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Reply | Matt Grimes wife
at 07:22 2 Feb 2025
The trick is to make a good life where you want to live. In my case I got a better job here than I had had while living away. True, there was a compromise in that the organisation here was (and is) less prestigious, but the grade was higher - so not really a "graveyard of ambition" scenario brought about by sentimentality. I guess the best Mrs Grimes can hope for if she really loves Swansea is a return in a few years. Matt can probably afford a house in both places. |
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Reply | Matt Grimes wife
at 18:08 1 Feb 2025
There are some who slag Swansea off, but for others of us it is a hard place to leave. I had to move away around 40 years ago to stay in a job, and it took me 13 years to get back. |
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Reply | January Transfer Thread
at 17:14 1 Feb 2025
Looking at what the other relegation candidates are doing, I see that Luton have signed Exeter's 12-goal leading scorer Alli. Rumour is that the fee was £1.5 million. [Post edited 1 Feb 17:16]
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Reply | Swansea City v Coventry City : Match day thread
at 16:46 1 Feb 2025
There is a lack of quality right through the team, but the depressing thing is the complete absence of a game plan or any flair in executing moves that might bring a goal. I'd say we are definitely in a relegation battle. |
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Reply | Madness ?
at 14:13 1 Feb 2025
I found it surprising that Wrexham didn't recall loanee Sam Dalby, who is currently the top scorer in the SPL. It is probably a complicated situation with his contract about to run out in the summer, and I would imagine some history re relations between player and management team. |
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Reply | Will the university funding crisis mean a fall in nursing training numbers?
at 12:59 1 Feb 2025
Yes, that is correct. Advocates of the change to university education associated with Project 2000 in the UK will say that nursing is now much more technical than in the old days of caring, "bedpan" nursing practice. However, one complication to bear in mind is that the occupational landscape in the UK has changed, so that there are still roles that provide basic care. In the old days we had the SRNs (state registered nurses), typically with 3 years nursing college training, and lower status SENs (state enrolled nurses) with 2 years training. It isn't much of a stretch to say that today's graduate staff nurses have taken on a modernised SRN role, while today's health care assistants do many of the things SENs did. Neither SENs or HCAs need to a degree and much of the basic care is delegated to HCAs. That being said there are more nurses (over 33,000) than HCAs (around 6500) in NHS Wales, so the balance has changed towards a greater % with advanced training. Interestingly, some commentators want to bring SENs back as a role with more training that HCAs but less than registered nurses with degrees. [Post edited 1 Feb 13:46]
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Reply | Jacob Wright - Man City ...
at 09:38 1 Feb 2025
Would be an intriguing signing, but I thought the stated aim was to get in some experienced Championship players. Wright would be a gamble that may or may not pay off. |
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Reply | Why is it so hard getting immigration numbers down?
at 08:06 1 Feb 2025
One issue that is emerging as important is the number of dependents accompanying low-income immigrant workers. This was picked up in the CPS report By Robert Jenrick and Karl Williams that reanalysed ONS figures (linked in a past post), and several newspapers are now reporting an example given by Williams. In the first six months of 2024, the Home Office issued 1,063 health and care visas to workers from Zimbabwe. They brought with them 10,670 dependents, amounting in Williams' words to "10 dependants for every, likely minimum wage, social care worker". |
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Reply | Grimes gone official site
at 18:41 31 Jan 2025
I'd imagine Grimes's 3 kids will miss the Gower. Hard to find anything quite the same around Coventry. I suppose living near Warwick, Leamington or south Warwickshire could be okay, but Grimes may face a trade-off of more money for less quality of life. |
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Reply | Marriane Faithfull . RIP
at 01:35 31 Jan 2025
When I was an undergraduate, I saw MF appear as Ophelia in Hamlet at the Roundhouse. I think that would have been around the same time she played that role in a major film. This was before the descent into addiction that blighted her life in the 1970s, She was indeed a beautiful woman and a quintessential figure of the late 1960s. That time is receding into history now as the players leave the stage. RIP. |
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Reply | This third runway
at 19:55 29 Jan 2025
I suggested on the recent thread (re "clear red water") that the present Government's move to introduce certain New Labour-type policies is going to lead to tensions within the party, probably including with many in Welsh Labour. The third runway announcement came in a speech that suggested just that, and followed hard on the heels of Keir Starmer's praise of Margaret Thatcher, whom he said "sought to drag Britain out of its stupor by setting loose our natural entrepreneurialism" (Sunday Telegraph article). Readers will recall that Tony Blair also praised Thatcher. This won't go down well with some Welsh "comrades". |
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Reply | Will the university funding crisis mean a fall in nursing training numbers?
at 12:24 29 Jan 2025
The pinch with university funding has intensified in the last year. Swansea is one of a number of UK universities that has a recent voluntary early severance scheme in operation (not the first), and a few of the senior nursing staff have either already taken the deal or are about to do so. I think one of the other regular posters works in that department and would know the situation this year. In any event, as the VC is saying that progress has been made in cutting costs, Swansea isn't doing anything as radical as Cardiff. at least for now, |
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Reply | Abdulai
at 21:16 28 Jan 2025
Will join Raynor's thread. Other interesting thing to note is that Exeter's Alli is now on 11 goals for the season - I think it is 4 in the last three. So he is one of the few bright spots for ECFC. Other interesting thing about this game is that Brandon Cooper is playing for Orient and doing okay.
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