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Agreed.

This isn't exactly unexpected and isn't necessarily a bad sign. What it shows is that the club are aiming for the upper end of their reach. They're not wasting their time on vanity signs who are coming for massive money but as stretching for the best players we can get. Sometimes that is going to mean those players waiting to see if there are CL clubs willing to come in for them and that should only be a vindication that we're targeting good players. We're unlikely to get too many just yet jumping at the chance to sign for us because we are essentially still a mid-table side but we aren't intent on filling our squad with mid-table quality players.

I have always said that anyone against unionized labor is either a) a scumbag who has never done an honest day's work in his or her life or b) someone who has been tricked/taken advantage of/brainwashed by scumbags from category A. As a teacher in NYC I am required to be a union member and it's the best feeling there is. I get questions sometimes - "why do you think you're so special that you deserve time off, parental leave, class size limits, etc.?" No, moron, I'm NOT special at all. EVERY worker deserves those privileges and in an equitable society, would have them. The difference is that I have a union that fought for me to have those protections. "The teachers' union is only concerned with its members, not with the education of our children" is another common one that gets trotted out. Yes, no shit, fuckface. It's the teachers' union, not the students' union. It takes care of me so I can take care of the kids without having to worry about getting hurt on the job, screwed by an incompetent or malicious supervisor, losing my career because I had too many sick days, etc etc.

Worried and stressed to the point of being physically sick this morning thanks to being contacted by the bank. All thanks to the horrendous cost of living crisis that this fuckwit government continues to fucking ignore. I'm also absolutely sick to death of Tory cunts round here telling me I need to cut back on my excessive spending and then I'd be able to afford to live. Some have even suggest I move up north as I obviously cannot afford to live in the South. Oh, how I would love the dynamics of my life to be that this could even be a remote possibility. Sadly my job and more fundamentally, my kids mean that this locality will be home at least for the next few years. I have a reasonably senior management role (report directly to board level) and I'm paid fairly well accordingly. Because of the circumstances on my marriage breakup / divorce, I am not on the housing ladder and instead am renting. Because I have a son and a daughter it was important to me that they had separate bedrooms so I have 3 bed house which for the area I'm living it is extremely reasonable in terms of rent. I have dispensed with Sky TV and moved to a SIM only mobile contract. However taking into account rent, council tax, utilities, insurance, child maintenance, car running costs, mobile phone, TV licence, etc. I have £25 of my monthly salary left to my disposal. That's BEFORE I think about food and fuel for the car. I have about 5 years to go before Finley will be through A-Levels and University so I feel my only option now is to take out a loan to bridge that period of time and also look for a second job to supplement my income. And I consider myself to be in a well paid job, fuck knows how people my age in a lower paid role have any hope of surviving fiscally. We can all talk about energy, food and fuel prices all we like. The change that came in this year that I cannot for the life of me think couldn't have been deferred was the hike in National Insurance. Whilst the price of everything is shooting up, net pay has reduced fairly significantly. It's fucking horrible.

It's a myth anyway. There's not a keeper in the league incapable of playing a 10 yard pass to his full backs

I watched 7 hours of series 2 of The Boys whilst wfh yesterday

Most the agencies have said they want no part because: 1) Their workers don't have the skills or knowledge. 2) They have a shortage of workers in their supply pool anyway. 3) They don't want to be scabs. Another genius plan by this government, purely enabled to feed their culture wars.

You especially can fuck off.

Teachers using a bit of common? That would be new. I live near the Grammar school in Leeds. Every day I see cunts in their SUVs driving less than a mile to drop Tarquin off the little lazy air pod wearing cunt.

Staveley keeps looking better and better from this court case . Loving the idea the rancid fucking cunt that is Mike Ashley asked to be allowed to keep a stake in NUFC and Staveley told him to whistle. I live in hope that one day I’ll hear that Ashley has went bankrupt and can no longer afford his extra relaxed fit jeans and size 3 lonsdales, horrible little prick he is. He’s so full of shit about the sponsorship fees as well. As AH says, even if it’s true that he had been paying - he clearly knew he was underpaying if his defence was “ohh yeah well you know takeover and all that so we paid nuffink but we were going to double the amount” (even double was clearly low for all the exposure his tatty brand had). Chancing prick.

I like this Romano. He seems to take his role seriously in that he doesn't just post bullshit to get clicks. Can't think of much he's said about us that hasn't been right.

I’d love us to say “sounds good, we can’t compete with them at this stage so the offer we made is our final offer and we will be looking at other options, let us know within the next week as we plan to be in advanced stages with others”.

His agent is a right bellend Obviously sees the money train being backed up to this kid

I quite like this bloke's YouTube channel. That Chris Philp is the smug cunt's smug cunt mind. He's got the Alan B'Stard sneer down to a tee - who looks at these fucking people and votes for them man.

Agreed, if we can work to bring in say 3-4 Bruno/Trippier type signings, and then a couple more Pope/Targett/Burn type signings it’ll have been a brilliant window. Like you say those Bruno type signings are going to be dragged out as we are dealing with agents, clubs, and sometimes even the players themselves that know there’s a market for them - in the past we were often the only one in for a player (like Joselu for example). Ashworth is experienced and will know how long to spend on a target and when to give a final deadline before moving on.

Echo what has been said and really feel for you. What a sht situation, haven't got any practical advice you wouldn't already know about. It'll be no comfort to you that millions are in the same position. My own experience is that I have somehow remained married which means on paper we should be able to live very comfortably. But I'm heavily indebted (partly our fault, partly not) for the next 3 years at least and honestly I run out of money every month, and stick things on credit cards.. My job is canny enough, but my wife's job is incredibly stressful though and the hours are insane. But she can't afford to leave because everything else is paid much worse. It's creating real strains on the family at a time we should be enjoying it, its not sustainable. I personally feel that its obvious quality of life in this country has gone down the shitter since Cameron got in, accelerated by the madness since the Brexit referendum. Take care of your mental health first and foremost and get help wherever you can. I sincerely hope things improve for you.

