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7 minutes ago, Ellafella said:
Half-marks allowed; please rate all subs. Closes Thursday @ 18:00. Results by Thursday 22:00. Average is 6.00. Therefore, when a sub steps on the pitch he is on 6 - that's the baseline.
Wildsmith
Smith
Cashin
Forsyth
Robert’s
Mendez-Laing
Spearman
Sibley
Hourihane
Bird
Dobbin
Osula
Thompson
Collins
Half a mark is a little high for some of this lot. Can we do a quarter of a mark?
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Shocking performance, no commitment, no desire, in fact no anything. Play like that against Liverpool and we better hope they put out their U18 team, so the score doesn't finish with a cricket score.
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15 hours ago, Mostyn6 said:
FWIW, I had two vaccines, but refused any boosters. In my mind, since either having Covid or since the jabs, I’ve been struggling to recover from flus, colds and chest infections. For the first time in my life, I had to use Antibiotics for a chest infection this year. I was choking and short of breath for the whole of June. I’m struggling now but not as bad as then. Now it may be coincidental, but the “conspiracists” did say that the vaccine would impact the immune system more than it would aid it.
So you've had to use antibiotics for a chest infection, since you've had covid and two doses of the vaccine. But you are seemingly going down the "conspiracists" route, implying that the culprit for you slow recovery is the vaccine. You could just as easily be suffering from a form of long covid caused by the virus and what you are experiencing could be a lot more severe, if not for the vaccine doses you had.
Whatever the cause of your slow recovery, hopefully you'll eventually be back to normal.
But hay, if the conspiracists are right and we have been pumped full of a drug designed to incapacitate us. Anyone want to give a sane and logical reason why and what they would gain?
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Looks like wholesale gas prices have dropped dramatically over the last few weeks. I realise the gas companies buy their gas in advance and the high prices have still to hit us.
Anyone want to speculate on how fast our bills will go down compared to the speed of them going up?
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27 minutes ago, jameso said:
Inspired by the "Sibley Enigma" thread and the ongoing Max Bird debate - the first one essentially "He's obviously got great potential... how do we get him to fulfil it?" and the second almost a polarised "He could be brilliant, but..." versus "He doesn't bring anything to the team and he shouldn't be in it".
In either case, I think it will be a disaster if either leaves - especially for next to nothing - and I can well imagine them coming back to haunt us, not only with the inevitable virtuoso performance against us, but generally showing everyone that they WERE as good as a lot of us thought they were. (Timely to start this thread the morning after Morgan Whitaker gets himself another goal and two assists).
So, the question is: which of our young player(s) do you most regret that we let go?
It's all relative, so the level we were at when a player left doesn't really matter; it's more to do with their potential/ how good you think they could have been for us at that time, in the situation we were in (as you saw it).
You can only include players where the feeling is that we got rid of them because we didn't need/rate them; not players going to a higher level (e.g. Hughes), even if the sum we received was a joke (e.g. Ebiowei), and definitely not where the player clearly wanted to leave anyway (e.g. Buchanan).
And it's not about claiming to be a visionary. I for one didn't rate Whitaker at all when he was here (athough I accept he was breaking into the team in a higher league than the one in which he is now excelling). I do rate Bird highly, and Sibley too (a little less), and despite some frustration over their performances, don't want either to leave!
Hand on heart I can't say there's any player I regret losing. No young player that we have let go, have set the football world alight.
Whitaker who you give as an example, may be having a purple patch. But haven't we wasted hugh amounts in transfer fees on similar players, only to see them fail to perform for us?
So while the odd player may have had a few good games after leaving us. As I've already said none of them have made the footballing world sit up in admiration.
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3 hours ago, cstand said:
Rwanda a punishment ?
Reading this article they have lots of ambitions plans now and for the future. It’s a far better country than people give them credit for.https://www.warpnews.org/innovation/rwanda-the-singapore-of-africa/
10 big improvements in Rwanda one of best in gender equality.
https://borgenproject.org/improvements-in-rwanda/2nd fastest African growing economy in 2021
https://www.visitrwanda.com/basketball-africa-league/basketball-in-rwanda/
If everything is so rosy in Rwanda, maybe we should ask if they've got any spare politicians we can borrow, to come and show our incompetent lot how to run a country
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Well the wrist slashes appear to be out in full force tonight.
