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Reply | The state pension will rise by 4.7% next year.
at 17:20 16 Sep 2025
This seems like a very sensible idea. It would require all company pensions to be registered and checked by the government in some capacity I guess but not a huge means testing, and would remove some of the wealthy completely as they seem to pay huge chunks into their pension to avoid income tax or whatever.
It would get my vote. I assume the usual suspects would moan about picking on those working harder or some nonsense, but something's got to give and that seems the best plan I've heard so far, and targets the right people. And it could be widened as and when. |
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Reply | The state pension will rise by 4.7% next year.
at 17:15 16 Sep 2025
I assume the trouble with that, and similar things is the admin and policing, and means testing of such potentially good ideas, would cost most of the money you'd realistically save. |
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Reply | The crowd
at 13:14 13 Sep 2025
Seemed in decent enough voice overall.
I'm turning into an old man, so will probably get pelters for this but I thought the 'sacked in the morning' stuff was overdone and a bit juvenile. Maybe once or twice but seemed our go to song for a chunk of the second half. Maybe as people have said we're lacking some of the classics with so many players leaving. |
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Reply | Mcateer
at 07:25 13 Sep 2025
I think that's maybe a less full on way of saying what I was trying to in some ways.
I wasn't trying to say he was Messi, or even Jaden, but he was battling and trying and to me was pretty solid and able, just not, as you say, 'anything special'. Yet. |
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Thread | Mcateer
at 07:07 13 Sep 2025
Thought he looked good.
I don't get the hate from some. He looks a battler, has some pace, gets in good positions, forward and back, keeps it pretty simple. Very solid. Yes he's not omari, but I don't think he needs to be.
I think a lot of it is the price tag, which is completely irrelevant now. He's in, he's capable, let him get on with it and judge him on his play for the team. |
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Reply | Sindre Walle Egeli
at 14:33 12 Sep 2025
Addams family would scan then?
Along the lines of:
He's Nordic and he's Viking
Defences he is fright-ning
He's fast as fecking lightning
He's Walle Egeli
Walle Egeli (clap, clap)
Walle Egeli (clap, clap)
Etc etc.
Maybe??!! |
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Reply | Sindre Walle Egeli
at 12:08 12 Sep 2025
Isn't his first name Sindre and his second name effectively double barrelled Walle-Egeli?
So your first chant would be like chanting for Trent Alexander, or Ainsley Maitland.
Unless I've misunderstood, which is quite possible! |
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Reply | There are people on here who think O’Shea is better than Wolf
at 13:25 10 Sep 2025
Every single manager since Lambert?!?
Seriously? Both of them?
Lambert and Cook played him quite a bit isn't really a flex is it?!
I don't mind woolfie, been a decent servant, would have been okay back up, but we move along. Not slagging him off, but some of the contortions on here to paint him as the next Maldini are a bit silly. |
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Reply | There are people on here who think O’Shea is better than Wolf
at 09:36 10 Sep 2025
Completely agree.
Also, it's about increments and improving the team or shaping it the way the manager wants. Not about arbitrary better and worse and how much overall. If the team is lacking leaders and we spend more on a player the same in every way but has leadership then that could still be 'worth' the extra. |
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Reply | Sooner or later in the next few days...
at 14:55 7 Sep 2025
Woefully crap is very very harsh. Though I do admit at this point in time it's strangely inadequate and lacks cutting edge. A few goals and decent games and that could easily be one of the best attacking set ups in the league. Especially given the finishing four who would replace them or vice versa. |
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Reply | Sooner or later in the next few days...
at 12:59 7 Sep 2025
Agree with all that really.
I wonder whether once up to speed we can try and drag a few roles into hybrid. As you say push one of the double pivot a bit further up especially if we're playing teams set up to block. Maybe have a defender push into that midfield to plug that gap. Or a Tuanzebe type with furlong maybe that coming across to a back 3 and Davis freed up.
