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@egg So what needs to happen now then in your opinion? Face down the unions and prepare for a summer of strikes that were unthinkable last year? Or give the unions more money? Or something else? goodness me you think you'd be able to find it for yourself given that I asked you this yesterday and you still haven't answered it. You're the very thing you accuse me of

I favoured a tougher deal. Are you going to answer any of my questions now then?

I agree with you. I reckon had this situation arisen a year or two ago that most fans wouldn't have minded. The fact that 90% of fans reckon this is a bad move shows that they've been worn down by the shite last year and aren't in the mood to give the benefit of the doubt anymore. Spors and Co better know what they are doing because if these key decisions backfire I don't think there will be patience.

Presumably the government aren't just going to give them what they ask for this year. Amazingly it seems like they are going to be tougher! We don't know the specific details of the negotiation though so apparently that's not a valid answer!

FFS. You spend the entire time refusing to answer questions. You've done it on other threads too. I'm not party to individual negotiations, I believe the government were not tough enough in negotiations because they largely gave them what they were asking for last year and all that's done is encourage the people to to try again this year. I would have offered less last year and tried to come to agreements to give more security for the future but im not giving you minute detail of individual negotiations because that's ridiculous.

So what needs to happen now then in your opinion? Face down the unions and prepare for a summer of strikes that were unthinkable last year? Or give the unions more money? Or something else?

No need to wildly exaggerate. We are waiting to see what happens with regards to industrial action as according to you trade unions reject pay deals all the time and it's just part of a tactic. Presumably they have no real intention of striking. Hopefully over the next fortnight Labour will work to head off the strikes without giving the unions all the money they want.

The Mcinnes? It went the way of the wanker one.

I'm really surprised. I thought he'd end up somewhere like Spurs or Forest to pad their squads for the European campaigns.

I think negotiations should have been tougher last year if for no other reason than to dampen enthusiasm for further strikes the following year. The manner of the settlement from last year clearly hasn't solved the problem.

So the only way to ever resolve threats of strike action from unions is to give them the majority of what they're asking for every time in order to avoid strike action? Why would every single union in the country not vote for strikes every year if that was the only option?

Will we be asking the same questions if strike action is threatened next year?

Strikes announced on the 25th of July. Just over two weeks to get it sorted before we are further down the line and a summer of strikes is upon us.

Lets say hypothetically we get promoted this season, he's not getting a game in the prem and then if we get relegated again who wants him hanging around like a bad smell for the third crack at this league? I don't get the logic of three years.

Maybe Martin will come in for Wood.

It's akin to giving McCarthy such a ridiculously long contract last time. Absolutely baffling.

Everyone already knew the medical was happening. It was widely reported.

Sounds like he's not planning on playing 3 at least initially.

Indeed. I am sure that every poster on here shares these sentiments. No one has written him off as some people claim.

THB Wood Edwards Quarshie Do we really need Stephens in that group too? I assume ABK, Bednarek and probably THB are all off so that he gets in. Shame as I'd have preferred he wasn't involved.

I saw 15 million mentioned and I would have hoped we would at least have asked the question. I am aware that signing Championship goalscorers is difficult, I wouldn't expect otherwise. I'm also aware that there is an element of a gamble with every signing but it's why I said "less of a gamble" in my post. I'm not sure what you're arguing with me about here.

We get this every year and it's a ridiculous comment. He hasn't been written off by fans.

Oh right I didn't realise there was a limit to players who guarantee you goals. We don't have anyone in our squad who has the highest goals to game ratio in the championship for I think the last three years though.

I'm hoping this bloke will be decent but there were clearly players who could have been less of a gamble. Sargent pretty much guarantees goals at this level but I accept we've gone down the potential with a higher possible ceiling instead.

OK so now they've come back again a year later promising more damaging strikes and demanding more money. Presumably we need to settle once again. How do we deal with it in a way that doesn't give them even more money or encourage them to simy strike yet again in a years time?