At the start of the season, I like everyone else was relieved we still had a club.
I was also hoping the team would get through this season, sitting comfortably in mid-table, without the threat of being dragged into a relegation battle, which it presently looks to be in no danger of doing. Allowing the rebuilding process to take pkace, in readiness for us to kick-on the following season.
So while I've been disappointed with some of our performances, under both Rosenior and Warne.
Overall with where we were back in June, I'll not be applying for membership of the association of wrist slashes any time soon.
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14 minutes ago, Tyler Durden said:
I think the issue that a lot of folks are overlooking is that this group of players ain't nearly as good as they think they are.
Wildsmith and Cashin have done well, Collins has done ok when he remembers he's playing football not WWE, Bird and Sibley continue to flatter to deceive and so on.
Our central midfield is utter gash no matter what way you cut it but that's the way things have landed for Warne.
We don't have proper full backs after the 2 snakes left so again Warne has to deal with that, paying Barkhuizen and NML at wingback is out of necessity cos we don't have decent fullbacks and so on. Our squad is poo. Not Warnes fault.
We have a very good attacking fullback in fozzy.
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With the financial limitations imposed on us by the EFL. Will we have to carry on to the end of the season with our present players or can we bring in new players during the January Window?
If we can bring in new faces will we be restricted to freebies and loans or will we be able to spend a few quid in the transfer market?
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5 hours ago, Miggins said:
@PistoldPete. Worry no more about heating costs! I have the solution as read a couple of hours ago.
Obviously we have to turn the heating down and generally watch the pennies, but according to a home improvement /makeover celeb we need to get our paintbrushes out and paint any beige rooms either red, green or dark blue. Perky pictures on these walls, beautiful cosy cushions on the sofas and rugs can make a room feel warmer.
I appreciate that colour can make a room 'seem' warmer, but I doubt a tin of Dulux is going to protect anyone from hypothermia this winter.
I suggest that anyone who can afford cans of paint, pictures, cushions and rugs is better off putting the heating up a notch or two.
Of cause a tin of Dulux won't protect anyone from hypothermia. You'll need to remove the lid and apply two or three coats, to feel any benefit.
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27 minutes ago, TexasRam said:
Just not as clever as you obviously. I wish I was a windbag imagine the free energy I could produce.
Which end would you like the turbine fitting?
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Well Hunt as undone everything that was in Kwarteng's 'budget' in the hope it will re-stabilize the market. Couldn't manage to fully press the reset on in the hope people would forget the financial damage done. There'll be many families who will be facing hardships for the foreseeable future, due to the incompetence of this government.
They are also back tracking on Truss' two year energy plan, that what was going to safeguard us from hugh energy bills. It now appears this plan will be reviewed next year.
Is Truss still in charge or is it Hunt who is now actually setting government policies?
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3 hours ago, Stive Pesley said:
Something troubles me about all of this though
And I'm not lover of the Tories, as you know
Whether I agreed with their mini-budget or not, you can't argue that it wasn't a bold move, aimed at trying to do things differently
And the financial markets moved to crush it
Same with Corbyn - he wanted to do things differently and the media did a hatchet job on him, to ensure he got nowhere near power
I suppose it boils down to this - who is actually in charge? Because it sure isn't the politicians. The illusion of democracy is powerful!
Jumping from the roof of a building, to save wear and tear on the stairs, could arguably be considered a brave move. Though most of us would deem such actions to be madness. Exactly in the same way sane financial expects have reacted to the government's disaster of a budget.
Sections of the financial market have taken advantage of the government's incompetent budget. As for crushing the government, Truss managed that that quite easily on her own.
Trying to equate a hatchet job done on Corben with how Truss got into her present situation, needs to be in the joke thread.
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Won't all the League One games be a 12o'clock kick-off that day?
So Charlie will have plenty of time after the game to get a helicopter down to Westminster Abbey for the coronation at 3 o'clock.
That's if he can manage to get a ticket for the match in the first place.