Sadness in her eyes

The Queen's tits

Puke Edwards? Jesus...

This from Sky News A Network Rail employee who "works on the infrastructure daily" has been in touch to counter what he suggests are widespread misconceptions about the cause of this week's strikes. The worker, who provided his name to Sky News but asked to remain anonymous, said the action was not primarily being driven by pay. "The issue that I have is nothing to do with money," he said. "Every reporter and news station across the country is just focusing on pay this strike is mainly about safety. Network Rail want to cut 2,000 operative jobs just on my route alone. "They want all operatives across the country to be gone and replaced with a job role called assistant technician. "The duties of this role would include traveling to various locations throughout the country in your own vehicle, therefore using more fuel and having to change your insurance policy to allow for business use therefore costing the worker more money. "They also want to bring in cross-discipline working so they want staff to be able to work with various departments using skills that people have mastered over years of experience. "However, they expect us to do their highly skilled work even though we are not trained to do the task. "Network Rail wants to attack our pension scheme and make us work more weekends with reduced rest periods between shifts, therefore making staff more fatigued and increasing the risk of serious injury." The worker went on to criticise Andrew Haines, Network Rail's chief executive. "This is the man that claims we need to save money as the company has no money to give us a pay rise, while he sits there on his £635,000-a-year job," he said.

Meanwhile......

Tend to agree, he needs to face this head on. The Labour party have been running for too long now, time to fight back.

Also comments about how the people who can't work from home are affected worst and are likely to be lower paid workers - you mean those you threw under the covid bus by not supporting self-isolation, you tory cunts?

Have some fucking disruption you Tory cunts. Just like the good old days, eh?

Rumour has been going around here for some days based on something from the Telegraph. Hazard does mainly play as a left winger and had a couple of good seasons at the two Borussias. He was injured a lot last season and fell down the pecking order. Dortmund did pay 25m and it seems unlikely they would sell him for nearly half the money. They want to raise money from transfers though. Not sure that he would be an upgrade on ASM.

There are more chins in that picture than a Hong Kong … … reported.

If Starmer disciplines MPs for standing on the picket lines today that's me done with Labour til he's gone

15.7k likes says it all.

Criminal barristers have voted to strike in an escalating dispute with the government over funding for trials. The vote by defence barristers is likely to cause chaos in the criminal courts in England and Wales.

Means we now have two good goalkeepers to fight for the spot rather than one good keeper flanked by a parade of flids

He must be one of the lazy cunts who spends all his time doing nowt then if he’s able to work from home

I refuse to get excited about signing Burnley's relegated goalkeeper. You can all fuck off.

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Sorry to hear that Craig. It's an increasingly shit world that we live in at the minute, but it feels like especially in this country. And yet a very sizeable minority are Stockholm syndrome sufferers who would sooner blame their neighbour than the people that have caused it. Nobody knows how close they are to dipping underwater either. People that would never have dreamt they would be affected are being dragged under now. Shit times.

Ah, that’s bad crack, mate. Sorry to hear that. I can’t fathom how people can’t see who to blame. Most people don’t care until they’re really impacted by it though

I don't know about this really. I think when the majority of the media is in the pocket of the tories (or vice versa) it's asking to be photoshopped / defamated. This is the current government's mess and its down to them to sort it - I think that is actually a good stance , the only one that stands a chance of winning. I'm not a voter who always votes the same party, I don't really have loyalty that way (but I've never voted Conservative!) - but I've seen that its alarmingly easy for the PM to make Trump like statements and they stick. E.G Saville, Cpt Hindsight, "You tried to keep us in lockdown" etc etc. I was VERY involved and anxious with the Covid outbreak , I left my contract and volunteered for the NHS and was kicked back , so went to Scotland instead to build their contact tracing response - so every day I was listening to the Scottish gvt then watching PMQs on the wednesdays. Never ONCE did Starmer attack Boris's shit covid strategy without saying "You should be doing this". There was foresight , not hindsight at all - yet its been totally twisted and Boris will quote something starmer said in June 2020 and make out he said it in January 2022 and it STICKS. Best example I can remember is during the lockdown when contact tracing was being built and we refused to use the "open source / free" app , or give it to NHS Digital (who weren't even asked to tender btw) instead opting to farm it out at great cost : Starmer said "We cannot look at lifting lockdown without a working contact tracing system, why didnt we use the global app like Germany et al - are you really confident you are going to have a working app ready before lifting lockdown on date x" "Yes, of course, it will be world beating" And we all know what happened. I know that we've lost 10's of thousands of people that needn't have - and Starmer, Sturgeon et al were completely right with FORESIGHT. So yes, keeping out of it and letting the stupid fuckers fall on their own sword is probably a good option, given that if you tell them how to do it , they will use it and make out it was their idea and its easy with hindsight. End todays rant #dailyrant

Eriksen has turned down Man Utd apparently and seems Spurs aren’t interested. Straight shot between us and Brentford, get it sorted, Stavvaz

If I had to take a stab at what we’re up to, I’d say we’ll clear the deck of the shite first and then get players in. Seems like Botman and Ekitike are cases of having to strike early to ward off competition but I could see us sorting Woodman and Darlow’s moves out and then going for Pope once the position has been freed up.

Grant Shapps on telly today saying "this is a stunt by the union and the Labour Party". Theres enough fucking neck-ends that will believe it mind.

What does the big red button do?

it's absolutely shameless how they trying to blame labour for the strikes when they're the ones in power