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Reply | If delap signs for united..its definitely for the money !!
at 09:37 23 May 2025
As you say crazy money. If you add players like Pogba at £90 million who hardly had a decent game for Man Utd that just shows the total waste of money they have made.
When the likes of Beckham came along you also had Butt, Giggs and the Neville brothers for zero money.
But just like many teams these days all of whom want instant success both by owners and fans the amount of truly home grown players has diminished.
For teams like ITFC although still having to pay a fair wedge for players can't compete and even if they could financial wise would no doubt miss out if a bigger club was interested in that player.
It therefore means our scounting needs to be top notch along with the bringing on of young players. |
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Reply | Oh dear, Calamity Reeves is at it again.
at 09:07 23 May 2025
But we have had tax rises. Not necessarily Reeve's fault as Sunak frozen personal allowances until 2028. This financial year I have been hit with an extra £250 tax, lost £200 in winter fuel payments. Seen just about everything to do with the daily running of my household go up so despite Labour proclaiming we have kept the Triple Lock for pensioners I am worse off than last year.
My opinion as an O.A.P. is that Government should do away with free prescriptions for those reaching 60 years of age unless they have certain conditions that require constant medication. Free prescriptions then only come in once retirement age is reached.
If a person continues working after their retirement age they should pay N.I. but the personal allowance is higher so that those on a very low income wouldn't pay tax like they do now on anything above £12,570.
The Christmas bonus, for what it's worth, should be done away with. It's only £10 and meaningless to most people or they should increase it for those getting under a certain amount and do away with it for those earning or receiving over £50,000 a year. |
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Reply | If delap signs for united..its definitely for the money !!
at 16:14 22 May 2025
I would have thought Delap would seek advice from his father and anyone who knows the ins and outs of Utd.
I personally think Arsenal would be a better bet. They are far more stable than Utd and have more chance of winning something and I would have thought wages wise they wouldn't be hugely different.
Utd would want instant success and whilst one of Arsenal's failures has been goal scoring they don't need to get rid of the number of players that Utd do.
I would also question how successful Delap has been this season. 12 goals and 2 assists but he hasn't scored for quite a few games or put in dominating performances, albeit with a team that has struggled all over the pitch. I hope for his sake the success he has had won't stunt what is a promising but far from developed career.
From another point of view clubs buying him at £30 million aren't in today's crazy money taking a huge risk. |
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Thread | Oh dear, Calamity Reeves is at it again.
at 12:54 22 May 2025
Despite taking in an extra 5 billion in tax the Government has managed to borrow the 4th highest since records began. It was expected to be 17.9 bn, but ended up at 20.2 bn. At this rate Labour will bankrupt the country before their five years are up.
Despite the country being taxed at it's highest since after WW2 it is now deemed that Reeves will either have to increase taxes or cut services.
How can Starmer proclaim he is looking into paying more pensioners the winter fuel payment because of the better state of the country.
No it's not in a better state and despite 14 years of Tory mismanagement Labour are even surpassing them in the handling of the economy. |
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Reply | A day when everyone is happy politics wise?
at 10:48 21 May 2025
I don't think UK fishermen would see this agreement as the status quo. If the shoe was on the other foot and the French had come to a deal like this they'd be blockading their ports.
I also have an issue with the fact that many on this forum believe that their opinion is correct and anyone else's is piffle.
Say what you want as long as it's in the bounds of decency. Many have their opinions I have mine and I'm not saying mine are right and others are wrong.
If we aren't careful Musk will turn out to be right. We are as a nation already being suppressed as to what we say if it isn't racist, islamophobic or antisemitic. Which seems odd seeing as these social media platforms allow all sorts of trolls on them. |
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Reply | A day when everyone is happy politics wise?
at 19:22 20 May 2025
I would like to know who is balanced in their views. Not many I suspect, you have allegiance to one party or another. That doesn't mean you agree with everything they do and if like the Tories you get a lot wrong over 14 years people vote another Party in.
Labour are about ten months into a five year tenure and they have already p*ssed off vast swathes of the country by their ill thought out policies. Trying to say deals that they have done with the US, India and now the EU are all good for the UK. We will see, but people who are far more intelligent than myself are saying these deals are giving far more than we are receiving and whilst I concur with the attitude that some just say this because it's not their Party that has negotiated these deals it will no doubt all come out in the wash. |
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Reply | What do you think the American owners will do regarding mckenna
at 14:00 20 May 2025
I'd be very surprised if he didn't have funds. No I'd be flabbergasted as if Delap goes and possibly Hutchinson there's £65 million there. Also there's a need to completely rebuild the midfield.
Cajuste, Phillips and Loungo will all most likely move on and I'd not be sorry if Taylor was sold either.
As for McKenna he has a lot of credit in the bank but how long does that last ? |
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Reply | A day when everyone is happy politics wise?
at 12:22 20 May 2025
Not if you are a fisherman it isn't. Fish and chips used to be part of a staple diet in the UK. You need to take out a mortgage for cod and chips now and allowing the french and whoever to fish our waters whilst signing up for some rules that we did away with via Brexit isn't a good deal.
Starmer is anti British, anti farmers, anti , O.A.P.s. In fact if you don't traditionally vote Labour he's after you.
Without doubt the worst Prime Minister in history, Chamberlain excluded and the bunch of idiots that are in his Government are just as bad. |
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Reply | Same old Plan A only from McKenna
at 12:58 19 May 2025
If the team saw this as a nothing game then there's a serious problem. I think some fans are so fed up with this season and that is fully understandable that they are prepared to say this was a nothing game. Were the other games against Leicester and Saints nothing games as we couldn't beat them in those games either.
