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Thread | Relegation a near certainty
at 12:57 21 Jan 2019
The average points total of the team finishing 21st (4th from bottom) over the past 10 years is 48.4.
The highest points total of the 21st team in the last 10 years is 55 (2013).
The lowest points total is 43 (2018).
We are therefore 25 points short of the lowest points for safety.
And 37 points short of the highest.
So, with 18 games left, we either need to average at least 1.4 points per game, or just over 2.
Mathematically, we can do it. And who knows what the target will turn out to be.
But it's looking very, very unlikely.
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Thread | So, which players are up for the chop?
at 22:56 6 Jan 2019
Striking change of tone from PL after Accrington. He was very softly, softly when he arrived, gentle encouragement, never a bad word (in public about anyone).
Now it's: 'players will go'.
So, who's off, and why? |
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Reply | Ftse down again this morning
at 15:34 6 Dec 2018
Lower house prices will not mean greater affordability.
If we hard Brexit, the economy will tank, and quickly. interest rates will have to rise to try to prop up the pound.
Remember, interest rates have been incredibly low for around a decade. In the late 1980s house price crash, interest rates rose to 15%.
So, a fall in prices but only being able to borrow at 7 times current rates?
As they say, you do the maths.
Just one in a long chapter of economic, social, cultural and security disasters to come. |
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Reply | I see that the Spurs fan.....
at 12:54 3 Dec 2018
You're mixing up two areas of law: criminal and civil.
To prove a criminal offence, the court must be satisfied so that it is sure the offender committed the offence. This used to be known as beyond reasonable doubt. What you say about innocent eating of the banana does sound like a plausible defence. If there is footage of him eating the banana just before the goal, then who knows what the court would believe?
However, in civil cases (and likely applied by the FA in banning cases), these matters are decided upon the balance of probabilities, which is, essentially 51-49. The timing of the throwing, the ethnicity of the goal-scorer and the context in football, where bananas and monkey-chants have long-featured as a way of abusing black players make it much more likely to have been a racially-motivated act.
So, even if the individual is acquitted at criminal trial, there's no reason why his ban wouldn't remain in place and be perfectly lawful, and fair, to boot. |
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Reply | Score prediction tonight
at 17:40 24 Oct 2018
I think 4-0 to Leeds.
If so, I also think Hurst will be gone in the morning. Not that I want him sacked, but I can't see his tenure lasting any longer.
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Reply | Official Hurst Position Thread!
at 17:46 24 Sep 2018
IN
Because we need to work with what we've got. There's not going to be any more money. It will all come right with time, albeit, facing up to the disappointment that we're going to be nowhere near challenging for the play-offs is difficult. Some of our football this season has been great to watch. Plus margins are always very fine; we've been unlucky to fall on the wrong side so many times.
Unbeaten at home, tho'! |
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Reply | 2nd referendum
at 12:22 20 Sep 2018
A referendum can either be irreversible or democratic.
It cannot be both.
Therefore, if you claim that it would be undemocratic to hold a second referendum, you are, in fact attacking democracy itself.
Time to stop the shambles and give the British people the chance either to accept the 'fruit' of over 2 years of negotiations, or reject it and remain in the European Union. |
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Reply | Would those who voted remain in the Refrendum
at 11:51 17 Sep 2018
Absolutely not!
The solution to high house prices is to build more and to tax profits on primary homes, not Brexit.
If house prices do crash 30% or more, post-Brexit, it will be because of extreme economic turbulence. This is likely to send interest rates sky-high. Remember that in the house price crash of the late 1980s, interest rates hit 15%. That would not only lead to negative equity for existing home-owners, bankruptcies and mass-repossession, it makes the cost of borrowing so high, no one can afford it. A drop in prices will not lead to greater affordability.
In my view, the government's so-called 'help to buy' has poured fuel onto the fire of house-prices. We do need to increase the cost of borrowing and we urgently, urgently need to increase the supply of homes for purchase.
I would also argue for capital gains tax on primary homes. It is absurd that those who, for example, bought a home for £100,000 or less in London, selling them for £1m+ pay absolutely no tax on that massive profit. A tax on the value of a home would reduce the incentive of pushing for an ever higher sale price, while feeding significant capital back to the state which should be used to build new homes.
Brexit will do nothing to increase the affordability of homes and will do everything to destroy our economy. |
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Reply | Not that it counts for much, but here's my opinion so far..
at 10:44 17 Sep 2018
We have to give Hurst the time to get it right. If we sacked him now, we will get another MM figure who will do whatever it takes to keep us up, which will be a return to boring football, tired journeymen signings and absolutely no perspective beyond survival.