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12 hours ago, Turk Thrust said:
It’s a pity Spoons wasn’t around years ago when the 18th century Assembly Rooms in the Market Place was demolished and rebuilt at Crich. Would have made a great Spoons pub
Wasn't the Assembly Rooms a burnt out shell, when it was moved to Crich? So tuning it into a pub may have been a little more difficult, than the usual properties Wetherspoons acquire
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On 07/10/2022 at 18:57, Bob The Badger said:
A question for you good people.
When you're evaluating something do you consider what it cost you, or what it will cost you to replace?
I bought a load of ready to burn logs about a year ago just before wood shot up (cue some Kenneth Williams memes).
Each log worked out at about 40p, but if I had to buy it now it would be more than double that.
Soooo, when Mrs Badger is tossing my wood on the stove (more memes please) without a care in the world, should I be thinking that's another 80p up in smoke, that's 40p up in smoke, or should I just get a life and relax?
Be thankful that you have ample wood so Mrs B doesn't need to go searching for wood in the local park.
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Truss stated people were capable of making their own choices and didn't advocate for a nanny state.
On hearing this, Rees Mogg apparently threw himself on the floor kicking and screaming. Shouting you can't get rid of nanny, who's going to cut the top of my boiled egg at breakfast and tuck me in at night.
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10 hours ago, ariotofmyown said:
Interesting thoughts in that 2nd paragraph. Could also combine in that people here expect good and free public services, but don't expect to pay any tax for them.
I did think of a different point of view on your first point though, especially for younger workers now.
I imagine that public sector workers (teachers, nurses etc) have a relitavely higher standard of living outside of London and the South East due to much lower housing costs. Likewise 2 young people doing similar jobs in the private sector.
And on a related topic, I had the pleasure today of walking down the High Street of the Buckinghamshire town of Bletchly. It was a really depressed and downtrodden place. The streets down here are not all paved with gold!
The shops are probably doing fine down there. The people in Bletchley are good at keeping things they are doing a secret and hidden from outsiders.
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2 hours ago, cstand said:
Be careful if going shopping to the supermarket my mum went with a friend did a shop at Tesco including usual drink of coffee in the cafe, went to pay found only two manned checkouts open.
Both being in their seventies did not want to use self service had to wait nearly 50 minutes to get to the checkout so late leaving the car park resulting in a £60 fine.
Some people got so fed up they abandoned their shopping in the store.
Apparently Morrisons are doing the same more self service less people on checkout tills.
There was a long wait at the self service as well.
Will be worse when Christmas shopping so check arrival time in the car park if you don’t want a fine.
There's a money saving tip you can give to your mum and it's not the obvious one of shopping at a different supermarket.
It's telling her to invite her mate back to her gaff for a coffee, thus saving a few quid over the year.
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1 hour ago, PistoldPete said:
And if I earn £100k my take home pay is £65,960 (see below). So if I earn £125k and decide to do a four day week to drop my salary back to £100k I get paid £317 per day for Monday to Thursday (£65,960 divided by 52 weeks and divided by four).
I have foregone the extra £9,184.02 in net pay, which works out at £176.62 per extra day (9184.02 divided by 52).
So I will work Monday to Thursday for £317 net pay per day, but decline the option to work Fridays at only £176.62 per day.And the Government, instead of getting £50k in tax and NI per your calculation gets only £40k in tax and NI ; it has lost £10k in tax revenues.
That has nothing to do with "trickle down economics" it's just arithmetic.
Your method of calculating how much tax you'd pay for working Friday, also applies for how much tax you'd pay for working the Thursday. Separating one day's pay and calculating the tax you pay without factoring in the portion of pay at the lower rate of tax allowance that would be used on the whole week, gives a false narrative.
So why not work a three day week and avoid paying another 62%, by your calculations, of tax.
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Like many on here, Derby born and bred.
Started watching the Rams in the mid sixties, just in time to see the arrival of Cloughie and the fantastic years that followed.
Then never wanted to get off the rollercoaster ride that is Derby County.
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Noticed there's no match day thread for MK Dons. Whats the protocol for who can start one?
@Bwash_Ram did the thread for the Liverpool game. Yes we lost on pens but we didn't actually lose the game in regular time. So should he carry on starting the next match day thread or should another member now do it?