Rayvin
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I mean yeah, that looks really bad. I'm not even sure it is 'legal' in his words tbh, it sounds like grooming.
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23 minutes ago, ewerk said:
Think that was pre-takeover when he'd had some success with Derby, in my (very flimsy) defense? I have a mate who is a Derby fan who was singing his praises at the time. So to be clear, we're comparing pre-Chelsea Lampard with Steve Bruce at the point in time I said that
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Aye, it's all about the relegation scrap really.
I do wish Chelsea were down there too - if only they'd brought Lampard in sooner.
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58 minutes ago, Alex said:
I’m not ashamed to say what they’re doing for the football club has a big positive impact on my mental health and how much pleasure I derive from it etc.
Same. Funny how much difference in makes in life to have something to be happy about on the football side of things.
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3 minutes ago, Polarboy said:
Whinging that people like Reuben are doing PR for themselves by letting it be known that they do charity work is cutting your nose off to spite your face. Reuben gets PR, the foodbank gets PR, the foodbank gets an injection of money. It's a win, win, win surely. People walking round in sackcloth and ashes and not visibly doing charity work is little more than self satisfying moralising, which I think is worse than the self satisfaction that everyone gets when doing things for others.
I agree on that bit, it was the political donations I take more of an issue with. Anyway, this isn't the thread for it really.
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Yeah I don't have an issue with that being flagged tbh. Ashley was so shit that it's been really easy to just enjoy having owners who genuinely seem to care, but being aware of their failings is important too. And for all we've heard the Saudi stuff to death by now, this is relevant too.
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6 minutes ago, Diego21 said:
I know that my level of English, at a grammatical level, is not very good. I confuse verb tenses and I understand that sometimes it can be difficult for you to read me.
I was better before. While I was studying (and at times when I haven't worked as a journalist) he worked in a shop in the center of Madrid, so he had to speak to many tourists in English almost every day. I think I was performing well for my level.
Now I realize that every day it costs me more and that by not having those daily conversations it begins to cost me more.
But I try to read a lot in English. I think that possibly next year I will try to go to an academy to get closer to grammar again.
Your English is genuinely fine for 95% of the things you post mate, don't worry too much about it
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Wigan circling the drain by the sounds of it? Not really kept abreast of that but their fans seem to be getting increasingly frantic. Points deductions for next season now in place, failing to pay player wages and seemingly no willingness by their board to put money in to resolve any of it.
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I forgot Villa-Boas was even in existence
Apparently took up rally car racing...
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38 minutes ago, Howmanheyman said:
If someone with access to RTG posted that picture on there, they'd then have to get away from that forum quicker than the pilots of the Enola Gay turned around after they'd released the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.
"The hat is tainted with bloodmoney!! Sportswashing marras. FTM and Fuck Bruno with his tyrannical, murderous hat!"
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I reckon Potter tbh. And he'd be a decent call for them since they need a full rebuild.
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Just now, Renton said:
Doesn't even say she will cut debt there? We don't want more debt, we want more fair distribution of money.
It's not really mentioned much on this either but tbf I'm not sure this is the speech for it. This seems to be more about getting the UK back to some sort of productive economic position, the social impacts of which aren't touched so much in the piece. You would hope that would be part of it but they're shying away from tax rises so it's hard to tell.
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2 minutes ago, ewerk said:
I think that's a bit of a leap tbh. Debt under New Labour remained steady until 2008 and I'm not sure you could say that they're the part of austerity never mind Obsorne levels of austerity.
Fair - I hope a lot of this becomes clearer as we move forward, it's tedious having to sift out key details from opinion pieces.
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What is it Maguire is meant to do well
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4 minutes ago, ewerk said:
I'm not sure quite how you got that from the article.
And the fourth is that all this must happen within effective national fiscal rules – and not by allowing debt to balloon.
That's how I'm interpreting this sentence.
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7 minutes ago, Alex said:
Still has her trademark excruciating circumlocutions and lack of punctuation throughout.
Hopefully it was as painful to write as it is to read
She does actually get the area though Tbf and the stuff about local businesses and the Emirates flights etc is spot on. Not to mention the bit about the north east being patronised. Which could just as easily be applied to her colleagues at The Guardian as football pundits elsewhere
The Guardian is terrible for patronising the North East IMO. Whenever there's any article about anything up here it comes across in that sort of forced 'oh they'll feel really special that we're paying attention to them' sort of way. It's one of the reasons NUFC becoming strong again is so important in some ways - now they have to talk about us on equal terms because we've insisted upon it, it would make them unserious professionals not to do so.
I'm not a fan of LT as I actually think her entire role in the Guardian is a personification of that patronising position. She's a weaker journalist who writes pieces of very little substance beyond stating the obvious - but she's from 'up here' and they give her a bit of space to write about us and Sunderland, so that's all ok. We should be grateful.
It's the reason I picked up a subscription to the Athletic tbh, at least you feel like the people writing about us in there care about proper analysis of the club.
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Rachel Reeves apparently going for Bidenomics - Neoliberal leanings, and an Osbornian take on austerity. Admittedly I'm struggling a little to place her positions on this exactly but that's my reading of it based on the cues in the article.
She looks like the centrist's centrist to me - worked for a bank, PPE degree, wants to do Tory economic policy but more competently. Even with the polls narrowing there's little doubt in my mind that Labour are going to win, so it'll be interesting to see how all of this plays out.
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Yep, so growth is going to be modest and sustainable. That's always been how it looked tbh so no great surprise. It does mean though that this is less about sportswashing and more about genuine development of an asset - which, again, it always looked more like being.
I actually think this could end up looking like a very well backed but ultimately fairly run of the mill takeover - and that the success we gain from it will ultimately be reflective of what this club was always capable of at the upper end of realistic.
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1 minute ago, strawb said:
Right. I’ve ordered a decent looking but cheap ring to propose to my gf with and then planning on taking her to choose her own ring.
This is probably the best course of action right?
One particularly vociferous mate thinks I should pick the fucking thing, knowing our lass it would be wrong for the rest of my life. And he can get fucked the eternally single cunt
Yes.
And good luck with it mate.
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Burn will never get picked but he deserves to be.
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Just now, Alex said:
Literally nobody said abandon all your principles to win power. That sort of polarisation of the debate is sixth form politics though 👍🏻
Fair enough.
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1 minute ago, Alex said:
Tbf I think that’s fucking bollocks. There’s a world of difference between being his being pragmatically non-committal on Brexit and completely ruling out things like freedom of movement. I think most on here found it depressing Brexit was off the table as a subject before the next election but show me one person on here who wanted him to double down on it to win. The stupid thing is he doesn’t need to fight on that front at all. The economy and cost of living has created the massive lead he has. Even if the boats is being weaponised the government have an appalling record on that and can be got at easily
You're talking policy positions mind, I can clearly remember people on here harping on about sixth form politics and how you need to win power and so on as a general strategic consideration - not really calling people out on policy. This is what it looks like to abandon principle and go all in on power, that's all I'm saying.
I despair at it, but it's the play that many people called for post-Corbyn.
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It's power at any cost, which tbf is what many of you have asked for. So he's doing exactly what I'd understood Labour had to do. Nothing is sacred but power itself.
The direction of travel is very clear now so let's see where we end up.
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Lots of ours in the comments pointing out that no one cared about 'fair market value' when Ashley was whoring the club around dressed up in sports direct junk. Surely that should actually work both ways though, Ashley should have had to pay fair price too.
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Transfers, 2023-24 season
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In Sean Casey's own words...