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Reply | Martins Substitutions
at 15:14 22 Sep 2024
It was there for everybody to see yesterday :-
Being kind Stewart was a yard off the pace, being unkind two yards.
He gives the impression of someone who has never played in The Premiership previously who is carrying a long term injury and has been out of regular professional football for a very long time, which of course he has.
In summary, another triumph in ineptitude for our club’s Recruitment Team to rival the purchase of Tall Paul, Diaz and Archer with others too numerous to mention. |
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Reply | The positives today
at 10:40 22 Sep 2024
Pat, I’m not a Russell Martin fan particularly when he instructs the players to play tippy tappy although much reduced yesterday.
Honestly though, do you really think that any other manager is going to get a Premier tune out of what to all intents and purposes ( Ramsdale and K W P aside ) is a Championship squad ?
We were unnecessarily relegated from The Premiership last time mainly because of the total ineptitude of Sports Republic’s Player Recruitment Team spending untold millions on a succession of poor quality players.
True to form they have continued in the same vain this time around purchasing Premiership no hopers such as Diaz and Archer. Just one half decent striker to play alongside Dibbling and we would have won comfortably yesterday.
Russell Martin is doing his best as I’m sure Eustace would but in reality they haven’t got the tools to work with. |
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Reply | Southampton Already Have Their Target To Replace Russell Martin
at 21:22 21 Sep 2024
Yep,Ifonly the same hopeless bunch of out of their depth parallel universe dwellers who gave Adam Armstrong a contract extension and after spending £70 million in the last window, end up with Diaz and Archer to partner him. |
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Thread | Honestly, can anybody tell me what the point of Diaz and Archer is?
at 19:56 21 Sep 2024
£70 million spent in the close season and we manage to end up with these two clowns.
Include Adam Armstrong who it’s been proven can’t score goals in The Premiership, together with Ross Stewart who looks two yards off the pace and it’s not difficult to see where this season ends. Relegation by Christmas.
Just how is it possible for our recruitment team to find these no hopers time after time after time ?
If we had just one half decent striker to assist Dibbling we would be safely positioned in mid table this evening. Instead we’ve one point from five games, only two goals and one of those was from a full back. |
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Reply | Benefits - essential safety net or invitation to abuse?
at 14:34 20 Sep 2024
The wonderful thing about Nick’s site Ifonly, is that in the main contributors air and discuss their differences without recourse to any animosity and that’s what you and I have done on this occasion.
Sometimes however there comes a point when it’s best to rely on the expression which has stood the time so we’ll :-
“ we are simply going to have to agree to disagree “. I think we’ve reached that point don’t you ?
In any event and as previously stated, I wish you well and hope that you enjoy your weekend culminating on Saturday with a first home win of the season. A result which will unite us in common purpose, our support of The Saints. |
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Reply | Benefits - essential safety net or invitation to abuse?
at 12:59 20 Sep 2024
So Ifonly, you genuinely think that middle class pensioners are suddenly going to invest in the unregulated bullion market and cryptocurrency with all their associated risks and possible market downsides to their savings ? Let alone the fact that my understanding is that such investments are not protected by the F C A. Particularly also given that as a cohort middle class pensioners are instinctively risk adverse.
Interesting hypothesis but in reality it simply won’t happen, frankly it’s for the birds. For goodness sake, 800000 pensioners can’t even work out how to or be bothered to claim pension credit, where if they were to be successful there is money to be had with no risk whatsoever !
Not that it matters much, but your quoted figure of 5.6 million UK owners of cryptocurrency is an overall total I presume ? Whereas all along I’ve referred to middle class pensioners alone.
Anyhow, I wish you well. More pressingly we have Ipswich at home tomorrow, where a home win will obviously be far more important to us both than our differences concerning Wealth Taxes. [Post edited 20 Sep 13:01]
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Reply | Benefits - essential safety net or invitation to abuse?
at 23:33 19 Sep 2024
If only, Scandinavian countries are reported as happy. With the greatest of respect the fact that you are not sure why, doesn’t render that fact untrue does it ? I’m not sure why people support Man United but the fact that 72000 odd turn up for most of their home games renders my incredulity irrelevant.
I take your point concerning culture and size of the countries under discussion and that they are happy to pay high taxes for good Public Services which is exactly my point concerning the UK. Over countless years under various colours of different Governments we have been constantly told that high taxation is a bad thing when all evidence to the north points in the opposite direction. In other words you are condemning something that as a country we haven’t tried probably in your or my lifetime.
In respect of wealth taxes you are conflicting the super rich with our middle classes.Yes, the super rich may well be able to move from country to country but that’s simply not possible for the the vast majority of our middle classes is it ?
