CB Fry

You post a variation of this notion repeatedly on this thread, probablyfor the last five years. In fact, pretty sure it is the only thing you ever post on this thread.

Try and be less scattergun next time. 4/10.

Worth making the point that while the tax percentage point increase is 1.25 points, the actual tax rise is in many cases 10% or more. News going very big on just saying 1 25% but it ain't. If you're on 80k a year its £880 on top of your current £5749 NI bill, so 16% hike. Genuinely huge. 50k = £505 on top of current £4800 so more than 10% hike. £250 a year for someone on £30k is pretty noticeable too, 10% increase as well. Those who have the broadest shoulders etc but jeez. The press will let it slide but would be a different story if it was a Labour chancellor putting that through. But as long as people in Guildford get to keep their £850k houses for their kids that is definitely the main thing.

Well, there isn't a separate National Insurance scheme really. It's just a tax with a name people like slightly more than Income Tax and VAT. Lord D is right - the main beneficiaries are wealthy middle class older/retired homeowners who will get to hold to and pass on the benefits of rising house prices for the last two decades to their kids. All paid by hardworking younger people now, who by the time they hit 70 will find the rules have turned against them again. It's a masterful sleight of hand by the Conservatives. They know people below 40 don't vote Tory so, you know: fuck them. But the news will all be about Boris saving social care.

You mean Lord Frost, right? UK government still too gutless to truly go it alone, which us really strange considering how brilliant everything is going to be.

I'm sure Sepp Blatter had a directive about that.

Quite fancy the England Number 7 playing tonight. Thoughts?

You've decided to announce to the forum that you are going to cancel your subscription to The Athletic for what turns out to be no reason at all, so you tell me.

So you are cancelling your Athletic subscription because you are absolutely delighted with that article. Clear.

Odd. Not sure what is there to get that upset about.

Romero was just a(nother) pointless forum obsession. Just the absolutely zero appearances last season. Zero. But he played 15 times in 12/13 season or something so get him in get him in get him in. FFS. Todays story is welcome as the previous Athletic positioning when McCarthy signed his extension was that next summer the club were targeting a young keeper to challenge McCarthy and replace eventually, another Gunn type if you will. That sounded insane to me, but this story suggests that we are doing what we should be doing: signing an immediate number one for McCarthy to challenge. Not an expert on this guy but I guess Crocker knows him well and it does feel we should be able to work on this in January ahead of the summer if needed.

Interesting that you are intentionally ignoring the stats from the 2020-21 season- you know last season, the one that's just happened, not 2013. Zero appearances. Zero. Does last season not count as "recent history"?

Personally I think its pretty lazy to label him as a "yes man" based on fuck all really, apart from people just not liking him, him not having a witty or sparkly personality like Koeman or Strachan and turgid football. To me he always came across to me as someone that didn't take any shit. He had a method and he stuck to it. Unless people's idea of a "yes man" involves the idea that the club specifically told him to try and score as few goals as possible in the last ten games of the season and he went along with it.

I'm sticking to 17-20. I think it perfectly possible for A Armstrong and Livramento to be outstanding but we can still be in the relegation mix because defensively weak from centre mid to goalie and we are bottlers. Maybe optimistically we might scrape 16th. I think our first team is weaker than last year and the "we've got a bigger squad" thing i think is being over played, especially with our goalkeepers and CBs. I'd rather have a better team.

I don't think anyone would describe the FDF as left wing.

Just seems to be one of those forum obsessions we get from window to window. I doubt the club were ever interested in paying a fee and a four year deal for a 29 year old in a position where we already have a 29 year old. And from his perspective he's not going to come to "compete" with an established player in his position at a bottom six Prem club at his career stage. He has gone to a Champions League club lets remember. I'm sure we were looking at DCMs but in the realms of the 21 year old Wanyama or Hojberg types.

I applause patience of those writing such considered and detailed replies to this contrary, I've-seen-something-on-Facebook idiot. But it looks like he now has claimed to have won the argument so fair play to him, congratulations 👏 👏 👏 👏

Great posts Sydney Saint.

Feels unlikely- the defensive midfielder thing us not a cast-iron cock up like the Caceres situation. It's something we can cope with (S Armstrong can cover etc). We'd need injuries to two of Romeu, JWP and Diallo for it really be a problem, and to be honest if we have that kind of injury crisis then we're screwed anyway.

This is what I come on this thread for.

And you have to consider that we have off-shored huge amounts of industrial production to China: they make pretty much everything. So it would be justifiable to reallocate some those emissions to the UK per capita.

Because the "I've dun my research on Facebook and crank websites that just reaffirm what I already think" brigade are worthy of mockery. I'll comment on what I like when I like. Thanks for the love 👍 😘 ❤

The club have briefed to Sheldon and Blackmore in the last 24 hours that we would have signed a defensive midfielder if the opportunity was there. So does this mean we were prepared to go into the red, or maybe we do have £10m or so in the kitty for another signing?

Well, we have been told via Blackmore/Sheldon that we would have moved for a "number 6" (in real money a number 4 defensive midfielder) if the right opportunity came up. So I don't think its accurate that we don't have any money left, from what has been briefed out. Doesn't mean its a lot or that we will spend in Jan. But if we are 19th then I think we probably will do something. If we are 14th with no injuries probably not.

Pretty stupid comment. By the same token we could have signed a large black pudding with a face drawn on and hand tied to a broom handle as our Danny Ings replacement and some on this forum would be saying "let's give him a chance, I can't believe you people are knee jerk writing him off already without seeing him play, its a disgrace,this is exactly what happened to Mane, call yourselves a supporter etc etc etc"