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He turned up at a pre season game vs Ilkeston a while back, so I assume he is.

He turned up at a pre season game vs Ilkeston a while back, so I assume he is.

Agreed. I think Boomers in particular struggle to get their heads around why Gen Z kids might have a different attitude to life and work than they did at that age.
The social contract for them was very much in tact. Study for free, get a job, work hard, be able to afford a nice house and a car, progress through the ranks, pay off mortgage and retire, with a society that will look after you along the way
As opposed to Gen Z who have to pay to study, leave Uni with a huge debt, get a job, work hard, but then have to take out more huge loans to be able to buy a tiny house and a crappy car - realise that if your job is in anything other than a small business, you are simply enslaved to a corporate machine who will bleed you dry for as little as they can get away with paying you. Society crumbling around you. If I were them, I'd probably want to lose myself in my smartphone too

Really not a fan of what strike me as incredibly lazy generalisations (note spelling @DarkFruitsRam7 you utter philistine!). Even less so the characterisation of younger generations as soft, needy and worse still, lazy. In fact I f****** hate it with a passion.
Folk are very quick to forget their own generation's indiscretions and even quicker to adopt hackneyed tropes that are for the most part, as inaccurate as they are asinine. The days of couples surviving, much less burgeoning on a single income are long gone and will never return, likewise the ability to join the property ladder for only 2-3 times single income. The most accusatory seem to have absolutely no idea what kids are facing today in a world that seems to perpetually teeter on the edge of oblivion.
As for the labels themselves (yes, that's all they are), I feel like Gen Z can be deal less jaundiced in their appraisals of younger generations, perhaps because they are better able to acknowledge their mistakes, of which there have been many and also perhaps, because it's their kids that are so often targeted by others. To me, it's just another utterly pointless divide that we've created for ourselves in a world that is all the while crying out for greater sense and sensibility.

There can be quite significant differences between the opportunities and experiences of people at different ends of such brackets - an obvious one would be that women born before 1955 were able to retire at 60 and take the state pension, while women born after 1955 suddenly found themselves having to work longer and wait 5 years for the state pension. There are many other examples which show that applying generalisations to brackets of people is unreliable.

I had the privilege of watching him for the U18s & U21s prior to him breaking through and that's what I'm referring towards so I'm talking in regards to his peers. It was absolutely no to me that he had 5 goals & 2 assists in his first 11 games. It was also no surprise Wolves were desperate to sign him before he burst on to the scene for £5m plus. He was an elite-level prospect, he shared a pitch with players worth £40m+ now and looked every inch as good. He was a midfielder who got involved in every level could drag a team by their coattails and his career should've been vastly, vastly different. The more I think about it and what he was, to the point we've arrived to, makes me feel a bit sick. Whittaker and Archie Brown got out at the right time - both were good prospects, Brown in particular, but neither were remotely close to Sibley IMO. 
Huddlestone, Hughes & Barnes I only got to see at a first-team level so unfair comparison. 

Near Ayia Napa, Cyprus. 
 
Last full day here 😢

Smack it with a spade.

I want a pool, sea view and at least 2 bedrooms, centrally located but quiet, rustic but modern. 
Budget, about 50k.

I did try to post a bona fide transfer rumour on here, but I think there's so little actual news (Nixon describes us as still at the homework stage) that people are drowning out the tiny snippets there are with these bizarre arguments about if you can sign a player or not. 
With players and hopefully management (?) on their hols, I guess it's going to be quiet, and then it's the Euros, and maybe the actual transfer whirligig won't kick in until then. Actually winning automatic promotion meant the season felt as if it finished remarkably early, so now everyone's drumming their fingers like Bree Larson - IYKYK. 
 

I had an operation at the DRI to re-attach my severed achilles tendon on Christmas Day, after I'd fell through a window due to drunken horseplay.
The surgeon got his own back for me ruining his Christmas Dinner, by stealing my Calvin Kleins during surgery.

Best of luck Marco, loved you back in the day. 
BBC News - Sunderland legend shares heart bypass surgery shock
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c722xmm8yvpo

Best of luck Marco, loved you back in the day. 
BBC News - Sunderland legend shares heart bypass surgery shock
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c722xmm8yvpo

Best of luck Marco, loved you back in the day. 
BBC News - Sunderland legend shares heart bypass surgery shock
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c722xmm8yvpo

As much as I love the city I was born in and would never want to leave. I have to agree with the survey, Derby is a dump. Over the years the city elders have allowed what historic buildings we had to be destroyed. Those that remain are never shown at their best.
It hasn't helped that there doesn't appear to be a proper vision of what the city should look like. Going right back to the sixties, any plan there may have been as never been implemented. Over the years the council have allowed a mish-mash of buildings across the city. 
Look at the latest project that is taking place on the former site of the Pennine Hotel. Wouldn't it have been better to build this venue on a main thoroughfare. Instead of tucking it behind the ugly appartment block that as been erected on Victoria Street.
The Market Place is a waste land, when is the Market Hall going to be completed and what and when is something going to be done with the Assembly Rooms?
 

Possibly a valid point about attracting players . But I would say Derbyshire is a lot better county than Derby is a city.

I'm 6 months sober today, and apart from a couple of hiccups, I have drank very little in the time since my board meltdown 18 months or so ago (I'm guessing).
I'm sick of people in recovery circles saying alcohol is evil.
Alcohol isn't evil, I've had some of the best times of my life in its company.
It's just not right for some people, and too many people are uneducated about how it is/can affect them, but demonising something doesn't help. It just makes people with good intentions look evangelical and hysterical. 

Just because I can't drink responsibly doesn't mean I'm a miserable ducker and expect the world to abstain.

 

Best of luck Marco, loved you back in the day. 
BBC News - Sunderland legend shares heart bypass surgery shock
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c722xmm8yvpo

Best of luck Marco, loved you back in the day. 
BBC News - Sunderland legend shares heart bypass surgery shock
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c722xmm8yvpo

Best of luck Marco, loved you back in the day. 
BBC News - Sunderland legend shares heart bypass surgery shock
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c722xmm8yvpo

Best of luck Marco, loved you back in the day. 
BBC News - Sunderland legend shares heart bypass surgery shock
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c722xmm8yvpo

Best of luck Marco, loved you back in the day. 
BBC News - Sunderland legend shares heart bypass surgery shock
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c722xmm8yvpo

Best of luck Marco, loved you back in the day. 
BBC News - Sunderland legend shares heart bypass surgery shock
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c722xmm8yvpo