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Reply | We were a class above Lincoln today
at 18:04 25 Jan 2020
Thought we were decent. We do lack that brutal, cutting edge.
Beat Rotherham on Tuesday and we are looking in really good shape. |
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Reply | HS2
at 06:38 25 Jan 2020
Oxford MK and Cambridge is likely to be a massive corridor of growth. Some track exists from the old varsity line and it is a live funded project.
As you suggest, the West bit was pretty quick and easy, the East bit is preexisting network but the real issue is the central bit from Cambridge to Bedford. In this section, the old varsity line has been repurposed as the guided busway that runs from CB to Huntingdon. When you also think that they want build an expressway from Huntington to Oxford too this is where the monumental issues are.
The Government have made it clear that this is no longer the 3rd priority after Crossrail and HS2 as Network Rail are already ridiculously overstretched. I think it's been earmarked as privately funded but its in reality in limbo.
It's like a micro version of HS2. It begins with pomp and ceremony with ridiculously little thought, an obviously lightweight budget and timescale that is well short of realistic. Inevitably, true costs are now emerging and its completion has been kicked to 'late 2020s', which actually means 2040, assuming something shinier doesn't come along, putting this further down the priority list.
The proposed budget was something ridiculous like £500m. About 2 months of HS2 spend. If completed it will actually be about £3 billion, you'd imagine. [Post edited 25 Jan 6:39]
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Reply | This virus
at 19:10 24 Jan 2020
Agree. Their mortality rates and disclosures should be taken with a huge smattering of salt too. |
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Reply | The best league in the world
at 19:19 22 Jan 2020
I watch the Prem very occasionally but only if I'm not doing something else etc. I rarely make an effort to watch it. I probably wouldn't follow it at all if it wasn't for fantasy football.
I do really like the championship, it's an excellent league. I'm far more likely to watch that than the Prem. I find football on quest pretty poor though.
I probably go to 60% of all town games.
I followed England in the qualifiers for Euro 2016 home and away. I did every England game in France too. I'm hoping for a few England games at Euro 2020 as I have 15 odd caps left. Demand is seismic though. |
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Reply | Which of these meats have you eaten?
at 09:22 22 Jan 2020
The Chinese giant salamander is critically endangered in the wild because of pollution and capture/killing.
The one on the market would have no doubt been specifically farmed. A real shame.
I also suspect they mean peafowl as peacock only specifically relates to a male peafowl. |
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Reply | Suffolk hotels/B&Bs
at 18:48 21 Jan 2020
Red Lodge is decent now. Really new and shiny. 20 minutes to Cambridge.
As Jeera says it's not been a single track road with a track stop for 10 years.
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Reply | HS2
at 09:03 21 Jan 2020
Bang on. That Cambridge to Ipswich service is a disgrace.
The best way to get from Cambridge to Oxford is a 2.5 hour drive. Train has to go through London.
Manchester to Liverpool was 57 minutes when I looked for Saturday. It's 34 miles. |
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Reply | Ten days until the UK leaves the European Union
at 08:56 21 Jan 2020
I studied politics in depth 2005-2007 and it was just a peripheral issue, occasionally discussed along with a plethora of other academic issues. It was unnecessarily brought to the centre of politics to appease a long-standing, minority of Tories.
The complexity of the issues at hand was underestimated by everyone. In the run up to the referendum I didn't hear any of the following backstop, N. Ireland border, soft/hard etc. Just emotional sound bites to dumb down the web of complexity.
Best case scenario is that little changes and it proves to be the most expensive, clerical exercise in history. Worst case scenario is that the world's biggest trading block that has never witnessed an internal conflict continues to grow and thrive on our doorstep as we see a widening wealth deficit as a totally unregulated tax haven and resentment of previous generations who voted for it through rose tinted glasses or ignorance.
The notion that we will simply start increasing trade to remotely significant levels with Africa, India and other territories is fantasy and escapism. |
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Reply | Woolfie in Daily Mail
at 08:28 17 Jan 2020
Simply incredible insight. Not sure how the secret scout isn't working for one of the best clubs in the world:
'He felt more comfortable with an opponent who did not trouble him'.
Genius. [Post edited 17 Jan 8:56]
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Reply | No more heading the ball ?
at 17:37 16 Jan 2020
Sounds sensible. I remember training sessions when I was younger and there was sometimes 15 minutes of pointless heading before a little game. |
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Reply | Can’t see Tranmere being on Saturday
at 17:34 16 Jan 2020
I'm in the Peak district at the moment and the weather is ok. Bit windy but the weekend is meant to be ok.
I appreciate their drainage is awful there though. |
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Reply | Are people really moaning after that?
at 08:18 15 Jan 2020
I think it's good that we sounded the more up for it team despite playing in a storm away at Oxford on a Tuesday night. Shows there is some fire in the belly. Onwards. |
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Reply | Edwards
at 08:15 15 Jan 2020
I thought he was a chalk on the boots winger. I assume that's where he played for P'Boro when he had that excellent goal scoring spell before we bought him?
As you say, he's not really defensively minded and physically struggles whenever I see him. I also think Donancien does an underrated job at RB when fit.
Round pegs and all that. |
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