The Hurst way, if you will, is one where attractive football, and developing talent from the lower leagues, and yes, our academy, is the way forward.
And don't forget, we've tried the celebrity option (Keane), the track-record option (Jewell) and the hoof-ball safety first option (MM). I don't ever want to go back to any of those.
Hurst will get it right. Give him time. |
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Reply | If we had a second referendum
at 16:47 11 Jul 2018
Yes, absolutely the way forward - hence the campaign for a Peoples Vote.
If Brexit is such a good idea, and if the 'will of the people' is to Brexit, then why not confirm one of the biggest changes to the law, economy and culture in the UK?
It could be put:
Do you wish the UK to:
1) Remain in the European Union, or
2) Leave the European Union
If the majority choose to Leave the European Union, should the UK:
a) Leave on the terms negotiated and agreed by the UK and EU?, (Soft Brexit) or
b) Leave the EU without any deal? (Hard Brexit)
There could be no doubt about the outcome. The people would be presented with what the government has managed to agree as a matter of fact and could accept it, or reject it.
It would be open to Brexiteers to vote to remain in the EU and continue to make the case for leaving.
Amazingly, they could do so without being 'traitors' or undermining democracy. Because democracy allows us all to change our minds, which is especially important when we've been lied to. |
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Reply | Thankfully we went for Paul Hurst...
at 16:28 1 Jun 2018
There were sound commercial reasons to go for Lampard, especially for our sponsors.
But I'm not convinced that ITFC, stuck in a championship rut for 16 years would have been best served by a rookie manager, used to playing with the world's best, trying to get the best out of championship level pros and youngsters.
Hurst knows the lower leagues very well, has massively overachieved with severe limitations and has every prospect of doing the same with us.
Plus, we're just not going to get the stupid media hype every time something happens, the way we did with Keane, and the way Derby will with Lampard. |
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Reply | Free Tommy Robinson march
at 16:23 1 Jun 2018
As a lawyer (yes, really), I can't begin to describe how ill-informed, misguided and plain stupid the response to Tommy Robinson's **guilty plea** to contempt of court has been.
He was told not to interfere with the trial because it may jeopardise the prosecution altogether. What that means is the defendants may have been **acquitted** because of Tommy Robinson's actions.
If you have a problem with that, you have two options, one of which involves hitting yourself over the head with a large stick. Get back to me for option 2, if option 1 doesn't work for you. |
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Reply | Why would someone with no managerial experience whatsoever
at 17:45 21 May 2018
Precisely.
Often, quite mediocre players turn out to be the best managers.
With someone of Lampard's calibre, unless he matches the success of his playing career as manager, he'll be regarded as a failure. Not only that, but he will also only ever be looking to trade up.
Ross could be the making of Ipswich and us the making of him. |
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Thread | Gardening leave
at 12:21 3 Apr 2018
Gardening leave is imposed on a departing employee with commercially sensitive knowledge to ensure they can’t go to a rival company until that knowledge is out of date.
Luckily, Mick stays in post, with unfettered access to our best players, ready to take them with him when he goes to another championship side.
There’s a reason why managers are asked to leave immediately.
Yet again, ME demonstrating a catastrophic lack of footballing knowledge. |
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Reply | “I’m 78 on an £18,000 income and live a very good life in London“
at 22:14 4 Feb 2018
I think you're right in your upper assessment. But I don't think there is a subtext here at all, really. She has a very low-cost life, primarily as you say because of free transport and rent/mortgage free living. She could rent out 3 of the 4 bedrooms and gain an extra £20k p.a.
Moreover, the elderly generally have very low costs. The downside for her is of course as and when she needs to go into care. Her house will have to be sold to pay for that and her children left with very little indeed when she passes on.
I accept that Millenials have it tough on home ownership, but the young have always had to struggle, the older generation have had a life-time to get where they've got.
All I would say is capital gains tax should apply to your own home; the scandal of the past 15 years of housing boom is wholly untaxed millions 'earned' simply by staying in a house bought for peanuts. The proceeds could go towards council housing, for example. |
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Reply | I heard something at my son's football match
at 11:33 1 Sep 2017
Disgraceful. It's well documented that, post-Brexit, racist abuse has increased, markedly. Same in the US with Trump.
Wait for the club to take action and/or any governing body. If that's inadequate, then there may well be further legal remedies. It wouldn't hurt to contact the Equalities and Human Rights Commission.
Irrespective, a complaint could be lodged with the police; the conduct could well amount to a racially aggravated offence under either s. 4 or 5 of the Public Order Act 1986. |
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