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Reply | Denis Law
at 22:09 17 Jan 2025
Well done OHL.
You will enjoy this.
What a great bloke Denis was - respect. |
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Reply | Commitment to Human Rights Act may mean IRA terrorists are paid damages
at 21:54 17 Jan 2025
True but a bit potentially misleading.
The fall out between the irish Free Staters and the remaing IRA was based on Michael Collins agreeing to the partition of Ireland.
The IRA wanted a free whole Ireland, staying true to the cause of an Ireland not just Gaelic, not just free …but both Gaelic and free.
But the British threatened a terrible war if partition was not agreed.
That would threaten any of Ireland being free.
Everyone actually wanted a united Ireland, but the Free Staters reluctantly decided to take the British offer.
Michael Collins paid with his life.
War was avoided.
But all parties wanted a united Ireland, its just how we get there. Michael Collins said partition gave Ireland ‘the freedom to achieve freedom’ (in tbe north).
Only the Brits (and specifically the Brits planted in the north) actually wanted the loyalist Northern Ireland statelet. |
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Reply | Welsh FA offer Merthyr £6m to join Welsh Premier league
at 17:37 17 Jan 2025
Calm down mun.
I said the post was interesting and the FAW should take a look at his proposals.
I stand by that.
I did not say i agreed with every aspect of his proposal, not least because i have not tried to think through every detail.
Of course promotion and relegation is part and parcel of the game, but when you are making year on year investments to establish your new look national league then you might want to protect your investments. As things stand about 1/6 of the annual investment gets relegated every year, so to build you might want to limit relegations for a few years to keep your investments in play. And then resume later maybe. Cricket and rugby do ok without relegations in some leagues.
Whats your team then ? |
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Reply | Josh Thomas loan to RoI
at 17:19 17 Jan 2025
Has any loan to the RoI league actually done Swansea City first team any good ever ? |
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Reply | Welsh FA offer Merthyr £6m to join Welsh Premier league
at 13:18 17 Jan 2025
You make some very interesting suggestions there.
I think 1000 people per game is achievable in the coming years with the relaunch for 26/27.
The overall playing standard is improving for sure.
The facilities are also much improved.
The FAW should take a listen to what you are saying, good post. |
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Reply | Commitment to Human Rights Act may mean IRA terrorists are paid damages
at 08:31 17 Jan 2025
We should all be celebrating the last 20 years of peace.
Going back is not a good idea.
Nobody deserved to lose their life.
Its not all good vs bad though.
Two sides to every story.
Collusion betwern loyalist terrorists and British Crown Forces did immense damage to community relations, sadly the army moved away from trying to keep the peace.
Here is a famous ecample, a lawyer murdered. Not a gunman, a lawyer.
Patrick Finucane (38), a Catholic civilian, was shot dead by members of the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF), a cover name (pseudonym) used by the Ulster Defence Association (UDA). Finucane was a Belfast solicitor who had represented a number of Republicans. He was killed at his home, Fortwilliam Drive, off Antrim Road, Belfast, in front of the members of his family. The shooting followed comments made (on 17 January 1989) by Douglas Hogg, then a British Home Office Minister, about a "number of solicitors in Northern Ireland who are unduly sympathetic to the cause of the IRA". [There were a number of accusations that there had been collusion between Loyalist paramilitaries and the security forces in the killing of Finucane. There were futher claims of collusion on 29 August 1989. On 17 April 1999 John Stevens, then deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, returned to Northern Ireland to launch a third Inquiry specifically into the killing of Finucane. He also began to investigate allegations raised by campaign group British-Irish Rights Watch and the United Nations. Stevens' third report was presented to the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) on 17 April 2003. The report concluded that there had been collusion in the killing of Finucane between members of the security forces, especially the Force Research Unit (FRU), and Loyalists.
Best to try and look forward. |
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Reply | Chagos Islands
at 04:00 17 Jan 2025
Rachel from Accounts is at least a grown up.
Takes advice and will get job done.
Idiot decision on pensioner heating though. |
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Reply | Wrexham v Shrewsbury
at 03:55 17 Jan 2025
Poor quality game though.
Wrexham centre back had a mare. |
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Reply | Welsh FA offer Merthyr £6m to join Welsh Premier league
at 03:53 17 Jan 2025
None of Bangor, Rhyl and Llanelli have been in the Cymru Prem for some years.
I agree though, be great to see all 3 back there.
Barry and Penybont are there as pretty permanent fixtures now.
Haaverfordwest have splashed cash and made top 6 this year.
Ferry, Cardiff Met also from south this season.
I notice that Newport area has no team in Cymru Prem.
FAW are wrong to try to force the issue with Merthyr, be better to have the likes of Llanelli, Carmarthen and Ammanford. |
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Reply | Who is responsible for the Brexit fiasco?
at 22:29 16 Jan 2025
10 years after the Brexit vote disaster then another vote is possible.
Democracy did not stop in 2016.
If the Tories went rejoin then that would create a stir and outflank Labour.
Labour are scared to speak truth to power.
The truth is Brexit remains a dumb ass idea that can never work. Doh ! |
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Reply | Welsh FA offer Merthyr £6m to join Welsh Premier league
at 22:21 16 Jan 2025
I agree that this money shoukd not even be offered.
However Merthyr will never be a football league club, simply not going to happen without Wrexham style investment. Pipe dream.
More likely scenario is that Merthy will go bust and beg to be part of the Cymru Prem.
Their fan base is 500 to 700 attendees over last 10 years, around same as Colwyn Bay last season. |
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Reply | Jay Fulton
at 14:43 16 Jan 2025
See box office brawd …. 🤣 |
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Reply | Obama and Trump at Carter's funeral
at 21:32 15 Jan 2025
Mike Johnson is Trumpers man as you know.
Donald J. Trump asserted that it was “ultimately” a high draft lottery number that kept him out of the Vietnam War, rather than a medical condition.
But his Selective Service records, obtained from the National Archives, suggest otherwise.
He had been medically exempted for more than a year when the draft lottery commenced in December 1969, well before he received what he has described as his “phenomenal” draft number.
See …..thats why they call him the Draft Dodger in Chief … |
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