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Just spoiled my first ballot. Lib Dems calling a pointless election Vs reform. Nothing worth voting for.

Got to stop playing him as a substitute Winks. Whilst I was underwhelmed by the signing, he looked good under Cooper as a box to box.

Pretty much, it costs around £200k to build a regular 2-3 bed house, plus the land plus fees. So you won't get one for less than £300k anywhere. Furthermore, each time a new piece of legislation comes in to improve the environmental or safety credentials of construction, whilst positive, there is a cost attached to that. Also worth a mention that inflation effects houses as well and that runs at 3% ish per year. House prices have pretty much tracked the rate of inflation for the past 20 years. Final point is that the average age of a tradesman is going up all the time. The average age on construction sites is over 45. Their salaries will increase above the rate of inflation, which is great that traditional working class roles are paid so well. It does mean that house price inflation will continue. TLDR. They won't stop going up and ithe majority is not due to greedy developers.

With the rising construction costs it becomes less inflated day by day. In the North it has gotten to the point that the houses are worth less than they cost to build. This is causing havoc for the Social Housing providers as their funding is based upon the stock value of the housing once complete. As we build more and more sprawling estates in lieu of decent housing within the city boundaries, the available land goes will reduce meaning its value also goes up.

I reckon the minerals aren't there or at least not in the quantities that Trump thinks.

Como was my guess

If it happened which I doubt, then id expect rudkin to be promoted to KP and moved away from the club. Promotion through failure is how many businesses seem to operate, why not us.

Often forgotten that Ranieri is a dinosaur and Pearson diametric to his appearance/tactics was a visionary. The club really should get him back for a couple of days a week on £2m a year simply to rebuild the backroom teams and instill a decent winning culture.

Wouldn't it better to settle on your 11 and formation before you start, then stick to it rigidly until results improve?

Doing the right thing for his people you mean? For himself is something that both Putin and Trump would suggest, as if he is only waging this war for his own self advancement.

Just guessing based upon the noises from both Russia and Ukraine. What is a crazy gamble is for the Ukrainians to surrender to Russia and wait yo be taken to the nearest gulag. I'm pleased it's not a decision I have to make, but a surrender would probably be the death of many millions more of Ukrainians over the coming years. I suspect they are more scared of the offered peace than the ongoing war.

Russia is becoming much more dangerous because it is closer to collapse than Ukraine. It needs the ceasefire more which is why Putin is putting pressure on Trump to push Zelensky IMO. I am starting to think that Ukraine are feeling more confident in their position than they have for some time. What would be a tipping point is France not holding back on weapons and being difficult over arms deals for future European production. I think Zelensky is now playing for time as the war will be won economically. Ironically, trumps economic war is effecting Russia by driving down oil prices and he won't force the rest of the world to raise sanctions, which leaves their recovery very precarious.

Russia needs the war to prop up the economy so I doubt it will stop soon. I suspect they will tell trump that the European sanctions have to end before the ceasefire is agreed.

The Easter ceasefire didn't effect how many died. I suspect that any ceasefire agreed to by Russia will be broken and denied within weeks if not days.

The last 2 years of his contract he was a shadow of himself and stock dropped massively. When we won the cup, him and Madison were easily £60m sales had we wanted to, particularly as Newcastle were desperate to chuck money around. I don't remember any concrete bids either, but these days how often do clubs get concrete public bids that are rejected and the bidding clubs walk away. It's all conjecture and media hype until the transfer is done.