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I agree EC, but I think that it is important that it is noted that pensions are a welfare payment. There is no pension fund (as there is in Local Govt) and in any case the level of contribution that most people make is far too low to get the pension at the level it is. (NI is nominally supposed to cover other things ( e.g. unemployment insurance). Many of the people who claim most violently about tax/ NI have paid far less into the system than they have got out. I have a friend who constantly complains about this but he has never been a high earner + has 4 kids + health issues! He will have a big net deficit in his financial contributions to society but is still very "entitled" about his pension.

You don't need an opinion on this it is measured. Unless you think that our head coach is lying he said that mistakes trying to play out had led to 3 goals against and had contributed to 24 goals for (one of the highest in the division). Again, as several have said, it does not have to be binary. You can adopt it as your primary style but you have to vary it at times to challenge the opposition's press. All of this has been covered by JHT in press conferences if you watch them in full.

The British state pension is a welfare payment: the biggest by far!

Are you sure that he will pay normal tax? I am pretty sure that there are specialist arrangements for significant elements of it - especially as a foreign player.

You have to go direct sometimes - JHT has said this several times - otherwise the process becomes very predictable and teams can press with total impunity. He has criticised our decision-making about this at times. Without wishing to open another can of worms, it one of the reasons he played Onel up front on Saturday.

I'm sure that they do measure it - it just that we don't know it.

His point was quite simple: shots on goal are a very crude measure - as he said in the interview, you can shoot from 30 yards and it dribbles to the keeper and counts as a shot on target. He didn't specify his favourite metric (and I'm sure they use several) but it's a reasonable guess to speculate that Xg, which has some attempt at measuring the quality of the chance is a better measure. (This was very low on Saturday as well.)

I agree with your point but I believe the issue may have been potential legal issues over some of the things people said. I would have thought that this could have been got around by more rigorous registration processes, but tbf, I guess it's the time it all takes for staff.

I voted "Yes." I used to enjoy discussing non-football issues with a relatively small community of people bound together by a love of NCFC.

Thanks Ricardo. Depressing watch today, but given the crucial injuries, I don't think that we can draw too many conclusions. It looked like a lot of the players lacked confidence once we fell behind.

Thanks for the report Ricardo. With regards to the knee, apparently the key thing is to be "out on the grass" for a couple of weeks before being declared match fit!

If you look at the 4th goal he had five or six passes in it! Great goal!

Thanks Ricardo - great report as ever! 👍 I was also really impressed by Fisher today and love the way that he gives us the option to play in a very different way. I'm sure that Cleverley had prepared for us to play Stacey very high and wide and I think the tactical switch will have contributed to our total dominance in the first 25 minutes. I love the way that we seem to be developing "a style" but also having tactical flexibility to present different challenges. I'm stupidly optimistic after just one victory, when I'm easily old enough to know better! 😄

My biggest worry about giving the shares away for nothing was that it would make it far easier for any buyer to make a quick profit, if things don't work out quickly. I think S and J have done their research and the Brewers experience suggest that they are long-termers but I'm not altogether convinced that it couldn't happen, "if circumstances change." However, it's probably me being over-cynical.

Best wishes.