Reference your suggestion that I don’t have a problem with wealth owning middle classes paying more tax.You are absolutely correct I don’t, with the proviso that the Public Services I previously mentioned improve from their current dire state. You also state that Southamptonfan’s post is more typical but fail to provide any evidence to substantiate what is after all just his/her opinion.
Turning to your penultimate paragraph and again with great respect if you genuinely think that middle class pensioners have ready access to the gold bullion or bitcoin markets I can only suggest such a view is at best extremely unlikely and most likely simply not feasible.
In any event what we both appear able to agree upon is that Wealth Taxes will soon be with us what ever our differing views. It will be interesting to see the outcome. |
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Reply | Benefits - essential safety net or invitation to abuse?
at 21:10 19 Sep 2024
Last figures I can find ( BBC ) the National Debt was £ 2.7 trillion in July 2024 equivalent to 99.4% of the value of all goods and services ( G D P ) produced annually in the UK.
Interesting times in more than one sense of the words. |
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Reply | Benefits - essential safety net or invitation to abuse?
at 18:59 19 Sep 2024
Interesting alternative view if only, lost me a little reference gold bars but hey ho.
“ So to raise money you have to tax the middle classes” Yep, middle classes with wealth.The same middle classes with assets that want a functioning N H S and Care System together with a good Education for their children and a decent Transport system to name just a few of their needs.
Pensioners and their private pensions . I suspect you won’t be wrong, again a wealth asset as will be increases in people’s Capital Gains Tax wealth and changes to Inheritance Tax Bands wealth. All not difficult to define and pretty impossible to hide.
“ tax on houses but that would lose them too many voters so it won’t happen” Not a problem when you’re three months into a five year Parliament with a majority of 170 seats and the last revision of council tax bands and house values in England took place in 1991.
On a broad brush ending. It’s accepted that the happiest residents of Europe are those in the Scandinavian communities. They have excellent Public Services and very high rates of Taxation. Despite political parties of all colours telling us the opposite the facts are that unfortunately you can’t have one without the other. [Post edited 19 Sep 19:02]
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Reply | Benefits - essential safety net or invitation to abuse?
at 17:02 19 Sep 2024
The days of any Government being successfully able to mainly fund necessary expenditure by income from work ( whether at the lower or upper end of the wage scale ) are about to an end.
Ever increasingly tax revenue will also be sourced from an individual’s overall wealth rather than their annual income. More steps in this direction may well come sooner than many expect in the new Government’s first Budget which I believe is set for October 30 2024.
On the subject of Sickness Benefit. Perhaps it may of been an idea for the last Government to have settled the Doctors strike months if not years ago thus allowing sick people to obtain treatment quickly and return to their occupations ? |
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Reply | The only noteworthy thing AA did was to get booked
at 17:38 18 Sep 2024
He’d previously proved that he couldn’t cut it in The Premiership yet on the basis of what he did in The Championship I believe he got a contract extension. Why ?
The only feasible explanation being that the owners and management team expect us to be relegated ? |
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Reply | Cornet
at 16:27 18 Sep 2024
Sorry, but I’m afraid that posting on a football website almost certainly isn’t going to solve your problem Butty. |
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Reply | Everton Carabao Cup Game Matchday Thread
at 13:11 17 Sep 2024
Nice one Nick and thanks, your reply and that of 1885 S F C made me smile and lightened my day.
It’s what I like about your site, we may be one off the bottom of the league on goal difference having only scored one goal in four games but there is always room for some humour. |
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Reply | Everton Carabao Cup Game Matchday Thread
at 12:06 17 Sep 2024
Given both Club’s perilous league position together with a desire not to get players injured I wouldn’t be surprised if the referee stopped the match owing to both teams not wanting to win.
Rather as they do in boxing when neither competitor wants to hit the other. |
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Reply | The Incredible Central Defensive Saga
at 11:59 17 Sep 2024
If my maths is correct £104 million pounds spent, plus of course agents fees.
Speaks volumes for the quality of those employed by our club in a player recruitment role does it not ?
Pretty much the same currently. £70 million spent since the close season and we end up with a massive squad but only two Premiership quality players, Ramsdale and K W P. The remainder are inexperienced youngsters and older experienced underachievers. |
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Reply | Another pathetic 0-3 result courtesy of Sports Republic’s parallel universe
at 10:52 16 Sep 2024
Nick, where did I suggest that Sports Republic didn’t supply the money ? That’s right I didn’t.
I stated that collectively our Owners and their Management ( obviously including the Board, C E O and Team Manager ) have not done their job correctly. If they had, after four games we wouldn’t be one off the bottom of the league on goal difference having scored only one goal from a defender.
If you disagree that’s fine by me, but I suggest somewhat difficult to justify to the thousands of us at St Mary’s on Saturday who witnessed a team who couldn’t muster one Saints attempt on goal in the second half.
£ 70 million well spent? Only in some parallel universe perhaps. |
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