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Reply | Oldham grooming gangs: Government blocks national inquiry
at 20:52 9 Jan 2025
The fact that it's mostly Pakistani Moslems would suggest that it's probably a mix between culture and religion. Given the general disdain in Islam for the rights of women it would be dumb to suggest that Religion plays no part, but Moslems of other cultures and ethnic backgrounds don't tend to feature much in the lists of those prosecuted.
Perhaps that's just because most Moslems in the UK have their roots in that area instead of others like Bangladesh or Indonesia, but you'd expect to see some others if it was purely a religion thing. Maybe it's just an extended family/clan thing. |
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Reply | Oldham grooming gangs: Government blocks national inquiry
at 20:33 9 Jan 2025
Most religions promote the belief that their followers are superior to others. The Catholic Church has a history of bloodshed that at least rivals and possibly surpasses Islam.
Religious crazies are going to crazy whatever fictional book they're into. |
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Reply | Swansea City : A club with access to millions but can’t spend it !
at 20:30 9 Jan 2025
Yep.
Salary and spending caps only really work in closed systems like the US sports leagues. Nobody who is any good at Baseball is going to earn anything like the same cash anywhere else so how much teams spend can be controlled.
How do you do that in a global game like Football? If the Football League and Prem instituted a cap then Serie A would dominate again. Or maybe La Liga. They're not going to do that because they have a product to sell. So we're stuck with this pretence. |
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Reply | Brendan mentions us in his press conference
at 20:25 9 Jan 2025
Exactly.
Passing and moving needs to be done with intent and tempo, both of which are completely absent in Williams/Martin style football. Grimes can sit there racking up as many completed passes in the final third back and fore between the flanks as he likes, but it'll get us nowhere.
People are getting excited about Ginelly returning to action. Odds are if he returns he'll either get the ball far too deep because he's had to come back for it, or far too late when the opposition have had time to double up on him. Then some will blame him for it. |
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Reply | Swansea City : A club with access to millions but can’t spend it !
at 20:20 9 Jan 2025
The problem is that there isn't really a way to properly Police expenditure at the higher levels of the game.
FFP in its first iteration was a stitch up. An obvious plan to pull the ladder up behind the already big and wealthy clubs like your Man Utds, Liverpools, Arsenals and the like and prevent clubs like Man City from doing precisely what they have done. Same basic principle on a European level. To protect the big boys from stade funded interlopers stealing their glory.
I can't even really hate Man City for breaking the rules as they stand. They've only done what Jack Walker did at Blackburn. Spend their way into a position where they can challenge the big boys.
The rules now have turned football at a certain level into a game for accountants and lawyers, all looking for loopholes to excuse extra spending. Stadium sale and leasebacks, dodgy commercial deals. It's all a bit silly.
The one thing that might start forcing a bit of sanity back in, caps on spending in terms of salary and fees won't work either as all it'll do is force the best talent to leagues not covered by them. It wouldn't even work Europe wide unless they wanted the Saudi Pro League to become the strongest in the World. |
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Reply | Swansea City : A club with access to millions but can’t spend it !
at 08:09 9 Jan 2025
"they just haven’t got that much money at hand and have to work hard to protect what they have. It isn’t a reluctance to spend, it’s a reluctance to see the club teeter on the brink as the Swans have been so many times in history and in recent years."
A correct and obvious point, yet something that many, many, many people simply can't or won't understand. Mostly those who continually wail about "Investment!" and "Ambition!" and bitch that managers haven't been backed. |
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Reply | Oldham grooming gangs: Government blocks national inquiry
at 21:38 8 Jan 2025
There certainly needs to be a national inquiry as to why Police Forces and Social Services all over the UK were far more afraid of being called Racist than they were of young girls being abused.
The problem for Starmer it's his people who helped to create that environment. The "Common Purpose" types infesting Government, the legal profession, Academia and other areas. It's precisely why he's fighting so hard to avoid one. |
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Reply | Andy fisher out on loan
at 21:33 8 Jan 2025
When we had Steven Benda there already.
Something else to thank Martin for. |
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Reply | A465
at 16:26 7 Jan 2025
Basically the reduced speed limits have rendered the entire project pointless. |
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Reply | Oldham grooming gangs: Government blocks national inquiry
at 21:19 6 Jan 2025
I don't think he actually does believe it, but smearing critics of many of their policies as racist and far right has been a standard tactic of the left for decades. Fear of being labelled as such seems to have been one of the, perhaps the most significant barrier to dealing with the rape gangs.
