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A pretty low key forum -Semmens and Steel are yes men; Ralph preaching youth and patience but struggling to articulate solutions beyond that; and Hoj was oddly subdued. Nothing will beat the fireworks of last season and Les’ last stand.

Yep there was a blunt admission that they’re paying the money and that’s good enough for us. Not much about the business model only that it’s China- and Asia-facing, so won’t be visible here (unlike Virgin Media). The club is co-creating a bit content but otherwise it’s a hands-off relationship. Nothing about the grand claims made by the sponsors before they pulled their website (admittedly that question wasn’t raised).

Good observation. They implied that was part of it. That the club had to get its house in order before the prospect of additional investment was entertained. Course it might just be BS.

Yeh he crapped himself and never recovered. He was still replaying the question to himself afterwards - poor bottler’s not going to sleep tonight.

There is literally no difference in terms of philosophy between now and under Uncle Les - just we have faith that we’re not going to sign dross. But nobody deliberately sets out to sign dross.

Loved your passion on youtube pal. LD Sports are bottling and recycling that content as we speak.

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Good lad

I see head wand and mouth stick are jousting again.

I find her nauseating. So I switch off the TV and radio, save some electricity and know I'm doing my bit for the planet.

And who mentioned forecasting which is imprecise at the best of times? We're discussing measurement issues which economists are much more comfortable with.

Labour productivity the most widely used and internationally accepted measure of productivity – output per hour worked? Output might be measured in terms of sales or revenues (the value of goods and services produced), GVA (the value of goods and services produced minus the cost of inputs that are used up in production) or GDP (the sum of all the gross value added by all producers in the economy). In other words, you can calculate output for any good or service that is bought and sold on the market (using current prices or deflated to a common year’s real value). The situation is different for government activities since there are no sales/prices to calculate output. But for businesses operating in private sector, things are relatively straightforward. Lest I’ve lost you, you do realise that service businesses sell stuff – for example I sell my consultancy wares to who’ll ever buy them. That’s no different from you flogging your EU-banned insecticide. This isn’t to say that prices are always perfect as an output measure - for example price variation may embody differences in market power across firms rather than product or service quality differences in which case productivity will say less about how efficient a firm is and more about the state of market in which it operates. But that applies equally to service and manufacturing firms. As for hours work, that should be self-explanatory – they’re all the hours you should be working instead of getting utterly destroyed on here More detailed approaches will break this down further - for example by taking into account differences in workers’ educational attainment, skills and experience but the approach is same for manufacturing as it is for services.

I don’t know where to start with this except to say continue to plumb new depths in brain-addling thickness. Productivity is only an important indicator if you’re a manufacturing-based economy like Germany. That’s a new one. Perhaps you should lecture the BoE, HM Treasury, the great and the good of academia why their single-minded obsession with it is misplaced. :lol: As for the rest of your post about trade wars and recessions it’s incomprehensible.

UK productivity levels remain dismal and productivity growth continues to fall -and at the end of the day productivity is the single most important indicator of a country's economic health. Wages have risen and labour markets are tight because companies are terrified of making productivity-enhancing investments (recall above) as a result of Brexit uncertainty. Its far easier to hire and then lay people off than make costly, irreversible commitments in new technology should the s**t hit the fan. So its hardly an unequivocal ringing endorsement but then again you do struggle with complexity.

If Tamesaint is head wand, what are you? Mouth stick? Hardly alien vs. predator, is it. #forumbeef

An old family favourite

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49330210

Example 2 - https://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?60670-Cabbage-Face-Transfer-News#.XVPHZ-hKjOg

Its pretty clear that JJ is a wannabe yank.

We’ve signed superman!

Good lad

Fulham (A) Bugger the dream looked on for a while.

Absolute carnage right now