Glad I'm not a football manager as it's very finely balance a d intricate. But this I think is where McKenna has excelled, bedding in the entire team to know exactly what they all need to do in systems. All of those little hybrid switches to give us more bodies and space. Maybe also as you say Nunez hybrid as a 10 but also dropping off towards the centre mid and then bombing on.
All of these little swaps and changes need to be drummed into them all and become second nature and is part of the gelling we hear so much about. It's easy to dismiss and get frustrated, but compared to a bog standard 442 old school where you can drop in players who have never met their team mates it's night and day. |
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Reply | Szmodics injured.
at 11:47 7 Sep 2025
That's a shame, but might hasten Akpom being given a chance. Even Nunez in there? |
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Reply | Sooner or later in the next few days...
at 11:45 7 Sep 2025
Would a 3 man centre mid not effectively develop towards our current formation as we kick on anyway?
I'm not sure what a third centre mid would do, wouldn't they push forward to support the front 3? It's not like we need 3 blockers at this level stopping rampaging forward players.
I'm probably missing a tactical masterstroke and by no means do I know what I'm talking about, but it seems like we'd be playing a slightly deeper 10 at best? More possession? I didn't think that was the problem. To me we need the players up the pitch and quicker turnovers and slicker movement. 3 in the middle would give less attacking options around the box, no?
Not aimed at the specific post I'm replying to by the way. Just wittering on! |
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Reply | Rayner Leaving Government
at 13:33 5 Sep 2025
If it was the previous government they would have done feck all about it and carried on regardless. And other people on here would have said they were being picked on and it was no big deal.
Which is better? Higher standards and people actually being held accountable? |
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Reply | Double standards?
at 13:30 5 Sep 2025
Does her net worth include the six figure plus payment from the NHS for her son for having permanent and ongoing medical issues for the rest of his life? Seems a bit disingenuous if so. |
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Reply | Double standards?
at 13:04 5 Sep 2025
See also, "Angela Rayner's political career hangs in the balance today" across all news reports Vs Boris and the Tories when it was just a thing that was happening and there may be some potential consequences.
I never remember that type of knife edge portrayal with the Tories, and obviously not Boris. Being a sketchy dodgy type who doesn't face their consequences is an actual advantage with the media as they just leave you be, whereas expecting even the vaguest of morals becomes a burden and disadvantage used against you. [Post edited 5 Sep 13:06]
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Reply | Employment & Swearing News
at 13:26 4 Sep 2025
Now we just need to be able to call the customers d1ckheads and we're golden. |
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Reply | Farage is a traitor
at 10:46 4 Sep 2025
Definitely wishful thinking. But might still hopefully might happen.
I agree with your assessment to some extent, but that's going to be a pretty quick flash in the pan, surely? If he was to get in, do the bidding of some billionaires, give them tax breaks and whatever. But we are not America, we have no global power we cannot throw out weight around, we will be laughed at and left to rot and no matter how much banter he can come up with whilst swigging a pint, the tide will turn pretty quickly when it's going to sh1te and he's got no answers.
Too late to stop massive damage, but it'd be over pretty quick and he'd be a pariah and an irrelevance just as quickly.
He'd surely prefer side influence and sniping. But he has a shelf life I guess, so those backers will want something tangible, are they getting enough by using Farage to shift the centre and government policy without the need to be in power. Dunno. All disgustingly bad for the UK and it's people, but obviously that's not their concern. |
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Reply | Farage is a traitor
at 10:18 4 Sep 2025
I think one of the better hopes we may have is that Farage decides that there is more money and less effort in right wing grifting than there would be getting up higher in politics.
I think enough people have swallowed the cool aid to back him, almost as high as he wants to go. But being an MP is proving pretty inconvenient for him so hopefully he's shirking any further thoughts of anything more grand. [Post edited 4 Sep 10:18]
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Reply | Which of the new players will fire first do you think?
at 13:22 3 Sep 2025
The answers tell a story of how scary good we have the potential to be. Some say Egeli, some Azon, some Nunez, some Akpom, others mention Matusiwa. Apart from the latter the rest have played only a few minutes or none at all. And yet we are looking forward to every single one in different ways. (Potentially) Exciting times! |
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