The problem they have is that it doesn't work any more. People aren't afraid of it because the tactic has been used so often lately it's lost its power. When women who dare to complain about men in skirts using their spaces are labelled as Fascist, then what worth does the word have any more? |
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Reply | There is no economic logic in keeping Darling.
at 19:57 6 Jan 2025
Peart-Harris who Premier League Brentford have just extended the contract of.
Actually he's a perfect example of what I'm on about. A player who has been slagged to high heaven all season for not being good enough on the wing when he's not even a winger. That's not a strength in depth issue. It's a manager who can't see past his systems in order to give many of his players a fighting chance issue.
Most clubs in the division have a tidy first XI and then the quality drops off. What I'm finding hard to believe is why people seem to think that we're one of the worst cases of it. Are there really more than s handful of players at Cardiff for example who would improve our matchday squad? If players are inexperienced then why are so few of them getting time at the end of games to gain experience? Why is there still no sign of the likes of Wilson, Govea and Nzingo being involved in the first team?
This league has been poor barring the top four or five clubs since we got relegated back into it. There's nothing new there. |
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Reply | There is no economic logic in keeping Darling.
at 07:24 6 Jan 2025
I'm not sure where I'm supposed to think that we played well on Saturday, but if the team is continually sent out to play the way it was against Portsmouth and WBA then yes, we're going to look terrible.
People get so focused on us they forget to look elsewhere. The truth is we have a bog standard squad for a bog standard division. Five or six good players and a lot of mediocrity. Nowhere near the best, nowhere near the worst. We lack the resources to compete at the top end, but are better run than the rubbish like Cardiff at the bottom. Every Summer there are plenty of people who love a bit of misery predicting our imminent relegation because our players are all so bad, and we've never been even close to it.
Good managers get more out of their players than the sum of the parts. Williams so far has not demonstrated himself to be a good manager. Clearly the players aren't playing as well as they can do, and a number of them have regressed under his stewardship. Compare the Ronald when he first burst onto the scene to the one we have now Lukey has had a year to work on him. [Post edited 6 Jan 7:35]
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Reply | There is no economic logic in keeping Darling.
at 23:00 5 Jan 2025
We're not going to get relegated.
As much as some people like to pretend that we've got one of the worst squads in the division, we don't. Not even close. Williams is doing his best to make it look like we do, but we don't. |
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Reply | Second BREXIT Referendum
at 22:43 5 Jan 2025
There is a very strong argument to be made for increasing the voting age rather than reducing it.
What the hell would the average 16 yr old know about the World? At that age I was a Welsh Nationalist. Then time passed and I began to understand how the World worked and what a bonkers opinion that was.
Frankly I'd raise the voting age to 40. And then I'd only allow sufferage to people who had worked in the Private sector for the most part, excusing certain professions such as the NHS and Armed Forces. |
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Reply | Oldham grooming gangs: Government blocks national inquiry
at 22:19 5 Jan 2025
Yeah.
Hard to avoid the conclusion that ol' Elon is just chucking shit to see what sticks rather than having anything approaching an actual understanding of the situation.
I mean, he's defending Tommy Yaxley-Lennon. A convicted fraudster and drug dealer. If he'd put as much work into working out what to say on X as he does into Space X then perhaps he'd do more damage. |
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Reply | To clarify to date
at 22:16 5 Jan 2025
Much of Williams's output since "The Unpleasantness" has resembled a husband who has been caught cheating and wants to save his marriage. Excessive compliments to players like Grimes and Darling and a general sense of working as hard as he can to salvage things and promise that he's fully committed from here on in.
Problem being if he's been caught having a wandering eye once, all anyone can think about is when it'll happen again. |
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Reply | There is no economic logic in keeping Darling.
at 20:57 5 Jan 2025
I wonder if how much we're paying him factors into the amount of minutes he gets.
To me we're overpaying him by at least £250k per season. Maybe double that. Football is full of clubs who make bonkers financial decisions so I doubt that we're the only team to offer a player a bumper payrise to stave off no interest, but it's still annoying. |
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