PistoldPete
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11 hours ago, Ghost of Clough said:
Like Liam Thompson but with fewer first team goals over the past 6 years, less versatile, and less mobile
But does he have a beard?
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33 minutes ago, RoyMac5 said:
So you think our signings (and their agents) have cost peanuts? There's players who will hope to get new contracts and then still signings to make. What were you expecting, us to sign Clarke-Harris for £3-4m?
No I think Sonny Bradley for example will not be on peanuts. He will be on less wages than Jason Knight though. I don’t see our wage bill being any more this season than last. Last season we didn’t sell any players. This season we’ve sold two and the threat of others. Yet still not a penny spent on transfers and won’t be according to Warne.
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1 hour ago, ram59 said:
Warne seems to be saying that we haven't got much money to spend and many people are having a melt down. This may be true, but also consider this, Derby are currently entering a crucial month of negotiations with other clubs, players and their agents, it would be stupid if he was to publicise on radio that we have money to throw around.
Past comms from the club have indicated we are no longer under restrictions from EFl or at least these have been eased. Clowes said we have a big budget. Neither of these statements are consistent with what Warne has said or with the summer activity so far. So who is telling the truth.. is Warne just bluffing?
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36 minutes ago, Ambitious said:
A few things of note, one I think answered a big question of the fans, but it didn’t seem to be emphasised:
The club have agreed what they can spend with the EFL, since then they have sold Knight and Bielik - however it sounds like the fees made are inconsequential because we can’t go beyond the money agreed with the EFL. It can only go into the running of the club.
For example: If we have said we won’t spend anymore than £10m on playing staff this year, even if we were to sell Cashin for £10m, the money wouldn’t matter because we’re still restricted by the £10m agreement with the EFL. It sounded like Knight in the end forced the move to Bristol City, Warne obviously would’ve preferred to keep him knowing that his sale in all actuality doesn’t help him at all. I think he made a point of saying Bird hasn’t done that, but it must be a concern to him that any outgoings essentially don’t help due to our agreement with the EFL. He’s been big on saying he doesn’t want hostages, but for me he’s painting himself into a corner knowing that any outgoings don’t help him and anyone who asks nicely can go with his blessing.
Waghorn offered a deal. I don’t see anyway that isn’t signed in all honesty, it’s a player he didn’t have a budget for but he seems to be making room for him. Nothing in the loan market and he doesn’t anticipate there to be for a while - he’s not keen on first loans. I guess that’s fair enough. Might be worth looking at who has been out on loan and done well in League One, or not so well in the Championship still available on the market. He did mention Middlesbrough which I thought was a tip towards Coburn, but could also be Barlaser.
He mentioned that a striker he was in the market for, he pulled the plug on the deal as the numbers would’ve killed us. Rhodes came to mind. He did say 8 Championship clubs are in for said player, though, so maybe not. Also, two strikers we were in for have gone to other league one clubs - Ruben Rodrigues and Sam Smith would be my guess. He mentioned that he expects Oxford to be among the league front runners which makes me think Rodrigues. I believe he did also speak to Cole Stockton, maybe he was another one, he did say Burton have had a really good window. Who knows.
He’s very high on Korey Smith and Connor Washington for the upcoming season. Bird, I get the impression, he believes can be a difference maker in an attacking role. We will see.
Lastly, I got the impression that if we aren’t promoted this season that he may not be here next season. It was a flippant comment, but something about the club needing change if it doesn’t work and giving the keys to his car back(?) - definitely seems like players out of contract (Bird, Cashin, etc) aren’t signing their contract until they know where the club is going to be next season.
I anticipate we will see some movement towards the back end of the window, unfortunately sounds like we’re hamstrung with our original agreement with the EFL unless we want to open that conversation again.
Why the duck did we reach any agreement with the EFL that wasn't subject to change if we sold any players?
On that basis any bids for any players we receive should automatically be refused , and we should have told Bristol to do one too.
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23 hours ago, Tyler Durden said:
We don't have a divine right to get promoted out of League 1 because we have the largest home support, we won a couple of titles 50 odd years ago yada yada.
Maybe we've found our true level playing in League 1, some supporters seen desperate to go down the same route as we did when we were in the Championship to get promotion at any costs because we should be playing in the Premiership in their eyes.
Why not just be happy with what you've got.
Last season was the (joint) lowest placed finish in our entire history. Why on Earth should we be happy with that? Other than to be happy we still have a club, as we were last time we finished so low in 1985 .
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On 28/07/2023 at 21:17, OUTSIDER said:
Loving women's world cup ...
Knocked out in the first round?
- Steve How Hard?, cstand and Mucker1884
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Warner gone. Get in.
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12 minutes ago, Wolfie20 said:
This just doesn't make any sense now
Oh Jimmy… shame Jonny didn’t get his ton would have really rubbed the Aussies noses in it. Let’s hope we can skittle them now.
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14 minutes ago, TomBustler1884 said:
Crawley reminds me of Craig Forsyth. Looks a bit like him, but it's more his mannerisms and approach. Normally, he looks like a Rolls-Royce, quietly doing the business, nice bloke, but then inexplicably makes a mistake. (not today, obviously)
Crawley has had his doubters including me but he has done a lot better in this series than many of us were expecting. fair play to him and to the selectors for sticking by him.
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1 hour ago, Ramarena said:
Glad you finally agree that the unemployment rate does not always dictate the inflation rate.
I didn’t say that it did. I said it was a factor. The biggest factor affecting UK inflation right now is fuel prices… but that they are now working their way through and inflation is coming down.
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9 hours ago, Ramarena said:
For the G7 it's generally the opposite.............of course with the one outlier!
