as Councils will stop the funding. Andy Burnham has called for it to be scrapped to address the housing crisis in Manchester. Plus if you are in there, you are in for a reason and if you can afford it then go and buy in the market and free up the property for someone who needs it. |
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Reply | Paul Waugh
at 12:19 5 Jul 2024
Definitely,
Labour won 2/3 of the seats with 1/3 of the vote. |
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Reply | Paul Waugh
at 10:47 5 Jul 2024
That would be the red tape that we were warned about, an arrangement which we were quite happy with when we were in the EU.
I believe it is just in our and not the remainder of the EU’s interests to reduce the barriers to trade and how exactly will they be reduced?
Talking of punitive measures did you know that there are 197 countries that have import tariffs.
I am also geologically positive that we were part of the rest of the world whilst we were in the EU. |
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Reply | Paul Waugh
at 09:54 5 Jul 2024
It’s not exactly been a rip-roaring success though, from the Cambridge Econometrics report published in January 2024:
The average Briton was nearly £2,000 worse off in 2023, while the average Londoner was nearly £3,400 worse off last year as a result of Brexit.
London has 290,000 fewer jobs than if Brexit had not taken place, with half the total two million job losses nationwide coming in the financial services and construction sectors.
The economic damage is only going to get worse – with more than £300bn set to be wiped off the value of the UK’s economy by 2035 if no action is taken, and more than £60 billion wiped off the value of London’s economy alone.
Comparing a central scenario to one in which the UK stayed in the Customs Union and Single Market, by 2035, Cambridge Econometrics projects:
The UK will have 3 million fewer jobs, of which approximately 500,000 would have been in London.
The UK will have 32% lower investment, leading to lower output.
The UK will have 15.8% lower imports and 4.6% lower exports.
Give it time and your metric of ‘disaster’ will be absolutely smashed out of the park. |
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Reply | Paul Waugh
at 17:23 4 Jul 2024
Hopefully they will have more of an idea of what they are voting for this time. |
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Reply | Southend
at 14:29 26 Jun 2024
Southend fans better strap in for the long haul, the Council has notched up £355m of debt in the past 10 years and voted through £14m worth of budget cuts for 2024/25 in Jan this year.
Given the location, the houses will sell like hot cakes and subsidy should not be required but in this financial climate, levering a football club's future will not result into the Council subsidising money they do not have.
Whilst Adult and Childrens social care remains under the local authority purview, no Council is doing anything. |
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Reply | Another one gone…..
at 11:10 27 May 2024
Sod that, should Dale be making a run at him?
Make Jim his assistant, Pete can show him how to manage and it would be akin to on the job learning for Jim. |
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