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  3. Posted

    1 hour ago, ricardo said:

    The Speaker made a serious error of judgement. There is no getting round that.

    Whether his apology is enough remains to be seen.

    He's more chance of being Speaker next year than had he not done what he did. He's like the majority of politicians and in it to feather his own nest. So was it really an error of judgment?

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    A journalist summed it up when they said they received a text from an unnamed Tory MP, "We're nowhere near as angry as we're pretending to be"!

    Even **** twonk Jacob Rees-Mogg understood the move. And if Hoyle was hiding, he didn't do a very good job of it considering he soon fronted up to the Commons later in the day.

    RTB is a lunatic.

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    4 hours ago, king canary said:

    This is weirdly the norm in American sports so maybe he got the idea from the Glazers? I've never understood tax payer money going on stadiums for multi billion dollar sports teams.

    It's not quite so weird in the US though, as it's franchise-based and states and cities will pledge all manner of goodies and public cash to entice sports franchises to move to their city because of the economic benefit it brings. So there is a financial logic to it. Nevada forked out over half a million quid to get the Raiders into Las Vegas.

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    7 minutes ago, Foxy2600 said:

    Believe me - at grass roots level either removing them or only in the 18 yard box should be looked at (it was trialled locally back in the 70’s) so 1. Stops biased Lino’s and 2. Stops non-biased Lino’s being abused or even assaulted. 
    The whole point of introducing offsides was to stop ‘goal hangers’ which nowadays could probably be eliminated with a change in tactics. 

     

    I agree, I coach my boy's team and it's our first season with offsides. During our game at the end of our training sessions, we obviously don't have linos, so we just have a rule that if it's so obvious that the person reffing it can see they are offside from behind the play, we'll give it. I kinda think that would a good rule. I know it creates a lot of subjectivity and inevitably there will be a lot of goals given that would currently be ruled out for offside, but goals are good! And it stops the goal-hanging tendency as a ref will easily spot that from anywhere on the pitch. If he can't spot it obviously, then they can play on.

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    42 minutes ago, Commonsense said:

    Nonsense. In no way is it a farmers league. Within Europe only the English and Spanish leagues are stronger. UEFA rankings have the German league on a par with Italy. Your terminology is a gross insult, but suggests you believe that the only way for leagues not to be ‘farmers’ is for clubs to be owned by multi billionaires or petro states.

    I don't really think the PinkUn is the place to go for takes on football outside of England. There's a thread at the moment where people are genuinely positing that Rangers and Celtic would be mid to lower Championship teams. I hate Rangers, but it's the same Rangers that go to the Europa League final, getting passed Borussia Dortmund over two legs. Incidentally, they also go further than Barcelona  who were knocked out by eventual champions Eintracht Frankfurt, from an apparent farmer's league.

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    8 hours ago, Fen Canary said:

    I’d hate that. One of the joys of football (especially clubs our size) is seeing youngsters from your academy forcing their way into the first team. Do you think people would have had such an affinity with Rowe, Aarons etc if they had just been won in a draft system from some centralised agency? 

    A lot would. But you'd also have the opportunity of following an Academy team made up of local kids from your area, rather than your club's academy made up of people their scouting network has sourced from London, Luton, abroad, etc.

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    2 minutes ago, TheGunnShow said:

    Incidentally, guess who was called in to design the "people's car"? Ferdinand Porsche.

    A vile man. Sold out his country and ancestry to align with the Nazis, a friend of Hitler and worked hundreds of prisoners to death in his Fallersleben factory. Actually spent a bit of time in jail for war crimes, not long enough though.

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    1 hour ago, Worthy Nigelton said:

    Salary cap.

    Some sort of draft for young players - do away with youth teams.

    Maximum number of loans in and out.

    I'd like to trial no offsides just to see what it's like - I'm not confident I'd like it though!

    Salary cap would sort so many of the issues.

    I agree regarding doing away with youth teams. Take a chunk of the TV cash to fund regional academies in which youth prospects largely from those areas aged between 16-19 are based. Similar to the US college system, here they will receive a formal education whilst also competing for their Academy in a league. With a bit of marketing, it could end up funding itself and start attracting half decent crowds and a decent TV deal. Then when they graduate at the end of their third year, they go into some sort of draft system and become a professional with a decent education and some qualifications behind them.

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    32 minutes ago, ......and Smith must score. said:

    They had previous form with their murky dealings in WW2 which unsurprisingly doesn’t feature prominently in their history of the company.

    Most of the big German companies have murky WW2 dealings; Audi enslaved thousands and worked them to death at Leitmeritz, Porsche, BMW and VW did similar in other camps, Allianz insured the murderous infrastructure at concentration camps, Siemens actually had a facility within Auschwitz in which slave labour was deployed.

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  18. Posted

    1 minute ago, Daz Sparks said:

    I love Lego, and my loft has a load of it, from some modern technical to some 50+ year old stuff.

    Probably worth thousands.

  20. Posted · Edited by canarydan23

    That's garbage, Celtic and Rangers would comfortably survive in the EPL. Hell, Rangers got to the Europa League final less than 2 years ago and were not even SPL winners that season.

    Given access to EPL TV money, alongside their higher than average attendances, it wouldn't take long before they were challenging for European qualification via league position.

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    1 hour ago, The Raptor said:

    Ooooh must be a good set. If I've got a spare of the missing minifigure I could always sell it to him at a highly inflated price!

    He already bought a replacement minifigure for what he said was a steal, but turned out whilst the figure was genuine lego, it had a different cape, so now he's paying another few quid for an official cape for a royal imperial guard.

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  22. Posted

    He gets more time to pick a pass as CB and actually creates more attacking opportunities from that position than when he's in CM. And him dropping into that position allows us to field our best CM pairing in Nunez (probably my MOTM yesterday) and Sara.

    Hopefully he sticks with it even when Gibson is available. 

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  23. Posted

    My kids are obsessed with it. The boy just spent all his Christmas, birthday and pocket money on a second hand Star Wars set that was missing a minifigure and was apparently still a bargain at £80.

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