Inflation Rate Unemployment Rate
Canada: 2.8% 5%
USA: 3% 3.6%
Japan: 3.2% 2.6%
France: 5.3% 7.1%
Germany: 6.4% 5.6%
Italy: 6.4% 7.6%
UK: 7.9% 4%
That doesn't show the opposite at all. We have the highest inflation of Europe G7 and the lowest unemployment. We also have lower rates of economic inactivity than the EU. The US has lower inflation as it is not affected by cost of oil imports.
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16 minutes ago, Van der MoodHoover said:
A Phillips curve believer I see.
So, with this relationship established, why is the UK government talking about ways of getting the 500,000 people who left the workforce during covid back into work.......is that a good idea for inflation?
Perhaps, but Government also want to increase GDP, which will increase their tax take.
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45 minutes ago, Stive Pesley said:
Don't let him off by rounding it up! He talks mince
Uk rate assuming you are referring to benefit claimants is 4%. Both rates are higher in reality, but do you not see why Spain might have lower inflation than we do, with unemployment at over three times our rate?
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39 minutes ago, Stive Pesley said:
You're on a roll tonight, quoting "facts" that are so obviously falsifiable by google
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_consensus_on_climate_change
And the scientific consensus is...according to wiki...
"The current scientific consensus is that:
Earth's climate has warmed significantly since the late 1800s.[a]
Human activities (primarily greenhouse gas emissions) are the primary cause.
Continuing emissions will increase the likelihood and severity of global effects.
People and nations can act individually and collectively to slow the pace of global warming, while also preparing for unavoidable climate change and its consequences."
Where does it say that the scientific consensus is that the human race will become extinct as a result? -
1 minute ago, Carnero said:
Pssst... Danny La Rue...
It’s Scooby to you.
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7 hours ago, Ramarena said:
Indeed, you could be living in Spain and having to put up with an inflation rate of a ghastly 1.9%.
Bigger number means better right?
Yeah, Spain has unemployment of 20% that must be good.
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50 minutes ago, Stive Pesley said:
Agreed
And totally illogical for someone who claims to be some sort of scientist
Pressure the UK government to get our own house in order, and then our government can quite rightly pressure fellow governments to follow suit. That's the only logical path
Every other path leads to absolutely nothing meaningful happening to halt man-made climate change
Unless we're literally just resigned to it being an unsolveable problem and therefore we should just enjoy the warm weather while we can and welcome the extinction of the human race as a blessed relief?
How many scientists really believe the extinction of the human race is a likely outcome of manmade climate change? The minority I believe. Only fringe groups like ER and Just Stop Oil believe that really.
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Just now, sage said:
The proposal you are describing would bring justified interest rate rises rather than the current unjustified interest rate rises.
Hmmm… I am afraid I do not follow. We have a triple problem… sluggish growth , a high debt ratio to GDP ( not unconnected) , and high inflation. Why an attempt to tackle the first two problems should trigger higher interest rates but doing nothing about those first two problems should not is a mystery to me, anyway inflation is coming down it seems which of course it was bound to do.
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43 minutes ago, Ambitious said:
Signing for Swansea - remains to be seen if it turns out to be a good signing for them. I honestly thought he was just surviving at Championship level, he played football like a centre back playing full-back, but had the frame of a full-back. I think he came through the academy as a centre back but obviously didn't grow into one. Nyatanga-lite.
It will be interesting to see how we gets on back in England anyway.
Swansea is in Wales.
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13 hours ago, sage said:
EU interest rates and inflation are lower so they can borrow at better rates.
I would agree that interest rates won't have that much effect on inflation now, but trying to tax cut our way out of this situation would lead to even higher inflation which would definitely need higher interest rates, then the tax cut benefits are swallowed up by higher mortgage payments.
The banks and markets thought this mini budget a massive gamble.
Meanwhile the govt has tried to increase GDP by allowing net 600,000 immigration whilst taking a metaphorical pitchfork to 40,000 different immigrants.
I agree the markets thought tax cuts would be inflationary. And that’s because they increase demand and productivity, ie they increase GDP which is what the intention was. As for any consequent inflation requiring interest rate rises leading to higher mortgage rates…. Well that is the issue that the original poster is querying… why? Why raise interest rates which undoes the efforts of trying to stimulate growth?
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1 minute ago, sage said:
I didn't say there were spending. You are arguing with the wrong person there.
Unfunded by the fact that there were no spending cuts and we are already have a deficit and high debt.
Getting ridding of the top rate, cutting basic rate by 1p and corporation tax by 6p is massive.
Ireland are in the EU.
What works for a small country like Ireland may not work for the UK
Our debt to GDP ratio is more than twice as high as theirs.
it was a gamble of a budget and the general feeling was odds weren't in our favour.
The Corporation tax was not cut by 6%. Its the other way around.. Hunt put the tax up by 6%. What has Ireland being in the EU got to do with it? Germany is in the EU and their growth is now lower than ours. We need to reduce the debt to GDP ratio I agree.. and the way to do that is growing GDP.
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41 minutes ago, sage said:
They were massive tax cuts and they were unfunded, at a time of high debt, low growth, high inflation and high interest rates, She refused to engage with the OBR which meant the banks and markets had no trust in it.
What do you mean they were "unfunded". Ireland had growth of 12% in 2022 on the back of a low tax economy. That's how you fund them. . As I say tax cuts is not spending. And they were not massive cuts either.
Paul Warne on Sportscene for full hour 1st August
in Derby County Forum
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Exactly. It’s all very well Clowes saying We have a good relationship with EFL but is that because we have just been bending over and taking yet more punishment.