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Reply | Police and Crime Commissioner
at 13:07 25 Apr 2024
Which sounds great, though i will point out the PCCs were a Lib Dem election commitment in 2010, but what are you going to replace it with ?
Go back to the old setup where the home office, that's not accountable locally sets priorities and budgets for the whole country ?
The old unelected, unaccountable police authorities who never held meetings in public and who appointed people they knew (from the lodge),and still claimed expenses and still spent money to administer themselves.
I might be frustrated that political parties turned the PCC role into another party based election, rather than simply electing independent non politically aligned individuals as it was envisaged.
But the premise of electing someone who can then be held to account locally for the local police budgets, what they spend it on, what their priorities are, that hold all their meetings in public and publish their strategies and decisions, that you can input too, is absolutely the right system to have. |
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Reply | RIP FA Cup Replays
at 22:00 18 Apr 2024
and Id say the power then sits with the 742 clubs who werent consulted, if they all refuse to take part, the FA no longer has a competition it can hawk to the highest bidder |
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Reply | Evertons financial situation 😲
at 21:56 18 Apr 2024
well quite, its the ******* law theyre supposed to !!!
couldnt believe the stories in the papers this week where theyre literally on a knife edge now whether theyre going into administration or not and its not over a few million its like 60-160 million, how have they got that much debt ?? |
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Reply | McKenna rallying the crowd after the game yesterday
at 23:48 14 Apr 2024
nope :) those that stay to applaud, have always stayed to applaud, those that leave have other places to be.
I wanted to get to planet blue before it shut.
and I do think if you are going to pick a game to do it, you do it final home game of the season, as its the one game most might stay around for a bit post match/season celebrating. |
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Reply | Hladky Handball
at 18:51 14 Apr 2024
He took Chaplin out, anywhere else on the pitch it's a free kick to town.
In fact the first pull on Chaplin before he is in the box, goes down that's nailed on a free kick just outside the box.. |
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Reply | In the interests of balance
at 17:44 14 Apr 2024
Thought so too, great pre match, ok their goal knocked it down a notch but still plenty of support, very loud when we scored, maybe quieter second half but it was fairly tense tight game wasn't it. Lots of support for the team when under pressure too.
When the town go marching in seems to be the one song that unites the ground the most, so I'd suggest more of that.
I did see McKenna turn to the west stand to gee them up in the 2nd half though, so maybe he felt it needed a bit more in some bits. |
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Reply | Grand National 2024
at 10:54 13 Apr 2024
I remember 2002, Bolton away, at least half of our away support stayed in the concourse to watch the race even though they closed the bars and were encouraging us back to our seats, because it was damn sight more entertaining than the football.
lets hope today is very different
and both tips satisfy rule 1 which is never bet on one in yellow & green colours :D |
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Reply | New kits
at 10:45 13 Apr 2024
the tractor print one :) less popular because of the season it typified I feel, theres no getting away from the fact we lost alot of games wearing it by not flattering margins, plus the endless sponsored by Fison jokes it created.
and Umbros kits then were almost as "good" as the Adidas kit template ones we had a few years back, hence why lots of the Umbro teams Everton/Man City looked to be wearing the same kits, even the badge shield emblems were the same,and I think the GK kits were identical across those teams they just changed the badge and sponsor.
but Ive still got my original I, so some daft people bought them :D
92-94 would have been a better choice imo, Im not sure the appeal of 94-95 is quite there even to those of us lucky enough to witness losing 5-0 at home nearly every game.
Id be tempted by the 90-92 home kit, assuming its a proper replica this time, the Copa one was always ever so slightly disappointing that it wasnt. |
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Reply | Bottled beer trialling
at 13:36 11 Apr 2024
Depends :)
Alot of it is down to the bottling/ canning process a brewery uses. The bigger brewers are alot more reliable and will often argue beer in a can is less likely to be light struck (avoid beer in clear glass bottles) and can be "fresher" as bottle cap seals can degrade over time.
But its always pasteurised beer in cans, because adding yeast would make the beer ferment and explode the can if not left in a fridge, Jeremy Clarkson memorably discovered that with his cider they make a while back.
Whilst bottled beers can handle the pressure brewery conditioning gives it, though it can be variable, again down to bottling process they use.
Tribute in cans is pretty good imo,Southwold bitter is ok as is Ghost ship, in cans, and not much different to their bottles.
Whilst GK ipa in cans is preferable to bottles because they use clear glass bottles for some reason.
Badger brewery recently swapped from clear bottles to brown and their beers do taste better now imo. They do cans as well but not round these parts. |
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Reply | NSL Section 6
at 13:25 11 Apr 2024
Because they'd have nothing else to complain about :) |
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Reply | The state of Royal Mail
at 14:54 10 Apr 2024
That's not the case though, except for some of the Highlands and Islands, a courier firm will deliver to wherever you as the customer wants in the UK. There's no well we only deliver to major towns so you've got to pick up from your nearest depot, they deliver even if its 1 parcel that takes 1 van on a stupidly long detour to do it.
The difference is they charge more, but not excessively more, to keep it profitable and they slowly became the partner of choice for alot of deliveries because they adapted to what their customers wanted and could guarantee delivery.
Royal Mail lost their parcel business, which is what paid for the universal service letters service, because they wouldn't adapt or modernise.
Customers like to know when parcels are arriving it means they can plan their day, Royal Mail still only give you a day at best, not a time when deliveries are made.
I had notification on Friday Royal Mail were delivering a package, it arrived Monday, and I had no options to change,postpone the delivery, and even when I have had in the past they just ignore it and fail the delivery
DPE as an example would have notified me the exact day and time frame, what number my delivery was on their list, I could track where the courier was on a map, who they were and could postpone redirected or changed the delivery on the day to suit me the customer and the delivery would be properly recorded.
Which is the better experience for the customer and then ask yourself why RM are struggling to compete again?. |
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Reply | Bottled beer trialling
at 13:15 9 Apr 2024
Big Drop Brewing make the best alcohol free beers going (St Peters probably the worst Ive tried), and based in Ipswich too, so supporting a local brewer. |
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Reply | Bottled beer trialling
at 13:13 9 Apr 2024
think youll find most of them went the other way because people always complained they dont like the bitter taste, which is why you end up with Doom bar tasting like a sugary mess, its not the only reason for that, but certainly alot of traditional bitters were toned down to have more mass appeal.
and is also why alot of craft beers are sugary messes also, as the full hop bite isnt that appealling, and mixed with over gassed CO2 makes you think you are drinking salt water, though interestingly you can numb your taste buds to hops and with the cooler temperature dulling the senses anyway, which is also why craft beers searching for taste end up stupidly overhopped.
Landlord is great on cask, its too variable in bottle though to be guaranteed, plus they seem to go through phases where brew batches just arent right
Butcombe gold is a classic example of them trying to tone down a bitter to have wider appeal, I think Rare Breed Pale is probably the best one they produce still |
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Reply | I’m not taking my seat until 6m 40s on Wednesday.
at 22:00 8 Apr 2024
but the reality is actually no they arent entitled to be upset about it at all.
the away tickets didnt sell out on the first day, that meant anyone who had been to enough away games to get enough points to match the criteria would have got a ticket, and so those that didnt get a ticket just didnt go to enough away games.
its that straightforward, theres nothing to get annoyed about here, people are just angsty because we lost, move on. |
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