grobyfox1990

Watching trump rallies is my guilty pleasure. This campaign they have taken a new level of humour, South Carolina yday was amazing. The way he mocks Biden and his grandiose statements (under me we had the greatest economy in the history of the world) are brilliant. When I worked in the USA during the 2016 campaign I could never attend one, would love to see it in person

The ref, who was awful, was the lino who elbowed Andy Robertson last season.

Good day out at jersey bulls, lost 3-0 v Falmouth in the last 16 of the vase. 250 away fans and a 1500 attendance. Hospitality was for once done v well. Enjoyed it

Agreed, never minded the commute, 1.5 hours each way at worst (if everything is running fine) but it was some time to do my own things. I now live a 10-15 min walk from the office and it is weird. The cost of commuting in London was far worse than time spent. And like you said, the reward of being in a city where you can do anything you want 24/7 is worth the commute IMO.

https://www.ft.com/content/165f9aee-1180-4be8-903b-b166dc4e4fa1 Absolutely crazy how far our standard has dropped across so many metrics, whilst we sat idly by.

Yeh agreed, easy to say it but not practical to do. And yeh early-mid 30s, don't think we'll have a state mandated retirement age or state pension when we get to these ages, it'll be work until you drop unless you can afford it.

Fair. I see where you're coming from and a football forum is not the place to go into the nuts and bolts of the report, especially around provision of care which you allude to, which is not strictly true but is logically true. When my generation retire in their 90s, we will likely need care because there will be no state pension and no million dollar unearned wealth for us to call upon, unlike those who are approaching retirement now likely do have. Main point of the report is, probably everyone needs to put more in their pensions now which hopefully came across amidst the clickbait headlines

Not only have I read it, I know members of the PLSA external taskforce that were involved in writing it through a previous life in helping them put together the annual 'financial lives' survey. It's a rigorous assessment based on a lot more than what person on the internet sees in his own echo chamber life. I presume you have not read the report but just skimmed a bbc article and figured you know what you're talking about from that. You've worked hard your entire life and want to help your grandchildren, that is entirely reasonable and is a goal for many of having a 'comfortable' retirement, Maybe not for you, but clearly for many others. Do you have any idea how much care costs? Do you know how far £3600 a month gets you? Again you are missing the definition of 'comfortable.'

Haha, touche!!! Love it

Numbers don’t compute with person on the internet. Let’s ignore the experts then. Where is the foxestalk science club, you literally have a study which is being ignorantly dismissed!!

Only way to make this happen is to apply pressure to them in a co-ordinated way, which no one can be arsed to do in this day and age. I'm still wrangling with them over my travel costs for Blackburn away, which was moved from Friday night to Sunday midday with very little notice meaning I missed the match

Soton home KO will be announced before Chelsea are confirmed to be in/out of the cup QF. I think they will plan our fixture on the proviso that ars v chels goes ahead.

Good point. I guess Sky won't mind competing with Ars v Chels and a QF on other channels.

But they do care about playing extra games. Scrap replays, they are totally pointless, in return you pay for the privilege by funding smaller clubs.

Arsenal v Chelsea 12.30 on the Saturday, Fulham v Spurs 17.30. Plus there will be fa cup QF matches. It won't be Saturday, and feels like too big a game to stick on a Sunday at 12.00. It has to be Friday night but who knows with Sky

Pay the fee and sort it before you get to the airport and get done in. Lodge a claim and/or get creative if you want it back

Agree in theory . Problem is they’ll all get smashed by the bigger teams and you won’t get a chance of seeing a smaller team sh1t house their way to a 5th round by playing port vale, Mansfield at home etc. Just give these teams the cup money. If PL clubs can pay 3rd choice keepers £50k a week we can shame them into funding the ‘lifeblood’ of the game surely

Madness. And then we bang on about fa cup replays being the lifeblood to smaller clubs because that could get an amazing chance to welcome a £75k a week premier league bench player to their ground for £55k tv money. Scrap pointless replays, give all fa cup earnings to ‘smaller’ clubs

Bloody hell that's good!! Enjoyed Hull away the one time I've been

Stokes average attendance is 22,273, a 79.55% utilisation rate. This has increased in the last two seasons. Wba 22,128, 82.4% preston 16,475, 69.2% and up in last two season blackburn 16,673, 49.9% but up on last season sheff utd 31,328, 97.7% up in last two seasons. Stop peddling fake news. Where is the science club of this forum calling for peer reviewed studies to back up this gibberish

It can’t be Monday as that’s international week. Surely too big a game for Sunday midday? I’m booking travel assuming it being a Friday night ko.

This is a captive audience tho. Like in most parts of life, those who are negative/see the worst in everything shout loudest. The hordes of people who enjoy football and attending are not going to participate in phone ins to confirm this. For some reason those who are dead against the game feel they need to shout about how right they are and how righteous they are for not following it anymore. Football attendances are thriving. Non league attendances may be thriving too. They don’t have to be mutually exclusive. Posts showing an empty ground at 5-0 as are as good as buses promising us money if we vote a certain way

All leagues in the efl have >30% growth in attendances in the last 20 years. A 12% increase from 21/22 - 22/23 alone. The championship is the 10th most attended football league in the world. Football is in boom time. This is proper low grade fake news, showing a screenshot of a ground where they’ve just gone 5-0 down and not won since end of oct.

Now THAT’s entertainment!! Fun day out

Probably unpopular opinion that restricts me to ‘Wokey’ status, but totally agree. We bang about anxiety in kids constantly but allow their undeveloped heads to get knocked around in the name of exercise. No need