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- Fri May 31, 2024 11:13 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Tooling up: The summer 2024 transfer thread
- Replies: 381
- Views: 9837
Re: Tooling up: The summer 2024 transfer thread
Player investment isn't just about resale, though - it's also about having assets on the books that raise the overall value of the business. Squads are a major part of how much a football club is worth. That impacts terms of financial instruments, risk assessments and all that banking jazz. If inve...
- Fri May 31, 2024 7:33 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Tooling up: The summer 2024 transfer thread
- Replies: 381
- Views: 9837
Re: Tooling up: The summer 2024 transfer thread
I think we should stop worrying about resale value and worry about realising the 8-10M value that promotion guarantees. I think a lot of our recruitment based on being able to sell people on is why we haven’t gone up because it’s forced us into a certain type. I can’t see Goldson being true because...
- Fri May 31, 2024 3:09 pm
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: 2024, hoodwink and bamboozle the public
- Replies: 75
- Views: 1102
Re: 2024, hoodwink and bamboozle the public
Agree AT. It needs "something" :-) As Thatcher might have said to the unions, the landbanks/developers need more stick and less fcuking carrot. Ban the feckers from donating to political parties might be a first step Agree - But maybe ban all lobby orgs etc. along with it. Clamp down on any "jollie...
- Fri May 31, 2024 1:39 pm
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: 2024, hoodwink and bamboozle the public
- Replies: 75
- Views: 1102
Re: 2024, hoodwink and bamboozle the public
Agree AT. It needs "something" :-) As Thatcher might have said to the unions, the landbanks/developers need more stick and less fcuking carrot. Ban the feckers from donating to political parties might be a first step Agree - But maybe ban all lobby orgs etc. along with it. Clamp down on any "jollie...
- Fri May 31, 2024 1:37 pm
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: 2024, hoodwink and bamboozle the public
- Replies: 75
- Views: 1102
Re: 2024, hoodwink and bamboozle the public
Is there a " We don't have a clue how to fix it, but we'll have a go" party? Let's start with compound interest limits on loans; that should defer a few of the "get money for nothing" fusileers. Then we could make wealth tax so high that the investors will be breaking their necks to part with money...
- Fri May 31, 2024 12:37 pm
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: 2024, hoodwink and bamboozle the public
- Replies: 75
- Views: 1102
Re: 2024, hoodwink and bamboozle the public
Agree AT. It needs "something" 
As Thatcher might have said to the unions, the landbanks/developers need more stick and less fcuking carrot.
As Thatcher might have said to the unions, the landbanks/developers need more stick and less fcuking carrot.- Fri May 31, 2024 12:09 pm
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: 2024, hoodwink and bamboozle the public
- Replies: 75
- Views: 1102
Re: 2024, hoodwink and bamboozle the public
First thing is to properly define affordable. It seems to be based on an arbitrary percentage below market rate. Given market rate is the problem you'd have to constantly shift the percentage blow up, and in a couple of decades at current rate probably 90% below! You can argue specifics, but surely...
- Fri May 31, 2024 1:43 am
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: 2024, hoodwink and bamboozle the public
- Replies: 75
- Views: 1102
Re: 2024, hoodwink and bamboozle the public
Agree with needing some sort of legislation. The answer ain't lobbing bricks everywhere, they're just more fodder for investment purchases, given no fcuker can build a house for less than about £300k. TBF, I bought my gaff on the basis I'd inherited a bit - that was 24 years back, so it's not an en...
- Thu May 30, 2024 8:05 pm
- Forum: Other Footy
- Topic: Tonight's Football
- Replies: 6348
- Views: 692119
Re: Tonight's Football
I have it a bit like FA Cup semi-finals at Wembley. If they want Greece to compete, level the playing field...Albanian Wage Cap should do it.
- Thu May 30, 2024 4:36 pm
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: 2024, hoodwink and bamboozle the public
- Replies: 75
- Views: 1102
Re: 2024, hoodwink and bamboozle the public
Agree with needing some sort of legislation. The answer ain't lobbing bricks everywhere, they're just more fodder for investment purchases, given no fcuker can build a house for less than about £300k. TBF, I bought my gaff on the basis I'd inherited a bit - that was 24 years back, so it's not an ent...