I think if you are passionate about your club then any defeat hurts and the same should apply to the players as well.
People who went to Leicester paid good money and they deserved a good performance.
Unfortunately with all these rumours surrounding various players whether they say they don't notice the fact or that it has no influence how they play I feel it must.
The three million talked about with regards to where Town finish and fans saying that it's neither here or there shows just how out of sinc the Premier League have got against those in the real world. |
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Reply | Stu Watson - Too many individuals
at 12:43 19 May 2025
Injuries may have cost us balance so the question is why did we buy Philogene. Too much emphasis on small tricky players than robust strong running types.
Our midfield has been a big problem as well. Again you could say injuries have had an effect where both Cajuste and especially Phillips have been out of the team.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but everything that could be wrong with Phillips has been. Huge wages, coming to us completely out of form and unfit and the nightmare has just carried on throughout the season. With only Morsy a similar type, but now no longer a spring chicken. Loungo being surplus to Boro's needs but nonetheless doing a good job for us in the Championship. But seldom used in the Prem and Taylor who hasn't managed, despite all these injuries to get a regular place. |
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Reply | I hope McKenna moves on
at 17:08 18 May 2025
Whilst I concur with the majority that to get rid of McKenna would be foolhardy there definitely needs to be a bit of head scratching between MA and KM and our recruitment and also how we set up.
It may be fine playing open and attacking football in the Championship but the Premier League is a different animal entirely as we have found out to our detriment.
Next season won't be a walk in the park, there are bound to be a couple of teams that raise their game along with Leicester and Saints. It's all very well pundits coming out of the woodwork proclaiming Town will be the best of the three relegated, but we haven't exactly proved that against them and certainly a half a dozen players will need sourcing for next season. |
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Reply | How are we losing this game?
at 16:43 18 May 2025
With the likelyhood of Delap leaving we need to find a 20 to 25 goal striker. When we got promoted the last two seasons the goals were shared out around the team. This season the midfield and defence haven't scored a handful between them.
Whilst I am not suggesting getting someone in who will score us goals like Freddie did in League One Hirst will never be in that calibre of player. Szmodics may be the answer but we will still need another striker.
Also a couple of midfielder and a fullback. |
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Reply | Talking of migration
at 12:00 18 May 2025
Yes I know I'm an old fart. Perhaps with outdated ideas. But when I was a kid living in a small village only wealthy and business people had their own homes.
The rest of the village worked locally on farms, in shops and in factories in Stowmarket.
Not many mums worked and we lived in Council houses.
With man and wife. or partners both having to work this has had an adverse effect on the birth rate. Even renting now requires two to work and I feel this is where the problem occurs.
Governments talk about affordable housing. What is affordable ? Of course it varies from family to family. But Council housing allowed most low income families to have a roof over their heads and whilst there's a bit of a stigma regarding having a Council house against buying private there's absolutely nothing wrong with local authority housing.
A lot can be blamed on Thatcher for her right to buy and whilst I will be eternally grateful as it gave me a hand up on the property ladder in hindsight it was ill thought out as the money should have been made available to reinvest in building more. |
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Reply | Palace defensive display. Lessons to learn perhaps
at 11:45 18 May 2025
A slow midfield is where our problem lies. If it's not sorted during the next window we are in trouble. No I'm not having a go at Morsy but he is past his best and perhaps not good enough for the Premier League and will struggle to play in every game in the Championship. With Phillips, who has been a total waste of money and Cajuste probably moving on and Loungo also in need of replacement MA and KM have a job on their hands.
Palace had strong runners all over the pitch. Young athletic players who were also strong as well.
If Town are only essentially player one man upfield he needs immediate support when we attack and cover when we defend. |
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Reply | VAR is literally useless
at 19:34 17 May 2025
I think fans would be more accepting of VAR if it had all but stopped bad decision making. But if anything it's the reverse. Every game seems to involve some sort of controversial decision and the general opinion is a lot of these decisions are wrong.
Why ? well basically because it involves humans making a decision, just as it did before when a referee made his decision. These decisions are wide open to bias and it happens time and again. I recently watched a Man Utd game where a defender caught an opposing player half way up his leg. You would think a red card. Wrong, absolutely zilch and yet we have had a player sent off for that and also the opposition had a sending off for a tackle on Omari.
Truthfully where is the point in VAR ? Just a costly waste of money. Jobs for the boys. Time wasted whilst waiting decisions and no better than a referee and his lines persons. |
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Reply | MIDFIELD
at 08:42 17 May 2025
Yes having been saying this for weeks, possibly months. Whilst perhaps the need to have a midfield as dynamic as many in the Premier League may not be required we are nonetheless very short and weak in this area.
But I suppose is we have ambitions to be back in the Prem again after next season then the foundations need putting in place and a bit of a rethink as to what is required to not only get back up but to stay there. |
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Reply | Best bit of work advice you were ever given?
at 08:35 17 May 2025
This isn't advice I was given it's just something I say myself.
When asked "What do you think" I always said "I don't get paid to think"
Another one of my own advice if you like is when the powers that be are about always look busy even if you aren't as I say " It's harder to hit a moving target" |
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Reply | The record championship transfer fee (in) is £15m
at 16:35 16 May 2025
Whatever we spend it has to be made with one eye on the Championship campaign and one on the Premier League. Of course it will depend on who is sold but we must be careful we don't lose too many otherwise we are in the same situation as at the start of this where we are trying to bed in a dozen at the start and another three in January. A rebuild of the midfield is needed so a minimum of two are required there.
Assuming the inevitable that Delap is gone then a replacement will be needed.
May need a fullback. So possibly four signings and a couple of loans. |
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