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Reply | Little Britain Angela Raynor
at 11:19 7 Sep 2025
I didn't blame pensioners and people with nothing, but perhaps in your simplistic way of looking at things I did.
There's nothing wrong with me, but if you can't handle facts and a logical statement then I'd say there is something wrong with you. Try reading my comment again and if you dispute the facts then let me know. |
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Reply | Little Britain Angela Raynor
at 11:10 7 Sep 2025
Why is everything in the UK broken? The main answer is demographics, basically there are too many old fvckers, like most of the people on this board. The problem is ourselves.
The Tories did not gut NHS funding, they just didn't increase it as dramatically as the Blair government did. See here for example:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-42572110
That BBC article shows the NHS as a % of all public services budget rising from about 10% in the 1950s to 30% in 2018. The situation has got worse since that was published. In 2024 it was 43%. This equates to over 20% of all government spending. That doesn't include all the extra that has to be spent on social care and pensions for all the older people. All this extra spending is due to the increasing % of older people.
That is the main reason why there is so little to spend on anything else e.g. police. So if we want to answer the question of why is everything in the UK broken, there is one main answer, it's demographics. That doesn't provide a simplistic answer for someone to blame. Those saying "it's the Tories" and "it's immigrants" are both wrong. But that's the truth and unfortunately it will only get worse. |
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Reply | Will Still
at 19:22 2 Sep 2025
I rate THB higher than most Saints fans seem to. He missed the summer with injury so didn't have a proper pre-season which will have affected his sharpness. I'm glad we've kept him. As I've said before I'd like to see a partnership of THB and Wood given a chance with a run in the side. |
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Reply | Saints make the most profit in the league
at 16:24 2 Sep 2025
So basically you mixed up apples and oranges. The accounts for the year ending 30/6/24 cover the last time we had a championship season. They show that we made a profit of £36.4m after a profit on player trading of £76.4m. This year our profit on players is £62.4m. So we should probably expect a total profit before tax of around £20m for the year ended 30/6/26, not a loss of £34m as you were suggesting. |
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Reply | Did we sign Leo Scienza ?.
at 14:05 2 Sep 2025
Yeah but Mo Salah isn't there to put in crosses. He's there to get in the box, not operate outside it. If any of our signings score as many goals as he does then I'll be very happy.
Tom Fellows is right footed and plays on the right. As a result he gets lots of dangerous crosses in. But he's also decent with his left foot so he can go both ways. In contrast (just based on that video) Scienza looks very one-footed and any defender who's looked at that video will know to show him down the line. |
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Reply | Tax Avoidance Schemes
at 11:43 2 Sep 2025
The people they listened to were definitely wrong'uns. It sounds as though some of this wrongdoing should be punished (e.g. not declaring conflicts of interest) but I imagine that's difficult.
But it seems to me that the spotlight should also be shone on another group of people - the agents. They're supposed to be "managing" the affairs of these players and they get very well paid for doing it. I imagine they claim that they are only managing income, not investments, but I would argue that in their position they have a duty of care to the players. |
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Reply | Totally underwhelming window yet again.
at 10:32 2 Sep 2025
You do talk a load of bollox sometimes Nick. Where am I getting nasty about the players who have come in?
I wasn't "moaning" I was merely pointing out that we are weaker than last year. Do you deny that? Is it no not allowed to speak the truth? |
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Reply | Totally underwhelming window yet again.
at 10:15 2 Sep 2025
We're definitely weaker, there's no doubt about that. The players we had last year that were possibly good enough to play for a PL side were: Ramsdale, KWP, THB, Jan B, Big Les, Fernandes and Dibling. They've all gone with the exception of THB. We've also lost Tall Paul who wasn't PL standard but is better than the other options at centre forward.
We've got some decent players in but there's a reason they come to us for £10m or so rather than going to a PL side.
So, we're definitely weaker, but you don't have to be PL standard to do well in this league. |
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Reply | Did we sign Leo Scienza ?.
at 09:44 2 Sep 2025
He looks very one-footed and that's his right foot. The passes he should make with his left foot he plays with his right. The one "highlight" that's a left footed shot, he drags past the post when he should have hit the target.
For someone who is here to play on the left wing, that's not ideal. WS presumably wants him to put lots of crosses in, but if he plays on the left he's always going to cut back on to his right foot. The chances created by doing that are nowhere near as good as the chances created by a natural left footer crossing first time.
I hope he's as wunderbar as the commentators say but just based on that tiny highlights reel I'd have some concerns. |
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Reply | Totally underwhelming window yet again.
at 08:45 2 Sep 2025
Yes it was an underwhelming window. The big picture is that this year is the best chance we get for promotion. Next year our parachute payments reduce and soon afterwards disappear (like we will do if we're not promoted by then). We had plenty of money coming in and plenty of money freed up from the wage bill - and we haven't really used it.
We needed to have a squad that put us in the top 2. We shouldn't be relying on the lottery of the play-offs. I don't think we've got that because of 2 critical weaknesses: goalkeeper and centre forward. Those are the 2 most important positions on the pitch and I think we're weak there. If things don't go well, that weakness will affect the confidence of the rest of the team.
However, you don't have to be great to be promoted from this league, so if WS does his job we've still got a chance. We should have given ourselves a great chance and we didn't, but even so we've still got a chance. |
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Reply | Are we going to buy a striker?
at 19:24 1 Sep 2025
Stewart & Downs CFs?
Stewart - I thought he might be our CF this season, but WS obviously doesn't think so. He hasn't been picked and in his latest appearance was brought on as a wide player, not CF. So, unless he has a change of heart, WS isn't going to play him at CF. So, I don't think he should be classed as a CF if he's not going to play there.
Downs - doesn't look like a CF to me. He looks like the type of player that needs a bit of time and space, so he'd be more suited to playing wide, or second striker. A CF has to fight against the opposition CBs to get a yard of space, because the CBs will be all over him. I can't see Downs wrestling with championship CBs or being much of a physical presence. Apparently he's said himself that he's not strong at heading either, so that's another issue with him being a CF.
So, to me they are both CFs in theory, not reality. |
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