- Thu May 30, 2024 4:24 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Tooling up: The summer 2024 transfer thread
- Replies: 381
- Views: 9837
Re: Tooling up: The summer 2024 transfer thread
Yeah that’s confirmed. Didn’t set the world alight here - will be remembered for trying to cheat that ball in on the line! Worrying thing is that means the pool were shopping in is worse given he’s gone to a championship team. Says Plymouth signed defender Ogbeta? Did anyone have him down as a defe...
- Thu May 30, 2024 2:56 pm
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: 2024, hoodwink and bamboozle the public
- Replies: 75
- Views: 1102
Re: 2024, hoodwink and bamboozle the public
Bucks Palace sold to developers ? Get a big chunk of social housing on there - Vote winner, mate. I think actually building more prisons and borstal would win even more votes. A referendum on capital punishment would win even more, there is little excuse for innocents being hung now with all the DN...
- Thu May 30, 2024 1:16 pm
- Forum: Other Footy
- Topic: Tonight's Football
- Replies: 6348
- Views: 692119
Re: Tonight's Football
Olympiakos won the UEFA conference league, in Athens. Going to be some ouzo hangovers today. First Greek (club) team to win a European final. (I suppose the only thing sweeter for them would have been doing it at Panathanaikos' ground rather than AEK). Aahh, thanks. Next question...what is the conf...
- Thu May 30, 2024 11:21 am
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
- Replies: 446
- Views: 9170
Re: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
Perusing this week's issue of The New European last night as part of the sporadic but ongoing attempts to fill my head with Not Wanderers, I read Simon Barnes' Champions League final preview and one paragraph, about #narrative, made me think of this forum. This is how the fabulous fabled fable-tell...
- Wed May 29, 2024 7:44 pm
- Forum: General Banter
- Topic: 2024, hoodwink and bamboozle the public
- Replies: 75
- Views: 1102
Re: 2024, hoodwink and bamboozle the public
Get a big chunk of social housing on there - Vote winner, mate.
- Wed May 29, 2024 7:33 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
- Replies: 446
- Views: 9170
Re: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
We voted Tim Ream POTY, one year (I use "we" with plenty of leeway for those who didn't get it either). 'Nuff said.
The more I've looked back at some of our conceded goals, the less convinced I am by "stop them on the flanks." There are way too many right down the middle of the gun-barrel for me.
The more I've looked back at some of our conceded goals, the less convinced I am by "stop them on the flanks." There are way too many right down the middle of the gun-barrel for me.
- Wed May 29, 2024 3:49 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
- Replies: 446
- Views: 9170
Re: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
As delighted as when they scored three at our gaff? Interesting example, given the topic. Very rarely seen a team miss a player as much as we missed Santos in that one. Overall I'd say I'm precisely as delighted as you get to be by finishing 34 points above a team that's spending more money than yo...
- Wed May 29, 2024 3:27 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
- Replies: 446
- Views: 9170
Re: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
I have a distant memory of the Charlton home game last season, and I was really impressed with their midfield going forward with the ball - their movement, mobility, pace and how quickly they moved the ball. We are very slow at moving the ball & lack intensity in a lot of games. Have to say I'm abs...
- Wed May 29, 2024 2:55 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
- Replies: 446
- Views: 9170
Re: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
I go back to the last time we won a league. We had outstanding players. But a midfield of Frandsen, Sellars, Sheridan and Pollock. With Thommo and Johansen in the mix too. They could all play but they also wouldn’t lose any single physical scrap the division offered. I like Thomason a lot but he is...
- Wed May 29, 2024 2:33 pm
- Forum: The Trotters
- Topic: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
- Replies: 446
- Views: 9170
Re: Should I(E) stay or should I(E) go?
Idea-floating rather than soapboxing, but is Tomo the "answer within the ranks" to the need for a tougher 6? I'm talking here about an 'extra' 6 to sit alongside Sheehan, although equally he could be a straight swap to stiffen the midfield without changing formation. I don't think many of us doubt ...