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During "I bet you look good in the back four".

I've read a few sources that led me to my view Bb. The most recent was from this Hutton article a few months ago (see at the foot of my post). It is a great read: (a) It really paints a very convincing blueprint for a better country. I doubt there would be many who would disagree. It's a version of a new Beveridge plan - the kind that I've called for a few times. (b) Hutton's piece is very balanced in telling us about how the socialist dream has failed - and why. He also looks at how radical a more right wing government can be and has been and why the Tories have been so successful. There are some things that really chime with YF's recent post above. It is a long term plan too Barbe. Just what is needed. The five national missions are given a little more space here (a health service based on wellbeing, the Great British Energy plan .....) as well as reform of the Lords. Anyway, I commend this article to all. For anyone thinking he is not radical, think again about the changes that might take place in the country, given adequate time. I can certainly see a vision there. And I like it very much. Add to it closer relationships with our EU neighbours and reform of the electoral system (it WILL happen) and I will be encouraged again. The last 13 years have been a terrible waste of time. We've gone backwards and at a great rate. We've had the worst of politicians (I include a few of the opposition). The quality of Labour's shadow cabinet looks far more competent in comparison at this moment. Business thinks so too. Many of the big social and economic indicators have got worse under this Tory rule. That's not a political statement to make, it is reality. Even bloody life expectancy has got worse under this mob as has absolute poverty and regional wealth disparities. Levelling Up my a*se. I hope we don't get too many sound bites like we have had under Johnson et al. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/26/ignore-detractors-keir-starmer-radical-transform-country

The Spanish lad we've been linked with in Turkey? They're playing their last game of the season right now. Looks like they're 2 up, he got booked in the 50th minute, scored in the 60th and got sent off in the 61st minute 😂

Now now children....can't we just get back to talking about NCFC transfers.

Just make sure you spell it as 'Harlee Dean' and not 'Harley'. Just typed that in Google and glad my wife wasn't sat beside me lol.

Well, you did but you also: 1) Predicted relegation in Farke's second season. We got promoted 2) Predicted a failure in ability to bounce back after Premier League relegation. Won the title at a canter. 3) Said our Summer 2021 Transfer Window was the best one you've ever seen. And that's just off the top of my head. So probably stop dining out on eventually getting a prediction conveniently right (and without significant injuries at the end of the season you'd still have been wrong, so be thankful that Hanley and Mclean helped you out)

Oh **** off you miserable turnip we now have a real mix of youth and experience as much as you can’t admit it

I’m not sure this is the right thread, but this does involve accountancy.

They don't have a hope in hell of holding it and never did. The only reason they have been able to hold the occupied bits is because they flooded them with Russian sympathisers years ago, stoked tensions and supplied the Ukrainian rebel factions with money and arms to fight the main Ukrainian government. Now they've advanced into areas where the civvies don't want them there, their supply lines are a mess and they're trying to perform an invasion like it's the 1940's, failing miserably because the world and warfare changed a fair bit in the past 80 years. So now they're just resorting to burn/drown/destroy everything because it's easier to occupy a dead area of wastleland than anything useful to life/society. My Ukrainian cleaner who's over here with her 4 year old son, she's from one of the towns that's been washed away by this damn incident. She was an engineer at home but her English isn't good enough to get a comparable job here so she works in the village pub and doing cleaning for various families. She's doesn't know what's happened to friends that stayed at home, she wants to go back but it's too dangerous for her child, it's just absolutely horrible. I hope that Putin gets what's coming to him in short order, personally I wouldn't be against giving the Ukrainians whatever they need to bring the war a little closer to home for the Russians, see how they like it.

Perhaps someone with better Spanish than me can confirm it but I’m 99% sure the message under his shirt said “come and get me Mr 90%”.

We've also signed dozens of duds under 30 too. Age is not a determining factor.

That's a relief.

This bird was in the kitchen when I got home.

We signed Martin Peters when he was 31. He went on to make 200 appearances, winning player of the season twice.

So we'll have 30 yr old Hernandez on one wing, 31 yr old Ince on the other and 33 yr old Barnes in the middle. Certainly focusing on youth and future development.

Cant say but 100% signed. Reason he hasnt signed earlier as he was home last week at friends wedding. But yeah passed medical yesterday and to be announced Friday.

Tend to agree. The quality of that division was horrific as could be seen from the standard of the playoffs. The scum have momentum which may help their start but I am far from convinced they are going to romp the league in the manner they seem to expect. Ultimately they have a team of good league 1 players.

Classy.

No need for this... well over the top and unnecessary. Just sayin!

Don't even bring that financial voodoo **** with me Essex, I just like watching men play with balls.

I'll be there tonight. Can still remember the scramble for tickets last September! Sign of the times when the highlight of last season was The Killers, and the highlight of this season is the Arctic Monkeys!

My excitement at having a Robin nesting in my garden was short lived. A male blackbird entered the box, beat up the Robin and stole nesting material. The Robins still frequent the garden but won't go near the nest box.

