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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?

Not particularly. I do think if you are legally avoiding tax then that's kind of the problem with the way the government has designed the system. If you get away with paying less tax than morally you should then if you're not breaking the law the ginger should be pointed at those in charge for allowing people to exploit the system. I'm not saying don't pay any tax but what I am saying is that in a global market it makes little sense to me to introduce policies that hammer the wealthy if it encourages growing number of them to just leave at a rate not seen in other nations.

It may be the case that rich people who stay and pay higher taxes are better people but if it continues to get steadily more unattractive to live here and more and more leave as a consequence, it's sort of irrelevant how we feel about those leaving. It's still going to have a negative effect.

If what skintsaint posted is true then I can't say I've sped at 200kmh I'm afraid.

Or maybe a healthy balance would be more sensible. I would suggest that given the rate they are leaving that that isn't a good direction of travel or a positive development that is going to lead to better outcomes for the country. Presumably you'd be happy if we introduced more measures so even more left and in greater numbers just so you could feel better about things.

It isn't happening to it is happening but it's only a bit (but many times more than every other developed nation) in less than a year. Good stuff.

You're right it's not a shock but it does suggest he may have some level of culpability for his and his brother's death unfortunately.

Whilst still tragic, it does rather change things a bit.