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The weird thing with Thomas is that he's truly dreadful, a competition winner. But two games ago, for the one and only time in his career, he was bombing forward whipping in dangerous balls. Never seen before and apparently since.

What did he write about her?

Glad to see you've hit the town to get over the loss Phil 🎸

He's a league 2 full back

I hate transfer windows. Football was more interesting when you could sign players at any time until March. Outside of transfer windows all there is to do is moan about performances. Used to be able to talk about potential transfers all season. Football manager type games were 10000000000% more fun as well.

Borders have been changed by force for centuries. I struggle with the concept it's suddenly impossible to agree to such a thing. European borders have been created in the last 30 years. Not saying it's right, just that it happens all the time.

Tbh the only possible end is Russia having those regions, or at best the land it's already got. There isn't going to be any way to get that land back. American security guarantees on one side and accepting the land is gone on the other is going to have to happen in some way, shape or form. European leaders do seem to be prolonging things in the pretence that isn't going to be how it ends. What I don't like is trump attempting to take Ukrainian resources and making it about ways to make money for the Americans, but that aside, there does need to be a reality check about how this needs to end.

This must have smelt AMAZING

Jordan James is on his shoulder? Have a two player chant for the Skipp/JJ axis

Ok fair enough that's more interesting than I was aware of. Beyond figures, is he any good? Have you raised his name because you've seen him play and his game is good as well as those numbers?

Thatcher is the reason the country is in the mess it's in. Utterly failed ideas around privatisation. Changes to corporate law which have led to huge wealth disparities. What on earth do you think she did that was positive?

Wasn't he at Stoke and didn't get a kick? He's not really done anything since scoring one good goal in Europe a few years ago.

I would most definitely rail her. But if she started talking about Trump ending 8 wars, and celebrating the militarisation of American cities as a great accomplishment, I say "Oi, Leavitt, I enjoyed your sensual female touch and the curve of your fullsome breasts, but I don't want to hear fake news about the orange pillock running your country. I'd appreciate it if you could get back into your 80s style power suit and sod off back to Washington".

Their parents kept them in because it wasn't safe to go out alone. Play dates with friends were set up instead of being allowed to disappear out til nightfall. It's their parents (my generation) to blame. The world is not less safe than before, but parents have lost the plot.

They had his car cam and could hear him on it. He very clearly simply lost his temper. Unsure why you'd think a whole trial couldn't work it out but you've figured better after briefly musing on a few details from the case.

I can only talk about myself I suppose. I'm relatively senior these days. Run a professional led service covering a region. Yet I earn less that almost all of my friends in their mid forties. And it's been that way throughout our careers. If you read our relative jobs on paper you'd expect me to be earning more, but I'm not, and never will do. With the jobs I've done in my career the private sector equivalent has always been paid far more. I could leave and join the private sector of course, but I'm an idealist and like being a public servant and not working to make money. I suspect at the low end you might have a point. But as you move through your career, and perhaps sector could have a difference here TBF, the private sector starts to get further and further ahead. Think about how much noise you hear about a public sector CEO earning £150k while running a multi billion pound organisation, Vs how much you could earn in the private sector doing that. Public sector pensions are obviously still better than private but they've been made a lot worse. There have been at least three rounds of making the pension worse over the last 15 years.

So all a bit mixed? Big hit down, then tracked inflation, then some wins, meanwhile your career progressed? Tbh I could get into private v public, but it's not really what I believe. What I believe is that the public and private sectors rely on each other. The public sector uses the private sector for huge amounts of things: direct services, construction, maintenance, goods.... Basically everything. Meanwhile the private sector sees literally hundreds of billions of pounds a year funnelled to it via public sector services. Both would be crushed without the other. One thing I dislike about right wing politics is that it talks about the private sector as an incredible wealth creator, and the public sector as a drain. That just isn't true. The private sector only creates new money when businesses take on loans, in which case banks create money when lending. Otherwise, the private sector either just moves old money around from one place to another, or takes public spending - which again can be new created money. On its own it doesn't create money. Creating wealth just means it's concentrating the nation's assets into the pockets of a few, as that's what wealth is, the concentration of assets/money. Public sector and private sector are two sides of the same coin. What ordinary people should be fighting for is better public sector pay and better private sector pensions.

Indeed. The current economic model only benefits the rich. @kenny lost a huge chunk of his wages in 2008 through no fault of his own. I had a decade of lost earnings, which actually is a career as those earnings will never come back, so it's a career 30% down. Both of us did nothing wrong. Both of us I'm sure have worked hard. Yet true wealth has flourished while we've both took hits. Capitalism is called capitalism because it pushes the wealth of a nation towards capital (wealth). Sod the rest of us. Sell of the nation's assets and steal it's money. Even if you hate socialism you must want something different to what the last 40 years have brought us.

What were your pay rises over the next ten years?

Fair enough. Do you have any examples from any club of confirmed explicit instructions to do this?

For ten straight years in the public sector I had either 0% or 1% pay rises. Ten years. Relative wages fell by about a third. The public sector absolutely did not cause the financial crisis, nor the deficit, yet public servants paid for it. That isn't good for the economy either. If public servants are poorer, they're spending less on shops, on their houses, going out etc. It's bad for the economy. It's utterly ridiculous that people are still complaining when they actually get some sort of rise after that lost decade. The Tories are economically illiterate, hence them cutting relative spending (it went up, but more slowly than demand or it would have) while also raising tax rates, with wage growth at the slowest for nearly 300 years and years of stagnation.

The manager is very unlikely to be asking him to play a short 6 yard pass to an opposing player. A manager may ask for short passing but they won't be asking for that with zero thought to attacking positioning. Otherwise he'd never kick it long, which he does do.

I don't think the Tories were that right wing particularly, except on the economy. Cutting spending led us to the dark economic place we're in now. The fact labour won't relax it's fiscal rules to enable greater borrowing to induce growth is problematic, but really we should have been borrowing significantly back when government borrowing was virtually free, to really drive growth. The Tories had an incredible opportunity to really do something amazing but their economic dogma prevented that, leading to what were record high tax rates, combined with record debt, combined with collapsing public services. Truly abysmal leadership.

I hate "record spending". Spending always goes up because of inflation. It's always record. But if it goes up slower than demand+inflation then it can be record and also not enough that's what happened for 14 consecutive years under the Tories.