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Reply | Interesting that falling birth rates are seen as a problem
at 11:09 20 May 2024
We need human populations to fall to conserve the planet, but we need them not to drop so rapidly that we get a top-heavy population.
Our current neo-liberal capitalist system relies on constant growth. The easiest way to achieve this is to increase populations. If the birth rate is low, the only way to do this is through mass immigration, which tends to cause political problems.
A long-sighted government would understand the reasons birth rates are so low: cost of raising children, damage to careers, defunding childrens services and schools. Our short-sighted government don't care. |
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Reply | Eurovison - Anyone followed it this week?
at 12:07 11 May 2024
Eurovision is run by the EBU - the European Broadcast Union. Its essentially a loose group of broadcasters from various countries who share TV and radio content.
Although its called the "European" Broadcast Union, many of its members are from outside of Europe. That's why Israel, Azerbaijan and even Australia compete.
Think of the British entry as not being British at all. Its a BBC entry on behalf of Britain. ITV and C4 are also members of the EBU and could run the British entry instead. |
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Reply | Nevermind speculation on who we sign..
at 10:25 10 May 2024
Starting 11 for the first game is always a bit strange.
Often new signings are on the bench, even if they are expected to be first teamers in the future.
The better question would be "which of our current players do we expect to be regular starters by the end of the year?"
I would expect this to be Leif, Burgess, Morsy, Burns and Hirst. Chaplin, Broadhead, Woolfenden, Clarke, Tuanzebe and Luongo to be regular contributors. |
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Reply | Why do so many people confuse 'lose' with 'loose' ?
at 11:23 18 Apr 2024
Less and fewer.
Less - a lower amount of something you can't count. e.g. "there is less water".
Fewer - a lower amount of something you can count. e.g. "there are fewer glasses of water". |
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Reply | Which player had the most successful transfer to the prem?
at 07:32 29 Feb 2024
Mings, Cresswell, Dyer and Bent all had good prem careers and got themselves to the fringes of the England team.
Ambrose had a solid career.
Wickham had a couple of golden moments, but never really lived up to potential. |
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Reply | Omari vs Gio
at 14:40 27 Feb 2024
Tom Lawrence got 9 goals and 9 assists in a terrible team in 2016/17. We finished 4 points above the drop zone. Tom Lawrence single-handedly kept us up.
Omari Hutchinson has 5 goals and 4 assists in a very good team this season. He rarely starts. He is a useful contributor, but not a star player.
Judging them technically is rather subjective. Lawrence scored several wonder goals, if I remember correctly. |
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Reply | Omari vs Gio
at 14:29 27 Feb 2024
Lawrence, Fraser and Bullard all had a much bigger impact.
Lawrence, in particular, held a terrible team together and probably saved us from relegation that year. |
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Reply | Omari
at 07:34 25 Feb 2024
He does some nice things individually. Two well taken goals in the last two games. The goal against Rotherham was particularly important. Also played his part in the build up to the Chaplin and Sarmiento goals.
But...
We look a worse team with Hutchinson in it. We were excellent for the first 20 minutes against Birmingham. Burns was a constant threat, created an excellent chance for Moore. Once Burns went off, we lost our way and made the game hard for ourselves. It took 2 late goals to get over the line.
Burns is a very direct player. He hugs the touchline, which creates space for Chaplin and Broadhead. He runs in a straight line with pace. He uses the ball quickly. That all works perfectly with our system. Hutchinson is the polar opposite. He comes inside. He does 20 stepovers before releasing the ball. But he is capable of occasional individual brilliance that Burns isn't.
I prefer Hutchinson as a 20 minute cameo when our plan A is not working. Hutchinson starting reduces the effectiveness of a plan A which usually works so well for us. [Post edited 25 Feb 7:36]
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Reply | According to the Sky commentator…
at 09:23 15 Feb 2024
In practice, all the release clause does is set the maximum amount of compensation we would get for him.
We could choose to release him for less compensation than the release clause. We might do this if, for example, Manchester United came in for him with an offer below the release clause and refused to pay more. We are never going to stand in his way. It wouldn't be in the interest of any parties.
Assuming they know what the release clause is, nobody is ever going to offer more than the release clause. There is nothing to gain from doing so. |
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Reply | According to the Sky commentator…
at 05:58 15 Feb 2024
If an offer came in and McKenna wanted to go, it would be madness for us to say no. A disgruntled player is bad, but a disgruntled manager would be a disaster.
The release clause is just a starting point for negotiation. We wouldn't necessarily get that amount. |
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Reply | Our first Iraqi player
at 14:22 29 Jan 2024
We had quite a few shiite players during the Marcus Evans era. |
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Reply | I see Hutch is out of contract in the summer
at 11:55 13 Jan 2024
We would be signing on potential rather than current ability. It’s risky.
We’ve had loanees like Fraser and Lawrence look amazing for us only to find their ceiling is upper champ/lower prem.
We’ve seen no end of players with potential not make it. Kyle Edwards being the obvious recent example.
So far Hurch is closer to Edwards in performance and end product than he is Fraser or Lawrence. He is still young and could develop further, but I’d give it quite small odds that he ever becomes a top premier league player. It’s significantly more likely he will end up playing league one or below with all the other players who failed to fulfil their potential. |
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Reply | I see Hutch is out of contract in the summer
at 08:08 13 Jan 2024
Would we necessarily want him?
We need players who improve our team. Hutch has been unable to force his way in ahead of Burns, Chaplin or Broadhead.
He's done a few nice things - the wolves game and the goal where he tackled the defender, but has been pretty ineffective in the last couple of months. He doesn't see passes and holds onto the ball too long which is often quite detrimental to our patterns of play. |
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Reply | Religious 11
at 15:22 19 Dec 2023
Jay Iman-uel-Thomas |
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Reply | I like King Charles more than I liked Prince Charles.
at 14:37 4 Dec 2023
Flicking through those articles, they seem to back the viewpoint that Charles is sometimes perceived as a "green King" without really doing much.
Take the Country and Town House article, which lists the 6 Things King Charles Has Done For The Environment.
1) Launching The Sustainable Markets Initiative
Seems to be some kind of CEOs club, where they can make environmental pledges. Some nice corporate virtue signalling akin to putting a black history month logo on your twitter, but no tangible benefits listed.
2) Creating An Organic Garden At Highgrove
Selling a bit of organic veg to the upper middle classes in Waitrose is not really getting to the crux of climate change. Rich man's play thing when we need systematic improvements.
3) Reducing His Personal Carbon Footprint
"and not just by turning down the heating in his swimming pool". What a trooper.
4) Being Patron Of The Campaign For Wool
We are scraping the barrel here.
5) Rejecting £32 Million Windfall From Windfarm Profits
"the Crown Estate announced earlier this year that it had secured a £1 billion deal to sell six licences for new wind energy projects off the UK coast". This is the one that makes me really angry. For some archaic reason, the crown owns the seabed. They "graciously" drip fed us a fraction of the profit they made. If the seabed was nationalised, we would have made a lot more, which could be invested into more green energy.
6) Launching The Coronation Food Project
Not a bad thing, although more focused on tackling poverty than environmentalism. I'd argue Charles should and could do far more to tackle poverty. |
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