Paninistickers

Looking at the comments online, I'm in the minority in preferring the tnt commentary team. However, what a boo boo in having next to no crowd sound. Switched to the NZ Sky coverage for the crowd atmosphere - but that has Vaughan on Comms - who I cannot stand. Pays your money takes yer choice

Good question. I communicate via text. So there's a paper trail as it were and I can see if they are ignoring me.. Somehow, I've found you need to give off an air that you can take it or leave it. Firm, unemotional texts along the lines of 'can confirm that all good for Tuesday 9am start, as I need to coordinate with tiler/electrician/plasterer' that type of stuff seems to work more often than not. If they look like trouble, a quick voicemail backed up by a text that you 'need a firm yes or no by tomorrow' - no threat, just an implied fck it, you've had your chance if they don't reply

Mate, I agree totally. But my point is slightly different. Oadby and Wigston and Welford road were predominantly private and perceived the nice end of town. Lots of Jelson 1960s private estates. They are in tatters. It now looks far more like the new parks of old. Yet I can point to almost identical 60s, 70s, 80s Jelson estates in, say, Groby, which are still largely white, and they are still clinging on. The neatness, the tidiness. It's an uncomfortable truth that Indians moving in to an area triggers a decline. Belgrave, Evington, Humberstone, Spinney Hills have been trashed for years. But the collapse of affluent South Leicester has happened in 20 years. And the last decade it's been in freefall.

You're a clever dude. An IQ way beyond mine. But sometimes all this intelligence forms you a cosy harmonious live and let live narrative. So long as you don't have to actively live it,.obvs. I haven't got a narrative. My comments aren't anecdotal. It's my own eyes matey. South Leicester suburbs are my patch, my manor. And I'm telling you, not expressing a view, that Indians (Asians) moved in and it triggered a decline. The housing stock in oadby and wigston is in tatters. Broken fences, unkempt gardens. Weed strewn driveways. Garish and incongruous extensions. Mosques in semi detached houses. Diwali fireworks banging off at all hours. And because of this the white population has fcked off. Whether you like it or not. They've fcked off to the county villages. And in that vacuum come more and more.

Your reading a first hand witness account. Like, proper primary source material. I'm not expressing a view. I'm telling you as it is, not as it ought to be.

You make a fair point. The last line with the poorer demographic are not solely Asian. With that comes in Turks, Kurds and various other ethnic groups. But the 'reverse gentrification' of Leicester's nice bits starts with the Asians.

Mate, the 'wealthy Southern suburbs' are in the rapid process of decimation. The cool, urbane Asians with some money move in. That then sets out some kind of smoke signal for the less cool, less wealthy that it's safe ground for Asians. Then after that, the place is in tatters as the next layer of asian punters who settle are spinning down a poverty plughole. The white flight is at breakneck pace at the moment. What's left of Leicester is running to the county. Groby or Kibworth. Shepshed or Lutterworth. Broughton Astley or Burbage.

anyone got an opinion on a SIPP? Just in process of transferring a pension into one. Not my main personal pension but workplace one picked up with previous employer. Is it possible to choose an aggressive, higher risk fund? Or are most of the funds fairly vanilla? As this pension point is a bit of a bonus, wondered if I could go hard on this one for a decade or so. I've chosen to go with ii as the provider.

MD who doesn't know about MDing!

You sound surprised.

It was always gonna be someone who has the trust of KP of working in a launderette.

I'd play at LB (in no particular order) Faes, Hamza, Ricky, Okoli,.Skipp, Abdul and probs Aluko ahead of LT

Well, I'm one of those weirdos that wish him well. I loved his debut at Villa. He's been garbage since. Apart from the spell he was away on loan. But garbage with us managed by garbage managers in a garbage team with a club in freefall. I blame us for his disastrous spell, not him. Oh, and if those early rumours were true, he rates Luke Thomas about as highly as I do. So he knows his stuff.

So, like, what's to do now I'm signed up?

Weird attendance figures. 24k at us arsenal,.villa, saints and West ham Some kind of tax fiddle?

Same, just came on this thread to post the same. I suppose some kind of membership secretary has to go through all the 'all those in favour say aye' rigmarole that these parish council types love to immerse themselves in.

Foxes Cuck!

There isn't a chance we sign JJ. We've done what penniless Italian clubs do to us and pretended there's a pot if gold at the end of the rainbow. He'll be back to Rennes and then transferred to Cov.

Absolutely right. There's no difference between Stoke or Norwich or Millwall or anyone else. There isn't a team or player at this level who concerns me. All rubbish. We only need be scared of ourselves.

Goodness ms

Although these chants about Rudkin are sick, this initial fan advisor board statement that's triggered a rare club message is all a bit cuck.

'Old guard'. Some people just love being part of a committee. Taking minutes. Banging hammers. Reading out absent notices and quoting clause 3, paragraph 4 of the constitution. Well meaning in their own way. But it's a hobby. That sort need pushing out for those more interested in doing and less interested in procedure. Pop the link up to join and I'll back this.

I've raised this question very early season, but be interested in others thoughts again 10 games later. I'm not sure we are well served by having a 10 and two wingers. . I prefer three in midfield. JJ deeper. And Winks having an extra body (Skipp) around him so, basically, he has to do less leg work. Instead of the ten we encourage the wingers to get narrower and closer to Daka. I think we can play quick around teams rather than just pushing it wide and hoping the winger beats their man.

Point being we need to have a go before we need to have a go

Adapting tactics/formations to the players you have available used to be pretty much the norm for management. Seems now to be a dying art.