From what I can ascertain, no one has ever run an opinion poll based on educational background. Yougov did a survey based on social groups (among other things) after the 2019 election, see link below. The issue is that everything has changed in the last 10 years, probably due to the most corrupt and generally incompetent Tory party we've ever seen. It will be interesting to see what happens when they see sense and drain the swamp. I know quite a few Senior Civil Servants. The ones I know are generally moderate in their views. They wouldn't have voted for Corbyn but none of them voted for Johnson either. I have a friend whose high flying daughter is quite senior in the Bank of England who says her colleagues used to be Conservative but aren't any more. What is astonishing from this survey is how much support the Conservatives get from social groups at the bottom of the pile. Turkeys voting for Christmas springs to mind. What should terrify the Tories is that the more educated we become the more likely we are to vote Labour. It doesn't terrify them of course because they haven't got the faintest idea which way the wind is blowing. For some considerable time they have concentrated solely on just surviving the day. https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2019/12/17/how-britain-voted-2019-general-election

I spooked my lizard friend and he ran through a pot. Unfortunately his back legs trapped him half way so I had to carefully help him out. He did try to bite me a few times but I managed to get him out.

His arm was extended to obstruct at the least, it wasn't accidental in the slightest in my opinion. He knew exactly what he was doing.

Smoothly done. Just enough to be noticed, but not enough to seem like you were alpha-ing What happened to the bloke with the phd that he never mentioned...?

And 10 years ahead of his time - so really only 21! 😉

I’m known for being a realist and fairly chipper as it happens. And last summer my “whinge” was that we needed to sign CDM able to last a season and predicted we would finish 13 if we didn’t….which is exactly what happened.

Cresswell in tears with his kid in his arms. Lovely scenes.

Great secondhalf, pleased for Moyes as he's got some stick over the years. Well done.

Yep, with the current rules, it's a penalty. Clearly unintentional though, so shouldn't be given, and the rules need to be relaxed.

I would probably suggest those things you mentioned were wiped out when we got relegated to league one, equally when we got promoted and spent 3 years in the prem then fell back down again another reset. No one expected anything the first season we got promoted under Farke having sold Maddison and Murphy, so expectations were well managed that year. agree Luton will have heightened expectations now but equally they will just enjoy the ride, never too high, never too low. Lest we forget this is the club who were betrayed by the FA Gary sweet came out and said they were a founding team and now the newest team of the premier league, that struck a chord for me Farke first promotion season was probably my favourite season with norwich, the connection between club and fans was superb, players bought into the model and that continued until Covid quite frankly f**ked us

OH NO NO NO-- Soon we will be Dads Army

The team in Turkey the Spanish lad plays for definitely relegated - the team they needed to lose are winning 4-0.

Tbh if we get Duffy our business to-date will have been pretty good: just about replacing those that have left, if you squint, Stacey:Byram, Barnes:Pukki, Duffy:Hanley (injury) or AO or just an extra cb; potentially Ince:Dowell? Obviously these aren’t direct comparisons but you get the idea - replacing out-of-contract players with good standard replacements at minimal cost is v sensible. The problem is when we want to ‘improve’ the squad vs last year, and start selling to buy - that will be the key.

He literally had no choice regarding this merger, none of the players did. He also said today he still hates LIV and doesn't want them involved. What other option does he have, retire from golf altogether?

I heard he's being announced during the Arctic Monkeys. They're getting him on stage to play harmonica

This thread is going well.

They couldn't give a sh1t. They'll just force Ukrainians to repair/rebuild or live in the rubble.

The Hives are great live, always entertaining.

I almost mistook it for the 1p5wich shirt!

This !!!! I think the support for the Tory party though is not just one group. There are the traditional rural (farming) Tories who cant imagine or have the wit to vote otherwise - and now the 'populist' simplistic right wing (yes often at the bottom of the pile). In some areas they overlap. All that said, education tends to favour those parties that are rational and with competent policies. Not tribal loyalties

Do you genuinely not believe that privately educated people are not proportionately more right-wing relative to the general population? That there are plenty of privately-educated in the Labour Party doesn't change the fact that most privately-educated people are likely to be Tory. That's just obvious, isn't it?

Tried to like them but I just can't. Did the Killers last year and it felt a bit surreal seeing them against the Carrow Rd backdrop. Superb. Enjoy.

You could imagine Max getting into a verbal with a dog walker who's smaller than him, and the day finishes with everyone searching for Idah.

" I am not sure the money is there for that" Whereas sales of Rashica, and possibly Omo. £1m for Cantwell and possibly another couple more from Maddisons sell on. We have cleared some senior wages with the departures of Pukki, Dowell, Cantwell, Byram, Hugill. There is also the no small matter of £30 odd million in parachute payments. To talk of us not being able to afford another couple of strikers is absurd. Neither of our two signings so far came cheap, which is a measure of our intent. And that intent does not mean relying on a player who has been a constant let down. We need to hit the ground running come August and that does not mean nursing along a lame duck....who might eventually become a Championship player, or not. Hugill was shipped out when City managers watched him play. 20 mins in total as a sub for WHU over 3 games. I suspect we give him a bit more leeway because he is one of ours. As we did with Cantwell and his frequent tantrums. Players at this level are often paid more per week than some of the supporters are paid in a year. For them to be in the first team earning that level of wages it is not unexpected for them to be up to the required level.mIdah is not. Otherwise there would not be constant talk of him improving. Now even the RoI manager is talking about a supposed potential. Get him out on a half season loan to a good L1 club and let him prove himself. Because for every Carlton Morris, Murphy and Toffolo, there were another 7 who simply dropped away. .At the moment Idah is looking to be one of the latter. Certainly not somepne to depend on in such an important season.

Could still be. I reckon there'll be a friendly or two before that one. Hopefully it won't be Kaiserslaughtered.