DennisNedry

In my first job after leaving school I worked my way up to a sort of contracts manager for a building company, and I never really knew what I was doing. One lowlight, when organising the refurbishment of the living accommodation above a pub, I ordered a shower cubicle for the bathroom. I hadn't even considered the thing wouldn't fit up the narrow staircase. The phonecall from the plumber informing me of this, and that they'd left it on the path outside, was an awkward one to field in the middle of the office. You can imagine the boss' reaction when this cubicle ended up in the office's stores as it was not returnable. That balls up pretty much wiped out any profit on that job. I left not long after. I wonder what happened to that shower.

I honestly think any PL club would be silly to take Vards on. He needs to go abroad.

Him being shit and lazy isn't anything to do with him being black mate.

Perez is harsh. I'd add Ghezzal to this list. If we're including loans, Under & that Brazilian(?) from the Rogers relegation season were poor too.

Yeah Mads can go too. He's actually pretty shit but rated for some reason, if we can get money for him then let's let him go.

They can't even give us a tiny bit of happiness in this terrible terrible season can they?

Shit as expected.

More than Wout Farce?

The worst thing is when he joined he stood out like a sore thumb as being shit, but now he's actually amongst the better players in our first XI. He's not improved, the squad around him has just turned to absolute shit.

Ours brain-dead fans singing Danny Ward's name when he saved some penalties against a shit team in the cup. That made me feel sick.

How do you think they will they have it harder?

Useless point for both sides, at least the players looked arsed for the first time in months.

Call of Duty 4. That and falling in falling in love with Bruno Berner.

Clean sheet second half. Ruud in!

Did the club acknowledge it? I can't imagine them letting it happen?

I must be missing a joke here but did Smithies win the fans player of the season award in the last relegation season?

It's been all but confirmed for a couple of months TBF.

Worth lumping a load into a global tracker now for a recovery, or is there further to fall?

I do actually. My Mum, and one of my close friends both claim PIP, so whilst I don't have first hand experience, I have experience of it. I know that, in principle, that is what PIP is designed for, however I don't think this is the reality. I'd happily take your opinion on both cases: 1) My Mum. She had to give up her job about 4-5 years ago due to progression of her MS. She is now not physically able to do the work she had done for the past 20 years. She is now in her late 50s and in receipt of PIP. Her and my Dad (who is retiring in 2 years) are financially comfortable. They have joint finances. If you tally up their home, assets, pensions and savings/investments, they're totalling around about £1 million net worth. Therefore, whilst fully entitled, and incurring costs due to her disability (attending appointments, adaptations to her car, etc), expensive shoes to support her walking, she really doesn't need state support to help pay for these things. Should she receive PIP? It's debatable. This is a grey area for me, but it certainly seems something ripe for cuts if the Government has to find savings somewhere, i.e. make it means tested. 2) My friend. He is partially sited. He works full time and has done for his entire life. His disability does not really effect him day to day, and it does not cause him any additional costs. He works for the NHS, so uses the Park & Ride bus for free each day to get to and from work. He spends his PIP money on gaming and PC hardware as this is his passion. He openly admits that he doesn't really understand why he's entitled to benefits, but he isn't going to "pass up free money", and who could blame him? For him, PIP is like a compensatory benefit for being partially blind, rather than being a lifeline to help him afford things to aid his life. As I said, I'd happily welcome your thoughts. It's certainly a difficult subject to address, very emotive, and hard to find the balance legislation wise.

I think the Government needs to go even further with cutting PIP. It absolutely should be means tested at the very least. The way it's set up is like compensation for being disabled, rather than being in any way being designed to cover extra costs incurred by the disability. £5bn is nothing really against the huge and ever rising welfare bill.

I'd rather watch Faes curling one out on the Mrs' tits.

Good result tonight. Won £50 on bets and had Bruno as Captain on FPL. Lovely.

At this point I hope we keep him till the end of the season - I'd genuinely like to see him become statistically the worst ever PL manager (discounting any caretaker who managed 1 or 2 games). The neutrals are right. We should have kept Cooper. We'd probably still be down but at least it wouldn't have been embarrassing.

Daka looks like Ali Dia 😂

Clinton Morrison calling him out on the BBC live text at least.