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Reply | Ospreys
at 11:12 27 Dec 2024
I've always liked the St Helen's ground, and felt the atmosphere and history outweighed the shortcomings some posters mentioned. It is a pity the Cricketers' pub is now student accommodation, but there are now several other bars and restaurants a short walk away. A couple of surprising facts: 1. St Helen's has the biggest record attendance of any Swansea sports stadium (over 50K for a cricket fixture against Australia in 1948 and 45K for a rugby match against South Africa in 1931). 2. Tallest freestanding floodlight pylon in Europe in the Cricketers' corner of the ground.
Edit. On checking the Wales vs New Zealand rugby match at St Helens in 1924 had a recorded attendance of 50,000. [Post edited 27 Dec 11:48]
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Reply | Swansea City v Queens Park Rangers : Match day Thread
at 16:58 26 Dec 2024
Well we did not replicate the first half, but that was the best win for a long time. At least we cut out the mistakes, even when we went into our shell a bit. When we can produce 90 minutes like the first 45 we will climb the league. |
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Reply | Swansea City v Queens Park Rangers : Match day Thread
at 15:50 26 Dec 2024
How refreshing to have nothing major to complain about. Cullen in particular is really starting to deliver. I hope we don't take our foot off the gas again. The one thing that saw us fall into our old ways was that corner which ended up being passed back to our own area. When you have a team on the rack get the ball into the opponent's area. Excellent overall though. |
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Reply | Second BREXIT Referendum
at 11:16 26 Dec 2024
You have been told the answers more than once. Labour is very unlikely to push for an early return to the EU because the economic framework set out in the treaties includes a system of surveillance and control that means the EU steps in when national debt gets too high. UK public debt was 101.3% of GDP in 2023 and is rising now thanks to Rachel's new fiscal rules.. The EU requirement up until now is that national debt should not exceed 60% of GDP and the annual deficit by over 3% of GDP, so we will soon be getting into similar territory to Ireland (about 120%) when the EU imposed the excessive deficit procedure. Actually France and Italy are in such dire straits that it is surprising that they have so far managed to avoid EU intervention, but France for one is worried this will happen.,
https://www.connexionfrance.com/news/how-does-frances-public-debt-compare-with-t
Perhaps for this reason, a new EU country-specific debt sustainability analyses (DSA) to determine debt limits is about to be introduced, although the numerical % target is still being taken into account for now. The situation of Wales and Scotland would be even more dodgy than that of England. Do we really want a supra-national body stepping in to impose austerity policies? |
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Reply | New York subway fire murder
at 09:26 25 Dec 2024
It is horrendous to think that a person can board a tube train on just another day in the city and lose her life like this. We hear a lot about the impersonality of large cities where many people can be alone in a crowd, and this killing almost takes that to a new level. An illegal immigrant murders an as yet anonymous and unidentified woman, while several New Yorkers look on without taking any action. The whole episode suggests a breakdown of social cohesion, a city affected by anomie and moral disengagement. |
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Reply | Give them 5 years they said
at 19:17 24 Dec 2024
Hardly a day goes by without another mis-step. Now the Mauritian government says it will suggest an alternative deal on the Chagos Islands. The question is whether Trump's inauguration will come first and how much pressure he can then exert to get the transfer of sovereignty stopped. It seems crazy for the UK government to concede more in order to beat that deadline, and thereby incur Trump's ire. |
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Reply | Second BREXIT Referendum
at 12:25 22 Dec 2024
That Oxford research uses data on Brexit voting profiles by age group to argue that a significant retiree population had a big influence on the result in Wales. However, it does not go into the crucial issue of which Welsh localities voted which way. Merthyr and Rhonda Cynon Taff are hardly areas where large numbers of English retirees settle, but they and indeed all the valley areas voted heavily for Brexit. Other academics explain this with reference to industrial history, culture, and disillusionment with the Welsh political elite rather than English retirees.
https://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/electionsinwales/wp-content/uploads/sites/100/2018/0
Usual trashy final sentence from a poster who seems to find it hard to construct logical arguments. |
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Reply | Second BREXIT Referendum
at 22:11 21 Dec 2024
Wales had a higher percentage of leave voters than England. if Killy's silly hypothesis was correct and English incomers merely replicated the English pattern to influence the Welsh result then you would not get the result we had. |
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Reply | Second BREXIT Referendum
at 18:37 21 Dec 2024
Rejoining would not restore the old rebate, and would probably require agreement to join Schengen, participate in immigration "burden sharing", and in the longer term adopt the Euro. The UK would become a net contributor at a time of continuing EU enlargement with poorer countries joining, and the big two (Germany and France) less able to subsidise the beneficiary countries. There would be a requirement to be bound by the EU's new economic governance framework with its risk-based surveillance and enhanced enforcement regime, plus its mandatory requirement to implement the prescribed measures needed to "secure the green and digital transitions". That framework includes rules on markets, competition and public debt limits that may not be wholly congenial to a Labour government, including in areas such as the Fourth Railway Package, which appears incompatible with Labour's rail nationalisation plans. There would be heavy pressure to coordinate European defence, probably under a unified command. The fishermen would lose any prospect of getting a bigger share of agreed catches in the various regulated sectors. In the legal domain, we would sign up to the whole EU acquis communautaire, and again become a rule taker rather than a rule maker. Personally I do not think a return is a great idea at the present juncture. Many people on here probably think that all the above means nothing if they can avoid paying £6 for a holiday visa waiver. |
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Reply | Hull City v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 13:44 21 Dec 2024
I'm starting to get really frustrated with the slow build ups and refusal to put in crosses even when in good positions. Key and Harris are among the guilty ones. |
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Reply | Hull City v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 13:08 21 Dec 2024
Bit of bad luck with the deflection, but we are very much second best. As I write we almost conceded again. The way things are coming from behind is hard for us. |
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